Basketball Odds
TELL ME HOW DO I BET IN TODAYS BASKETBALL GAMES FOR A SURE WIN WITH THIS ODDS?
DALLAS MAVERICKS +7 -110 206.5 OVR
ORLANDO MAGIC -7 -110 UND
MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES +5.5 -110 192 OVR
WASHINGTON WIZARDS -5.5 -110 UND
LOS ANGELES LAKERS -6.5 -110 223.5 OVR
NEW YORK KNICKS +6.5 -110 UND
LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS +9.5 -110 191.5 OVR
MIAMI HEAT -9.5 -110 UND
PORTLAND TRAILBLAZERS +4.5 -110 184 OVR
NEW ORLEANS HORNETS -4.5 -110 UND
SACRAMENTO KINGS +15.5 -110 222.5 OVR
PHOENIX SUNS -15.5 -110 UND -110
CHARLOTTE BOBCATS +7 -110 190 OVR
UTAH JAZZ -7 -110 UND
SAN ANTONIO SPURS -4.5 -110 213 OVR
GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS +4.5 -110 UND
At first I thought + means good and I was going to say “wtf? Mavs over Magic?” then i realized it was + that was bad.
Basketball Player Beats the Odds
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Upward…Fruit of the Spirit $2.70 Track Listing: 1. The Fruit of the Spirit (03:39); |
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Above the Rim $3.03 A hot prospect threatens his college career by playing in a high stakes street basketball tournament. Starring Duane Martin, Tupac Shakur and Marlon Wayans. Year: 1994 Director: Jeff Pollack Starring: Duane Martin Leon, Tupac Shakur, Marlon Wayans… |
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The Super $9.98 … |
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ALIENS LOVE HEART THE CELTICS OLD SCHOOL EXTRATERRESTRIAL BASKETBALL T SHIRT GILDAN ADULT HEAVY COTTON TEE ? 5.3 oz., 100% Cotton, preshrunk ? Cotton/10% Polyester). ? Seamless double-needle collar. ? Taped neck and shoulders. ? Double-needle sleeve and bottom hems. * Any questions please call or email us. ? WE HAVE OTHER SIZES AND COLORS AVAILABLE. *2T- 13″ CHEST X 17″ LENGTH *3T- 14″ CHEST X 18″ LENGTH *4T- 15″ CHEST X 19″ LENGTH *YS- 16″ CHEST X 20″ LENGT… |
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I WILL RUMBLE FOR THE METS HARDCORE FAN DEFEND T SHIRT jersey GILDAN ADULT HEAVY COTTON TEE ? 5.3 oz., 100% Cotton, preshrunk ? Cotton/10% Polyester). ? Seamless double-needle collar. ? Taped neck and shoulders. ? Double-needle sleeve and bottom hems. * Any questions please call or email us. ? WE HAVE OTHER SIZES AND COLORS AVAILABLE. *2T- 13″ CHEST X 17″ LENGTH *3T- 14″ CHEST X 18″ LENGTH *4T- 15″ CHEST X 19″ LENGTH *YS- 16″ CHEST X 20″ LENGTH *YM- 17″… |
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Breaking Through: Beating the Odds Shot after Shot On the surface, Chamique Holdsclawâs memoirs, Breaking Through, is an inspiring behind-the-scenes glimpse of what itâs like to play professional womenâs basketball. Itâs got the thrills, the spills, and the locker room gossip that any sports fan longs to read about and be privy to. Holdsclaw takes her readers on a whirlwind tour of life as a WNBA star, from the streets of New Y… |
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Glory Road: My Story of the 1966 NCAA Basketball Championship and How One Team Triumphed Against the Odds and Changed America Forever $3.58 Timed to the release of Jerry Bruckheimer’s movie, the moving autobiography of Hall of Fame basketball coach Don Haskins and his storied team of players, the Texas Western MinersIn 1966, college basketball was almost completely segregated. In the championship game for the NCAA title that year, Don Haskins, coach of the then little-known Texas Western College, did something that had never been done… |
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Sharp Sports Betting $12.44 Sharp Sports Betting explains the logic and math of sports bets, including such exotic bets as parlays, teasers, and props. Lots of NFL data…. |
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Mario Hoops 3 On 3 $28.99 Mario Hoops 3 on 3 DS… |
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A Winter of Wonders: Circle of Friends, Just Off Main, Book Two $1.42 Real life, with its greatest hurts and grandest dreams, is the basis for Circle of Frients, Just off Main, a deeply engaging fiction series for real women of all walks heartily written by actress Jennifer O’Neill. Book two, A Winter of Wonders, reveals even more of the dynamics between at-odds sisters Lauren and Irene, the troublesome budding romance between Irene’s teenage daughter and basketball star Trace, the hardscrabble times of Trace’s widowed mom Stephanie, and life after breast cancer surgery for Stephanie’s prayer group friend Eleanor. In this wintry season of the faith journey, there are moments of coldness as well as merciful warmth. While some characters wonder what drama could possibly unfold next, others marvel at the wonders of God’s grace. |
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Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances $27.99 Scott Brown’s greatest win did not occur on a cold January election night in 2010 when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years. It began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old while trying to protect his mother. In this gripping memoir of resilience and redemption, written with clear-eyed conviction and unflinching candor, Brown recalls his difficult childhood marked by innumerable hardships. He tells the story of how basketball showed him the way out of family chaos. Later, as a law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as Cosmopolitan’s “America’s Sexiest Man” and vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modeling. But the man who was once ushered into the backrooms of Studio 54 returned to Massachusetts to raise a family, and soon found an unlikely path that would lead him to national political stardom. Poignant, heartfelt, humorous, and profound—including details from the unprecedented Senate race and victory that captured the country’s imagination—this is the story of one man’s dream and determination to fight for a better future. |
