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Chronicles the story of the Pottsville Maroons, a semipro football team from the Pennsylvania coal country, that in 1925 joined the National Football League, defeated the first place Chicago Cardinals
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Drawing on wisdom acquired from the playgrounds of the author's youth, a motivational speaker and founder of The Katalyst Consultancy explains how readers can accomplish their maximum potential throug
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Thank heavens for Title IX. That dusty piece of 1970s legislation not only made an entire generation of American women fitter and stronger and more self-confident, but it also gave fathers throughout
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An in-depth sports almanac combines the essays and analysis by such noted experts as Chris Berman, Dan Patrick, Stuart Scott, and Dick Vitale with hundreds of photographs, thousands of statistics and
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What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street?
Nothing unites—and excites—the sporting planet like a World Cup. For one month every four years, billions of people rearrange their lives, play hooky, and ignore their loved ones in order to watch 22
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Presents a collection of humorous stories about golf around the world gleaned from the author's personal experience, including stories about a golf tournament for fat people and a course where the cad
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