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Meat Market

Bruce Feldman

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"One of the most insightful books ever written about college football."
- The New York Times

"Easily among the best sports books of the new millennium."
- Paul Finebaum, columnist and radio host



In this unprecedented look at college football’s secret season, Bruce Feldman rips the cover off the game’s frenzied pursuit of raw talent, taking you deep inside the SEC war room of recruiting legend Ed Orgeron,the combustible Cajun who helped build national championship teams at the University of Miami and at USC. In a stunning, blow-by-blow account of the year leading up to National Signing Day 2007, the award-winning journalist shadows Orgeron and his Ole Miss assistants as they set about hunting high school students, pleading, plotting, and inventing ways to lure them to their sleepy Oxford campus. Packed with candid confessions and outrageous off-the-field action, Meat Market makes what happens on the field seem almost tame by comparison.

New York Giants 2009 Wall Calendar

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When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak

Neil Hayes

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The book that inspired the ESPN documentary 151: The Greatest Streak is now Revised and Updated!

By 2002, The Streak—a historic 13-year run of consecutive wins by the Spartans, a high-school football team from Concord, California, that couldn't be beat—was still going strong. In this revised edition of When the Game Stands Tall, author Neil Hayes, who had unrestricted access to the De La Salle team, writes from the inside about the games, the players, and their visionary coach, Bob Ladouceur, who managed to amass the highest winning percentage in football history (.995) through standing for something greater than winning. The book, which also features interviews with major sports figures like Bill Walsh and John Gruden, is a revealing portrait of the coach who believed above all in instilling basic life skills where winning is not the goal, but merely the byproduct of playing the game.

The Streak had become a national story long before it ended in September 2004. In this revised paperback, Neil Hayes catches up on the lives of the main characters and takes readers through the final tumultuous year. What results is a timeless and inspirational story of struggle, tragedy, and triumph.

The Professional Handicapper: Advanced Teachings in the Ways to Properly Forecast College & Pro Football

David Paul Greene

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THIS BOOK DEFINATELY TAUGHT ME A FEW THINGS 5 out of 5 stars.
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GREAT BOOK FOR COLLEGE & PRO FOOTBALL TIPS. I JUST GOT INTO BETTING FOOTBALL MYSELF BUT FEEL THIS GUIDE HAS HELPED ME IN MORE WAYS THEN ONE. SO I DEFIATELY THINK ITS A MUST OWN FOR FOOTBALL BETTORS.

What does a box score do for you? 5 out of 5 stars.
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A laundry list of evaluations in this tome. Learn who is really favored and why. Can you tell which team really dominated? What is one of the most telling stats you can pull from right from the paper?

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Make sure to check out the "Tuttle Math" football prospectus. davidgreene39@gmail.com is where I can be reached. My next book, "So You Think You Know How to Gamble, on Sports" (which will be pertaining to the "Big-3" of sports gambling); is now available. These booklets, are just that; in the fact that they will only be between 90 to 115 pages in length, always. Hence the low price, even though there's plenty of wording (12,104 in this booklet), and it certainly packs a punch! Although, this book was written with all football bettor's in mind; its teachings are a bit advanced for the Beginner/Novice. The Avid/Advanced football bettor, will absolutely LOVE IT!! The "systems" discussed in this book are absolutely years ahead of their time!

Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder

Herschel Walker

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The NFL legend and Heisman Trophy winner shares the inspiring story of his life and diagnosis with dissociative identity disorder.

Herschel Walker is widely regarded as one of football's greatest running backs. He led the University of Georgia to victory in the Sugar Bowl on the way to an NCAA Championship and he capped a sensational college career by earning the 1982 Heisman Trophy. Herschel spent twelve years in the NFL, where he rushed for more than eight thousand yards and scored sixty-one rushing touchdowns.

But despite the acclaim he won as a football legend, track star, Olympic competitor, and later a successful businessman, Herschel realized that his life, at times, was simply out of control. He often felt angry, self-destructive, and unable to connect meaningfully with friends and family. Drawing on his deep faith, Herschel turned to professionals for help and was ultimately diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.

While some might have taken this diagnosis as a setback, Herschel approached his mental health with the same indomitable spirit he brought to the playing field. It also gave him, for the first time, insight into his life's unexplained passages, stretches of time that seemed forever lost. Herschel came to understand that during those times, his "alters," or alternate personalities, were in control.

Born into a poor, but loving family in the South, Herschel was an overweight child with a stutter who suffered terrible bullying at school. He now understands that he created "alters" who could withstand abuse. But beyond simply enduring, other "alters" came forward to help Herschel overcome numerous obstacles and, by the time he graduated high school, become an athlete recognized on a national level.

In Breaking Free, Herschel tells his story -- from the joys and hardships of childhood to his explosive impact on college football to his remarkable professional career. And he gives voice and hope to those suffering from DID. Herschel shows how this disorder played an integral role in his accomplishments and how he has learned to live with it today. His compelling account testifies to the strength of the human spirit and its ability to overcome any challenge.

