History of Sports
epub |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:Ed Caesar [Caesar, Ed]

Chapter Six Kids, That Was Real 2010–2012 BY 2010, Mutai knew he possessed rare talent. He also knew that talent was not enough. For the best runners, money swirled around ...
( Category: Running & Jogging December 11,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Willie Robertson

As another hunter, William “Billy” Dixon wrote, “It was deadly business, without sentiment; it was dollars against tender-heartedness, and dollars won.” Congress passed a measure in 1874 to place limits ...
( Category: Hunting November 26,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:Gary Myers [Myers, Gary]

It didn’t end the way it should have for Johnny Unitas in Baltimore, Joe Namath in New York, or Joe Montana in San Francisco. They were the biggest names in ...
( Category: Football October 31,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Reed Albergotti & Vanessa O'Connell

CHAPTER ELEVEN ADIEU AND FUCK YOU Armstrong said the 2005 Tour de France would be his last. He would retire from cycling shortly after the race, whether he won or ...
( Category: Cycling October 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-10 | Author:Kevin Sullivan

Bret Hart stares in disbelief at Vince McMahon. But the Hit Man regained his composure and headed back toward the locker room. As he walked past his puzzled family, he ...
( Category: Wrestling October 11,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:John U. Bacon [Bacon, John U.]

CHAPTER 43 THE STUDENTS WIN A ROUND While the elected student government officers wrestled with general-admission seating, the elected Regents had to find a new president. Mary Sue Coleman’s two-year ...
( Category: State & Local September 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 1963-12-31 | Author:Heinrich Harrer [Harrer, Heinrich]

* * * 1Sepp Jöchler’s personal account communicated to the author. 1Gaston Rébuffat, Étoiles et Tempêtes, translated into English by Wilfrid Noyce and Sir John Hunt as Starlight and Storm, ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing July 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Peter Finley, Laura Finley & Jeffrey J. Fountain [Finley, Peter Finley, Laura & Fountain, Jeffrey J.]

ROSIE RUIZ NEARLY STEALS 1980 BOSTON MARATHON Sometimes long shots do win races. Perhaps even a major marathon, from time to time. But when twenty-seven-year-old office worker Rosie Ruiz broke ...
( Category: History of Sports June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-10 | Author:Mark Bowden

Giants Sam Huff threatening Colts head coach, Weeb Ewbank, as trainer Dimitri Spassoff looks on. Raymond Berry (left) and Johnny Unitas (right) led the Colts during a thrilling fourth-quarter comeback. ...
( Category: History of Sports June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-10 | Author:Cannell, Michael

In late April 1958 von Trips taught a three-day racing class in Germany. He was by now a leading figure in German sports, and he felt a responsibility to help ...
( Category: Motor Sports June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-05-18 | Author:Rocco Mediate;John Feinstein

EACH YEAR SEVERAL THOUSAND GOLFERS pay $100 to enter the U.S. Open. Anyone who is a registered professional or an amateur with a handicap index of 1.4 or lower can ...
( Category: History of Sports June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-01 | Author:Greg Child [Child, Greg]

KAFKA COULD NOT HAVE CONCEIVED A MAZE MORE CONFOUNDING than the Ministry of Tourism in Islamabad. In this musty building, square one in the game that mountaineers play each summer ...
( Category: Photo Essays June 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:Chris Willis [Willis, Chris]

To All Club Owners in the National Football League Gentleman: Much publicity has appeared since our meeting at Detroit in connection with Professional football, and especially about the proposed new ...
( Category: History of Sports May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Montgomery, Ben [Montgomery, Ben]

Mary Snow’s story about Emma ran in Sports Illustrated on August 15—the day Emma would face death—under a black-and-white photograph of her on the trail. The headline was: PAT ON ...
( Category: Women March 22,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marnie O. Mamminga [Marnie O. Mamminga]

The Lodge Beckons 1923–1967 “This is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.” —Willa Cather It was the heart of the camp. Low slung, dark and rambling, its ...
( Category: State & Local March 22,2015 )