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The Best American Sports Writing 2016 by Rick Telander
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 ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction February 24,2017 )
The Game's Not Over by Gregg Easterbrook
epub |eng | 2015-11-01 | Author:Gregg Easterbrook

* * * 1. Among his many achievements, Foer coedited a book called Jewish Jocks, refuting the stereotype that Jews can’t be athletes. In the 1980 farce Airplane, a passenger ...
( Category: Sociology of Sports September 5,2016 )
Fantasy Sports and the Changing Sports Media Industry by Nicholas David Bowman
epub |eng | 2016-02-29 | Author:Nicholas David Bowman [Sanderson, Nicholas David Bowman;John S. W. Spinda;and Jimmy]

NL 3.12 .96 .78 Getting into a car accident PL 3.64 .87 .72 Going to a special event like football game Note. Int. = Intimacy; NH = Negative/High-intimacy; PH = ...
( Category: Sports & Entertainment July 19,2016 )
Good Luck Have Fun by Roland Li
epub |eng | 2016-04-25 | Author:Roland Li

Chapter 6 UNBALANCED WOMEN, RACE, AND GAMING When Anna Prosser Robinson moved in to manage Evil Genius’ team house in Arizona, she had to deal with the perception that she ...
( Category: Entertainment June 14,2016 )
This Is Your Brain on Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn From the T-Shirt Cannon by L. Jon Wertheim & Sam Sommers
mobi |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:L. Jon Wertheim & Sam Sommers

Corlett’s deduction from this research is that it’s not necessarily the “runner’s high” or the neurochemistry that comes with ultrarunning that is so appealing to some people (including, it seems, ...
( Category: Sociology of Sports April 25,2016 )
Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat by Cooper Chris
epub |eng | 2012-03-23 | Author:Cooper, Chris

Exotic drugs and the future of muscle doping We have covered most of the drugs that we know have been used by athletes to improve their strength. But what does ...
( Category: Sociology of Sports March 24,2016 )
The Secret Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour De France: Doping, Cover-Ups, and Winning at All Costs by Tyler Hamilton & Daniel Coyle
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-05 | Author:Tyler Hamilton & Daniel Coyle [Hamilton, Tyler]

Normally, we skipped the Tour of Switzerland, because of its timing. It was usually scheduled two weeks from the start of the Tour de France, which was a problem, because ...
( Category: Cycling January 9,2016 )
Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon by Ed Caesar
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 )
The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch by Jonathan Gottschall
epub |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:Jonathan Gottschall [Gottschall, Jonathan]

• • • LOOK AT IT THIS WAY: what we find in women’s sports is exactly consistent with what we find in girls’ forms of play. Girls use play to ...
( Category: Violence in Society October 9,2015 )
Slaying the Tiger by Shane Ryan
epub |eng | 2015-06-08 | Author:Shane Ryan

* * * Q. I think it was here last year somebody was asking you about whether or not you were too nice out there. Have you gotten any meaner ...
( Category: Golf September 30,2015 )
Soccer Against the Enemy by Simon Kuper
epub |eng | 2010-04-25 | Author:Simon Kuper

A Cameroonian never calls himself a soccer fan: that he is speaks for itself. Charles was a fan too. One of the unemployed market sellers, he theoretically sold books, but ...
( Category: Nationalism March 4,2015 )
Is There Life After Football? by James A. Holstein & Richard S. Jones & George E. Koonce Jr
epub |eng | 2015-01-28 | Author:James A. Holstein & Richard S. Jones & George E. Koonce, Jr.

Affording Life after Football Despite the financial horror stories, most NFL players fare pretty well financially after retirement. Even if the financial stream slows to a trickle, a modest lifestyle ...
( Category: General January 29,2015 )
Futebol by Alex Bellos
epub |eng | 2009-01-28 | Author:Alex Bellos

Catholicism in Brazil is as old as the discovery of South America. Four days after Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral stumbled across an idyllic coastline on his way to India, ...
( Category: General January 29,2015 )
Little League, Big Dreams by Charles Euchner
epub |eng | 2006-12-26 | Author:Charles Euchner

Royce Copeland was another California pitcher to experience arm problems after the World Series. When Lewis got home, his arm still hurt, so he got an MRI at Tri-City Orthopedics. ...
( Category: Sociology of Sports December 27,2014 )
Play Their Hearts Out by George Dohrmann
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:George Dohrmann [Dohrmann, George]

Near the midway point of the third quarter, Demetrius put back a miss by Aaron, tying the score at 29. There was nothing special about the play; he outleaped McDonald ...
( Category: Sociology of Sports November 11,2014 )

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