Sports and Recreation

Books

General Collection

Sport and character : reclaiming the principles of sportsmanship / Craig Clifford and Randolph M. Feezell.

Sports: the complete visual reference/Francois Fortin

The sports rulebook/Human Kinetics

The games do count: America’s best and brightest on the power of sports/Brian Kilmeade

The anatomy of sports injuries/Brad Walker

Coming back stronger: unleashing the hidden power of adversity/Drew Brees

Ebooks

Home team: coaching the Saints and New Orleans back to life/Sean Payton

Reference Books (in-library use only)

Great athletes/Salem Press

The language of sport/Tim Considine

Combat sports: an encyclopedia of wrestling, fighting, and mixed martial arts/ David Hudson

Periodicals

Sports Illustrated (Available in print and in MasterFILE Premier)

ESPN (Available in print)

Golf Digest (Available in print and in MasterFILE Premier)

Tiger Rag (Available in print)

Field & Stream (Available in print and in Master FILE Premier)

Online Databases

Biography Collection Complete - A comprehensive collection of more than 177,000 full-text biographies from many different sources, supporting history, science, the arts, music, literature, multicultural studies, gender studies, business, government & politics, sports, entertainment and many other areas.

Book Collection – Nonfiction - Contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 4,100 popular nonfiction books. The database includes full text entries on core subject areas, as well as information on careers, health, sports, adventure, technology, life skills and more.

MasterFILE Premier - Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as the Image Collection, with over 502,000 photos, maps & flags

SPORTDiscuss - Provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre, SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains well over 1.7 million records with journal and monograph coverage going back to 1800; over 22,000 dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages.

Websites

Yahoo! Sports

Sports Reference

ESPN: The Worldwide Leader in Sports

New Orleans Saints Central