He has a dream of playing in the NHL and no one is going to get in the way of that. He has a vision for his future that no one can change, but when his brother's best friend moves to town he begins to think about someone other than himself. With his eyes on the new girl will he lose his focus, and ultimately his dream?Twenty-two-year-old Logan Leo has never lived a life for herself. She's had to take care of others for as long as she can remember, but now that she has no longer has the responsibility of anyone else can she learn to care about herself first? She's moving across the county to live closer to her best friend in hopes that she can learn to become a bit more selfish and begin to build the life that SHE wants to have. That is until she meets her best friend's brother, Eli.

    Since 2001, they’ve spent more money, lost more games, and won fewer playoff series than any other NBA team. But during the preceding era, the Big Apple had a club it was madly in love with—one that earned respect not only by winning, but through brute force. The Knicks were always looking for fights, often at the encouragement of Pat Riley. They fought opposing players. They fought each other. Hell, they even occasionally fought their own coaches. The NBA didn’t take kindly to their fighting spirit. Within two years, league officials moved to alter several rules to stop New York from turning its basketball games into bloody mudwrestling matches. Nevertheless, as the 1990s progressed, the Knicks endeared themselves to millions of fans; not for how much they won, but for their colorful cast of characters and their hardworking mentality. Now, through his original reporting and interviews with more than two hundred people, author Chris Herring delves into the origin, evolution, and eventual demise of the iconic club. He takes us inside the locker room, executive boardrooms, and onto the court for the key moments that lifted the club to new heights, and the ones that threatened to send everything crashing down in spectacular fashion. Blood in the Garden is a portrait filled with eye-opening details that have never been shared before, revealing the full story of the franchise in the midst of the NBA’s golden era. And rest assured, no punches will be pulled. Which is just how those rough-and-tumble Knicks would like it.

    But after losing his career and his fiancée in a car accident, he falls into a pit of grief and bad choices. When a mysterious girl shows up to his party, he feels drawn to her and makes her his…for one night.Former beauty queen Nova Morgan is on a mission. Scantily clad as a princess from a galaxy far, far away, she sneaks into a high-profile party to capture the attention of her favorite quarterback. But her hopes crash after an awful one-night stand.Fast-forward two years. Broke and desperate, Nova returns home to Blue Belle, Texas, where, by a cosmic twist of fate, her broody neighbor is none other than Ronan, the shiny new football coach everyone adores. But he has no idea who she is.The booster club keeps shoving women at Ronan to keep him in town. His solution? He proposes fake dating to Nova. But things heat up for real under these Friday-night lights when he realizes she’s the one who slipped away.Has this jaded beauty found her forever baller, or will his past keep them apart?

    No dating all season.2. Don’t jinx a no-hitter while one’s in progress. 3. Be cold-hearted. If you find something you think about more than baseball, destroy it. Calliope Thomas is one of those things. Ever since she left a bad review on the Max Energy Drink I endorse, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about her. Obviously, when she said she hoped I had a losing season, I had to meet her and get her to take the words back.Now, she’s making me do insane things. Like, obsess over the color of her panties or if I can make her blush. Read superstition one—I don’t do this sort of thing. I play ball, not chase after a woman I barely know. But, I am, and she wants nothing to do with me. She thinks I’m the devil. And I have to say she makes me want to sin. I’m becoming a borderline stalker. And to make matters worse she’s affecting my game. I can’t pitch. I can’t hit. I can’t focus. Something needs to give, and it won’t be me.

    The nation’s favorite football player. Can they make it work?An unlikely matching of the stars. The opposites had it all for one year.Justice Bexley, the daughter of Cain and Calla leaders of The Diamond Syndicate, sacrificed true love to protect Liam. Her selfish action destroyed them both.Liam Blake moved on with his prestigious career. However, his outlook on life was never the same. If his parents could fight for true love with a Pinky Promise he can keep moving forward. At least he tried convincing himself of that.Some say true love has a way of finding its way back. Justice and Liam know better to believe. That’s up until the day they find themselves in a heated meeting.She owns a new football team.He’s coming back from an injury and thirsty to prove the nation wrong.Years of pent-up anger and hatred may fuel an epic second chance love story or ruin both of them for good.Find out in FULL CONTACT by HJ Bellus & Kathy Coopmans.Reading Cain and/or Pinky Promise prior to Full Contact is not necessary. While it would provide insight into their families, their story is a standalone.

    Three years ago, she walked out of my life. No explanation. Just gone. With the biggest fight of my career only weeks away, she walked back in. I'll do anything to protect her. Destroy anyone who tries to hurt her. When it comes to Mac, there isn't a line I won't cross. I've loved her my entire life, and now that's she's back I won't let her go. She refuses to speak about the past, or the secrets I know she's hiding. I know she's planning on running again. But when you love someone, you stay and fight. Even if you're fighting blind.

    Don't miss out, grab yours now!Gucci:It was supposed to be one night with no rules. One night, just her and me.Booze has a way of sucking the oxygen out of your fears and feeding it to the parts of your heart you starve. It was the end of summer. The alcohol, fire and a wild look in her eyes was too much to turn away from.Now we're supposed to go back to college and pretend it never happened. Like, she's still just my best friend's little sister. The girl I grew up with. Not this addiction burning in my veins.I don't want to hide it. Or sneak around behind my best friend's back. But, Etta is more than just his little sister.And I need so much more than one night.

