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 from the sidelines, Ri...

First published in 1966, IThe Glory of Their Times is a universally hailed classic. A loving look back at the way baseball used to be, and the legends who played the game—immortals like Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, and many ot...

CENTERI"You drive for show, you putt for dough."/CENTERP This old adage is especially resonant with Dr. Bob Rotella, the bestselling author of IGolf Is Not a Game of Perfect, and one of the foremost golf authorities today. I...

Dr. Bob Rotella, whose clients include Nick Price, Davis Love III, Tom Kite and Pat Bradley, is firmly established as the premier performance enhancement specialist in the golf world. In IGolf is a Game Of Confidence, "Doc" ...

Golf hero Ben Hogan bore a mystique that captivates golfers still. In this extraordinary book, Curt Sampson explores the milestones of Hogan's life: his father's suicide, his miraculous comeback after his brush with death, and his man...

bPat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history aad bestselling author of iReach for the Summitt/i and iRaise The Roof/i, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing...

"There's always a point in the season when you're faced with a challenge and you see what you're capable of. And you grow up." —J. T. Curtis, head coach, John Curtis Christian School Patriots On Saturday, August 27, 2005, the John C...

A homage to the history of baseball during the Golden Age of Radio. An avid collector, John Miley has what is thought to be the largest private collection of baseball radio broadcasts. In Baseball Forever!, bestselling author Jason Tu...

In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that s...

He's been called the best in the world at the mental game of tennis. Brad Gilbert's strokes may not be pretty, but looks aren't everything. He has beaten the Tour's biggest names-all by playing his "ugly" game.Now, in Winnin...

[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [Read by Jim Weiss] Who would have believed that a knobby-kneed little colt called Seabiscuit would become one of the most celebrated racehorses of all time? Although Seabiscuit was the grandson...

Alternately side-splitting and heart-warming, but always opinionated and provocative, this book brings together 100 of bestselling author Rick Reillys favorite Life of Reilly columns, the most popular feature of Sports Illustrated.

Zane Grey, known mainly for his Western fiction and for his own personal adventures exploring the rugged West, was also a prolific fisherman. Once his income from the Westerns gave him free time to explore the world's oceans, he devot...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERKareem Abdul-Jabbar explores his 50-year friendship with Coach John Wooden, one of the most enduring and meaningful relationships in sports history.When future NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jab...

In Against Football, Steve Almond details why, after forty years as a fan, he can no longer watch the game he still loves. Using a synthesis of memoir, reportage, and cultural critique, Almond asks a series of provocative questions: ...

By the early 1960s, Ford Motor Company, built to bring automobile transportation to the masses, was falling behind. Baby boomers were taking to the roads in droves, looking for speed not safety, style not comfort, and Ford didn't offe...

When first published in 1970, Ball Four stunned the sports world. The commissioner, executives, and players were shocked. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and "social leper." Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to f...

Bob Bowman, best known as the coach for the record-breaking run of Michael Phelps, is one of the most successful coaches in Olympic history. He is lauded for his intense personality, incredible dedication to his athletes, and his abil...

This is New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated broadcaster Ron Darling's 108 baseball anecdotes that connect America's game to the men who played it.In 108 Stitches, Ron Darling offers his own take on the "six degre...

* Mp3 CD Format *. April 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history. When Jackie Robinson stepped onto the diamond that afternoon at Ebbets Field, he became the first black man to break into major-league baseb...

From the world's reigning expert on expertise comes a powerful new approach to mastering almost any skill. Have you ever wanted to learn a language or pick up an instrument, only to become too daunted by the task at hand? Expert perfo...

Based on dozens of shocking interviews with some of the most influential names in sports, this is the urgent and revelatory examination of racial inequality in professional athletics America has been waiting forCommentators, coaches, ...

What does it take to be an Olympic gold medalist and to coach a collegiate team to fifteen NCAA titles? In A Wrestling Life: The Inspiring Stories of Dan Gable, famed wrestler and wrestling coach Dan Gable tells engaging and inspiring...

For John Gierach, 'the master of fly-fishing' (Sacramento Bee), fishing is always the answer-even when it's not clear what the question is. In All Fishermen Are Liars, Gierach travels around North America seeking out quintessential fi...

Australia brings to mind images of the Great Barrier Reef, great white sharks, huge crocodiles, and friendly people. Zane Grey fished everywhere, but he often found himself lured back to the Pacific especially around Australia and New...

Zane Grey, America s master storyteller of the old West, was a passionate angler. He fished as many as three hundred days of the year. This collection, first published in 1925, describes his fishing adventures in exotic locales throug...

Zane Grey, known and loved primarily for his Western novels, was an avid fisherman. When his writing started paying off, he managed to spend as many as three hundred days a year enjoying the sport. And while he is remembered for his r...

When not writing his famous Western novels, Zane Grey was an insatiable angler. Tales of Southern Rivers recounts his tales of fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, the Florida Keys, the Everglades, and on remote rivers in the jungles of Mex...

Zane Grey fished up to three hundred days of the year. But, with all that time on the water, there was nothing more exciting or more compelling than the really big fishthe giants of the sea.In Zane Grey's day, blue fin tuna were pursu...

This book describes Zane Grey's hair-raising tales of fishing in shark-infested Pacific waters.Tales of Tahitian Waters describes Grey's fishing expeditions to the Tahitian Islands during 1928, 1929, and 1930, in which he claims to be...