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128 Billion to 1: Ten Steps to Beat the Odds and Win Your NCAA Tourney Office Pool
by Mike NemethEach year experts, odds makers, the polls, team records, tournament seeds, and the eyeball test mislead March Madness fans filling office pool brackets. 128 Billion to 1: Ten Steps to Beat the Odds and Win Your NCAA Tourney Office Pool by Mike Nemeth, explains the secrets and inner workings of the NCAA Tournament to exponentially increase one’s odds of filling a winning bracket. It was written for basketball fans who want to understand why they don’t often win their office pool.128 Billion to 1 is a simple, yet ingenious guide to the way the NCAA Championship works, and explains the factors that best predict the outcome. Paramount among the factors is an accurate assessment of relative team strength to correct misleading polls and erroneous tournament committee selections and seedings. Using analytics, understandable mathematics and a dash of ingenious reasoning, Nemeth exposes the need for a new set of statistical measures to explain the outcomes of basketball games. The new statistics accurately rank each team entering the NCAA Tournament so that fans can make informed picks in their tournament brackets. Weekly accurate rankings can be found at https://nemosnumbers.com/basketball-rankings/.
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: How Obsolete Stats, Hidebound Thinking, and Human Bias Create College Football Controversies
by Mike NemethLies, Damned Lies and Statistics presents the Relative Performance Grading (RPG) system of statistical measures, which ends all arguments over how good college football teams are relative to one another. Using grammar school mathematics and a dash of ingenious reasoning, Mike Nemeth exposes the need for, and then invents, a new set of statistical measures to explain how and why one team wins and another loses a college football game. The new statistics assign a numerical grade to the playing performances of both winners and losers, just as a student receives a numerical grade on a school test. The grades in this RPG system replace won/lost records and differentiate well-played wins from ugly wins and well-played losses from ugly losses. RPG accurately ranks college football teams according to how well they&’ve played the game, i.e. how good a team they are (and, NOT how good their record appears to be).
101 Bass Fishing Tips: Twenty-First Century Bassing Tactics and Techniques from All the Top Pros
by John NeporadnyJohn Neporadny is an expert bass fisherman, and he's here to offer his secrets and those of other fishing greats on hooking hawg largemouths in 101 Bass Fishing Tips. The latest techniques and tactics are revealed in this book full of tips from the top touring pros. The best competitors of the Bassmaster and FLW circuits share their secrets on how to catch largemouth bass throughout the year on various bodies of water.Learn how to select the right tackle and lures so you can fish just like the pros. Bass fishing's elite anglers also discuss how to find fish on structure such as drop-offs, ledges, points, and flats. They also describe their tricks for coaxing bass out of weeds, bushes, stumps, docks, and other types of cover.Beginners and advanced anglers alike will discover a treasure trove of valuable information they can apply on their favorite waters to catch America's most popular game fish. Full of information and great stories, 101 Bass Fishing Tips is the best guide available to help fishermen land more bass and is a revealing look at the exciting world of professional fishing.
Fitness Walking For Dummies (For Dummies Ser.)
by Liz NeporentCall it power walking, fitness walking, or just plain walking. Indoors or out, walking is one of the healthiest and most rewarding forms of exercise available to all sorts of people, young and old. In fact, walking burns about the same number of calories per mile as running (and it's a lot easier on your knees). Walking is one of the most adaptable workout activities around – you can walk for an hour straight to make your walking program effective and to achieve your goals, or you can accumulate this hour over the course of a day. Fitness Walking For Dummies is for anyone who wants to start an exercise program but may not have the knowledge or motivation to do it. If you're already a walking fanatic, you'll find out how to become a better fitness walker. This easy-to-understand guide is also for those who are on track to Lose weight Decrease blood pressure Control cholesterol Relieve stress Prevent heart disease Deal with depression Explore what it takes to begin an exercise program by setting goals, choosing shoes, and considering nutrition to optimize your workout. Fitness Walking For Dummies also covers the following topics and more: Warm-up and cool-down routines Strength training The four levels of walking: Lifestyle, Fitness, High-Energy, Walk-Run Weight-training routines and stretches that add variety Buying and using a treadmill Age, pregnancy, and walking with your dog Dealing with pain and injuries Like 67 million other people in the United States who log over 201 million miles a year, you want to take advantage of all of the great things a regular walking program can do for you. Whether your goal is to improve your health or your appearance, lose weight, get stronger, feel good about yourself, or all of the above, walking can help you get to where you want to go. This book can help you do that by showing you everything you need to know about starting and maintaining a walking program.
