Friday Night Lights meets The Bad News Bears in a brisk, warmhearted reminder of how professional sports can occasionally reach stunning unprofessional depths (Publishers Weekly): the first two seasons with the worst team in NFL history, the hapless, hilarious, and hopelessly winless 19761977 Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Discover the Thrill of the CatchImagine the serenity of early mornings by the waters edge, the anticipation of a tug on your line, and the exhilaration of reeling in your first big catch.
Quirt Creek flowed sluggishly between willows which sagged none too gracefully across its deeper pools, or languished beside the rocky stretches that were bone dry from July to October, with a narrow channel in the center where what water there was hurried along to the pools below.
When Paul Flamer was twenty-three years old, he met Jeffrey, a wealthy tech mogul who introduced this small-town boy from Texas to the finer things in life.
The inspiring true story of a remarkable coach whose superb undefeated high-school basketball team in 1980s Baltimore produced four NBA players and gave hope to a desperate neighborhood and city';a feel-good story that is timely as well as true' (Glenn C.
As the dominant venture capitalist of Silicon Valley, Tom Perkins had seemingly done it all—from amassing a billion-dollar fortune to getting himself convicted of manslaughter in France.
From the longtime host of the New York Yankees' television broadcasts, ESPN Radio's The Michael Kay Show, and YES Network's Emmy Awardwinning CenterStage comes an ';entertaininggreatest-hits collection' (Kirkus Reviews) of his most memorable interviews with the most intriguing personalities in sports and entertainmentfrom Jay-Z to Mike Tyson to Serena Williams to Adam Sandler to Bon Jovi to Larry David.
Provocativeterrific stories (The New Yorker) of the people who transformed sportsin the span of a single generationfrom a job that required even top athletes to work in the off-season to make ends meet into a massive global business.
'If you look up mental toughness in the dictionary you'll find a picture of John Maclean' Steve Waugh AO Walking on the beach and holding hands with a loved one is a dream taken for granted by most.
From the former President and CEO of the United States Tennis Association—the first black woman and youngest person ever to hold the position—comes a behind-the-scenes look at the leadership skills involved in hosting the U.
In this spellbinding book, Richard Bradley tells the story of what was surely the greatest major league game of our lifetime and perhaps in the history of professional baseball.
America's leading bird painter has pictured every game bird, both upland, wild fowl and shore birds-including the predatory hawks and owls-found in the United States.