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Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances $27.99 Scott Brown’s greatest win did not occur on a cold January election night in 2010 when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years. It began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old while trying to protect his mother. In this gripping memoir of resilience and redemption, written with clear-eyed conviction and unflinching candor, Brown recalls his difficult childhood marked by innumerable hardships. He tells the story of how basketball showed him the way out of family chaos. Later, as a law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as Cosmopolitan’s “America’s Sexiest Man” and vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modeling. But the man who was once ushered into the backrooms of Studio 54 returned to Massachusetts to raise a family, and soon found an unlikely path that would lead him to national political stardom. Poignant, heartfelt, humorous, and profound—including details from the unprecedented Senate race and victory that captured the country’s imagination—this is the story of one man’s dream and determination to fight for a better future. |
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Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances $15.99 Scott Brown’s greatest win did not occur on a cold January election night in 2010 when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years. It began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old while trying to protect his mother. In this gripping memoir of resilience and redemption, written with clear-eyed conviction and unflinching candor, Brown recalls his difficult childhood marked by innumerable hardships. He tells the story of how basketball showed him the way out of family chaos. Later, as a law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as Cosmopolitan’s “America’s Sexiest Man” and vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modeling. But the man who was once ushered into the backrooms of Studio 54 returned to Massachusetts to raise a family, and soon found an unlikely path that would lead him to national political stardom. Poignant, heartfelt, humorous, and profound—including details from the unprecedented Senate race and victory that captured the country’s imagination—this is the story of one man’s dream and determination to fight for a better future. |
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Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances $1.88 Scott Brown’s greatest win did not occur on a cold January election night in 2010 when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years. It began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old while trying to protect his mother. In this gripping memoir of resilience and redemption, written with clear-eyed conviction and unflinching candor, Brown recalls his difficult childhood marked by innumerable hardships. He tells the story of how basketball showed him the way out of family chaos. Later, as a law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as Cosmopolitan’s “America’s Sexiest Man” and vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modeling. But the man who was once ushered into the backrooms of Studio 54 returned to Massachusetts to raise a family, and soon found an unlikely path that would lead him to national political stardom. Poignant, heartfelt, humorous, and profound—including details from the unprecedented Senate race and victory that captured the country’s imagination—this is the story of one man’s dream and determination to fight for a better future. |
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Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances $9.99 Scott Brown’s greatest win did not occur on a cold January election night in 2010 when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years. It began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old while trying to protect his mother. In this gripping memoir of resilience and redemption, written with clear-eyed conviction and unflinching candor, Brown recalls his difficult childhood marked by innumerable hardships. He tells the story of how basketball showed him the way out of family chaos. Later, as a law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as Cosmopolitan’s “America’s Sexiest Man” and vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modeling. But the man who was once ushered into the backrooms of Studio 54 returned to Massachusetts to raise a family, and soon found an unlikely path that would lead him to national political stardom. Poignant, heartfelt, humorous, and profound—including details from the unprecedented Senate race and victory that captured the country’s imagination—this is the story of one man’s dream and determination to fight for a better future. |
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Basics of Winning Sports Betting $0.99 Players learn this inside secrets of betting and winning at football, baseball, basketball, and boxing in this easy-to-read primer. Bettors learn how to read the betting lines, how the lines are formed, the odds in each sport, and how the over/under, teasers, and parlays work. Billions of dollars are bet on sporting events every year, and this book shows readers how they can get their piece of the pie. 20,000 print. |
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Basics of Winning Sports Betting $1.51 Players learn this inside secrets of betting and winning at football, baseball, basketball, and boxing in this easy-to-read primer. Bettors learn how to read the betting lines, how the lines are formed, the odds in each sport, and how the over/under, teasers, and parlays work. Billions of dollars are bet on sporting events every year, and this book shows readers how they can get their piece of the pie. 20,000 print. |
