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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Talks about Experiencing Racism with Coach Wooden (5/18/17)

By John Wooden — 2017

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar talks about his book, Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court, including Coach Wooden’s reaction to witnessing racism.

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Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans from World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights, and Inspired a Nation

Wheels of Courage tells the stirring story of the soldiers, sailors, and marines who were paralyzed on the battlefield during World War II-at the Battle of the Bulge, on the island of Okinawa, inside Japanese POW camps—only to return to a world unused to dealing with their traumatic injuries.

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David Davis
2022
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How Lorenza Bottner’s Prescient Art Created Space for Disabled and Trans People

At Documenta 14, the 2017 edition of the touted art festival that takes place once every five years in Kassel, it was an artist heretofore unknown to much of the art world who stole the show: Lorenza Böttner, a German painter, dancer, and performance artist who, in the ’80s and ’90s, began...

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Alex Greenberger
2021
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From Underdog to Bulldog: My Journey as a College Football Walk-On

Candler Cook knows firsthand that dreams can come true—but only if you’re willing to fight for them.A lifelong Bulldogs fan, Candler decided at age seven that he wanted to play football for the University of Georgia.

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Candler Cook
2019
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Winning at all Costs—How Abuse in Sport Has Become Normalised

Athletes are revered for their physical attributes, such as strength, speed and stamina, as well as their psychological strength or mental toughness to cope with the demands of elite sport.

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Emma Kavanagh, Adi Adams, Andrew Adams
2020
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The Champion Mindset: An Athlete’s Guide to Mental Toughness

Champions, as the familiar adage preaches, are not born―they’re made. Reaching the top of any sport, or any aspect of life, takes years upon years of dedication and proper preparation.

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Joanna Zeiger
2017
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Everything Your Coach Never Told You Because You’re a Girl (and Other Truths about Winning)

This is what your coaches would have said to you if you were a boy, told through the story of a small-college team that won more games than it ever had a right to win.

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Dan Blank
2014
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Athlete on Oxy: One Woman’s Journey Through Chronic Pain, Depression, Addiction and Back Again

For the first thirty-five years of my life, I thought I was unstoppable, believing that my hard work, focus and passion could carry me through anything. I had an amazing, flexible job, a loving husband, a powerful, strong body and lived in one of the most beautiful places in the world.

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Erin Johnson
2021
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Winning: The Psychology of Competition

This book is designed to explain why winners win, why losers lose―and why everyone else finishes in the same position time after time. Addressing the competitor―whether in sailing, tennis, golf, baseball, or other sport―Stuart H.

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Stuart H. Walker
1986
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Simone Biles More than Earned the Right to Win a Medal for Herself

She looked for all the world like a woman who could not be cowed. And then just when her many detractors thought she was out for good, she pulled herself back in.

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Andrew Lawrence
2021
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Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance

Simone Biles’ entrance into the world of gymnastics may have started on a field trip in her hometown of Spring, Texas, but her God-given talent, along with drive to succeed no matter the obstacle, are what brought her to the national spotlight during the Olympic Games and have catapulted her ever...

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Simone Biles
2024
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