coaches (athletics)

A compilation of quotations from notable athletes and coaches including Greg LeMond, Lou Holtz, and Babe Ruth.

Coach Clay Driscoll seems to have everything going against him when a school board decision makes him the new coach of the girls' team.

A young, inexperienced football team discovers that its beginner's luck is due to a series of mysterious but successful plays anonymously sent to the coach.

Describes some of the activities involved in Coach Jackson's work as an elementary school gym teacher and a high school football coach.

Contains information on coaches, explains what role they play on a sports team, how they help develop players, manage each game, work in the commmunity, and build good sportsmanship.

Feinstein returns to the subjects of his first 10 books (from his celebrated sagas of college basketball seasons to insider tell-alls on pro tennis, golf, and the Army-Navy football rivalry). He recounts the most revealing encounters he's had as a sportswriter.

Mike Krzyzewski, basketball coach at Duke University, shares the leadership lessons he has learned throughout his life from his childhood in a Polish Chicago neighborhood, to his days at the U.S. Military Academy, and his tenure at Duke.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical information about over 190 male and female athletes who have excelled in the spring and summer sports of baseball, auto racing, golf, tennis, horseracing, boxing, and track and field; each with quotations, definitions, and a time line.