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Basketball Bats $9.99 UNBEATABLE TEAM—MAYBE.  UNBEATABLE READING—FOR SURE!  The first novel in Betty Hick’s Gym Shorts series is a slam-dunk for newly-independent readers.Henry and his friends on Rockford Road are a basketball team unstoppable on their driveway court. But without team t-shirts or an official name can they take on The Tigers, a team that plays at the huge YWCA and has a player old enough to shave? Young readers will cheer as The Bats take on a name and stick together to beat the odds.Basketball Bats is a 2009 Bank Street – Best Children’s Book of the Year. |
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Blind Your Ponies $39.95 Sam Pickett never expected to settle in this dried-up shell of a town on the western edge of the world. He’s come here to hide from the violence and madness that have shattered his life, but what he finds is what he least expects. It seems that every inhabitant of this forgotten outpost has a story, a reason for taking a detour to this place—or a reason for staying.As the coach of the hapless high school basketball team, Sam can’t help but be moved by the bravery he witnesses in the everyday lives of people—including his own young players—bearing their sorrows and broken dreams. How do they carry on, believing in a future that seems to be based on the flimsiest of promises? Drawing on the strength of the boys on the team, sharing the hope they display despite insurmountable odds, Sam finally begins to see a future worth living.Author Stanley Gordon West has filled the town of Willow Creek with characters so vividly cast that they become as real as relatives, and their stories—so full of humor and passion, loss and determination—illuminate a path into the human heart. |
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Blind Your Ponies $0.29 Sam Pickett never expected to settle in this dried-up shell of a town on the western edge of the world. He’s come here to hide from the violence and madness that have shattered his life, but what he finds is what he least expects. It seems that every inhabitant of this forgotten outpost has a story, a reason for taking a detour to this place—or a reason for staying.As the coach of the hapless high school basketball team, Sam can’t help but be moved by the bravery he witnesses in the everyday lives of people—including his own young players—bearing their sorrows and broken dreams. How do they carry on, believing in a future that seems to be based on the flimsiest of promises? Drawing on the strength of the boys on the team, sharing the hope they display despite insurmountable odds, Sam finally begins to see a future worth living.Author Stanley Gordon West has filled the town of Willow Creek with characters so vividly cast that they become as real as relatives, and their stories—so full of humor and passion, loss and determination—illuminate a path into the human heart. |
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Blind Your Ponies $14.95 Sam Pickett never expected to settle in this dried-up shell of a town on the western edge of the world. He’s come here to hide from the violence and madness that have shattered his life, but what he finds is what he least expects. It seems that every inhabitant of this forgotten outpost has a story, a reason for taking a detour to this place—or a reason for staying.As the coach of the hapless high school basketball team, Sam can’t help but be moved by the bravery he witnesses in the everyday lives of people—including his own young players—bearing their sorrows and broken dreams. How do they carry on, believing in a future that seems to be based on the flimsiest of promises? Drawing on the strength of the boys on the team, sharing the hope they display despite insurmountable odds, Sam finally begins to see a future worth living.Author Stanley Gordon West has filled the town of Willow Creek with characters so vividly cast that they become as real as relatives, and their stories—so full of humor and passion, loss and determination—illuminate a path into the human heart. |
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Dynasty’s End: Bill Russell and the1968-69 World Champion Boston Celtics $19.95 The Boston Celtics of the Bill Russell era were one of the greatest dynasties in sports history. During the thirteen years that Hall of Fame center Russell dominated the court, the Celtics won eleven world championships, including an unprecedented eight straight between 1959 and 1966. In the 1968-69 season, the aging and injury-riddled team finished in fourth place during the regular season, and sportswriters predicted an early defeat in the playoffs. Against all odds, player-coach Russell and his squad rallied to beat the heavily-favored Philadelphia ’76ers and New York Knicks, and captured the championship crown in a dramatic upset of Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor, Jerry West and the Los Angeles Lakers in the closing seconds of the final game of the series. The following summer, Russell stunned the sports world by announcing his retirement, ending his and the Celtics’ celebrated reign. In this vivid and lively account, Thomas J. Whalen chronicles Russell’s memorable last season and the Celtics’ dazzling triumph. Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous 1960s and Boston’s own turbulent and bitter struggles with race, he tells the fascinating story of how an improbable championship team overcame poor health, indifferent fans, disruptive personnel changes, and internal morale problems. Whalen recounts how Russell transformed the game of basketball during his remarkable career and revisits the outspoken superstar’s conflicted relationship with Boston. He also tells why the Celtics, the first team to break several NBA color lines, failed to attract a loyal following among the city’s largely white sports fanatics and press corps. |
