When John Beilein arrived at University of Michigan in 2007, the once-proud men's basketball program was adrift after failing to reach the NCAA Tournament for nine straight seasons. Over the next twelve years, he became the program's all-time winningest coach, reached two national championship games, won four Big Ten championships and produced eight NBA first-round draft picks. In an age of ethical lapses throughout college basketball, Beilein succeeded without a hint of impropriety. As much a teacher as a coach, he consistently identified undervalued recruits, taught them his innovative offensive system and carefully developed them into better players--an approach to the game that drove his unprecedented rise from high school junior varsity coach to head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers. This book examines his tenure at Michigan in detail for the first time.

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 198. Chapters: John Beilein, Big Show, Avery Brundage, Kevin Nash, Chris Young (pitcher), Terrell Owens, Brad Stevens, Jim Thorpe, Johnny Gee, Sydney Johnson, Lute Olson, Nikos Galis, LeRon Ellis, Gary Williams, Tom Selleck, Cryme Tyme, Gordon Wood (American football coach), Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Dave Winfield, Bruce Bowen, Mike Flanagan (baseball), Lenae Williams, Jim Brown, Kenny Lofton, Don Haskins, Tony Gonzalez (American football), Tim Floyd, Shad Gaspard, Thad Matta, Ben Howland, Ralph Jordan, Dave Bliss, Albert White (basketball), Tye Fields, Henry Iba, Andy Kennedy (basketball coach), Chuck Connors, Bill Foster (basketball, born 1930), Master P, Jamie Dixon, John Chaney (basketball, born 1932), Mark Sanford (basketball), Mitch Henderson, Leroy Edwards, Steve Fisher, Kevin O'Neill (basketball), Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Allyssa DeHaan, Ralph Miller, Jim Caviezel, Don DeVoe, Tyler Haws, Herb Sendek, Danny Tarkanian, Al Skinner, Beth Couture, Harry Gallatin, Baron Hill. Excerpt: John Beilein (pronounced bee-line; born February 5, 1953) is an American college basketball coach and current men's basketball head coach at the University of Michigan. He is the 16th head coach of the Michigan Wolverines. The 2011-12 season is his fifth at Michigan, with whom he has a six-year contract. Beilein has won 567 career games at four-year universities (including games that were not at the Division I level) and 642 games including those at the junior-college level. He has previously coached the West Virginia Mountaineers (2002-2007), Richmond Spiders (1997-2002), Canisius College Golden Griffins (1992-1997) in Division I as well as Le Moyne College (1983-1992), Nazareth College (1982-1983) and Erie Community College (1978-1982). Beilein is the only active collegiate coach to have achieved 20-win seasons at four different...

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 191. Chapters: John Beilein, Heather Zurich, Brad Stevens, Joseph Stilwell, Pat Summitt, Dean Smith, Kermit Washington, John Calipari, Sydney Johnson, Billy Gillispie, Bob Cousy, Rick Barry, Bill Self, Rick Pitino, Lute Olson, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Boeheim, Gary Williams, Red Auerbach, Fritz Crisler, Bill Blakeley, Jerry Sloan, George Mikan, Eddie Sutton, Mark Turgeon, Matt Painter, Bruce Pearl, Steve Alford, Tom Izzo, Phog Allen, Gary Blair, Tom Crean (basketball), Jim Larranaga, Hugh Durham, Eddie Anderson (American football coach), Danny Ainge, Tim Floyd, Denny Crum, Thad Matta, Jim Valvano, Ben Howland, Damon Stoudamire, Ron Jacobs (basketball), Dave Bliss, Bill Lange (coach), Jerry Tarkanian, Bobby Braswell, Skip Prosser, Henry Iba, Bo Ryan, Andy Kennedy (basketball coach), Norman Black, Rick Majerus, Sam Barry. Excerpt: John Beilein (pronounced bee-line; born February 5, 1953) is an American college basketball coach and current men's basketball head coach at the University of Michigan. He is the 16th head coach of the Michigan Wolverines. The 2011-12 season is his fifth at Michigan, with whom he has a six-year contract. Beilein has won 567 career games at four-year universities (including games that were not at the Division I level) and 642 games including those at the junior-college level. He has previously coached the West Virginia Mountaineers (2002-2007), Richmond Spiders (1997-2002), Canisius College Golden Griffins (1992-1997) in Division I as well as Le Moyne College (1983-1992), Nazareth College (1982-1983) and Erie Community College (1978-1982). Beilein is the only active collegiate coach to have achieved 20-win seasons at four different levels-junior college, NAIA, NCAA Division II and NCAA Division I. He has been recognized as Coach of the Year four times: in 1981 at Erie Community College, in 1988...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the “poet laureate of Michigan football," a riveting inside chronicle of the Jim Harbaugh era, and "an unprecedented look at the inner workings" (Sporting News) of a big-time college football program John U. Bacon received rare access to Head Coach Jim Harbaugh’s University of Michigan football team: coaches, players, and staffers, in closed-door meetings, locker rooms, meals, and classes. Overtime captures this storied program at the crossroads, as the sport’s winningest team battles to reclaim its former glory. But what if the price of success today comes at the cost of your soul? Do you pay it, or compete without compromising? In the spirit of HBO’s Hardknocks, Overtime delivers a deeply reported human portrait that follows the Wolverine coaches, players, and staffers. Above all, thisis a human story. In Overtime we not only discover what these public figures are like behind the scenes, we learn what the experience means to them as they go through it – the trials, the triumphs, and the unexpected answers to a central question: Is it worth it? From the “poet laureate of Michigan football” (according to New York Times’s Joe Drape), and one of the keenest observers of college football, Overtime offers a window into a legendary program and the sport itself that only John U. Bacon could deliver.

