Books, Sports, Other Team Sports, Lacrosse

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Stuart Taylor, KC Johnson
Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case
by St. Martin's Griffin (Paperback) (Release Date: 2008-09-30)

“A masterful examination of the pathetic rush to judgment in the Duke rape case.” —John GrishamThe full story of the Duke Lacrosse case, by the authors who broke it          In this American tragedy, Stuart Taylor, Jr., and KC Johnson argue, law enforcement, a campaigning prosecutor, biased journalists, and left-leaning academics repeatedly refused to pursue the truth while scapegoats were made of these young men, recklessly tarnishing their lives.          Until Proven Innocent is the only book that covers all five aspects of the case (personal, legal, academic, political, and media) in a comprehensive fashion.  It is also the only book to include interviews with all three of the defendants, their families, and their legal teams. And now it includes an up-to-date epilogue detailing the aftershocks and conclusion of the case.          Taylor and Johnson’s coverage of the Duke case was the earliest, most honest, and most comprehensive in the ...

Robert G. Price
Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Lacrosse (Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Lacrosse) (Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Lacrosse) (Ultimate ... Guide to Weight Training for Lacrosse)
by Sportsworkout.com (Paperback)

The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Lacrosse is the most comprehensive and up-to-date lacrosse-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round lacrosse-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.No other lacrosse book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book will have players increasing strength, speed, and flexibility resulting in harder checks, more accurate shots, and the ability power past defenders all game long. From the opening face-off you will be able to dominate the game like never before and maintain your intensity until the final whistle.Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, ...

David G. Pietramala, Neil A. Grauer
Lacrosse: Technique and Tradition, The Second Edition of the Bob Scott Classic
by The Johns Hopkins University Press (Paperback)

For thirty years Bob Scott's Lacrosse has been the ultimate guide to the "fastest game on two feet," explaining the men's game at its highest level and promoting the Johns Hopkins philosophy, which has become synonymous with lacrosse excellence. In this long-awaited updated edition, Coach Dave Pietramala, whose Blue Jays won the 2007 and 2005 NCAA men's lacrosse championships, and Neil Grauer, a Hopkins graduate and veteran writer on lacrosse, among other subjects, have reworked every chapter, modernizing sections on rules, equipment, preparation, and tactics. They revisit topics such as drills and skills for specific positions, game strategy, clearing tactics, and the history of the game itself -- including a section on the Johns Hopkins contributions to lacrosse. New diagrams and images help to clarify concepts and instructions in the text. Action and instructional photos by Hopkins photographer James Van Rensselaer capture some of the drama from the 2005 championship year and ...

Janine Tucker, Maryalice Yakutchik
Women's Lacrosse: A Guide for Advanced Players and Coaches
by The Johns Hopkins University Press (Paperback)

Women's lacrosse is one of the fastest-growing sports in the United States. As stick technology advances, athleticism increases, and rules and regulations adapt, even the most experienced players and coaches need to keep current on all aspects of the game. Janine Tucker, head women's lacrosse coach at the Johns Hopkins University, and Maryalice Yakutchik, a writer and former lacrosse player, here supply the ultimate guide to women's lacrosse. Each chapter provides a detailed explanation of a specific skill or technique, illustrated with easy-to-read instructional diagrams and photographs. Coach Tucker begins with lacrosse survival skills -- throwing, catching, cradling, and scooping ground balls -- and then moves on to more advanced techniques, such as precise checking, fast footwork, correct stick and body position, deceptive shooting, and quick dodges. Chapters on cutting-edge offensive and defensive strategy, as well as specialized skills such as goal-tending and the draw, ...

