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John Feinstein's illuminating recollections from two decades of interviews with sports legends. John Feinstein's career is a sports fan's dream-a lifetime of encounters with the great figures in sports, not just on the field, but in the locker room and behind the scenes with legends like Bob...

When most sports fans hear the stat 3,000, they immediately turn to baseball. But for those fans whose breath comes out in frosty puffs, and who bleed ice and snow, 3,000 can only mean one thing - the glory of Montreal Canadiens hockey. The "Original One" of the "Original Six", the Montreal Canadiens hockey team is practically synonymous with superlative: The most Stanley Cup championship victories, with 24? The Montreal Canadiens. The highest number of regular-season wins? The Montreal Canadiens. The oldest active franchise in the NHL? The Montreal Canadiens.

La F1 est devenue une compétition acharnée où seules les meilleures écuries peuvent prétendre à la victoire. Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1, vainqueur de 7 championnats du monde des Pilotes et de 8 championnats du monde Constructeurs consécutifs, doit affronter une nouvelle réalité : elle n'est plus indétrônable. Entièrement immergé dans l'équipe pendant les saisons 2023 et 2024, l'auteur suit Lewis Hamilton, George Russell et le directeur de l'écurie Toto Wolff, sur et en dehors de la piste, alors qu'ils mettent tout en œuvre pour revenir dans la course aux titres.

The daredevil who leaped from a helicopter onto the back of a marlin and rode it rodeo-style. A staggering 3,001 bass caught in a single short summer season on Long Island. A grueling 37-hour fight with Pacific salmon. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction! From crazy billfish quests to the scientist who hooked a grizzly, from "fish catches man" horror stories to those nutty catfish noodlers who grope into the murkiest holes bare-handed, her are fishing's most unpredictable and spectacular tales.

Gare Joyce, a sportswriter with the soul of poet and a penchant for trouble, has penned a tell-all memoir that is laugh-out-loud hilarious, savage—and tender at the quick. The media has their stock narratives, but Joyce tells the undiluted, unfiltered truth about the stars and also about his fellow messengers up in the press box.

«En sentido literal, Villoro es un periodista y profesor de li­teratura mexicano. Pero cuando escribe de futbol esos títu­los son insuficientes. Al abordar "el juego hermoso", el autor es un poeta y un crítico, un filósofo y un historiador, un ob­servador atento y un fan entregado»...

Véritable joyau du football français, Kylian Mbappé est devenu en quelques années une référence, en termes de performances. Au point de faire de lui l'un des joueurs les plus admirés. Ses buts inscrits en cascade avec son club, le PSG, ou en équipe de France donnent le tournis. De ses débuts à l'AS Bondy à son incroyable triplé en finale de la Coupe du monde au Qatar, en passant par ses débuts professionnels à l'AS Monaco, retrouvez à travers ce livre collector le parcours d'un surdoué du ballon rond.

In this newly revised edition of Chuck Carlson’s Game of My Life Green Bay Packers, the greatest men to don that green and yellow uniform talk about the best, the most important, and the most entertaining game they ever played. Was it during the immortal "Ice Bowl" of 1967, when Bart Starr snuck across the goal line in the withering cold of Lambeau Field to beat the Dallas Cowboys? Or was it the NFC championship win over the Carolina Panthers in 1997 that sent the Packers back to the Super Bowl for the first time in 30 years?

No single element has the power to absolutely define the lasting enchantment of Oklahoma football. Decades of great successes and occasional heartbreak have spawned generations of faithful disciples, who treat fall Saturdays like sacred holidays dedicated to their heroes donning the crimson and cream. Tales from the Oklahoma Sooner Sideline provides a glimpse, with a behind-the-scenes perspective, into the traditions surrounding Oklahoma football.

"Did I ever tell you about Wilt Chamberlain?" "Did I ever tell you about Bob Cousy?" "Did I ever tell you about Joe DiMaggio?" Whenever Arnold "Red" Auerbach starts a sentence with those six words—"Did I ever tell you about ... "—anyone within earshot should prepare to hear a marvelous story...

In this memorable account of 17 trips he made to Hawaii's North Shore starting in 1974, Bruce Jenkins, considered the Kerouac of surf writers, profiles the area's elite, the superstars who live to conquer Hawaii's deadliest waves. Here are the egoists, stylists, gladiators, and purists of the...

Join the author as he recalls his greatest fishing stories. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Fly Fishing in a Thunderstorm and learn about sports fishing.

Con il termine "doping" si intende l'uso (o l'abuso) di particolari sostanze o medicinali con lo scopo di aumentare artificialmente il rendimento fisico e le prestazioni sportive. Con questo audiolibro conoscerai la sua storia, molto più antica di quanto si pensi, la storia dei più famosi scandali e degli sportivi coinvolti, e infine avrai un’idea sul funzionamento delle sostanze dopanti e dei rischi che comportano alla salute.

Step onto the gridiron with the greatest legends from Miami Dolphins football - newly updated! This unique and humorous look at life with the Dolphins brings fans onto the field and into the locker room through the eyes of Garo Yepremian, one of Miami’s most recognizable figures. From kicking in his first professional football game to being named “Kicker of the Decade”, Yepremian relives the Dolphins epic 1972 season and so much more.

Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter is as unconventional and wide-ranging as Frank Deford's remarkable career, in which he has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium. Deford joined Sports Illustrated in 1962, fresh, and fresh out of Princeton. In 1990, he was Editor-in-Chief of The National Sports Daily, one of the most ambitious and ill-fated projects in the history of American print journalism.

Doctor, angler, and raconteur Donald Thomas takes fishermen on a rollicking road trip through Alaska, Costa Rica, Australia, the Galapagos, and more. Fishing in oceans along the way, he enjoys the kind of adventures most people can only dream of. Each chapter includes a sidebar that gives Thomas an opportunity to riff entertainingly on a particular game fish, as well as an “At a Glance” section with both the current IGFA All-Tackle and Fly-Rod world records for that species.

Are you tired of eating the same old fruits and vegetables from the supermarket? Do you crave a deeper connection with nature and the bounty it provides? If so, Wild Edible Plants of the Mid-Atlantic is the book for you.

Het jy al ooit gewonder hoe 50 000 ekstatiese ondersteuners op die paviljoen klink of wat dit beteken om ’n Springbokbaadjie in jou kas te hê? In die aanloop tot die Rugbywêreldbeker het die joernalis Hendrik Hancke die land deurkruis om met oud-Springbokke, provinsiale spelers, breiers en ’n rugbyskrywer te gesels oor hul liefde vir rugby. Hulle deel persoonlike oorwinnings en teleurstellings, die lesse wat rugby hulle al geleer het, spesiale kleedkamer-oomblikke en stories oor wat van die veld af gebeur.

'A wonderful memoir . . . richly insightful, and deeply moving' - Ramachandra Guha 'A fascinating and insightful read.' - Vir Sanghvi 'Delightful... A wonderful read.' - Pritish Nandy Eminent journalist Pradeep Magazine's memoir is a story of lived, real experiences, of joy, sorrow, fear, loss...

El audiolibro cuenta la meritoria historia del Deportivo de La Coruña, el equipo de fútbol que en los años noventa se ganó el cariño de los aficionados españoles por sus heroicas gestas en la Liga y en la Copa del Rey. El equipo, gracias a la ambiciosa gestión de su presidente, incluso llegó a codearse con la realeza del fútbol europeo.