https://padlet.com/emer9549/tscu080h32r5 By: Emely Renteria en-us 2019-01-14 21:29:37 UTC 2025-04-29 19:47:33 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rugbyball.png emer9549 https://padlet.com/emer9549/tscu080h32r5/wish/320550927             Can be found in sections 700-799]]> 2019-01-14 21:42:33 UTC https://padlet.com/emer9549/tscu080h32r5/wish/320550927 emer9549 https://padlet.com/emer9549/tscu080h32r5/wish/320553690 A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015
Two-time Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Gilbert M. Gaul offers a riveting and sometimes shocking look inside the money culture of college football and how it has come to dominate a surprising number of colleges and universities.
"A penetrating examination of how the elite college football programs have become 'giant entertainment businesses that happened to do a little education on the side.'"-Mark Kram, The New York Times]]> 2019-01-14 21:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/emer9549/tscu080h32r5/wish/320553690 emer9549 https://padlet.com/emer9549/tscu080h32r5/wish/320553850 Return once again to the enduring account of life in the Mojo lane, to the Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy follows the treacherous boom-bust path of the oil business. In bad times, the unemployment rate barrels out of control; in good times, its murder rate skyrockets. But every Friday night from September to December, when the Permian High School Panthers play football, this West Texas town becomes a place where dreams can come true. With frankness and compassion, Bissinger chronicles one of the Panthers' dramatic seasons and shows how single-minded devotion to the team shapes the community and inspires-and sometimes shatters-the teenagers who wear the Panthers' uniforms. Includes Reader's Group Guide inside. Now a major motion picture starring Billy Bob Thorton.]]> 2019-01-14 21:53:46 UTC https://padlet.com/emer9549/tscu080h32r5/wish/320553850 emer9549 https://padlet.com/emer9549/tscu080h32r5/wish/320553940 Acclaimed essayist Mark Edmundson reflects on his own rite of passage as a high school football player to get to larger truths about the ways America's Game shapes its men]]> 2019-01-14 21:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/emer9549/tscu080h32r5/wish/320553940 emer9549 https://padlet.com/emer9549/tscu080h32r5/wish/320554209 When we first meet Michael Oher, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or how to read or write. He takes up football and school after a rich, white, Evangelical family plucks him from the streets. Then two great forces alter Oher: the family's love and the evolution of professional football itself into a game in which the quarterback must be protected at any cost. Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size, speed, and agility necessary to guard the quarterback's greatest vulnerability: his blind side.]]> 2019-01-14 21:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/emer9549/tscu080h32r5/wish/320554209 emer9549 https://padlet.com/emer9549/tscu080h32r5/wish/321481906 In the deep zone, even the very best player can find it impossible to beat a foe who’s hungry and waiting. . . Troy White can predict a play before it happens. Star quarterback on his state football team, Troy’s a natural for the 7-on-7 tournament that’s being held at the Super Bowl in Miami. With any luck, his “football genius” will also be working for the Atlanta Falcons on that big day. Ty Lewis is a wide receiver with exceptional speed. His brother, an NFL star, says getting on a 7-on-7 team will prove Ty’s a winner.
From the moment the two football champs cross paths, Troy and Ty begin to size each other up. Troy is suspicious of Ty’s interest in his friend Tate, while Ty worries his speed will never be a match for Troy’s game smarts. But when the two rivals find themselves somehow tangled in the same dangerous web of deceit, they discover that they have more in common than their skill at football.Uniting Troy, first seen in the New York Times bestselling Football Genius, and Ty, who was chased by the Mafia in Football Hero, Tim Green’s Deep Zone delivers it all—vivid settings, dynamic characters, and high-stakes action on and off the field.]]> 2019-01-16 22:07:15 UTC https://padlet.com/emer9549/tscu080h32r5/wish/321481906