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Glory Road: My Story of the 1966 NCAA Basketball Championship and how One Team Triumphed against the Odds and Changed America Forever $0.01 Timed to the release of Jerry Bruckheimer’s movie, the moving autobiography of Hall of Fame basketball coach Don Haskins and his storied team of players, the Texas Western MinersIn 1966, college basketball was almost completely segregated. In the championship game for the NCAA title that year, Don Haskins, coach of the then little-known Texas Western College, did something that had never been done before in the history of college basketball. He started five black players and in the now legendary game, unseated the nationally top-ranked University of Kentucky. Broadcast on television throughout the country, the Miners victory became the impetus for the desegregation of all college teams in the South during the next few years.Now, for the first time, Hall of Fame coach Don Haskins tell his story. Beginning as a small-town high school basketball coach, Haskins was known for his tough coaching methods and larger-than-life personality. As a child growing up during the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma, he developed a strong set of values and discipline that he would instill in his players throughout his coaching career. With recollections from his former players, including those of the 1966 team, along with Haskins’s own Seven Principles for Success, Glory Road is the inspiring story of a living legend and one of the most respected coaches of all time.With a foreword by basketball legend Bobby Knight, and coinciding with the release of the film Glory Road, the story of Don Haskins and his championship team is sure to become a classic for sports fans and historians. |
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Harlem Globetrotters (TV Series) $43 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Harlem Globetrotters (called Harlem Globe Trotters in the opening titles) was a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera and CBS Productions, featuring animated versions of players from the basketball team, Harlem Globetrotters. Broadcast from September 12, 1970 to September 2, 1972 on CBS, and later re-run on NBC as The Go-Go Globetrotters, the show featured cartoon versions of George “Meadowlark” Lemon, Freddie “Curly” Neal, Hubert “Geese” Ausbie, J.C. “Gip” Gipson, Bobby Joe Mason, and Pablo Robertson, alongside their fictional bus driver and manager Granny, and Dribbles, their dog mascot. The series worked to a formula where the team travel somewhere and typically got involved in a local conflict that leads to one of the characters proposing a basketball game to settle the issue. To ensure the Globetrotters’ defeat, the villains rig the contest to ensure that their opponents lose. However before the second half of the contest, the team always finds a way to even the odds, become all but invincible, and win the game. |
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Harpo, War Survivor, Basketball Wizard: How one courageous young Mexican American faced impossible Odds… twice $11.95 He spoke not a word of English when he entered the first grade. He was beaten and whipped as a young boy and abandoned by his mother before age twelve. He survived one of the most horrific experiences a man could endure with the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, and then led a band of six small Mexican Americans on a rampage through the Arizona state high school basketball championship tournament in 1947. With so many hardships early in life, how is it that he could achieve so much before the age of twenty? This is an inspirational story of determination, character, and grace under fire. It is the story of a young man who simply would not accept defeat … by ANYTHING or ANYONE. |
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I Feel Great and You Will Too!: An Inspiring Journey of Success with Practical Tips on How to Score Big in Life $0.01 “Passionate, spirited, and brimming with enthusiasm, Pat Croce is the former personal trainer who overcame odds and adversity to become president and part owner of the Philadelphia 76ers basketball tea” |
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Jim O’Brien: Bucking the Odds $1.99 Both on and off the court, Jim O’Brien’s life has been filled with a series of challenges. As a player, as a coach, as a husband, and as a father. In Jim O’Brien: Bucking the Odds, the highly successful coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes tells his whole story for the very first time. From his 11 years at Boston College through the past four seasons at Ohio State, O’Brien has had a reputation for getting the very best out of underachieving players. His achievements in Columbus have been nothing short of phenomenal, with successes including a Big Ten title, a Final Four appearance in 2000, and Coach of the Year honors in 2001. But O’Brien’s toughest and most disappointing battle came when he lost his wife, Christine, who died from heart problems caused by a lengthy battle with Hodgkins Disease. As a result, he became a single father, and was left to raise two daughters. O’Brien has gone from a virtual unknown to one of the most beloved figures in Ohio State basketball history. In this book, Buckeye loyalists and college basketball fans everywhere will get a never—before—seen glimpse of the man who has definitely bucked the odds. |
