Sweet Shot
The Basketball Life and Legacy of Melvin "Sugar" McLaughlin
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In Sweet Shot, Dr. Vernon Wendt reveals the secret behind the motivation of one of basketball’s greatest long-range shooter of all time. Discover with Sugar a greater purpose for your gifts than personal glory. Sweet Shot will inspire you to chase after your dreams, revisit past, or discarded dreams, and dream even more dreams - to dare to be great like Sugar, and keep on shooting until you realize the sweet shot of discovering God's purpose for your dreams.
©2021 Vern Wendt, Jr. (P)2021 Vernon Wendt, Jr.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Dabo's World and learn about how Dabo Swinney used his energy, faith, and determination to turn the Clemson Tigers into a football powerhouse.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Very Basic Retelling
- De Colonel en 12-31-22
De: Lars Anderson
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Overtime
- Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines at the Crossroads of College Football
- De: John U. Bacon
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 104
For the past year, John U. Bacon has received unprecedented access to Jim Harbaugh’s University of Michigan football team: coaches, players, and staffers, in closed-door meetings, locker rooms, meals, and classes. Overtime captures this storied program at the crossroads, as the sport’s winningest team battles to reclaim its former glory. But what if the price of success today comes at the cost of your soul? Do you pay it, or compete without compromising?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good story.... but
- De Amazon Customer en 10-07-19
De: John U. Bacon
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A Giant Win
- Inside the New York Giants' Historic Upset over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII
- De: Tom Coughlin, Greg Hanlon - contributor, Eli Manning - foreword
- Narrado por: Donald Corren, Tom Coughlin
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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In A Giant Win, Coach Tom Coughlin reveals the intricacies of football, sharing details only a coach would know. He also details relationships with some of the most iconic players from the Giants, including Eli Manning and Michael Strahan. A Giant Win provides a frame for Coach Coughlin to discuss his life in football—including his years with the Giants as an assistant coach in the late 1980s and 1990, when he helped win a Super Bowl working under Hall of Fame Head Coach Bill Parcells and alongside the coach he’d oppose in Super Bowl XLII: Bill Belichick.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love Coach Coughlin Story
- De Alison en 02-29-24
De: Tom Coughlin, y otros
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Raise a Fist, Take a Knee
- Race and the Illusion of Progress in Modern Sports
- De: John Feinstein, Doug Williams
- Narrado por: John Feinstein
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 81
Based on dozens of shocking interviews with some of the most influential names in sports, this is the urgent and revelatory examination of racial inequality in professional athletics America has been waiting for. With an encyclopedic knowledge of professional sports, and shrewd cultural criticism, John Feinstein uncovers not just why, but how, pro sports continue to perpetuate racial inequality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Feinstein triumph
- De Glenn Canning en 12-06-21
De: John Feinstein, y otros
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Pistol
- The Life of Pete Maravich
- De: Mark Kriegel
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 12 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 247
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Pistol is more than the biography of a ballplayer. It's the stuff of classic novels: the story of a boy transformed by his father's dream and the cost of that dream. Even as Pete Maravich became Pistol Pete, a basketball icon for baby boomers, all the Maraviches paid a price. Now acclaimed author Mark Kriegel has brilliantly captured the saga of an American family: its rise, its apparent ruin, and, finally, its redemption.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extremely Good!
- De steve en 12-12-12
De: Mark Kriegel
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Tanking to the Top
- The Philadelphia 76ers and the Most Audacious Process in the History of Professional Sports
- De: Yaron Weitzman
- Narrado por: Yaron Weitzman
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 155
When a group of private equity bigwigs purchased the Philadelphia 76ers in 2011, the team was both bad and boring. Attendance was down. So were ratings. The Sixers had an aging coach, an antiquated front office, and a group of players that could best be described as mediocre. Enter Sam Hinkie - a man with a plan straight out of the PE playbook, one that violated professional sports' Golden Rule: You play to win the game.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great history of tanking by Sixers
- De Alan Bernstein en 03-11-23
De: Yaron Weitzman
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Three Ring Circus
- Kobe, Shaq, Phil and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
- De: Jeff Pearlman
- Narrado por: Brian Hutchison
- Duración: 16 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 924
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 821
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 818
In the history of modern sport, there have never been two high-level teammates who loathed each other the way Shaquille O’Neal loathed Kobe Bryant and Kobe Bryant loathed Shaquille O’Neal. From public sniping and sparring, to physical altercations and the repeated threats of trade, it was warfare. And yet, despite eight years of infighting and hostility, by turns mediated and encouraged by coach Phil Jackson, the Shaq-Kobe duo resulted in one of the greatest dynasties in NBA history.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Ok I've finished it and have more thoughts
- De Bobby S en 09-24-20
De: Jeff Pearlman
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Basketball
- A Love Story
- De: Jackie MacMullan, Rafe Bartholomew, Dan Klores
- Narrado por: James Fouhey, Jim Frangione, Sullivan Jones, y otros
- Duración: 16 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 257
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 216
A sweeping and revelatory history of basketball, drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews with the greatest players, coaches, executives, and journalists in the history of the game. In an effort to tell the complete story of basketball in all its fascinating dimensions, acclaimed authors Jackie MacMullan, Rafe Bartholomew, and Dan Klores have compiled nearly a thousand hours' worth of interviews with a staggering number of basketball greats. The audiobook that grew out of those interviews is an extraordinary project and quite possibly the most ambitious basketball work ever made.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Underwhelming
- De Adam Kosberg en 12-02-18
De: Jackie MacMullan, y otros