Skater Boy
by Anthony NeradaIn this YA pop punk debut about queer romance and destroying labels, a teen risks everything to write his own story. Perfect for fans of Sonora Reyes and Adib Khorram.Stonebridge High&’s resident bad boy, Wesley &“Big Mac&” Mackenzie, is failing senior year—thanks to his unchecked anger, rowdy friends, and a tendency to ditch his homework for skateboarding and a secret photography obsession. So when his mom drags him to a production of The Nutcracker, Wes isn&’t interested at all . . . until he sees Tristan Monroe. Mr. Nutcracker himself.Wes knows he shouldn&’t like Tristan; after all, he&’s a ballet dancer, and Wes is as closeted as they come. But when they start spending time together, Wes can&’t seem to get Tristan out of his head. Driven by a new sense of purpose, Wes begins to think that—despite every authority figure telling him otherwise—maybe he can change for the better and graduate on time.As a falling out with his friends becomes inevitable, Wes realizes that being himself means taking a stand—and blowing up the bad-boy reputation he never wanted in the first place.From a debut author to watch, Skater Boy delivers a heart-wrenching, validating, and honest story about what it means to be gay in a world where you don&’t fit in.
Calling Up: Discovering Your Journey to Transformational Leadership
by J.P. NerbunCalling Up is a guide for coaches of all sports at all levels that presents a step-by-step process to building a transformational culture, starting with changing coaching behaviors, attitudes, and language. Modern-day coaches face the same challenges every day: entitled youth, overinvolved parents, and the community and administration’s expectation for wins. Coaching does not just take a great deal of time; it takes an emotional and physical toll, and coaches need to know they are not the only ones facing these struggles. After over 11 years of coaching, and his own coaching philosophy transformation, J.P. Nerbun felt called to share the hard lessons that could not be found in a book when he started coaching. Calling Up provides an easily accessible and inspiring story as J.P. details the transformative experience of a high school basketball coach named Daniel and his year-long struggle to keep his job while working to become the coach he always wanted to be. Apart from the entertaining and relatable story, which connects with coaches on a personal level, Calling Up provides coaches with principles based on scientific research and personal experience that explore how people learn, what motivates them, and the human condition. These principles are shared by some of the most highly qualified and successful coaches in sports and J.P. also provides specific tools and explains how those tools are applied within the context of a team. At the end of the day, Calling Up shows coaches not just how to build great athletes, but how to build great people.
Chess Rumble
by G. NeriBranded a troublemaker due to his anger from being bullied to his sister's death a year before, Marcus begins to control himself and cope with his problems at home and at his inner-city school when an unlikely mentor teaches him to play chess.
Surf Mules
by G. NeriWhen Logan goes searching for the Perfect Monster Wave, he doesn't expect his former best friend to be killed by it. Add to this a deadbeat dad who bankrupted his family and the possibility of college going down the drain, and Logan is suddenly in a tailspin. So when small-time dealer Broza offers Logan and his dropout pal, Z-boy, a summer job that could make them rich, it seems his problems might be solved. But between Z-boy's constant screw-ups, a band of Nazi surfers out for blood, and a mysterious stranger on their tail, Logan is starting to have some serious doubts about hauling contraband across country, and hopes just to make it home alive.
Evaluating the Local Impacts of the Rio Olympics (Routledge Advances in Tourism)
by Marcelo NeriThis book evaluates the local impacts and legacies of the Olympics in Rio by comparing Rio2016 with other Olympic experiences and evaluating the ways in which the Games served the city. The 2016 Rio Olympic Games took place in a scenario of enormous economic challenges and persistent inequalities. In contrast to all previous Olympic experiences, Brazil faced its worst economic recession ever recorded during the preparation phase for the Games. In addition to the national crisis, falling oil prices and corruption scandals fuelled the State of Rio’s economic downfall. This book specifically assesses the relative social performance of Rio’s city population with respect to control groups; covers traditional aspects of the Games' legacy such as tourism, infrastructure and sports practice; includes ordinary day-by-day aspects of the city’s life, such as education, employment and housing; and scrutinizes critical areas such as urban mobility, gentrification and Guanabara Bay’s pollution. This thorough analysis offers readers further understanding on assessing the impacts and legacies of the Olympic experience. It will be of great interest to upper-level students and academics of tourism, hospitality and events management.
