Sports

Mark Noble (Author)

Boleyn Boy: My Autobiography

Editura: HARPERCOLLINS

Anul aparitiei: 2023

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* This is the remarkable story of a local lad who grew up in the shadow of Upton Park and became 'Mr West Ham' a one-club man who lived the dream. A modern footballing legend, Mark Noble is the embodiment of what it means to be a Hammer, pouring his heart and soul into the club he supported as a boy. Born and raised in Canning Town, Mark joined the West Ham youth squad in 2000 and made his senior-team debut aged just 17. Now, after over 20 years, with a wealth of memories and more than 500 appearances for his boyhood club under his belt, Mark finally looks back at his remarkable career, reflecting on his journey from boot boy to club captain, bossing the midfield, scoring pressure penalties and becoming an inspirational figurehead on and off the pitch. This is the story of a brilliant footballer, a genuine ambassador and a local legend. This is the unforgettable autobiography of Mark Noble.

Charles Lamb (Author)

Fighting Irish Football: The Notre Dame Tradition in Photographs

Editura: UNIV OF NOTRE DAME

Anul aparitiei: 2024

Fighting Irish Football spans the history of college football's most storied pro

Eric Zweig (Author)

Hockey Hall of Fame True Stories 2

Editura: FIREFLY BOOKS LTD

Anul aparitiei: 2024

"I will admit, I was a bit late in the game when I discovered my favourite teacher. It was

David Gidmark (Author)

Birchbark Canoe: Living Among the Algonquin

Editura: FIREFLY BOOKS LTD

Anul aparitiei: 2024

Discover the dying art of birchbark canoe building as seen through the eyes of someone who is pa

Michael Runtz (Author)

Observing Nature by Canoe and Kayak

Editura: FIREFLY BOOKS LTD

Anul aparitiei: 2024

Through the pages of Observing Nature by Canoe and Kayak , renowned naturalist and award-w

Jeremy Evans (Author)

The Sailing Bible: The Complete Guide for All Sailors from Novice to Experienced Skipper

Editura: FIREFLY BOOKS LTD

Anul aparitiei: 2024

1, This new, revised edition of The Sailing Bible is the complete, hands-on manual packed with detailed, step-by-step diagrams, lively action photos, and helpful advice on getting the most out of your sailing at every level. Whether one is a dinghy or yacht sailor, just learning the basics or wanting tips on sailing with the best, this book will deliver all the answers needed. Contents include: What type of dinghy or yacht? Cruising and racing Launching, helming and capsizing Mastering the trapeze Sailing with a spinnaker Managing a crew Reading the weather Racing techniques and tactics Buoyage, tides, charts and navigation Anchoring, and marina berthing Knots, ropes and flags Boat etiquette and seamanship Rules of the road, safety and emergencies Boat maintenance and repair. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and brought completely up to date. Hundreds of improvements cover new technology to help with navigation, communications and safety. There is also increased coverage of dinghies and racing.

Ben Powis (Editor)

Researching Disability Sport: Theory, Method, Practice

Editura: ROUTLEDGE

Anul aparitiei: 2024

Marking a new direction for disability sport scholarship, this book explores cutting-edge issues and

Franklin Foer (Author)

How Soccer Explains the World

Editura: PERENNIAL

Anul aparitiei: 2016

Religious, economic, political and ethnic divisions around the world are dramatically illuminated

Joshua Robinson (Author)

The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 Into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport

Editura: MARINER BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2025

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The Athletic (Author)

The Basketball 100

Editura: WILLIAM MORROW

Anul aparitiei: 2024

4,A celebration of basketball by way of the 100 greatest players to ever grace the court in the history of the NBA--from The Athletic's foremost basketball writers and analysts the game has to offer. With a foreword by Charles Barkley.Over the course of 100 luminous player profiles, the best sports newsroom on the planet paints vivid portraits of the game's most compelling characters. There's George Mikan, who was cut from his high school team because he wore glasses, then went on to become the fledgling NBA's first transcendent star. Gary Payton, called "The Glove" for his skintight defense, who talked as much trash to his teammates as he did to his opponents on the court. Dennis Rodman, who started playing basketball at age 20, and in a few short years went from working as a janitor at the airport to being one of the strangest superstars that sport has ever known. Allen Iverson, who drew inspiration from hip hop for his inimitable style and swagger, on and off the court. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who was so dominant in the paint that they changed the rules--and Steph Curry, who was so dominant outside it that he seemed to expand the very boundaries of the court.The Basketball 100, ...

