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Three-Time World Champ The Death-Defying True Story of a Kickboxer Turned Drug Smuggler . . . Turned Bu siness Icon [electronic resource] : by Pryor, Ted.aut; cloudLibrary;
The thrilling true story of the rise and fall of a kickboxing legend in the notorious 1980s Miami crime scene . . . and the shocking end that that led him to a new life. From 1982 to 1987, Thaddeus J. “Ted” Pryor was the middleweight kickboxing champion of the world. But behind the scenes, he was a key player in the biggest marijuana trafficking operation in American history. As a renowned athlete, TV model, and bodyguard to stars like Elvis Presley, he drew the attention of the head of the Miami mafia. When the kingpin wanted protection—and some flash—he made Ted his personal intimidator, keeping the peace in the celebrity-drenched nightclub scene and beyond.  But when the gangster blocked him from getting in on the big money of the smuggling business, Ted started his own.  Three-Time World Champ tells the electric story of how Ted became the master of the run-and-gun smuggling business around the Caribbean islands, hustling in hundreds of millions of dollars in weed under the noses of cops and coast guard patrols—until a dubious traffic stop began the unraveling of everything. What began as easy money became a ringside seat to kidnapping, murder, police double-crosses, and a harrowing turn in prison.  Three-Time World Champ brings readers directly into the action of neon-soaked, 1980s Miami, chronicling the rise and fall—and rise again—of an amazing man: a world champ of kickboxing and a world champ of smuggling who, in a wholly unexpected turn, becomes world champ of a business completely removed from everything that came before. It’s harrowing, it’s thrilling, and it happened just like this: the wild life of a Three-Time World Champ.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Criminals & Outlaws; Organized Crime; Sports;
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Rally Caps. by Cipolla, Lee,film director.; Smart, Amy,actor.; Minniear, Carson,actor.; Hirsch, Judd,actor.; Bridgestone Multimedia Group (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Amy Smart, Carson Minniear, Judd HirschOriginally produced by Bridgestone Multimedia Group in 2024.Based on actual events, RALLY CAPS follows Jordy, a young boy who is seriously injured during a Little League baseball tryout. At a summer camp, he bonds with a deaf boy, Lucas, who recently had Cochlear Implant surgery. Their friendship becomes the driving force as the pitcher/catcher duo leads their team in the camp championship game. This coming-of-age, family-friendly story stars Academy Award nominee Judd Hirsch, and Amy Smart.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Comedy films.; Sports.; Coming-of-age films.;
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Midnight in the snow / by Swan, Karen(Writer),author.;
Clover Phillips is an award-winning documentary maker who finds success documenting pro-surfer Duke Allbright's life. When Allbright dies unexpectedly, Clover makes a promise to his widow that she will find justice for Duke and expose his bitter rival Kit Foley for the villain that he is. Foley's management see Clover's approach as an opportunity to tell his side of the story. Shadowing him everywhere he goes and interviewing everyone in his life, tensions run high as Clover begins to discover the man behind the myth--and the closer she gets, the harder it is to hate him.