Trainer-Manual Gruppen-LiFE-Programm: Evidenzbasierte Sturzprophylaxe
by Corinna Nerz Franziska Kramer-Gmeiner Sarah Labudek Christoph Endress Michael SchwenkDieses Praxisbuch liefert zahlreiche Übungen und Praxisbeispiele für die Gestaltung von Gruppeneinheiten zur Sturzprophylaxe in Physiotherapie, Ergotherapie und Sport. Teilnehmende des LiFE Programms können die Übungen selbstständig im Alltag umsetzen, werden nachweislich körperlich aktiver und können ihr Sturzrisiko im Laufe eines Jahres halbieren. In diesem Buch finden Sie u.a. Antworten auf die Fragen: Wie kann der Schwierigkeitsgrad der Übungen variiert und individuell an den Trainingsfortschritt angepasst werden? Welche Alltagsgegenstände und Situationen eignen sich besonders gut, um das Training in den Alltag zu integrieren? Wie gelingt eine Veränderung des Verhaltens hin zu mehr Bewegung und gezieltem Training im Alltag? Die erfahrenen Autor*innen aus Sportwissenschaft, Physiotherapie und Psychologie bieten Ihnen wissenschaftlich fundierte Antworten und teilen ihre Expertise in diesem Buch! Aus dem Inhalt: · Grundlagen des LiFE Programmes und die drei Säulen des gruppenbasierten LiFE Konzeptes · Leitfaden für einzelne Gruppeneinheiten inklusive Checklisten · Konkrete Tipps zu Räumlichkeiten, Materialien und Didaktik · Exemplarischer Ablauf einer Gruppeneinheit Plus: Videos via Springer Nature More Media-App, Assessment-Tool, Übungsplaner und Gruppen-LiFE Kalender zum Download So verhelfen Sie Ihren Patient*innen und Klient*innen zu mehr Selbständigkeit und Bewegungssicherheit im Alter!
Woodcraft
by NessmukLegendary canoeing guide, conservationist in the 1800s, and one of the first proponents of the hyper popular "ultra-light” camping style, George Washington "Nessmuk” Sears was a true American mountain man. Using a 9-foot-long, 10 and a half pound canoe he successfully completed a 266-mile journey through the central Adirondacks. His classic treatise on American camping, Woodcraft , is definitive proof that he was the most capable and intelligent woodsman of his time.First published in 1884, and continuously in print ever since then, this is the ultimate book for hikers, campers, fishers, canoers, and anyone else who feels the call of the wild. With information on what to bring, how to build fires, how to fish with and without flies, and how to cook, this book is still totally relevant in our modern society. For anyone with even a passing interest in getting closer to nature this is required reading. The forerunner of the ultra-light camping movement and the precursor to all other books on camping and traveling through the wilderness, Woodcraft belongs on the bookshelf of every aspiring mountain person.Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for fishermen. Our books for anglers include titles that focus on fly fishing, bait fishing, fly-casting, spin casting, deep sea fishing, and surf fishing. Our books offer both practical advice on tackle, techniques, knots, and more, as well as lyrical prose on fishing for bass, trout, salmon, crappie, baitfish, catfish, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Woodcraft and Camping
by George NessmukOne of America's most famous woodsmen and nature experts provides classic instructions for roughing it. His advice covers camping, hiking, building a fire, cooking out, shelters, tools and equipment, hunting and fishing, canoeing, and more. "Useful, specific information and suggestions on all aspects of woodcraft." — Moor and Mountain.
Existential Psychology and Sport: Theory and Application
by Mark NestiIncreasing numbers of professional teams and athletes look for assistance with the psychological factors of their performance, and there exists a growing body of professional sport psychologists ready to provide support. Despite this, it seems at times there remains a significant gap between the real needs of sport performers and what is delivered by traditional sport psychology. The existential approach described by Mark Nesti offers a radical alternative to the cognitive and cognitive-behavioural approaches that have dominated sport psychology, and represents the first systematic attempt to apply existential psychological theory and phenomenological method to sport psychology. This much-needed alternative framework for the discipline of applied sport psychology connects to many of the real and most significant challenges faced by sports performers during their careers and beyond. Existential Psychology and Sport outlines an approach that can be used to add something of depth, substance and academic rigour to sport psychology in applied settings beyond the confines of MST and good listening skills.
