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  Rigged Justice - How the College...

  John Vandemoer

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  The former Stanford University sailing coach sentenced in the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal tells the riveting true story of how he was drawn unwittingly into a web of deceit in this eye-opening memoir that offers a damning portrait of modern college administration and the ways in which justice and fairness do not always intersect.  
   For eleven years, John Vandemoer ran the prestigious Stanford University sailing program in which he coached Olympians and All-Americans. Though the hours were long and the program struggled for funding, sailing gave Vandemoer’s life shape and meaning.  
  But early one morning, everything came crashing down when Vandemoer, still in his pajamas, opened the door to find FBI and IRS agents on his doorstep. He quickly learned that a recruiter named Rick Singer had used him as a stooge in a sophisticated scheme designed to take advantage of college coaches and play to the endless appetite for university fundraising—and wealthy parents looking for an edge for their college-bound children.  
  Vandemoer was summarily fired, kicked out of campus housing, his children booted from campus daycare. The next year of his life was a Kafkaesque hellscape, and though he was an innocent man who never received a dime was the first person to be convicted in what became known as the Varsity Blues scandal.  
  A true story that reads like a suspense novel, Rigged Justice lays bare how a sophisticated scheme could take advantage of college coaches and university money—and how one family became collateral damage in a large government investigation that dominated national headlines.

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  The Legend of Hoopman

  Michael T. Gregory

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  Chuck “Hoopman” Hayes is a retired Army Officer that goes back to school for the opportunity to play college basketball. It doesn’t take Hoopman long to figure out his team is hiding a dark secret. As Chuck digs deeper, he finds the purity of the game that he loves is being subjected to corruption. But Chuck Hayes dares to take on the criminals threatening his teammates and his dreams. To save the game he loves and what may be his only chance to be a Champion, Hoopman will do whatever it takes, even if it costs him his life.

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  Cycling Plus: Cheap or Cheerful...

  Guy Kesteven

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  We take on one of the toughest sportive courses in the UK on two £250 racers to find out which breaks first – us, the bikes or our snobbish price preconceptions

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  The Central Buttress of Scafell...

  Graham Wilson

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  Few climbs are awarded the honour of being reduced to their initials. CB, the Central Buttress of Scafell, considered for years to be the hardest climb in the British Isles, is one of them. 'Have any of you ever noticed a bayonet-shaped crack descending from the skyline about midway between Moss Ghyll and Botterill's Crack on Scawfell? No? Has it never occurred to you that between these two climbs there is a stretch of nearly two hundred feet of unscaled rock? No?'- Ashley P Abraham, 1907. Despite this attempt by the president of the Fell & Rock Climbing Club to goad the younger generation into action, it was another seven years before Siegfried Herford made the first ascent of Central Buttress. Ten historic essays, reproduced by courtesy of the FRCC and the Yorkshire Ramblers' Club, chart the stages by which this legendary route was besieged, conquered and finally, apparently, domesticated. Or was it? In his introduction and commentary, Graham Wilson assesses the growth of the myth, the challenges of the climb and its status one hundred years on. And, as a coda, a twenty-first-century account by a young female climber reflects on the achievements of those who went before.

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  Walking and Running Your Way...

  P.K. Bristol, Dennis Price

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  Walking and Running Your Way Bundle, 2 in 1 bundle: Walking Through Anger and Running Is My TherapyRunning is something a lot of us know that we should be doing. We’re often told that it burns calories, tones muscle and improves fitness. There are numerous benefits one can get from running but despite all this, we regularly find it hard to stay committed. The problem is most people start it off with big ambitions, wanting to run long distances already instead of gradually starting from short distances. This shouldn’t be the case and we should not push ourselves and just aim to start slowly and gradually increase as you get the hang of running.In this bundle, you will learn about how to use running to keep yourself fit and healthy. You will learn how to prepare for this exercise, the things you will need and how to make running exciting and fun so you don’t lose motivation to continue running. It will also contain an audiobook that will help you deal with anger issues. You will learn how you can manage and deal with it and to prevent it from wrecking your life. You will learn how to repair your anger issues. It will guide you into trying to discover yourself and diving into the midst of the problem to possibly see which could be affecting your emotions now.This 2 in 1 bundle includes the following audiobooks:1. Walking Through Anger: The Essential Guide to Anger Management, Learn The Effective Techniques on How You Can Deal With Your Anger Issues Easily2. Running Is My Therapy: Learn All the Benefits of Running and How to Incorporate It in Your Daily Life to Become Fit and HealthyIf you want to learn more, download your copy of Walking and Running Your Way 2 in 1 Bundle today!

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  All the Time in the World

  John Gierach

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  Discover the answer to life's most pressing problems through the joy of fly-fishing from master philosopher John Gierach.Once again, John Gierach tells the world why the pastime of fly-fishing makes so much sense—except when it doesn't. In sparkling prose, with more than a touch of humor, he recalls the joys of landing that trout he's been watching for the last hour—and then losing an even fatter one a little later. Joy and frustration mix in Gierach's latest appreciation of the fly-fishing life as he takes us from his home waters on the Front Range of the Rockies in Colorado to fishing meccas all over North America. From fishing lodges in Alaska to memories of the local creek in the Midwest where he grew up, Gierach reminds us about the indispensability of the natural world around us.

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