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Publisher
distributed by Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
This is a documentary tribute to the seventy-five people who lost their lives on November 14, 1970, in what was perhaps one of the most catastrophic tragedies in NCAA history. What began as a routine flight home ended in disaster when aircraft carrying the Marshall University football team, its coaches, fans, and flight crew crashed in Wayne County, West Virginia, killing everyone on board. Featuring eyewitness interviews, this unforgettable documentary...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 33
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
The wizards of Unseen University in the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork must win a football match, without using magic, so they're in the mood for trying everything else. As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed forever.
23) Dairy queen
Author
Series
Dairy queen trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.
Author
Series
Chicago Stars volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard is the luckiest man in the world: a bona-fide sports superstar and the pride of the NFL with a profitable side career as a buff billboard model for End Zone underwear. But life in the glory lane has started to pale, and Dean has set off on a cross-country trip to figure out what's gone wrong. When he hits a lonely stretch of Colorado highway, he spies something that will shake up his gilded life in ways he...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eric Weddle has developed a reputation as one of the NFL's best defensive minds, a fundamentally sound tackling machine, and a reliable last line of defense in the secondary for the San Diego Chargers. Prior to the 2011 season, the Chargers made Eric one of the highest paid safeties in league history by signing him to a five-year, $40 million contract. "Honestly, who would have ever thought I would be at where I am today?" Eric said. "I was a kid
...Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Irrepressible individualist and iconoclast Pat Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract in May 2002 to enlist in the United States Army. Deeply troubled by 9/11, he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillside in Afghanistan. Though obvious to most on the scene that a ranger in Tillman's own platoon had fired the fatal shots, the Army aggressively maneuvered...
27) Any given Sunday
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Director's cut ; widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Embattled coach Tony D'Amato faces team strife and a new owner, who is sure Tony is way too old school. An injured quarterback, a flashy, bull-headed backup QB, a slithery team doctor, and a running back with an incentive-laden contract also fuel the film.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"Gregg Easterbrook is one of the country's best-known football commentators, having analyzed football on-air for ESPN and the NFL Network. MSNBC calls his ESPN blog "the best and most compelling football column anywhere." The King of Sports takes an expansive look at our biggest sport. Easterbrook explores these and many other topics: The real harm done by concussions (It's not to NFL players) The real way in which college football players are exploited...
Author
Series
Fly Guy volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fly Guy joins Buzz's football team, despite Coach's misgivings, and hits the field for a special, secret play.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jim Nasium has tried lots of sports, but the trouble is that he has always been a klutz--but this year he is determined to make a new start on the football field, so he volunteers to be the backup quarterback on his elementary school team.
32) Draft day
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
On the day of the NFL Draft, general manager Sonny Weaver has the opportunity to save football in Cleveland when he trades for the number one pick. He must quickly decide what he's willing to sacrifice in pursuit of perfection as the lines between his personal and professional life become blurred on a life-changing day for a few hundred young men with dreams of playing in the NFL.
Publisher
Walking Shadows
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Explore the darker side to America's favorite sport and the struggles some players have regarding compensation for serious disabilities as the result of playing football. Mike Ditka, Harry Carson, and Willie Wood are just a few who discuss the horrific reprecussions of football injuries.
34) Dino-football
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Plant-eating dinosaurs face meat-eating dinosaurs in a football game at the Lava Dome on Mega Bowl Sunday.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the winning tradition of the Fighting Irish, spanning 11 National Championships, 7 Heisman trophy winners, 78 consensus All-Americans, legendary coaches, and a unique game-day atmosphere. Includes interviews and memorable clips.
36) Until We Touch
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery comes the story of secret desires finally fulfilled...
After a family tragedy, former football hero Jack McGarry keeps the world at arm's length—a challenge now that his PR firm has moved to neighborly Fool's Gold, California.
Larissa Owens knows where she stands—Jack sees her as just another one of the guys. No matter what her heart wishes, Jack's her boss, not her boyfriend....
After a family tragedy, former football hero Jack McGarry keeps the world at arm's length—a challenge now that his PR firm has moved to neighborly Fool's Gold, California.
Larissa Owens knows where she stands—Jack sees her as just another one of the guys. No matter what her heart wishes, Jack's her boss, not her boyfriend....
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A promising football running back plans to make it to the NFL. At the pinnacle of his college football career, his dreams are shattered and he loses everything. But determination and a newly found inner strength enable him to triumph.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play.
When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school. And he has no serious experience playing organized football.
What changes? He takes up...
When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school. And he has no serious experience playing organized football.
What changes? He takes up...
Author
Publisher
H. Holt and Co
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For the first time, the remarkable couple depicted in The Blind Side tells their own deeply inspiring story.
First came the bestselling book, then the Oscar-nominated movie-the story of Michael Oher and the family who adopted him has become one of the most talked-about true stories of our time. But, until now, Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy have never told this astonishing tale in their own way and with their own words.
For Leigh Anne and Sean, it all...
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