As the University of Texas Longhorns begin their 117th football season, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED pays tribute to this Lone Star treasure with a book that draws on 55 years of award-winning magazine coverage. SI tells the Longhorns' story with excerpts from classic articles and with vintage photographs, as well as rare images from the team's earliest years. Inside you'll find our selections of 20 great moments in Longhorns history (including the opening of Memorial Stadium) and10 of the program's most historic victories, as well as profiles of five giants of University of Texas football. In addition, you'll get an all-access pass that takes you behind the scenes of coach Mack Brown's current program. Legendary sportswriter Dan Jenkins introduces the book, which includes contributions from SI's Walter Bingham, Tim Layden, Austin Murphy, Bruce Newman, Pat Putnam, Roy Terrell, John Underwood and Jenkins himself. James Street, the former quarterback, provides the valedictory. This hardbound edition also includes a bonus 16-page section with some of the most vivid Longhorns images that have appeared in SI. This is Texas football....

America's favorite sports almanac, now in its 19th year, is as fact-filled and fun as ever. Packed with stats, standings, and historical data from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's award-winning staff, this is the essential reference book for every fan.

• Includes the 2009 baseball playoffs and World Series.
• 88-page pro football section incudes year-by-year NFL standings back to 1920 as well as game recaps for Super Bowls I to XLIII.
• Year-in-review calendar revisits the highlights and low points of 2009.
• Annual results from many professional and amateur sports, including Little League baseball, lacrosse, volleyball, and many more.
• Year-by-year and 2009 results from NASCAR, IRL, and Formula One.

AND MUCH MORE...

Sports Illustrated's first venture into the world of puzzle books features old faves such as crosswords and picture puzzles, and also a new kind of puzzle called a cross stat that is tailor-made for sports trivia fanatics. Just turn the page and . . . let the games begin!...

The NFL has never been hotter--witness the $21.4 billion it will rake in on the TV-rights deals now in place (not to mention its own network), the proliferation of football news and information and the game's booming popularity among sports fans, including the 23 millioin who read SPORTS ILLUSTRATED every week. These 320 pages capture, in breathtaking words and pictures, the essence of America's game: the players and performances, the crucial moments and classic matchups, the enduring dynastics and unique characters that have made pro football the new national pastime....

THE AMAZING WORLD OF SPORTS is the most amazing, most awesome, most jaw-dropping collection of sports photos you’ve ever seen! From diving catches to high-flying leaps, from bone-crunching hits to graceful landings, all the most incredible sports photos we could find are in here.

THE AMAZING WORLD OF SPORTS is for fans of any sport—and for fans of all sports. Whether you head right to your favorite sport or whether you discover a great new sport to love, you’ll find something to marvel at in THE AMAZING WORLD OF SPORTS....

In a history spanning more than 500 years, a Scottish seaside pastime has become the passionate pursuit of 60 million players and 10 times as many fans worldwide. Along the way, golf has provided heroes, heroines and moments that live forever in the hearts of those who follow the sport. In its 296 stirring pages, THE GOLF BOOK offers a spectacular tribute to an old game that never runs short of surprises--a celebration of the grand, still-unfolding story of golf....

In its annual Swimsuit Issue 10 years ago, "Sports Illustrated" first presented spectacular photographs of gorgeous models in swimsuits that consisted of nothing more than paint artistically and painstakingly applied to their bodies. These eye-popping optical illusions, created by make-up artist Joanne Gare and captured by the magazine's world-class photographers, have become a favourite feature of this wildly popular magazine. Now the editors bring together not just a complete collection of astonishing painted-swimsuit photographs, but also a series of vastly entertaining essays, stories, and column, some commissioned especially for this book - that trace the history of body painting and take readers behind the scenes as the Swimsuit shoots that are the craft's most modern and provocative application....

Continuing Sports Illustrated's tradition of producing best-selling coffee-table books for the holiday season, SI presents The Basketball Book, a lavish celebration of the athleticism and pageantry of both the college and professional game. With the same kind of unforgettable photographs and award-winning writing that propelled The Baseball Book, The Football Book and The Anniversary Book to The New York Times best-seller list over the past three years, this volume brings to life the legendary players, the classic action and the great rivalries of the court. In 294 oversized pages, The Basketball Book commemorates the epic teams and characters, the personalities and performances and artifacts that have created legions of passionate fans since Dr. James Naismith nailed up a peach basket and devised the Original 13 Rules of the game more than 100 years ago....