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Forget the birds, flowers, and April showers: in golf, you know spring has sprung when the Masters rolls around. This collection celebrates the famed tournament, as some of America’s best-known sportswriters—such as Grantland Rice and Jim Murray—recount the event’s...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2010-01-25
ePub
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With 70 million fans, NASCAR is the #2 spectator sport, after football. But unlike football, going to a race is a full weekend of events. From the tailgating, to the qualifying, to the checkered flag and post-parties -- there's enough to fill several days at every...
Editeur :
Center Street
Parution :
2010-01-08
ePub
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Women run for all kinds of reasons. We run for health, to ease tension, for strength, to challenge ourselves, to be social with friends, as professional athletes or the dream of being one, to turn our minds on, and to turn them off. Whether running a marathon, taking a...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2010-01-08
ePub
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Once Barack Obama joined the presidential race and attended events with wife at his side, the media, bloggers, and people everywhere started buzzing about Michelle's toned arms--and asking how on earth she does it. Even at the Presidential Inauguration, much of the talk...
Editeur :
Grand Central Life & Style
Parution :
2010-01-06
ePub
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From Triathlete magazine––the most popular source for triathlete information––comes an essential guidebook of weekly training plans for all skill levels.As popular as the swim-bike-run sport has become in recent years, triathlon training remains...
Editeur :
Grand Central Life & Style
Parution :
2009-11-29
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In RUGBY TALES, Lawrence Dallaglio recalls with affection and razor-sharp humour, the behind-the-scenes stories that have previously only been shared within the world of international rugby, together with some classics from his rugby-playing colleagues and mates.There's...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2009-11-29
ePub
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The revealing and honest autobiography of Britain's leading National Hunt trainer.Paul Nicholls is the former jockey who began training in 1991. Gradually he built up a reputation as one of the most astute and successful trainers in the business, with a special knack...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2009-11-26
ePub
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The classic map and compass navigation guide-revised for the age of GPS GPS devices are great, but they can break, get lost, or easily be hampered by weather conditions, making basic map and compass skills essential for anyone who spends time outdoors. This popular,...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2009-11-16
ePub
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'A real knock-out' DAILY TELEGRAPHRandom occurences that shaped the history of football - an alternative history of the game from loveable broadcaster Colin Murray.Nowadays a top Premiership football club can spend £50 million on a Portuguese pin-up or a legendary...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2009-11-05
ePub
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What is the place of leisure in societies where people complain of 'over-work'? How do personal freedom and choice relate to the inequalities of class, gender, disability and ethnicity? This critical introduction to the field offers a systematic account of the...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-10-29
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Despite its immense wealth, and the high public profile it enjoys, English football is not a land of milk and honey. The national side has won the World Cup only once when England staged the tournament in 1966 and the woeful performances in recent years would suggest...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2009-10-15
ePub
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Football isn't a matter of life and death,' Bill Shankly once famously said, 'it's much more important than that.' In The Heart of the Game, Jimmy Greaves looks back over his long association with the sport to give his take on all things football, and attempts to make...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2009-10-01
ePub
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Kenny Logan’s riveting story is one full of surprises. A Scottish rugby star, with 70 caps for his country, and a club legend at Wasps, winner of three Premiership titles and a glorious Heineken Cup,Kenny could not read or write until he was in his thirties. Born into a...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2009-10-01
ePub
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Stressing moderation and safety, fitness icon Bob Paris shows how anyone can build muscle, increase stamina, and improve fitness without drugs, steroids and dangerous exercise previously associated with weight training.
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-09-26
ePub
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The Olympic gold medalist offers a poignant, loving account of her life with her long-time partner and beloved husband, Sergei Grinkov, from their first introduction and successive world pairs skating championships, to their storybook romance and marriage, to the fatal...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-09-26
ePub
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The Bowdens are the First Family of college football. Bobby, the father, built the winningest program of the decade at Florida State. Son Terry took over an Auburn team on probation and led it back into the top tier of the sport. Son Tommy is Auburn's offensive...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-09-26
ePub
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The man who transformed the Northwestern University Wildcats into a championship-winning team--the top story in college football in 1995--and who was named Coach of the Year discusses his leadership philosophies, his coaching techniques, and his winning year.
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-09-26
ePub
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This is a timely and easily accessible book that addresses a number of issues that are of central concern to the development of tourism studies. It will also be of interest to those in cultural studies, social geography and social anthropology who are concerned with the...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-09-26
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Leisure has always been associated with freedom, choice and flexibility. The week-end and vacations were celebrated as 'time off'. In his compelling new book, Chris Rojek turns this shibboleth on its head to demonstrate how leisure has become a form of labour.
Modern...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-09-26
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This installment of the Better by Saturday golf tips series focuses on essential advice to instantly improve your drive and start your game strong.Featuring Tips by Golf Magazine's Top 100 Teachers. Simple to remember lesson that provides an opportunity for "no...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-09-26
ePub
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