Kirk Goldsberry (Author)

Hoop Atlas: Mapping the Remarkable Transformation of the Modern NBA

Editura: MARINER BOOKS

Anul aparitiei: 2025

"When discussing greatness, we have too often distilled it down to how many rings someone

Armen Keteyian (Author)

The Price: What It Takes to Win in College Football's Era of Chaos

Editura: HARPERCOLLINS

Anul aparitiei: 2024

3,"An explosive tell-all book."--Sports Illustrated"This is a must-read masterpiece."--Paul Finebaum, ESPN college football analyst and New York Times bestselling authorTwo of the nation's most respected sports journalists team up for a vital, hard-hitting investigation into the tumultuous state of big-time college football.We are living in the Wild West of college sports. Name, Image and Likeness endorsements, the transfer portal, collectives, conference realignment, the powerful influence of media companies have all rendered the notion of amateur athletics a quaint relic of the past, replaced by a Brave New World where money and self-interest rule.The Price is a sweeping, in-depth, thought-provoking look at an inflection point in big-time college football. Six time New York Times bestselling author Armen Keteyian and award-winning national college football reporter John Talty conducted more than two hundred wide-ranging interviews with head coaches, athletic directors, conference commissioners, administrators, politicians, power brokers, agents and media executives from one corner of the sport to the other. They reveal never-before-reported details on major players such as Nick ...

Luke Smith (Author)

On the Grid: Life Behind the Scenes of Formula One

Editura: HARPERVIA

Anul aparitiei: 2025

6,"One of the finest wordsmiths in modern sport . . . with infectious passion and singular craft [Smith] has created a truly fabulous and unique piece of work. On the Grid is incredibly special. I loved every thoughtfully written word." --Will Buxton, award-winning broadcaster, star of Drive to Survive and New York Times bestselling author of Grand Prix: An Illustrated History of Formula 1"Even if you think you know everything there is to know about Formula 1, you'll learn something within these pages." --GP Racing MagazineLearn how Formula One is the world's greatest team sport with this intimate and colorful insider's account of what really happens on--and off--the race track, from The Athletic's senior F1 writer who has been following the sport around the world for over a decade.Formula One has only 20 drivers in its elite ranks, but behind each one is an army of professionals devoted to the sport: statisticians and strategists, engineers and mechanics, PR gurus and party planners, and more--all who spend months traveling thousands of miles across the globe each year. Their achievements (and failures) may not be as well-publicized as those of the drivers and team principals, but ...

Richard Whitehead (Author)

The Times World Cup Moments

Editura: COLLINS

Anul aparitiei: 2023

Pairing epic sports photography with articles from The Times and The Sunday Times archive, this volume brings together 100 of the most iconic moments from World Cup history . With striking, full-colour photograph

Mike Singer (Author)

Why So Serious?: The Untold Story of NBA Champion Nikola Jokic

Editura: HARPERCOLLINS

Anul aparitiei: 2024

5,"A deeply insightful and introspective look at arguably the best basketball player in the world."--Jemele Hill"This is a fantastic book. Mike Singer, through moments large and small, captures the unlikely journey of Nikola Jokic with detail and texture, and with a style that holds the reader's attention and energy from start to finish."--Bomani JonesA revealing, intimate biography of basketball savant and enigmatic NBA superstar Nikola Jokic, filled with news-breaking interviews and deep reporting from Mike Singer, the Nuggets' former beat writer for the Denver Post.Why So Serious? takes readers on Nikola Jokic's long, strange, and incredibly unlikely journey to becoming the heartbeat of the champion Denver Nuggets and the best basketball player on the planet. As he traces Jokic's transformation from his humble beginnings in Sombor, Serbia, sports journalist Mike Singer captures the witty irreverence, unparalleled competitiveness, and slight mischievousness of the MVP fondly known as "The Joker."Behind his veiled public persona, who really is Nikola Jokic? Filled with exclusive, sure-to-be-headline-making interviews, including unique insights from Jokic himself, Why So Serious? ...

