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Freelance journalist Jessica Myers accidentally meets the NFL's Columbus Knights' quarterback, Tyler James, when he rescues her from an embarrassing predicament. Ty is furious when word comes down that he must pretend to be this outspoken woman's boyfriend in order for her to get close to the other players. Now, in close quarters, the inescapable attraction between the feisty reporter and the ultimate player is... (more)

Football Days: Classics Football Photographs by Peter Robinson

Football Days: Classics Football Photographs by Peter Robinson

by Peter Robinson

The award-winning Football Days is now available as a smaller format paperback. A unique and intimate view of football, this title not only represents a chronological record of the whole football experience, but also brings together all the strands of the game by providing a superb visual gallery of players, coaches, fans, grounds, personalities, media and politics – not to mention socio-cultural issues. A... (more)

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Football Like a Pro

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Football Like a Pro

by Joe Theismann, Brian Tarcy

Dallas Cowboys: The Authorized Pictorial History

Dallas Cowboys: The Authorized Pictorial History

by Jeff Guinn

Coaches and players from throughout team history have contributed fresh insights into every aspect of the club's past as well as its future.

Billy the Kid

by Michael Morpurgo

Billy's no kid—he's 80 today. He's enjoying watching the boys at the park knock a soccer ball around and this afternoon he'll be cheering on his team, Chelsea, as he has done all his life. In 1939, Billy was picked for Chelsea. Not quite 19, and his dreams had come true—"Billy! Billy the Kid!" they shouted as he scored goal after goal. Surely life could get no better. But in 1939 too, the Second World War began... (more)

Bloody Casuals

by Jay Allan

Get That Girl Out Of Boys' Locker Room

by Elaine Moore

The Dog That Stole Football Plays

by Matt Christopher

Trouble and struggle erupt on Mike's football team when Harry, his telepathic dog, is forced to remain home, unable to give the team his supernatural advice. Reprint. C. "

Greavsie

by Jimmy Greaves

Jimmy Greaves is one of the most well-known footballers to grace the English game, a goalscorer of legendary prowess. His characteristically humorous autobiography journeys from Jimmy's childhood in the East End, through his early career in the Chelsea youth team to being one of the great stars of 1960s football at Spurs, AC Milan and as an outstanding England forward. Jimmy's record as a striker is extraordinary... (more)

The Fifty-Year Seduction: How Television Manipulated College Football, from the Birth of the Modern NCAA to the Creation of the BCS

The Fifty-Year Seduction: How Television Manipulated College Football, from the Birth of the Modern NCAA to the Creation of the BCS

by Keith Dunnavant

ver the last half century, television has been the common denominator in college football's rise from sport to big business. In this groundbreaking book, the author connects the dots to show how television manufactured money, greed, and envy; altered the recruiting process; aided the NCAA's explo-sion from impotent union to massive bureaucracy; seized control of the bowl games, leading to the enormously lucrative... (more)

Big Ten Country: A Journey Through One Football SeasonBob Wood

Big Ten Country: A Journey Through One Football Season

by Bob Wood

The Lost Babes: Manchester United and the Forgotten Victims of Munich

The Lost Babes: Manchester United and the Forgotten Victims of Munich

by Jeff Connor

This is a moving story of how a legendary football team was lost to tragedy - and how this disaster irrevocably altered the lives of the survivors and the bereaved families, and ultimately brought shame on the biggest football club in the world. The Manchester United team, Matt Busby had built in the fifties from the club's successful youth policy, seemed destined to dominate football for many years. Such was the... (more)

Left Foot Forward

by Garry Nelson

Garry Nelson's account of a run-of-the-mill season with Charlton Athletic instantly established itself as a soccer classic. It reveals more about the up-and-down reality of being a football player than any number of star autobiographies. Its focus is on the overcrowded treatment room, comeback games for the stiffs in front of a few fans, and the occasional highs before the next low strikes you from behind. Told... (more)

Favre

by Brett Favre

Last year, Brett Favre made NFL history. He became the first player to win three consecutive Most Valuable Player awards and the first to throw thirty or more touchdown passes in four straight seasons. And, again, he was voted by his peers into the Pro Bowl--the fifth time in his short seven-year career. But perhaps the most impressive statistic is that Brett Favre has the longest playing streak among all... (more)

Rise & Walk the Trial & Triumph of Dennis ByrdByrd Dennis

Rise & Walk the Trial & Triumph of Dennis Byrd

by Byrd Dennis

Rise and Walk the Trial and Triumph of Dennis Byrd

Rise and Walk the Trial and Triumph of Dennis Byrd

by Dennis Byrd, Michael D'Orso

An account of the New York Jet's struggle to walk again after a spinal back injury describes Byrd's football successes in high school and college, and his heroic battle with painful physical therapy to overcome paralysis. 250,000 first printing. $180,000 ad/promo.

The Super Bowl: Legendary Sports Events

by Matt Christopher

There is no football game more exciting than the Super Bowl, the match that pits the best AFC team against the best NFC in a battle for the NFL championship. THrilling last-second victories, curshing defeats, jaw-dropping touchdown catches-and misses!-the Super Bowl has it all. In this action-packed volume, young readers can relive forty years of Super Bowl history. It chronicles the rise of such dynasties as the... (more)

Fighting Tackle (Matt Christopher Sports Classics)

Fighting Tackle (Matt Christopher Sports Classics)

by Matt Christopher

Nicky, born with Down's syndrome, surprises his older brother, Terry, when he shows up one day on the football field as Terry's competition. Reprint. SLJ.

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