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Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
A biography of the coach of the Indianapolis Colts and the first African American football coach to lead his team to a Superbowl victory concentrates on his religious life as well as his career in football.
2) Bleachers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
From the best-selling author of The Painted House, Skipping Christmas, and The Firm comes a nostalgic novel about high school football in a small Texas town, a place in which football has become a religion. High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"The Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's Hometown Victory when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to opiods to coach a team of struggling high school kids on a 23-game losing streak. Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst for the San Francisco 49ers when his childhood friend and former high school teammate suddenly died from an opioid overdose. Keanon dropped everything--including the plum NFL job he had been...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In Marjorie Herrera Lewis's debut historical novel the inspiring true story of high school teacher Tylene Wilson--a woman who surprises everyone as she breaks with tradition to become the first high school football coach in Texas--comes to life. Football is the heartbeat of Brownwood, Texas. Every Friday night for as long as assistant principal Tylene Wilson can remember, the entire town has gathered in the stands, cheering their boys on. Each September...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Hall of Fame football coach Jimmy Johnson's house isn't on the way to anything. Yet, his private sanctuary on the Florida Keys' Islamorada islands is a popular destination to which college and professional coaches, general managers, and team owners regularly trek to seek advice--how to build a positive team culture, draft elite players, balance work and family life, and lead a team to win. Why? Because Jimmy Johnson has done it all--rising through...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Reflecting on what it takes to achieve significance, the Super Bowl-winning coach shares lessons he learned from his remarkable parents, his athletic and coaching career, his mentors, and his journey with God.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Coach Charlie Cristo is battling cancer, but it is years of bitterness and disappointment that are the real enemy. "The Sender's" letters begin to heal his heart even as the chemo is fighting the cancer. Slowly, Charlie's life and the lives of everyone around him change, but will it be enough when the lessons he has learned are truly tested?"--
14) It had to be you
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Inheriting the Chicago Stars football team, trendy New Yorker Phoebe Somerville knocks heads with Coach Dan Calebow, who resents her meddling as much as she despises his sexist jocularity, until they discover an unlikely attraction for each other.
15) Vince Lombardi
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the legendary coach of the Green Bay Packers and the Washington Redskins, known for his belief in hard work, discipline, and pride both on and off the football field.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Monte Burke profiles head coach of University of Alabama's football team, Nick Saban, perhaps the most enigmatic man in the sport. Unpredictable in his professional loyalties, uncompromising in his vision, and unyielding in his pursuit of perfection, the highest-paid coach in college football has changed the face of the game. His program-building skills have delivered packed stadiums, rabid fans, hundreds of millions of dollars, legions of detractors,...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A high school football coach with a history of losing games faces not only the pressures from a group of fathers wanting him fired, but also the possibility that his wife can never have children. When he turns to God, will his prayers be answered?