Searching for Heroes: Fifty Years of Sporting Encounters

Goes through the stories of fourteen major sports from cricket to boxing to football, from their beginning and throughout the British Isles, whether it's Welsh inventor and tobacco enthusiast Major Walter Clopton Wingfield coming up with a game that could use those new fangled rubber balls (modern tennis) or the Scots inventing the golf club.

A riveting A-Z of sports miscellany and quippery from the writers and presenters of the award-winning Radio 5 show.

A hilarious collection of anecdotes from Britain's best-loved sporting double-act.

Boomerang throwing is a popular sport that is practiced around the world. This kit contains booklet and a mini boomerang. The booklet provides tips and instructions that aim to demystify this seemingly magical device.

What is it about sport that holds us in such thrall? Why is it so profoundly important? Simon Barnes, award-winning chief sportswriter for The Times ponders such matters as the intellectual genius of Wayne Rooney, the mythic nature of Steve Redgrave, the making of Andrew Flintoff. At every step he revels in sport's extraordinary resonance in the human mind and heart. He examines the iron grip ...

Tackles sports-related questions that thousands of people have debated in front of the TV and in the pub, but for which they have never found a definitive answer.

Tells the story of sport from ancient times to the 21st century. This book describes the triumphs and breakthroughs - as well as the cheating and skulduggery - that have created the modern world of sport. It contains anecdotes to help readers turn into sporting experts.

The world of sport has its own language, with strange words and phrases. This illustrated guide helps you discover the true meanings, heritage and evolution of the various sporting terms we use.

The most exhilarating sporting personalities and events of the past 40 years as seen through the eyes of the searingly honest, witty and pre-eminent journalist Ian Wooldridge.

Takes a look at sport, by exploring the mathematics behind the action. Whatever be your sporting interests, you will find plenty to absorb from this book.