Subjects: Chick lit.; Christmas fiction.; Documentary films; Man-woman relationships; Secrecy; Snowboarders; Sports rivalries; Surfers; Women motion picture producers and directors;
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Queen of the court : the many lives of tennis legend Alice Marble / by Blais, Madeleine,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-401) and index."From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Madeleine Blais, the dramatic and colorful story of legendary tennis star and international celebrity, Alice Marble. In August 1939, Alice Marble graced the cover of Life magazine, photographed by the legendary Alfred Eisenstaedt. She was a worldwide celebrity, having that year won singles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles tennis titles at both Wimbledon and the US Open, then an unprecedented feat. Yet today one of America's greatest female athletes and most charismatic characters is largely forgotten. Queen of the Court places her back on center stage. Born in 1913, Marble grew up in San Francisco; her favorite sport, baseball. Given a tennis racket at age 13, she took to the sport immediately, rising to the top with a powerful, aggressive serve-and-volley style unseen in women's tennis. A champion at the height of her fame in the late 1930s, she also designed a clothing line in the off-season and sang as a performer in the Sert Room of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York to rave reviews. World War II derailed her tennis career, but her life off the court was, if anything, even more eventful. She wrote a series of short books about famous women. Ever glamorous and connected, she had a part in the 1952 Tracy and Hepburn movie Pat and Mike, and she played tennis with the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Marlene Dietrich, and her great friends, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. However, perhaps her greatest legacy lies in her successful efforts, working largely alone, to persuade the all-white US Lawn Tennis Association to change its policy and allow African American star Althea Gibson to compete for the US championship in 1950, thereby breaking tennis's color barrier. In two memoirs, Marble also showed herself to be an at-times unreliable narrator of her own life, which Madeleine Blais navigates brilliantly, especially Marble's dramatic claims of having been a spy during World War II. In Queen of the Court, the author of the bestselling In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle recaptures a glittering life story"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Marble, Alice, 1913-1990.; Tennis players.; Tennis players; Women tennis players.; Women tennis players;
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You gotta believe [videorecording] / by Cash, Michael,actor.; Roberts, Ty,1974-film director.; Gadon, Sarah,1987-actor.; Kellici, Etienne,actor.; Kinnear, Greg,1963-actor.; Parker, Molly,1972-actor.; Garrison, Lane,1980-screenwriter.; Renna, Patrick,1979-actor.; Temple, Lew,actor.; Wilson, Luke,1971-actor.; Well Go USA, Inc.,film distributor.;
Luke Wilson, Greg Kinnear, Sarah Gadon, Molly Parker, Lew Temple, Patrick Renna, Michael Cash, Etienne Kellici.Based on the inspirational true story, an underdog youth baseball team of misfits come together and dedicate their season to a player's dying father. In doing so, they defy all odds and accomplish the impossible by reaching the Little League World Series in an unforgettable game now considered an ESPN and LLWS classic.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Fiction films.; Feature films.; Sports films.; Coming-of-age films.; Baseball films.; Little League World Series (Baseball); Little League baseball; Baseball; Coach-athlete relationships; Male friendship; Baseball teams; Baseball players;
For private home use only.
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Blue Lock. [graphic novel] / by Kaneshiro, Muneyuki,author.; Brown, Scott O.,letterer.; Derr, Nate,translator.; Nomura, Yusuke,1987-illustrator.; translation of:Kaneshiro, Muneyuki.Buru rokku.English.;
The match against Japan's U-20 representatives is finally here! Will the Blue Lock Eleven's offense style work against the enemy's iron defense centered around captain Oliver Aiku? The future of Japanese soccer will be decided as the world watches.Rated: Older teen, 16+.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Manga.; Sports comics.; Strikers (Soccer); Soccer players; Soccer; Soccer;
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Hard Miles. by Daniel, R.J.,film director.; Diaz, Damien,actor.; Kelly, Jackson,actor.; Guillory, Jahking,actor.; David, Leslie,actor.; Modine, Matthew,actor.; Astin, Sean,actor.; Blue Fox Entertainment (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Damien Diaz, Jackson Kelly, Jahking Guillory, Leslie David Baker, Matthew Modine, Sean AstinOriginally produced by Blue Fox Entertainment in 2024.The uplifting true story of the bicycling team at a medium-security correctional school in Colorado. HARD MILES follows beleaguered coach Greg Townsend (Matthew Modine) as he rounds up an unlikely crew of incarcerated students for a seemingly impossible bike ride from Denver to the Grand Canyon.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Sports.;
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The Benchwarmers. by Dugan, Dennis,film director.; Spade, David,actor.; Heder, Jon,actor.; Lovitz, Jon,actor.; Scheider, Rob,actor.; Revolution Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
