Professional Sports

In a rhythmic celebration of sport and play, four-time Grand Slam champion and tennis superstar Naomi Osaka shares key steps to becoming a true champ, including being kind, working as a team, doing your best, and most importantly, having fun.

How much does your bank or building-society savings account pay? Is it 2%, 3% or maybe you’ve found a good deal online and managed 5%. What if there was a technique that delivered a 30% return month in, month out. Would you be interested in an investment system that had turned $1000 into $8000 in just one year? Would you like to find out how that $8000 turned into $64,000 in under 18 months? Craig Beck uncovers the closely guarded secret-investment system of European professional gamblers.

This audiobook tells the story of the production of wrestling from black and white TV straight to the Internet. First, I discuss about the transition period from black and white TV to color TV and the transition to cable TV. It was the height of the territory wars, which featured the broken up territories of the NWA and the WWWF which became the WWF when Vince McMahon took over.

A volte capita che a un uomo le sue gesta gli sopravvivano nel tempo, allora smette di essere semplicemente un uomo, "esce" dalla storia e diventa un mito. È quanto accaduto ad un giovane esuberante nato e cresciuto alla periferia di Modena, che con la sua passione assoluta per i motori si è conquistato il titolo di "grande Drake". Il nome di quel giovane era Enzo Anselmo Ferrari, più comunemente conosciuto come Enzo Ferrari.

The use of analytics in sport is now well embedded. Marginal gains, the bedrock upon which the cycling coach Dave Brailsford built his greatest successes, are cornerstones of most sports nowadays. But, until recently, that did not apply to the biggest sport in the world. Not in soccer. It was as though this simplest of sports is too complicated for statistics. Or that only one statistic counts, the number of times the ball hits the back of the net. "The only statistic that counts", there’s an often used and annoying stock term.

Dennis Murphy is without question the greatest professional sports promoter in U.S. history. He single-handedly created the American Basketball Association, World Hockey Association, World Team Tennis, Roller Hockey International, and many other professional sports leagues.

Crossing Borders is an introspective view on pursuing a basketball career overseas. Reflecting on the challenges of an international career can ultimately prove to be an opportunity of a lifetime. The seasons of a professional athlete can be both challenging and rewarding simultaneously, especially when taking your talents abroad. Therefore, within new worlds come new trials.

Im Buch „Muskelaufbau für Berufstätige – Das Maximal-System“ erfährst du, wie du es wirklich schaffen kannst, mit minimalem Aufwand grandiose Ergebnisse zu erzielen. Maximilian Alexander Koch schildert nicht nur seine persönlichen Erfahrungen, sondern vermittelt studienbasiertes Wissen kompakt und für jeden zugänglich.

Over the years I have compiled several guides and tips for players on how to get their careers started, what to expect on the way and once they are in the door, and how to handle themselves with the on- and off-court situations that come with it. Every guide comes from questions that players frequently ask me. This guidebook is a compilation of all of those guides and tips in one place for your quick and easy reference.

By studying this playbook, aspiring and rookie NBA and NFL athletes will be able to create a blueprint to prepare them to navigate the world of professional sports and successfully transition into the final stage of their lives. This playbook takes a proactive approach in addressing the common issues that plague athletes, enabling them to move forward strategically and with purpose.

Lifelong baseball fanatic and former college ball player Abe Streep had long since grown disillusioned with the slick spectacle of modern major-league baseball when he discovered the Santa Fe Fuego, a scrappy upstart team struggling through its first season in an independent professional league that few baseball fans had even heard of. The Fuego players were paid barely fifty dollars a week.

Nel 2013 e 2014 il marchio Ferrari è stato riconosciuto come il più influente al mondo. Nel 2015 è stato stimato come il 35° con più valore, ossia quattro miliardi di dollari. Un vero e proprio impero di fatturato e successi, quello Ferrari, nato dal genio di un uomo, Enzo Ferrari, che ha saputo avere una visione e realizzarla. Ma cosa ha fatto sì che Ferrari diventasse la Ferrari? Quali furono le strategie dell'industriale (che preferiva definirsi costruttore) che lo portarono a immaginare, creare e infine guidare un vero e proprio impero?

Skateboarding is a time old tradition that has survived multiple generations. Today, professional skateboard competitions are at an all-time high. This popular activity is one that is enjoyed by adults and children for many years. To master skateboarding, one must know the proper technique of balance, control, and mind-set. This audiobook explains all these important techniques and gives you in-depth knowledge of how the sport started and grown to its popularity.

Here, I’m sharing essential tips about playing overseas basketball that you may never otherwise have been told - until you were on the wrong end of this information (which is how I learned all this stuff).