Football category: 4223 books
Saturday Rules
Why College Football Outpasses, Outclasses, and Flat-Out Surpasses the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Austin Murphy knows a thing or two about football. His twenty-three years at Sports Illustrated include six covering the NFL and a decade chronicling the college game. In Saturday Rules, Murphy leaves no doubt as to which beat he preferred. Does the NFL have better athletes? Yes. Does it entail more...
by Matt Zeigler
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Matt Zeigler's College Football Schemes and Techniques explores offensive, defensive and special teams methods utilized on the collegiate level. Coaches, players and fans can learn the schemes and techniques of some of the best programs in college football. Coaches with experience in every major...
by Chris Dortch
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2011
Blue Ribbon College Football Yearbook is considered the "bible" of college football, an annual preview that includes 3,000- to 4,500-word previews on all 120 Football Bowl Subdivision teams. Blue Ribbon is read by avid fans, ABC, CBS and ESPN broadcasters, radio play-by-play announcers, FBS coaches and NFL scouts. See why the ESPN GameDay crew has to have Blue Ribbon.
In Search of Alan Gilzean
The Lost Legacy of a Dundee and Spurs Legend
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
NOMINATED FOR BEST FOOTBALL BOOK OF 2010 IN THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS Updated second edition True greatness does not feel the need to proclaim itself from the rooftops. It is happy to state its case quietly, yet with utter conviction. Alan Gilzean was a truly great footballer. Every observer of...
by Steve Spurrier, Buddy Martin
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In this New York Times Bestseller, College football's most colorful, endearing, and successful pioneer, Steve Spurrier, shares his story of a life in football -- from growing up in Tennessee to winning the Heisman Trophy to playing and coaching in the pros to leading the Florida Gators to six SEC...
Football Manager Stole My Life
20 Years of Beautiful Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
A celebration of the cult behind the Football Manager (FM) series of computer games, which have been taking over the lives of football fans for 20 years. Meet the greatest players you never saw. Discover how one game can cause 35 divorces, one honeymoon and a police raid. Go the next level with our guide to Extreme FM
Overtime
Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines at the Crossroads of College Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
For the past year, John U. Bacon has received unprecedented access to Jim Harbaugh’s University of Michigan football team: coaches, players, and staffers, in closed-door meetings, locker rooms, meals, and classes. Overtime captures this storied program at the crossroads, as the sport’s winningest...
by Michael Lutwyche, Steven Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
Since the early 1990s Aston Villa Hardcore has been arguably the most prolific football hooligan gangs in the UK. Described by the police and press as one of the worst two hooligan firms on the England international scene. There are currently 80 Villa Hardcore members subject to football banning orders...
The Opening Kickoff
The Tumultuous Birth of a Football Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
A New York Times Bestseller and Boston Globe Bestseller!
It’s America’s most popular sport, played by thousands, watched by millions, and generating billions in revenues every year. It’s also America’s most controversial sport, haunted by the specter of life-threatening injuries and...
Game of My Life Denver Broncos
Memorable Stories of Broncos Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
How do you measure the soul of a city? In Denver, for the better part of five decades it’s been by the Broncos. From an ugly and inauspicious beginning to the first nationally televised Monday-night game in 1973, through postseason games that included back-to-back World Championships and five other...
Notre Dame Golden Moments
20 Memorable Events That Shaped Notre Dame Football
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2004
Notre Dame Golden Moments - The Twenty Memorable Events That Shaped Notre Dame Football is an exciting portrayal of the most exciting and important events in the history of one of America's most-loved college football teams. The book covers the "top 20" games and events that have shaped...
by Jason Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
The City of Sheffield is rightly lauded as being the birthplace of association football, but in the early nineteenth century it was also the centre of cricket activities in the North of England, arguably contributing more to the advance of game, other than the Marylebone Cricket Club, than any other...
by Tony Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Manchester City is one of the foremost clubs in English football. In Manchester City: Player by Player, Tony Matthews presents the multitudinous, authentic personal details of every player who has appeared and scored for the club (Ardwick/Manchester City) at senior level over the past 125 years. The...
1st and Forever
Making the Case for the Future of Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Against a backdrop of increasing pressures and criticism of the game itself, 1st and Forever takes a stand to contend that football is vital by showcasing the inner character of those who’ve played the game. From European refugees who carved out their legacies between yard markers, to life-changing...