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Bloody Confused!
- A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer
- Written by: Chuck Culpepper
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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After covering the American sports scene for 15 years, Chuck Culpepper suffered from a profound case of Common Sportswriter Malaise. He was fed up with self-righteous proclamations, steroid scandals, and the deluge of in-your-face PR that saturated the NFL, the NBA, and MLB. Then in 2006, he moved to London and discovered a new and baffling world - the renowned Premiership soccer league. Culpepper pledged his loyalty to Portsmouth, a gutsy, small-market team at the bottom of the standings. As he puts it, “It was like childhood, with beer.”
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Bloody Confused!
- A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English Soccer
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2014-02-04
- 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
- By Amazon Customer on 2023-05-15
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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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Naomi Osaka
- Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice
- Written by: Ben Rothenberg
- Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski, Ben Rothenberg
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
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A deeply reported, revealing biography of tennis phenomenon and activist Naomi Osaka, telling the untold story behind her Grand Slam-winning career, her headline-making advocacy for racial justice and mental health, and the challenges of a life in the international spotlight.
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Naomi Osaka
- Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice
- Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski, Ben Rothenberg
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2024-01-09
- Language: English
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The System
- The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football
- Written by: Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
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College football has never been more popular - or more chaotic. Millions fill 100,000-seat stadiums every Saturday; tens of millions more watch on television every weekend. The 2013 Discover BCS National Championship game between Notre Dame and Alabama had a viewership of 26.4 million people, second only to the Super Bowl. Billions of dollars from television deals now flow into the game; the average budget for a top-ten team is $80 million; top coaches make more than $3 million a year; the highest paid, more than $5 million.
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must Read to understand the action behind the act
- By Anonymous User on 2021-06-21
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The System
- The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2013-09-17
- 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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A Journey Through the Cycling Year
- Written by: The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie, and others
- Narrated by: Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe share their diaries from three incident-filled Grand Tours, the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España. These take listeners behind the scenes and explore the culture and landscape as well as the racing while the ‘Lionel of Flanders’, complete with beer recommendations, does the same for the Classics in Belgium.
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Good for TDF withdrawal
- By Roberta W on 2024-07-26
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A Journey Through the Cycling Year
- Narrated by: Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe, Ciro Scognamiglio, Michelene Heine, Sebastien Piquet, Fracnois Thomazeau, Orla Chennaoui, Vidal Sancho, Alexander Capon
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 2018-07-05
- Language: English
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Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat
- The Science Behind Drugs in Sport
- Written by: Chris Cooper
- Narrated by: Kieran Phoenix
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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Drugs in sport are big news and the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport is common. Here, Chris Cooper, a top biochemist at the University of Essex, looks at the science behind drugs in sport. Using the performance of top athletes, Cooper begins by outlining the limits of human performance. Showing the basic problems of human biochemistry, physiology, and anatomy, he looks at what stops us running faster, throwing longer, or jumping higher. Using these evidence-based arguments he shows what the body can, and cannot, do.
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Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat
- The Science Behind Drugs in Sport
- Narrated by: Kieran Phoenix
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2013-05-06
- Language: English
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The Power of Mental Toughness
- Techniques for Peak Athletic Performance
- Written by: High3r Mindset, Julian Service
- Narrated by: Helpful Matthew
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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Are you a young athlete looking to compete with the best? How about a seasoned professional wanting to stay at the top of their game? One of the toughest aspects of being an athlete is consistency; not just performing well at one event, but being the best every time you enter a competition. No matter how hard you train or tweak your diet, you might feel like you’ve hit a plateau. You might not be making any more progress at all. You aren’t alone!
