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League of Denial
- The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth
- Written by: Mark Fainaru-Wada, Steve Fainaru
- Narrated by: David H. Lawrence XVII
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
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Everyone knows that football is violent and dangerous. But what the players who built the NFL into a $10 billion industry didn’t know—and what the league sought to shield from them—is that no amount of padding could protect the human brain from the force generated by modern football.
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League of Denial
- The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth
- Narrated by: David H. Lawrence XVII
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2013-10-08
- Language: English
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The Big Time
- How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America
- Written by: Michael MacCambridge
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
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Every decade brings change, but as Michael MacCambridge chronicles in The Big Time, no decade in American sports history featured such convulsive cultural shifts as the 1970s. So many things happened during the decade—the move of sports into prime-time television, the beginning of athletes’ gaining a sense of autonomy for their own careers, integration becoming—at least within sports—more of the rule than the exception, and the social revolution that brought females more decisively into sports, as athletes, coaches, executives, and spectators.
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The Big Time
- How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2023-10-10
- Language: English
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Fit Nation
- The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession
- Written by: Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
- Narrated by: Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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As a leading political and intellectual historian and a certified fitness instructor, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela is uniquely qualified to confront the complex and far-reaching implications of how our contemporary exercise culture took shape. She explores the work of working out not just as consumers have experienced it, but as it was created by performers, physical educators, trainers, instructors, and many others. For Petrzela, fitness is a social justice issue. She argues that the fight for a more equitable exercise culture will be won only by revolutionizing fitness culture at its core.
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Fit Nation
- The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession
- Narrated by: Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 2023-04-25
- Language: English
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Outcasts United
- Written by: Warren St. John
- Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world's war zones; from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and Afghanistan. Suddenly Clarkston's streets were filled with women wearing the hijab, the smells of cumin and curry, and kids of all colors playing soccer in any open space they could find.
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Outcasts United
- Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2009-04-21
- Language: English
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Eat Sweat Play
- How Sport Can Change Our Lives
- Written by: Anna Kessel
- Narrated by: Anna Kessel
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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What does it mean to be a sporty woman in the 21st century? From the launch of Net-A-Sporter, serving up sports clothing for fashionistas, to the introduction of #plankie as the new Instagram selfie for yoga bunnies, exercise for women has finally gone mainstream. But if sweating has never been so hot for female celebrities, then why are there still so many obstacles for girls and women when it comes to sport?
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Eat Sweat Play
- How Sport Can Change Our Lives
- Narrated by: Anna Kessel
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2016-07-14
- Language: English
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Until It Hurts
- America’s Obsession with Youth Sports and How It Harms Our Kids
- Written by: Mark Hyman
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
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Every year, more than 3.5 million children under age 15 require medical treatment for sports injuries, nearly half of which are the result of simple overuse. Journalist Mark Hyman investigates the evolution of youth sports from mere games to full-on quests to turn children into tomorrow's superstar athletes by pushing them beyond physical and emotional limits. Opening up a crucial discussion about the perils of youth-sports culture today, Hyman offers the solutions and answers we need.
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Until It Hurts
- America’s Obsession with Youth Sports and How It Harms Our Kids
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2012-12-27
- Language: English
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Baseball
- Written by: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
- Narrated by: Ken Burns
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
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The authors of the acclaimed and best-selling The Civil War, Jazz, and The War turn to another uniquely American phenomenon: baseball. Geoffrey C. Ward's and Ken Burns’s moving and fascinating history of the game goes beyond stolen bases, double plays, and home runs to demonstrate how baseball has been influenced by, and has in turn influenced, American life.
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The Ball Is Round
- A Global History of Soccer
- Written by: David Goldblatt, David Goldblatt - foreword
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 38 hrs and 58 mins
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In this extraordinary tour de force, David Goldblatt tells the full story of soccer's rise from chaotic folk ritual to the world's most popular sport - now poised to fully establish itself in the USA. Already celebrated internationally, The Ball Is Round illuminates soccer's role in the political and social histories of modern societies, but never loses sight of the beauty, joy, and excitement of the game itself.
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The Ball Is Round
- A Global History of Soccer
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 38 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2020-04-21
- Language: English
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Outcasts United
- Written by: Warren St. John
- Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
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Set against the backdrop of an American town that without its consent had become a vast social experiment, Outcasts United follows a pivotal season in the life of the Fugees and their charismatic coach. Warren St. John documents the lives of a diverse group of young people as they miraculously coalesce into a band of brothers, while also drawing a fascinating portrait of a fading American town struggling to accommodate its new arrivals.
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Outcasts United
- Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2009-04-21
- Language: English
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Brazil’s Dance with the Devil
- The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy
- Written by: Dave Zirin
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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In this compelling new book, relying on original reporting from the most dangerous corners of Rio to the halls of power in Washington, DC, Dave Zirin examines how sports and politics are colliding in remarkable fashion in Brazil, opening up an international conversation on the culture, economics, and politics of sports.
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Brazil’s Dance with the Devil
- The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2014-10-21
- Language: English
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Two Hours
- The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon
- Written by: Ed Caesar
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
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Two hours to cover 26 miles and 385 yards. Its running's Everest, a feat once seen as impossible for the human body. Now we can glimpse the mountaintop. The sub-two-hour marathon requires an exceptional feat of speed, mental strength, and endurance. The pioneer will have to endure more, live braver, plan better, and be luckier than any who has run before. Ed Caesar takes us into the world of elite runners: the greatest marathoners on Earth.
