Sports in America

  • Sports in America: Recreation, Business, Education, and Controversy
    By Bob Jacobson, Information Plus, Tex.)

    SOURCE : Joseph Carroll , “ Favorite Sport to Watch , by Age , " in Football Reaches Historic Popularity Levels in Gallup Poll , The Gallup Organization , January 19 , 2007 , http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=26188&pg=1 ( accessed ...

  • Sports in America
    By Sarah Flowers

    André Agassi Salary / Winnings : $ 3.0 Endorsements : $ 13.0 Total : $ 16.0 Shaquille O'Neal Basketball $ 21.9 George Foreman Boxing $ 18.0 2. Mike Tyson Salary / Winnings : $ 40.0 Endorsements : $ 0.0 Total : $ 40.0 8.

  • Sports in America
    By James A. Michener

    Connors, Jimmy, 330, 331, 367 Considine, Bob, 357 Cook, Earnshaw (Percentage Baseball. Cambridge, Mass., 1964), 359n Cook, Marlow, 449–50. 457, 459 Cooper, Don, 64 Cooper, Kenneth H. (Aerobics, New York, 1968), 84 Cordero, Angel, ...

  • Sports in America
    By James A. Michener

    BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii.

  • Sports in America

    Number of physically disabled athletes since 1996 who have participated in paralympic sports: 5,000 23. ... 77-99, Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, University of Central Florida, 2003 Racial and Gender Report Card: ...

  • Sports in America: Fascination and Blemishes
    By Glenn W. Ferguson

    Are American sports in jeopardy? Maybe so, unless greed can be controlled, the author of this unique book about sports in the United States concludes.

  • SPORTS in AMERICA: 1960 to 1969, 2ND EDITION
    By David Fischer

    Highlights include: Runner Wilma Rudolph wins two gold medals in the 1960 Olympics, the first Olympic Games to be broadcast to millions on television Race car driver A.J. Foyt wins his first Indianapolis 500 race in 1961, the first of four ...

  • Sports in America: Recreation, Business, Education, and Controversy
    By Robert Jacobson

    Provides information on sports in the United States, covering such topics as sports and the media, professional sports, college and high school sports, and sports and gambling.

  • Sports in America: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-first Century : an Encyclopedia
    By Steven Allan Riess

    A unique new reference work, this encyclopedia presents a social, cultural, and economic history of American sports from hunting, bowling, and skating in the sixteenth century to televised professional sports and the X Games today.