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The Worst of Sports
- Chumps, Cheats, and Chokers from the Games We Love
- Written by: Charlie DeMarco
- Narrated by: Daniel May
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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An uproarious collection of the most controversial and regrettable moments in major pro and college athletics, with a sprinkling of the obscure, The Worst of Sports is a compendium of abject failure, harebrained decision-making, avarice, and rank stupidity - in other words, the stuff that some athletes, and fans, are best at. Whether you’re a casual fan or a face-painting zealot, you’ll find plenty to root for (or against) in The Worst of Sports.
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The Worst of Sports
- Chumps, Cheats, and Chokers from the Games We Love
- Narrated by: Daniel May
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2013-07-17
- Language: English
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A Chance to Win
- Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City
- Written by: Jonathan Schuppe
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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When Rodney Mason, an ex-con drug dealer from Newark's rough South Ward, was shot and paralyzed, he vowed to turn his life around. A former high-school pitching ace with a 93-mph fastball, Mason decided to form a Little League team to help boys avoid the street life that had claimed his youth and mobility. Predictably, the players struggle but through the fists and tears, lopsided losses and rare victories, this bunch of misfits becomes a team, and in doing so gives the community something to root for.
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A Chance to Win
- Boyhood, Baseball, and the Struggle for Redemption in the Inner City
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2014-07-15
- Language: English
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Game of Shadows
- Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports
- Written by: Mark Fainaru-Wada, Lance Williams
- Narrated by: Arnie Mazer
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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This audiobook is the window into the underground world of cheating at the highest levels, which set off a frenzy of activity and hand-wringing in the offices of Major League Baseball and Congress. Through the authors' pursuit of sources and documents, they were able to open for public view a world in which elite athletes trade money and risk their health for the edge that will allow them to run faster, hit harder, and compete longer, and then cash in on the fame and wealth.
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Game of Shadows
- Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports
- Narrated by: Arnie Mazer
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2006-04-12
- Language: English
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The Man in the Dugout
- 15 Big League Managers Speak Their Minds
- Written by: Donald Honig
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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The 15 major-league managers interviewed in The Man in the Dugout represent six decades of baseball - men like Joe McCarthy of the New York Yankees and Walter Alston of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Each oral history, steeped in nostalgia and confidentiality, is a record of the triumphs and defeats of the man carrying the prime responsibility of a multimillion-dollar franchise. Here the manager is revealed as a strategist, tactician, peacemaker, politician, ego-soother, and builder of self-confidence.
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The Man in the Dugout
- 15 Big League Managers Speak Their Minds
- Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2014-07-29
- Language: English
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Fair Play
- The Ethics of Sport
- Written by: Robert L. Simon
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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Addressing both collegiate and professional sports, the updated edition of Fair Play explores the ethical presuppositions of competitive athletics and their connection both to ethical theory and to concrete moral dilemmas that arise in actual athletic competition. A major new section in chapter four examines the ethics of genetically enhancing athletic abilities. Other new material covers the analysis of sports and games according to influential philosopher Bernard Suits; the morality of cheating and the ethics of strategic fouling; and more.
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Fair Play
- The Ethics of Sport
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2014-02-25
- Language: English
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Bob Costas in Conversation with Budd Mishkin
- The Future of Sports
- Written by: Bob Costas
- Narrated by: Budd Mishkin
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
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NBC's Bob Costas has anchored football, basketball, and Summer Olympics coverage for NBC and served as a baseball play-by-play man. He is an 11-time Emmy winner and an eight-time National Sportscaster of the Year. Budd Mishkin is the senior feature correspondent and sports anchor/reporter at New York 1 and the host of the weekly profile series One on 1 with Budd Mishkin.
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Bob Costas in Conversation with Budd Mishkin
- The Future of Sports
- Narrated by: Budd Mishkin
- Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
- Release date: 2009-08-24
- Language: English
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Rising Tide
- Bear Bryant, Joe Namath, and Dixie's Last Quarter
- Written by: Randy Roberts, Ed Krzemienski
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
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The extraordinary story of how Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and Joe Namath, his star quarterback at the University of Alabama, led the Crimson Tide to victory and transformed football into a truly national pastime. During the bloodiest years of the civil rights movement, Bear Bryant and Joe Namath - two of the most iconic and controversial figures in American sports - changed the game of college football forever.
