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Rivals : Legendary Matchups That Made Sports History /
The sixteen original essays in this collection cover influential and famous rivalries from a variety of sports, and illustrate with is common to any rivalry: equally matched opponents that are often decidedly different in race and culture, political and societal ideology, personality, geography, or...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Fayetteville :
University of Arkansas Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The purest of rivalries: Rafer Johnson, C.K. Yang, and the 1960 Olympic Decathlon / Joseph M. Turrini
- The King and the Bear: the Arnold Palmer-Jack Nicklaus rivalry and the rise of modern golf / George B. Kirsch
- The mortality of kings: Ali versus Frazer / Gerald Early
- "We were about winning": Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and the rivalry that remade the NBA / Daniel A. Nathan
- Friendly rivals: Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert / Mary Jo Festle
- The battle of the Carmens: Debi Thomas versus Katarina Witt / Alison M. Wrynn and Annette R. Hofmann
- Bitter foes, but marketing pros: the Red Sox-Yankee rivalry / Ryan King-White
- A tale of two cities: the Toronto Maple Leafs versus the Montreal Canadiens / Brian P. Soebbing and Daniel S. Mason
- Like cats and dogs: the Massillon-Canton McKinley football rivalry / Lawrence W. Hugenberg and Brian C. Pattie
- A rivalry for the ages: Tennessee-UConn women's basketball / Jaime Schultz
- Three yards and a pool of blood: Ohio State versus Michigan / Brad Austin
- Corporate Cowboys and blue-collar bureaucrats: the Dallas-Washington football rivalry / Stephen H. Norwood
- Imperial rivalries: America versus Britain for the Davis Cup / S.W. Pope
- This has nothing to do with money: the Ryder Cup and international rivalry in golf / John Nauright
- The match of the century: The U.S.-USSR rivalry in sports / Chris Elzey
- Dare to dream: U.S. Women's Soccer versus the world / Lindsey J. Meân.