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Jail Blazers by Eggers Kerry;
epub |eng | 2018-03-21 | Author:Eggers, Kerry;

Portland entered the playoffs as the No. 6 seed with a 49–33 record, having gone 6–7 since its high-water mark of 43–26 on March 23. The opponent, as expected, was ...
( Category: History of Sports March 22,2020 )
Farewell to Sport by Paul Gallico
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Gallico

XIV COME ON—MY HORSE! All I know about the ancient and occasionally honorable sport of horseracing is the excitement of going down to the betting pits and watching money change ...
( Category: Journalism March 22,2020 )
Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best by Neal Bascomb
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-03-17 | Author:Neal Bascomb

On July 25, almost half a million fans lined the Nürburgring for the German Grand Prix. Tens of thousands crammed the grandstands and the Karussell, the banked switchback turn halfway ...
( Category: History of Sports March 22,2020 )
The Frying Pan of Spain: Sevilla v Real Betis: Spain's Hottest Football Rivalry by Colin Millar
epub |eng | 2019-08-15 | Author:Colin Millar

Chapter 18 Sevilla Sales Signal Stagnation THE date of 21 April 1968 was a day the city of Seville would rather forget. On the penultimate weekend of La Liga action, ...
( Category: History of Sports March 22,2020 )
Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Storytellers by Greg Oliver & Steven Johnson
epub |eng | 2019-08-06 | Author:Greg Oliver & Steven Johnson

II. The Fugitive At the age of twenty, Roger Vest found himself lying prone on the floor of an Ohio high school gymnasium, being kicked by one of the most ...
( Category: Wrestling March 22,2020 )
Road Trip by Lisa Iannucci
epub |eng | 2019-11-14 | Author:Lisa Iannucci

Website: https://www.xcelenergycenter.com Info: The tours are offered on Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. Cost: adults (ages 18 and older), $8; children (ages 4 through 12th grade), $5; children 4 and under ...
( Category: History of Sports March 21,2020 )
50 Years, 50 Moments by Jerry Rice
epub |eng | 2015-10-16 | Author:Jerry Rice

“HAYDEN’S HOUSE CALL” Despite suffering a leg cramp at the most inopportune time, Indianapolis Colts defensive back Kelvin Hayden still managed to outrace his opponents and score a 56-yard touchdown ...
( Category: History of Sports March 21,2020 )
Brady vs. Manning by Gary Myers
epub |eng | 2015-09-21 | Author:Gary Myers

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 March 21,2020 )
The Junction Boys by Jim Dent
epub |eng | 2019-02-25 | Author:Jim Dent

2 The Boys In a crisis, don’t hide behind anything or anybody. They’re going to find you anyway. —PAUL “BEAR” BRYANT SUMMER OF 1954 The young cowboy had rattled along ...
( Category: History of Sports March 21,2020 )
Fastnet, Force 10 by John Rousmaniere
epub |eng | 2013-04-28 | Author:John Rousmaniere

Looking astern from Hamburg during the 1936 transatlantic race In conditions that the photographer described as “a regular Fastnet sea.” Taken forty-three years apart, these photographs show the waters of ...
( Category: Essays March 21,2020 )
The Range Bucket List by James Dodson
epub |eng | | Author:James Dodson

One more for the road: the first—and last—Ross Country Invitational. One day at lunch, as another year drew to a close, David Woronoff and I were chatting about Donald Ross’s ...
( Category: History of Sports March 20,2020 )
Sound and Fury by Dave Kindred
epub |eng | 2006-07-15 | Author:Dave Kindred

If intimations of mortality first came in whispers to Cosell, in the fall of the year they came as shoutings. In Munich, Germany, at seven o’clock on the morning of ...
( Category: Boxing March 20,2020 )
The Great American Sports Page by John Schulian
epub |eng | 2019-02-27 | Author:John Schulian

ROBERT LIPSYTE Robert Lipsyte (b. 1938) didn’t plan on staying at The New York Times when he became a copyboy there. He was a precocious nineteen-year-old Columbia University graduate who ...
( Category: Journalism March 20,2020 )
The World's Fastest Man by Michael Kranish
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Kranish

CHAPTER 15 Voyage of the Titans In late June of 1901, a triumphant Taylor arrived in Southampton, England, preparing to board one of the greatest steamships of the day, the ...
( Category: Cycling March 20,2020 )
Game of My Life Rams by Jay Paris
epub |eng | 2017-03-19 | Author:Jay Paris

The Game By Nolan Cromwell The interesting thing about the game of my life is I don’t even remember it. It was probably the best quarter and a half of ...
( Category: Essays March 20,2020 )

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