Biographies
epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Cameron Conaway [Conaway, Cameron]

How the World Works My dad was a bastard, but I moved to Germany when I was 19 and I met a beautiful woman. She asked if I’ve ever made ...
( Category: Memoirs December 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:Bill Russell

As my coach, Red Auerbach won nine championships, including a still unmatched eight straight. He won seven more titles with Celtics teams he built later as general manager. We were ...
( Category: Biographies December 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 1997-10-01 | Author:Goodwin, Doris Kearns [Goodwin, Doris Kearns]

Giant Bobby Thomson swings for a home run against Dodger Ralph Branca to make the “shot heard round the world” and win the 1951 National League pennant. The Giants mob ...
( Category: Biographies December 25,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Stevens

Memorable Encounters The first encounter was with General Miura, a hero of the Russo-Japanese War. Miura was famed for cutting down over fifty Russian soldiers with his officer’s sword, despite ...
( Category: Biographies December 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-04 | Author:Doug Gilmour

14 ’93 WE HAD A FEW DAYS off before our first-round series against the Detroit Red Wings started, so Pat Burns sent the team up to Collingwood, a couple hours ...
( Category: Biographies December 21,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Patrick Barclay

KEEP THE FLAG FLYING Harry Gregg and Bill Foulkes had travelled back to Manchester with Murphy by train and ferry. Foulkes was a tough ex-miner and yet, every time the ...
( Category: Biographies December 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-16 | Author:Dónal McAnallen

( Category: Biographies December 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-12 | Author:Jimmy Snuka & Jon Chattman [Snuka, Jimmy & Chattman, Jon]

Buddy Rogers escorted me out to the ring, and like I said, he was just riding my coattails. He had fancy suits and a nice look about him so he ...
( Category: Biographies December 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-04 | Author:Julie Hart

In June of 1990, we welcomed Blade Colton Hart into the world. He looked exactly like Bret did when he was a baby. His eyes were black as coal and ...
( Category: Biographies December 16,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-13 | Author:Rick Reilly [Reilly, Rick]

Postscript: At a book-signing in Phoenix in 2006, a man came up to me and said, “Can I show you something?” And he lifted up his shirt and showed me ...
( Category: Miscellaneous December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-24 | Author:Julian Edelman [Edelman, Julian]

TWELVE A CAREER CROSSROADS I’m a person who thrives on structure and routine. I like to know where to be, when to be there, and what to do when I ...
( Category: Biographies December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-09 | Author:Ken Baker

AWAKENING When I wake again, the first thing I hear is the hissing. It sounds like a tire being inflated and deflated every five seconds. Or maybe it’s a ventilator ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling December 15,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Josh Gross

ROUND TEN Pitting a heavyweight world champion boxer against the top Japanese heavyweight wrestler was professional wrestling’s way of saluting the American bicentennial. That’s what it said on the cover ...
( Category: Biographies December 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-14 | Author:Jane Heller [Jane Heller]

While we wait to board our flight to LaGuardia on Tuesday morning, I hop on my laptop and read what the beat writers are saying about Yankeeville. They are reporting ...
( Category: Biographies December 14,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Duncan Hamilton

CHAPTER TWELVE The Sharpest Edge of the Sword COUNTRY EVANGELISM WAS Eric Liddell’s forte. He had been born for it. Within six months, after his Chinese began to improve markedly, ...
( Category: Biographies December 14,2017 )