An autobiographical portrait of UCLA basketball coach John Wooden highlighting his career and personal life and insights on how his top players shaped and changed the NBA.

The Billy Henderson story . . . a Georgia football legend.

The nine members of the 19751976 Yeshiva University varsity basketball team attended their Jewish studies classes from nine to one, their secular classes from two to seven, practiced until ten, and went on to become doctors, dentists, or lawyers. The 1975 teams daily schedule and accomplishments were not unique, but rather representative of the approximately six hundred players who for eighty-three years have worn the Yeshiva University blue and white uniform. . . Why They Played, Chapter 11? The stories and observations that follow describe what happens when Yeshiva players attempt to find time for everything: Torah study, secular knowledge, and athletic triumph. When Dr. Halpert scours the globe for good player-athletes who will lead the team to victory, he looks for athletic promise, but in searching for the best, he is cognizant that, in the final analysis, his team will be the YU team. He knows that the players must be the bestbut also informed by values, Jewish values, universal values, and values touched by the breath of Torah. Rabbi Simcha Krauss Rabbi Emeritus Young Israel of Hillcrest The passion is there because the game of basketball is that kind of game. Coach Halpert exemplifies that spirit because he can get excitedand if you dont get excited, then the players wont get excited. He is able to translate that feeling and inner love to the players. Lou Carnesecca St. Johns University

Blue Mound - a small, quiet town in central Illinois - has a winning tradition and a rich sports history. Even though the high school closed and combined with neighboring Macon in 1994 to form the Meridian School District, people who have been around long enough remember the Blue Mound Knights and Coach Dick McDonald. McDonald's coaching career spans 4 decades, includes 4 sports, and amassed 87 championships. Coach McDonald is known for his animated coaching style, his motivational tactics, and his incredible coaching stories. A Master educator, McDonald has touched the lives of thousands of students and athletes during his career. He is in the Illinois Basketball Coaches' Hall of Fame and has the gymnasium at the old Blue Mound High School named in his honor. This book is an effort to summarize Coach Dick McDonald's incredible coaching career, memorialize some of his most beloved stories, and preserve the rich tradition of Blue Mound High School sports.

Seventeen year-old Jonah Daniels has lived in Verona Cove, California, his whole life, and only one thing has ever changed: his father used to be alive, and now he is not. With a mother lost in a deep bout of depression, Jonah and his five siblings struggle to keep up their home and the restaurant their dad left behind. But at the start of summer, a second change rolls in: Vivi Alexander, the new girl in town. Vivi is in love with life. Charming and unfiltered, she refuses to be held down by the medicine she's told should make her feel better. After meeting Jonah, she slides into the Daniels' household seamlessly, winning over each sibling with her imagination and gameness. But it's not long before Vivi's zest for life begins to falter. Soon her adventurousness becomes all-out danger-seeking. Through each high and low, Vivi and Jonah's love is put to the test . . . but what happens when love simply isn't enough?

Volunteers are unpaid, not because they are worthless, but because they are priceless ANONYMOUS Volunteers don't necessarily have the time, they just have the heart. SOURCE UNKNOWN

In celebration of its 100th anniversary of Boy Scouts of America and its publication Boys' Life, this book is a collection of the best Boys' Life pages of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting information. All pages in this collection are facsimile reproductions of the magazine's original pages.