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The Secret of Golf by Joe Posnanski
epub |eng | | Author:Joe Posnanski

THE TURN Good caddies tell no tales, and Bruce Edwards was a good caddie. He caddied first for Watson when he was the best golfer in the world. Later he ...
( Category: History of Sports November 5,2019 )
Most Valuable by Gare Joyce
epub |eng | 2019-10-28 | Author:Gare Joyce

* * * — Of all the world’s sports, hockey has to be the one with the most curious political history. International hockey launched before the NHL was founded, but ...
( Category: Hockey November 5,2019 )
Scotty by Ken Dryden
epub |eng | 2019-10-28 | Author:Ken Dryden

* * * — All the pieces were now in place. The team that had seemed ready for the rest of the decade after its Cup win in 1973, then ...
( Category: Hockey October 31,2019 )
Scotty: A Hockey Life Like No Other by Ken Dryden
epub |eng | 2019-10-29 | Author:Ken Dryden [Ken Dryden]

* * * — All the pieces were now in place. The team that had seemed ready for the rest of the decade after its Cup win in 1973, then ...
( Category: Hockey October 31,2019 )
The Comeback: Greg LeMond, the True King of American Cycling, and a Legendary Tour De France by Daniel de Vise
mobi |eng | 2018-06-04 | Author:Daniel de Vise

Laurent had gained the pink jersey of race leader in the cold; now he feared the cold would pry it from his back. The cancellation of Stage 16, which had ...
( Category: Cycling October 24,2019 )
Beautiful on the Outside by Adam Rippon
epub |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Adam Rippon

Adventures of a Skating Raisin At that same Thanksgiving dinner, another fortuitous thing happened—I met Bianca’s new boyfriend, Denis. He was a professional ice skater and her co-star in Disney ...
( Category: Biographies October 15,2019 )
How to Get Run Over by a Truck by Katie C McKenna
epub |eng | 2016-09-15 | Author:Katie C McKenna [McKenna, Katie C]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Katie’s First Steps About ten days after the accident, when I was at Elmhurst, I dreamt I was running. The morning was chilly, and my face was pink ...
( Category: Authors October 8,2019 )
Chasing Kona by Rob Cummins
epub |eng | 2017-11-23 | Author:Rob Cummins [Cummins, Rob]

❖ Chapter 11 100k Ultra In 2010 Ais and I opened a new business. It was a 14,000 sq. ft. specialist triathlon and bike store in Dublin. As you would ...
( Category: Triathlon October 8,2019 )
Gridiron Genius by Michael Lombardi & Bill Belichick
epub |eng | 2018-09-10 | Author:Michael Lombardi & Bill Belichick

6. CARRIAGE The University of Connecticut’s women’s basketball coach, Geno Auriemma, benches players—even stars—if he doesn’t like the way they are carrying themselves, correcting the problem before it subverts the ...
( Category: Biographies October 8,2019 )
Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu: John Updike on Ted Williams by John Updike
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:John Updike

Every true story has an anticlimax. The men on the field refused to disappear, as would have seemed decent, in the smoke of Williams’ miracle. Fisher continued to pitch, and ...
( Category: Essays October 7,2019 )
Jackrabbit by Bill Chastain
epub |eng | 2011-12-11 | Author:Bill Chastain

10 A Freshmen Sensation Arrives Sixty U.S. colleges opted to shut down their football programs prior to the start of the 1942 season. Transportation would be a problem all season ...
( Category: History of Sports October 3,2019 )
Life Is Short and So Am I by Dylan Postl
epub |eng | 2019-09-09 | Author:Dylan Postl

Chapter 14 The Collector Shortly after WrestleMania, WWE once again had their yearly draft and I was moved to Raw — alone. For the first time in three years, I ...
( Category: Wrestling September 28,2019 )
Shula by Mark Ribowsky
epub |eng | 2019-06-03 | Author:Mark Ribowsky

Shula’s blueprint was flawless. Griese had gone 6-for-6. Misdirection runs and trap blocking plays would propel Csonka 112 yards on just 15 carries, and Kiick and Morris 72 more. Larry ...
( Category: Biographies September 25,2019 )
Raw Speed by Tai Woffinden
epub |eng | 2019-09-24 | Author:Tai Woffinden

ROUND 1: New Zealand GP, Western Springs Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand, Saturday, 23 March I knew I was on competitive machinery compared to my first GP season, but any optimism ...
( Category: Motor Sports September 25,2019 )
Amazing Racers by Marc Bloom
epub |eng | 2019-05-20 | Author:Marc Bloom

In the first four years of Nike Cross Nationals, Fayetteville-Manlius had separated from the rest of the country. In 2004 and 2005, the F-M boys had taken second and third. ...
( Category: Track & Field September 21,2019 )

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