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Grantland Issue 2 by Bill (edt) Simmons Synopsis Grantland Quarterly is a collaboration between McSweeney's and Grantland, the popular website founded and edited by Bill Simmons. It features the best long-form sports and culture writing from the site as well as new print exclusives, delivered in a... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover 
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The Best American Sports Writing (Best American Sports Writing) by Jane Leavy Publisher Comments The Best American Series(R) First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Those Guys Have All the Fun (11 Edition) by James Andrew Miller Publisher Comments It began, in 1979, as a mad idea of starting a cable channel to televise local sporting events throughout the state of Connecticut. Today, ESPN is arguably the most successful network in modern television history, spanning eight channels in the Unites... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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An Accidental Sportswriter: A Memoir by Robert Lipsyte Publisher Comments Growing up, Robert Lipsyte was the smart-aleck fat kid, the bully magnet who went to the library instead of the ballpark. As the perpetual outsider, even into adulthood, his alienation from Jock Culture made him a rarity in the press box: the... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Men with Balls: The Professional Athlete's Handbook by Drew Magary Publisher Comments This will be the very last book you ever read. Because after you have read this book, you, Good Sir, will know how to be a pro athlete. And pro athletes don't need books. Or strong family bonds. Or any of that stupid crap. Not when they have ready access... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sports from Hell: My Search for the World's Dumbest Competition by Rick Reilly Publisher Comments The most popular sports columnist in America puts his life (and dignity) on the line in search of the most absurd sporting event on the planet. What is the stupidest sport in the world? Not content to pontificate from the sidelines, Rick Reilly set out... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fight: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Ass-Kicking But Were Afraid You'd Get Your Ass Kicked for Asking by Eugene Robinson Publisher Comments Part encyclopedia, part panegyric to fighting in all its forms and glory, this engrossing, intimate look into the allabsorbing world of fighting takes readers on a no-holds-barred plunge into what fighting is all about, and what fighters live for. Photos.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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An Accidental Sportswriter: A Memoir by Robert Lipsyte Publisher Comments A longtime sports columnist for the New York Times interweaves stories from his life and the events he covered to explore the relationships between the games we play and the lives we lead Growing up, Robert Lipsyte was the smart-aleck fat kid, the bully... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love by Dave Zirin Synopsis Funny, engaging, and sharply pointed in his appraisal of the sports complex bankrupting our cities, the celebrated author of A Peoples History of Sports in the United States returns with a hard-hitting indictment of big business and the corrupt practices... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Beyond the Box Score: An Insider's Guide to the $750 Billion Business of Sports (Sports Professor) by Rick Horrow Publisher Comments Beyond the Box Score: An Insiders Guide to the $750 Billion Business of Sports is the first comprehensive look at how the ever-growing professional sports industry really works, from the perspective of a three-decade dealmaker maneuvering within it.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fifty More Places to Fly Fish Before You Die: Fly-Fishing Experts Share More of the World's Greatest Destinations by Chris Santella Publisher Comments Fifty More Places to Fly Fish Before You Die is the latest offering in the bestselling Fifty Places series. Chris Santellas first book, Fifty Places to Fly Fish Before You Die, has more than 100,000 copies in print, and Santella—now a regular... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Home and Away: Memoir of a Fan by Scott Simon Publisher Comments The #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller from the host of NPR's Weekend Edition -- "absolutely spectacular-wise and intimate, often funny, always touching" (Scott Turow) -- now in paperback. In a beautifully written narrative that runs from... (read more) List Price $21.25 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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My Turf: Horses, Boxers, Blood Money, and the Sporting Life by William Nack Publisher Comments New in paperback. An outstanding collection of profiles and investigative articles written over the past quarter-century by Sports Illustrated writer and author of 'Secretariat: The Making of a Champion'.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Beyond the Box Score: An Insider's Guide to the $750 Billion Business of Sports by Rick Horrow Publisher Comments The sports industry is the only industry in the world that commands its own section of the newspaper. Ever-increasing digital, newsprint, and magazine column inches are being devoted to the business of sports each year. A sampling of the New York Times... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won by Tobias J. Moskowitz Publisher Comments In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball,... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Great American Sportswriters #01: Classic Wiley: A Lifetime of Punchers, Players, Punks & Prophets by Ralph Wiley Publisher Comments < BR> When< B> < /B> Ralph Wiley, a columnist for ESPN.com and a former writer for < I> Sports Illustrated< /I> , passed away on June 13, 2004, he left behind a rich legacy of written work. This volume brings together Wiley??... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Best American Sports Writing (Best American Sports Writing) by Peter Gammons Publisher Comments Well established as the premier sports anthology, The Best American Sports Writing brings together the finest writing on sports to appear in the past year. Edited by the award-winning Peter Gammons, the pieces in this volume embrace the world... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Only Game in Town (10 Edition) by David Remnick Publisher Comments For more than eighty years, The New Yorker has been home to some of the toughest, wisest, funniest, and most moving sportswriting around. The Only Game in Town is a classic collection from a magazine with a deep bench, including such authors as Roger... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sports Illustrated Almanac (Sports Illustrated Almanac) by Sports Illustrated Publisher Comments @font-face { font-family: Cambria; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } America's favorite sports almanac since its introduction 21 years... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN by James Miller Publisher Comments It began, in 1979, as a mad idea of starting a cable channel to televise local sporting events throughout the state of Connecticut. Today, ESPN is arguably the most successful network in modern television history, spanning eight channels in the Unites... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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