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The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL

The Best Game Ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the Birth of the Modern NFL

by Mark Bowden

On December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for the NFL Championship game. Played in front of sixty-four thousand fans and millions of television viewers around the country, the game would be remembered as the greatest in football history. On the field and roaming the sidelines were seventeen future Hall of Famers, including Colts stars Johnny Unitas,... (more)

Dream Team (Hotshots)

by Terence Blacker

An invitation to play in a tournament means a trip to Suffolk. The Hotshots find that they're involved in a mysterious game that's far more deadly than soccer.

Shooting Star

by Martin Waddell

Buzzer Jezz: the official story. The story of the most-feared striker in the Premiership - in the world even - is told here by the man who spotted him, through the key games in Buzz's early career from a pub-team kick-about to a Champions League semi-final. This is an absorbing and detailed inside account of the fall and rise of the most exciting footballer of his generation - Buzzer Jezz, shooting star.

Do You Love Football?: Winning with Heart, Passion, and Not Much Sleep

Do You Love Football?: Winning with Heart, Passion, and Not Much Sleep

by Jon Gruden

"I'm not a scratch golfer. I don't know how to bowl. I can't read the stock market. Hell, I have a hard time remembering my wife's cell phone number. But I can call 'Flip Right Double X Jet 36 Counter Naked Waggle at 7 X Quarter' in my sleep." Sleep? Well, Jon Gruden doesn't sleep much. Driven by a never-ending quest to learn and achieve, the NFL's hottest coach -- and youngest ever to win the Super Bowl --... (more)

Goal Power: A Real Life Girl's Soccer Story

Goal Power: A Real Life Girl's Soccer Story

by Mandy Cross

Golden Boy

by Paul Hornung

Paul Hornung was football's "Golden Boy" -- handsome, talented, and fabulously successful. He had a great career at Notre Dame, where he won the Heisman Trophy (the only player ever to win it on a team with a losing record). He was the #1 draft pick in the NFL and went to the Green Bay Packers, a terrible team soon transformed by a new head coach, Vince Lombardi. Hornung's Packer teams would become a dynasty, and... (more)

Brillant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football

Brillant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football

by David Winner

The Netherlands has one of the World's most distinctive and sophisticated football cultures. From the birth of Total Football in the sixties, through two decades of World Cup near misses to the exiles who remade clubs like AC Milan, Barcelona, Arsenal and Chelsea in their own image, the Dutch have often been dazzlingly original and influential. The elements of their style (exquisite skills, adventurous... (more)

Wicked World Cup (Foul Football S.)

by Michael Coleman

This international guide gives you the coolest commentary on the brilliant Brazilians, the awesome Argentinians, the invincible Italians and the fantastic French. Plus discover the secrets of wicked wonders Pele, Beckham, and the English heroes of 1966. Get ready for Germany 2006. If you want to be in the game, get "Foul Football". Michael Coleman will revise the whole book, add another chapter, taking in all the... (more)

Hurricane Season: A Coach, His Team, and Their Triumph in the Time of Katrina

Hurricane Season: A Coach, His Team, and Their Triumph in the Time of Katrina

by Neal Thompson

There's always a point in the season when you're faced with a challengeand 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 Curtis Patriots met for agrueling practice in the late summer New Orleans sun, the air a visiblefog of humidity. They had pulled off a 19-0 shutout in their pre-seasongame the night... (more)

Dixieland Delight: A Football Season on the Road in the Southeastern Conference

Dixieland Delight: A Football Season on the Road in the Southeastern Conference

by Clay Travis

There is no college ball more passionate and competitive than football in the Southeastern Conference, where seven of the twelve schools boast stadiums bigger than any in the NFL and 6.5 million fans hit the road every year to hoot and holler their teams to victory. In September 2006, popular sports columnist and lifelong University of Tennessee fan Clay Travis set out on his "Dixieland Delight Tour." Without... (more)

Life Its Ownself

by Dan Jenkins

North Dallas Forty (Hall of Fame Edition, No. 1)

North Dallas Forty (Hall of Fame Edition, No. 1)

by Peter Gent

This book is a fictional account of eight harrowing days in the life of a professional football player.

Brian Piccolo: A Short Season

by Jeannie Morris

Chicago Bear running back Brian Piccolo died of cancer at age 26, leaving behind a young wife, three daughters, a host of friends - and a legend.More than 100,000 copies of this classic sports biography have been sold in cloth and mass-market editions. Now available for the first time as a trade paperback. Special 25th anniversary introduction by Jeannie Morris.

A Civil War: Army Vs. Navy a Year Inside College Football's Purest Rivalry

A Civil War: Army Vs. Navy a Year Inside College Football's Purest Rivalry

by John Feinstein

Celebrating college footballs fiercest rivalry as it enters its second centurya new edition of the bestselling book in which John Feinstein does for college football what he did for professional golf in The Majors and A Good Walk Spoiled. This book also includes 6 pages of b/w photos.

Season of Passion

by Danielle Steel

Kate is only eighteen when she meets Tom Harper, one of America's biggest pro-football stars. They share an idyllic and glamorous first love. But the bullet that suddenly ends Tom's career also ends their life together. A failed suicide attempt will leave him mentally and physically disabled forever. Kate will be left alone, heartbroken, and pregnant with their son. Soon she will have another chance at love,... (more)

Doppelganger

by David Stahler

Raised in a cabin in the middle of nowhere by a mother who despises him, the doppelganger has left home at last. He is making his way toward human society. He's coming to do what every member of his monster race must: find an unsuspecting human and make his first kill. He will then take that shape and identity for himself. Doppelgangers are not supposed to have doubts. But this one does. His mother was right.... (more)

Steven Gerrard Autobiography

by Steven Gerrard

Steven Gerrard is a hero to millions, not only as the inspirational captain of Liverpool FC, but as a key member of the England team. Here, for the first time, he tells the story of his lifelong obsession with football, in an honest and revealing book which captures the extraordinary camaraderie, the soul-destroying tensions and the high-octane thrills of the modern game as never before. Born in the Liverpool... (more)

Giggs

by Ryan Giggs

Ryan Giggs first played for Manchester United in the season before the Premiership began; back when Bryan Robson was still captain. He took possession of United's left wing and never loosened his grip. Over a fourteen year career so far, he's seen them all come and go: Cantona, Schmeichel, Beckham and the rest. Sir Alex Ferguson said of Giggs, "I knew we had an outstanding talent when we gave him his debut." That... (more)

Bloody Sundays: Inside the Rough-and-Tumble World of the NFL

Bloody Sundays: Inside the Rough-and-Tumble World of the NFL

by Michael Freeman

Award-winning sportswriter Mike Freeman goes beyond day-to-day newspaper journalism and ESPN highlights to take us deep inside the game and reveal the NFL in ways that will surprise the most avid football fans. He travels to the sidelines and into the locker rooms to interview hundreds of players and coaches on their expertise. Breaking the game down to its essential elements -- coaching, offense, and defense --... (more)

About Three Bricks Shy . . . and the Load Filled Up: the Story of the Greatest Football Team Ever

About Three Bricks Shy . . . and the Load Filled Up: the Story of the Greatest Football Team Ever

by Roy Blount Jr.

Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition, with a New Introduction by the Author Any number of writers could spend an entire season with an NFL team, from the first day of training camp until the last pick of the draft, and come up with an interesting book. But only Roy Blount Jr. could capture the pain, the joy, the fears, the humor-in short, the heart-of a championship team. In 1973, the Pittsburgh Steelers were... (more)

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