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1) Kneel
Author
Language
English
Description
When his best friend is unfairly arrested and kicked off the team, Russell Boudreaux kneels during the national anthem in an effort to fight for justice and, in an instant, falls from local stardom to become a target of hatred.
The system is rigged. For guys like Russell Boudreaux, football is the only way out of their small town. As the teams varsity tight end, Rus has a singular goal: to get a scholarship and play on the national stage. But when...
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome - as both a football player and student. Mike works hard and, with...
3) Snapped
Author
Series
Playbook volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The game gets more serious off the field in this new football romance in the Playbook series. Elliot Reed is living her best life. Well, that might be an exaggeration, but she's trying really hard. With her dad's passing, this year has not been the easiest. But now that she's landed her dream job as the Strategic Communications Manager for the Denver Mustangs, things are starting to look up. Or at least they were until Quinton Howard Jr. decides...
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
NFL Films brilliantly captures a century of pro football immortality. From football's pioneers to its future Hall of Famers, this historical DVD recounts the games, the plays, and stories of the NFL's greatest legends.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 484 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing on 720 original interviews, a New York Times best-selling sportswriter captures as never before the elusive truth about the greatest athlete of all time who took the world by storm from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s--and then, almost overnight, disappeared.
From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture. Stadiums struggled to contain him. Clocks failed to...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michael Strahan distills the wisdom he's gleaned from his childhood years in Europe where, he grew up as the youngest child in a tight-knit community on a military base, his time with the NFL where his sheer discipline and willpower made him a Hall-of-Fame, legendary football player, and his broadcast career, which puts him contact with the heartland of America every morning.
Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Provides a graphic novel biography of former professional football player Colin Kaepernick, depicting his early years, his career, and the protest against violence against African Americans that cost him his career. Includes a glossary and sources of further information.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 244 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Using anecdotes and lessons from his own experiences, former football star Rodney Peete imparts essential wisdom for parents everywhere, whether their children have special needs or not, as he writes with striking honesty about learning to overcome his own doubts and expectations of fatherhood to focus on the daily challenges and joys of raising a child.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jada Townsend-Matthews is the most reviled woman in America after turning down a proposal on a reality dating show. When she comes home to lick her wounds, Jada finds herself working at San Diego's newest cupcake bakery, Sugar Blitz, alongside the uptight owner and professional football player Donovan Dell. When a reporter mistakenly believes Jada and Donovan are an item, they realize they can use the misunderstanding to their advantage to help the...
Author
Publisher
Andscape
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
282 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the shameful history of the treatment of Black players in the NFL as well as the breakout careers of a new generation of Black quarterbacks, including Colin Kaepernick, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, and Kyler Murray.
In September 2019, ESPN's The Undefeated website (now Andscape) began a season-long series of articles on the emergence of Black quarterbacks in the NFL. The first article in the series was Jason Reid's enormously popular,...
12) Change the game
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 390L
Language
English
Description
High school star athlete Colin Kaepernick is at a crossroads in life. Heavily scouted by colleges and MLB as a baseball pitcher, he has a bright future ahead of him as a highly touted prospect. Everyone from his parents to his teachers and coaches are in agreement on his future. Colin feels differently. Colin isn't excited about baseball. In the words of five-time all-star MLB player Adam Jones, "Baseball is a white man's game." Colin looks up to...
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ernie Davis was born in New York and raised in poverty. He overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles to become an unstoppable running back for the Syracuse Orangemen. With the guidance of coach Ben Schwartzwalder, Ernie would develop from an impressive high school athlete into a college legend. Ernie would become the first black to win the Heisman Trophy. Refusing to play by the unspoken racist rules of the day, Ernie broke through one barrier after...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
191 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This inspiring memoir from a girl who learned to play baseball with the boys and rose to national stardom before beginning eighth grade will encourage young readers to reach for their dreams no matter the odds." -- From dust jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
At a time when "Friday night lights" shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the gridiron on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The segregated high schools in the Prairie View Interscholastic League (the African American counterpart of the University Interscholastic League, which excluded black schools from membership until 1967) created an exciting brand of football that produced hundreds of outstanding...
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A promising football running back plans to make it to the NFL. At the pinnacle of his college football career, his dreams are shattered and he loses everything. But determination and a newly found inner strength enable him to triumph.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ii, 410 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Rocket Men, sportswriter John Eisenberg offers the definitive history of Black quarterbacks in the league-men who not only shaped the history of football, but made indelible contributions to the cause of civil rights in America. As Eisenberg recounts, white coaches, scouts, and team owners long perceived Black players as unfit for the quarterback position. Believing Black athletes could not play "in thinking roles," they relegated them to running...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Looks at the 1967 football season leading up to that year's black college championship between Grambling College and Florida A&M, and how it fit into the civil rights struggles of the time.
Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations; 24cm.
Language
English
Description
"This graphic biography traces Colin Kaepernick's road from young sports standout to athlete and activist. As Kaepernick protested violence against African Americans, he lost his career in football but gained a voice heard worldwide" --