Biographies

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The popular ESPN basketball analyst and former Duke player looks at the true meaning of toughness. If anyone knows tough, itâÂ...

In The High-octane Atmosphere Of The Formula One Pit Lane, The Spotlight Is Most Often On The Superstar Drivers. And Yet, Without The Technical Knowledge, C...

From NFL player Steve Gleason, a powerful, inspiring memoir of love, heartbreak, resilience, family, and remarkable triumph in the face of ALS. This unspari...

The dramatic, hilarious, and controversial insider's look at what really happens on the sidelines and in the locker rooms of the NFL. Hired by the Los Ang...

Cnn Correspondent Tom Foreman's Remarkable Journey From Half-hearted Couch Potato To Ultra-marathon Runner, With Four Half-marathons, Three Marathons, And 2...

Lincoln Riley:Quarterback Whisperer,Back-to-back Big 12 champion,Head coach of the OU Sooners Legendary University of Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops shook...

"I'm not a scratch golfer. I don't know how to bowl. I can't read the stock market. Hell, I have a hard time remembering my wife's cell phone number. But I...

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On New Year's Eve, 1972, following eighteen magnificent seasons in the major leagues, Roberto Clemente died a hero's death, killed in a plane crash as he a...

Authorized By Willie Mays And Written By A New York Times Bestselling Author, This Is The Definitive Biography Of One Of Baseball's Immortals. Alabama Roots...

In a court-side chronicle of the North Carolina State Wolfpack's unforgettable 1983 drive to win the NCAA championship, coach Jim Valvano discusses the ins ...

Was Golf Better (to Use One Of Tiger's Favorite Phrases) Back In The Day? In [this Book], Michael Bamberger, Who Fell For The Game As A Teenager In Its Wild...

Two Drives, Three Faces -- The Problem With Metaphors -- On The Avenue Of The Fleas -- The Big House -- An Instinct For Communion -- The Universe Of Quarter...

The classic autobiography of UCLA basketball's legendary coach "They Call Me Coach is grass-roots Americana, a story bigger than basketball. One of those ...

Our Ancestors Crossed Deserts, Mountains, And Oceans-- Feats Of Endurance That Now Seem Impossible Without Modern Technology. Can We Hack Our Bodies And Use...

A juicy and freewheeling biography of legendary golf champion Phil Mickelson--who has had a big, controversial life--as reported by longtime Sports Illustra...

Every Path To Adulthood Is Strewn With Missteps, Epiphanies, And Hard-earned Lessons. Only Reggie Love's, However, Went Through The White House By Way Of Du...

Joe Ehrmann, a former NFL football star and volunteer coach for the Gilman high school football team, teaches his players the keys to successful defense: p...

In The Bad Guys Won, award-winning former Sports Illustrated baseball writer Jeff Pearlman returns to an innocent time when a city worshipped a man named ...

Morihei Ueshiba (1883-1969), the founder of Aikido-whose name means abundant peace-was undoubtedly the greatest martial artist who ever lived, according to ...

Boy wonders come and go, but Michael Owen has made the giant leap from sensational teenage star into one of the most consistent and respected strikers in wo...

Endgame is acclaimed biographer Frank Brady’s decades-in-the-making tracing of the meteoric ascent—and confounding descent—of enigmatic genius Bobby ...

Bear Grylls has always sought the ultimate in adventure. Growing up on a remote island off of Britain's windswept coast, he was taught by his father to sai...

Golf superstar Tiger Woods, one of the best-loved role models in shorts today, has attracted countless new young fans to the game with his record-breaking s...

The undisputed king of the literary ring is back with another handwritten, hardcore home run. Forget the ghost writer and the computer keyboard - this mesm...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Entertaining . . .an insightful and funny observer of pro wrestling's universe." - Publishers WeeklyIn this insightful, rivet...

The horse Susan Richards chose for rescue wouldn’t be corralled into her waiting trailer. Instead Lay Me Down, a former racehorse with a foal close on her...

Chicago Bulls legend Bob Love was a great basketball player, but his story goes well beyond the court. It's a story about the rise and fall of a man who bec...

Michael Rapaport, actor, Top 50 podcaster, award-winning film maker, and sports fanatic, is here to set the world straight on the greatest and downright wor...

Ever since his astonishing victory in the 1991 PGA Championship, John Daly, known affectionately on the PGA Tour as "Big 'Un," has enthralled fans with his...

The Olympic Track And Field Athlete Relates His Road To Victory And Offers Advice For Obtaining Similar GoalsCategories: Sports & OutdoorsBiographies

A Narrative Account Of The 2007 New York City Marathon Interweaves The Stories Of Professional And Amateur Participants, From Great Britain's World-record H...

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 Autobi...

Many people came to Goldfield, Nevada, America’s last gold-rush town, to seek their fortune. However, on a searing summer day in September 1906, they cam...

"Val embodies what it means to live the American dream." — Robin Roberts, Good Morning America Valentin Chmerkovskiy, the world championship-winning and ...

Back by popular demand! The exciting, colorful and tragic biography of Canadian F1 racer Gilles Villeneuve. "Never has a champion been profiled in such a ma...

Sir Alex announced his retirement as manager of Manchester United after 27 years in the role. He has gone out in a blaze of glory, with United winning the ...

Sacred Hoops Revisited -- Foreword / Senator Bill Bradley -- Introduction -- 1. The Second Coming -- 2. A Journey Of A Thousand Miles Starts With One Breath...

In This Utterly Engrossing Biography, The Author Of The Bestselling The Mailroom Goes Beyond The Myth Of Legendary Surfer Miki Dora To Reveal The Truth Behi...

From the humble heights of a Class-A pitcher's mound to the deflating lows of sleeping on his guntoting grandmother's air mattress, veteran reliever Dirk H...

Perfect for fans of I, Tonya starring Margot Robbie and Allison Janney, this first full scale biography of Tonya Harding explores one of the most provocativ...

He is the most ornery, cantankerous rule-breaker the sports world has ever seen. Seventy million people witnessed his pioneering event. While his athleticis...

The Glass Castle meets Ball Four as Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey weaves searing honesty and baseball insight in this memoir about his unlikely journey t...

Spotlighting Moe Norman, a golfer admired by Tiger Woods himself, this memoir by a sportswriter who knew Moe Norman for 40 years details Moe's unique and co...

"A captivating book that brilliantly reveals an American sports legend long overlooked. Sally Jacobs tells the riveting story of Althea Gibson, my persona...

After two decades spent living in England, popular humorist Bill Bryson returned to the United States, his English wife and four children in tow. Much has ...

The Unlikely Story Of Dr. Bennet Omalu, The Pathologist Who Made One Of The Most Significant Medical Discoveries Of The Twenty-first Century, A Discovery Th...

All The Way Tells The Story Of Someone Who Has Travelled Far From Home To Realize A Dream, Someone Who Has Known Glory And Cheering Crowds, But Also The Dem...