Vincent Perez-Mazzola
The Lacrosse Training Bible: The Complete Guide for Men and Women
by Hatherleigh Press (Paperback) (Release Date: 2007-06-26)

The Lacrosse Training BibleThe Essential Guidebook for Players, Coaches, and EnthusiastsThe Lacrosse Training Bible brings everything you wanted to know about playing, training for, and teaching lacrosse into one easy-to-use manual.Written by coach and fitness trainer Vincent Perez-Mazzola, with contributions from professional lacrosse player Matt Brown and University of Denver Men’s Head Coach Jamie Munro, this book will give you the cutting-edge training you need. It’s the indeipensable guide to stepping up your game, with detailed chapters on:·All aspects of athletic training, from warm-ups and flexibility to strength training·Unique skills and drills section highlighting catching, throwing, dodging your man, ground balls, passing, ripping rope, and stick tricks·Nutrition information designed to keep you energized, hydrated, and in the game·Tough training to challenge men, women, youth, high school, college, and pro ballers alike·A complete look at the beginnings of ...

Daniel Morris
The Confident Coach's Guide to Teaching Lacrosse: From Basic Fundamentals to Advanced Player Skills and Team Strategies
by The Lyons Press (Paperback)

Within the past decade, lacrosse has seen explosive growth on the elementary, junior and high school, and college levels, rapidly becoming one of America's most popular playing sports. Lifelong lacrosse player and coach Daniel Morris, along with noted author Michael Morris, distill the essence of this exciting, fast-paced game into one compact volume, teaching everything the beginning and intermediate coach needs to know about the rules, equipment, skills, and drills of this venerable game. Unlike other books on lacrosse, this guide reflects recent important rule changes, as well as the latest techniques in offense and defense, stick-handling, and advances in equipment that have transformed the game as it is played today. Chapters focus on critical elements of individual and team play, conducting practices, skill-building drills, and a playbook of offensive and defensive strategies. A resource list of suppliers, camps, and additional information is included. This is a book that ...

David Urick
Lacrosse: Fundamentals for Winning (Sports Illustrated Winner's Circle Books)
by Sports Illustrated (Paperback)

Eight-time national championship coach David Urick shows players and coaches the pathways to lacrosse success!

Don Yaeger
It's Not About the Truth: The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Case and the Lives It Shattered
by Threshold Editions (Paperback)

Mike Pressler walked into the bottomfloor meeting room of the Murray Building and, as he had done hundreds of times over a sixteen-year career at Duke University, prepared to address his men's lacrosse team. Forty-six players sat in theater-style chairs, all eyes riveted forward.It was 4:35 P.M. on Wednesday, April 5, 2006. The program's darkest hour had arrived in an unexpected and explosive announcement.Pressler, a three-time ACC Coach of the Year, informed his team that its season was canceled and he had "resigned," effective immediately. While his words reverberated off the walls, hysteria erupted. Players cried, confused over a course of events that had spun wildly out of control. What began as an off-campus team party with two hired strippers had accelerated into a rape investigation -- one that exposed prosecutorial misconduct, shoddy police work, an administration's rush to judgment, and the media's disregard for the facts -- dividing both a prestigious university and the ...

Jim Hinkson
Lacrosse for Dummies
by For Dummies (Paperback)

The sport of lacrosse is not only Canada's national sport, but it has recently spawned one of the fastest growing professional leagues around. Outrageous ticket prices and million dollar superstars have made hockey, baseball and basketball a corporate province and out of reach for the average family. As a result, North American sports fans and families have discovered the appeal of the fast-paced, high-scoring, grassroots game of lacrosse. Lacrosse For Dummies is the most cmprehensive mass market book available on the sport and is the first book licensed by the National Lacrosse League. Packed with photos and line drawing to demonstrate techniques and tips for players and fan alike, Lacrosse For Dummies is an essential tool for all those who play, watch, coach, or simply enjoy this action-packed game.

Michael D. Echanis
Knife Fighting, Knife Throwing for Combat (Special Forces/Ranger-Udt/Seal Hand-To-Hand Combat/Special W)
by Black Belt Communications (Paperback)

"Soldier of Fortune" magazine described the late Michael D. Echanis as 'one of the leading experts of hand-to-hand combat in the world'. Before creating one of the most effective knife-defence systems in modern warfare, Echanis studied under the supreme grandmaster of hwa rang do, Joo Bang Lee, and specialised in un shin bup, the Korean counterpart to ninjutsu.

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