Resultados para "Was" en Deportes y aire libre

So Great Was the Slaughter reveals the untold story of Arkansas conservation pioneers who saved the state's game and fish populations. As Arkansas entered the twentieth century, the national demand for meat combined with the ability to ship millions of animals to hungry cities like New Orleans, Memphis, and Chicago had driven many species, including bison and passenger pigeons, to extinction in Arkansas. Many others, including deer, bear, turkey, quail, and fish, were in danger of disappearing.

Ein Hörprogramm auf 24 Kapiteln verpackt, wie Sie Ihren Golfschlag meistern können. Nick Conrad, PGA Golfprofessional mit über 20-jähriger Spiel- und Lehrerfahrung, erklärt sehr anschaulich warum Golfer u.a. slicen und Sockets schlagen. Außerdem gibt er Ihnen Tipps, wie Sie Ihre Angstschläge los werden! Mit diesem Hörbuch lernen Sie vom Profi, wie Sie mehr Konstanz in Ihrem Spiel bringen können.

On 27th February 2022, after 170 matches in charge, promotion to the Premier League and some of the most exhilarating football the English game has ever seen, Leeds United parted company with their most beloved and successful manager in a generation: Marcelo Bielsa. His parting gift was to embrace the crowds of adoring fans who turned up to say thank you as he left the club's training ground for the final time.

American Football is the untold tale of the rough-and-tumble origins of the National Football League. Produced and presented by Michael Strahan and narrated by actress and pro football enthusiast Kate Mara, this podcast reaches back into the past to explain the dirty, bloody, and tumultuous beginnings of America's most popular sport.

The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world, equal in size to China or the United States. Yet, this arid expanse was once a verdant, pleasant land, fed by rivers and lakes. The Sahara sustained abundant plant and animal life, such as Nile perch, turtles, crocodiles, and hippos, and attracted prehistoric hunters and herders. What transformed this land of lakes into a sea of sands?

Bruce Tilbrook hooks you with his unique brand of humor and observations about fly-fishing and reels you in with this collection of entertaining stories about the men of the river.

Donald Honig crossed the country to meet and interview former big-league ball players. They shared their memories with him and the result is a book packed with nostalgia, statistics, action, revelations - an extraordinary oral history of baseball in the halcyon days beween the two world wars. Babe Ruth, Lefty Grove, Ted Williams, Bob Feller, Dizzy Dean, Jackie Robinson, Lou Gehrig, and many others are brought to life through the recollections of Wes Ferrell, Charlie Gehringer, Elbie Fletcher, Bucky Waters, Billy Herman, and more.

His winning percentage was well above Jordan’s shooting average or Woods’s domination of golf tournaments. And he sold products and drew spectators like no one had ever done. He was hands down the most famous athlete in America’s most popular spectator sport, and exactly one hundred years ago you would have been hard pressed to find anybody in the country who didn’t know his name. He was Dan Patch, and he was a racehorse.

In this collection of fishing stories from acclaimed novelist and outdoor writer William G. Tapply, the natural appeal of fishing comes to life. Each story in Every Day Was Special was previously published in Tapply’s back-page column, “Reading the Currents” in American Angler, or in Gray’s Sporting Journal, or in Field & Stream. From "Dam It" to "First Light" to "When Trout Get Antsy", these thirty re-readable pieces are unique in their own ways, and yet, all are classic Tapply. These writings serve as testament to the thrill of fishing.

The NCAA and the Exploitation of College Profit-Athletes: An Amateurism That Never Was provides a comprehensive historical, sociological, legal, financial, and managerial argument for the reclassification of profit-athletes as employees. Such a reclassification would permit profit-athletes to gain not only fair financial compensation but also equal access to educational benefits that have been promised but systematically denied. The authors trace how Power Five college sports have morphed into a hyper professionalized and commercialized sport-business enterprise.

For fifty years, bestselling author Peter Golenbock has been interviewing some of the most fascinating figures in baseball. Their conversations are a journey back in time to the days of Ruth and Gehrig, Gehringer and Greenberg, Robinson and Reese, and Howard and Mantle, as they reflect on the sport's greatest moments and biggest issues.

Pompeii was destroyed by the horrific eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, which buried at least 2,000 unlucky people. Pompeii became a mysterious tomb, hiding secrets of Rome and other civilizations that influenced the life and culture of the city and its people. Who were the Pompeiians, and how did they live before that dreadful day? What did the last days of Pompeii look like, and did the Pompeiians know that the fate of their city would be sealed that day, not to be uncovered for centuries to come?

What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four "grand transitions" of civilization - in populations, agriculture, energy, and economics - that have transformed the way we live.

Life hit Pat and Tammy McLeod hard when their son Zach collapsed on a high school football field; he had sustained a severe brain injury. Facing the devastating possibility that things would never be the same for their beloved son, they committed to staying strong as a family and finding a way to maintain their footing. But the journey would reshape their faith, their family, and their future in ways they never saw coming.

Wie können wir der Klimakrise mutig entgegentreten? Seit Jahren kämpfen Menschen um die künftige Bewohnbarkeit unseres Planeten. Luisa Neubauer ist eine ...

Ein Hörbuch nicht nur für Fußballfans, sondern für alle, die erfolgreich im Team sein wollen. Warum wird der FC Bayern jedes Jahr Meister? Wie hat es der FC Liverpool wieder an die Spitze der Liga geschafft? Und warum schafft der HSV es trotz guter Spieler nicht, wieder aufzusteigen? Tobias Escher begibt sich auf die Suche nach Erfolgsfaktoren für Fußballteams. Er spricht mit Trainern, Spielern und Verantwortlichen und analysiert die vielen Aspekte, die zusammengenommen stimmen müssen, damit Teams Meisterschaften gewinnen.

“If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.” Edward Abbey In a collection of gripping stories of adventure, Doug Peacock, loner, iconoclast, environmentalist, and contemporary of Edward Abbey, reflects on a life lived in the wild, asking the question many ask in their...

LAURA DAHLMEIER prominent als erfolgreiche Biathletin und Olympiasiegerin, die sich mit nur 25 Jahren aus dem Leistungssport zurückzog. Eine strahlende Siegerin im Licht der Sportberichterstattung. Doch Biathlon war immer nur ein Teil ihres Lebens. Lauras große Leidenschaft gehörte den Bergen. Aufgewachsen in Garmisch-Partenkirchen wurde sie von ihren Eltern früh an diese herangeführt. Beim Klettern und auf Skiern blieb sie dem Bergsport auch während ihrer Karriere im Biathlon treu und ging dafür ihren ganz eigenen Weg.

Was kümmert es uns, wenn in Brasilien eine Art verschwindet, von deren Existenz wir bis dahin gar nichts gewusst haben? Und wäre es nicht fantastisch, wenn Mücken ausstürben? Ganz und gar nicht: Die Natur ist ein Netzwerk, in der jeder Organismus eine wichtige Rolle spielt. Keine Art existiert unabhängig von den anderen – wir Menschen sind hier keine Ausnahme. Ohne den Reichtum der Natur könnten wir nicht überleben: ohne Insekten kein Obst, ohne Mikroorganismen kein Humus, ohne Mücken keine Schokolade.

Robert Frost, Claudio Arrau, John Lardner, Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Leo Durocher, Bobby Thomson, Al Rosen, Jascha Heifetz, and other heroic figures in their years of glory, in their times of trial. This is a book about people to be remembered, and what it was like in America at a very special time.