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From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court, a beautiful, haunting autobiography.

Follows the story of football player Dominic Fucillo, a deeply religious athlete who struggles with rage, a complicated love life, and devastating injuries that give way to scandal when he is nearly beaten to death for his unethical nightlife activities.

With intimate, fly-on-the-wall detail, “When the Game Was Ours” transports readers to an electric era of basketball and reveals for the first time the inner workings of two players—Larry Bird and Earvin “Magic” Johnson—dead set on besting one another.

Chronicles a football season in Odessa, Texas, a depressed all-American town that lives and dies with the fortunes of its high school football team.

Relates the story of George Gipp, a young athlete from northern Michigan in the early 1900s who became a star football player at the University of Notre Dame before his life was cut short at the age of twenty-five.

Sports agent Myron Bolitar represents two of the hottest tennis stars around. But when his female player is murdered at the U.S. Open and his male player becomes the prime suspect, Myron’s got a whole new match to win. His investigation leads to an old murder, the mob, a crooked senator, a jealous mother and someone who’s determined to shut down his search for good.

Looks back at one of the greatest moments of 20th-century sports history, the U.S. hockey team’s victory over the Soviet Union, assessing the meaning of the triumph and the paths of players and coaches on both sides since 1980.

In the early 1970s, trainer Tommy Hansel attempts a horse racing scam at a small, backwoods track in West Virginia, but nothing goes according to his plan when the horses refuse to cooperate and nearly everyone at the track seems to know his scheme.

Cut from the Cleveland Browns after the worst performance in the history of the NFL, Rick Dockery, desperate to play football, is hired by the Panthers of Parma, Italy, and finds himself confronted by the confusing diversity of Italian culture, language, and romance.

In the dead of a Michigan winter, pieces of a snowmobile wash up near the small town of Starvation Lake – the same snowmobile that went down with a legendary hockey coach years earlier. But everybody knows Coach Blackburn’s accident happened five miles away on another lake. As rumors buzz about underground tunnels, the evidence says one thing: murder.

At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big-league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended.

A basketball coach describes how, in 1966, as coach of Texas Western College, he used a starting lineup of five black players to beat the top-ranked University of Kentucky team, paving the way for desegregation of all Southern college teams.

Karnazes reveals the mind-boggling adventures of his nonstop treks through the hell of Death Valley, the incomprehensible frigidity of the South Pole, and the breathtaking beauty of the mountains and canyons of the Sierra Nevada.

Explains how Billy Beene, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, used a new kind of thinking to build a successful and winning baseball team without spending enormous sums of money.

Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.

Presents the history of sports channel ESPN based on interviews with nearly five hundred current and former employees, featuring announcers and analysts as well as sports stars including LeBron James, Peyton Manning and Jeff Gordon.