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A three-time Olympic Gold medalist, six-time WNBA All-Star, and the first person to win the Naismith College Player of the Year award as both a player and coach, Staley has shattered expectations at every level of the game. While her name resonates with both longtime WNBA fans and newcomers, she has kept her personal life private. UncommonFavor reveals the journey that led to Staley’s success, including the challenges she faced.

Veteran NFL insider and New York Times bestselling author Gary Myers will draw on his unique and unparalleled access to Belichick and Brady over the course of the two decades, but also to the myriad players, coaches, personnel and family, to get to the bottom of this argument and resolve it once and for all. He will drill into the numbers, analyze the psychology and sociology of this partnership, and use the powerful wand of perspective and context to illuminate the greatest duo that has ever graced the game.

The battle for NASCAR dominance was never more pronounced than when Richard Petty and David Pearson met on the track. In 551 head-to-head races between 1960 and 1986, they finished one-two an astounding 63 times (Pearson won 33, Petty 30). Each showdown attracted more media attention and new fans, helping the sport to evolve evermore rapidly.

Mit einem verschmitzten Lächeln sagt er: "Was sich seit dem WM-Titel für mich geändert hat? - die Menschen in Deutschland wissen jetzt, dass Herbert nicht mein Vor- sondern mein Nachname ist." Gordon Herbert, der Architekt hinter der erfolgreichsten Ära des deutschen Basketballs und dem ersten Triumph bei einer Weltmeisterschaft, teilt in diesem Buch sein Erfolgsrezept.

When LeBron James signed with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2018, the match looked like one made in heaven. Here was a living legend, the preeminent athlete of his generation, joining forces with one of the most iconic teams in all of sports. The Lakers, in the midst of their worst stretch in franchise history and reeling from the death of their legendary owner Dr. Jerry Buss, needed a savior. LeBron, fresh off ending Cleveland’s 50-year title drought, needed a new challenge to help further burnish his legacy. The script wrote itself.

At the height of the first American Running Boom, a small town in New Jersey emerged as something of a magical place in the sport. Tiny Bernardsville, in the Somerset Hills produced dozens of local, state, age-group, and national champions and claimed a place in the pantheon of American distance running. A junior program fed a high school team of boys and girls that claimed legend status. Before he was one of the best collegiate distance running coaches on the planet, Mark Wetmore was the young, ambitious, experimental coach of this program.

"Shohei: ICON" is not just a biography—it’s the ultimate account of an athlete who transcended the game to become a global symbol of perseverance, resilience, and greatness. Crafted in the wake of Shohei Ohtani’s remarkable 2024 season with the Los Angeles Dodgers, this unauthorized and unfiltered story dives deep into his life, career, and meteoric rise as a cultural and athletic phenomenon.

Egan Bernal y los hijos de la cordillera es un amplio recuento del desarrollo del ciclismo profesional en Colombia. Guy Roger, reportero desde hace más de treinta años en el diario deportivo francés L'Équipe, ha viajado a nuestro país, donde la tragedia y las dificultades se entrelazan con los sueños y los triunfos. El amor por el ciclismo, en los escarabajos, surge entre las montañas y los valles colombianos, a lo largo de las laderas de los Andes, en un paisaje que se narra en presente para revivir cada carrera.

Born into a daring, musical family in 1886, Annette Kellerman was a force of nature and made for the stage – her first love – and encouraged to defy social norms from a young age. But after she was diagnosed with rickets as a child she took up swimming for therapy, and soon she became an Australian champion, beating boys, breaking records and astonishing huge crowds by diving from great heights. By 1905, Kellerman was 18 and on her way to England in an attempt to swim the Channel and challenge endurance records in the Thames.

Sharing remarkable experiences from the world of professional surfing, Christo Hall offers a unique perspective on how we operate under pressure. Beyond the Break tells the story of a man finding his path in life—and the surf lessons along the way that shaped his attitude for entrepreneurial success. From big waves in Hawaii to swimming with sharks in South Africa, Christo reveals an intimate glimpse inside the mindset and lifestyle of a pro surfer.

