Sport and Outdoor

Practice maneuvering around people and other objects with the Champion Sports Outdoor Agility Pole Set. This set includes 4 poles that are placed upright for speed and agility drills. Each pole is 66in high and features ground stakes and spring loaded bases to keep them standing upright during intense training. The Champion Sports Agility Poles are great for soccer or football training, and they teach players to anticipate rapid movement on the field. A carrying bag is included for safe and easy transport.

This book tells the stories of four heroic and legendary football players from the state of Iowa. Nile Kinnick won the Heisman Trophy in 1939 and perished in 1943 during WWII; Fred Becker was Iowa's first All-American football player (1916) and died fighting in France during WWI; Jack Trice died after a football game in 1923 and today the Iowa State Cyclones play in a football stadium named after him; Johnny Bright was the nation's top offensive star for three years in the 1950s at Drake University and went on to a long and successful career in the Canadian Football League. All four of these legends had tragic endings to their lives. The book features a foreword by legendary Iowa sportscaster Jim Zabel and 53 photos, many never seen before.

Custom-fitted vinyl cover to protect your tailgate table while in transit to the big event. Constructed of black vinyl, with UV inhibitors. You not only protect your table, but you look good doing it.

What was Philadelphia's first National Hockey League team? A hint: No, it wasn't the Flyers. What Philadelphia-area tennis star survived the sinking of the Titanic? A hint: He was ranked number one in 1916. Which baseball sluggers, one from the Phillies and one from the Athletics, won triple crowns in their respective leagues in the same year? A hint: The year was 1933. If you got even one of these questions right, you're a winner, or you've already read "A Century of Philadelphia Sports". Philadelphia-area athletes have taken home thirty big league home run crowns and twelve NBA scoring titles. The area is home to five Indianapolis 500 winners, five Sullivan Award winners, four Heisman Trophy recipients, and a two-time U.S. Open champion. Not to mention Rube Waddell, the A's Hall of Fame pitcher who would sometimes leave the ballpark in the middle of a game to chase fire trucks.And they're all here in this groundbreaking book. Unprecedented in its breadth and sweep, "A Century of Philadelphia Sports" covers the big-time teams and events and also amateur and college sports. Here you will relive the glory days of Penn football and Bobby Jones' completion of the Grand Slam at Merion, the Eagles' defeat of the Packers in the NFL championship game and the Phillies' World Series championship in 1980, the popularity of soccer in the early part of the century and of fast-pitch softball in the latter half. You will visit Baker Bowl, Pine Valley, and Garden State Park and cheer on your favorites in the Penn Relays, the Big 5, and the Army-Navy game. You will also recall such low points as Connie Mack's penchant for selling off winning teams, the college basketball point-shaving scandal of 1961, the Palestra bomb scare.Did you answer two or even all three of the questions correctly? You will still have fun rediscovering your favorite teams and events and arguing over Rich Westcott's choice of each decade's top athlete. The nineties produced such outstanding athletes as the Flyers' Eric Lindros, the 76ers' Allen Iverson, the Phillies' Curt Schilling, jockey Tony Black, and basketball star Dawn Staley. You will meet all of them in these pages, as well as Westcott's top pick for the decade golfer Jay Sigel. Maybe you will even learn something new. Oh, yes, the answers are: the Philadelphia Quakers, in 1930; Dick Williams; Chuck Klein (the Phillies) and Jimmie Foxx (the A's).Rich Westcott has been a writer and editor for almost 40 years. He is the author of 10 other books, including "The New Phillies Encyclopedia" (with Frank Bilovsky), "Phillies '93: An Incredible Season", and Philadelphia's "Old Ballparks", all published by Temple University Press. He is the founder of Phillies Report, the nation's oldest continuous, baseball team newspaper. Currently, Westcott teaches sportswriting at LaSalle University and is an official scorer at Phillies games.

The Livery is a versatile PFD great for paddlingor for use on power boats, USCG approved for general boatinguse. Eco-Float foam, with a 200D Polyester shell. Type III.

The Champion Sports Baseball Backpack is a great way to transport all of your baseball equipment to the field! This handy backpack features 2 bat holders, glove and helmet pockets, shoe and cleat compartments, a drink sleeve, and a large main compartment, so you can keep all of your equipment organized and easy to find. Comfortable shoulder and back straps adjust to fit and make carrying a breeze. Hooks are included to attach your bag to any chain link fence.