    Coach little league as part of community service…or face jail time. So here I am…coaching little league, a project I wasn’t looking forward to—that’s until I see Stella at the field with her son. Unfortunately for me it takes a lot longer than I’d hoped for her to give me the time of day.Yet, now that I’ve caught her attention, things are much more complicated than I thought. Who knew juggling a struggling friend, community service, a team bully and a girlfriend would be this hard?But I won’t let it get me down. Someone once told me the secret to success, and come hell or high water I’ll show everyone around me that I……refuse to lose.

    

    Uncle MurrayA so-called expert on cat care meets his match when he comes to babysit Bad Kitty!Happy Birthday, Bad KittyWhen this grumpy cat doesn't like her presents or the cake, it's time for a temper tantrum!

    Following in his father’s footsteps, his entire life revolves around the game. Opponents call him cocky, and they aren’t wrong, but no one knows the driving force behind his arrogance. Until he has to play nice with his enemy.Drew Rockland is the epitome of calm and collected on the mound. As a veteran player, he knows what it takes to pitch under pressure while keeping his emotions in check. Until he faces Aron and loses his cool.Aron’s showboating and Drew’s old-school ballplayer demeanor instantly puts them at odds, resulting in an all-out brawl on the field and a suspension. After the fight, all should have been forgotten, but an unexpected trade places them on the same team … and in the same apartment.Off the field, there is no one to pull them apart ... But maybe they prefer it that way.Traded is a MM enemies-to-lovers sports romance with first times and secret hook-ups that will leave you begging for more. And good thing, since this is book 1 in a duet and their story will conclude in book 2.

    I slid into home plate and snapped the bone in my lower leg. The white, blinding pain was excruciating, and I screamed and cried like a little girl. The umpire, my coach, and I all swore we could hear the bone crack. We won the game, but I ended up in the ambulance on the way to the emergency room. We figured I would be out of the playoffs, but I was back for the next game.She’s a voice in my head. Not in the sense of, “Wow, Jagger DeWinter is so weird. He hears voices.” But an actual person. She knows me. Or rather we know each other, only she has never given me her name. I knew her only as Her, but I also called her Supergirl. I mean, somebody that could communicate with you through their mind and heal your wounds and illness has to be some kind of superhero, right?What if you could communicate with someone through your mind, but they didn't tell you their name? What if that person could heal your body through a psychic link? They would become the center of your existence. You would love them with your entire being. And you would protect them with your life.One day, I was a pitcher on my high school baseball team, a boyfriend, a brother, a son. The next day, I was a pawn in a centuries-old feud between another species of human and she was the only thing that could hold me together.

    Once known as the Blond Bomber, Draper's readers now consider him the Pied Piper of bodybuilding.

    She’s young, angry, and so in need of love. Within moments, she’s stolen a piece of my heart that I didn’t realize I had left to give. Her uncle, sexy-as-sin hockey coach Silas Whittaker, had me the moment his sultry, soul-searing eyes promised all my dreams.Like the girl he cares for, he’s jaded and broken by his childhood—not to mention in way over his head parenting for the first time. He knows nothing about children and even less about families.That’s where I come in. Putting it in hockey terms he understands, I’m the fixer. I’m not sure if I can fix their issues, but Beatrix and Silas make me yearn to share in their future while teaching them how to hope and, maybe even love.A steamy, angsty single dad sports romance from USA Today Bestseller Alexa Padgett.

    Sourav Ganguly: The Maharaja Of Cricket is about the man, the leader and the motivator. With a bat in his hands, he is still worth a wager. This book is a tribute to the grit, courage and dedication of one man who taught Indian cricketers to dream. He is the man who can be credited with building Team India, brick by brick. The story of Sourav Ganguly is essentially that of a bright young lad’s metamorphosis into a leader in a battlefield called cricket. It is the kind of stuff that fairy tales are made of.‘Under Sourav Ganguly, India has won no fewer than 11 Tests abroad. Not much by any standards but when you consider the fact that they had only 13 away Test victories to their credit earlier, it is a commendable achievement in five years. Now, if you think Indians won only in Bangladesh and Zimbabwe under Sourav you are wrong. Sourav’s first victory was against Bangladesh and the last against Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe, but let’s not forget that in between, India had won in England, West Indies, Sri Lanka, Australia and Pakistan, too. This is something an Indian team had never done before.’ Geoffrey Boycott

    until someone gets hurt.I'm Andrea Harper, top striker for the LA Angels. I play hard, party hard, and I don't do relationships. I sleep with who I want, when I want. I'm out to have fun. The only important thing in my life is soccer. I have spent my entire life dedicated to the game. And I'm on track to be one of the best female soccer players in the country, if not the world. Being the best is the only thing that matters.But life has a way of throwing you a curveball when you least expect it, and in my case, it was love.One night with my childhood hero was all it took. Brad Swift. He's nearly ten years older and used to be one of the best professional soccer players in the world before he got injured. He was my childhood hero until we slept together and messed all that up. I thought I could put it down to just another stupid mistake, that he would go back to England and I would never see him again.That was until he turned up at training as our new soccer coach.The attraction we share is undeniable, but he's off limits. It's strictly forbidden for a coach to date a player. Too bad I've never been one to follow the rules and the temptation is just too much... So we slip up, make a pact to keep it fun. Nobody needs to know.But secrets this good have a way of getting into the wrong hands. And when they do, danger is the name of the game.* Content warning: contains elements of violence and self-harm.