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Two Hours
- The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2015-11-03
- Language: English
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Rebound
- Sports, Community, and the Inclusive City
- Written by: Perry King
- Narrated by: K.C. Collins
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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“The virus exposed how we live and work. It also revealed how we play, and what we lose when we have to stop.” For every kid who makes it to the NBA, thousands more seek out the pleasure and camaraderie of pick-up basketball in their local community centre or neighbourhood park. It’s a story that plays out in sport after sport–team and individual, youth and adult, men's and women's.
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Rebound
- Sports, Community, and the Inclusive City
- Narrated by: K.C. Collins
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2022-06-30
- Language: English
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The Age of Football
- Soccer and the 21st Century
- Written by: David Goldblatt
- Narrated by: David Goldblatt
- Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
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With breathtaking scope and unparalleled knowledge of the game, The Age of Football explores soccer's vital role in our social, political, and economic lives: its connections to social discord in the Middle East and political division in Europe; the reasons behind its surprising surge in popularity in China, India, and the United States; and its use (and misuse) in the global advance of equality and human rights. Goldblatt proves that whether you call it football or soccer, you can't make sense of the modern world without understanding its most popular sport.
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The Age of Football
- Soccer and the 21st Century
- Narrated by: David Goldblatt
- Length: 24 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2020-02-18
- Language: English
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Forty Million Dollar Slaves
- The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
- Written by: William C. Rhoden
- Narrated by: William C. Rhoden
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says former New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden, Black athletes still find themselves on the periphery of true power in the multibillion-dollar industry their talent built. Provocative and controversial, Rhoden's Forty Million Dollar Slaves weaves a compelling narrative of Black athletes in the United States.
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A must read for all black athletes.
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Forty Million Dollar Slaves
- The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
- Narrated by: William C. Rhoden
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2017-10-03
- Language: English
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The Power of Sports
- Media and Spectacle in American Culture
- Written by: Michael Serazio
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
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In an increasingly secular, fragmented, and distracted culture, nothing brings Americans together quite like sports. On Sundays in September, more families worship at the altar of the NFL than at any church. This appeal, which cuts across all demographic and ideological lines, makes sports perhaps the last unifying mass ritual of our era, with huge numbers of people all focused on the same thing at the same moment. That timeless, live quality makes sports very powerful, and very lucrative. And the media spectacle around them is only getting bigger, brighter, and noisier.
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The Power of Sports
- Media and Spectacle in American Culture
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2019-04-23
- Language: English
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Slaying the Tiger
- A Year Inside the Ropes on the New PGA Tour
- Written by: Shane Ryan
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
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For more than a decade, golf was dominated by one galvanizing figure: Eldrick "Tiger" Woods. But as his star has fallen, a new, ambitious generation has stepped up to claim the crown. Once the domain of veterans, golf saw a youth revolution in 2014. In Slaying the Tiger, Shane Ryan introduces us to the volatile, colorful crop of heirs apparent who are storming the barricades of this traditionally old-fashioned sport.
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Slaying the Tiger
- A Year Inside the Ropes on the New PGA Tour
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2015-09-15
- Language: English
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Faster
- How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best
- Written by: Neal Bascomb
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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As Nazi Germany launched its campaign of racial terror and pushed the world toward war, three misfits banded together to challenge Hitler’s dominance at the apex of motorsport: the Grand Prix. Their quest for redemption culminated in a remarkable race that is still talked about in racing circles to this day - but which, soon after it ended, Hitler attempted to completely erase from history.
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brilliant story
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Faster
- How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler's Best
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 2020-03-17
- Language: English
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Toolbox
- Building Better Pro-Wrestling
- Written by: Mike Quackenbush
- Narrated by: Mike Quackenbush
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
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Professional wrestling has always been wrapped in mystery. After a century of masquerading as legitimate sport, at last pro-wrestling has begun to show the potential of its form. At its core, it is live combat theatre, and no one has done more to codify and analyze this mesmerizing art form than Mike Quackenbush. To aid a generation of evolving performers to meet the demands of modern audiences, here is Toolbox - Building Better Pro-Wrestling.
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Toolbox
- Building Better Pro-Wrestling
- Narrated by: Mike Quackenbush
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 2020-10-13
- Language: English
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Talk of Champions
- Stories of the People Who Made Me: A Memoir
- Written by: Kenny Smith
- Narrated by: Kenny Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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Kenny Smith was a star at the University of North Carolina before his storied NBA run, in which he won two championships with the Houston Rockets. His popularity skyrocketed when he joined TNT’s new show, Inside the NBA, which has thrived for twenty-four years and won multiple Emmys, receiving enormous acclaim for the insight, humor, social commentary, and unrivaled basketball coverage from Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal, and Ernie Johnson, Jr. Kenny is known to fans for his laser-sharp analysis and eloquent observations of the basketball scene and culture.
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Some great basketball stories
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Talk of Champions
- Stories of the People Who Made Me: A Memoir
- Narrated by: Kenny Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2023-05-09
- Language: English
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Boys Among Men
- How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefined the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolution
- Written by: Jonathan Abrams
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
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When Kevin Garnett shocked the world by announcing that he would not be attending college - as young basketball prodigies were expected to do - but instead would enter the 1995 NBA draft directly from high school, he blazed a trail for a generation of teenage basketball players to head straight for the pros. That trend would continue until the NBA instituted an age limit in 2005, requiring all players to attend college or another developmental program for at least one year.
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Boys Among Men
- How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefined the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolution
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2015-12-27
- Language: English
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