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Language
English
Description
After seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he dominates everyone in practice, and when Sooley is called...
Author
Series
Robin Lockwood novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The "master of heart-pounding suspense"--New York Times bestseller Phillip Margolin--returns with a new legal thriller starring Robin Lockwood. A young woman accuses a prominent local college athlete of rape. Convicted with the help of undisputable DNA evidence, the athlete swears his innocence and threatens both his lawyer and his accuser as he's sent to prison. Not long after, there's another rape and the DNA test shows that the same person committed...
3) The novice
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An obsessive college freshman joins her university's rowing team and undertakes an extreme physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the 1942 Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Duke University out of fear of further Japanese attacks on the West Coast. Shortly after this unforgettable game, many of the players and coaches left their respective colleges, entered the military, and went on to serve around the world in famous battlegrounds, from Iwo Jima and Okinawa to Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge, where fate and destiny would bring...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A promising football running back plans to make it to the NFL. At the pinnacle of his college football career, his dreams are shattered and he loses everything. But determination and a newly found inner strength enable him to triumph
10) Greater
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Greater follows the true story of Brandon Burlsworth, the greatest walk-on in the history of college football. Brandon dreams of playing for the Arkansas Razorbacks but is told he isn't good enough to play Division 1.The awkward kid who once was an embarrassment to his teammates and annoyance to his coaches ends up becoming an All-American player and the 63rd pick in the 1999 NFL Draft.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Three days before the college football national championship game, star quarterback LeMarcus James and teammate Emmett Sunday ignite a player's strike declaring they won't compete until all student-athletes are fairly compensated. With billions of dollars at risk and legacies on the line, the stakes could not be higher. Now, with only hours until kickoff, the head coach and various power brokers must race against the clock to protect or destroy the...
12) Jake's choice
Author
Series
To save a life volume 2
Publisher
Outreach
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Jake Taylor is at college thousands of miles apart from his girlfriend Amy. Separated by thousands of miles, they find their lives moving in very different directions. Befriending a young girl with a traumatic history leads Amy back to the father who abandoned her. Jake's position on the Louisville basketball team lands him in the midst of parties, beautiful women...and one decision that will shake him to the core. When everything Jake believes is...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An accident paralyzed his legs, but not his will to live and love! TV-movie about the struggles of a paraplegic college athlete. Paul Stallings, a happy-go-lucky veterinary student, is paralyzed from the waist down during a polo match. Feeling despondent, he decides to go to his grandfather₂s ranch and meets a young horse trainer, Marnie Clarkson, who helps him overcome his handicap and learn how to live and love again.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A sports journalist relates the story of Ivy League freshman and track star Maddy Holleran, who seemingly had it all and succeeded at everything she tried, but who secretly grappled with mental illness before taking her own life during the spring semester.
"From noted ESPN commentator and journalist Kate Fagan, the heartbreaking and vital story of college athlete Madison Holleran, whose death by suicide rocked the University of Pennsylvania campus...
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A feature-length documentary that explores the resilience and perspective of Chris Norton. In October 2010 at age eighteen, Chris suffered a debilitating spinal cord injury during a college football game. Doctors gave him just a three percent chance to ever move again. But he defied that diagnosis. After years of physical therapy and training, Chris' story went viral in 2015 when he successfully walked across the college graduation stage with the...
Author
Series
Avant-Guards volume 3
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The final shot. Everything's happening - Liv & Charlie figuring out what it means to be Liv & Charlie, the final game of the season is here, creating the perfect fundraiser and everyone's parents showed up to cheer them on during the most stressful time the team could imagine. It's Just A Lot For Everyone To Deal With. Luckily the entire existence of the league doesn't depend on this one game or the Avant-Guards winning, right? Oh wait ..."--Provided...
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