    

    

    From Nordkapp (the northernmost point of mainland Europe) to the German border with Denmark (3000 km south) carrying everything she needed on her back.Initially accompanied by a fellow trail runner, Sophie finds herself thrown into a solo adventure running through some of the most rugged scenery Europe has to offer.Heading out to Norway, bears are top of Sophie’s worries. However, she is soon to find that these big grizzly creatures would be the least of her concerns. In the first month alone having to battle extreme fatigue, dehydration, relentless bog, hunger and eventually illness, the odds are quickly stacked against her. However, not willing to give in Sophie pushes on, often against the advice she has received from people back home. In doing so she finds herself on a journey of self-discovery which creates memories that will last a lifetime.Humorously, we travel along with Sophie, seeing the whole of Scandinavia as we go. The people she meets on the way, the scenery, the food (though often less than gourmet) and everything else that completes this inspiring and ultimately heart-warming story.This is a book which shows that ordinary people can do incredible things. Sophie begins this journey with very little running experience, a disillusionment with sprint kayaking (a sport she had been competing in since a young age) and a thirst to prove herself. Let Sophie’s journey take you out of your comfort zone and show you that there is always more out there if you just have the courage to go and get it.

    He’s a man on a mission; redeeming the death of his little brother, whose death he holds himself accountable for. With a 5 year old daughter at home he needs the money from his wins now more than ever and is steadily making his way to the top. There’s just one problem - he’s taken a keen interest in his coach’s daughter and can’t afford distractions or any further burdens. But resisting her and focusing on his reality is easier said than done.Quiet and shy Emily Resnick leads a simple life as an elementary teacher. Until her father took the talented and outrageously handsome Jaxon Cage under his wing. Now, she finds herself consumed by the dark and brooding but secretly soft-hearted man. She was a goner for him the second she saw the devotion he gave to his daughter and work. As she discovers the many layers to this difficult man she can’t help but want him. But Jaxon is intent on pushing her away and Emily must decide if she should avoid the inevitable destruction of her heart while she can, or fight for the fighter

    Part travelogue, part biography, part memoir, One for the Memory Banks captures the give and take of competition and conjures these memories and relationships in technicolor. Through vignettes, Luke Reese carries readers on a sweeping journey across the UK and Ireland, introducing them to a motley crew of people who share a passion, and reminding them what makes golf so great.

    Athena Delaney works at a publishing company to publish gossips and news about celebrities. One drunken night, she met a well known football player from Spain. Well not exactly, she didn't know he was even a football player. Alexander Herrera finds her interesting that he couldn't resist her pink tempting lips. So he kissed her. Him, the well known footballer kissed a stranger he just met at the bar. But little did he know that,one kiss changes it all.

    The titles which are included with this set are NEW …1. striking out, 2. Reading The Game, 3. The Real Thing, 4. Boys United, 5. Captain Fantastic,6. Free Kick.

    "W-what," I breathed. His gaze flicked to my lips as his thumb stroked again. The calloused pad against my soft flesh sent goosebumps down my arms. His once warm eyes were dark as they lifted and bared into my soul. "What you do to... men." His husky whisper weakened my knees. I almost fell but his other hand settled on my hip, pulling me closer to him. "What you do to me," he added on a breath. The hand on my jaw shifted. His fingers left trails of tingles as he slipped them back slowly, under my earlobe and into my curls. ***************************************************As a young girl, Charlotte Avery's favourite pass time was daydreaming about her Prince Charming: Archer Johnson. She never stopped to consider that Archer was her brother's best friend.. Or that he always appeared severely creeped out by her attention. On her 16th birthday, Charlotte received a harsh reality check. Realizing just how embarrassing she had been acting, she swore to never make a fool of herself in front of Archer again. The problem?She is about to head to college and unfortunately, it's the same school where Archer is currently the star quarterback. Follow Charlotte during her first year at USC as she juggles new experiences, social anxiety, family drama back home, and avoiding Archer. These are the unintended consequences of an embarrassing childhood crush.

    

    As the communications director for UW basketball, author Patrick Herb takes Wisconsin fans on a behind-the-scenes look at what made this Badger team a media favorite as well as the most successful squad in school history. This dazzling keepsake includes first-hand accounts from the players and head coach Bo Ryan on key moments from the season, game-by-game recaps of all the NCAA tournament games, special player and team features, and extended coverage of the Final Four victory over Kentucky and national championship game vs. Duke in Indianapolis. Plus, there are over 100 full-color photos — many never before published — included in this one-of-a-kind work.It’s a must-have for every member of the Badger Nation.About the author:Patrick Herb is in his sixth year as Assistant Director for Athletic Communications for Men’s Basketball at the University of Wisconsin. An alumnus of UW-Madison, Herb spent seven-years on the Kansas City Chiefs public relations staff before returning to Wisconsin.

    But at the end of seventh grade, on the same day she makes a gutsy play to send her softball team to the league championships and Xander, the boy she likes, makes it clear that he likes her too, a scandal shakes up her world. Bea’s dad made a big mistake, taking money that belonged to a client. He’s now suspended from practicing law, and another lawyer spread the news online. To make matters worse, that other lawyer is Xander’s dad. Bea doesn’t want to be angry with her dad, especially since he feels terrible and is trying to make things right. But she can't face the looks of pity from all her friends, and then she starts missing throws in softball because she’s stuck in her own head. The thing she was best at seems to be slipping out of her fingers along with her formerly happy family. She's not sure what's going to be harder—learning to throw again, or forgiving her dad. How can she be the best version of herself when everything she loves is falling apart?

