In 2012, Derrick Rose was on top of the world.After growing up in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, Rose achieved an improbable childhood dream: being selected first overall in the NBA draft by his hometown Chicago Bulls. The point guard known to his family as "Pooh" was a phenom, winning the Rookie of the Year award and electrifying fans around the world. In 2011, he became the youngest MVP in league history. He and the Bulls believed the city's first berth in the NBA Finals since ...

The New York Times bestseller about the legendary basketball star's impact on the sport during his team's championship seminal season. With a new introduction by Sam Smith, NBA Hall of Fame columnistA highly competitive force of nature, Michael Jordan's ambition and endurance drove him—and his Chicago Bulls teammates—to victory. After three years of consecutive losses to the "Bad Boys" Detroit Pistons in the playoffs, the Bulls defeated them in the 1991 Eas...

Thirty years after Michael Jordan's first NBA game comes an oral history of his legendary career, told by the men who played with him and against him, coached him, and witnessed first-hand the iconic greatness of the most dominant athlete sports has ever seen.Featuring interviews with: Larry Bird • Magic Johnson • Phil Jackson • Reggie Miller • Isiah Thomas • Reggie Theus • Chris Mullin • Doug Collins • Dominique Wilkins • Steve Kerr • John Paxson • David Stern • Gregg Popovich • D...

This mix of poetry and prose tells of my upbringing in the village of Stoke Gabriel on the banks of the Dart estuary, of my early schooling at Hayes Road in Paignton and later in Totnes, also of my before-school work as a milk boy - there my real education - and jobs and so-called career after leaving school and Devon. Most telling poem here is probably 'Education of an Anti-Establishment Man.'

Discover the untold story of the NBA's fight for financial freedom.Hard Labor unearths the incredible story of how Oscar Robertson and a team of NBA stars battled for player's rights, forever changing the league. Sam Smith, author of The Jordan Rules, dives into the fight for financial equity and free agency, examining the massive repercussions for the NBA and sports in the United States. Learn how "The 14" paved the way for today's record-setting...

The Rampagers were active light years before in a corner of the galaxy, their rampaging brought to a temporary halt by a global intelligence. The students' task, their research, is to bring together a few partially recovered recordings, already decoded and translated. The greater part of material available to them however is the book-like testimony, We Us Our, the singular publication of that global intelligence.All the animals and humans are approximations.

A book within a book Son & Daughter of O/V purports to be an analysis of, and a page by page description of a fictional graphic novel, child of time. Soon after its first publication child of time got condemned by a quasi religious group and copies publicly burnt. Defenders of free speech came to the book's defence. In the ensuing brouhaha the child of time's author, having published the novel privately under a nom de plume, had his real...

This period piece has its beginnings in the early 1960s, opens with a description of the motorbike/coffee bar culture then prevalent. From those motorbike days in that nameless town in southern England our narrator, the Chicken Farmer to be, takes his group of friends on through the next twenty plus years.Giving instances from the ordinary lives happening around him the Chicken Farmer discourses on, not only Love and its many betrayals, but on most other aspects of life. Told from ...

This journey of discovery begins upon a circular city in space – serviced by on Earth a couple of Clark towers (a third failed) – and goes on to incorporate the Jerusalem disc, a sailship called The Scandalous Sandal, and a cold war bunker in what was Sweden.First however the focus is on the sexual longings of a lackadaisical City student focussed obsessively on promiscuous Alvina, who only occasionally entertains him. His primary desire thwarted he comforts himself with his tutor's...

Meet Amelia Miles and Shackleton Jones: two best friends, one WILD adventure!Miles and Jones are having another totally normal day . . . surrounded by DINOSAURS?! Glam-Evil has sent the gang hurtling into the past, where swooping pteranodons, one VERY hungry T-Rex and a missing mum are only the beginning. And wait . . . is that an ASTEROID?! ☄️Time for Miles and Jones to find a way home before history catches up with them . . ....

The legendary sportswriter and the Hall of Fame, eleven-time NBA champion coach separate the music from the noise in the stories of the greatest who ever played and their impact on the gameSam Smith and Phil Jackson grew to know and respect each otherin the late 1980s, when Smith was a Chicago Tribune sportswriterand Jackson was an assistant coach for the Chicago Bulls. Fortyyears later, the two remain close friends. In 2021, Smith helped theNBA arrive at ...

(Easy Piano Personality). A dozen hits arranged from easy piano from the budding career of Sam Smith. Includes: Dancing with a Stranger * Diamonds * How Do You Sleep? * I'm Not the Only One * Latch * Lay Me Down * Like I Can * My Oasis * Pray * Stay with Me * Too Good at Goodbyes * Writing's on the Wall.