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7) Coming home
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the nine-time women's basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist--a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women's basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested...
Author
Series
S. hrg volume 116-526
Publisher
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Indentured tells the dramatic story of a loose-knit group of rebels who decided to fight the hypocrisy of the NCAA, which blathers endlessly about the purity of its "student-athletes" while exploiting many of them: The ones who get injured and drop out because their scholarships have been revoked. The ones who will neither graduate nor go pro. The ones who live in terror of accidentally violating some obscure rule in the four-hundred-page NCAA rulebook,"--Amazon.com....
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From a former college basketball player and executive at Nike and Adidas, this explosive insider's account of the business of college basketball exposes the corrupt and racist systems that exploit young athletes and offers a new way forward"--Publisher.