David Spade, Jon Heder, Jon Lovitz, Rob ScheiderOriginally produced by Revolution Studios in 2006.The story of three guys who try to make up for their lack of athleticism when they were younger by forming a three-man baseball team to challenge a full squad of elementary school baseballers. They develop a large following of left-out kids as they head for a high-stakes, winner-take-all game with the best team of kids in the state.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Comedy.; Sports.;
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Hometown victory : a coach's story of football, fate, and coming home / by Lowe, Keanon,author.; Spizman, Justin,author.;
"The Blindside meets Friday Night Lights in Keanon Lowe's Hometown Victory when an NFL coach returns home after losing a friend to opiods to coach a team of struggling high school kids on a 23-game losing streak. Keanon Lowe was working as an offensive analyst for the San Francisco 49ers when his childhood friend and former high school teammate suddenly died from an opioid overdose. Keanon dropped everything--including the plum NFL job he had been working towards since childhood--leading him to a position as football coach at a struggling high school back in his hometown. At the time, Parkrose High School was in the middle of a 23-game losing streak -- they were the ultimate underdogs. In many ways, the road to Parkrose was paved by Keanon's life-defining experiences -- from a childhood spent dodging racist bullies and finding the support and mentorship he craved on the football team, to an NFL season where he worked closely with Colin Kaepernick as he evolved his sideline protest. Keanon was drawn to the young men on the Parkrose team, and to the school itself. After two years, he pushed them to become conference champions, mentoring countless players along the way. But still, there was that nagging sense that his calling wasn't meant to stop there. He was at that school for a reason. In May 2019, he got his answer when a 19-year-old student entered a Parkrose classroom with a trench coat and shotgun. Keanon disarmed him and pulled the boy into a hug, telling him he cared. In the boy, Keanon saw himself, and the young men he grew up with or mentored along the way -- and weren't so many of them just looking for acceptance, for comfort, for love? With the heart of favorite football classics - The Blindside, Friday Night Lights, Remember the Titans - Keanon's journey at Parkrose is the true account of a life spent striving forward, even when faced with the unimaginable. Hometown Victory is a story about gratitude, service, and most of all, hope"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Lowe, Keanon.; Oregon Ducks (Football team); African American football coaches; African American football players; Football coaches; School shootings; School sports;
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Red zone : from the offensive line to the front line of the pandemic / by Duvernay-Tardif, Laurent,1991-author.;
"On July 24, 2020 Laurent Duvernay-Tardif sent shockwaves through the sports world by becoming the first NFL player to opt out of the coming season. The only active player who is also a medical doctor, Laurent spent the months directly after winning the Super Bowl working in a health facility in Quebec on the front lines of the pandemic. As plans for the 2020 NFL season ramped up and daily cases continued to skyrocket, Laurent realized that playing and potentially spreading the virus was antithetical to everything he believed. For the first time in his remarkable career, he couldn't square his twin passions of football and medicine. So he temporarily stepped away from the game he loved, returning to his medical work and enrolling in Harvard to earn his master's in public health, hoping to maximize his celebrity status in order to effect change on a larger scale. But that was just the beginning of this fascinating story. As Laurent settled into his new reality, he quickly came up against a severe COVID outbreak in his hospital unit. Meanwhile, his team, the Kansas City Chiefs entered the playoffs as the #1 seed in the AFC and were favorites to repeat as champions amidst a season that saw countless games postponed due to league-wide outbreaks, including one in his own offensive line group in Kansas City. This fast-paced memoir will take you inside Laurent's life as he grappled with his role as both a medical professional and NFL football player, taking readers on a journey into Duvernay-Tardiff's remarkable personal story, where his insatiable curiosity and work ethic led him from his family's bakery in downtown Montreal to his dual role as both a medical school graduate and championship-winning right guard in the NFL. From the incredible highs of winning the Super Bowl to the incredible sorrow of losing a patient on his ward to Covid, from the high of Super Bowl win to an unexpected trade, RED ZONE is riveting account of Tardiff's incredible intelligence, determination, sacrifice, and conviction. It's also a captivating story of one of the most fascinating and accomplished people in professional sports."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Duvernay-Tardif, Laurent, 1991-; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; Football players; Physicians;
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