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Author |
: Howard Cosell |
Publisher |
: Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages |
: 563 |
Release |
: 1986 |
ISBN-10 |
: 081614110X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780816141104 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (0X Downloads) |
Synopsis I Never Played the Game by : Howard Cosell
The popular broadcaster describes his involvement and recent disillusionment with spectator sports and documents his thirty-two years as a sports journalist, giving revealing accounts of those who have worked beside him
Author |
: Howard Cosell |
Publisher |
: Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages |
: 580 |
Release |
: 1986 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0816141118 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780816141111 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis I Never Played the Game by : Howard Cosell
In a book as provocative as the author, Howard Cosell describes his thirty-three years in broadcasting. This is the story of his involvement and disillusionment with the world of spectator sports from football to boxing. Cosell pulls no punches in telling of his experiences with Monday Night Football, and readers will be fascinated by what he has to say about Frank Gifford, Don Meredith, and O. J. Simpson, those members of the "Jockocracy", the sports broadcasters who once played the game. In his usual style, Cosell spares no one, not even himself. I Never Played the Game is an abrasive, enlightening, and entertaining book of scope and conviction. You don't have to be a sports fan to love it!
Author |
: Mel Croucher |
Publisher |
: Andrews UK Limited |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 2016-04-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783336913 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783336919 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Deus Ex Machina by : Mel Croucher
The billion dollar video games industry had to start somewhere, and this is the hilarious, heartbreaking, inside story of how it all began and where it's all headed. And in the middle of it all there was a game hailed as the best ever written. It was called Deus Ex Machina. It was a creative triumph and it was a commercial disaster. Meet the pirates, the nerds, the innovators, the charlatans, the superstars, the winners, the sinners, the good, the bad and the downright ugly. A remarkable story revealed by the founder of the industry himself, with gut-wrenching honesty and merciless humor. If you ever wondered how computer gaming turned us all into willing slaves, you're about to find out in glorious style.
Author |
: Stuart Ashen |
Publisher |
: Unbound Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 514 |
Release |
: 2015-12-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783522576 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783522577 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of by : Stuart Ashen
In Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of, Stuart Ashen has created a collection of hilarious and damning reviews of some of the most bizarre, frustrating, pointless and downright terrible video games ever made. And he would know. . . he's played them all. Dripping with wry humour and featuring the best, worst graphics from the games themselves, this book encapsulates the atrocities produced in the days of tight budgets and low quality controls. These are the most appalling games that ever leaked from the industry's tear ducts and have long since been (rightly) relegated to the dusty shelves of history. Welcome to a world of games you never knew existed. You will probably wish you still didn't.
Author |
: Danny Peary |
Publisher |
: Hyperion Books |
Total Pages |
: 678 |
Release |
: 1994-04-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015032572946 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis We Played the Game by : Danny Peary
This incredible gathering of first-hand remembrances brings a fascinating and enlightening new perspective to the period of baseball's greatest peak and ultimate turning point--when bigotry and exploitation still ran rampant among the clubs and the sport was irrevocably being changed into a business. 100 photos.
Author |
: Stanley Cohen |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2015-09-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781453295250 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1453295259 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Game They Played by : Stanley Cohen
One of Sports Illustrated’s Top 100 Sports Books of All Time: The riveting story of the point-shaving scandal that shook college basketball to its core It was the ultimate Cinderella sports story. Unranked heading into the 1949–50 season, the City College basketball team delighted their hometown of New York City and shocked the rest of America by winning both the NCAA and NIT tournaments. An unprecedented feat that would never be duplicated, City College’s postseason grand slam was made all the more remarkable by the fact that, in an era when many premier teams were segregated, its starting lineup consisted of 3 Jewish and 2 African American athletes. With Hall of Fame coach Nat Holman and 4 of the starting 5 returning for the 1950–51 campaign, the stage was set for a thrilling title defense. Alas, it was not to be. City College’s season came to an abrupt end when 3 of its star players were arrested on charges of conspiring to fix games. The ensuing scandal, which would engulf 6 other schools and lead to the indictments of 20 players and 14 fixers, cast New York City sports under a dark cloud, derailed the careers of some of the game’s most promising young talents, and forever altered the landscape of college basketball. The basis for the award-winning HBO documentary City Dump, The Game They Played is a poignant portrait of the unforgettable moment when an unheralded team of local boys united New York City in both triumph and disgrace.
Author |
: Oliver Roeder |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 2022-01-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781324003786 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1324003782 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Seven Games: A Human History by : Oliver Roeder
A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why—and how—we play them. Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable. Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as evangelical minister Marion Tinsley, who across forty years lost only three games of checkers; Shusai, the Master, the last Go champion of imperial Japan, defending tradition against “modern rationalism”; and an IBM engineer who created a backgammon program so capable at self-learning that NASA used it on the space shuttle. He delves into the history and lore of each game: backgammon boards in ancient Egypt, the Indian origins of chess, how certain shells from a particular beach in Japan make the finest white Go stones. Beyond the cultural and personal stories, Roeder explores why games, seemingly trivial pastimes, speak so deeply to the human soul. He introduces an early philosopher of games, the aptly named Bernard Suits, and visits an Oxford cosmologist who has perfected a computer that can effectively play bridge, a game as complicated as human language itself. Throughout, Roeder tells the compelling story of how humans, pursuing scientific glory and competitive advantage, have invented AI programs better than any human player, and what that means for the games—and for us. Funny, fascinating, and profound, Seven Games is a story of obsession, psychology, history, and how play makes us human.
Author |
: Leonard Brumm |
Publisher |
: Brumm Enterprises, LLC |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015071263613 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis We Only Played Home Games by : Leonard Brumm
Author |
: Iain M. Banks |
Publisher |
: Orbit |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2009-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780316095860 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0316095869 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Player of Games by : Iain M. Banks
The Culture — a human/machine symbiotic society — has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, computer and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game. . . a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor. Mocked, blackmailed, almost murdered, Gurgeh accepts the game, and with it the challenge of his life — and very possibly his death. The Culture Series Consider Phlebas The Player of Games Use of Weapons The State of the Art Excession Inversions Look to Windward Matter Surface Detail The Hydrogen Sonata
Author |
: Adrian Hon |
Publisher |
: Basic Books |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2022-09-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781541600195 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1541600193 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis You've Been Played by : Adrian Hon
How games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation—and what we can do about it Warehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be fired. Uber presents exhausted drivers with challenges to keep them driving. China scores its citizens so they behave well, and games with in-app purchases use achievements to empty your wallet. Points, badges, and leaderboards are creeping into every aspect of modern life. In You’ve Been Played, game designer Adrian Hon delivers a blistering takedown of how corporations, schools, and governments use games and gamification as tools for profit and coercion. These are games that we often have no choice but to play, where losing has heavy penalties. You’ve Been Played is a scathing indictment of a tech-driven world that wants to convince us that misery is fun, and a call to arms for anyone who hopes to preserve their dignity and autonomy.