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Sport Psychology
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Title: On the sweet spot
Author: Keefe, Richard
Subject: Keefe, a clinical psychologist and the director of the sport psychology program
at Duke University, looks into the nature of his golfing experience, and finds links to the
spirit and the brain. On the Sweet Spot builds from the physical and neurological to the
mystical and philosophical, then adds a layer of the practical (how to capture or recapture
the states of being in the zone.)
Title: Working it out: using exercise in psychotherapy
Author: Hays, Kate F.
Subject: Reviews the benefits of exercise, provides empirical support for using it as a
therapeutic tool, and describes ways to apply it to a wide variety of populations.
Title: Unpaid professionals: commercialism and conflict in big-time college sports
Author: Zimbalist, Andrew S.
Subject: In remarkably clear and clear-eyed prose, Zimbalist follows the money instead
of the ball in the emotion-charged world of college sports.
Title: The cheers and the tears: a healthy alternative to the dark side of youth sports today
Author: Murphy, Shane M.
Subject: An explosive unmasking of the negative aspects of organized youth sports across
the country and a passionate cry for the reform and more positive values for kids swept
up in the dominant culture of USA sports today.
Title: Leading with the heart: Coach K’s successful strategies for basketball, business,
and life
Author: Krzyzewski, Mike
Subject: Krzyzewski reviews the lessons he’s learned as a basketball coach at Duke
University, and tries to universalize them so they translate to any leadership position.
Title: It’s not about the bike: my journey back to life
Author: Armstrong, Lance
Subject: People around the world have found inspiration in the story of Lance Armstrong
– a world-class athlete nearly struck down by cancer, only to recover and win the Tour de
France, the multi-day bicycle race famous for its grueling intensity.
Title: The mental edge: maximize your sports potential with the mind-body connection
Author: Baum, Kenneth
Subject: Sports-Psychological aspects; Imagery
Title: Let’s kill ‘em: understanding and controlling violence in sports/Jon Leizman
Author: Leizman, Jon
Subject: Jon Leizman suggests practical methods of controlling violence in professional
team sports, and offers a discussion of how competition is understood in terms of the self
and the opponent.
Title: Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The making and breaking of elite gymnasts and figure
skaters
Author: Ryan, Joan
Subject: Ryan, an award-winning columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, offers
disturbing anecdotal evidence indicating that women’s gymnastics and figure skating are
physically and psychologically damaging to a majority of participants with realistic
Olympic aspirations.
Title: Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior
Author: Jackson, Phil
Subject: The Zen of coaching the Chicago Bulls
Title: Flow in sports
Author: Susan Jackson & Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Subject: Two leading experts on “the flow state” explain the phenomenon as it occurs in
sports and provide keys for creating favorable conditions for unleashing the power of
“flow” of mind and spirit.
Title: Embracing victory: Life lessons in competition and compassion
Author: Nelson, Mariah Burton
Subject: Nelson reclaims competition as fun and female. She argues that competition
does not have to be about cutting throats and conquering enemies.
Title: Feminism and sporting bodies: essays on theory and practice
Author: Hall, M. Ann
Subject: Blends new cultural criticism and feminist research into a discourse, which
approaches sport as a political site for feminist resistance and transformation.
Title: Coming on strong: gender and sexuality in twentieth-century women’s sport
Author: Cahn, Susan K.
Subject: A subtly reasoned consideration of women and sports—a study that goes beyond
the historical record to examine athletics as both a reflection of and challenge to
culturally enforced notions of gender.
Title: Strong women, deep closets: lesbians and homophobia in sport
Author: Griffin, Pat
Subject: Griffin draws on her experience as a lesbian coach and athlete for this
groundbreaking work intended to “challenge the despised sexual predator image” that so
often stalks when women and sport come together.
Title: Sport, men, and the gender order: critical feminist perspectives
Editors: Michael A. Messner, Don F. Sabo
Subject: presents 18 essays exploring the relationship between gender and sports.
Title: My losing season
Author: Pat Conroy
Subject: Here, in the re-creation of the losing basketball season his team endured during
his senior year at the Citadel, 1966-1967, Conroy gives readers an intimate look at how
suffering can be transformed to become a source of strength and inspiration.
Title: The game of life: College sports and educational values
Author: William G. Bowen, James L. Shulman
Subject: Analysis of strengths and weaknesses of current situation in intercollegiate
sports
Title: Playing the zone: Exploring the spiritual dimensions of sports
Author: Andrew Cooper
Subject: A socio-religious exploration of the meaning of sports
Title: Friday Night Lights
Author: H.G. Bissinger
Subject: Secular religions are fascinating in the devotion and zealousness they breed, and
in Texas, high school football has its own rabid hold over the faithful.
Title: Sport-fans: The psychology and social impact of spectators
Author: Wann,-Daniel-L et al
Subject: An overview and analysis of sports fans, examining the role played by and the
impact of sport in the lives of sport fans and spectators, and the importance of sport for
society at large.
Title: Among the Thugs
Author: Bill Buford
Subject: A horrific and up-close look at British football (soccer) fan violence.
Title: The achievement zone: Eight skills for winning all the time from the playing field
to the boardroom
Author: Shane Murphy
Subject: An eight-skill program by the longtime sport psychologist for the U.S. Olympic
Committee, designed to put your performance in the “Zone.”
Title: Sub 4:00: Alan Webb and the Quest for the Fastest Mile
Author: Chris Lear
Subject: Alan Webb was just 18 when he broke a 36-year-old record by running the
fastest mile ever for a high-school athlete. Lear follows Webb at Michigan as he juggles
the challenges of college academics, injuries, and media attention along with the rigors of
competition; Lear also examines group dynamics as the other runners adjust to the
presence of a track wunderkind in their midst.
Title: Fever Pitch
Author: Nick Hornby
Subject: Hornby's purpose in writing this memoir is to explore the "meaning" that British
football holds for many enthusiasts. Few people in North America can grasp the fanatic
appreciation that Europeans and the British have for the game. While this book will be
popular with soccer fans, readers having little or no knowledge of the sport will require
more basic information.