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Boys Among Men
- How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefined the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolution
- De: Jonathan Abrams
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
When Kevin Garnett shocked the world by announcing that he would not be attending college - as young basketball prodigies were expected to do - but instead would enter the 1995 NBA draft directly from high school, he blazed a trail for a generation of teenage basketball players to head straight for the pros. That trend would continue until the NBA instituted an age limit in 2005, requiring all players to attend college or another developmental program for at least one year.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Bad pronunciation
- De K. Spearman en 07-03-16
De: Jonathan Abrams
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America's Quarterback
- Bart Starr and the Rise of the National Football League
- De: Keith Dunnavant
- Narrado por: Jay Snyder
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 33
No one can touch Bart Starr's record setting 5 NFL Championships including 3 straight. America's Quarterback tells the story of the man who helped create the legend of Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers. This biography traces Starr’s life from childhood in Alabama to stardom in Green Bay and beyond. Not a simple sports story, Dunnavant traces the story of one man reaching for the American dream while professional football emerged from the shadows to capture the nation’s imagination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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awesome
- De Anthony nyman en 03-30-15
De: Keith Dunnavant
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Talk of Champions
- Stories of the People Who Made Me: A Memoir
- De: Kenny Smith
- Narrado por: Kenny Smith
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 108
Kenny Smith was a star at the University of North Carolina before his storied NBA run, in which he won two championships with the Houston Rockets. His popularity skyrocketed when he joined TNT’s new show, Inside the NBA, which has thrived for twenty-four years and won multiple Emmys, receiving enormous acclaim for the insight, humor, social commentary, and unrivaled basketball coverage from Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal, and Ernie Johnson, Jr. Kenny is known to fans for his laser-sharp analysis and eloquent observations of the basketball scene and culture.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book. Is heavy on racial topics, but appropriate
- De Mathias Noriega en 07-09-23
De: Kenny Smith
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Got to Give the People What They Want
- True Stories and Flagrant Opinions from Center Court
- De: Jalen Rose
- Narrado por: Jalen Rose
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 567
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Jalen Rose has never been quiet. Not as a kid growing up in Detroit in the '70s and '80s. Not as the brash, trash-talking leader of the legendary "Fab Five" at the University of Michigan. Not as the player under the stewardship of Hall of Famers Larry Bird, Isiah Thomas, and others throughout his 13-year NBA career. And certainly not as a commentator and analyst on ABC/ESPN and Grantland.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing book - a MUST download / read
- De Terry en 10-08-15
De: Jalen Rose
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Attitude
- Develop a Winning Mindset on and off the Court
- De: Jay Wright, Michael Sheridan, Mark Dagostino, y otros
- Narrado por: Michael Sheridan
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 176
In this behind-the-scenes look at the making of a champion, the coach of the Villanova University men's basketball team shares his competitive and cooperative philosophy along with lessons from his coaching career and the story of his personal road to success.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Nova Nation !
- De Anonymous en 11-16-17
De: Jay Wright, y otros
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It's Better to Be Feared
- The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness
- De: Seth Wickersham
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 19 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 609
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 510
Over two unbelievable decades, the New England Patriots were not only the NFL's most dominant team, but also - and by far - the most secretive. How did they achieve and sustain greatness - and what were the costs? In It's Better to Be Feared, Seth Wickersham, one of the country's finest long form and investigative sportswriters, tells the full, behind-the-scenes story of the Patriots, capturing the brilliance, ambition, and vanity that powered and ultimately unraveled them.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don’t bother if you’ve read other patriots books
- De Brandon O. en 10-14-21
De: Seth Wickersham
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Scribe
- My Life in Sports
- De: Bob Ryan
- Narrado por: Bob Ryan
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Ever since he joined the sports department of the Boston Globe in 1968, sports enthusiasts have been blessed with the writing and reporting of Bob Ryan. Tony Kornheiser calls him the "quintessential American sportswriter". For the past 25 years, he has also been a regular on various ESPN shows, especially The Sports Reporters, spreading his knowledge and enthusiasm for sports of all kinds.
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2 out of 5 stars
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No my idea of a memoir
- De Michael Friedman en 12-19-14
De: Bob Ryan
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A Season in the Sun
- The Inside Story of Bruce Arians, Tom Brady, and the Making of a Champion
- De: Lars Anderson
- Narrado por: Roger Wayne
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 103
The extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of how Coach Bruce Arians, Tom Brady, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers came together to deliver one of the most improbable Super Bowl victories in NFL history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Forever Tom Brady
- De Michael G. Salardino en 12-26-21
De: Lars Anderson
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The Master
- The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer
- De: Christopher Clarey
- Narrado por: Kiff VandenHeuvel
- Duración: 15 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 371
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 320
There have been other biographies of Roger Federer, but never one with this kind of access to the man himself, his support team, and the most prominent figures in the game, including such rivals as Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Andy Roddick. In The Master, New York Times correspondent Christopher Clarey sits down with Federer and those closest to him to tell the story of the greatest player in men's tennis.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Roger, voiced by Schwarzenegger
- De S. Armour en 08-27-21