As vivid as an instant replay, Always by My Side gives readers an insider's look into an unprecedented sixty-three- day stretch from February through April of 2007, when Jim Nantz became the first bro ... [more]

Perhaps the least controversial sports honor in living memory was the selection of John Wooden as "Coach of the Century" by ESPN, honoring his ten NCAA basketball championships in a twelve-year stretc ... [more]

On December 28, 1958, the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts met under the lights of Yankee Stadium for that season's NFL Championship game. Football, growing in popularity amid America's post-war ec ... [more]

They were America's Team - the high-priced, high-glamour, high-flying Dallas Cowboys of the 1990s, who won three Super Bowls and made as many headlines off the field as on it. Led by Emmitt Smith, the ... [more]

Ernie Davis was an All-American on the gridiron and a man of integrity off the field. A multi-sport high school star in Elmira, New York, Davis went on to Syracuse University, where as a sophomore he ... [more]

In Word Freak, Stefan Fatsis infiltrated the insular world of competitive Scrabble players, ultimately achieving expert status (comparable to a grandmaster ranking in chess). Now he infiltrates a stri ... [more]

Troy White has a lot of frustrations. His father abandoned the family when he was little, his beloved Atlanta Falcons team seems destined for another losing season, and, on his own football team, his ... [more]

Reviled in New York and beloved in Los Angeles, O'Malley is one of the most controversial owners in the history of American sports. He remade major league baseball and altered the course of history in ... [more]

Baseball's all-time Iron Man, Cal Ripken, Jr., retired from baseball in 2001 after breaking countless records, including Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played. Now, in Get in the Game, he g ... [more]

"We all know that J. D. is extremely talented. Once he gets going, he gets going." -- Tiger Woods If you know anything at all about John Daly, you know he approaches the game of golf from a slightly ... [more]

Roy Williams, head coach of the University of North Carolina men's basketball team, the Tar Heels, has the highest winning percentage in NCAA history. Over the last seven years, the 58-year-old Ashevi ... [more]

Each week, many of Sports Illustrated's 21 million readers turn first to the magazine's last page because that's where they find SI's most popular feature: the Life of Reilly column, written by bestse ... [more]

Painstakingly faithful to its title, Kenny Mayne's book is neither complete nor is it particularly accurate. Ostensibly an A-to-Z encyclopedia of all known sports, many sports are never mentioned. The ... [more]

People around the world have found inspiration in the story of Lance Armstrong--a world-class athlete nearly struck down in his prime, who came back to win the world's most grueling test of cycling, t ... [more]

No champion has astonished the world quite like Lance Armstrong. A cancer survivor who went on to win the Tour de France an unprecedented seven times, he is an inspiration to millions. Yet few know th ... [more]

For years the world has followed his progress, from teen sensation in Sydney to bona fide phenom in Athens, and now as a living Olympic legend in Beijing with a peerless record of gold medals, more th ... [more]

Ivan Korske and Bobby Zane couldn't be more different -- they come from different backgrounds, they have different lifestyles, and they each have very different ways of looking at the world. Yet both ... [more]

Red Auerbach, one of the greatest coaches in sports history, died on October 28, 2006. Bill Russell, the five-time MVP and star center on the Auerbach teams that won eleven championships in thirteen y ... [more]

Sports Heroes contains 6 non-fiction children's stories based on famous athletes -- past & present. For grade levels 1-3. The Mannings: Football's Famous Family This audiobook tells the story of a fa ... [more]

Sports Heroes contains 4 non-fiction children's stories based on famous athletes -- past & present. For grade levels 3-5. Latino Legends: Hispanics in Major League Baseball Latino Legends: Hispanic ... [more]