| Rugby For Dummies (For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies))
| The official guide to rugby in North America, revised and updatedRugby For Dummies is the guide to rugby in North America, endorsed by USA Rugby and Rugby Canada, the official regulating bodies for the sport. It gives you a look at how rugby is played, offers strategies for winning, and covers every level of the sport, from high school to college (including women's rugby) to the international leagues. Plus, this new edition addresses changes to the rules of rugby, includes new rugb...More
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| Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
| In 1985, Nelson Mandela, then in prison for twenty-three years, set about winning over the fiercest proponents of apartheid, from his jailers to the head of South Africa’s military. First he earned his freedom and then he won the presidency in the nation’s first free election in 1994. But he knew that South Africa was still dangerously divided by almost fifty years of apartheid. If he couldn’t unite his country in a visceral, emotional way—and fast—it would collaps...More
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| The All Black
| The ambition to play for the All Black rugby team drives three generations of the McKenzie family, from the amateur days of the 1950s, through the tumult of the 1981 Springbok tour, to the age of professionalism. The All Black is a novel that explores the allure and mystique of the famous black jersey, and delves deep into masculine culture; but it is also a novel to be enjoyed by mothers whose sons regularly take to the field. The novel is about family bonds, the implications for players, in ea...More
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| Jonny: My Autobiography
| Jonny Wilkinson's career has crossed three decades and four World Cups. He has accumulated phenomenal achievements, world points records, an impressive list of broken body parts, and a drop goal that will be remembered for ever. But the peculiar calmness with which he played the game masked a very different reality. In JONNY, he reveals the extraordinary psychology that he had to tame in order to be able to dominate his sport. For most of his life, he was driven by a quest for perfection and an ...More
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| The Same Old Game (Volumes 1 and 2)
| Enjoy both Volume One and Two of the amazing story of football’s origins in this special 800-page compendium edition for Kindle users. Where did football begin? That's one question Mike Roberts fails to answer, coming to the conclusion that it's rather like asking when and where dogs first learned to fetch sticks.But the story of the ancient games that may or may not have had something to do with the modern codes is a fascinating one, and this book explores each of them in detail, drawing on t...More
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| Invictus: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
| Now a major motion picture from Academy Award(r)--winning director Clint Eastwood, starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman. After being released from prison and winning South Africa's first free election, Nelson Mandela presided over a country still deeply divided by fifty years of apartheid. His plan was ambitious if not far-fetched: Use the national rugby team, the Springboks-long an embodiment of white supremacist rule-to embody and engage a new South Africa as they prepared to host t...More
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| A Game for Hooligans: The History of Rugby Union
| The rugby union has undergone immense change in the past two decades—introducing a World Cup, accepting professionalism, and creating a global market in players. This resource covers all of the great matches, teams, and players while also placing them in the context of the social, political, and economic changes which have affected the course of rugby's development. International in scope, this history includes not only Britain and France but also the great rugby powers of the southern hemisph...More
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| Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
| Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournament- the true story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South Africa togetherAfter being released from prison and winning South Africa's first free election, Nelson Mandela presided over a country still deeply divided by fifty years of apartheid. His plan was ambitious if not far-fetched: use the national rugby team, the Springboks-long an embodiment of white-supremacist rule-to embody and engage a new South Af...More
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| Rugby: Steps to Success - 2nd Edition (Steps to Success Activity Series)
| Master the skills, master the game. Rugby: Steps to Success covers all of the skills, tactics and strategies you need to improve your play and dominate the pitch. With 13 progressive instructional steps, you'll learn all aspects of the game. Detailed descriptions, illustrations and photo sequences demonstrate the essential skills, including footwork, ball handing, tackling and kicking. Then practice and improve with 90 drills, each featuring a personal scoring system to gauge and accel...More
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| Complete Linebacking
