Back Sports | August Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  Sports  
The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano and the Story of an Epic College Basketball Rivalry

John Feinstein · Doubleday, 2016.
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

The riveting inside story of college basketball's fiercest rivalry among three coaching legends - University of North Carolina's Dean Smith, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, and North Carolina State's Jim Valvano - by the king of college basketball writers, #1 New York Times bestseller John...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Halfway to Halfway and Back. More River Stories

Dick Linford · Halfway Publishing
Pages: 338
Format: Paperback

Halfway to Halfway & Back is a collection of river stories that capture the essence and mood of river guiding and like an old friend and the river itself, lure you back for another trip. This second book builds on the success of Halfway to Halfway & Other River Stories, an award...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Bushido: The Samurai Code of Japan: With an Extensive Introduction and Notes by Alexander Bennett

Inazo Nitobe · Tuttle Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Bushido: The Samurai Code of Japan is the most influential book ever written on the Japanese "Way of the Warrior." A classic study of Japanese culture, the book outlines the moral code of the Samurai way of living and the virtues every Samurai warrior holds dear. It is widely...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores his 50-year friendship with Coach John Wooden, one of the most enduring and meaningful relationships in sports history.
Read More check catalog
 
 
Classic Krakauer: Essays on Wilderness and Risk

Jon Krakauer · Anchor
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. His pieces take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of Seattle; from...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack

Katherine C. Mooney · Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover

Race Horse Men recaptures the vivid sights, sensations, and illusions of nineteenth-century thoroughbred racing, Americas first mass spectator sport. Inviting readers into the pageantry of the racetrack, Katherine C. Mooney conveys the sports inherent drama while also revealing the significant...
Read More check catalog
 
 
A Course Called America: Fifty States, Five Thousand Fairways, and the Search for the Great American Golf Course

Tom Coyne · Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author and globe-trotting golfer Tom Coyne has finally come home. After golfing through hundreds of courses in Ireland and Scotland, he delivers a rollicking love letter to golf in the United States. In the span of one unforgettable year, Coyne crisscrosses the country in search...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Last Cowboy: A Life of Tom Landry

Mark Ribowsky · Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pages: 684
Format: Hardcover

A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of 2013 An action-packed biography of a man, his team, and the league he helped create -- in the tradition of Maraniss's When Pride Still Mattered. Tom Landry, the coach during professional football's most fabled era, transformed the gridiron from...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Is There Life After Football?: Surviving the NFL

Richard S. Jones · NYU Press
Format: Hardcover

In January 2014, President Barack Obama made headlines when he confided to New Yorker reporter Davis Remnick that, if he had a son, he would discourage him from playing in the NFL. "I would not let my son play pro football," he told the writer. Obama's words came on the heels...
Read More check catalog
 
 
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...
Read More check catalog