Game of Edges: The Analytics Revolution and the Future of Professional Sports 0393531686, 9780393531688

The Sports Revolution 9781477321843

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Getting in the Game: Title IX and the Women's Sports Revolution 9780814789797

Title IX, a landmark federal statute enacted in 1972 to prohibit sex discrimination in education, has worked its way int

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The Sports Franchise Game: Cities in Pursuit of Sports Franchises, Events, Stadiums, and Arenas 9780812209150

Kenneth Shropshire describes the franchise warfare that pits city against city in the bidding competition to capture a m

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The Future of Liberal Revolution 9780300158083

Since 1989, the Cold War has ended, new nations have emerged in Eastern Europe, and revolutionary struggles to establish

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The Talent Revolution: Longevity and the Future of Work 9781487511890

Plotting new directions for both organizations and employees, authors Lisa Taylor and Fern Lebo explore the opportunitie

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Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports 9780807834541, 9781469622033, 2010032662, 0807834548

When Billie Jean King trounced Bobby Riggs in tennis's Battle of the Sexes in 1973, she placed sports squarely at t

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Get in the Game: An Interactive Introduction to Sports Analytics 9780226811284

An award-winning math popularizer, who has advised the US Olympic Committee, NFL, and NBA, offers sports fans a new way

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The Fastest Game in the World: Hockey and the Globalization of Sports 9780520972858

Played on frozen ponds in cold northern lands, hockey seemed an especially unlikely game to gain a global following. But

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Inside the Sports Pages : Work Routines, Professional Ideologies, and the Manufacture of Sports News [1 ed.] 9781442676183, 9780802081834

The working world of contemporary sports journalism through the eyes of the reporters, editors, and athletes who inhabit

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The Edges of the Medieval World 9786155211706

In the Middles Ages, the edges of one's world could represent different meanings. On the one hand, they might have

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