    I pray he’s not like the rest, giving me the cold shoulder once the challenge is met.Because I’m ready for the fairy tale.MickWhen you’re benched from your professional baseball career, you learn how cold the world is.I’d lost my dream job and my girl. Never again.Until this Nordic beauty slowly chips away at my resolve.There’s no stopping it. I’m falling hard for this elusive princess. But can I trust this fantasy girl could be my forever and not another nightmare?Because Ava deserves a happily ever after, and I’m just the man for the job.

    She's going to study for her degree, and her number one rule now is... no distractions.Clayton Stirling has just one goal. The NFL, baby. With his hometown rooting for him and the pressure mounting, his only focus is football, and his prize possession, his throwing arm. Until he runs into a girl so intent on hiding from him, he can't forget her.With Indie trying to keep Clayton at arm's length, and him wanting nothing but to know her better, will she be able to overcome her distraught past and finally move forward? Or will she push away the one person who could help her let it all go?

    Instead, nothing is the same. When he meets Chris, he finds not only a fellow baseball player, but a close friend – one who gives him the courage to explore the things about himself he's been hiding. Rating R - 16,400 words - Complete. Mild sexual situations between consenting 16-year-olds.Available at the gayauthor's: https://gayauthors.org/story/libby-drew/runningfarafield/

     It didn't help that she thought I was stalking her either, and maybe I was . . . a little. I just couldn't help myself! She was my dream girl, an unattainable and infuriating one, but my dream girl nonetheless. To her, I would never be more than an unaccented pain in the ass. Sure, I didn't have an accent like she wanted, but there's more to love than the way a person talks. I was determined to show her that. Only, she didn't want my love, my help, or anything else from me, unless you counted my . . . yeah, she definitely wanted ALL of that. No matter how many times I tried to convince her, she just couldn't admit how good we really were for each other. It was like she purposely put up a fight just to torment me. I almost gave up, until one bad decision led her back to me, and now I'm the only thing keeping her from going to jail.

    Owners and executives increasingly count on the blind loyalty of their fans and too often act against the team’s best interest. Intentionally tanking a season to get a high draft pick, scamming local governments to build cushy new stadiums, and actively subverting the players have become business as usual in professional sports.In Rethinking Fandom, sportswriter (and lifelong sports fan) Craig Calcaterra argues that fans have more power than they realize to change how their teams behave. With his characteristic wit and piercing commentary, Calcaterra calls for a radical reexamination of what it means to be a fan in the twenty-first century.

    Autobiography of Bo Jackson.

    2016 Who's Who in Baseball

    FIRST EDITIONVERY GOOD CONDITION, PAGES ARE CLEAN AND CRISP AND FREE OF MARKINGS, DUST COVER HAS SOME SHELF PULL AND CORNERS SLIGHTLY RIPPEDHardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster;(1969) Language: English SHIPS OUT NEXT MORNING OR SOONER

    

    

    

    He has coached three different teams to three World Cup finals, and in the five years in charge of the England rugby union team he has won three Six Nations championship titles, including back-to-back championships and the inaugural Autumn Nations Cup. In this inspirational and straight-talking book, Eddie reveals the secrets behind his extraordinary career and shows how any leader can apply these lessons in any walk of life. He breaks down the cycle of success into five key areas: kick-off, build, test, perform, refresh. Within these areas he identifies the key elements of culture, identity, preparation, pressure, empowerment, responsibility, failure and legacy, to reveal the ingredients for not only making a great team, but for enjoying sustained success. He draws on his own vast experience as well as lessons from other areas including companies such as Uniqlo, a US basketball team that hugely over-indexes on its success relative to its size, and Liverpool under Klopp. Written with Donald McRae, two-time winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, On Leadership is the book for anyone who wants to learn how to build and lead a team to success.

    Coach Trent Rearden and Aubrey Madison's storyOfficial blurb coming soon...

    

    He holds the record for the most stolen bases in a single game, and he’s scored more runs than any player ever. “If you cut Rickey Henderson in half, you’d have two Hall of Famers,” the baseball historian Bill James once said.But perhaps even more than his prowess on the field, Rickey Henderson’s is a story of Oakland, California, the town that gave rise to so many legendary athletes like him. And it’s a story of a sea change in sports, when athletes gained celebrity status and Black players finally earned equitable salaries. Henderson embraced this shift with his trademark style, playing for nine different teams throughout his decades-long career and sculpting a brash, larger-than-life persona that stole the nation’s heart. Now, in the hands of critically acclaimed sportswriter and culture critic Howard Bryant, one of baseball’s greatest and most original stars finally gets his due.

    

    

    Sanskrit names, English translations, and pronunciation cues accompany each pose. Yoga Resource is arranged into convenient categories-accessible via easy to use tabs and an innovative visual index with thumbnail photos-to help students efficiently navigate through the content. An alphabetized index offers quick access to poses by name. The book is designed to help yoga students locate, identify, and be inspired by common yoga postures as quantum quickly as possible. A hybrid hardcover and wire binding allows Yoga Resource to lie flat as you practice, and protects the tabs and pages.

