During an association with the Washington State football program that started in 1977, Jim Walden established a foundation of competitive expectations that helped spur the success of contemporary Cougar teams. Walden’s 1981 Cougars broke a 51-year bowl drought, and with victories in three of his last five Apple Cup games against Washington, Walden finally leveled the field with WSU’s cross-state rivals. Walden’s teams beat every opponent in the Pac-10 Conference at least once, squaring off against powerhouses USC, UCLA, and Washington despite a deficit in resources that he once described as “having to fight battles every Saturday with a really short sword.” He kidded and sparred with coaches like Don James, John Robinson, and Terry Donahue, while ticking off a few others with his outspokenness. He offered his opinions so frequently and frankly that his university president had “The Walden Release” printed and ready as a disclaimer for the press: “The opinions of Coach Walden do not necessarily reflect the stance of the WSU administration.” In Tales from the Washington State Cougars Sideline, the stories cover players and coaches alike, including Jack “The Throwin’ Samoan” Thompson, the colorful “Lone Star” Dietz, Bill Doba, and many more. Walden reveals the effective strategies and the flubs and tells what really happened on the field and in the locker rooms. He also shares the ways he was able to coax prospects into coming to remote Pullman and what he was really screaming at officials all those times. Walden tells his stories the way he coached—all out and nothing held back, with wit and humor.

Rival coach Don James of the University of Washington once called himself a 2,000-word underdog to Jim Walden. James may have been underestimating the opinionated Walden, even at those lopsided odds. During an association with the Washington State football program that started in 1977, Jim Walden established a foundation of competitive expectations that helped spur the success of contemporary Cougar teams. Waldens 1981 Cougars broke a 51-year bowl drought, and with victories in three of his last five Apple Cup games against Washington, Walden finally leveled the field with WSUs cross-state rivals. Waldens teams beat every opponent in the Pac-10 Conference at least once, squaring off against powerhouses USC, UCLA, and Washington despite a deficit in resources that he once described as having to fight battles every Saturday with a really short sword. He kidded and sparred with coaches like James, John Robinson, and Terry Donahue, while ticking off a few others with his outspokenness. He offered his opinions so frequently and frankly that his university president had The Walden Release printed and ready as a disclaimer for the press: The opinions of Coach Walden do not necessarily reflect the stance of the WSU administration. In Jim Waldens Tales from the Washington State Cougars Sideline, the coach, a Mississippi-born storyteller, looks at coaches from the colorful Lone Star Dietz to Bill Doba and gives readers a glimpse at the personalities of Cougar All-Americans as well as the other quirky individuals who made their way onto the WSU sidelines. Walden reveals the effective strategies and the flubs and tells what really happened on the field and in the locker rooms.

Sixkiller, a former University of Washington quarterback, recounts high and low moments from Huskie history.

The Crimson and the Gray reviews the sports history of Washington State University from its very first athletic contest, which resulted in a shutout victory for its baseball team. Learn about early WSU football, including the miracle team of 1906, which was undefeated, untied, and unscored upon. Read about the exploits of Hack Applequist, Biff Bangs, Bobo Brayton, Hugh the Phantom Campbell, Bull Durham (who later became an admiral), the two Docs, Froggy, Ike, the Moose of the Palouse, the Silver Fox, and hundreds of other sports greats.

Newly-minted Mississippi State head coach Mike Leach tells his captivating story––from rural Wyoming to law school to the upper echelons of the SEC. SWING YOUR SWORD is the first ever book by one of the most fascinating and successful coaches in sports today. A maverick who took an unlikely path to coaching through law school, Mike Leach talks about his unorthodox approach to coaching and the choices that have brought him success throughout his career. A lover of the game who started creating formations and drawing his own plays as a kid, Leach took his Texas Tech Red Raiders to numerous bowl games, achieving the #2 slot in national rankings and being voted 2008 Coach of the Year before being unceremoniously fired at the end of the 2009 season. The scandalous nature of his dismissal created a media frenzy and began a personal battle between Leach and his accusers that remains unresolved.

Spike Dykes's Tales from the Texas Tech Sideline will examine the games, stories, and players that have made up the Red Raiders' 79-year history. College football fans will get an inside look, as told by the school's all-time winningest coach, at one of the nation's highest-scoring and most dangerous dark-horse programs. along with a glance back at the players and coaches that helped build the Red Raiders' successful tradition. Texas Tech legends Donny Anderson, who scored a touchdown for the Green Bay Packers in the 1968 Super Bowl, and E.J. Holub, Texas Tech's first consensus Division I-A All-American, will be examined, along with more recent stars, like the record-setting Kliff Kingsbury and B.J. Symons and All-Americans Byron Hanspard and Zach Thomas, the Red Raiders' last two first-team All-Americans.

This book expands on the argument that spectator sports, despite their problems, have become a central function of American universities.

Includes a new section on clicker training.

DIVA challenge to the present system of college athletics /div

Until age 15, Billy Dietz thought he was the natural son of a prominent white couple in Rice