Sports & Recreation

Yankees vs. Red Sox. Lakers vs. Celtics. And now. . . . Team 3D vs. CompLexity. That would be America’s. next celebrated rivalry if the men in Game Boys had. their way. 3D and CompLexity are two of the top. professional “e-sports” teams in the U.S. Their battle. for dominance, as juicy as any feud in “real” sports,. leads the action in Michael Kane’s engaging and lively. chronicle of the lifestyle and business of gaming. We’ve come a long way since Pac-Man. Today’s. games are more elaborate, popular, and addictive than. ever. For the elite players, gaming is a full-fledged. career that pays big money in prizes and corporate. sponsorships. Gamers win, lose, strategize, fight,. sign with rival teams, get berated by sideline-pacing. coaches. Some use performance-enhancing drugs. And. now they’re going on TV. Are they really the “athletes”. of tomorrow? They act like they are. Game Boys is a pioneering narrative of the rivalries,. quirks, and dramas of a subculture on the cusp of. big things. At its most personal, it’s a classic sports tale. of victory and defeat, punched up for the millennial. generation. It’s also an engrossing business-meets-popculture. narrative that reveals the entrepreneurial ingenuity. involved in bringing gaming onto broadcast TV,. in the vein of the X-Games or televised poker. Game. Boys is an engrossing read for technophiles, gamers,. parents, and anyone interested in the business of sports. and trends in pop culture. more...

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Join Hannah and Jessica as they learn the art of gymnastics, from cartwheels and handstands to using the beam and asymmetric bars. Packed with full-colour photographs, lively illustrations and an engaging story to encourage children to develop their reading skills. This is a multi-level reading programme guaranteed to capture children's interest. Somersault in and have some fun!. Facts and picture word boxes simplify unfamiliar words. Short sentences, simple vocabulary and large type help build a young reader’s confidence. Ideal for early or reluctant readers. more...

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Written without collaborators and based on decades of tape recordings he made throughout his career, HITMAN is Bret Hart's brutally honest, perceptive and startling account of his life in and out of the ring that proves once and for all that great things come in pink tights. more...

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He intimidated people on and off the football field. He was brutal yet brilliant, narcissistic yet magnanimous, relentless yet unyielding. Most of all, he was the greatest football player of all time. He was Jim Brown. Jim Brown was an astonishing physical specimen with tremendous skills and intelligence. An athlete who played a number of sports at Syracuse University, he ultimately discovered that it was the violence of football that appealed to him most. The idea of physically dominating other men, surviving ferocious battles on the field against opponents who would just as soon call him a nigger as try to gouge out his eyes fueled an astonishing, record-making NFL career that led to the Hall of Fame. He battled his defenses, sometimes his teammates, and often the Cleveland Browns' legendary head coach Paul Brown. But Jim Brown had ambitions greater than football. He used his athletic brilliance to launch a movie career, becoming Hollywood's first black action hero, culminating in a scandalous love scene with America's sweetheart Raquel Welch. He leveraged his popularity into helping the NFL's black players and becoming a civil rights activist. Never shy about expressing his opinions, Brown would become the subject of FBI investigations and surveillance throughout parts of his life. Then there were the women. The patient wife who was essentially a single mother and who endured public humiliation. The girlfriends he ran through and the scandalous accusations of violence made by some of them. A complex and fascinating story, Jim Brown is a towering biography of a living legend. more...

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For an extraordinary handful of years around the turn of the millennium, the Yankees were baseball's unstoppable force. With four World Series championships in five seasons and a deep bench of legends and comers -- Clemens, Rivera, Williams, Soriano, Jeter, O'Neill -- they dominated the major leagues, earning the love of their hometown fans and the grudging admiration of players and spectators everywhere. In The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty , Buster Olney tracks the Yankees through these exciting and tumultuous seasons, providing insightful portraits of the stars, the foot soldiers, the coaches, the manager, and the Boss himself. With profound knowledge of the game and an insider's familiarity with the team, Olney also advances a compelling argument that the philosophy that made the Yankees great was inherently unsustainable, ultimately harmful to the sport, and led inevitably to that warm autumn night in Arizona -- the last night of the Yankee dynasty. more...

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