Bench Bosses celebrates the greatest NHL Coaches in the history of the game. Bench Bosses is filled with compelling biographical narrative, innovative analysis, historical allusion, hockey folklore, humour, heartbreak, and tragedy. By introducing a creative new method for evaluating coaching success, professional historian and hockey columnist Matthew DiBiase settles many a debate. His hard-hitting prose and cogent analysis covers key aspects of coaching and definitively identifies the greatest offensive and defensive coaches, expounds on the best penalty-killing or power-play coaches and delves into statistics to determine the nastiest squads on the ice. His unique assessment method determines his selection of the top fifty head coaches of all time. DiBiase's in-depth hockey research delivers a powerful, gripping and informative look at the game's best of the best. This seminal book tells the story behind the story of coaching success. It removes subjectivity and bias and provides a comprehensive overview of each coach's major career achievements and the contributions each has made to the game. In the writing of this book, the author personally interviewed many of the game's best known coaches and their players to get the most accurate and complete perspective of the sport and its coaching elite. Readers will enjoy hearing from such names as Scotty Bowman, Al Arbour, Jean Beliveau, Dick Irving Jr., and more.

Bench Bosses: The NHL's Coaching Elite

DiBiase, Matthew

Biographies & Memoirs

FENN-M&S

"Absolutely outstanding...a great book"--Lou Holtz"A marvelous collection and compilation of the great minds of college football. Bravo!"--Tony Castro, author of "Mantle: the Best There Ever Was""Outstanding job"--Dr. Ted Koy, halfback, Texas Longhorns, 1969 National ChampionsSports Historian Matthew DiBiase expands the boundaries of college football history with Lords of the Gridiron: College Football's Greatest Coaches. This groundbreaking book boldly goes where no other college football book has ever gone before: revealing and ranking the 50 greatest college football coaches of all time using an analytical rating system.This book profiles past college football coaching immortals Bear Bryant, Bud Wilkinson, Joe Paterno, Knute Rockne, and Darrell Royal alongside present day coaching greats Nick Saban, Urban Meyer, and Dabo Swinney.Celebrating 150 years of college football Lords of the Gridiron: College Football's Greatest Coaches contains memories and insights from college coaching legends Urban Meyer, Tom Osborne, Bobby Bowden, Lou Holtz, Mack Brown, Bob Stoops, Steve Spurrier, Phillip Fulmer, Vince Dooley, and Jim Tressel who discuss their influences, their offensive and defensive tactics, their motivational approaches to coaching and the highlights of their glorious coaching careers.Lords of the Gridiron: College Football's Greatest Coaches also reveals the tactical innovations created by the coaches featured in this book. The great games in college football history are discussed in detail: the 1957 Oklahoma vs. Notre Dame Game; Nebraska vs. Miami in the 1984 Orange Bowl; and Texas vs. USC in the 2006 Rose Bowl for example. The great players are featured here as well like Jim Thorpe, George Gipp, Herschel Walker, and Peyton Manning for instance.Lords of the Gridiron: College Football's Greatest Coaches is a must read for all college football fans throughout America because all the great college football programs are celebrated in this book: Alabama, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, USC, Penn State, Nebraska, Texas, Michigan, Florida State, and Ohio State to name a few.This book resolves (or renews) the argument about who were the greatest college football coaches of all time.

Lords of the Gridiron: College Football's Greatest Coaches

Sports & Outdoors

Football (American)

Independently published

The Art of the Dealers: the NHL's Greatest General Managers is another ground-breaking effort by Matthew DiBiase. Like his first effort Bench Bosses: the NHL's Coaching Elite (the first hockey book to rate and rank the greatest NHL coaches of all time using a metrical system) The Art of the Dealers is not only the first hockey book to rate and rank the greatest general managers in NHL history; it is also the first book of sports history to rate and rank the greatest general managers of any of the four major North American sports (baseball, football, basketball, and hockey). The Art of the Dealers is based on 17 hours of interviews with NHL players and general managers (active and retired) like Lou Lamoriello, Cliff Fletcher, Ray Shero, Doug Wilson, Jim Rutherford, and David Poile who shared their insights and philosophies about what it takes to manage, build, and maintain great hockey teams. The Art of the Dealers also examines great managerial legends like Sam Pollock, Jack Adams, Conn Smythe, Harry Sinden, and Glen Sather; their great (and not so great) trades, draft picks, and free agent signings; how they discovered and hired (or fired) many of hockey's greatest coaches; their managerial methods and organizational philosophies; and their innovations that helped develop and maintain the NHL's greatest dynasties during the first century of NHL hockey.

The Art of the Dealers:: The NHL's Greatest General Managers

Hockey

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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