Psychology in Football: Working with Elite and Professional Players
by Mark NestiHow can the skills of the sport psychologist be put to best use within a football club? How can a sport psychologist help elite footballers perform at their maximum level? In this groundbreaking guide to the role of the sport psychologist within elite and professional football, leading sport psychologist Mark Nesti argues that working closely with coaches and players to create a receptive environment is vital if psychologists are to add maximum value to team and individual performances. Drawing on a decade’s professional experience working at the top level of English football, Nesti offers a detailed guide to delivering sport psychology in an elite team sport environment, from practical drills on the training field to shaping organizational behaviour at club level. The book explores the full range of issues and themes that define the role of the professional sport psychologist working in football today, including: mental skills training group cohesion and team dynamics counselling, trust and confidentiality transitions in football managerial and coaching philosophies structure, communication and organizational psychology. The book is illustrated throughout with real-world case studies, drawing on research into sixteen professional clubs across five European countries, and concludes by suggesting how other elite team sports can learn from the experiences of professional football. This is the only book to outline a holistic approach to psychology in football and the to offer such a rich combination of theory and practice. It is therefore essential reading for all students of sport psychology and all psychologists and coaches working in elite team sport.
Youth Development in Football: Lessons from the world’s best academies
by Mark Nesti Chris SulleyThe identification and development of talented young players has become a central concern of football clubs at all levels of the professional game, as well as for national and international governing bodies. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey and assessment of youth development programmes in football around the world, to highlight best practice, and to offer clear recommendations for improvement. The book draws on original, in-depth research at eight elite professional football clubs, including Barcelona, Ajax and Bayern Munich, as well as the French national football academy at Clairefontaine. It adopts a multi-disciplinary approach, including psychology, coaching and management studies, and covers every key topic from organisational structures, talent recruitment and performance analysis to player education and welfare. Written by two authors with extensive experience in English professional football, including five Premiership clubs, this book is important reading for any student, researcher, coach, administrator or academy director with an interest in football, youth sport, sports development, sports coaching or sport management.
Baseball in Greenville and Spartanburg (Images of Baseball)
by Bob A. NestorBaseball, an important institution in every American town, takes centerfield in the histories of Greenville and Spartanburg, South Carolina. These two cities have hosted some of the most well-known players of all time, from Tommy Lasorda and Chipper Jones to "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, the man who will forever link Greenville and Spartanburg with America's game. Baseball in Greenville and Spartanburg chronicles the diamond game as it has been played in the Carolina Upstate. More than a century of games from the Minor League, Textile League, and Big League clubs, along with high school and collegiate teams, are showcased. An older Joe Jackson still plays ball, a patriotic Joe Anders impresses crowds in the 1940s, and the Greenville Spinners, Greenville Braves, and the Spartanburg Phillies bring the crowds to their feet. The greats teach the game to tomorrow's stars, while tomorrow's stars perfect their talent, all with the Blue Ridge Foothills rising in the distance.
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
by James NestorNo matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you&’re not breathing properly.There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren&’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe. Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.
Deep
by James NestorWhile on assignment in Greece, journalist James Nestor witnessed something that confounded him: a man diving 300 feet below the ocean's surface on a single breath of air and returning four minutes later, unharmed and smiling.This man was a freediver, and his amphibious abilities inspired Nestor to seek out the secrets of this little-known discipline. In Deep, Nestor embeds with a gang of extreme athletes and renegade researchers who are transforming not only our knowledge of the planet and its creatures, but also our understanding of the human body and mind. Along the way, he takes us from the surface to the Atlantic's greatest depths, some 28,000 feet below sea level. He finds whales that communicate with other whales hundreds of miles away, sharks that swim in unerringly straight lines through pitch-black waters, and seals who dive to depths below 2,400 feet for up to eighty minutes--deeper and longer than scientists ever thought possible. As strange as these phenomena are, they are reflections of our own species' remarkable, and often hidden, potential--including echolocation, directional sense, and the profound physiological changes we undergo when underwater. Most illuminating of all, Nestor unlocks his own freediving skills as he communes with the pioneers who are expanding our definition of what is possible in the natural world, and in ourselves.
Top Shot
by A E Networks Colby DonaldsonBehind the scenes and behind the trigger on the History Channel's hit TV show.On Top Shot, some of the most skilled shooters in the world are gathered together to test their mettle in competition for $100,000. <P><P>From former military snipers and ex-law enforcement officers to quick-draw artists, modern-day cowboys, and self-taught shooters, they are the best of the best with guns. In this fascinating book, readers will learn what makes Top Shot one of the most popular reality shows on television. * The weapons the contestants depend on to win * Facts and anecdotes about the colorful contestants throughout the years * The history of sharpshooting, and what it takes to be a master gunfighter* Behind-the-scenes stories about how Top Shot is created.
