Smart Sports

Smart Ball follows Major League Baseball's history as a sport, a domestic monopoly, a neocolonial power, and an international business. MLB's challenge has been to market its popular mythology as the national pastime with pastoral, populist roots while addressing the management challenges of competing with other sports and diversions in a burgeoning global economy. Baseball researcher Robert F. Lewis II argues that MLB for years abused its legal insulation and monopoly status.

This book contains the exact steps that took me from being a city dweller with zero survival skills to becoming a self-sufficient master of both urban and wilderness environments in less than six months. Want to know the biggest difference between those two time periods? A comprehensive understanding of survival techniques adaptable to any situation. The problem is—most people don't know how to effectively prepare for and navigate through crisis situations, whether in bustling cities or remote wilderness. I wrote this book to solve your survival preparedness problem.

Smart Defences is a practical self-defence system consisting of 27 basic defences that fully utilize the mind, body, and spirit. These Smart Defences serve as a trusted long-term process and ensure the proper practice, timing, and bodily response in all of life’s situations. This simple system was designed to feel natural, like a stimulant that your body needs to repeat every day, week, and month. Over time, you will become a master of your entire body.

Listen in the car or at home to hundreds of questions and answers about football. Learn about players and teams, rules and history, terms and nicknames, college and pros, and more!

I broke the game rules with a hockey legend. Now I may not live to tell the story. I've got the assignment of a lifetime: interview hockey legend Liam Connor, a reclusive widower and billionaire grump. His alpha male vibe screams danger and desire. He’s stupidly hot, and chemistry tells me to pounce and devour him. But he’s off-limits: ill-tempered, twice my age, and with money to buy my life ten times over. A storm traps us together, and I discover another side, a tender man who touches me like he’s craved my curves forever. I lose control. His rough hands and desperate kisses make ...

Listen in the car or at home to questions and answers about the game of baseball. Learn about players and teams, rules and history, terms and nicknames, ballparks and records, and more.

What does it mean to play fair? Following rules, helping others, and taking turns are just a few examples.

See what it means to play on a team. Practice, play, win, and lose with your teammates.

Reiko is the goalie for her soccer team. By being a good teammate, she helps her team score!

The red team and the blue team are playing each other. After the game, players on the blue team demonstrate what it means to be a good winner.

Are you a good teammate? Do you try your best? Do you follow rules and play fair? Explore these and other ways to be a good sport with these fun books! Lola and Lupe take turns going first when playing on the slide, and wait patiently for their turn to use the swings. Pairs with the nonfiction title Playing Fair.

Winning makes us feel good. But when we win, someone else loses. Learn how to be a good winner no matter what game you play.

From baseball to tag to cards, every game has rules to follow. Learn how to be a good sport by playing by the rules.

Are you a good teammate? Do you try your best? Do you follow rules and play fair? We don't have to be the best at every sport to have a good time. Trying our best will make the game way more fun! Pairs with the fiction title Dev Tries His Best. Explore these and other ways to be a good sport with these fun books!

Are you a good teammate? Do you try your best? Do you follow rules and play fair? Explore these and other ways to be a good sport with these fun books! Jordan practices losing graciously, whether she is competing in a footrace, playing tennis, or playing checkers.

It's tough to lose, no matter what game you are playing. But that doesn't mean you can't practice being a good sport.

It’s fitness day in gym class. Dev works hard and tries his best to jump, climb, run, and more.

Malik is counting for hide-and-seek. Nia wants to go before he counts to ten, but Malik tells her to wait and follow the rules.

Are you running the right way? Thanks to Christopher McDonald's book, Born to Run, we now know there is a right way and wrong way to run. Are you unsure if you're landing the right way, stretching right, or even wearing the right kind of shoes for your feet? It's time you learn. How to Run is a concise book that will teach you how to run better, safer, and faster.