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In the early 1990s, Tommy Morrison, a young roughneck from Jay, Oklahoma, burst onto the boxing scene to become one of the most controversial fighters of his era. Handsome, eloquent, and dynamic, Morrison parlayed destructive knockout power and a homespun personality into celebrity status throughout middle America, where boxing rarely prospered. But it was his starring role in Rocky V alongside Sylvester Stallone that propelled him to stardom—and ultimately led to his tragic downfall.

In Tales from the Duke Blue Devils Locker Room, readers will laugh, dream, and sweat alongside the players of one of the most successful and storied college basketball teams to ever take to the hardwood. In this treasure trove of Duke history, Jim Sumner brings to life the legendary games and unique players that have come to define this championship team.

Bullied as a child, the guvnor, prisoner, Roy Shaw belt holder, barred out of the city of Newcastle for six years, doorman, bareknuckle fighter... Gary Firby has led just a bit of a colorful life. Now for the first time, with Jamie Boyle (author/filmmaker), he'll be penning his life story.

In 2008, 20-year-old Jonny Benjamin stood on Waterloo Bridge, about to jump. A stranger saw his distress and stopped to talk with him - a decision that saved Jonny's life. Fast-forward to 2014 and Jonny, together with Rethink Mental Illness, launched a campaign with a short video clip so that Jonny could finally thank that stranger who put him on the path to recovery. More than 319 million people around the world followed the search. ITV's breakfast shows picked up the story until the stranger was found, and the pair reunited and have remained firm friends ever since.

Waterman is the first comprehensive biography of Duke Kahanamoku (1890-1968): swimmer, surfer, Olympic gold medalist, Hawaiian icon, waterman.

Even today, it’s considered one of the most thrilling races in Olympic history. The hundred-meter sprint final at the 1924 Paris Games, featuring three of the world’s fastest swimmers—American legends Duke Kahanamoku and Johnny Weissmuller, and Japanese upstart Katsuo Takaishi—had the cultural impact of other milestone moments in Olympic history: Jesse Owens’s podiums in Berlin and John Carlos’s raised, black-gloved fist in Mexico City. Never before had an Olympic swimming final prominently featured athletes of different races, and never had it been broadcast live.

In Five Banners, Feinstein tells the inside history of Coach K’s forty-two-year career at Duke and its five NCAA championships, from the first, against Kansas in 1991, to the most recent, in 2015 against Wisconsin. With unparalleled access to Coach K, the team, and its staff, Feinstein takes listeners on a mesmerizing ride into the locker room and onto the court. Full of intimate details, personal memories, and previously untold on- and off-court stories, it is a book that only Feinstein could write.

Each episode, The Uk's only three weight world champ along with Elvis (Gavin Skelhorn) will discuss all things boxing, past and present.Join us for a former world champion's views on everything to do with the noble art.

Previews and Postgames for each Duke Basketball game and more!

National Coaches Training Director Jeff Duke shares his own journey through the three dimensions of coaching and how it has impacted his life and those around him. He also shares the personal stories of coaches from all levels who have implemented the 3D concept into their own programs and who have pointed to Jesus Christ, the master coach, as the ultimate example of how to lead athletes to true significance.

Talkin' all things Dukes. This is the JMU power hour for the RVA area! Wednesdays from 6-7pm or anytime wherever you find podcasts

Host Ben McCormick created Duke Wisdom in 2013, and it has grown as a blog and social media presence dedicated to Duke men’s and women’s basketball. The podcast will expand on some of the big topics going on with Duke basketball.

Duke Loves Rasslin is a weekly podcast where Hall of Famers, stars of today, and stars of tomorrow open up and set the record straight about their career, successes, failures, and the real person behind the persona. You'll hear some of the most talked-about exclusive interviews directly from the source.Hosted by Duke Loves Rasslin, a lifelong wrestling fan with a passion for the industry, the podcast covers all things wrestling, from the latest news and rumors to in-depth analysis of matches and storylines. Duke also interviews some of the biggest names in wrestling, past and present, to get ...

Phillip Dukes will host a podcast focused on highlighting top high school football recruits, intel surrounding their recruitments, as well as tracking the ever-busy NCAA transfer portal.

Discussing the landscape of sports with Andre Duke & Carter Smith. College Football, NFL, Notre Dame, Ohio State, etc. Come listen to the guys as they discuss everything going on! Real talk, no filter as they explore everything going on in the sports world with an emphasis on Notre Dame Football. #collegefootball #nfl #notredame #notredamefootball #ohiostate #ohiostatefootball

The 1st Duke of Newcastle (1593-1676) war in vielerlei Hinsicht eine außergewöhnliche Persönlichkeit. Unzählige Reitausbilder nach ihm profitierten erheblich von seinen Werken über die Ausbildung von Pferden. Wer sich in der eigenen Reiterei auf die klassische Lehre der Alten Reitmeister beruft, kommt an Newcastle nicht vorbei.

Sihugo Green, Dick Ricketts, Dave Ricketts, Mickey Winograd, Lou Severine, Jim Fallon, Lou Iezzi, Paul Lojpersberger, Ralph Leng, John Nosworthy, Tom Peszko, Bob Schneider, Dudey Moore and Red Manning. They are all connected, in perpetuity, as a special group of men who not only captured the lone major national title in Duquesne University history, but to date the only Division I college basketball national championship the city of Pittsburgh has ever produced in a tournament. No other team has ever had the honor of raising a national championship trophy.

For fans of the Gothic Wonderland, the Duke Basketball Roundup is your best source for analysis of the Duke Blue Devils anywhere on the internet since 2014!

We have everything you need to follow the premier program in college basketball - daily updates from Coach Scheyer, postgame press conferences, game recaps and weekly visits with the head coach throughout the season.

The basketball rivalry between Duke and North Carolina is the fiercest and longest-running blood feud in college athletics, and perhaps in all of sports. To legions of otherwise reasonable adults, it is a conflict that surpasses athletics; it is rich against poor, locals against outsiders, even good against evil. In North Carolina, where both schools reside, it is a way of aligning oneself with larger philosophic ideals—of choosing teams in life—a tradition of partisanship that reveals the pleasures and even the necessities of hatred.