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“michael weinreb”

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  • Bigger Than the Game

    Bo, Boz, the Punky QB, and How the '80s Created the Celebrity Athlete

    by Michael Weinreb ...
    A mesmerizing look at the year when American athletics went corporate, villains replaced heroes, and sports stars became superstars.Greed and excess defined the 1980s, and the sports world was no exception. Shifting from the love of the game to the love of money, athletes made the transition from representing honor and humility to becoming brash and branded. Capturing the stories of headliners who ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Game of Kings

    A Year Among the Oddballs and Geniuses Who Make Up America's Top HighSchool Chess Team

    by Michael Weinreb ...
    A year with the boy geniuses of the nation's top high school chess team, now in paperback with a new afterwordEdward R. Murrow High School has long been one of New York's public-education success stories, a school where there are no varsity sports, and the closest thing to jocks is found on the powerhouse chess team.Award-winning sportswriter Michael Weinreb follows the members of the Murrow chess ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Season of Saturdays

    A History of College Football in 14 Games

    by Michael Weinreb ...
    From an award-winning sports journalist and college football expert: “A beautifully written mix of memoir and reportage that tracks college ball through fourteen key games, giving depth and meaning to all” (Sports Illustrated), now with a new Afterword about the first ever College Football Playoff.Every Saturday in the fall, it happens: On college campuses, in bars, at gatherings of fervent alumni ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • League of Denial

    The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for Truth

    by Mark Fainaru-Wada, Steve Fainaru ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “meticulously documented and endlessly chilling” (The New York Times) exploration of the NFL’s decades-long attempt to deny and cover up mounting evidence connecting brain damage from football with CTE.“A first-rate piece of reporting [that] adds crucial detail, texture, and news to the concussion story, which despite the NFL’s best efforts, isn’t going away.”—TimeONE ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Football

    Score a Touchdown with Your Newfound Football Savvy

    by Mike Beacom ...
    Don't feel left out in the roar of the crowdFootball is the most popular sport in America today. It's also the most complicated, especially to those who watch their loved ones hibernate in football heaven from September to February. Here's the book that levels the playing field for novices, giving them a simple, clear, and comprehensive guide worthy of a Lombardi Trophy. Finally, get in the game ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Muck City

    Winning and Losing in Football's Forgotten Town

    by Bryan Mealer ...
    In a town deep in the Florida Everglades, where high school football is the only escape, a haunted quarterback, a returning hero, and a scholar struggle against terrible odds.The loamy black “muck” that surrounds Belle Glade, Florida once built an empire for Big Sugar and provided much of the nation's vegetables, often on the backs of roving, destitute migrants. Many of these were children who ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Steel City Rivals - One City. Two Football Clubs, One Mutually Shared Hatred

    by Steve Cowens ...
    Football rivalry is a common factor anywhere in the world where the sport is played. But some take it far more seriously than others. In Sheffield, the traditional capital of Britain's steel manufacturing industry, there is no greater tribal divide than that between fans of Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday. The two clubs' supporters berate each other with a venomous passion, their long ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Indentured

    The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA

    by Joe Nocera, Ben Strauss ...
    “How can the NCAA blithely wreck careers without regard to due process or common fairness? How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so petty? Why won’t anybody stand up to these outrageous violations of American values and American justice?”In the four years since Joe Nocera asked those questions in a controversial New York Times column, the National Collegiate Athletic Association ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Worst of Sports

    Chumps, Cheats, and Chokers from the Games We Love

    by Jesse Lamovsky, Matthew Rosetti, Charlie DeMarco ...
    TAKE THEM OUT OF THE BALL GAME–PLEASE!From star running back Bryon “Bam” Morris’s interesting (and totally illegal) sideline career to the 1950s Kansas City A’s sneaky relationship with the New York Yankees; from French golfer Jean Van de Velde’s epic choke on 18 at the 1999 British Open to the infamous Cleveland Ten-Cent Beer Night riot of 1974; from Hungary’s bloody 1956 Olympic water polo match ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Perfect Rivals

    by Jeff Carroll ...
    College football is a sport of rivalries—and no two teams were ever more perfectly matched than the Miami Hurricanes and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. In Perfect Rivals, award-winning sportswriter Jeff Carroll takes us inside the locker rooms and onto the gridiron, as two storied programs with very different cultures battle for national supremacy, school pride, and the soul of the game itself ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • War Without Death

    A Year of Extreme Competition in Pro Football

    by Mark Maske ...
    In this masterpiece of sports reportage, Washington Post staff writer Mark Maske--one of the most respected journalists working both on and off the field--draws on unprecedented access to produce a behind-the-scenes look at the NFL's bitterest rivals: the Philadelphia Eagles, New York Giants, Washington Redskins, and Dallas Cowboys.Relentlessly reported from the leadership level, War Without Death ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Fair Play

    How LGBT Athletes Are Claiming Their Rightful Place in Sports

    by Cyd Zeigler ...
    Zeigler tells the story of how sports has been radically transformed for LGBT athletes in the past four years." Fair Play presents LGBT history and shows how far the movement has come. It's also an important scrapbook of past and present-day gay athletes who have bravely tested America's social climate and come out, even when their careers were at risk." — Bay Area ReporterWhen Cyd Zeigler started ... Read more

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