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Pub. Date
[2018]
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"Now, the war has changed everything. Most of the Brownwood men over 18 and under 45 are off fighting, and in a small town the possibilities are limited. Could this mean a season without football? But no one counted on Tylene, who learned the game at her daddy's knee. She knows more about it than most men, so she does the unthinkable, convincing the school to let her take on the job of coach..."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2015.
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370 pages ; 18 cm
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When Kettle Knob's mayor, Boone Braddock, threatens to shut down the town's library, librarian Cissie Rogers vows to run against him in the upcoming mayoral election, despite her inconvenient attraction to him.
4) Tony Dungy
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Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
106 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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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
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xvii, 318 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
One of the nation's most successful football coaches shares the story of his life, from his childhood and the forces that shaped him, to his military service and his career at Notre Dame and South Carolina.
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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2005
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277 p. ; 22 cm.
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Bill Belichick's 31 years in the NFL have been marked by success--most recently, his Super Bowl wins with the New England Patriots have made him surpass Vince Lombardi. In this book, journalist Halberstam explores the nuances of both the game and the man behind it. Halberstam writes. "There was, I thought, a certain signature to a Belichick game... I was fascinated ... by the fact that he seemed so un-coachlike, or perhaps the prototype for a very...
9) Dogwood Hill
Author
Series
Chesapeake Shores novels volume 12
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 25 cm.
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When former pro football quarterback Aidan Mitchell comes to Chesapeake Shore to coach the high school team, Liz March, who has sworn off men, finds herself falling for him until a devastating secret from his past threatens to destroy everything.
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Mike Leach, who took his Texas Tech Red Raiders to numerous bowl games, achieving the #2 slot in national rankings and being voted 2008 Coach of the Year before being unceremoniously fired at the end of the 2009 season, talks about his unorthodox approach to coaching and the choices that have brought him success throughout his career.
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii, 223 pages ; 22 cm
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"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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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm
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What makes a coach great? How do great coaches turn a collection of individuals into a coherent "us"? Seth Davis, one of the keenest minds in sports journalism, has been thinking about that question for twenty-five years. It's one of the things that drove him to write the definitive biography of college basketball's greatest coach, John Wooden, Wooden: A Coach's Life. But John Wooden coached a long time ago. The world has changed, and coaching has...
13) Don't know tough
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Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2022]
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324 pages ; 22 cm
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"Trent Powers relocates his family from Anaheim to Arkansas to take over as head coach of the Denton Pirates, a high school football team powered by a volatile but talented running back named Billy Lowe. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his unstable mother's abusive boyfriend. Billy takes out his anger on the field, and it's not long before he crosses a line. Instead of punishing him, though, Trent...
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The true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes, or even a football, to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season, these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching the attention of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The...
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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.
17) Sidelined
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
viii, 306 pages ; 21 cm
Description
When Connor McGuire loses out on his dream job of being the head coach of the local high school football team, he thinks life can't get any worse. Then he discovers just who got the coveted position-it was a handout to the kid of a well-known, successful college coach. Connor's sure this is just a publicity stunt, but the kid turns out to be not only a sharp strategist, but a driven and sexy young woman, too. Frustrated in more ways than one, Connor...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Enteratinment
Pub. Date
©2014.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The remarkable journey of legendary football coach Bob Ladouceur, who took the De La Salle High School Spartans from obscurity to a 151-game winning streak that shattered all records for any American sport.
19) Paterno
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The film centers on Joe Paterno, who, after becoming the winningest coach in college football history, is embroiled in Penn State's Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, challenging his legacy and forcing him to face questions of institutional failure regarding the victims
20) Bleachers
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Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
4 CDs (4 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty. Now, as Coach Rake?s “boys” sit in the bleachers waiting for the dimming field lights to signal his passing, they replay the old games, relive...
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