 | Its Not About the Bra: Play Hard, Play Fair, and Put the Fun Back Into Competitive Sports
By: Collins Price: $ 2.67 Reviews: 6 Average Rating: 3.0
When Brandi Chastain famously stripped off her jersey to celebrate her World Cup-winning penalty kick, the gesture represented not only the essence of athletic triumph but the joy of a competitor who knows how to play hard and still have fun. Now, in Its Not About the Bra, Chastain steps out from behind her iconic image to deliver an important wake-up call to competitive youth sports, which has gone increasingly out of control. Drawing on anecdotes from her own storied career as well as those of her coaches and celebrated teammates (Mia... |
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 | Hand of God: The Life of Diego Maradona, Soccers Fallen Star
By: The Lyons Press Price: $ 16.95 $ 5.99 Reviews: 36 Average Rating: 4.0
The playing fields of the 80s and 90s are sadly littered with the unfulfilled promises of athletic greatness deterred by self-destruction. Soccer star Diego Maradona rose from the slums of Buenos Aires to teenage fame and a career that blazed its way across Europe before reaching apotheosis in the 1986 World Cup. That World Cup performance, in which Maradona raised his already magnificent game an impossible notch or two, elevated him to a sporting pantheon reached only by a supernatural handful: think Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali, and Pelé.... |
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 | The Professor
By: Virgin Books Price: $ 24.25 Reviews: 1 Average Rating: 2.0
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 | Marcus Hahnemanns Premiership Diary
By: Know The Score Books Price: $ 33.56 $ 22.24
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 | The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw: The Robin Friday Story (Mainstream Sport)
By: Mainstream Publishing Price: $ 17.99 $ 9.95
Robin Friday was an exceptional footballer who should have played for England. But he never did—why? Because Robin Friday was a man who would not bow down to anyone, who refused to take life seriously, and who lived every moment as if it were his last. Loved and admired by everyone who saw him, Friday also had a dark side—troubled, strong-minded, reckless, he would end up destroying himself. Tragically, after years of alcohol and drug abuse, he died at the age of 38 without ever having fulfilled his potential. This book... |
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 | Manchester United Ruined My Life
By: Headline Book Publishing Price: $ 15.00 $ 9.29
Colin Shindler recalls the problems of growing up in an Orthodox Jewish family in central Manchester in the 1950s and 1960s as a Manchester City fan, permanently under the shadow of Manchester United. |
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 | Arsene Wenger: The Biography
By: Aurum Press Ltd Price: $ 20.99 Reviews: 1 Average Rating: 4.0
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 | ADDICTED
By: Harpercollinswillow Price: $ 20.99
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 | Harrys Game: The Autobiography
By: Mainstream Price: $ 35.00
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 | George Best: A Life in the News (Guardian)
By: Aurum Press Price: $ 19.95 $ 12.13
November 2006 marks the first anniversary of the death of George Best, the most magical footballer of his generation. Now Richard Williams has selected the finest writing from the Guardian and the Observer to chronicle Bests career, from the teenage starlets early sixties appearances for Manchester United, through the glory days of the 6 - 0 trouncing of Northampton and the 1968 European Cup win, to the long obituary lamenting a great talent gone to waste. These insightful pieces are written by numerous famous names, from Hugh McIlvanney... |
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