Need some last minute holiday shopping ideas for your favorite basketball nut? Here ya go!

Heart of the Game - DVD

The Heart of the Game captures the passion and energy of a Seattle high school girls' basketball team, the eccentricity of their unorthodox coach, and the incredible true story of one player's fight to play the game she loves.
Director Ward Serrill followed the Roosevelt Roughriders girls' basketball team for six tumultuous seasons capturing the drama and exhilaration of youth and the inspiration of a passionate coach whose lessons of self-esteem, confidence and compassion go far beyond the court . . .

Running Down A Dream - DVD

What is it like to be the best? What does it take to get to the top? Now you can witness the process as it takes place. This documentary film offers the first in-depth look at the college recruiting process of the nation’s best point guard in women’s basketball.

But this is much more than a “dedicated athlete’s story.” Nicole Kaczmarski is a beautiful and fun-loving teenager with a dedicated father and a passion for the game. Her talent on the court was apparent at an early age and when she was invited to play on the high school varsity team as a twelve year old! This created a bitter division between her divorced parents as her mother did not want her to play. The adventures that follow are enlightening to any family involved with a talented youngster.

She was named to every All-American team in the country. The bond between father and daughter grew stronger. But Kaz missed her mom and the two made amends. She moved back into her mother’s house at age 16.

Finally, Kaz’s senior year of high school arrives. It is time to choose a college. The best universities in the country want her. Kaz and her father are divided on the criteria of how to select a college and a widening rift develops in their relationship. How will this conflict be resolved?

This high pressure odyssey has a bittersweet ending as Kaz decides to follow her own dreams.

Training Rules - DVD

From Academy-Award nominated director Dee Mosbacher and Academy-Award winning cinematographer Fawn Yacker comes one of the biggest award-winners on the 2009 LGBT film festival circuit: TRAINING RULES.

Women's basketball coach Rene Portland had three training rules during her 26 years at Pennsylvania State University: no drinking, no drugs and no lesbians.

TRAINING RULES examines how a wealthy athletic department, enabled by the silence of a complacent university, allowed talented athletes who were thought to be gay, to be dismissed from their college team. The film follows the lawsuit filed in 2006 against Portland and Penn State by student athlete Jennifer Harris. This high profile case ignited the world of women’s collegiate sports. It inspired the discussions so sorely needed to end discrimination based on sexual orientation that pervades all organized sport.

Powerfully narrated by international swimming great Diana Nyad (National Public Radio), TRAINING RULES is a riveting must-see film.

Sweet Turnaround J - Book

“It was going to be the best year of my life. This year we’d go to State and win it all. That’s all I thought about. In March, I was going to be cutting down the net and holding a trophy in the air.”

Sixteen-year-old All-State, Janey Holmes is devastated, her dream shattered. Her old school suddenly closes over the summer and she finds herself at a new school, on a basketball team that hasn’t won a game in over three years.

As the Riverside Ravens climb from a hopeless start to challenge the best teams in the District, Janey learns what happens when her passion for the game and loyalty to her team is threatened by her explosive temper and the free-fall desires of first love.

Full Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School (1904) Basketball Champions of the World - Book

How ten girls shattered prevailing perceptions toward Indian peoples and women athletes, one game at a time.

Most fans of women’s basketball would be startled to learn that girls’ teams were making their mark more than a century ago—and that none was more prominent thana team from an isolated Indian boarding school in Montana. Playing like “lambent flames” across the polished floors of dance halls, armories, and gymnasiums, the girls from Fort Shaw stormed the state to emerge as Montana’s first basketball champions.Taking their game to the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, these young women introduced an international audience to the fledgling game and returned home with a trophy declaring them champions.

Just for Fun: The Story of AAU Women's Basketball - Book

This is the first book on the little known story about the early beginnings of women's organized basketball in the U.S. Prior to Title IX, women's basketball was a minor sport. It was played by rural country girls for companies such as Cook's Goldblume Beer and Sunoco and small colleges such as Iowa Wesleyan and Wayland Baptist as part of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). But during the two generations of the mid-twentieth century, women's basketball improved and became more popular throughout the country. AAU All-Star teams dominated women's international basketball until the emergence of subsidized national teams in the 1960s. This is the history of these gifted women, their coaches, and their teams-their records, motivations, and personal stories. The book is illustrated with many period photographs.

Shattering the Glass: The Dazzling History of Women's Basketball from the Turn of the Century to the Present - Book

Over the past decade, women's basketball has exploded onto the national sports scene. WNBA and NCAA television ratings have sky-rocketed; movies, magazines, and clothing lines showcase female players. But as the authors of Shattering the Glass show, women's basketball has a much longer history, reaching back over a century of struggle, liberation, and gutsy play.

Shattering the Glass offers a sweeping chronicle of women's basketball in the United States, from its invention in the late nineteenth century to its dominant position in sports today. Offering vivid portraits of forgotten heroes and contemporary stars, it also provides a broader perspective on the history of the sport, exploring its relationship to changing ideas of womanhood, efforts to expand women's economic and political rights, and definitions of sexual equality.

Based on original interviews with players, coaches, administrators, broadcasters, and extensively illustrated, Shattering the Glass provides a moving, gritty view of the game on and off the court, and an empowering story of the generations of women who have shaped women's basketball.