University of Notre Dame Football Vault (College Vault)

John Heisler

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In The University of Notre Dame Football VaultTM The History of the Fighting Irish, John Heisler introduces readers to the legendary history of one of America s most admired and talked-about college football programs. From its humble beginnings on a muddy South Bend field in 1887 to the powerhouse teams of today, Fighting Irish fans will once again experience the glory days of coaching greats Knute Rockne, Elmer Layden, and Ara Parseghian. Just like the pages of a family scrapbook, The University of Notre Dame Football VaultTM is stuffed with rarely-seen snapshots, images, and photos all intermixed with a variety of intriguing replica memorabilia. Reproductions include a 1924 ticket to Notre Dame's first bowl game, handwritten Rockne play diagrams from the 1930's, a bumper sticker from the 1973 National Championship, and a ticket to the 1997 Notre Dame Stadium Rededication Game. Never before has the history of the Fighting Irish been told in such a vivid, graphic, and entertaining format. Illustrated; Hardcover; 144 pages

Top Dawg: Mark Richt and the Revival of Georgia Football

Rob Suggs

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A great story of the right man for the right program 5 out of 5 stars.
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Rob Suggs' central theme - that the right man came to Georgia football at the right time - is demonstrated ably in this well-written and timely book. This isn't just a rehash of Georgia football and Mark Richt. The author talks about his own personal anecdotes briefly in an introduction, which should ring true with Dawg fans, but he follows with very interesting parallels between the fall and rise of Georgia football following the Herschel Walker years, and the eerily corresponding fall and rise of Mark Richt's personal life and career.

I don't want to write too many details, but I'll say that ours is a lucky fanbase. We had a Lewis Grizzard writing for us. We have had a Jack Davis drawing for us. Now, we have another gifted professional bringing us a book that he's written as both professional and fan. It's one we all wish we could write. If you're a Georgia Bulldog, this book needs to be on your shelf.

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Top Dawg is the inside story of how Georgia Football returned to dominate the SEC with new life and new fire.

Mediocrity followed the Georgia Bulldogs for two decades after the departure of Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker. Meanwhile, a bright young leader was learning his craft just over the Florida line. Top Dawg is a story of tradition and of a tactician and how when the two converged the result was the emergence of the Georgia football program as one of the nation's top programs. After a powerful 2007 season, capped by a Sugar Bowl victory, Georgia is slated to start the 2008 season ranked in the top five. Top Dawg is the story of Georgia's return to glory with input from the players, coaches, and insiders. Filled with highlights, important games, the behind-the-scenes stories, Top Dawg will be a must read for every Georgia fan.

Paul Brown: The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Football's Most Innovative Coach

Andrew O'Toole

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The Legendary Life of an Incredible Teacher 4 out of 5 stars.
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The influence Paul Brown continues to have on pro football is enormous, though he passed away in 1991 at the age of 82.

In one of two recently published biographies on Brown, author Andrew O'Toole hits paydirt with a quality play book that highlights the incredible victories and heartbreaking defeats, though - through it all - Brown never wavered in his focus and goals.

Brown - often heralded as, "the father of the modern offense" - came into prominence with the Washington Massillon High School Tigers, taking the helm in 1932 at age 23 and eventually capturing by polls six-consecutive state titles, while amassing a record of 80-8-2 in nine years.

From 1941-1943 at Ohio State, Brown was on the verge of creating a collegiate dynasty, winning the 1942 national championship and leading the Buckeyes to a three-year record of 18-8-1. After coaching the Great Lakes Naval Station Blue Jackets for two years came the foundation to a remarkable 17 years with the Browns.

Though Brown was the "coach in absentee" with Ohio State, he ultimately became part-owner, head coach, vice president and general manager of Cleveland's franchise in the All-America Football Conference. The club garnered its nickname either from heavyweight champion Joe Louis - shortened from a suggestion of the Brown Bombers - or to honor Brown.

The Browns won all four championships in the AAFC, before the league merged with the National Football League, where the team won three titles. Among the innovations Brown introduced to the game during these years were the creation of what is now known as the "West Coast" offense, compiling a game film library, teaching the game in a classroom setting, talking to his quarterbacks through a radio transmitter, using "messenger" guards to relay plays to the offensive huddle, emphasizing safety through the use of face masks on helmets and having a reserve squad (known as a "Taxi squad," because the players drove cabs for co-owner Arthur McBride's Cleveland taxi company).

There is a bright spotlight on January 9, 1963, when Brown was fired by Browns majority owner Art Modell, which was done during a Cleveland newspaper strike. O'Toole writes, "It's a cold world. It's an even colder business. You give your life to something; you devote yourself to this football, but where are you ate the end of the day? You wind up with your possessions stuffed in a couple of cardboard boxes callously dumped outside your office, your old office. Your old office, your old job...Nothing that was, is."

A tenuous relationship during the early years of Modell's ownership, the partnership permanently fractured over running back Ernie Davis, the sensational 1961 Heisman Trophy winner who was a member of the team, but never played due to suffering from leukemia and losing his battle with the disease on May 18, 1963.

