Championship game

Writing a book about Jack Nicklaus, golf ’s leading major championship winner, is not easy. The reason: Nicklaus knows his swing and shot-making game well and has written about it in books, most notably Golf My Way. Therefore, taking the challenge head-on to analyze this great golfer’s technique and point out secrets of his setup and swing that he was never aware of, or chose not to share, was quite a daring task. Nevertheless, I approached this assignment confidently, based on my experience as a former golf teacher and senior editor of instruction for GOLF Magazine.

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Ti! Ihis book is about professional football long before Super Bowls, Monday Night Football, and megabuck contracts for players. It tells what the game was like and what players and fans thought about it, beginning more than 100 years ago, when the first pros appeared, and continuing up to the time when televised football was becoming a national passion.

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I REMEMBER FEELING LIKE SOMEBODY HAD HIT ME over the head with a blunt object. My mouth was wide open. I was stunned into silence. It was the night before the Fiesta Bowl, January 2, 987. Hours before we went out to break heads in the game for the national championship, Penn State’s players and coaches broke bread with Miami’s players and coaches at a barbeque given by bowl organizers. College football, after all, is about sportsmanship. Or so we thought.

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Take your wildest dream, the thing you want to happen more than anything else, the thing that you absolutely can’t live without, and then make it come true. Stand at its doorstep. That’s what it feels like to be standing in the stadium tunnel waiting to play for the NFL Championship in the Super Bowl. It’s like a first kiss. The game is bigger than life. My first Super Bowl was in Pasadena, California, before more than 100,000 people. It was surreal, like going on that first date, waiting for that first kiss. I was so excited. It is the greatest thing to ever happen to a...

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It is difficult to pick out a single moment that defines an outstanding athlete’s career. Out of a lifetime filled with high points, choosing the best is, at best, a risky proposition. Sometimes, though, one single event summarizes everything that is great about an athlete. For Joe Montana, considered by many to be the greatest quarterback in football history, that time may have been in the closing minutes of the National Football Conference (NFC) Championship Game on January 10, 1982.

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This collection was first conceived of at a conference organised by Adam Brown to coincide with the Euro 96 European Football Championships in England in 1996. The conference, ‘Fanatics! Football and Popular Culture in Europe’, was held at the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture, Manchester Metropolitan University from 11–13 June 1996 and involved leading football academics from around the world.

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Championship, the voice went silent as the players raced to the sidelines, lift ed the ailing Case onto their shoulders and carried him to one of the baskets, so he could cut down the nets one last time. Th e voice cracked on the aft ernoon of March 16, 1974, in the deathly silence of Reynolds Coliseum as superstar David Th ompson was wheeled off the court aft er tripping over teammate Phil Spence’s shoulder during the NCAA Tournament East Region championship game. And it boomed when he shared the great news that Th ompson would be all right, causing an explosion of noise that has never...

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The crown jewel of college basketball remains the Final Four, where four teams battle it out for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) supremacy in the season-ending tournament. Several players have starred on March Madness’s biggest stage. These players saved their best for the NCAA championship game.

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In the last thirty years there has been an explosion of academic interest in American sports. Colleges and universities offer courses in the history, philosophy, sociology, economics, and literature of sports. For twenty years I have taught a sports history class at Metropolitan State College of Denver. As I explored the scholarship of this burgeoning field and became familiar with Denver’s sports history, it struck me that scholars had neglected an important part of the American basketball experience.

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I’ve always believed that college basketball is about the players, so to me, 100 years of Carolina Basketball should celebrate the young men who have worked so hard to represent the University of North Carolina. Without them, we wouldn’t need coaches like me. When I look back at the history of Carolina Basketball, I think first about the players. The way I think about them might surprise you. Our players have given me so many memorable experiences. It’s those interactions on and off the court—even more than the wins or the championships—which I have treasured....

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Among the many people who helped make this book possible, those whose names follow were especially helpful. They gave of their time, expertise, and support to help uncover not only the necessary data and factual information, but those little things that help make stories colorful and compelling. I owe these folks a great debt of gratitude. Hopefully, these few lines of acknowledgment will convey my heartfelt appreciation.

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Wrigley Field was not yet Wrigley Field on June 26, 1920, the day Lou Gehrig stood awestruck within the 18,000- seat major-league ballpark. Cubs Park it was called, home of the National League’s Chicago Cubs. No matter the name, surely 17-year-old Lou must have wondered how he had come so far, so soon. At almost six feet tall and 180 pounds, Lou, a senior, was here with his teammates from New York City’s High School of Commerce to play against Chicago’s Lane Tech High School. The nation’s unofficial inter-city high school baseball championship was on the line. Just one game would be held...

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Johnny Damon ambled up to home plate, blocking out the steady boos and shrill catcalls from seemingly every one of the 56,000-plus fans packing Yankee Stadium. The date was October 20, 2004, and only one year before, Damon had experienced one of the most crushing disappointments of his life: The Yankees had stormed back from a Game 7 deficit against Damon’s Boston Red Sox and pitcher Pedro Martínez, winning the American League Championship Series with a walk-off home run in the eleventh inning....

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Brazil and Italy will play each other in the World Cup Championship game on Sunday in Pasadena, California-Yesterday, in the semi-final Brazil defeated Sweden by a score of one to nothing, Italy defeated Bulgaria 2 to 1. Italy and Brazil had each one 3 World Cup championships. No team has ever won 4.

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