school sports

While trying to prove that he is good enough to be on his high school's varsity basketball team, Nick must also deal with his parents' divorce and the erractic behavior of a troubled classmate who lives across the street.

Recounts the journey of hippie, dreamer, and intellectual Lynn Sweet, who arrived in Macon, Illinois, in 1966 and became the reluctant coach of the high school baseball team, leading the Macon Ironmen through an improbable season to the state final.

Authors explore the under-pinnings of school sports, America's obsession with sports, how sports became connected with school, and other related issues.

Presents an account of what happened when the coach of the white suburban Shorewood High School in Milwaukee got the idea of joining with the predominantly African-American Messmer High School to create a football squad during the 2001 season, discussing their struggles to maintain racial harmony while trying a bond into a winning team.

Twelve-year-old Matt Hill struggles to make the basketball team in his new school while keeping out of trouble.

Text and photographs explore the often adversarial relationship between academics and athletics.

Presents a novel about high school football in a small Texas town, a place in which football has become a religion.

Kirsty and Rachel agree to help when Jack Frost steals Tara the Tuesday Fairy's Fun Day Flag and nearly ruins Tippington Schools' Field Day.

Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students.

A poor throwing arm and prejudice from one white boy keep a black junior high student from completely enjoying his position on the baseball team.