Fresh and funny... St. John has crafter a winner." --Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic In the life of every sports fan, there comes a moment of reckoning. It may happen when your team wins on a last-second field goal and you suddenly find yourself clenched in a loving embrace with ... 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 »

The essential book for any sports fan, from one of the reigning kings of sports talk radio, Christopher Mad Dog Russo. Which was the greater achievement, Ted Williams's .406 season or Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak? Who'd be left standing in a battle between Joe Louis and Mohammed Ali? Which NBA ... more »

No sport in America can match the pagentry, nationwide appeal, and tradition of college football. It is a world in which a twenty-year-old kid can become a national sensation overnight, in which coaches are deified and rivalries burn white-hot. Frantic cheerleaders, playful mascots, and blaring marching ... more »

He intimidated people on and off the football field. He was brutal yet brilliant, narcissistic yet magnanimous, relentless yet unyielding. Most of all, he was the greatest football player of all time. He was Jim Brown. Jim Brown was an astonishing physical specimen with tremendous skills and intelligence ... more »

The best players know that golf is a game of confidence, and most important, concentrationthe ability to focus and block out distraction. The goal of achieving clear thought is also at the heart of Buddhist teachings. In his highly original and groundbreaking book, noted PGA coach and Buddhist instructor ... more »

Quick Tips The best of the best Getting Started: Pre-Swing Fundamentals Off the Tee: Longer & Straighter Drives From the Fairway: More Consistency Hitting More Greens: Accurate Iron Play Around the Green: Saving Strokes Bunker Shots: Get It Out, Get It Close One the Green: More One-putts, No Three ... more »

The town of Dornoch, Scotland, lies at nearly the same latitude as Juneau, Alaska. A bit too far removed for the taste of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, the Royal Dornoch Golf Club has never hosted a British Open, but that has hardly diminished its mystique or its renown. In an influential ... 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 »

A BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE NBA'S GLORY DAYS, AND THE RIVALRY THAT DOMINATED THE ERA In the mid-1950s, the NBA was a mere barnstorming circuit, with outposts in such cities as Rochester, New York, and Fort Wayne, Indiana. Most of the best players were white; the set shot and layup were the sport ... more »

E-Book Extra: Bill Belichick: Snapshots and Stats An unprecedented look at the inner workings of a pro football team and the rise, fall, and rise of a champion When Bill Belichick arrived in New England, the Patriots were a laughingstock, an organization with a losing record, spiraling morale, salary ... 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 »