If ever a sports franchise could afford to run on cruise control, the Green Bay Packers could, with their guaranteed sellouts and 65, 000-person season ticket waiting list. But Bob Harlan never let that happen. Harlan joined the team in 1971, was elected as its president in 1989 and became the single biggest force in re-establishing the Packers as an elite NFL organization both competitively and financially. In the 18 years that Harlan was in charge, the Packers went to the playoffs ten times, played in two Super Bowls, won one of them and lived through only three losing seasons an incredible feat in the era of salary caps and free agency. Perhaps Harlan s greatest moment as chief executive came in 2000 when he was widely recognized as the driving force behind the passing of a local referendum allowing for the renovation of historic Lambeau Field. In his autobiography Green and Golden Moments Harlan invites Packers fans to reminisce with him about the highs and lows of a career spent in sports. From his time at Marquette University with legendary coach Al McGuire to winning a World Championship with Stan Musial and the St. Louis Cardinals to his 36 years with the Green & Gold, Harlan shares his stories and offers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the greatest franchises in professional sports: the Green Bay Packers. This is the story of how a kid from Iowa who wanted to be a sports writer built a career, in his own low key, unassuming way, as one of the most effective executives in any game in America.

Every coach's essential accessory, the Diamond® Sports baseball bucket sleeve keeps all your game needs close at hand. This durable nylon cover is sized to fit a 6-gallon bucket and includes an adjustable shoulder strap and padded seat for comfort and convenience. It features outside accessory pockets for water bottle, cell phone, sunglasses, game balls, scoreboard, lineup, and pens.

The versatile and tough Cordley Composite Basketball from Champion Sports will have you playing ball both indoors and out. This basketball features a Cordley brand composite cover and a 2-ply butyl bladder to keep air in. It even meets high school and NCAA specifications making it a great game or practice ball. The 28.5in ball is suitable for womens practice and play.

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From the days of the Negro Leagues in baseball up to the present when collegiate basketball factories entice and then fail to educate young black men, sports in America have long served as a barometer of the country's racial climate. Just as blacks are generally absent from the upper echelons of corporate America, they are similarly underrepresented from the front offices of the sports industry as well. In this compact volume, Kenneth L. Shropshire confronts prominent racial myths head-on, offering both a descriptive history of--and prescriptive solutions for--the most pressing problems currently plaguing sports. At present, whites have a 95% ownership stake in professional basketball, baseball, and football teams. And yet, when confronted with programs intended to diversify their front offices, many teams resort to the familiar refrain of merit-based excuses: there simply aren't enough qualified black candidates or they don't know how to network. While more subtle, this approach has the same effect as the racist comments of an Al Campanis or a Marge Schott: it stigmatizes and excludes African-Americans. In the insular world of sports, characterized by a feeder system through which former players often move up to become coaches, managers, executives, and owners, blacks are eminently qualified. For example, after decades of active involvement with their sport, they often bring to the table experiences more relevant to the black players which make up the majority of professional athletes. Given the centrality of sport in American life, it is imperative that the industry be a leader, not a laggard, in the arena of racial equality. Informed by Frederick Douglass's belief that power concedes nothing without a demand, In Black and White casts its net widely, dissecting claims of colorblindness and reverse racism as self-serving, rhetorical camouflage and scrutinizing professional and collegiate sports, sports agents, and owners alike. No mere critique, however, the volume looks optimistically forward, outlining strategies of interest to all those who have a stake, professional or otherwise, in sports and racial equality.

