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  • Game Changers

    AJ Dybantsa, BYU, and the Struggle for the Soul of Basketball

    In one of the most unlikely coups in college basketball history, a religious school in Utah signed basketball phenomenon AJ Dybantsa. He will play for Brigham Young University—hardly the sort of basketball powerhouse that typically attracts exceptional and non-Mormon players like him.Game Changers explores how BYU managed this stunning feat. A year before signing Dybantsa, the university lured ... En savoir plus

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  • The System

    The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football

    A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the YearNCAA football is big business. Every Saturday millions of people file into massive stadiums or tune in on television as "athlete-students" give everything they've got to make their team a success. Billions of dollars now flow into the game. But what is the true cost? The players have no share in the oceans of money. And once the lights go down, the glitter ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • National Wrestling Alliance

    The Untold Story of the Monopoly that Strangled Professional Wrestling

    par Tim Hornbaker ...
    In the 1950s, in Las Vegas, a businessmen’s conglomerate dominating a $25 million-a-year sports industry hid their illegal practices from the U.S. Department of Justice until they were caught. The sport that privileged cold hard cash over honest competition was professional wrestling, and the conspirators were members of the famed National Wrestling Alliance.National Wrestling Alliance: The ... En savoir plus

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  • Cooperstown Confidential

    Heroes, Rogues, and the Inside Story of the Baseball Hall of Fame

    par Zev Chafets ...
    If baseball is America's national religion, then the Hall of Fame is its High Church. Being named among its 286 inductees makes you the closest thing our country has to an undisputed hero - even a secular saint. But the men in the Hall of Fame are no angels. Among their number are gamblers, drunks, race-baiters, at least one murderer, and perhaps the greatest collection of bona fide characters ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • America's Game

    It’s difficult to imagine today—when the Super Bowl has virtually become a national holiday and the National Football League is the country’s dominant sports entity—but pro football was once a ramshackle afterthought on the margins of the American sports landscape. In the span of a single generation in postwar America, the game charted an extraordinary rise in popularity, becoming a smartly ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Black Ball

    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA

    A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBAAgainst a backdrop of ongoing resistance to racial desegregation and strident calls for Black Power, the NBA in the 1970s embodied the nation’s imagined descent into disorder. A new generation of Black players entered the league, among them Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Spencer Haywood, and the press and public ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Rebound!: Basketball, Busing, Larry Bird, and the Rebirth of Boston

    Basketball, Busing, Larry Bird, and the Rebirth of Boston

    In the mid-1970s, the city of Boston entered a period of upheaval on both its historic cobblestone streets and its legendary parquet basketball court. The Boston Celtics' long dominance of the NBA came to an abrupt end, and the city's image as a hub of social justice was shaken to its core. When the federal courts declared, in 1974, that the city was in violation of school desegregation rulings ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $26.99 CAD Maintenant $23.99 CAD

  • Playmakers

    How the NFL Really Works (And Doesn't)

    par Mike Florio ...
    The “riveting” (Al Michaels) story of a modern NFL that can’t get out of its own way—and can’t stop making moneyIn recent decades, the NFL has simultaneously become an athletic, financial, and cultural powerhouse—and a League that can’t seem to go more than a few weeks without a scandal. Whether it’s about domestic violence, performance-enhancing drugs, racism, or head trauma, the NFL always seems ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

  • Fourth and Long

    The Fight for the Soul of College Football

    par John U. Bacon ...
    From New York Times bestselling author and Michigan football expert John Back, an analysis of the state of college football: Why we love the game, what is at risk, and the fight to save it.In search of the sport’s old ideals amid the roaring flood of hypocrisy and greed, bestselling author John U. Bacon embedded himself in four college football programs—Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, and ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

  • Indentured

    The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA

    “How can the NCAA blithely wreck careers without regard to due process or common fairness? How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so petty? Why won’t anybody stand up to these outrageous violations of American values and American justice?”In the four years since Joe Nocera asked those questions in a controversial New York Times column, the National Collegiate Athletic Association ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $13.99 CAD Maintenant $9.99 CAD

  • Upon Further Review

    The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History

    par Mike Pesca ...
    From Mike Pesca, host of the popular Slate podcast The Gist, comes the greatest sports minds imagining how the world would change if a play, trade, injury, or referee's call had just gone the other way."Intriguing...thought provoking...delightful." --The Washington PostNo announcer ever proclaimed: "Up Rises Frazier!" "Havlicek commits the foul, trying to steal the ball!" or "The Giants Lose the ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Season of Saturdays

    A History of College Football in 14 Games

    par Michael Weinreb ...
    From an award-winning sports journalist and college football expert: “A beautifully written mix of memoir and reportage that tracks college ball through fourteen key games, giving depth and meaning to all” (Sports Illustrated), now with a new Afterword about the first ever College Football Playoff.Every Saturday in the fall, it happens: On college campuses, in bars, at gatherings of fervent alumni ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD