Temple football : 6 results priced between £2.00 and £50.00

With realistic details, thrilling plots and cool characters, these high-interest sports stories slam readers into the middle of the game. Readers will discover that an athlete's inner strength, persistence and courage are just as important as a steady hand or a chance for a goal.

A history of all the different codes of football: Association, Rugby Union, Rugby League, Gaelic, Australian Rules, and American "Gridiron".

Product Description A phone message from ex-client Danny McKillop doesn't ring any bells for Jack Irish. Life is hard enough without having to dredge up old problems: His beloved football team continues to lose, the odds on his latest plunge at the track seem far too long, and he's still cooking for one. When Danny turns up dead, Jack is forced to take a walk back into the dark and dangerous past.With suspenseful prose and black humor, Peter Temple builds an unforgettable character in Jack Irish...

I went to George Armit's funeral. It was a small affair. Almost everyone George had known was dead. Many of them were dead because George had had them killed...' Jack Irish however, has no shortage of friends. Jockeys and journos, lawyers and standover men, people in nameless occupations who aren't in the phone book. These days, though, the only family he sees are Irish men in faded football team photographs on the pub wall. So when Des Connors, the last link to his father, calls to ask for help...

First edition, reprint. Small 8vo. 206pp. Frontispiece, 8 plates. Dust-wrapper, rubbed, torn and creased.

College sports have provided a compelling means to discuss issues regarding racial equality and fairness in American life. As previously white institutions of higher learning gradually (and grudgingly) opened their playing fields to African-American athletes in men's basketball and football, black and white spectators interpreted mixed-race team sports in often contradictory ways. In Men's College Athletics and the Politics of Racial Equality, Gregory Kaliss offers stunning insights into Americans...