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Rising Tide
- Bear Bryant, Joe Namath, and Dixie's Last Quarter
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2013-08-20
- Language: English
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Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States
- Written by: Andrei S. Markovits, Emily Albertson
- Narrated by: Jared Pike
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
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The typical female sports fan remains very different from her male counterparts. In their insightful and engaging book, Sportista, Andrei S. Markovits and Emily Albertson examine the significant ways many women have become fully conversant with sports - acquiring a knowledge of and passion for them as a way of forging identities that until recently were quite alien to women.
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Sportista: Female Fandom in the United States
- Narrated by: Jared Pike
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2014-04-25
- Language: English
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Black Gods of the Asphalt
- Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball
- Written by: Onaje X. O. Woodbine
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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On the street, every ballplayer has a story. Onaje X. O. Woodbine, a former streetball player who became an all-star Ivy Leaguer, brings the sights and sounds, hopes and dreams of street basketball to life. He shows that big games have a trickster figure and a master of Black talk whose commentary interprets the game for audiences. The beats of hip-hop and reggae make up the soundtrack, and the ballplayers are half men, half heroes, defying the ghetto's limitations with their flights to the basket.
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Black Gods of the Asphalt
- Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 2022-04-05
- Language: English
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Boot Sale
- Inside the Strange and Secret World of Football's Transfer Window
- Written by: Nige Tassell
- Narrated by: Rich Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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For football fans who hungrily feed on gossip and rumour, Christmas comes twice a year - once in August and again in January. These are the months when the transfer window dominates thoughts, when the prospect of a new signing or two reinvigorates the hopes and dreams of the hopelessly devoted. Nige Tassell goes behind the scenes to observe the workings of the transfer window and to examine why it continues to hold such fascination for a nation of football lovers.
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Boot Sale
- Inside the Strange and Secret World of Football's Transfer Window
- Narrated by: Rich Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2019-11-14
- Language: English
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Black Planet
- Facing Race during an NBA Season
- Written by: David Shields
- Narrated by: Donald Elivert
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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The National Basketball Association is a place where white fans and Black players enact virtually every racial issue and tension in US culture. Following the Seattle SuperSonics for an entire season, David Shields explores how, in a predominantly Black sport, White fans - including especially himself - think about and talk about Black heroes, Black scapegoats, and Black bodies. Critically acclaimed and highly controversial, Black Planet was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN USA Award, and was named one of the Top Ten Nonfiction Books of 1999.
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Black Planet
- Facing Race during an NBA Season
- Narrated by: Donald Elivert
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 2019-10-07
- Language: English
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Tropic of Football
- The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL
- Written by: Rob Ruck
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
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Football is at a crossroads, its future imperiled by the very physicality that drives its popularity. Its grass roots - high school and youth travel program - are withering. But players from the small South Pacific American territory of Samoa are bucking that trend, quietly becoming the most disproportionately overrepresented culture in the sport. But the very thing that makes them so good at football - their extraordinary internalization of discipline and warrior self-image - makes them especially vulnerable to its pitfalls, including concussions and brain injuries.
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Tropic of Football
- The Long and Perilous Journey of Samoans to the NFL
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2019-03-26
- Language: English
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Suicide Squeeze: Taylor Hooton, Rob Garibaldi, and the Fight against Teenage Steroid Abuse
- Written by: William C. Kashatus
- Narrated by: Josh Berndt
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
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Appearance- and performance-enhancing drugs - specifically, anabolic steroids (APEDs) - provide a tempting competitive advantage for amateur baseball players. But this shortcut can exact a fatal cost on talented athletes. In his urgent book Suicide Squeeze, William Kashatus chronicles the experiences of Taylor Hooton and Rob Garibaldi, two promising high school baseball players who abused APEDs in the hopes of attracting professional scouts and Division I recruiters. However, as a result of their steroid abuse, they ended up taking their own lives.
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Suicide Squeeze: Taylor Hooton, Rob Garibaldi, and the Fight against Teenage Steroid Abuse
- Narrated by: Josh Berndt
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2018-12-04
- Language: English
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Separate Games: African American Sport behind the Walls of Segregation (Sport, Culture, and Society)
- Written by: David K. Wiggins - editor, Ryan Swanson - editor
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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The hardening of racial lines during the first half of the 20th century eliminated almost all African Americans from white organized sports, forcing black athletes to form their own teams, organizations, and events. This separate sporting culture, explored in the 12 essays included here, comprised much more than athletic competition; these “separate games” provided examples of black enterprise and black self-help and showed the importance of agency and the quest for racial uplift in a country fraught with racialist thinking and discrimination.
