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Climbing Essays

by Jim Perrin & Robert Macfarlane

Long recognised as one of Britain’s finest mountain writers, this collection brings together the best of Jim Perrin’s essays and articles on climbing. Perrin has selected these from four decades of describing...

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tales of Golf and Sport: The Joy, Frustration, and Humor of Golf and Sport

by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tales of Golf and Sport contains Chicken Soup for the Soul’s 101 best stories and poems about golfers, golfing, and other sports. This book has fresh appeal to golfers and makes...

Chicken Soup for the Soul: NASCAR: 101 Stories of Family, Fortitude, and Fast Cars

by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Cathy Elliott

Fans will be inspired, surprised, and amused by these inside stories from the race track and pit. Drivers, their families, pit crews, and fans share their behind-the-scene stories to give readers a front row...

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball: 101 Great Hoop Stories from Players, Coaches, and Fans

by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Pat Williams

Fans will be inspired, surprised, and even amused, by inside stories from well-known coaches and players, fascinating looks behind the scenes, and anecdotes from the people who make it all possible – the fans. ...

Are We There Yet?: Tales from the Never-Ending Travels of WWE Superst

by Robert Caprio

True, or mostly true, stories of the road from: John Cena, Mark Henry, Teddy Long, Shannon Moore, Matt Hardy, The Hurricane, Dr. Tom Prichard, Molly Holly, Dave Hebner, Rico, Brooklyn Brawler, Kane, Jim "J.R."...

WWE Legends

by Brian Solomon

They were World Heavyweight Champions: Bob Backlund, Superstar Billy Graham, and Bruno Sammartino. They were fan favorites: "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka, Chief Jay Strongbow, and Andre the Giant. They were the villains...

Body Politic: The Great American Sports Machine

by David Shields

In Body Politic, David Shields looks at contemporary America and its mythology through the lens of professional and college sports. The result is an unusually insightful and provocative book about an empire...

One Great Game: Two Teams, Two Dreams, in the First Ever National Championship High School Football Game

by Don Wallace

For more than a century, no Number 1 and Number 2 high schoolfootball team had ever met -- until October 6, 2001

One Great Game

This is the story of two teams -- Concord De La Salle, a private Catholic school...

Beck: The Art of Mutation

by Nevin Martell

In 1993, a quirky California boy named Beck burst onto the scene with the irony warped anthem "Loser." He has since earned a reputation as one of the most innovative, stylish, and vital recording artists of...

No Finish Line

by Marla Runyan & Sally Jenkins

Millions watched in awe as Marla Runyan ran the 1500 meter event in Sydney. But few know the real story of the woman who was diagnosed with Stargardt's disease at nine years old-and became compelled to achieve...

The Smart Girl's Guide to Sports: An Essential Handbook for Women Who Don't Know a Slam Dunk from a Grand Slam

by Hartman Musiker, Liz

A fun and accessible introduction to the wide world of sportsFor every woman who feels out of her league when her signifi cant other spends nights glued to ESPN or when “the guys” talk sports at work, The...

A Few Seconds of Panic: A Sportswriter Plays in the NFL

by Stefan Fatsis

"An insightful and . . . amusing look at the inner workings of pro football" (The New York Times) from the bestselling author of Word Freak

In Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis invaded the insular world of competitive...

The Sweet Season

by Austin Murphy

After fifteen years as a Sports Illustrated writer, pleading for interviews with large men in possession of larger egos, Austin Murphy decides to bail out. The time has come, he concludes, to fly beneath the...

It's Only Slow Food Until You Try to Eat It: Misadventures of a Suburban Hunter-Gatherer

by Bill Heavey

A longtime contributor to Field and Stream, Bill Heavey knew more than a little about hunting and fishing when he embarked on an ambitious project a few years ago to see how far he could get “eating wild.”...

More Than A Game: Selected Sporting Essays

by Con Houlihan

Con Houlihan was, quite simply, one of Ireland’s finest sports writers. Over a lengthy career, Con covered many of the greatest Irish and international sporting events, from classic Gaelic football and hurling...

Smashing Barriers: Race and Sport in the New Millenium

by Richard Lapchick

An eye-opening racial and gender report card on the state of sport and society at the start of the twenty-first century.

Dangerous Games: Ice Climbing, Storm Kayaking, and Other Adventures from the Extreme Edge of Spor ts

by Andrew Todhunter

In this elegant and exciting collection Andrew Todhunter, himself an extreme sportsman and the author of the critically acclaimed Fall of the Phantom Lord, takes readers along as men and women push themselves...

Sports from Hell

by Rick Reilly

The most popular sports columnist in America puts his life (and dignity) on the line in search of the most absurd sporting event on the planet.

What is the stupidest sport in the world? Not content to pontificate...

Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame

by Franklin Foer & Marc Tracy

2012 National Jewish Book Award Winner

JEWISH JOCKS: AN UNORTHODOX HALL OF FAME is a timeless collection of biographical musings, sociological riffs about assimilation, first-person reflections, and, above all,...

The Best American Sports Writing 2012

by Glenn Stout & Michael Wilbon

The Best American Sports Writing brings together the finest writing on sports to appear in the past year. Culled from over 350 publications, this collection captures the world of sports in all its drama,...