    Check.Landed the job of my dreams with the Boulder Bullets. Double check.Score VIP tickets to see my favorite band, The Whiskey Barrels, perform at the USA Music Festival in Bear Creek. Triple check.Not only have those dreams become reality, but I nearly checked off the last remaining goal: find Mr. Right when I met Jonah at the music festival. Jonah and I spent a whirlwind day together under the Colorado Rocky Mountains sky, and he almost turned into my one-night stand.The only problem with Mr. Right?He also happens to be a new rookie on the team. Which means he’s all wrong and off-limits because I can’t date one of the players. Even if he checks all my boxes on the boyfriend checklist.JonahGetting drafted out of college to play professional basketball with the Boulder Bullets was a dream come true.How lucky am I?Even luckier when Tiler, the cute girl I spent the day with at the music festival but then lost in a crowd, ends up being the new social media assistant for the team. Score!Although, she doesn’t see it that way. Tiler assures me we were a one-time thing and what started between us is no longer on the menu. But this Iowa farm boy turned pro player has never backed down from a challenge. I’ll find a way to change her mind and prove that I’m the man she’s been waiting for. **The Boyfriend Checklist is a standalone story in the All American Boy Series, a 15 multi-author series in a shared world experience.Welcome to Bear Creek, Colorado, an idyllic all-American mountain resort town and home of the USA Music Festival. Filled with summer love, country music and unexpected pleasures, this brand-new series of short contemporary stories will bring together a mix of summer fun and music with the backdrop of the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

    

    

    

    Collectively these GMs represent over 500 seasons of GM experience.

    

    

    Illustrated with Photos - on December 6, 1969, milions of Americans were watching Freddie Steinmark play in one of the most hair raising hard fought games in the history of collegiate football...

    

    

    Back in Motion is all about understanding pain, reducing the fear that often comes with it, empowering you to take control. This Book Wasn’t Written... It Was Assembled & Optimized.Assembled from the best available scientific evidence on what back pain really is. Optimized by the collective experiences of world-class athletes like Mat Fraser (4x Fittest Man on Earth), Stefi Cohen (25 World Records in Powerlifting) and Hafthor Bjornsson (World's Strongest Man winner). Back in Motion is tailored for the kind of person who wants to feel powerful again. For those sidelined by pain, it lights the path off the bench back into the game, back to your previous level of function and beyond. In the process, you’ll discover an essential handbook for handling the hoops and hurdles of life.Back in Motion is for anyone (athlete, coach, or clinician) dealing with the setback and frustration of a back pain. Back In Motion provides the HYBRID approach to overcoming pain and building resilience through resistance training. This book will arm you with the knowledge needed to overcome any obstacle on the road to Strength. Back In Motion provides your solution to low back pain self-management. Inside you will find scientific principles that apply to movement related pain more broadly.Athletes, coaches, and clinicians will be armed with the knowledge they need to overcome any obstacle on the road to strength.

    

    

    It's more than a love-story. This is a book about overcoming obstacles, struggling through loss, tearing down walls and trusting the most vulnerable part of yourself, our heart." -Badass Beauties Book Club I had the perfect life...the perfect family...the perfect future. ...until one terrifying night when everything was ripped from me. Now I'm trying to sew back the pieces, but it's hard when I'm haunted by nightmares and faced with a bully who does everything to shatter my future. Then I met him... Kade Maxwell makes my mouth water and my belly tingle. Through his own pain, he shows me that I'm stronger than I think. I'm not so sure when his enemy is determined to use me to get to him. Too many obstacles, too many triggers, and one boy who just might be the key to mending my broken heart. This book has strong language and sexual content and is intended for audiences 18+ ˃˃˃ This heartfelt book is about growing up and learning to love and trust. I loved every aspect of this book which why I highly recommend it." –Bbs book reviews ˃˃˃ Cute, fun and a little sassy with a bit of tragedy acting as the cherry on top of the New Adult sundae. It was refreshing." -No Bent Spines ABOUT THE SERIES: The Maxwell Series is about a group of brothers who are all about family, duty, honor, and will do anything to protect those they love. Be prepared for all the feels as Kade, Kelton, Kross, and Kody put their hearts on the line. Book 1: Dare to KissBook 2: Dare to DreamBook 3: Dare to LoveBook 4: Dare to DanceBook 5: Dare to LiveBook 6: Dare to Breathe Scroll up and grab a copy today.

    Reynolds tip off the first book in a new middle grade series about a young boy trying to make his mark on an AAU basketball team coached by a former NBA star in his hometown. Perfect for fans of The Crossover and the Track series. Tony loves basketball. But the game changed recently when his best friend, Dante, a hoops phenom, was killed by a police officer. Tony hopes he can carry on Dante's legacy by making the Sabres, the AAU basketball team Dante took to two national championships.Tony doesn't make the team, but Coach James likes what he sees from Tony at tryouts and offers him another chance: join the team as the statistician. With his community reeling and the team just finding its footing on the court, can Tony find a path to healing while helping to bring the Sabres a championship?

    A legendary collection of Brooklyn and Los Angeles greats describe their favorite day in Dodger Blue. The all-star lineup includes Carl Erskine, Maury Wills, Wes Parker, Willie Davis, Jimmy Wynn, Steve Garvey, Tommy Lasorda, Lou Johnson, Steve Yeager, Jim Gott, longtime executive Buzzie Bavasi, Hall of Fame broadcasters Vin Scully and Jaime Jarrin, even longtime Dodger Stadium organist Nancy Bea Hefley and team physician Dr. Frank Jobe, whose impact on baseball has been felt far beyond just Los Angeles.

    it is an alternate cover edition: ISBN 9780470622070the original entry has no cover photo

    

    But you can learn significant things about fencing from a book." The book is for those who have learned fencing by fencing with quality fencers rather than from a Maitre d'Armes who is trained to teach, not just practice, the sport.The book is very complete--history, techniques, rules, equipment and troubleshooting thereof, drills, refereeing, teaching, making a fencing dummy (though the author also mentions that he sells them), and so on. The book certainly justifies its name--it covers the whole range of information one might need as a fencer.