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Only the Strong Survive: The Odyssey of Allen Iverson $9.99 There are few figures among America’s media-saturated landscape that loom larger than the National Basketball Association’s undeniable superstar Allen Iverson. He was the first overall pick of the 1996 NBA draft, and the spotlight has not left him since. Defiantly tattooed, with his hair in cornrows, the six-foot Philadelphia 76ers point guard has been vilified by a sports press still fawning over Michael Jordan’s non-threatening, clean-cut visage. From Iverson’s rap sheet to his rap album, from his on-court feats to his off-court antics, breathless fans and journalists alike seem determined to track his every move. Part sports star, part antihero, part hip-hop icon, Iverson has managed to cross over into the mainstream of American culture — without compromise.It wasn’t long before Iverson’s prodigious athletic skills became apparent. Raised in poverty, with his father in prison, Iverson retreated to his local playgrounds and found escape from the all-too-common woes of the inner-city dweller. In one summer alone, eight of his friends were killed in shootings. But Iverson’s talent simply could not be denied, and basketball remained the one constant in his tumultuous existence.And so Iverson, despite all odds, rose. A now-infamous scuffle in a bowling alley led to near race riots in Iverson’s hometown of Newport News, Virginia, resulting in his being sentenced to jail time during high school. Eventually, Governor Douglas Wilder granted him clemency, the conviction was overturned on appeal, and his ascent continued. Georgetown coach John Thompson stepped in, giving Iverson a berth on his team at a time when other universities were too skittish to offer the same.It was their loss. After two tremendous years at Georgetown, Iverson declared himself eligible for the NBA draft. And the rest is history.In Only the Strong Survive, Larry Platt offers up the first full portrait of a complicated and intensely private star, a man whose |
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Only the Strong Survive: The Odyssey of Allen Iverson $0.99 There are few figures among America’s media-saturated landscape that loom larger than the National Basketball Association’s undeniable superstar Allen Iverson. He was the first overall pick of the 1996 NBA draft, and the spotlight has not left him since. Defiantly tattooed, with his hair in cornrows, the six-foot Philadelphia 76ers point guard has been vilified by a sports press still fawning over Michael Jordan’s non-threatening, clean-cut visage. From Iverson’s rap sheet to his rap album, from his on-court feats to his off-court antics, breathless fans and journalists alike seem determined to track his every move. Part sports star, part antihero, part hip-hop icon, Iverson has managed to cross over into the mainstream of American culture — without compromise.It wasn’t long before Iverson’s prodigious athletic skills became apparent. Raised in poverty, with his father in prison, Iverson retreated to his local playgrounds and found escape from the all-too-common woes of the inner-city dweller. In one summer alone, eight of his friends were killed in shootings. But Iverson’s talent simply could not be denied, and basketball remained the one constant in his tumultuous existence.And so Iverson, despite all odds, rose. A now-infamous scuffle in a bowling alley led to near race riots in Iverson’s hometown of Newport News, Virginia, resulting in his being sentenced to jail time during high school. Eventually, Governor Douglas Wilder granted him clemency, the conviction was overturned on appeal, and his ascent continued. Georgetown coach John Thompson stepped in, giving Iverson a berth on his team at a time when other universities were too skittish to offer the same.It was their loss. After two tremendous years at Georgetown, Iverson declared himself eligible for the NBA draft. And the rest is history.In Only the Strong Survive, Larry Platt offers up the first full portrait of a complicated and intensely private star, a man whose |
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Only the Strong Survive: The Odyssey of Allen Iverson $12.99 There are few figures among America’s media-saturated landscape that loom larger than the National Basketball Association’s undeniable superstar Allen Iverson. He was the first overall pick of the 1996 NBA draft, and the spotlight has not left him since. Defiantly tattooed, with his hair in cornrows, the six-foot Philadelphia 76ers point guard has been vilified by a sports press still fawning over Michael Jordan’s non-threatening, clean-cut visage. From Iverson’s rap sheet to his rap album, from his on-court feats to his off-court antics, breathless fans and journalists alike seem determined to track his every move. Part sports star, part antihero, part hip-hop icon, Iverson has managed to cross over into the mainstream of American culture — without compromise.It wasn’t long before Iverson’s prodigious athletic skills became apparent. Raised in poverty, with his father in prison, Iverson retreated to his local playgrounds and found escape from the all-too-common woes of the inner-city dweller. In one summer alone, eight of his friends were killed in shootings. But Iverson’s talent simply could not be denied, and basketball remained the one constant in his tumultuous existence.And so Iverson, despite all odds, rose. A now-infamous scuffle in a bowling alley led to near race riots in Iverson’s hometown of Newport News, Virginia, resulting in his being sentenced to jail time during high school. Eventually, Governor Douglas Wilder granted him clemency, the conviction was overturned on appeal, and his ascent continued. Georgetown coach John Thompson stepped in, giving Iverson a berth on his team at a time when other universities were too skittish to offer the same.It was their loss. After two tremendous years at Georgetown, Iverson declared himself eligible for the NBA draft. And the rest is history.In Only the Strong Survive, Larry Platt offers up the first full portrait of a complicated and intensely private star, a man whose |