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Separate Games: African American Sport behind the Walls of Segregation (Sport, Culture, and Society)
- Narrated by: David Sadzin
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2018-11-28
- Language: English
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Going to the Match: The Passion for Football
- The Perfect Gift for Football Fans
- Written by: Duncan Hamilton
- Narrated by: David Mounfield
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
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A massive audience in sitting rooms, parks and pubs watched England in the 2018 World Cup. Yet as Duncan Hamilton demonstrates with style, insight and wit in Going to the Match, watching on TV is no substitute for being there. Hamilton embarks on a richly entertaining, exquisitely crafted journey through football. Glory game or grass roots, England v Slovenia or Guiseley v Hartlepool, he delves beneath the action to illuminate the stories which make the sport endlessly compelling.
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Going to the Match: The Passion for Football
- The Perfect Gift for Football Fans
- Narrated by: David Mounfield
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2018-09-28
- Language: English
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The Miseducation of the Student Athlete
- How to Fix College Sports
- Written by: Kenneth L. Shropshire, Collin D. Williams Jr.
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
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As the revenues generated by big-time college sports continue to skyrocket, virtually all of the debate involves whether (and how much) student-athletes should be paid for play. Kenneth L. Shropshire and Collin D. Williams Jr., argue that "student" has to come first: the focus should be on prioritizing a meaningful education. They draw on new research to reveal that it has become increasingly difficult for college athletes to balance school and sports, much less a social life, leading to serious economic, professional, and emotional consequences for young people.
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The Miseducation of the Student Athlete
- How to Fix College Sports
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2018-09-25
- Language: English
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A Sporting Chance
- Written by: Titus O'Reily
- Narrated by: Titus O'Reily
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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In Sport, the term 'good bloke' doesn't mean what it says. Like 'fun run', it in fact often means the exact opposite. Titus O'Reily, the sports historian Australia neither needs nor deserves, examines why our nation's sportspeople can do terrible things yet be so readily forgiven. In this Great Southern Land, a sportsman can be excused almost any sin if he is elevated to the mythical status of being a 'good bloke'. So, what does it take to earn the title of 'good bloke'? And can female athletes be good blokes, too?
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A Sporting Chance
- Narrated by: Titus O'Reily
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2018-10-29
- Language: English
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The Language of the Game
- How to Understand Soccer
- Written by: Laurent Dubois
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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The Language of the Game is a passionate and engaging introduction to soccer's history, tactics, and human drama. Filled with perceptive insights and stories both legendary and little known, The Language of the Game is a rewarding listen for anyone seeking to understand soccer better.
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The Language of the Game
- How to Understand Soccer
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2018-07-23
- Language: English
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Muck City
- Winning and Losing in Football's Forgotten Town
- Written by: Bryan Mealer
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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The loamy black "muck" that surrounds Belle Glade, Florida once built an empire for Big Sugar and provided much of the nation's vegetables, often on the backs of roving, destitute migrants. Many of these were children who honed their skills along the field rows and started one of the most legendary football programs in America. Belle Glade's high school team, the Glades Central Raiders, has sent an extraordinary number of players to the National Football League - 27 since 1985, with five of those drafted in the first round.
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Muck City
- Winning and Losing in Football's Forgotten Town
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 2017-04-25
- Language: English
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Deep Play
- Philosophie des Fußballs
- Written by: Gunter Gebauer
- Narrated by: Gunter Gebauer, Stefan Kaminski
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
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Aus der Höhe des Geistes gesehen, hat Fußball etwas erschreckend Direktes, den Geschmack des physischen Kampfs und den Geruch von Körpern und Erde. Kann ein Spiel, das sich so offensichtlich gegen die Zivilisation stellt, einen philosophischen Gehalt haben? Dieser Frage geht der Sportphilosoph Gunter Gebauer nach, indem er das Fußballspiel ins Verhältnis zu anderen kulturellen Errungenschaften setzt. Aus verschiedenen Perspektiven nähert er sich so der Faszination, die das beliebteste aller Spiele über alle Grenzen hinweg auslöst. Ein Hörerlebnis mit vielen Originaltönen aus sechs Jahrzehnten Fußballgeschichte!
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Deep Play
- Philosophie des Fußballs
- Narrated by: Gunter Gebauer, Stefan Kaminski
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
- Release date: 2018-06-28
- Language: German
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