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  • More than a Game

    The Best of Alf Van Hoose

    by Alf Van Hoose ...
    The best work of one of Alabama's longest-serving and most beloved sports journalists.Although he spent 43 years at the same job, Alf Van Hoose was not a man limited by the boundaries of his profession. As Birmingham News sports editor for 21 years and a columnist for a decade before that, Van Hoose helped define a city, a state, and a region largely known for sports. He was the writer of record ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    I'll Say It If Nobody Else Will

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    There are really two games, the one you see and the one you don't. The way I see it, the best way to use access to both worlds is to illuminate and reveal, not idolize and adore. It's better to be wrong than to be played for a fool. – Colin CowherdIn this age of billion dollar athletic marketing campaigns, “feel good” philosophy with no connection to reality, and a Sports Media echo chamber that’s ... Read more

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  • Unfinished Business

    On and Off the Court with the 1990–91 Boston Celtics

    by Jack McCallum ...
    NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Jack McCallum (DREAM TEAM) gives an inside look at the legendary Boston Celtics during a season of change."One of the five best NBA books ever written."—Bill Simmons, ESPNIn the 1990-91 basketball season, the Boston Celtics were a team in transition, both on and off the court. Jack McCallum, also the author of the critically-acclaimed SEVEN SECONDS OR LESS, ... Read more

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  • Tiger, Meet My Sister...

    And Other Things I Probably Shouldn't Have Said

    by Rick Reilly ...
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  • Loopers

    A Caddie's Twenty-Year Golf Odyssey

    by John Dunn ...
    John Dunn never expected that his summer job as a caddie at the local course in Connecticut might turn into something more. The lifers who plied the loops were an ensemble of misfits and degenerates who made the caddie yard look more like a gambling hall than a country club. But Dunn came of age in those yards and on those courses, and the magnetism of the game and the lifestyle proved ... Read more

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  • The Majors

    by John Feinstein ...
    A chronicle of 1998's major golf tournaments follows Tiger Woods, Fred Couples, and other great players as they compete in the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the PGA.What does it take to win a major championship and reach the absolute pinnacle of golf? Through a season of the four tournaments—the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the PGA Championship—known collectively ... Read more

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  • The Longest Silence

    A Life in Fishing

    by Thomas McGuane ...
    From the highly acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts comes a collection of alternately playful and exquisite essays—including seven collected here for the first time—borne of a lifetime spent fishing."Thomas McGuane writes about fishing better than anyone else in the history of mankind." —Jim Harrison, New York Times bestselling author of Legends of the FallThe forty ... Read more

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  • Bear Tales and Deer Trails

    by Mike McConnell ...
    Bear Tales and Deer Trails is a collection of hunting stories that take you into the heart of the Tongass National Forest. Come along with Mike and his hunting partners as they stalk bears and deer for food as part of their subsistence lifestyle. Each chapter begins a new adventure in the bays, muskegs and mountains of Southeast Alaska. The stories are full of interesting characters, vivid ... Read more

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  • The Sweet Season

    A Sportswriter Rediscovers Football, Family, and a Bit of Faith at Minnesota's St. John's University

    by Austin Murphy ...
    After fifteen years as a Sports Illustrated writer, pleading for interviews with large men in possession of larger egos, Austin Murphy decides to bail out. The time has come, he concludes, to fly beneath the radar of big-league sports, to while away a season with the Johnnies. So, he moves his family to the middle of Minnesota to chronicle a season at St. John's, a Division III program that has ... Read more

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    Edited by Nicole Hayes, Alicia Sometimes ...
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    by Jack Nelson ...
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  • Sparring with Hemingway

    And Other Legends of the Fight Game

    by Budd Schulberg ...
    Schulberg goes toe to toe with his lifelong passion in this collection of his greatest writings on boxing"As much as I love boxing, I hate it." So begins screenwriter, novelist, and journalist Budd Schulberg's collection of essays on the sweet science of bruising, a sport that fueled his literary ambitions and unsettled his conscience from a young age. He gives riveting accounts of classic bouts, ... Read more

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