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Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin’ in Flip-Flops and the Philippines’ Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball $15 Hoops dreams in the Philippines-a fresh and unforgettable basketball diary of one man’s journey and one nation’s passion. Welcome to the Philippines, where the men are 5’4,” the everyman’s Air Jordans are a pair of flip-flops, and the rhythm of life is punctuated by the bouncing of a basketball… Allured by the idea of an island nation full of people who love the game as irrationally as he does, American journalist Rafe Bartholomew arrived in Manila to unlock the riddle of basketball’s grip on the Philippines. On his unforgettable journey, Bartholomew spends a season inside the locker room of a Philippine professional team, dines with politicians who exploit hoops for electoral success, travels with a troupe of midgets and transsexuals who play exhibition games at rural fiestas, and even acts in a local soap opera. Sweating his way through hard-fought games of 3-on-3, played with homemade hoops for 50-cent wagers, Bartholomew uses a mix of journalistic knowhow and the hard- court ethics he learned from his dad to get in the paint and behind the scenes of Filipinos’ against-all-odds devotion to the sport. |
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Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin’ in Flip-Flops and the Philippines’ Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball $9.99 Hoops dreams in the Philippines-a fresh and unforgettable basketball diary of one man’s journey and one nation’s passion. Welcome to the Philippines, where the men are 5’4,” the everyman’s Air Jordans are a pair of flip-flops, and the rhythm of life is punctuated by the bouncing of a basketball… Allured by the idea of an island nation full of people who love the game as irrationally as he does, American journalist Rafe Bartholomew arrived in Manila to unlock the riddle of basketball’s grip on the Philippines. On his unforgettable journey, Bartholomew spends a season inside the locker room of a Philippine professional team, dines with politicians who exploit hoops for electoral success, travels with a troupe of midgets and transsexuals who play exhibition games at rural fiestas, and even acts in a local soap opera. Sweating his way through hard-fought games of 3-on-3, played with homemade hoops for 50-cent wagers, Bartholomew uses a mix of journalistic knowhow and the hard- court ethics he learned from his dad to get in the paint and behind the scenes of Filipinos’ against-all-odds devotion to the sport. |
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Pick up Games $15.99 Still mourning the death of his beloved fianc , Avery, who was murdered five years ago, Mick Webber is struggling to piece his life back together, both personally and professionally. When Mick gets a promising new job hosting a college basketball show, he is dismayed to learn that he will have to share the spotlight with a female co-host: Cara Jones, who recently moved to Utah after her own failed engagement. Right from the start, the two are at odds, but neither is willing to give up this promising career opportunity. Despite the tension between them, their show quickly shoots to the top of the rating charts, and Mick and Cara can t help but grow closer as they work side by side. But neither is willing to disclose their painful pasts, and both are wary of trusting again.Will they ever be able to let down their guard and let love in?Will they make it through the season in one piece? Pick-up Games will have you cheering from the sidelines, on the edge of your seat, anxious to see who will win this game of love. |
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Tell It For A Toll, Toll It For A Tale $6.41 Willow Grove is a new beginning for the Lennox family.The best thing that ever happened to them. Lois and her two boys had to get away from an abusive husband and father. Divorced and free, this was the place to start fresh.Money was scarce, but Lois had a job with advancement. She knew they could make it. The rickety old house, with an orchard, she rented on the outskirts of town was livable. The old stories about it being haunted couldn’t be true, could they?Life was good and getting better all the time. The boys settled in and made friends. Ethan, the oldest, was good at basketball and made first string on the team.Then, the madness returned. Lewis Lennox came to town. No! Not again, Lois won’t let it happen again. With help from Reverend Garrett and school teacher Donald Griffin. Can she make it? The odds are in her favor. |
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The Basketball Bats $4.71 UNBEATABLE TEAM—MAYBE.  UNBEATABLE READING—FOR SURE!  The first novel in Betty Hick’s Gym Shorts series is a slam-dunk for newly-independent readers.Henry and his friends on Rockford Road are a basketball team unstoppable on their driveway court. But without team t-shirts or an official name can they take on The Tigers, a team that plays at the huge YWCA and has a player old enough to shave? Young readers will cheer as The Bats take on a name and stick together to beat the odds.Basketball Bats is a 2009 Bank Street – Best Children’s Book of the Year. |
