King Power Stadium, countdown to kick off. Out on the pitch a lone brass player sounds the haunting Post Horn Gallop, for 80 years the home players' entrance tune. Spines tingle. Air is gulped into opposition lungs. Game time, time to begin the chase. Burning fox eyes peer down from between the decks of one of the stands. On the stadium's outside wall a royal blue LCD display says #Fearless. Welcome to Leicester City. They were always a club with a difference but in 2015-16 they created a story...
Introduction to Recreation Services for People with Disabilities
by Charles C. Bullock and Michael J. Mahon
Football is, in Pele's words, 'the beautiful game' . Eduardo Galeano has written a series of football epiphanies from the global history of football when the rays of light have glittered from the passion of the game. As world music is to two-dimensional Stock, Aitken and Waterman pop so Eduardo Galeano's football writing is to Motty's commentary. Galeano searches out the mystical and the bewitched, the romance and the emotional destitution of the greatest game in the 20th-century world...
Fulham last made the headlines in the mid-seventies when George Best and Rodney Marsh turned out at Craven Cottage. Following the dark days of the eighties, Mohamed Al Fayed has breathed new life (and a substantial amount of cash) into the club, and, following the initial success of Kevin Keegan, Jean Tigana (the ex-French international and successful Monaco manager) has taken Fulham up to the Premiership for the first time. The 2001/02 saw Tigana's men reach the semi-finals of the FA Cup and ad...
What It Means to Be a Volunteer: Phillip Fulmer and Tennessee's Greatest Players
by Ray Glier
When he was eight years old, David Schwarz saw his father killed in front of him in a domestic dispute gone wrong. Despite going on to become a star footballplayer, playing 11 seasons with the Melbourne Football Club, the effect of this early shocking experience would shadow him throughout his successful sportingcareer. This is David Schwarz's honest and courageous story, told in full for the first time. Starting with the trauma of losing his father and riding the highsand lows of his football c...
It's all about football at Texas, where the gridiron game is a way of life, part of a rich tradition, and part of the celebrated culture of a people. From the early days of the 1900s to their dramatic victory in the 2005 Rose Bowl Game, few programs in the country capture the excitement and storied tradition of football as well as The University of Texas. The history includes legends and leaders, from a pioneer African-American trainer in 1915 to war heroes and football icons. National champions...
El Washington Football Team (Creative Sports: Campeones del Super Bowl)
by Michael E. Goodman