    Their work has invoked a renewed passion for an integrated clinical model that reinforces the inherent partnership of human structure and function. Working closely with individuals of this caliber over the years has been my reward."Erik Dalton

    Cook has counseled and the great mentors and teachers from whom he has learned.

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    But then, as a joke, a classmate signs him up for the track team. To everyone’s surprise, Chunky accepts this challenge – well, sort of.

    

    In 1979 he won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes—and transcended his sport on a run of twelve consecutive stakes victories—but his quest for the Triple Crown was lost with a third-place finish in the Belmont Stakes due to a series of bizarre events that have never been accurately reported. In The Fast Ride, Jack Gilden tells the story of what really happened that day the Bid lost the biggest race of his life. Along the way, he introduces the reader to a cast of characters from the gilded age of late twentieth-century horse racing, from Bid’s owners, the renowned Meyerhoff family, to Grover “Buddy” Delp, the fast-talking trainer, to teenage jockey Ronnie Franklin, whose meteoric rise to fame aboard Spectacular Bid came at the cost of his innocence and well-being. Also present are four of the era’s magnificent Latino riders, Ángel Cordero Jr., Jacinto Vasquez, Georgie Velasquez, and Ruben Hernandez, who all felt the sting of rejection and bigotry during their long careers even as they found their way and raised the level of competition to a feverish pitch. Underlying Spectacular Bid’s saga was a thin line between hard work and excess, including substance abuse, animal manipulation and doping, and race fixing. Hardly anyone in the horse’s circle made it out unscathed or undamaged.The Fast Ride is the story of a great racehorse, unfulfilled dreams, the exhilaration and steep price of striving at all costs, and an American era in which getting everything you ever wanted could be the most empty and unfulfilling sensation of all.

    But a team of U.S. college players had other ideas. The stunning upset of the Soviet hockey team by the young Americans has been called the greatest moment in international hockey. And to many people the victory was about much more than sports. Americans had gone through difficult times at home and abroad. Beating the best hockey team in the world - and its major Cold War rival - gave Americans a sense of pride. One iconic photo captured the impact of that 'miraculous' historic event

    Description:- Born to Run: The Hidden Tribe, the Ultra-Runners At the heart of Born to Run lies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons and are reputed to be the best distance runners in the world; in 1993, one of them, aged 57, came first in a prestigious 100-mile race wearing a toga and sandals. A small group of the world's top ultra-runners (and the awe-inspiring author) make the treacherous journey into the canyons to try to learn the tribe's secrets and then take them on over a course 50 miles long. With incredible energy and smart observation, McDougall tells this story while asking what the secrets are to being an incredible runner. Natural Born Heroes: The Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance When Chris McDougall stumbled across the story of Churchill's 'dirty tricksters', a motley crew of English poets and academics who helped resist the Nazi invasion of Crete, he knew he was on the track of something special.To beat the odds, the tricksters-starving, aging, outnumbered-tapped into an ancient style of fitness: the lost art of heroism. They listened to their instincts, replaced calories with stored bodily fat and used their fascia, the network of tissue which criss-crosses the body, to catapult themselves to superhuman strength and endurance. Soon McDougall was in the middle of a modern fitness revolution taking place everywhere from Parisian parkour routes to state-of-the-art laboratories, and based on the know-how of Shanghai street-fighters and Wild West gunslingers.

    In 1986, Ross Oakley was appointed chairman and CEO of the struggling VFL. During the 10 years that followed he oversaw the revolution of the game and its administrative structure, and took the League from all but broke into a massive business. Often faced with very public and emotive opposition and criticism, he took brave decisions to take the game to new frontiers. His legacy is the national competition, and Australian sport's most professional administration, led by the AFL Commission. Told from Oakley’s unique vantage point, The Phoenix Rises revisits the 80s, a turbulent and divisive era in AFL history, and reveals, for the first time, the off field tumult that took place, often behind closed doors. From never before revealed insights taken from the confidential minutes of the League, to the faltering steps behind the AFL’s ground-breaking Racial and Religious Vilification laws, The Phoenix Rises exposes the full picture, and the truth behind the drive to the national competition and the independent Commission.

    Yet away from rugby, he's a mild-mannered and thoughtful man - a qualified doctor with a thirst for knowledge and a curiosity about the world around him. It's an intriguing contradiction.In his first full season with the Cardiff Blues he was picked by new Wales coach Warren Gatland in the Grand Slam-winning side of 2008. He was still establishing his position in the national team when he toured with the 2009 Lions, emerging as Player of the Series. He went on to win 97 Test caps and play for clubs in Paris, London and Cape Town, yet his career has seldom been straightforward. A fractured skull was one of many injuries he had to overcome, and from the start he had to juggle the competing demands of university life and professional rugby. The joy of Six Nations success with Wales was balanced by heartbreak in the World Cup and disappointment against southern-hemisphere teams, while major trophies at club level proved frustratingly elusive.In this colourful and frank account of a sterling career, Jamie Roberts reveals all about life on tour, in boot camps and in dressing rooms filled with once-in-a-generation characters such as Mike Phillips, Andy Powell, Shaun Edwards, Martyn Williams, Brian O'Driscoll and Johnny Sexton. He also shares his views on concussion in rugby, the failings of the professional structure in Wales and the vital role of old-school team-bonding.

