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3) Final season
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"With two all-star college football players for brothers and a former Atlanta Falcons defensive lineman for a father, it is only natural for sixth-grade quarterback Benjamin Redd to follow in their footsteps. However, after his dad receives a heartbreaking ALS diagnosis--connected to all those hard hits and tackles he took on the field--Ben's mom becomes more determined than ever to get Ben to quit football. Ben isn't playing just for himself though....
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Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Follows three NFL teams--the New England Patriots, Kansas City Chiefs, and Atlanta Falcons--from training camp 2010 through the Super Bowl and into the April draft, opening a new window into Bill Belichick's influence on the game. Takes football fans behind the scenes of the most popular sport in America, with insider access to the head coaches, scouts, trainers, and players who make the game what it is, including new insights from Bill Parcells,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"When Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy took home the trophy in Super Bowl XLI, fans around the world looked to him as the epitome of success. Athletic victory, professional excellence, fame and celebrity, awards and honors...he had it all. But even at that moment, Tony Dungy knew that those achievements had little to do with his ultimate significance as a man.Coach Dungy still passionately believes that there is a different path to significance-a...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Librarian Karen Hartley is not looking for a cowboy. And she's most definitely not looking for a jock. So when ranch-owning, football-coaching Myles Wylder enters the scene with his inquisitive blue eyes and impossibly broad shoulders, as well as an offer to help save the town library, of course she says no. Just like she does when her heart begins to whisper that maybe there's more to this cowboy than meets the eye...
Too bad he doesn't check...
11) Head coaches
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
With stats, charts, infographics, timelines, and strongly controlled text this title takes a look at some of the best head coaches in NFL history.
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"In only thirteen years as a head football coach, first at Bowling Green and then at Utah, Florida, and Ohio State, Urban Meyer has established himself as one of the elite coaches in the annals of his sport, with three national championships and a cumulative record of 142 wins and only 26 losses. But sheer statistics are not the measure of his true accomplishment, nor do they speak to his own extraordinary learning journey. Now, in Above the Line,...
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Series
Notre Dame mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
1997.
Description
"To many Notre Dame alumni, being a good Fighting Irish fan is as important as being a good Catholic. Billionaire Marcus Bramble is obsessed with the sport and with the father of all college football coaching - the great Knute Rockne. But when Bramble offers the school ten million dollars to memorialize the Rock, things get dangerously competitive."--BOOK JACKET. "While debate rages over how to honor the coach, one trustee - the outspoken Madeline...