We marvel at the steely nerves, acute concentration, and flawless execution exhibited on the 18th green, at the free-throw line, in the starting blocks, and on the balance beam. While state-of-the-art training regimens have extended athletes' physical boundaries, more and more coaches are realizing the importance of sport psychology in taking athletic performance to new levels. Tomorrow's record-breaking accomplishments will not be the result of athletes' training harder physically, but of athletes' training smarter mentally.Sport Psychology for Coaches provides information that coaches need to help athletes build mental toughness and achieve excellence—in sport and in life. As a coach, you'll gain a big-picture perspective on the mental side of sport by examining how athletes act, think, and feel when they practice and compete. You'll learn to use such mental tools as goal setting, imagery, relaxation, energization, and self-talk to help your athletes build mental training programs. You'll also see how assisting your athletes in developing mental skills such as motivation, energy management, focus, stress management, and self-confidence leads to increased enjoyment, improved life skills, and enhanced performance. And you'll discover how to put it all together into mental plans and mental skills training programs that allow your athletes to attain and maintain a mind-set that fosters peak performance.The easy-to-follow format of the text includes learning objectives that introduce each chapter, sidebars illustrating sport-specific applications of key concepts and principles, chapter summaries organized by content and sequence, key terms, chapter review questions, a comprehensive glossary, and other useful resources to help readers implement mental training programs for athletes.Written primarily for high school coaches, Sport Psychology for Coaches is a practical, easy-to-use resource reflecting the two authors' combined 45 years of teaching, coaching, researching, and consulting experience. It reflects principles that are not only consistent with the latest theory and research, but have stood the test of time and worked for coaches and athletes in all sports at all levels. You'll come away from Sport Psychology for Coaches with a greater understanding and appreciation for sport psychology and the practical knowledge you need to put it to work for you and your athletes.Sport Psychology for Coaches serves as the text for the American Sport Education Program Silver Level course, Sport Psychology for Coaches.

Whitewater's history has as many twists and turns as the canyons its pioneers explored. The The Call of the River - DVD from NRS features vintage canoeing and kayaking footage, in-depth interviews with eclectic pioneers and captivating narratives.

Written by the founder of the Chariots of Fire display team in England, Sports Driving provides solid information on acquiring the right pony and equipment, schooling to achieve results and how to turn out driver and pony for competition. The author details all three phases of competition with tips on achieving flow and bend in dressage, speed in the marathon and accuracy in cones, giving a complete picture of the sport from starting flags to finish.

Get your baseball field ready with the Indoor/Outdoor Baseball Base Set from Champion Sports. This set includes 1 orange home plate and 3 orange bases. All pieces are 100 percent molded vinyl and are safe for indoor or outdoor use.

Tether tennis is very similar to the game of tetherball. Players try to wrap a ball around a metal pole except in this game, they use tennis paddles instead of their hands. The Tether Tennis Set from Champion Sports includes all of the equipment you need to set up your tether tennis game. You'll receive a 2-piece metal pole with a swivel arm and spiral coil, an easy clip-on hook that easily attaches the tennis ball to the 64'' rope, and 2 tennis paddles. Tether tennis makes a great outdoor P.E. and backyard activity!

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The Ultra Bat Set from Champion Sports includes 6 brightly colored weighted bats, which are perfect for setting up relays or multiple games at once. Each bat is 30in long and made of high-density polyethylene. Their durable plastic grip wrapped handles provide comfort and help you get a good grasp. Each set includes 1 bat in each of the following colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.

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The Champion Sports Exercise Disc is a fun and dynamic way to improve posture, balance and core strength and provides many of the same benefits of an exercise ball. The disc can also be used as a seat cushion to promote balance and core strength while seated. Each disc is smooth on one side and textured on the other for extra grip. The exercise disc can be inflated from 1in to 2.5in to fit the needs of individual users (inflation pump not included).

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The tank features an internal magnetic float which represents your liquid CO2 fill level on the indicator strip. This allows you to know when you are running low so you dont ever have to lose another game because you are out of gas.

Our glass display cases are a necessity for any committed sports memorabilia enthusiast. Your timeless pieces, whether autographed helmets or balls, will be safe from dust and fading with our top-of-the-line exquisitely crafted cases. Each UV-protected display case is hand-made and includes a removable glass top for easy access. With a mirrored bottom and stunning cherry wood base, your memorabilia will look stylish and protected in any setting. This triple baseball display case measures in overall size of: 11 inches in length, with a width of 4.75 inches and a height of 5.25 inches.

The Champion Sports Rhino Skin(r) foam volleyball features a soft and durable molded foam construction that can be used for a variety of games.