    

    

    This period, known as the Black Fives Era (teams at the time were often called “fives”), was a time of pioneering players and managers. They battled discrimination and marginalization and created culturally rich, socially meaningful events. But despite headline-making rivalries between big-city clubs, the savvy moves of innovative businessmen, and the undeniable talent of star players, this period is almost entirely unknown to basketball fans.    Claude Johnson has made it his mission to change that. An advocate fiercely committed to our history, for more than two decades Johnson has conducted interviews, mined archives, collected artifacts, and helped to preserve this historically important African American experience that otherwise would have been lost. The Black Fives is the result of his work, a landmark narrative history that braids together the stories of these forgotten pioneers and rewrites our understanding of the story of basketball.

    

    Losers in the previous Super Bowl, a ragtag bunch of overlooked, underappreciated, or just plain old players, they were led by Don Shula, a genius young coach obsessed with obliterating the reputation that he couldn’t win the big game. And as the Dolphins headed into only their seventh season, all eyes were on Miami. For the last time, a city was hosting both national political conventions, and the backdrop to this season of redemption would be turbulent: the culture wars, the Nixon reelection campaign, the strange, unfolding saga of Watergate, and the war in Vietnam. Generational and cultural divides abounded on the team as well. There were long-haired, bell-bottomed party animals such as Jim “Mad Dog” Mandich, as well as the stylish Marv Fleming and Curtis Johnson, with his supernova afro, playing alongside conservative, straight-laced men like the quarterbacks: Bob Griese and the crew-cut savior, 38-year-old backup Earl Morrall. Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick, nicknamed “Butch and Sundance,” had to make way for a third running back, the outspoken and flamboyant Mercury Morris. But unlike the fractious society around them, this racially and culturally diverse group found a way to meld seamlessly into a team. The perfect team. Marshall Jon Fisher’s Seventeen and Oh is a compelling, fast-paced account of a season unlike any other.

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    However, the league’s star team, the Toledo Troopers, emerged to challenge traditional gender roles and amass a win-loss record never before or since achieved in American football. The players were housewives, factory workers, hairdressers, former nuns, high school teachers, bartenders, mail carriers, pilots, and would-be drill sergeants. Black, white, Latina. Mothers and daughters and aunts and sisters. But most of all, they were athletes who had been denied the opportunity to play a game they were born to play. Before the protests and the lobbyists, before the debates and the amendments, before the marches and the mandates, there was only an obscure advertisement in a local Midwestern paper and those who answered it, women such as Lee Hollar, the only woman working the line at the Libbey glass factory; Gloria Jimenez, who grew up playing sports with her six brothers; and Linda Jefferson, one the greatest, most accomplished athletes in sports history. Stephen Guinan grew up in Toledo pulling for his hometown football team, and—in the innocence of youth—did not realize at the time what a barrier-breaking lost piece of history he was witnessing. We Are the Troopers shines light on forgotten champions who came together for the love of the game.

    

    

    Learn your cockpits from your monocoques, your paddles from your paddocks, your downforce from your G-force, and all that lies between! Packed full of round-the-world record-breaking race, team and driver info and all the technical car 'gumpf'you'll ever need! Sit on the edge of your seat and read all about nail-biting championship moments, team triumph and tragedy, exhilarating starts and expertly engineered race strategies. Then, pull out your official race posterand put it on the wall. The perfect souvenir for any budding F1 addict.

    Sherm Chavoor, the man who coached Mark Spitz to Olympic stardom with an unprecedented 7 gold medals, tells here the unvarnished, inside story of competitive swimming which is the "focus of more scratching and clawing, more struggling for power, and more parasitism than almost anywhere in the world."

    

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    His natural warmth and infectious enthusiasm won great affection with audiences, whilst his passion and knowledge of motorsport allowed him to hone his instinctive presenting style into a craft.When Murray passed away in March 2021, tributes came flooding in from every corner of the sporting world. This book, compiled by Murray's great friend and colleague Maurice Hamilton, celebrates the extraordinary life of this truly legendary man. With contributions from drivers and industry figures, and many friends from the world of motorsport and beyond, Incredible! combines fond memories, never-before-told stories and famous Murrayisms with reflections on the highlights of a life lived at full throttle.

    

    

    

    Drawing on his experience as a public school teacher, he graded each stadium using letter grades for several categories covering everything from design to food quality. He also shares colorful stories about his adventures (and misadventures) during the epic road trip.

    and European golfing talent against each other—exploring the modern history of the tournament that led to the showdown at Whistling Straits, and how 2021's contenders represent the PGA Tour at its most intriguing.The task facing Steve Stricker at the 2021 Ryder Cup was enormous. It was his job, as the American captain, to stare down almost 40 years of Ryder Cup history, break a pattern of American home losses that had persisted almost as long, and reverse the tide of European dominance in golf's most infamous event. From the moment the first ball was struck at the 2021 Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin, Team USA stood with its back to the abyss, fighting a rearguard action against what could have been the worst and most expensive defeat in Ryder Cup history. It was the epitome of a must-win situation, but it was also something more -- in the entire 93-year history of the event, no American side has ever confronted the kind of pressure they faced. Starting on the morning of September 24, those 12 players competed not just for a Cup, and not just for pride, but to save the reputation of the US team itself. In the Ryder Cup, golf's most prestigious team event, America has long featured the better individual talent, yet repeatedly come up short in competition. Starting with the European renaissance led by Tony Jacklin in the 1980s, the US has been squarely on the back foot, careening from one idea to another without a unified strategy, while their rivals across the Atlantic have carefully orchestrated a template that produces victory after victory. It's been a desperate, losing fight for the US, in which they looked more like a dysfunctional family than anything resembling a cohesive team. Throw in the complications of COVID-19, which delayed the event from its original date in September 2020, and the stage was set for one of the strangest, most intriguing Ryder Cups ever. Tiger Woods was out after his horrific car crash, Patrick Reed ("Captain America," to his supporters) was hospitalized with double pneumonia weeks before the event, and America had to rely on its rising stars -- including Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka, who spent most of the year immersed in an escalating feud -- to prove their mettle on the world's biggest stage. Meanwhile, the European team had the better Ryder Cup pedigree, and a few major stars of their own, including Jon Rahm, the world no. 1 and the first Spanish player ever to win the U.S. Open.Following each turn in the drama in Wisconsin, The Cup They Couldn't Lose tells the story of how the sport reached this moment, how the US rallied to defeat the Europeans in record fashion, and what it all means for the drama and spectacle of golf.

