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1) Tony Dungy
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
106 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
Although Tony Dungy was passed over in the 1977 NFL draft, Coach Chuck Noll of the Pittsburgh Steelers recognized his athleticism and understanding of the game and signed him as a free agent. Later, at the age of 25, Dungy began his NFL coaching career with the Steelers. He went on to coach the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and then considered retiring from football. Instead, he accepted a coaching job with the Indianapolis Colts and in 2007 became the first...
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A drama of forced high school integration in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. After leading his team to fifteen winning seasons, white football coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by African-American Herman Boone, tough, opinionated and as different from Yoast as could be. The two men overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions. A rousing celebration of how a town torn apart by resentment, friction and mistrust...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii, 223 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"The Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's 'Hometown Victory' when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to opiods to coach a team of struggling high school kids on a twenty-three-game losing streak. Keanon Lowe was working as anoffensive analyst for the San Francisco 49ers when his childhood friend and former high school teammate suddenly died from an opioid overdose. Keanon dropped everything--including the plum NFL job...
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