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The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West

JOHN BRANCH · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A gripping portrait of one family's gamble that rodeo and ranching are the future of the West -- and not just its past.

For generations, the Wrights of southern Utah have raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders -- some call them the most successful rodeo family in history....

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The First 50 Super Bowls: How Football's Championships Were Won

Ed Benkin · McFarland
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

The Super Bowl redefined American sports. Over the past half century, the NFL's championship game has grown from humble beginnings to the biggest sporting event of the calendar year--an event that creates legendary stories, from Len Dawson's conversation with the president to Jim O'Brien's...
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Thursday Night Lights: The Story of Black High School Football in Texas

Michael Hurd · University of Texas Press
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover

At a time when "Friday night lights" shone only on white high school football games, African American teams across Texas burned up the gridiron on Wednesday and Thursday nights. The segregated high schools in the Prairie View Interscholastic League (the African American counterpart...

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All the Wrong Moves: A Memoir About Chess, Love, and Ruining Everything

Sasha Chapin · Doubleday
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

"A smart, funny, and slyly profound book about the dark ecstasies of obsessive love. Sasha Chapin is a gentlemanly Gonzo, a dirty Bond, and he writes like a dream."
--Claudia Dey, author of Heartbreaker

Sasha Chapin is a victim of chess. Like countless amateurs...
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Stanley's Sequel: The Penguins' Run to the 2017 Stanley Cup

TRIUMPH BOOKS. · Triumph Books
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

Back-to-back Stanley Cup champions. No NHL team this century could stake that claim. Until the Pittsburgh Penguins topped the Nashville Predators in the 2017 Final to bring Lord Stanley home for the second consecutive season. In their 50th NHL season, the Penguins overcame adversity en route...
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The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion

Simon Marshall · VeloPress
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

The Brave Athlete is a practical, step-by-step guide that solves common mental conundrums athletes face in their everyday training and in races. In this mental makeover from professional athlete Lesley Paterson and sports psychology expert Dr. Simon Marshall, you'll find new speed and joy in your...
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Rollergirls: The Story of Flat Track Derby

Felicia Graham · Trinity University Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Flat track roller derby is one of the country's fastest growing sports. What started as a single league in Austin, Texas, a couple of decades ago has grown into an international phenomenon, with nearly two thousand leagues around the world.Rollergirls captures the spirit of the game,...
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Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

Lara Prior-Palmer · Catapult
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

One of Entertainment Weekly's Most Anticipated Books of 2019

"Lara's searingly honest account of her astonishing rise from hopeless underdog to Mongol Derby Champion leaves grit in your teeth and dust in your hair. I laughed, I cried and I felt every bruise. I was riveted...
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Descent: My Epic Fall from Cycling Superstardom to Doping Dead End

Thomas Dekker · VeloPress
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

The Award-Winning, International Best-Seller"I have success, money, women. I've been lionized by the public and the press. The world is at my feet. I've spread my wings and here I am, soaring above everything and everyone. But in reality, the descent has already begun."At...
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Brainwashed: The Bad Science Behind CTE and the Plot to Destroy Football

Merril Hoge · Mascot Books / Amplify
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

The outcry surrounding CTE is missing something critical: the science to justify it. When post-concussion syndrome forced star NFL running back Merril Hoge into early retirement in 1994, research on football-related head injuries wasn't a priority. At the time, football was heavily...
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Tropic of Football: The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL

Rob Ruck · The New Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

How a tiny Pacific archipelago is producing more players - from Troy Polamalu to Marcus Mariota - for the NFL than anywhere else in the world, by an award-winning sports historian

Football is at a crossroads, its future imperiled by the very physicality that drives its popularity. Its grass...

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Smokin' Joe: The Life of Joe Frazier

Mark Kram Jr. · Ecco
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A gripping, all-access biography of Joe Frazier, whose rivalry with Muhammad Ali riveted boxing fans and whose legacy as a figure in American sports and society endures

History will remember the rivalry of Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali as one for the ages, a trilogy of extraordinary...

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Youth Baseball Bible: The Definitive Guide to Coaching and Enjoying Youth Baseball

Dan Gray · Ingram
Pages: 155
Format: Paperback

Youth baseball instruction guide by former MLB player Dan Gray who was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers as a catcher. Includes praise from numerous baseball luminaries including Joe Girardi and Bernie Williams. Dan's love of baseball started way back when he was a Little Leaguer in the Bronx,...
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Coaching: A Realistic Perspective

Michael D Sabock · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback

This book details the duties and tasks of a coach and also explores the often-overlooked responsibilities that go hand-in-hand with coaching: relationships among players; ethical and moral issues; off-season housekeeping; and concerns particular to head and assistant coaches. This new edition...
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Life Is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance

Matt Fitzgerald · Lifelong Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

An endurance athlete and coach reveals how the marathon transforms the lives of everyone who attempts it--and how it has helped his own family cope with serious adversity

Step after step for 26.2 miles, hundreds of thousands of people run marathons. But why--what compels people past...
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