Nearing 40, standing five feet eight, weighing in at 160 pounds, Mark St. Amant was most definitely not a football player. He had never played a single down of real football in his life and even in the sports he did play, his greatest skill seemed to be choking when the game was on the line. So why on ... more »

Lance Armstrong's War is the extraordinary story of greatness pushed to its limits, a vivid, behind-the-scenes portrait of Armstrong -- perhaps the most accomplished athlete of our time -- as he faces his biggest test: a historic sixth straight victory in the Tour de France, the toughest sporting event ... more »

Willi Unsoeld, arguably the greatest Western climber of the Golden Age of Himalayan mountaineering, became an international hero during the Kennedy era. Unsoeld was the first to climb the West Ridge of Everest, where his go-for-broke style and near-mad fearlessness established the modern template for ... more »

This book takes a critical look at how those engaging in sports development are challenged with devising better and more effective ways of promoting interest, participation or performance in sport. more » more »

The key element of a winning golf game is great putting. Great golfers go out of their way to master putting, and mastery begins only with the understanding of the right attitude for putting. Here are tales of golf's greatest putters, with dozens of game-changing practice drills. This is the new bible ... more »

In the wake of the stock market crash of 1929, as the shadows of depression lengthened into every corner of American life, one ray of light emerged from the world of sports: Bobby Jones. THE GRAND SLAM covers the life of this amateur golfer who mounted his final campaign against the record books, and ... more »

With his colorful tattoos and booming hip-hop sound track, Mike Iaconelli has turned the world of big-money competitive bass fishing upside down. In Fishing on the Edge , Iaconelli tells his own story-and it's a whopper: a Philly-born, Jersey-bred Yankee who's been stealing the spotlight from bass fishing ... more »

A fan's notes for the ages, Faithful grew from an email exchange last summer. Filled with the heady mix of exhilaration and frustration familiar to all Boston Red Sox fans, Stewart O'Nan fired off a note to fellow Sox fan, Stephen King, who responded with his thoughts on Pedro, Nomar, Manny, Mueller ... more »

E-Book Extras: ONE: Stats, Facts and Highlights; TWO: An Interview with Tom Stanton Commemorating the 30th anniversary of Aaron's historic #s 714 & 715! Baseball has witnessed more than 125,000 major-league home runs. Many have altered the outcomes of games, but none has played a more significant ... more »

This textbook for sports science students and coaches contains chapters written by international experts on a wide range of disciplines relating to soccer, both from the research and practical side ... more » more »

As one of the greatest, most celebrated athletes in history, Michael Jordan conquered professional basketball as no one had before. Powered by a potent mix of charisma, nearly superhuman abilities, and a ferocious need to dominate the game, he won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls and captured ... more »

Surgeon, VP of the Explorer's Club, veteran of Everest climbs (such as the one documented in Into Thin Air, on which he was attending physician), NASA consultant, Ken Kamler knows what happens when bodies are pushed to their limits. He has been to and studied the world's most inhospitable regions, and ... more »