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82) Brian Banks
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entert
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Brian Banks, an American football player, who was falsely accused of rape and spent almost six years in prison.
Series
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.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
p2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (204 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Whole nine yards: Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski is a mob hitman-turned-informant who ratted on the mob and put his life in jeopardy. He has relocated to suburban Montreal to make a new start. Nick 'Oz' Oseranskiy is Jimmy's next-door neighbor. Nick is a mild-mannered and unhappily married dentist. Nick recognizes Jimmy from the newspaper stories about his mob testimony, and that's when Nick's simple, but boring world turns upside down.
The last boy scout:...
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Physical Desc
11 CDs ( 13 hrs. 7 mins.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xxv, 383 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
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...
87) Simply the best
Author
Series
Chicago Stars volume 10
Description
When Brett, the hottest sports agent in the business, and Rory, the sister of his superstar client, meet and have a disastrous one-night stand, resulting in murder, they find things getting messy, dangerous, heartbreaking and sexy as they struggle with themselves, each other and love.
Author
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Young Ernie Barnes wasn't like other boys his age. Bullied for being shy, overweight, and uninterested in sports like boys were "supposed" to be, he instead took refuge in his sketchbook, in vibrant colors, bold brushstrokes, and flowing lines. But growing up in a poor, Black neighborhood during the 1930s, opportunities to learn about art were rare, and art museums were off-limits because of segregation laws. Discouraged and tired of being teased,...
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (4 hrs., 18 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's hit coming-of-age comedy returns with more incredible stories from his formative years. Season two continues to explore seminal chapters in Dwayne Johnson's extraordinary life, from his early years growing up surrounded by wrestling icons in Hawaii, to his rebellious teen years navigating new surroundings in Nashville, to his early twenties playing in the Canadian Football League. Dwayne Johnson himself takes a look back...
91) Lion & Lamb
Author
Description
Veena Lion and Cooper Lamb are rival PIs working the same intense headline-making case. Philadelphia is in a state of shock over the fate of two hometown heroes: Eagles starting quarterback Archie Hughes, and his even more famous wife, Grammy-winning singer Francine Hughes. One spouse is murdered. The other is suspect #1. Even before the case hits the courtroom, it's the hottest ticket in town. For the defense: Cooper Lamb, private investigator to...
92) Until we touch
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Hqn
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 17 cm.
Description
When her feelings for her boss, former football hero Jack McGarry, are exposed, Larissa Owens tries to convince him to take a chance on love.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xvi, 317 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Chronicles the lives of four incredible men, the racism they experienced as Black players entering a segregated sport, the burden of expectation they carried, and their many achievements, which would go on to affect football for generations to come"--
94) Overkill
Author
Description
When Eban, the scion of a wealthy North Carolina family who brutally attacked Rebecca Pratt, leaving her on life support, gets an early release from prison, brilliant state prosecutor Kate Lennon asks former Super Bowl MVP quarterback--and Rebecca's ex-husband--to make an impossible decision for justice.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Description
"In the long annals of sports and crime, no story compares to the one that engulfed the Luckman family in 1935. As eighteen-year-old Sid Luckman made headlines across New York City for his football exploits at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, his father, Meyer Luckman, was making headlines in the same papers for a very different reason: the gangland murder of his own brother-in-law. Amazingly, after Sid became a star at Columbia and then led...
Author
Series
The Brown sisters volume 2
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xii, 384 pages ; 21 cm
Description
A young woman who agrees to fake-date her friend after a video of him “rescuing” her from their office building goes viral.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
288 pages
Description
"The story of a young man from small-town Iowa who decided to take his own life rather than continue his losing battle against the traumatic brain injuries (CTE) he had sustained as a no-holds-barred high school football player, and at the same time a larger story about the hot-button issues that football raises about masculinity and violence, and about what values we want to instill in our kids"--
98) Invincible
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Vince Papale is a down-on-his-luck substitute teacher in Philadelphia who, at the age of 30, was out of work, abandoned by his wife, and biding time as a part-time bartender when he decides to answer an open call for tryouts on the Philadelphia Eagles NFL football team in 1976. Going with his gut instinct, new coach Dick Vermeil rewards Papale's diligent efforts with a place on the team.
Series
Criterion collection volume 417
Pub. Date
1963.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (134 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Northern England, the early 1960's. Frank Machin is a coal miner who is mean, tough and ambitious enough to rise up and become an immediate professional rugby star. The rugby league team is run by local employer Weaver. Machin lodges with Mrs Hammond, whose husband was killed in an accident at Weaver's, but his impulsive and angry nature stops him from being able to reach her as he would like. He becomes increasingly frustrated with his situation....
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xii, 276 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"This riveting, closely-observed account of Aaron's life and final year is the only book based on countless intimate conversations with Aaron, and told from the perspective of a true insider. Written with the support of Hernandez's fiancée, Unnecessary Roughness takes readers inside the high-profile trial, offering a dramatic retelling of the race to obtain key evidence that would exonerate Hernandez, and later play a critical role in appealing his...
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