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A cinematic and candid memoir from your favorite basketball players’ favorite basketball player, God Shammgod. Perfect for fans of Becoming Kareem, Straight Shooter, and Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised. A street ball legend from 1980s and ’90s New York City, a college basketball phenom...

A revelatory examination of the choices we make as parents and children, explored through the true story of an adopted Black man on a journey to find his biological family and discover where and to whom he truly belongs. Runs in the Family follows the remarkable true story of Deland McCullough...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 WINNER OF THE CASEY AWARD FOR BEST BASEBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR “Baseball books don’t get any better than this...Earl Weaver has at last been given his due.” —George F. Will “Vivid...Most sports books are pop flies to the...

From FOX NFL Sunday analyst and legendary Hall of Fame head football coach Jimmy Johnson—the first to win both a college football championship and a Super Bowl—the long-awaited, intimate, no-regrets memoir recounting his extraordinary life and insightful lessons on winning, at every level...

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Path Lit by Lightning comes a groundbreaking biography that captures all of football great Vince Lombardi: the myth, the man, his game, and his God. More than any other sports figure, Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor of the American...

From award-winning Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy, an “entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) and nostalgia-filled retelling of the 1980s Boston Celtics’ glory years, which featured the sublime play of NBA legend Larry Bird. Today the NBA is a vast global franchise—a...

From the breakout star of Netflix’s Cheer, this motivational guide “will inspire you to aim high and succeed no matter what ‘getting on mat’ means in your life” (Gabi Butler, two-time national cheerleading champion and star of Cheer). In Full Out, “the Bill Belichick of...

After three decades at the center of race and sports in America, the first Black head coach to win an NCAA championship makes the private public at last. Chockful of stories and moving beyond mere stats (and what stats! three Final Fours, four times national coach of the year, seven Big East championships, 97 percent graduation rate), Thompson’s book drives us through his childhood under Jim Crow segregation to our current moment of racial reckoning.

Chronicles Ange Postecoglou's remarkable journey from an unknown figure in Scottish football to a transformative force at Celtic and Tottenham Hotspur Shortlisted for the Sports Book Awards Football Book of the Year Unknown in Scotland upon his arrival and unheralded in the English game, Ange...

Winning starts long before the game begins. A renowned coach Jack Johnson pulls back the curtain on what it truly takes to rise, rebuild, and win; not just in sports, but in life itself. Drawing from over 60 years of experience on the field, Coach Johnson reveals how the same principles that build great athletes can also shape extraordinary people. From locker-room lessons to moments of personal challenge, this book captures the essence of what it means to compete with heart, lead with integrity, and push through adversity when everything seems stacked against you.

“I’m proud to call George a mentor and a friend.” —Michael Jordan Orphaned at just thirteen in a still-segregated Washington, D.C., George Raveling was introduced to a relatively unpopular sport—basketball—in high school. The rest, as they say, is history. Raveling went on to become...

What makes a coach great? How do great coaches turn a collection of individuals into a coherent “us”? Seth Davis, one of the keenest minds in sports journalism, has been thinking about that question for twenty-five years. It’s one of the things that drove him to write the definitive...

For the countless basketball fans who were spellbound by the Los Angeles Lakers’ 2003–2004 high-wire act, this book is a rare and phenomenal treat. In The Last Season, Lakers coach Phil Jackson draws on his trademark honesty and insight to tell the whole story of the season that proved to be...

In Players First, John Calipari relates for the first time anywhere his experiences over his first four years coaching the Kentucky Wildcats, college basketball’s most fabled program, from the doldrums to a national championship, drawing lessons about leadership, character, and the path to...

Millie Cunningham hat alles unter Kontrolle: ihre Karriere als Assistant Sportsdirector. Doch dann liefert das Football-Team der Arizona Wildcats immer miserablere Ergebnisse ab, sodass ein neuer Coach her muss. Und plötzlich hat Millie ein Problem. Denn bei dem neuen Trainer handelt es sich ausgerechnet um Ford Ellis: Ex-Footballstar, Single Dad und der Mann, der ihr Herz in tausend Stücke zerbrochen hat. Jahrelang musste sie bei seinem Anblick den Fernseher abschalten. Doch jetzt ist Ford hier – und weit und breit kein Ausknopf in Sicht.

Jahrhundertelang hatten die treuesten Begleiter des Menschen anspruchsvolle Aufgaben: Ob Schafehüten, Hofwache oder Jagdhilfe – Hunde waren geistig und körperlich ausgelastet. Doch so weit müssen Sie es gar nicht kommen lassen: Denn mit den 130 kreativen Spielideen aus verschiedenen Bereichen kann Ihr Hund all seine Fähigkeiten trainieren und unter Beweis stellen. Ob Geschicklichkeit, Schnüffelarbeit oder sportliche Herausforderung, bei der Riesenauswahl an Spielideen kommt weder bei Hund noch bei Herrchen Langeweile auf.

Golf im Gleichgewicht zeigt einen neuen, bodenständigen Weg, Golf stabiler, ruhiger und bewusster zu spielen. Statt endloser Schwungtipps bringt PGA-Profi Blain Bertrand ein praktisches System auf den Platz: die Vier Schilde – ein Modell für Klarheit, Körperkontrolle, Disziplin und emotionale Stärke.

Football Drills & Skills is a complete step-by-step training guide for beginners who want to develop real football abilities. Packed with simple drills, clear instructions, and easy-to-understand explanations, this book helps players improve footwork, ball handling, speed, strength, endurance, teamwork, and game IQ. Ideal for youth players, new athletes, and coaches, this book provides football training routines, position-specific drills, conditioning workouts, and motivational strategies to build confidence.

Sport mit dem eigenen Körpergewicht – jederzeit und überall, ohne teures und platzraubendes Equipment, dafür für den ganzen Körper: Calisthenics punktet mit jeder Menge unschlagbarer Vorteile. Darüber hinaus geht es statt simplem Massezuwachs einzelner Muskeln um das komplexe Zusammenspiel verschiedener Muskelgruppen, sodass neben Kraft ganz von selbst auch Koordination, Geschicklichkeit, Beweglichkeit und Gleichgewicht trainiert werden.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the New York Times bestselling author of Charlie Hustle and Fly Girls comes one of America’s greatest sports stories: the improbable rise of Larry Bird and the Indiana State Sycamores. In the fall 1974, Larry Bird—one of the greatest players to ever...