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The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy מאת Bill Simmons There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to write the definitive book on the NBA.* Bill Simmons, the from-the-womb hoops addict known to millions as ESPN.com’s Sports Guy, is that writer. And The Book of Basketball is that book. Nowhere in...

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Fathers & Sons & Sports: Great Writing By Buzz Bissinger, John Ed Bradley, Bill Geist, Donald Hall, Mark Kriegel, Norman MaClean, and Others מאת Mike Lupica Ever since the first caveman picked up the first rock and tossed it to the first caveson, sports has forged a powerful link between generations of men. And ever since the advent of the sports page, those experiences have been lovingly chronicled by exceptional writers like poet laureate Donald Hall,...

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The Sure Thing: The Making and Unmaking of Golf Phenom Michelle Wie מאת Eric Adelson Michelle Wie couldn’t miss. No way. Big success? It was only a matter of time. At four she could drive a golf ball a hundred yards. At ten she was outdriving adult male golfers in her Honolulu hometown–from the back tees. At thirteen she won the Women’s Amateur Public Links, becoming the young...

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Ten Men You Meet in the Huddle: Lessons from a Football Life מאת Bill Curry No sport rivals football for building character. In the scorching heat of two-a-days and the fierce combat of the gridiron, true leaders are born. Just ask Bill Curry, whose credentials for exploring the relationship between football and leadership include two Super Bowl rings and the distinction of...

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Breaker Boys: The NFL's Greatest Team and the Stolen 1925 Championship מאת David Fleming In 1925, the Pottsville Maroons, a football team from the heart of Pennsylvania coal country, joined the fledgling National Football League. Built by an eccentric owner, molded by a visionary coach and loaded with hardscrabble miners, college All Americans and the ÔskyÕs the limitÕ ethos of the R...

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Rules of the Red Rubber Ball: Find and Sustain Your Life's Work מאת Kevin Carroll With simple but delightful storytelling, Kevin Carroll channels his childhood passion for sport and play into a universally appealing blueprint for life. Drawing wisdom from the playgrounds of his youth, where he spent hour upon hour sharpening his body and his mind, Carroll shares with readers his ...

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Fairway to Hell: Around the World in 18 Holes מאת Franz Lidz

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ESPN Sports Almanac 2008: America's Best-Selling Sports Almanac מאת Gerry Brown For over 10 years, the ESPN Sports Almanac has been the definitive source for answers to most every sports question. From record-holders to champions, auto racing to the Iditarod, ballparks, business news, and Who’s Who to the dearly departed athletes of the year past, the ESPN Sports Al...

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Resilience מאת Alonzo Mourning In 2000, Alonzo Mourning was on top of the world: He had a fat new NBA contract, an Olympic gold medal, and a second beautiful child–plus the fame and wealth he had earned playing the game he loved. But in September of that year he was diagnosed with a rare and fatal kidney disease. Over the next ...

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Ten Men You Meet in the Huddle: LESSONS FROM A FOOTBALL LIFE מאת Bill Curry No sport rivals football for building character. In the scorching heat of two-a-days and the fierce combat of the gridiron, true leaders are born. Just ask Bill Curry, whose credentials for exploring the relationship between football and leadership include two Super Bowl rings and the distinction of...

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Meat Market מאת Bruce Feldman "One of the most insightful books ever written about college football." - The New York Times"Easily among the best sports books of the new millennium."- Paul Finebaum, columnist and radio hostIn this unprecedented look at college football’s secret season, Bruce Feldman rips th...

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Man in the Middle מאת John Amaechi Man in the Middle chronicles John Amaechi’s extraordinary journey from awkward,overweight English lad to jet-setting NBA star. Along the way, he endured endless obstacles to his hoop dreams—being abandoned by his father, being cut from his first college team, recovering from a life-threat...

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Meat Market: Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting מאת Bruce Feldman In college football circles, the first Wednesday in February is New Year’s Day, the Fourth of July, and Christmas all rolled into one. It’s payoff time for a year spent screening miles of videotape and probing mountains of data, balancing the promise of a dazzling 40-yard-dash time against the p...

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It Never Rains in Tiger Stadium מאת John Ed Bradley "The best sports book of the year." - Sports Illustrated"John Ed Bradley says that all he ever wanted to do was to leave behind a pretty piece of writing. Here it is-a wonderful blend of honest introspection, passionate reporting, and superb storytelling. One of the best books I have r...

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Game On: How the Pressure to Win at All Costs Endangers Youth Sports and What Parents Can Do About It מאת Tom Farrey Played by more than thirty million boys and girls across the country, youth sports have turned from a casual activity for kids into a fanatical force–an intense, expensive, elitist rite of passage driven by the needs of impatient (if often well-meaning) adults. In Game On, award-winning ESP...

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A Team to Believe In: Our Journey to the Super Bowl Championship מאת Tom Coughlin After a tough 2006 season, the New York Giants appeared to be heading for more disappointment–and potential shake-ups–in the coming season. Instead, they fought their way to an unforgettable Super Bowl finish against the previously undefeated New England Patriots.In A Team to Believe In, ...