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The Broncos Of 1945 $3.99 The hardships of the Depression and World War II had taken a toll on the hopes and dreams of Americans everywhere. Central Ohio was no exception. The Ashville High School basketball team’s quest for the Ohio Class B state championship in 1945 lifted the hearts and spirits of the residents of the rural communities of Harrison Township in Pickaway County. The Broncos of 1945 describes the experiences of young boys growing up in three neighboring communities who were enjoying the innocence and camaraderie of small-town life while enduring personal sacrifices during the depression era. Playing pickup games of basketball solidified the friendships among these boys through the depression, war, high school, and life beyond. Mentored in the skills of basketball by older brothers, uncles, and cousins; instilled with a competitive spirit through pride of family and community, and inspired by the Bronco basketball tradition of Ashville High School, these boys bonded in their love for the game. They played basketball in the alleys, backyards, and barns regardless of weather or playing conditions. In the sixth grade, new teacher, Lawrence Fullen, a former high school basketball coach at a nearby school, introduced disciplined and team oriented basketball fundamentals to the boys. He built confidence in their abilities and motivates them to give more attention to improving their academics. An unusual turn of events led to Fullen being promoted to high school athletic director in August 1942 and the quest for a state championship begins. The story is authentic. The facts are derived from interviews with players, competitors, students and residents of the communities and documented by stories from newspapers, scrapbooks, and school publications. It is a story of hope. It’s a narrative of young boys rising above adversity, beating the odds, and achieving more than society’s expectations during a |
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The Broncos Of 1945 $16.83 The hardships of the Depression and World War II had taken a toll on the hopes and dreams of Americans everywhere. Central Ohio was no exception. The Ashville High School basketball team’s quest for the Ohio Class B state championship in 1945 lifted the hearts and spirits of the residents of the rural communities of Harrison Township in Pickaway County. The Broncos of 1945 describes the experiences of young boys growing up in three neighboring communities who were enjoying the innocence and camaraderie of small-town life while enduring personal sacrifices during the depression era. Playing pickup games of basketball solidified the friendships among these boys through the depression, war, high school, and life beyond. Mentored in the skills of basketball by older brothers, uncles, and cousins; instilled with a competitive spirit through pride of family and community, and inspired by the Bronco basketball tradition of Ashville High School, these boys bonded in their love for the game. They played basketball in the alleys, backyards, and barns regardless of weather or playing conditions. In the sixth grade, new teacher, Lawrence Fullen, a former high school basketball coach at a nearby school, introduced disciplined and team oriented basketball fundamentals to the boys. He built confidence in their abilities and motivates them to give more attention to improving their academics. An unusual turn of events led to Fullen being promoted to high school athletic director in August 1942 and the quest for a state championship begins. The story is authentic. The facts are derived from interviews with players, competitors, students and residents of the communities and documented by stories from newspapers, scrapbooks, and school publications. It is a story of hope. It’s a narrative of young boys rising above adversity, beating the odds, and achieving more than society’s expectations during a |
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The Broncos Of 1945 $29.54 The hardships of the Depression and World War II had taken a toll on the hopes and dreams of Americans everywhere. Central Ohio was no exception. The Ashville High School basketball team’s quest for the Ohio Class B state championship in 1945 lifted the hearts and spirits of the residents of the rural communities of Harrison Township in Pickaway County. The Broncos of 1945 describes the experiences of young boys growing up in three neighboring communities who were enjoying the innocence and camaraderie of small-town life while enduring personal sacrifices during the depression era. Playing pickup games of basketball solidified the friendships among these boys through the depression, war, high school, and life beyond. Mentored in the skills of basketball by older brothers, uncles, and cousins; instilled with a competitive spirit through pride of family and community, and inspired by the Bronco basketball tradition of Ashville High School, these boys bonded in their love for the game. They played basketball in the alleys, backyards, and barns regardless of weather or playing conditions. In the sixth grade, new teacher, Lawrence Fullen, a former high school basketball coach at a nearby school, introduced disciplined and team oriented basketball fundamentals to the boys. He built confidence in their abilities and motivates them to give more attention to improving their academics. An unusual turn of events led to Fullen being promoted to high school athletic director in August 1942 and the quest for a state championship begins. The story is authentic. The facts are derived from interviews with players, competitors, students and residents of the communities and documented by stories from newspapers, scrapbooks, and school publications. It is a story of hope. It’s a narrative of young boys rising above adversity, beating the odds, and achieving more than society’s expectations during a |
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The Odds $1.4 One wild read (Rick Reilly, Sports Illustrated) about a unique city trying to find itselfand about three gamblers who win, lose, and risk everything during the college basketball season |
