Sports category: 37872 books
by MG Keefe
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
This collection of sports quotes is meant to inspire and motivate the sports lovers in all of us. Start the day off with a smile by reading a sports quote a day every day of the year or just in one sitting.The quotes are from celebrities, comedians, athletes, coaches, politicians, and just...
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
For more than twenty-five years, The Best American Sports Writing has curated the year’s finest sports journalism. Continuing the tradition in a long line of notable guest editors is Rick Telander, acclaimed journalist, author, and champion of the written word*.* His choices are defined by one shared...
Sports Illustrated 50 Years of Great Writing
1954-2004 50th Anniversary
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
In the half-century since its birth, as SPORTS ILLUSTRATED grew from a struggling start-up to America's preeminent sports magazine, one thing has remained constant: the commitment to great storytelling. That part of the magazine's mission has always been easy to define: Identify the most compelling...
The Best St. Louis Sports Arguments
The 100 Most Controversial, Debatable Questions for Die-Hard Fans
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
100 great sports debates for each city-from who was the best coach to what was the best play of all time.
The perfect gift for sports fans-the series that's sweeping the nation, and is already a hit in Boston, Chicago and New York.
The best debates for rabid fans
The Best Sports...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
The field of sports history is no longer a fledgling area of study. There is a great vitality in the field and it has matured dramatically over the past decade. Reflecting changes to traditional approaches, sport historians need now to engage with contemporary debates about history, to be encouraged...
Sports Diplomacy
Origins, Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
This book offers an accessible overview of the role sport plays in international relations and diplomacy.
Sports diplomacy has previously been defined as an old but under-studied aspect of the estranged relations between peoples, nations and states. These days, it is better understood as the...
by Teddy Stanowski
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
In the wide world of sports, the top 10 sports moments in history can span across many events, places and times. While not everyone is going to agree on the same ten moments, they can agree on the greatness of each moment as they echo in every sports enthusiast’s heart. In fact, sports memories...
by Bruce Kidd
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 1996
Canadian sports were turned on their head during the years between the world wars. The middle-class amateur men's organizations which dominated Canadian sports since the mid-nineteenth century steadily lost ground, swamped by the rise of consumer culture and badly battered and split by the depression....
The Mad Dog 100
The Greatest Sports Arguments of All Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2003
THE ESSENTIAL BOOK FOR ANY SPORTS FAN, FROM ONE OF THE REIGNING KINGS OF SPORTS TALK RADIO, CHRISTOPHER “MAD DOG” RUSSO
Which was the greater achievement, Ted Williams’s .406 season or Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak?
Who’d be left standing in a battle between Joe Louis...
The Best Los Angeles Sports Arguments
The 100 Most Controversial, Debatable Questions for Die-Hard Fans
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
100 great sports debates for each city-from who was the best coach to what was the best play of all time.
The perfect gift for sports fans-the series that's sweeping the nation, and is already a hit in Boston, Chicago and New York.
The best debates for rabid fans
The Best Sports...
by John Mehno
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
100 great sports debates for each city-from who was the best coach to what was the best play of all time. The perfect gift for sports fans-the series that's sweeping the nation, and is already a hit in Boston, Chicago and New York. The best debates for rabid fans The Best Sports Arguments gives each...
NASCAR
An Interactive Guide to the World of Sports
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
The second title in the new, exciting, and completely original Sports by the NumbersTM series!
THE SPORT: The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is the second-most popular professional sport in terms of television ratings in the United States behind the National Football League....
by Tucker Elliot
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2012
The team that won the first World Series in baseball's modern era is now officially a part of the Sports by the Numbers franchise!
THE TEAM: The Boston Red Sox dominated the early 20th century, winning five World Series titles before the Evil Empire tasted postseason success for the first time....
by Isabel Denny
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2008
Want to know what really happened? Stan Isaacs knows. He was there! "The Shot Heard Round the World," in 1951. "The Fight of the Century," in 1971. The horror of the 1972 Munich Olympics. Secretariat's legendary win at the 1973 Belmont Stakes. Stan Isaacs saw them all live. Isaacs covered thousands...