Players Book Report 395 pages (Word Count: 854) General Questions Part A 1. What is the title of your book? Players: Con Men, Hustlers, Gamblers and Scam Artists. 2. What is the author’s name? Edited by Stephen Hyde and Geno Zanetti. 3. Which company published the book? (Give the publishing company’s name, not the printer’s name.) Thunder’s Mouth Press. 4. When was the book published? (Give the latest date of publication.) 2002. 5. In what city was it published? (If your book lists several cities

Findings After reading these three articles between how coaches and players do not get along with them attacking each other and when a player does something terrible and the coach defends them. We all have been in a situation where we do not want to be talked to by a family member or friend just because he had a bad day, but when you bring that attitude to a sporting event or practice sometimes the player or coach my lose their composure. Which happened in the three articles that I read, dealing

Portrait of A Hockey Player The year is 1992. I am ten years old. I am with my brother, Stephen, and my Uncle Seamus. We are in my uncle’s BMW on our way up to his winter home in Pennsylvania. It is around ten o’clock at night and we are starving. We decide to stop at a small restaurant on the corner of this dark road. This stop changes my life. During our meal my uncle mentions he knows Mike Richter. Mike is the goalie for the New York Rangers, a great professional hockey team

Behavior & Leadership: Potential Impact on NBA Player Performance The National Basketball Association (NBA) which began in the 1940’s is a men’s professional basketball sports league comprised of 32 teams of which the majority are based in cities of the United States; with one team based in Canada. The league has changed drastically since it began many years ago and has grown to become a global entertainment business. The main purpose(s) of the existence of these teams is for the entertainment

Being a great football player Being a great football player is a hard task that many people try to reach in their career. A lot of football players fall short of this goal. A great football player is a person and leader who shows heart ,passion, and pride for the game. Someone who will put the needs of the team before his or her own is a great player. These are things that can be hard to find in a player and even harder to teach. I have played beside great players and bad players, having seen the effect

The Significance of the Players in Hamlet Most characters in Hamlet present themselves as something other than themselves or how as we, the audience, or another character thinks they should appear.  Two of the main characters in this play, Hamlet and King Claudius, are constantly acting as something other than their true nature.    Ironically, the characters that invoke changes in Hamlet and King Claudius to reveal their real personalities are the players, merely actors themselves, not showing

How to Become a Professional Hockey Player Introduction This formal report is necessary for numerous reasons in order for the client to succeed in the NHL. The client requested this report on December 1, 2014 at 7 P.M. This report will be written on the theme, how to become a professional hockey player. Getting the material in this report originated from primary and secondary research, coming from the client interview to research conducted from websites, books and reports. This report will have three

Team Player It is a cold, wet October morning in Slippery Rock, PA. The school bus carrying 50 sleeping high schoolers pulls into a gravel parking lot, joining a crowd of buses and vans already lining the edge of a vast grassy field. A never-ending white line is painted on the short-clipped grass marking a trail. It follows the outside of the expanse, along the parking lot, beside the road, up and down the hills and valleys, and through small patches of trees and brush at the far end of the

NHL Players Moving East It was deemed official this past weekend that the NHL will be on lockout due to the new salary cap the league wants to enforce. The players in the league have a different outlook this year as well and it involves moving east. Hockey players in the NHL get 75% of the revenue the league makes and it is very obvious that this current situation is not going to last. There is no way to fund the league if the players are making all of the money. So what happens now? Ratings are

Evaluation of Strength of a Sports Player As a defender, I am naturally good at receiving the ball and accurately passing it up the pitch to my teammates. This is a good skill to have because without it, the opposition may get hold of a bad pass and may eventually score a goal from it. On the other hand, if a teammate recieves a good, accurate pass, they may be able to string together an attack with other players on my team which could lead to a goal being scored for our team, which could