Sports category: 37872 books
The Athletic Trap
How College Sports Corrupted the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
The unrivaled amount of cash poured into the college athletic system has made sports programs breeding grounds for corruption while diverting crucial resources from the academic mission of universities. Like money in Washington politics, the influence bought by a complex set of self-interested actors...
You Can't Make This Up
Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
In this highly entertaining and insightful memoir, one of television’s most respected broadcasters interweaves the story of his life and career with lively firsthand tales of some of the most thrilling events and fascinating figures in modern sports.
No sportscaster has covered more major...
Green Bay Packers
Trials, Triumphs, and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
On the field, legends like Don Hutson, Ray Nitschke, and Brett Favre made the Green Bay Packers into a professional football powerhouse. But the history of the NFL’s only small-town franchise is as much a story of business creativity as gridiron supremacy. Behind every Packer who became a legend...
Before Wrigley Became Wrigley
The Inside Story of the First Years of the Cubs? Home Field
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Chicago’s Wrigley Field opened in 1914 as Weeghman Park, the new North Side stadium erected for use by the Federal League’s Chicago team, which would eventually be called the Whales. It was built in just 50 days, with an rectangular shape in the style of New York’s Polo Grounds, designed to...
Turning the Black Sox White
The Misunderstood Legacy of Charles A. Comiskey
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Charles Albert The Old Roman” Comiskey was a larger-than-life figure-a man who had precision in his speech and who could work a room with handshakes and smiles. While he has been vilified in film as a rotund cheapskate and the driving force, albeit unknowingly, behind the actions of the 1919 White...
Philadelphia Eagles
Where Have You Gone?
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Philadelphia Eagles: Where Have You Gone? takes an informative stroll down memory lane with the Philadelphia Eagles of yesteryear, helping fans who are wondering where the time has gone. Local icons such as Chuck Bednarik, Tom Brookshier, and Ron Jaworski have remained in the spotlight years after...
by MIKE - aka Mike Raffone
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
As the sports world’s ultimate talking head, MIKE shares 25 of some of his all-time favorite football comics.
MIKE’s clever comics capture the moments, people, nicknames and clichéd expressions that comprise America’s most popular sport.
A little football history accompanies...
Illegal Procedure
A Sports Agent Comes Clean on the Dirty Business of College Football
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
For fifteen years, sports agent Josh Luchs made illegal deals with numerous college athletes, from top-tier, nationally recognized phenoms to late-round draft picks. Flagrantly flaunting NCAA and NFL Players Association rules, he made no-interest loans to players in exchange for the promise of representation...
This Book Has Balls
Sports Rants from the MVP of Talking Trash
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The sports world according to Michael Rapaport—actor, Top 50 podcaster, award-winning film maker, and sports fanatic—from the greatest and downright worst athletes, players, teams, and jerseys, but minus statistics, analytics, or anything else that isn’t pure hustle in this “hell of a book”...
Over Time
My Life as a Sportswriter
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
A New York Times bestseller: The “entertaining” memoir by the legendary American sportswriter (Chicago Tribune).
Frank Deford joined Sports Illustrated in 1962, and over the following decades became one of the most beloved figures in sports journalism—renowned for everything from his...
Tales from the Green Bay Packers Sideline
A Collection of the Greatest Packers Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Since their dominance of professional football in the 1960s, the Green Bay Packers have reemerged as one of the elite teams in the NFL, with Super Bowl championships in 1996 and 2010. The victory and legend of Green Bay Packers continues in Chuck Carlson’s Tales from the Green Bay Packers Sideline...
by James Loftus
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Sports sports sports. This is what you get in this book. All major sports covered in this book. Card and Dice games. Fun for the entire family. All of the games have realistic scoring. Unique family fun, Great for road trips, family night in, small birthday parties. Create your own championship games,...
Wrestling's New Golden Age
How Independent Promotions Have Revolutionized One of America?s Favorite Sports
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Ever since the Monday Night Wars,” where WWE and WCW battled for wrestling supremacy (with the WWE coming out on top), there was now only one game in town. If fans wanted to watch wrestling, it was WWE or bust. That is no longer the case.
Wrestling’s New Golden Age is both a historical...
Wicked Good Year
How the Red Sox, Patriots, and Celtics turned the Hub of the Universe into the Capital of Sports
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
From award-winning Boston Herald sports columnist Steve Buckley comes Wicked Good Year, an insightful, celebratory look at Boston’s mega-successful 2007-2008 sports season, during which the Red Sox swept the World Series, the Patriots went undefeated during the regular season, and the Celtics won...