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University of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education
JOSHUA HUNT · Melville House
Format: Hardcover
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The dramatic expose of how the University of Oregon sold its soul to Nike--and what that means for the future of academics and college sports.In the world of college sports, winning means big dollars. But that money often comes at a cost. University of Nike explores the University of Oregon's... |
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Arthur Ashe: A Life
RAYMOND ARSENAULT · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 784
Format: Hardcover
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The first comprehensive, authoritative biography of American icon Arthur Ashe - the Jackie Robinson of men's tennis - a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual.Born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1943,... |
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The Man I Never Met: A Memoir
ADAM SCHEFTER · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful true story of loss and hope by one of the biggest names in sports media.On September 11, 2001, Joe Maio went to work in the north tower of the World Trade Center. He never returned, leaving behind a wife, Sharri, and 15-month old son, Devon. Five years later, Sharri remarried,... |
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Ali: A Life
JONATHAN EIG · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive biography of an American icon, from a New York Times best-selling author with unique access to Ali's inner circle He was the wittiest, the prettiest, the strongest, the bravest, and, of course, the greatest (as he told us himself) . Muhammad Ali was one of the twentieth... |
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Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering
Maurice Isserman · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
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This magesterial and thrilling history argues that the story of American mountaineering is the story of America itself.In Continental Divide, Maurice Isserman tells the history of American mountaineering through four centuries of landmark climbs and first ascents. Mountains were originally... |
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Game 7, 1986: Failure and Triumph in the Biggest Game of My Life
Ron Darling · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Every little kid who's ever taken the mound in Little League dreams of someday getting the ball for Game Seven of the World Series. Ron Darling got to live that dream - only it didn't go exactly as planned. In Game 7, 1986, the award-winning baseball analyst looks back at what might... |
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The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball's Power Brokers
Jon Pessah · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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The incredible inside story of power, money, and baseball's last twenty yearsIn the fall of 1992, America's National Pastime is in crisis and already on the path to the unthinkable: cancelling a World Series for the first time in history. The owners are at war with each other, their... |
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Body of Water: A Sage, a Seeker, and the World's Most Elusive Fish
Chris Dombrowski · Milkweed Editions
Pages: 232
Format: Print book
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Chris Dombrowski was playing a numbers game: two passions - poetry and fly-fishing; two children, one of them in utero; and an income hovering perilously close to zero. Enter, at this particularly challenging moment, a miraculous email: can't go, it's all paid for, just book a flight... |
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Trading Bases: A Story About Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball
Joe Peta · Dutton Adult
Format: Print book
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An ex-Wall Street trader improved on Moneyballs famed sabermetrics to place bets that would beat the Vegas odds on Major League Baseball games--with a 41 percent return in his first year. Trading Bases explains how he did it. After the fall of Lehman Brothers, Joe Peta needed a new employer.... |
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Norwich: One Tiny Vermont Town's Secret to Happiness and Excellence
Karen Crouse · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The extraordinary story of the small Vermont town that has likely produced more Olympians per capita than any other place in the country - and whose citizens provide a model for achieving excellence while leading a well-rounded life.Norwich, a charming Vermont town of roughly three thousand... |
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Ping-Pong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World
Nicholas Griffin · Scribner
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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THE SPRING OF 1971 heralded the greatest geopolitical realignment in a generation. After twenty-two years of antagonism, China and the United States suddenly moved toward a détente - achieved not by politicians but by Ping-Pong players. The Western press delighted in the absurdity of the moment... |
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