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On the Road Bike: The Search For a Nation’s Cycling Soul by Boulting Ned
mobi |eng | 2013-05-29 | Author:Boulting, Ned [Boulting, Ned]

( Category: Cycling January 19,2015 )
Brave Dragons by Jim Yardley
epub |eng | 2012-02-13 | Author:Jim Yardley [Yardley, Jim]

Li Yuanwei, commissioner of the league, arrived about fifteen minutes before tipoff and took a seat in the coal millionaire section. Bespectacled and professorial, Li was the mystery guest, a ...
( Category: General December 27,2014 )
Sports in Hell by Rick Reilly
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-26 | Author:Rick Reilly [Reilly, Rick]

2. Could a guy cheat in chess boxing? Cornerman: Ref, check his glove! Check his glove! There’s a rook in there! 3. Why combine chess and boxing? Can you think ...
( Category: Essays December 27,2014 )
The Best American Sports Writing 2011 by Jane Leavy
epub |eng | | Author:Jane Leavy [Leavy, Jane]

Trick Plays Yoni Brenner FROM THE NEW YORKER The Quadruple Play Fake The quarterback receives the snap from the center and fakes a handoff to the running back. Then he ...
( Category: Essays November 24,2014 )
The Best American Sports Writing 2013 by Glenn Stout
epub |eng | | Author:Glenn Stout

Apollon’s Wheels were named for one of the great strongmen of the 19th century, Louis “Apollon” Uni. A Frenchman from the southern city of Marsillargues, Uni was visiting a junkyard ...
( Category: Essays November 23,2014 )
The Best American Sports Writing 2014 by Glenn Stout
epub |eng | | Author:Glenn Stout

The Short Track Dick Trickle had a crown on his head. He’d just won the 1983 World Crown 300 in Georgia and the $50,000 that came with it. Dick looked ...
( Category: Essays November 20,2014 )
Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Eduardo Galeano [Galeano, Eduardo]

The Fiesta There are towns and villages in Brazil that have no church, but not a one lacks a soccer field. Sunday is the day of hard labor for cardiologists ...
( Category: Spanish & Portuguese October 27,2014 )
Against Football by Steve Almond
epub |eng | 2014-08-25 | Author:Steve Almond [Almond, Steve]

The logic seems to be that football is a domain of hyper-masculinity, a physical and psychological space where alpha males do battle. And gay men can’t be alphas because they ...
( Category: Sports September 22,2014 )
Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto by Almond Steve
epub |eng | 2014-08-26 | Author:Almond, Steve [Almond, Steve]

The logic seems to be that football is a domain of hyper-masculinity, a physical and psychological space where alpha males do battle. And gay men can’t be alphas because they ...
( Category: Sports September 17,2014 )
How I Played the Game by Byron Nelson
epub |eng | 1993-09-15 | Author:Byron Nelson

* We played stymies into the late forties. You see, we weren’t allowed to mark, lift, clean, and replace the ball on the greens then like we all do today. ...
( Category: Essays September 16,2014 )
Sports in America by James A. Michener
epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:James A. Michener [Michener, James A.]

Even Shakespeare indulged in this kind of abuse, and possibly for the same reason. In King Lear, Act 1, Scene IV, line 86, this confrontation takes place between the king, ...
( Category: Essays June 6,2014 )
All Fishermen Are Liars by John Gierach
epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:John Gierach [Gierach, John]

12 TEMPORARY PURIST I live near the confluence of two perfectly good freestone trout creeks in the Rocky Mountains, but in early April when the midges are still on and ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks June 6,2014 )
Among The Thugs by Buford Bill
epub, mobi |eng | 1992-09-03 | Author:Buford, Bill [Buford, Bill]

DAWES ROAD, FULHAM I was reading the morning newspapers in the coffeehouse in Ober Sankt Veit. I can still feel the indignation that overwhelmed me when I took hold of ...
( Category: European May 20,2014 )
You Herd Me!: I'll Say It if Nobody Else Will by Colin Cowherd
mobi |eng | 2013-11-18 | Author:Colin Cowherd [Cowherd, Colin]

I Value What I Need First, an experiment. Please indulge me for a moment; it won’t take up much time, and you’ll see the results rather quickly. The next time ...
( Category: Humor April 3,2014 )
The Jordan Rules by Sam Smith
epub |eng | 2012-07-24 | Author:Sam Smith [Smith, Sam]

March 1991 3/1 v. Dallas; 3/2 at Indiana; 3/5 v. Milwaukee; 3/8 v. Utah; 3/10 at Atlanta; 3/12 v. Minnesota; 3/13 at Milwaukee; 3/15 at Charlotte; 3/16 at Cleveland; 3/18 ...
( Category: Essays March 27,2014 )

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