epub |eng | | Author:Rick Telander

If there is an epicenter for the heroin-in-sports crisis, it’s Albuquerque (population 550,000), a high-altitude city less than 300 miles from the Mexican border. A report by the New Mexico ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-04 | Author:Lamb, Chris; Lamb, Chris; [Lamb, Chris]

Notes 1. John Bracey, August Meier, and Elliot Rudwick, Black Nationalism in America (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970); Wilson J. Moses, The Golden Age of Black Nationalism (New York: Oxford University Press, ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-23 | Author:David Halberstam & Glenn Stout

A HERO FOR THE WIRED WORLD From Sports Illustrated, December 23, 1991 IN SOME MYSTERIOUS WAY THE WORD HAS GOTTEN OUT. The Chicago Bulls bus, the bus that he rides ...

epub |eng | 2015-09-16 | Author:Tom Foreman

FOURTEEN Over the next couple of weeks, I hit the same trails repeatedly. I kept falling. I kept twisting my ankles and knees in all sorts of unpleasant ways. I ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-13 | Author:Colin Cowherd [Cowherd, Colin]

MEMO TO COACHES: DID YOU EVER IMPROVE AT ANYTHING WHEN SOMEBODY YELLED AT YOU? THE SOUTHERN ILLUSION YOU HEAR COMMENTATORS AND COACHES and executives say it all the time: Nothing ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:Dan Jenkins [Jenkins, Dan]

Greg Norman on July 18, 1993, at Royal St. Georges Golf Club, Sandwich, England. Greg set a record for meltdowns and bad luck in the majors during his prime, but ...

epub |eng | 2008-05-05 | Author:Nicholas Dawidoff

My new school had been founded as a Latin grammar school in 1660, “For the Breeding Up of Hopeful Youths,” according to its benefactor, a Colonial governor, and only in ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-03-10 | Author:Stuart Scott & Larry Platt [Scott, Stuart & Platt, Larry]

CHAPTER SEVEN I WON’T BE HERE FOR MY DAUGHTERS It was supposed to be a laugher. But sports—a lot like life, as I was about to find out—don’t always play ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:David Goldblatt [Goldblatt, David]

Not having enough to do and receiving high wages, . . . [they] very quickly show in Brazzaville an innate laziness, and acquire intemperate habits and a dissipated lifestyle, which ...

mobi |eng | 2010-09-20 | Author:Loretta Lynn; George Vecsey

16 Music City, U.S.A. I’ll dress up like a movie star, And purty up my hair And no one here is gonna know, What I’ll be doing there.… —“Hey, Loretta,” ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-27 | Author:Carl Hiaasen [Hiaasen, Carl]

June 12, 2005 In Gitmo, Diet Rich in Carbs, Lean on Rights To rebuff accusations that the United States is running a “gulag” at its Guantánamo Bay naval base, the ...