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In Sweet Shot, Dr. Vernon Wendt reveals the secret behind the motivation of one of basketball’s greatest long-range shooter of all time. Discover with Sugar a greater purpose for your gifts than personal glory. Sweet Shot will inspire you to chase after your dreams, revisit past, or discarded dreams, and dream even more dreams - to dare to be great like Sugar, and keep on shooting until you realize the sweet shot of discovering God's purpose for your dreams.

In this candid and inspirational guide to young people, Brent Bass examines challenges and contradictions facing school age students (notably student-athletes). He offers middle and high schoolers (and parents) tools for learning about peer pressure, respecting authority, being coachable, risk-taking, keeping their word, managing time, first impressions, staying flexible, spirituality, focusing, and other winning life skills.

When basketball fans hear the words Final Four, they probably think of the buzzer-beaters, Cinderella stories, and bracket-busters that have thrilled people for years. However, you don't need to be a die-hard fan to know that the NCAA men's basketball tournament is one of the most popular sports events in the United States. By the time the tournament of 64 teams has been whittled down to the Final Four, excitement reaches a fever pitch.

In 2015, when Ohio State took on the University of Oregon in the first College Football Playoff championship game, millions of sports fans tuned in. But back in 1869, when Rutgers University and Princeton University played the first-ever college football game, no one predicted the national spectacle that a college football championship game would become.

Who won the first Daytona 500? What do teams do to prepare their cars for 500 miles of hard, high-speed racing? Who gave the Daytona 500 the nickname the "Great American Race"? Learn all about stock car racing's biggest event and the drivers and crew who make it possible in this fascinating, fact-filled book. You will join in the excitement of 43 cars running nose-to-tail and side-by-side at almost 200 miles per hour.

An encouraging collection of biographies detailing the amazing lives of celebrities. Who grew up without their dads and overcame adversities? Can you really make it without a father figure? Keeya McSwain challenges that notion in her debut novel. Join McSwain as she tells their unique stories in the hope of motivating youth who are being effected by the staggering numbers of fatherless homes. Be inspired as she documents that success can be possible even without a father.

"I Messis fodspor" handler om Loppen, som stort ikke taenker på andet end at spille fodbold. Når de store drenge traener og spiller kamp på fodboldbanerne, kigger han på med sin bedstemor. Bedste, som kender til Loppens talent, plager ofte traeneren om, at Loppen kan få lov til at spille med. Traeneren afviser forslaget, fordi Loppen er meget mindre end de andre drenge. En dag, hvor Bedste og Loppen som saedvanlig er tilskuere, mangler holdet en spiller. Traeneren føler sig nødsaget til at tage Loppen med på holdet. I starten ser det ud til at blive en dundrende fiasko.

Dies ist die Geschichte von Thomas Ritter, dem Fußballprofi in Diensten des FC X...

Again is John A. Passaro's sequel to 6 Minutes Wrestling With Life. The fight inside of you must be dictated by the outcome you want to achieve. You must fight for the whole six minutes. Every second counts. Everything matters. Every breath is gold.

Finish Strong Teen Athlete is Dan Green's follow up to his bestselling book Finish Strong (the auidobook and the mantra the New Orleans Saints used along their journey to become the 2009 Super Bowl Champions). Finish Strong Teen Athlete identifies 16 key principles for developing the champion within, and no matter which sport is played, any teen athlete (male or female) can learn from it.

Gary Paulsen takes listeners along on his maiden voyage, proving that ignorance can be bliss. Also really stupid and incredibly dangerous. He tells of boats that owned him, good, bad, and beloved, and how they got him through terrifying storms that he survived by sheer luck. His spare prose conjures up shark surprises and killer waves as well as moonlight on the sea, and makes listeners feel what it’s like to sail under the stars or to lie at anchor in a tropical lagoon where dolphins leap, bathed in silver.

A wonderful how to book that focuses on motivation of a young man in American basketball: Everyone has had a failure, or two or even three.... We often equate failures with negative connotations that the person is lazy, they didn't try hard enough, they aren't educated and so on.... Motivation is not usually the outcome in this situation.

Pinned follows Ivan Korske and Bobby Zane, two high school seniors, as they embark on the most important winter of their lives in a quest for the New Jersey state high school wrestling championship.

12-årige Emilia har fulgt Tour de France, siden hun var fem år gammel. Sammen med sin mor og far har hun stået på sidelinjen, når cykelrytterne kommer racende forbi i de franske bjerge. Her fortæller hun, hvordan Tour de France opleves i børnehøjde, om det, man laver om aftenen og om dagen på bjerget, om reklamekaravanen, de andre tilskuere, journalisterne og rytterne. Emilia Venø Piil går på Giersings Realskole i Odense. Hun var til Tour de France for første gang i 2012 sammen med sine forældre. Hendes mor, Dorthe, er tidligere håndboldspiller, og hendes far, Morten, er tidligere cykel

Gunilla Wolde er solgt med det samme, da hun møder New Forest-ponyen Twiggy første gang. Derfor får hun også taget beslutningen om at købe den lille hoppe lidt for hurtigt. Men selvom Twiggy nærmest er halvvild, er hun nem at elske, og i "Den første sommer med Twiggy" fortæller Gunilla Wolde om alt det nye, såsom køb af sadel og seletøj, skoning, dyrelægebesøg og den første ridekonkurrence, der følger med, når man har anskaffet sig en hest.

Laura Dekker var kun 14 år, da hun stævnede ud i sin båd for at sejle jorden rundt. Alene! Efter 518 dage nåede hun som 16-årig sit mål. Hun havde på egen hånd sejlet hele kloden rundt - som den yngste nogensinde. Dette er historien om hendes utrolige eventyr. Om mod, viljestyrke, venskaber, Stillehavsøer, verdenshave, frihed, storme og ensomhed. Og om en retssag, der var ved at bremse det hele. "Alene jorden rundt" er historien om en meget usædvanlige pige, som kan inspirere alle til at kæmpe for ting, de drømmer om - også selvom der er masser af modstand.

In 1943, while the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals were winning pennants and meeting in that year's World Series, one of the nation's strongest baseball teams practiced on a skinned-out college field in the heart of North Carolina. Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky, and Johnny Sain were among a cadre of fighter-pilot cadets who wore the Cloudbuster Nine baseball jersey at an elite Navy training school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

"Narrator Brad Sanders's baritone voice bestows deserved gravitas on this remarkable story...Hoops and history fans won't be the only ones appreciating this inspirational listen." — AudioFile Magazine Attucks! is the true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color...

Luisito Comunica viaja de un extremo a otro del planeta. La curiosidad es el motor de las aventuras que lo lanzan hasta los terrenos más inhóspitos y misteriosos.

Volleyball is loud. High school is louder. Serve, Set, Shine is a 60-day KJV devotional for volleyball girls ages 16–18 who are facing real pressure on the court and in everyday life. From starting spots, slumps, comparison, team drama, group chats, bad calls, trash talk, coaches, parents, grades, college decisions, boys, boundaries, parties, and the constant noise of what everyone thinks, this audiobook helps teen athletes grow stronger in faith, mindset, confidence, and character.