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The Sidelines is a collection of poetry that highlights what it is like to be on the sidelines of life. While glory is achieved by engaging in the action, the sideline is a great place to learn, heal, grow, develop a hunger to succeed, develop humility, support others, prepare for when your time comes, coach, and so forth. The sideline of life is also an incredible place to answer the following question: Is this what I really want? Connect with the author on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/KollinLTaylor.
2022 Outstanding Book Award in the Communication and Sport Division from the National Communication Association When sports fans turn on the television or radio today, they undoubtedly find more women on the air than ever before. Nevertheless, women sportscasters are still subjected to gendered and racialized mistreatment in the workplace and online and are largely confined to anchor and sideline reporter positions in coverage of high-profile men’s sports. In On the Sidelines Guy Harrison weaves in-depth interviews with women sportscasters, focus groups with sports fans, and a collection of media products to argue that gendered neoliberalism—a cluster of exclusionary twenty-first-century...
The great and the good, the powerful and the feared end up, to misquote Enoch Powell, "lonely, bitter and alone at home". In A View from the Sidelines, Michael Shea offers a behind-the-scenes account of his years with presidents, monarchs, captains of industry, film stars, secret agents and their hangers-on.
Nolan Lennox had things figured out. Named after a baseball legend, she enjoyed being the Tomboy, her closet filled with her brother’s hand-me-downs, cut-off jeans and soccer shorts. But when her first trip to high school results in a broken heart from the first boy to ever make her heart flutter and cruel words from an older girl she once thought a family friend, Nolan starts to question the very person she thought she was and wonders if her humble upbringing can compete with the afforded luxuries of her privileged peers. Throughout the next four years, Nolan struggles to maintain herself throughout her path of discovery, learning just how cruel teenagers can be through the pressures of u...
Fiona Fagan is a good soccer player, who could be great if she didn't have asthma and allergies in her way. Fiona's parents decide that it is just too dangerous to her health to keep playing. But with her teammates' encouragement, she decides to play against her parents' wishes. Now Fiona is in big trouble and may never be able to play soccer again! Is there any way that the Stars can help their friend stay on the team?
The ultimate fan's guide to America's most popular sport Since the last edition of Football For Dummies, new stadiums have been built, new stars have ascended, and records have been broken. This new edition has been revised to reflect today's game, giving football fans up-to-the-minute information on all the rules and regulations, positions, plays, and penalties. Featuring coverage of the newest stadium technologies, revised greatest players and legends, and pro-football must-do experiences, it also includes expert advice on training and gearing up for those who play the game. Fans will discover the best ways to enjoy football-at home or at the stadium.
Based on interviews with rural Chinese women, officials and social scientists, and on Chinese newspapers, journals and academic reports. Analyses the situation of women of Han nationality with rural household registration, most of whom worked in townships and villages, but some of whom worked in cities. Delineates patterns in gender divisions of labour in the context of economic reform.
It's Sports Day...but with magical ballet, monster hunting, and classic games with explosive surprises on the docket, Fantasy Sports Day is full of events that could lead to death or worse for the players of FLFO! Anastasia, the Immortal Princess, ends up on a bloody battlefield--and some unexpected developments might evolve her out of the zombie race altogether! What new changes are in store for our undead heroine?
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