Ralph Kiner made his Major League Baseball debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates on April 16 1946. He would ultimately spend 10 years in the game playing in six straight All-Star Games and crushing 369 career home runs. For his efforts as a player Kiner was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1975. After retirement at the age of 32 Kiner embarked on a broadcasting career becoming a Mets announcer in 1962 a position he's held for close to 50 years now. Kiner has hand signed this MLB baseball and added the inscription 'HOF 75.' A Steiner Sports Certificate of Authenticity is included.

Chicago has garnered national recognition by winning the World Series, the Super Bowl, and a string of titles in the National Basketball Association. But amateur sports also play a large role in the city's athletic traditions, especially in schools and youth leagues. In fourteen chapters, experts focus on multiple aspects of Chicago sports, including long looks at amateur boxing, the impact of gender and ethnicity in sports, the politics of horse racing and stadium building, the lasting scandal of the Black Sox, and the perpetual heartbreak of the Cubs. Well illustrated with forty photographs, this volume will help historians and sports fans alike appreciate the longstanding importance of sports in Chicago. Contributors are Peter Alter, Robin F. Bachin, Larry Bennett, Linda J. Borish, Gerald Gems, Elliott J. Gorn, Richard Kimball, Gabe Logan, Daniel A. Nathan, Timothy Neary, Steven A. Riess, John Russick, Timothy Spears, Costas Spirou, and Loic Wacquant.

“Neither the highly commercialized nature of professional sports today nor the more casual attitude prevailing in amateur activities captures the essence of Indian sport, ” writes Joseph B. Oxendine. Through sport, Indians sought blessings from a higher spirit. Sport that evolved from religious rites retained a spiritual dimension, as seen in the attitude and manner of preparing and participating. In American Indian Sports Heritage, Oxendine discusses the history and importance in everyday life of ball games (especially lacrosse), running, archery, swimming, snow snake, hoop-and-pole, and games of chance. Indians gained nationwide visibility as athletes in baseball and football; the teams at boarding schools such as the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania and the Haskell Institute in Kansas were especially famous. Oxendine describes the apex of Indian sports during the first three decades of the twentieth century and chronicles the decline since. He looks at the career of the legendary Jim Thorpe and provides brief biographies of other Indian athletes before and after 1930.

"Pick a sport -- baseball, professional or college football or basketball, horse racing, boxing, or tennis -- and in every case New York has consistently had front-row seats for every major development and many of the most memorable events in sports history." -- from the introductionIt's every New York sports fan's dream: a chance to analyze, debate, and rank the top 100 sports events in New York history. A list to settle all arguments. What would you choose?First of all, where to start? Babe Ruth hitting the first home run in Yankee Stadium? Arthur Ashe winning the first U.S. Open? Muhammad Ali versus Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden? Over the years, New York has been at the center of seemingly every major sporting event. From the integration of baseball to the heyday of boxing and horse racing to the rise of professional sports -- it all happened in New York.The journalist Stuart Miller, a native New Yorker and sportswriter, guides us through the pivotal events with illuminating analysis and colorful detail. Based on extensive research, this richly illustrated book is filled with vivid and authoritative prose. Highlights include:* Willie Mays makes "the Catch" in the 1954 World Series * Jimmy Connors turns back the clock at the 1991 U.S. Open * Willis Reed rescues the Knicks in the 1970 NBA Finals * Joe Namath and the Jets win the 1968 AFL Championship * Mookie Wilson's slow grounder to first is a Mets miracle in the 1986 World SeriesAll of the celebrated franchises are here, from the Yankees and the Mets to the Knicks and the Giants, as well as sports ranging from horse racing to tennis to boxing to the New York City Marathon. There are additional lists and analyses, such as "On the Road: The Top 25, " featuring events such as Bucky Dent's 1978 homer over the Green Monster in Fenway Park. "Fearsome Foes" highlights epic performances by the opposition, like Michael Jordan's 55-point night at the Garden in 1992. Miller also gives us the bad side of sports, in "Worst Days, " such as when Benny Paret died in the ring at the hands of Emile Griffith.Exhaustively researched and endlessly entertaining, The 100 Greatest Days in New York Sports is a book destined to be on the shelf of every New York -- and every American -- sports fan.

Provide extra stability in your strength and flexibility training exercises with the Champion Sports Ball Base. This black plastic ring supports your fitness ball (from 65 cm and up) while in use or for storage.