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The Power of Mental Toughness
- Techniques for Peak Athletic Performance
- Narrated by: Helpful Matthew
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2022-11-14
- Language: English
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Take Back the Game
- How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids' Sports--and Why It Matters
- Written by: Linda Flanagan
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Some 75% of American families want their kids to play sports. Athletics are training grounds for character, friendship, and connection; at their best, sports insulate kids from hardship and prepare them for adult life. But youth sports have changed so dramatically over the last 25 years that they no longer deliver the healthy outcomes everyone wants. Instead, unbeknownst to most parents, kids who play competitive organized sports are more likely to burn out or suffer from overuse injuries than to develop their characters or build healthy habits. What happened to kids' sports?
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Take Back the Game
- How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids' Sports--and Why It Matters
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 2022-08-23
- Language: English
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Why It's Taking So Long to Fix Youth Sports
- Written by: Matthew Young
- Narrated by: Stan Peake, Matthew Young
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
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"Why It’s Taking So Long to Fix Youth Sports" speaks for the countless voices disheartened by the current state of youth sports. Once innocent neighborhood games have transformed into a cutthroat business fueled by profit. The joy and camaraderie of yesteryears have been overshadowed by a relentless pursuit of success, wealth, and self interest. Youth sports expert Matt Young takes us through a forensic examination of what’s gone wrong, combined with practical strategies for how to give sports back to the kids.
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Worth the time and money
- By Anonymous User on 2024-06-11
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Why It's Taking So Long to Fix Youth Sports
- Narrated by: Stan Peake, Matthew Young
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 2024-06-04
- Language: English
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The Mannings
- The Fall and Rise of a Football Family
- Written by: Lars Anderson
- Narrated by: Ian Alan Carlsen
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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From New York Times best-selling author Lars Anderson comes a revealing portrait of the first family of American sports. What the Kennedys are to politics, the Mannings are to football. Two generations have produced three NFL superstars: Archie Manning, the Ole Miss hero-turned-New Orleans Saint; his son Peyton, widely considered one of the greatest quarterbacks ever to play the game; and Peyton's younger brother, Eli, who won two Super Bowl rings of his own.
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The Mannings
- The Fall and Rise of a Football Family
- Narrated by: Ian Alan Carlsen
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2016-08-23
- Language: English
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Cycle of Lies
- The Fall of Lance Armstrong
- Written by: Juliet Macur
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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The definitive account of Lance Armstrong's spectacular rise and fall. In June 2013, when Lance Armstrong fled his palatial home in Texas, downsizing in the face of multimillion-dollar lawsuits, Juliet Macur was there - talking to his girlfriend and children and listening to Armstrong's version of the truth. She was one of the few media members aside from Oprah Winfrey to be granted extended one-on-one access to the most famous pariah in sports. At the center of Cycle of Lies is Armstrong himself, revealed through face-to-face interviews.
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Cycle of Lies
- The Fall of Lance Armstrong
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2014-03-18
- Language: English
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Finding America in a Minor League Ballpark
- A Season Hosting for the Durham Bulls
- Written by: Harris Cooper
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Noted social scientist Harris Cooper took a job as a Seating Bowl Host for the most famous minor league baseball team, the Durham Bulls. As a host, he helped fans find seats and other stadium amenities, made sure everyone was safe, took pictures, and chased kids from the aisles. He got to talk with a wide-ranging assortment of people, from regular attendees to those at their very first baseball game, from retired judges to middle school students.
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Finding America in a Minor League Ballpark
- A Season Hosting for the Durham Bulls
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2024-11-05
- Language: English
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Why We Love Football
- A History in 100 Moments
- Written by: Joe Posnanski
- Narrated by: Joe Posnanski
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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After his bestselling home run books Why We Love Baseball and The Baseball 100, Joe Posnanski turns from the national pastime to the number one sport in America. Why We Love Football is Posnanski’s newest must-have deep dive into the archives and legends of the sport, and the result is a rousing tale of the 100 greatest moments in football lore. This is the best kind of sports writing. Entertaining, enlightening, heartbreaking, hilarious, and always fascinating, these stories of the sport offer a panoramic look across its history.
