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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist uncovers a slice of small-town American culture by describing how the lives of the people of Odessa, Texas, revolve around the high-school football team.

Sports agent and occasional P.I. Myron Bolitar is hired to protect basketball superstar Brenda Slaughter, who has been receiving bizarre death threats, but Myron’s investigation takes a turn when Brenda’s father is killed.

A noted long-distance swimmer with a love for cold water describes her eventful career in the sport, from her record-breaking English Channel crossing and her 1987 swim across the Bering Strait from America to the Soviet Union to her exploits in the Straits of Magellan, Lake Baikal, and Antarctica.

A portrait of the basketball-fanatical culture of the remote Arctic Alaska village of Fort Yukon follows the community’s fierce devotion to their championship high-school basketball team, the Fort Yukon Eagles, and the lives of the fourteen team members, their families, and their coach, from the first day of practice to the Alaska State Championship Tournament in March.

An in-depth portrait of the NCAA Final Four competition is presented from the perspectives of schools, coaches, and players who have made it to college basketball’s final weekend, in a collection of dramatic and inspiring stories that also includes accounts by officials, referees, and scouts.

With his rising culinary career threatened by an episode of food poisoning at a private affair that he had catered, Max Moreton caters an exclusive luncheon at the 2,000 Guineas horse race, a party devastated by a bomb blast that kills many of the guests.

When a Hollywood starlet is found murdered, two NFL teammates, one a cleancut religious kid, the other a street thug with a criminal record, become the prime suspects in the crime.

A nostalgic novel about high school football in a small Texas town, a place in which football has become a religion.

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

The Hall of Fame basketball coach describes how, in 1966, as coach of Texas Western College, used a starting lineup of five black players to unseat the top-ranked team of the University of Kentucky, an event that paved the way for the desegregation of all college teams in the South.

By the time Lieutenant Inspector Francis Clay arrives on the scene of the murder of Alexander Drouhin, head of one of the nation’s leading sports agencies, he discovers that the gritty sport agent’s friends and enemies all seem to have both motives and alibis.

Retraces the journey of Seabiscuit, a horse with crooked legs and a pathetic tail that made racing history in 1938, thanks to the efforts of a trainer, owner, and jockey who transformed a bottom-level racehorse into a legend.

Delighted when she is given the touring pro job at a posh Connecticut country club, golfer Cassie Burdette is stunned when she stumbles upon the corpse of an unpopular member and is forced to turn sleuth once again to find a killer.

A pair of senior Sports Illustrated writers presents the NBA-inspired tale of Yale senior Jamal Kelly, who lands a job with the Los Angeles Lasers and finds his former life of poverty transformed into a maelstrom of charter flights, high living, and attractive women.

In an inspirational sports memoir, the former Philadelphia Eagles player describes how he earned a spot on the team during an open tryout, an unlikely prospect who, at the age of thirty, became the NFL’s oldest, non-kicking rookie and went on to become a team captain.

When the Giants’s new star running back is accused of murdering a Jets rival, attorney Andy Carpenter works for the athlete’s defense, a task that is complicated by the discovery of additional player killings and death threats from a drug mobster.

A new case for Boston attorney Brady Coyne involves his representation of former professional basketball player Mick Fallon in a divorce case, his discovery that Mick owes the mob money, and the murder of Mick’s wife.