Brown refused to play Davis when the cancer was in a brief remission. Depending on the story, this controversial chapter of team history, Modell wanted Davis to only make a brief appearance in a game to honor the player's wish or the majority owner was looking to cash in on his substantial investment in a player who was never going to recover from the disease.

"Each man was a success in his chosen field, but Modell and Brown reached the summit from different points on the map. 'One was from knowledge and experience,' Paul would say later, 'The other from a complete lack of either,'" writes O'Toole.

The five years away from the game found Brown laying the foundation for an expansion team in the American Football League. The Cincinnati Bengals became a reality during a September 26, 1967, announcement by Brown, who would be the club's principal owner, general manager and head coach. Brown stepped down as head coach on January 1, 1976, to become team president.

In 1967, Brown was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, and two stadiums bear his name: Paul Brown Tiger Stadium in Massillon, and Paul Brown Stadium, in Cincinnati. The players and assistant coaches who later became pro or college head coaches include Bill Walsh, Weeb Ewbank, Chuck Noll, Don Shula, Ara Parseghian and Lou Saban.

O'Toole shows that the greatest pro head coach left a legacy as a teacher, innovator and administrator....Paul Brown.

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Paul Brown is a football legend, yet few fans know the story of this very private man. This book follows Brown’s life and career, from his childhood and college years through his domination as a coach on every major level — high school, collegiate, and pro — to his painful exile from a sport he essentially helped create. In relating the story of Paul Brown and his gridiron innovations, Andrew O’Toole tells the story of modern day football.

Classic Browns: The 50 Greatest Games in Cleveland Browns History (Classic Cleveland)

Jonathan Knight

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It's far too easy to allow the national media and disparaging fans to undermine Clevelanders' views of their professional sports teams. While the Browns, Indians, and Cavaliers have certainly caused more than their fair share of frustration and heartbreak over the past century, there are countless moments of glory in the fertile athletic history of Northeast Ohio that receive little notice east of Shaker Heights or west of Rocky River. Jonathan Knight's "Classic Cleveland Series" sets out to combat this trend, bundling together the most memorable moments of Cleveland's beloved atheltic clubs. In three separate publications, Knight ranks the fifty greatest games in each franchise with entertaining accounts of each contest, properly placing them in the broad landscape of civic history.Regardless of what the current editions of the Browns, Indians, and Cavs accomplish, every contest played is another chapter in an epos connecting each generation of fans to the ones before it. "The Classic Cleveland Series" colorfully illustrates that regardless of today's final score, the simple continuation of the saga is reason enough for reflection and celebration." Classic Browns" counts down the fifty greatest Cleveland Browns games, from unexpected upsets to incredible comebacks to titanic championship battles. The rich, six-decade history of the Browns is layered into these tales, tying together the gritty All-American Football Conference games played in the shadow of World War II to the sleek Sunday battles at shimmering Cleveland Browns Stadium today.Knight ranks heartbreakers like The Fumble and The Drive alongside championship duels and epic confrontations with heated rivals. Included in these pages are the heroics of Browns legends like Otto Graham, Lou Groza, Jim Brown, Brian Sipe, and Bernie Kosar to name just a few. Whether it was because of the score, the weather, or an amazing individual performance, each game included in "Classic Browns" is worth remembering and revisiting. Sure to spark interest and debate, "Classic Browns" will appeal to Browns fans everywhere.

Greatest Moments in Notre Dame Football History

John Heisler

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To be a fan of the Fighting Irish is to revere the tradition, understand the legend, and experience the pageantry of Notre Dame--all for the glory in the end zone. Greatest Moments in Notre Dame Football History illuminates the team's storied victories and dignified defeats and proves once and for all why this school is the one by which all other college football programs are judged.

Even the most casual Notre Dame football fans can recount the greatest Irish games: the landmark home victories over No. 1 Miami in '88 and No. 1 Florida State in '93; the unforgettable 10-10 tie with Michigan State in '66; the green-jersey game against USC in '77; Harry Oliver's epic 51-yard field goal to beat Michigan in '80; and the long list of bowl wins against the likes of Texas, Alabama, West Virginia, Colorado, Texas A&M, and Florida. Don't forget the birth of the Four Horsemen, the "Win One for the Gipper" game, plus four straight seasons under Frank Leahy without a loss.

Greatest Moments in Notre Dame Football History gives you the scoop on all those games and more. In categorizing dozens of the most memorable Irish gridiron achievements, readers will learn which games changed the face of Notre Dame football; get an inside look at Notre Dame bowl wins; discover which contests were rated "games of the century"; relive unbelievable endings and amazing individual performances; and even consider a list of losses that still have Notre Dame fans pulling their hair out.

Games are recounted in rich detail, supported by statistics, scoring summaries, and memorable quotations from the coaches and players involved. The book is illustrated with a generous helping of exclusive color photographs from the Notre Dame archives. A bonus highlight DVD includes interviews and historic footage of some of the greatest Fighting Irish moments also featured in the book. Greatest Moments in Notre Dame Football History is a book no Fighting Irish fan will want to be without.