Sport Genius
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How to Watch Soccer Like a Genius
- What Architects, Stuntwomen, Paleoanthropologists, and Computer Scientists Reveal About the World's Game
- By: Nick Greene
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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In How to Watch Soccer Like a Genius, Nick Greene calls on a turf manager, an expert on color theory, and a landscape historian to understand the field itself, a paleoanthropologist to talk kicking, and an Anglican priest to explain schisms—how American football, soccer, and rugby could all develop from the field games of rowdy nineteenth-century British schoolboys.
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How to Watch Soccer Like a Genius
- What Architects, Stuntwomen, Paleoanthropologists, and Computer Scientists Reveal About the World's Game
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 12-05-26
- Language: English
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A brilliant and entertaining deconstruction of the most popular sport in the world, just in time for the 2026 World Cup in North America, from the bestselling author of How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius.
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Hoop Genius
- How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball
- By: John Coy
- Narrated by: Book Buddy Digital Media
- Length: 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Taking over a rowdy gym class right before winter vacation is not something James Naismith wants to do at all. The last two teachers of this class quit in frustration. The students—a bunch of energetic young men—are bored with all the regular games and activities. Naismith needs something new, exciting, and fast to keep the class happy—or someone's going to get hurt. Saving this class is going to take a genius. Discover the true story of how Naismith invented basketball in 1891 at a school in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Hoop Genius
- How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball
- Narrated by: Book Buddy Digital Media
- Length: 6 mins
- Release date: 01-08-22
- Language: English
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Taking over a rowdy gym class right before winter vacation is not something James Naismith wants to do at all. The last two teachers of this class quit in frustration. The students—a bunch of energetic young men—are bored with all the regular games and activities....
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