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The Upside: The 7 Strategies for Turning Big Threats into Growth Breakthroughs $0.01 Today, when your fortunes can literally change overnight, the new strategic imperative is making your moment of maximum risk your moment of maximum opportunity. In The Upside, Adrian Slywotzky provides bold and original ideas for growth breakthroughs as well as the practical tools to use Monday morning, such as•How to change the odds for your next major initiative and create potential industry breakthroughs, as Toyota did with its expanding universe of Prius vehicles. •Shape and exploit risk, don’t be shaped by it. Become a knowledge-intensive business and continuallyincrease the knowledge gap between yourself and rivals, as Coach and Tsutaya of Japan have convincingly done. •A category killer can’t kill what’s not in its category. When basketball legend Bill Russell faced a taller, stronger Wilt Chamberlain, he led the Celtics to victory by inventing a different game. The same thinking lets Target prosper in a Wal-Mart world—and can help you outcompete the “unbeatable” rival in your own industry. •When you come to a fork in the road—take it! Only a fraction of companies survive when industries experience technological or strategic transitions. To be a survivor, learn the secret that enabled Microsoft to weather the advent of the Internet—the art of the double bet. •Stuckinabusinessbox? Findthebiggerbox—and then the biggest.When growth stagnates, capture more of your customer’s dollars through demand innovation and big-box thinking, as companies from Continental AG and Ikea to Procter & Gamble have done. •Your competitors can also be your greatest enablers of profit. Stop competing yourself to death! The key is knowing when to compete and when to collaborate, as Apple has shown with its revolutionary approach to the music business.In the 1980s conventional wisdom was that you could have high quality or low cost, but not both—until |
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The Wizard of Odds: How Jack Molinas Almost Destroyed the Game of Basketball $1.25 Jack Molinas had it all — good looks, charm, an Ivy League education, a genius-level I.Q. of 175, and a huge talent for the game of basketball. He was also a gambling addict with a flair for larceny. The Wizard of Odds chronicles the rise and fall of this outstanding NBA All-Star who fixed games, cavorted with the Mafia, produced pornographic films, and was eventually murdered. Author Charley Rosen chillingly probes the life of a man who understood better than anyone around him the weaknesses of the system in which he lived — so much so that he convinced himself he could manipulate that system to his own ends with impunity. By the time he was arrested on January 9, 1954, for conspiring to fix NBA games, he was already deeply involved with the Mafia. After his release from prison, he would descend ever deeper into crime, a preoccupation that would end with a bullet in the head. |
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The Wizard of Odds: How Jack Molinas Almost Destroyed the Game of Basketball $1.52 Jack Molinas had it all — good looks, charm, an Ivy League education, a genius-level I.Q. of 175, and a huge talent for the game of basketball. He was also a gambling addict with a flair for larceny. The Wizard of Odds chronicles the rise and fall of this outstanding NBA All-Star who fixed games, cavorted with the Mafia, produced pornographic films, and was eventually murdered. Author Charley Rosen chillingly probes the life of a man who understood better than anyone around him the weaknesses of the system in which he lived — so much so that he convinced himself he could manipulate that system to his own ends with impunity. By the time he was arrested on January 9, 1954, for conspiring to fix NBA games, he was already deeply involved with the Mafia. After his release from prison, he would descend ever deeper into crime, a preoccupation that would end with a bullet in the head. |
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The Wizard of Odds: How Jack Molinas Almost Destroyed the Game of Basketball $17.95 Jack Molinas had it all — good looks, charm, an Ivy League education, a genius-level I.Q. of 175, and a huge talent for the game of basketball. He was also a gambling addict with a flair for larceny. The Wizard of Odds chronicles the rise and fall of this outstanding NBA All-Star who fixed games, cavorted with the Mafia, produced pornographic films, and was eventually murdered. Author Charley Rosen chillingly probes the life of a man who understood better than anyone around him the weaknesses of the system in which he lived — so much so that he convinced himself he could manipulate that system to his own ends with impunity. By the time he was arrested on January 9, 1954, for conspiring to fix NBA games, he was already deeply involved with the Mafia. After his release from prison, he would descend ever deeper into crime, a preoccupation that would end with a bullet in the head. |
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Won’t Back Down: Tears, Dreams and Family $1.49 The remarkable story of Kim Mulkey, the Baylor University women’s basketball coach, whose team defied all odds by winning the 2005 NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship |
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You Can Bet on It!: Professional Secrets on Winning Money at Sports Betting $14.95 In this completely revised edition, Larry Grossman brings together the best advice from the top professionals in sports betting, the men who actually set the betting lines. Players will learn how to bet and win at the major sports: football, baseball, basketball and prize fight betting. This easy-to-read and fact-filled book contains a wealth of information about how to read the lines, how the lines are made, the odds faced at the different sports, handicapping, common mistakes, and other essentials, and it features winning advice from the greatest pros in sports betting today. |