Roll out the Carpet is the story of West Virginia University basketball. This comprehensive history chronicles over one hundred seasons of the game, from the early years of the Tri-State and Eastern Conferences, to the golden era of Hot Rod Hundley, Jerry West, and Rod Thorn, to the Mountaineer's most recent triumphs under coaches John Beilein and Bob Huggins. For Mountaineers, it's not just about winning a prize, trophy or title--it's about work ethic, pride, and loyalty that embodies the spirit of the state. With unparalleled insider access, alumnus and longtime athletic department official John Antonik details the vibrant history of the players, coaches, and fans that created the finest moments of Mountaineer basketball. These pages overflow with accounts of nail-biting tension leading to buzzer-beating shots, thrilling game-saving moments, and rich, intimate details of the superstar players and coaches that built an institution of gold and blue. From the first game in 1904 against rival Pitt to West Virginia's glorious 2010 return to the 2010 Final Four tournament, Roll out the Carpet celebrates the tradition of Mountaineer basketball. With over five hundred never-before-published photographs and articles of memorabilia from the WVU athletic department, university archives, and personal collections, this book is a must-have for any West Virginia University basketball fan. It's a great day to be a Mountaineer!

Basketball Strength and Conditioning, Above the Rim with Camp Sanderson is a Basketball specific training book. This book covers all areas of training basketball athletes including strength, power, speed, conditioning, mobility, nutrition, and much more. This book also provides sample workouts and many diagrams to help coaches and athletes start implementing what they learn into their own workouts.

Some of greatest untold stories from Michigan’s football program are shared in this book based on intimate interviews with former players and coaches. Due to his long history covering Michigan football, author Steve Kornacki was given open-door access to Lloyd Carr, Bo Schembelcher, and Gary Moeller, all of whom provided hours of their time sharing their personal accounts and of occurrences during their coaching tenures; the stuff that legends are made of. Stories include being in the Michigan locker room after Bo Schembechler’s last game in the Big House and hearing his rousing speech leading the team in “The Victors” as they punctuated each verse by thrusting red roses toward the ceiling. Coach Carr tells about riding in a limousine through New York on the eve of the Heisman Trophy presentation with Desmond Howard en route to a meeting at NBC Studios with Tom Brokaw and a night in the green room at Late Night with David Letterman. A more heartfelt yarn is the “American Dream” tale of quarterback Elvis Grbac’s Croatian family and the story of center Steve Everitt’s family surviving Hurricane Andrew in a bathtub with the family dog and his 1990 Gator Bowl MVP trophy. Go Blue! reaches back to those special places in time in the program’s history in addition to sharing heartwarming anecdotes. This collection is something no Michigan football fan will want to be without.