| The linebacker position is more challenging than ever, whether a player is taking on a 320-pound lineman or covering a speedy receiver. In Complete Linebacking, Lou Tepper tells and shows how to excel at one of the game's most demanding positions. Tepper has coached three Butkus Award winners-Alfred Williams, Dana Howard, and Kevin Hardy-plus one Butkus runner-up and 20 linebackers who have gone on to play in the NFL. In his 30 years of college coaching, Tepper's defenses have consist...More
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| Football Coaching Strategies
| In Football Coaching Strategies you'll find 349 detailed diagrams showing a variety of offensive attacks, defensive packages, and special team tactics—accompanied by useful advice from the experts. Best of all, the coaches are the recognized experts in the topics they cover. For example, read how these coaches explain game strategies and underlying principles: - Running game—Tom Osborne, John McKay, and Darrell Royal- Passing game—Bill Walsh, Steve Spurrier, and LaVell Edwa...More
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| Engage: The Fall and Rise of Matt Hampson
| The shocking, controversial, and moving story of Matt Hampson, the rugby player who dislocated his neck and was paralyzed in an England training session "Engage!" was the last word Matt Hampson heard before dislocating his neck while in rugby training with other young England hopefuls. On a cold, gray day in 2005, the cream of the young English rugby crop gathered at a Northampton training ground. Matt Hampson, "Hambo" to his mates, was one of them. His skill, conviction, and de...More
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| Redemption: How the All Blacks Defied History to Win the World Cup
| Having led the All Blacks to their worst World Cup campaign in history in 2007, Graham Henry, against the odds, was reappointed head coach eight weeks later. He became the first All Black coach to survive a World Cup failure, retaining the post ahead of the more popular Robbie Deans. It was a decision that effectively divided the nation.On October 23, 2011 Henry earned redemption when he led the All Blacks to World Cup glory at Eden Park. This is the incredible story of how the All Blacks rebuil...More
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| The Grudge: Two Nations, One Match, No Holds Barred
| Murrayfield, the Calcutta Cup, March 1990. England vs. Scotland—winner-takes-all for the Five Nations Grand Slam, the biggest prize in northern hemisphere rugby. Will Carling's England are the very embodiment of Margaret Thatcher's Britain—snarling, brutish, and all-conquering. Scotland are the underdogs—second-class citizens from a land that's become the testing ground for the most unpopular tax in living memory: Thatcher's Poll Tax. Fifteen men in blue jerseys are plotting the downfall o...More
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| Complete Conditioning for Rugby (Complete Conditioning for Sports Series)
| Modern rugby requires you to have speed, strength, agility, endurance, and power in order to excel. Few sports demand such diverse physical attributes, and no book so comprehensively addresses how to develop them specifically for the sport—until now! Complete Conditioning for Rugby features first-hand insights from Dan Luger, English rugby star. Luger teams up with leading strength and conditioning coach Paul Pook to provide the very best in conditioning know-how. They present more t...More
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| Odd-Shaped Balls: Mischief-Makers, Miscreants and Mad-Hatters of Rugby
| Odd-Shaped Balls captures the humor, the agony, and the ecstasy of one of the world's most popular sports, rugby. The book is no less than a who's who of the game, with both old and young getting the opportunity to have their say. It looks at players such as Max Boyce, Keith Wood, Sean Fitzpatrick, Austin Healy, and Bill Beaumont and his streaker. All exponents of surrealism, comic genius, and savage wit, they offer a quirky insight into the sporting psyche as well as provide some riotou...More
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| Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Rugby But Were Too (Everything You Ever Wantd/Know)
| "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Rugby But Were too Afraid to Ask" explains the often-baffling laws of modern sport in a light-hearted and easy-to-understand way to the new fan/spectator or the 'sport widow'. This is a witty, off-the-wall guide to the rules of the modern game, as if written by a very patient but understanding friend. Writer Iain Macintosh explains how rugby works and why is it so popular, and reveals the history of the sport. He guides the novice through the basic rules...More
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| Beware of the Dog: Rugby's Hard Man Reveals All
| A scorching and deeply personal autobiography lifting the lid on the life and character of one of English rugby's most successful ever players Brian Moore, or "Pitbull" as he came to be known during nearly a decade at the heart of the England rugby team's pack, established himself as one of the game's original hard men at a time when rugby was still an amateur sport. Since his retirement, he has earned a reputation as an equally uncompromising commentator, never afraid to tell it as he s...More
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| Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Rugby
| The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Rugby is the most comprehensive and up-to-date rugby-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round rugby-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.No other rugby book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use...More
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