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Why We Love Football
- A History in 100 Moments
- Narrated by: Joe Posnanski
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 2024-09-17
- Language: English
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The Sports Parent Solution
- Proven Strategies for Transforming Parents from Obstacles to Allies
- Written by: J.P. Nerbun
- Narrated by: J.P. Nerbun, Nate Sanderson
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
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The Sports Parents Solution gives you the strategies and methods you need to transform the parent culture in your team, allowing you to better support each athlete’s growth, improve your team’s performance, create an extraordinary experience for all involved—and take your program to a whole new level.
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The Sports Parent Solution
- Proven Strategies for Transforming Parents from Obstacles to Allies
- Narrated by: J.P. Nerbun, Nate Sanderson
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 2024-01-25
- Language: English
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To the Limit
- The Meaning of Endurance from Mexico to the Himalayas
- Written by: Michael Crawley
- Narrated by: Raj Ghatak
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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Michael Crawley immerses himself in various endurance cultures and asks what makes enduring together meaningful to people. He learns how Nepalese runners face different challenges depending on their location up a mountain, from those in the lowlands and ‘middle hills’ to Sherpas from the Solu Khumbu, and observes Tarahumara ultrarunners’ ability to cover extreme distances on highly technical terrain. But he also delves into the history of Dance Marathons, six-day pedestrianism races in Madison Square Gardens and the unique Enhanced Games.
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To the Limit
- The Meaning of Endurance from Mexico to the Himalayas
- Narrated by: Raj Ghatak
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 2024-09-12
- Language: English
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Summer of '68
- The Season That Changed Baseball - and America - Forever
- Written by: Tim Wendel
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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From the beginning, ’68 was a season rocked by national tragedy and sweeping change. Opening Day was postponed and later played in the shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s funeral. That summer, as the pennant races were heating up, the assassination of Robert Kennedy was later followed by rioting at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. But even as tensions boiled over and violence spilled into the streets, something remarkable was happening in major league ballparks across the country. Pitchers were dominating like never before, and with records falling and shut-outs mounting, many began hailing ’68 as “The Year of the Pitcher".
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Summer of '68
- The Season That Changed Baseball - and America - Forever
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2013-04-25
- Language: English
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Game Misconduct
- Hockey's Toxic Culture and How to Fix It
- Written by: Evan F. Moore, Jashvina Shah, Renee Hess - foreword
- Narrated by: Siiri Scott, Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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Those who have been lured by the sound of skate blades slicing into fresh ice and everything-or-nothing attitude of the game know that hockey can seem like its own world. Yet in another light, that tight community can turn insular; the values of teamwork and humility can manifest as collective silence in the face of abuse and discrimination. In Game Misconduct, reporters Evan Moore and Jashvina Shah reveal hockey's toxic undercurrent which has permeated the sport throughout the junior, college, and professional levels.
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Game Misconduct
- Hockey's Toxic Culture and How to Fix It
- Narrated by: Siiri Scott, Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 2022-12-27
- 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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Mental Toughness for Young Athletes Unleashed
- Practical Youth Sports Psychology Strategies for Mindset Training to Instantly Boost Focus, Resilience, and Confidence in Just Minutes a Day
- Written by: Rush Hemphill
- Narrated by: Ian Patrick Freely
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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Master mental toughness without feeling overwhelmed, even if you've struggled with consistency before! Are you a young athlete struggling to perform consistently under pressure? Do you find it hard to stay focused during games, despite rigorous training?Or maybe, as a parent or coach, you're searching for ways to help young athletes build confidence and overcome anxiety? You’re not alone.
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Mental Toughness for Young Athletes Unleashed
- Practical Youth Sports Psychology Strategies for Mindset Training to Instantly Boost Focus, Resilience, and Confidence in Just Minutes a Day
- Narrated by: Ian Patrick Freely
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2024-11-07
- Language: English
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