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Home Team: Coaching the Saints and New Orleans Back to Life by Payton Sean
epub |eng | 2010-06-29 | Author:Payton, Sean [Payton, Sean]

18 FAN BASE AS I WAS GETTING to know New Orleans, something occurred to me about playing here: What the fans wanted most of all was effort and presence. Wins ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 26,2018 )
Finding Ultra, Revised and Updated Edition by Rich Roll
epub |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Rich Roll

DAY THREE: MOLOKAI THE REAL HAWAII When I awoke around 10:00 A.M., the fatigue was deep but manageable, especially knowing that we’d have a little recovery time before taking on ...
( Category: Individual Sports April 25,2018 )
Back to Beer...and Hockey by Helen Antoniou
epub |eng | 2018-04-25 | Author:Helen Antoniou

By May 1997, all the pieces were in place – new directors, new board structure, new CEO. Eric hoped this was enough to galvanize change. Nonetheless, there were roadblocks, and ...
( Category: Biographies April 25,2018 )
Baby Bull: From Hardball to Hard Time and Back by Cepeda Orlando
epub |eng | 2013-07-11 | Author:Cepeda, Orlando [Cepeda, Orlando]

“The Babe Ruth of Puerto Rico”—My father, Perucho (in the hat), celebrating with friends in 1946 after Caguas won the Puerto Rican Championship. When this photo was taken I was ...
( Category: Biographies April 23,2018 )
Walk of Ages: Edward Payson Weston's Extraordinary 1909 Trek Across America by Jim Reisler
epub |eng | 2015-02-01 | Author:Jim Reisler [Reisler, Jim]

8 “Walking Is the Easiest Part” A day’s walk south of Chicago, Edward Payson Weston described himself as looking like “a drowned rat.” Leaving Joliet in the driving rain of ...
( Category: Hiking & Camping April 23,2018 )
First Class Citizenship by MICHAEL G. LONG
epub | | | Author:MICHAEL G. LONG

JACKIE'S COLUMN In this same recent column you also accused me and Dr. Powell of misleading our people. Aren't you the same ex-baseball player who tried to "MISLEAD" Negroes into ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence April 23,2018 )
The Making of a Man by Tim Brown
epub |eng | 2014-03-01 | Author:Tim Brown

11 FAITH IS FOR LIFE Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith. HEBREWS 12:2 God has been part of my life for as ...
( Category: Christian Living April 22,2018 )
It's Not About The Bike by Lance Armstrong
mobi |eng | 2011-07-21 | Author:Lance Armstrong

I kept losing weight, no matter how hard I tried not to. I didn't have much to lose to begin with—I had a very low percent of body fat, and ...
( Category: Biographies April 22,2018 )
Gehrig and the Babe by Tony Castro
epub |eng | 2018-01-20 | Author:Tony Castro

10. The Eastern Babe “We won the Series in 1926, and I sometimes wonder if the only reason is that Gehrig didn’t get to bat in the ninth inning.” —Rogers ...
( Category: Regional U.S April 22,2018 )
Praying for Gil Hodges by Thomas Oliphant
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Oliphant

9 The Man from Fordham For millions of Dodger households that day, the last out of the Dodger half of the fifth inning of the seventh game in 1955 did ...
( Category: Baseball April 21,2018 )
Fifty-Six by Martin Fletcher
epub |eng | | Author:Martin Fletcher

9 Reclaimed/Central Failure The Bradford Fire. Everyone knows it involved a carelessly discarded cigarette end or match that set light to rubbish beneath the stand. It was ‘a tragic accident’. ...
( Category: Biographies April 21,2018 )
Going for Wisconsin Gold by Jessie Garcia
epub |eng | 2016-04-20 | Author:Jessie Garcia [Garcia, Jessie]

FATHER-DAUGHTER CURLING DUO One of Wisconsin’s most distinctive curling stories belongs to Wally Henry and Debbie McCormick, who are not only coach and athlete but father and daughter. Native Canadians ...
( Category: Miscellaneous April 20,2018 )
No Heavy Lifting by Rob Simpson
epub |eng | 2018-03-22 | Author:Rob Simpson

Recent Bruin–turned–San Jose Shark Joe Thornton drew plenty of interest at the Olympics as well. Despite the general media frenzy around Thornton and his high-profile trade, I didn’t pay that ...
( Category: Biographies April 20,2018 )
1580056105 (N) by Jen A. Miller
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jen A. Miller [Miller, Jen A.]

Chapter 5 BIRD-IN-HAND HALF MARATHON NOVEMBER 6, 2010 New Jersey Marathon — Miles 12–13 At mile 12, we left downtown Long Branch and turned onto Ocean Avenue to enter the ...
( Category: Bibles April 18,2018 )
Pistol by Mark Kriegel
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Kriegel

17. TAKE ME Among the slights that continued to plague Pete through the off-season was the Rookie of the Year award. The balloting for 1971 resulted in a tie between ...
( Category: Basketball April 18,2018 )

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