Reading Time: 3 minutes How we can save sports: A gameplan provides a fair and honest discussion of contemporary issues in sports
Tag: Sports books
Althea Gibson and Little Mo were tennis giants from the 1950s
Reading Time: 4 minutes But even if you’re talented and famous, life can be a bitch
New books connect sports with higher purpose in life
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Pope’s face lit up and he smiled when presented with On the Eighth Day
The invaluable power of healthy skepticism
Reading Time: 4 minutes Usain Bolt became the fastest human being ever by eating – wait for it – Chicken McNuggets, not following the latest health care fad
Jim Bouton’s impact reached far beyond the baseball diamond
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Ball Four author was a significant social activist, speaking out about apartheid, and exposing small-town government and media corruption
U.S. college basketball title game an example of sport at its best
Reading Time: 4 minutes True competition means the pursuit of excellence in partnership with your opponent
America’s first ethnic working-class hero
Reading Time: 3 minutes An Irish-American Catholic, champion boxer John L. Sullivan rose to popularity from modest roots