    Still bruised from an old relationship, his focus is on playing hockey. But when one of his new teammates turns out to be the hottest man he’s ever met, Blake wonders if he should reconsider his aversion to romance.Mark Sakamoto—Sako—one of the Barracudas’ rising young stars, is immediately smitten with Blake. Deeply closeted because he fears revealing his sexuality to his family, Sako resists his attraction by using scorn and insults to push Blake away. Hurt by Sako’s behavior, Blake reacts in kind, and the two men are soon at war.Just as their fighting threatens to disrupt the team, the unexpected happens, and Sako and Blake bond over a silly prank. Their newfound camaraderie soon develops into a relationship, and the men become inseparable. With “ice in public, heat in private” as their motto, they keep things secret, but as they fall for each other, Sako knows he has to tell his family the truth. He dreads their reaction, but it’s the only way he and Blake can live happily ever after.Ice Devils is an enemies-to-lovers romance featuring scorching athletes, light-hearted comedy, riveting hockey, sweet-steamy romance, and a beautiful HEA.

    The CD-ROM features the software needed to go online with a select Internet service provider plus the tools for managing a fantasy sports team or league.

    Keanon dropped everything––including the plum NFL job he had been working towards since childhood––leading him to a position as football coach at a struggling high school back in his hometown. At the time, Parkrose High School was in the middle of a 23-game losing streak--they were the ultimate underdogs.In many ways, the road to Parkrose was paved by Keanon's life-defining experiences––from a childhood spent dodging racist bullies and finding the support and mentorship he craved on the football team, to an NFL season where he worked closely with Colin Kaepernick as he evolved his sideline protest. Keanon was drawn to the young men on the Parkrose team, and to the school itself. After two years, he pushed them to become conference champions, mentoring countless players along the way.But still, there was that nagging sense that his calling wasn't meant to stop there. He was at that school for a reason. In May 2019, he got his answer when a 19-year-old student entered a Parkrose classroom with a trench coat and shotgun. Keanon disarmed him and pulled the boy into a hug, telling him he cared. In the boy, Keanon saw himself, and the young men he grew up with or mentored along the way––and weren't so many of them just looking for acceptance, for comfort, for love?With the heart of favorite football classics––The Blindside, Friday Night Lights, Remember the Titans––Keanon’s journey at Parkrose is the true account of a life spent striving forward, even when faced with the unimaginable. Hometown Victory is a story about gratitude, service, and most of all, hope.

    Kyle Petty, a third generation racer, current NASCAR commentator, and one of the most beloved figures in the sport, takes readers deep into the heart of the NASCAR he knows. Through deeply personal stories from his racing career, and that of his father and grandfather, he talks about the biggest stars, the most exciting races and, especially the tough, defining issues the sport has had to face. There is no way to grasp today’s wrenching battles for NASCAR’s soul without first knowing about the many dramatic moments throughout NASCAR’s history, and Petty recounts them all in a story packed with huge characters and plenty of laughs (and details that even the most ardent NASCAR fans don’t know). He also lays out his vision for NASCAR’s future, and discusses in clear and simple terms how the sport can bring in new people without driving away old ones. Swerve or Die is a must-read for anyone who cares about NASCAR, as well as the perfect primer for anyone who’s ever wondered, “What the hell really goes on in there?”

     From 1976 to 1978, the Cornell men's lacrosse team went on a tear. Winning two national championships and posting an overall record of 42–1, the Big Red, coached by Richie Moran, were the class of the NCAA game. Swezey tells the story of the rise of this dominant lacrosse program and reveals how Cornell's success coincided with and sometimes fueled radical changes in what was once a minor prep school game centered in the Baltimore suburbs. Led on the field by the likes of Mike French and Eamon McEneaney, in the mid-1970s Cornell was an offensive powerhouse. Moran coached the players to be in fast, constant movement. That technique, paired with the advent of synthetic stick heads and the introduction of artificial turf fields, made the Cornell offensive game swift and lethal. It is no surprise that the first NCAA championship game covered by ABC Television was Cornell vs. Maryland in 1976. The 16–13 Cornell win, in overtime, was exactly the exciting game that Moran encouraged and that newcomers to the sport wanted to see. Swezey recounts Cornell's dramatic games against traditional powers such as Maryland, Navy, and Johns Hopkins, and gets into the strategy and psychology that Moran brought to the team. We Showed Baltimore describes how the game of lacrosse was changing—its style of play, equipment, demographics, and geography. Pulling from interviews with more than ninety former coaches and players from Cornell and its rivals, We Showed Baltimore paints a vivid picture of lacrosse in the 1970s and how Moran and the Big Red helped create the game of today.