In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland Athletic's visionary manager and a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists.

Is the story of how dreams and reality collide, at once glorious and immensely sad. Because for the 30-odd boys of the Permian Panthers, these days will have been the best of their lives.

The true story of three men and their dreams for a racehorse -- Seabiscuit -- that symbolised a pivotal moment in American history, as the 20th-century's greatest nation found the courage to bet on itself to win against the odds. Now a major motion picture directed by Gary Ross and starring Toby Maguire and Jeff Daniels.

An account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter.

Lance Armstrong won the 1999 Tour de France in spectacular style, taking four stages and both a mountain and a time trial. His story is even more remarkable because he was diagnosed with stage 4 testicular cancer in October 1996.

Presents a tour of the politics and culture of football from Milan to Tehran. This work examines the game's role in sustaining ancient hatreds and rivalries; in supporting the migration of players and the rise of the football oligarchs; and in defending the virtues and vices of old-fashioned nationalism.

Winner of the 1995 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, this work tells the story of an unusually turbulent year on the PGA tour. It profiles stars, such as Nick Price, Tom Watson and Greg Norman, and captures the non-stop pressures of a high-profile sport with virtually no off-season.

High school All-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years later, Neely has come home to bury Coach Eddie Rake. As Coach Rake's 'boys' sit in the bleachers, they replay the old glories, and try to decide once and for all whether they love Eddie Rake or hate him.

Feeling that the vast sums of money involved in NCAA basketball had turned the sport into a division of the NBA rather than the beloved amateur sport it once was, the author went in search of college basketball played with passion and integrity, and found the Patriot League.

This is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended the worst single-season death toll in the peak's history.

Roy Hobbs, who knows himself to be - potentially - the greatest baseball player ever, has his career altered when a mad woman puts a violent end to his first attempt to join the league. Years later, at an age when most players retire, he tries, once again, to realize his lifetime's ambition.

An up-close look inside an NFL powerhouse, from the only writer in America who players and coaches would trust with their secrets.

America's bestselling sportswriter spends a year behind the scenes at the most competitive events in golf - the four tournaments known as the Majors.

The building blocks of winning golf - from one of the masters of the game.

John Feinstein tells the amazing story of one moment of aggression that changed two lives, the NBA and how we think about basketball forever.

In 1954, in Orlando, Florida, nine-year-old Pat Conroy discovered the game of basketball. Here, Conroy takes the reader through his last year playing basketball, as point guard and captain of The Citadel Bulldogs, flashing back constantly to the drama of his coming of age, presenting the conflict and love that have been at the core of his novels.

Helps to discover how to take strokes off your game by improving the technique of your swing, with step-by-step photos and master the all-important putt to better your score.

Named after the red notebook Penick has always kept, this book is a collection of parables revealing the important truths behind the game of golf. It is full of advice not only for the keen golfer, but for pros and teachers as well. It is divided into a series of anecdotal lessons and teachings.

In this title, Lance Armstrong offers us his life philosophy - his thoughts on training, competing, winning and failure. He also recounts the work done for the Foundation he set up following his dramatic recovery from testicular cancer and introduces further inspirational tales of cancer survival.