Tough as a Mother tackles motherhood in a whole new way, bringing all moms up close and personal with some of the biggest names in sports while showcasing the shared strengths—the Tough Mother Tenets—that empower us all.

Award-winning journalist John Taylor projects the stories of Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and other stars from the NBA's golden age onto a backdrop of racial tensions and cultural change. Taylor's electrifying account of two complex men is an epic narrative of sports in America during the 1960s. Filled with dramatic conflicts and some of the great moments in sports history, and building to a thrilling climax, The Rivalry has at its core a philosophical question: Can determination and a team ethos, embodied by the ultimate team player trump sheer talent?

Dalle strade di Rozzano agli Stati Uniti, da Danielino a King Toretto, dalla gloria al KO più difficile. Per la prima volta Daniele Scardina rivive l'infortunio che lo ha visto lottare in bilico tra la vita e la morte, e ripercorre le tappe più importanti della sua vita e della sua carriera. Una storia di ricordi, amore, fede, ferite e voglia di rivalsa, in un ring di emozioni continue e parole che arrivano dritte al cuore. "Hai avuto un'emorragia cerebrale. L'hanno definito ematoma sottodurale post-traumatico".

The Fencers is the third volume in a trilogy of autobiographical Cold War Escape stories. It is both an immigrant's narrative of seeking a better life and a brighter future and a sports memoir focusing on two Olympic fencers—one representing Canada, the other Romania.

Helen Garner is one of the most “prodigiously gifted” writers of our time (New York Times Book Review), best known for her intricate portraits of “ordinary people in difficult times” (New York Times). In The Season, she trains her keen, journalistic eye on the most difficult time of all: adolescence. Garner and her grandson Amby are deep in the throes of a shared obsession with Australian football—or “footy”—as Amby advances into his local club’s Under-16s. From her trademark remove, Garner documents the camaraderie and the competition on the field.

On a September night in Montreal in 1993, Curtis Pride got his first Major League hit, prompting a long, emotional standing ovation from the crowd of 45,757 fans. Profoundly deaf since birth, Pride couldn’t hear their thunderous applause. But as the cheers grew louder and more insistent, he realized he was feeling those vibrations within his chest—an undeniable acknowledgment of an extraordinary achievement.

Sportivi straordinari. Conversazioni con campioni dello sport e della vita di Claudio Belotti è un viaggio tra le storie di 15 protagonisti dello sport, da Gianmarco Pozzecco a Josefa Idem, passando per Christian Chivu, Sergio Scariolo, Maurizia Cacciatori e molti altri. Attraverso dialoghi intime e coinvolgenti, l’autore esplora il lato umano degli atleti, raccontando sfide, successi e lezioni di vita. Un titolo che celebra lo sport come metafora della crescita personale, per chiunque voglia superare i propri limiti.

This enlightening biography – the first for 30 years – follows Gary Lineker’s career, from the school report which said, 'He concentrates too much on football’ to his phenomenal goalscoring record and development as a media personality. Through meticulous research and interviews with teammates and opponents, coaches, journalists and commentators, journalist Chris Evans reveals the inside stories and backroom anecdotes from his early days at Leicester City; the big-money moves to Everton and Tottenham Hotspur; and the highs and lows of spells at Barcelona and Nagoya Grampus Eight in Japan.

على السجادة الخضراء بزغ نجمه ليصبح بين ليلةٍ وضحاها حديث النّاس وليتغنّى الجميع بمهارته وبطريقة لعبه ويبدأون بالبحث عن تفاصيل حياته، ففي الفترة الأخيرة ومع موسم كأس العالم دخل اسم "محمد صلاح" وصورته كلَّ بيتٍ عربي..

في هذا الكتاب سنقترب من أسطورة الملاكمة أكثر لنلقي نظرة على حياته الشخصية، طفولته وعائلته، بداياته ومخاوفه، واهم أقواله التي تناقلها التاريخ إضافةً إلى الكثير من الأسرار التي لا يعرفها البعض عنه!