Fachdidaktik Sport: Grundlagen und Modelle (Basiswissen Lernen im Sport)
by Nils NeuberDer Band gibt eine Übersicht über fachdidaktische Grundlagen und Modelle im Sport. Ausgehend von soziokulturellen Rahmenbedingungen und pädagogischen Grundlagen von Bewegungs-, Spiel- und Sportangeboten für Kinder und Jugendliche werden sportdidaktische Modelle und Konzepte vorgestellt. Es folgen Überlegungen zu Methoden im Sportunterricht sowie zur Individuellen Förderung im Sport als einem integrativen Konzept. Insgesamt zielt das Lehrbuch auf allgemeine Voraussetzungen des Sportunterrichts.
Fachdidaktische Konzepte Sport: Zielgruppen und Voraussetzungen (Basiswissen Lernen im Sport)
by Nils NeuberDer Band gibt eine Übersicht über fachdidaktische Konzepte im Bereich der Voraussetzungen von Bewegungs-, Spiel- und Sportangeboten für Kinder und Jugendliche. Einleitend wird ein Überblick über allgemeine fachdidaktische Konzepte gegeben. Den Schwerpunkt bilden spezielle Konzepte zu den Voraussetzungen von Schülerinnen und Schülern, die in vier Kapiteln vorgestellt werden: Kinder, Jugendliche, Mädchen und Jungen sowie Heterogene Zielgruppen. Hinzu kommen die Voraussetzungen von Lehrkräften sowie von Bewegung, Spiel und Sport in der Schulentwicklung.
Fachdidaktische Konzepte Sport II: Themenfelder und Perspektiven (Basiswissen Lernen im Sport)
by Nils NeuberDas Lehrbuch gibt eine Übersicht über fachdidaktische Konzepte im Bereich der Entscheidungsfelder von Bewegungs-, Spiel- und Sportangeboten für Kinder und Jugendliche. Einleitend wird ein Überblick über allgemeine fachdidaktische Konzepte gegeben. Den Schwerpunkt bilden spezielle Konzepte zu Themenfeldern und Perspektiven des Sportunterrichts. Der Aufbau orientiert sich an den sechs Pädagogischen Perspektiven Eindruck, Ausdruck, Wagnis, Leistung, Soziales und Gesundheit.
Kinder- und Jugendsportforschung in Deutschland – Bilanz und Perspektive (Bildung und Sport #26)
by Nils NeuberDer Kinder- und Jugendsport zählt zu den häufigsten und wichtigsten Freizeitaktivitäten junger Menschen. Entsprechend wird das Feld seit über 30 Jahren beforscht. 2011 wurde unter dem Dach der Deutschen Sportjugend der Forschungsverbund Kinder- und Jugendsport gegründet. Zu seinen Forschungsthemen gehören Partizipation, Integration, Prävention, Inklusion, Interkulturelles Lernen, Informelles Lernen u.v.m. Der Band gibt einen Überblick über Themen der Kinder- und Jugendsportforschung in Deutschland, trägt vorliegende empirische Befunde zusammen und zeigt Transfermöglichkeiten für die Praxis des Kinder- und Jugendsports auf.
Wissenstransfer in der Sportpädagogik: Grundlagen, Themen, Formate (Bildung und Sport #34)
by Nils NeuberForschung und Lehre gelten gemeinhin als die zentralen Aufgaben von Universitäten. In den letzten Jahren kommt als „Third Mission“ der Transfer akademischen Wissens in die Praxis hinzu. Dafür mangelt es jedoch oft noch an Konzepten und Formaten. Das gilt auch für die Sportwissenschaft im Allgemeinen und die Sportpädagogik im Besonderen. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden mit dem Band Grundlagen, Themen und Formate sportpädagogischer Transferaktivitäten zusammengetragen und systematisiert.
Interdisciplinary Analyses of Professional Basketball: Investigating the Hardwood (Global Culture and Sport Series)
by Till Neuhaus Niklas ThomasThis edited collection conceptualizes professional basketball not just as a sport but as an historically, culturally, and economically embedded entity. The chapters analyse the fact that the sport of basketball contains alternative logics that can easily clash, and by treating professional basketball as the negotiation place of these multiple demands, ideas, and logics, the editors have identified three areas in which these clashes manifest: the realization of the game; the cultural impact of professional basketball and the global outreach of professional basketball. The book is explanatory and qualitative, offering new perspectives and touching on topics including gender, diversity, racism, and minority experiences within professional basketball. As such it will be of interest to sport sociologists, as well as those researching the history of sport, sports marketing and cultural studies.