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The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

by Michael Lewis

By the author of the bestselling Moneyball : in football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play. The young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story will one day be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League. When we first meet him, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real... (more)

Just Too Good to Be True: A Novel

by E. Lynn Harris

Harris serves up a treat that will capture and enchant audiences everywhere—a big, bold, and irresistible novel about football, family, and secrets. Brady Bledsoe and his mother, Carmyn, have a strong relationship. A single mother, faithful churchgoer, and the owner of several successful Atlanta beauty salons, Carmyn has devoted herself to her son and his dream of becoming a professional football player. Brady... (more)

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Road Trip into the Heart of Fan Mania

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer: A Road Trip into the Heart of Fan Mania

by Warren St. John

What is it about sports that turns otherwise sane people into raving lunatics? Why does winning compel people to tear down goal posts, and losing, to drown themselves in bad keg beer? In short, why do fans care? In search of answers, Warren St. John seeks out the roving community of RVers who follow the Alabama Crimson Tide from game to game. A movable feast of Weber grills and Igloo coolers, these are hard-core... (more)

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.

War As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler, and America in a Time of Unrest

War As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler, and America in a Time of Unrest

by Michael Rosenberg

The Vietnam War . . . Nixon . . . Kent State . . . The late 1960s and early 1970s were a time of total turmoil in America-the country was being torn apart by a war most people didn't support, young men were being taken away by the draft, and racial tensions were high. Nowhere was this turmoil more evident than on college campuses, the epicenters of the protest movement. The uncertain times presented a... (more)

IT NEVER RAINS IN TIGER STADIUM: FOOTBALL AND THE GAME OF LIFE

IT NEVER RAINS IN TIGER STADIUM: FOOTBALL AND THE GAME OF LIFE

by John Ed Bradley

"It was the biggest high you could have. No drugs could match it. The way it felt to run out there with the crowd yelling for you. I wish every kid could experience that." Such was the charmed life of 21-year-old John Ed Bradley, All-SEC center for the Louisiana State University Tigers. But after his final football game, a 34-10 Tiger romp over Wake Forest in the 1979 Tangerine Bowl, he firmly closed the door... (more)

Horns! A History: The Story of Longhorns Football

Horns! A History: The Story of Longhorns Football

by Mark Wangrin

The Missing Ring: How Bear Bryant And the 1966 Alabama Crimson Tide Were Denied College Football's Most Elusive Prize

The Missing Ring: How Bear Bryant And the 1966 Alabama Crimson Tide Were Denied College Football's Most Elusive Prize

by Keith Dunnavant

“Keith Dunnavant’s triumph is that he takes us into the heart of Alabama, into the darkness and the light, and there we see Joe Namath, Kenny Stabler, Ray Perkins, and their band of brothers play football for Bear Bryant the way life should be lived, at full throttle, indomitably.” ---Dave Kindred, author of Sound and Fury: Two Powerful Lives, One Fateful Friendship The Missing Ring is more than a football... (more)

Turning of the Tide: How One Game Changed the South

Turning of the Tide: How One Game Changed the South

by Don Yaeger

New York Times bestselling author Don Yaeger tells the electrifying story of the game that broke down the last racial division in college football. The first integrated football game in Alabama was played on Crimson soil in September 1970, and the two teams that met represented two distinct faces of college football: legendary Alabama coach Bear Bryant's Tide was the all-white national powerhouse in the SEC;... (more)

Bo's Lasting Lessons: The Legendary Coach Teaches the Timeless Fundamentals of Leadership

Bo's Lasting Lessons: The Legendary Coach Teaches the Timeless Fundamentals of Leadership

by Bo Schembechler

There are very few coaches held higher esteem than Bo Schembechler. As coach of the University of Michigan football team, he won 13 Big Ten titles and finished as the winningest coach in their storied history. But beyond the wins and losses, Bo is best remembered for the remarkable impact he had on his players and fans alike. In BO'S LASTING LESSONS, the coach draws on his years of experience, using... (more)

Hayden Fry: A High Porch Picnic

by Hayden Fry

A "high porch picnic" is a Texas expression for "an exceptionally good time." During Hayden FryÂ’s glorious career as one of college footballÂ’s most unique coaches, thatÂ’s a good way to describe his life. Ranked 10th on the all-time collegiate list for Division I victories, Fry successfully combined his football coaching savvy with a down-home charm to make him one of the gameÂ’s most colorful personalities.... (more)

Jim Walden's Tales from Washington State Cougars Sideline (Tales)

Jim Walden's Tales from Washington State Cougars Sideline (Tales)

by Jim Walden

Rival coach Don James of the University of Washington once called himself a 2,000-word underdog to Jim Walden. James may have been underestimating the opinionated Walden, even at those lopsided odds. During an association with the Washington State football program that started in 1977, Jim Walden established a foundation of competitive expectations that helped spur the success of contemporary Cougar teams. Waldens... (more)

The Thin Thirty

by Shannon P. Ragland

Kentucky's new football coach in 1962, Charlie Bradshaw, a Bear Bryant acolyte, put his team through a brutal conditioning and practice regiment, thinning the squad from eighty-eight players to just thirty. Over the course of the fateful year, the players would survive not just brutality on the football field, but sex and gambling scandals off it that involved Rock Hudson and the fixing of a Kentucky game. Based... (more)

The Green Revolution (Roger and Philip Knight Mysteries Set at the Univ. of Notre Dame)

The Green Revolution (Roger and Philip Knight Mysteries Set at the Univ. of Notre Dame)

by Ralph McInerny

Any year when the Fighting Irish don’t go undefeated is a disappointment, but to turn in a losing football season is unheard of. This year the faithful are refusing to admit defeat even as the losses start to pile up. With the students in a funk and the alumni in an uproar, something must be done, or more precisely, somebody has to go. Since they can’t expel the team, they’ll have to settle for firing the... (more)

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