Ben Hunt (Author)

Growing Wings: The Inside Story of Red Bull Racing

Editura: HARPERCOLLINS

Anul aparitiei: 2024

3,Packed with intrigue, high-stakes schemes, and adrenalin-fueled action on-and-off the track, the brilliant and gripping inside story of Formula One's most fascinating, swagger-rich, and win-at-all-costs team, Red Bull, now celebrating its twentieth anniversary.A propulsive, dramatic thrill ride, Growing Wings chronicles two incredible decades of racing as it tells the story of one of F1's boldest teams, the legendary Red Bull, from its earliest drivers to pioneering seasons for Coulthard, Webber and Vettel, among others in F1's heralded cast.With exclusive access to Red Bull's inner sanctum, leading F1 journalist and author Ben Hunt probes the operations of a world-leading Formula One team, from the personalities, rivalries, turbulence, and controversies to the game-changing tech, leadership strategies, and mindset of the racing drivers themselves.With Red Bull's cooperation, yet maintaining journalistic independence, Ben Hunt delivers a thrilling, frank, and unvarnished account of how the paddock's loudest upstarts achieved team alchemy with the promotion of a driver called Max Verstappen, and what it means to go, learn, go again, tweak, test, and ultimately dominate in a way ...

Maurice Hamilton (Author)

Formula 1 Circuits: Maps and Statistics from Every Grand Prix Track

Editura: COLLINS

Anul aparitiei: 2023

6, Explore the unique stories behind every Grand Prix track in this fully updated second edition. Written by award-winning journalist Maurice Hamilton and complete with bespoke digital maps of each course, this is the ultimate guide to the circuits of Formula One. Each venue is listed in chronological order from the first time it hosted a Grand Prix, starting with Monza, then taking in renowned locations such as Spa, N?rburgring, Monaco and Silverstone, all the way up to F1's latest destination: Miami. Uncover little-known facts about famous circuits and discover the story behind some of the sport's lesser-known venues. This fully updated second edition includes: * All 77 Formula 1 circuits, featuring six additional venues from the previous edition * Bespoke digital maps of every racetrack * Statistics including circuit lengths, lap records, and names of corners and straights * Alphabetical and 'by country' indices for ease of reference

Max Jack (Author)

Insurgent Fandom: An Ethnography of Crowds and Unruly Sounds

Editura: OXFORD UNIV PR USA

Anul aparitiei: 2024

Insurgent Fandom offers a behind-the-scenes look at a transnational subculture known to few

Michael Cox (Author)

The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines

Editura: HARPERCOLLINS

Anul aparitiei: 2025

3,An absolutely essential book for every modern football fan, about the development of Premier League tactics, published to coincide with 25 years of the competition.Back in 1992, English football was stuck in the dark ages, emerging from a five-year ban from European competition. The game was physical, bruising and attritional, based on strength over speed, aggression over finesse. It was the era of the midfield general, reducers, big men up front and getting it in the mixer; 4-4-2 was the order of the day. Few teams experimented tactically.And then, almost overnight, it all changed. The creation of the Premier League coincided with one of the most seismic rule changes in football history: the abolition of the back-pass. Suddenly defenders had no-get-out-of-jail-free card, goalkeepers had to be able to field and play the ball and the pace of the game quickened immeasurably. Tactics evolved dramatically, helped by an increased foreign influence.The Mixer is the first book to delve deep into the tactical story of the Premier League, and take a long view of how the game has developed over the last quarter century. From Ferguson's directness to Keegan's relentlessly attacking ...

George Mallory (Author)

Letters from Everest: Unpublished Letters from Mallory's Life and Death in the Mountains

Editura: WILLIAM COLLINS

Anul aparitiei: 2024

A unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family,