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Open: An Autobiography Knopf ISBN13 9780307268198 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a From Andre Agassi one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court a beautiful haunting autobiography r r Agassi s incredibly rigorous training begins when he is just a child By the age of thirteen he is banished to a Florida tennis camp that feels like a prison camp Lonely scared a ninth-grade dropout he rebels in ways that will soon make him a 1980s icon He dyes his hair pierces his ears dresses like a punk rocker By the time he turns pro at sixteen his new look promises to change tennis forever as does his lightning-fast return r r And yet despite his raw talent he struggles early on We feel his confusion as he loses to the world s best his greater confusion as he starts to win After stumbling in three Grand Slam finals Agassi shocks the world and himself by capturing the 1992 Wimbledon Overnight he becomes a fan favorite and a media target r r Agassi brings a near-photographic memory to every pivotal match and every relationship Never before has the inner game of tennis and the outer game of fame been so precisely limned Alongside vivid portraits of rivals from several generations Jimmy Connors Pete Sampras Roger Federer Agassi gives unstinting accounts of his brief time with Barbra Streisand and his doomed marriage to Brooke Shields He reveals a shattering loss of confidence And he recounts his spectacular resurrection a comeback climaxing with his epic run at the 1999 French Open and his march to become the oldest man ever ranked number one r r In clear taut prose Agassi evokes his loyal brother his wise coach his gentle trainer all the people who help him regain his balance and find love at last with Stefanie Graf Inspired by her quiet strength he fights through crippling pain from a deteriorating spine to remain a dangerous opponent in the twenty-first and final year of his career Entering his last tournament in 2006 he s hailed for completing a stunning metamorphosis from nonconformist to elder statesman from dropout to education advocate And still he s not done At a U S Open for the ages he makes a courageous last stand then delivers one of the most stirring farewells ever heard in a sporting arena r r With its breakneck tempo and raw candor Open will be read and cherished for years A treat for ardent fans it will also captivate readers who know nothing about The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy ESPN ISBN13 9780345511768 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to write the definitive book on the NBA Bill Simmons the from-the-womb hoops addict known to millions as ESPN com s Sports Guy is that writer And The Book of Basketball / is that book r r Nowhere in the roundball universe will you find another single volume that covers as much in such depth as this wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining look at the past present and future of pro basketball r r From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time Simmons opens and then closes once and for all every major pro basketball debate Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up the result being the Pyramid Simmons s one-of-a-kind five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing The Secret of Basketball r r Comprehensive authoritative controversial hilarious and impossible to put down even for Celtic-haters The Book of Basketball / offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game s finest funniest and fiercest chronicler r r r r More to the point he s the only one crazy enough to try to pull it off r Amazon Best of the Month October 2009 / em The Book of Basketball / em is a 700-page work of hoops genius that would make Dr James Naismith beam proudly and probably blush Author Bill Simmons best known as ESPN coms The Sports Guy explores the NBA with hilarious insight brilliant analysis and a bevy of irreverent footnotes Simmons is a fan first a fact best explained in an entertaining foreword by Malcolm Gladwell and writes from the stands not the press room His knowledge and passion for the game provide him with few peers yet his voice represents those who stick by their teams through thick and thin As a result em The Book of Basketball / em is not just a tribute to hardwood heroes but also a celebration of yelling at TV sets revering lucky jerseys and holding our breath until the final buzzer sounds Throw in pages of nearly-insane statistical breakdowns including a projected boxscore from the movie em Teen Wolf / em and its easy to see why fans of all levels should clear shelf space for this instant classic -- em Dave Callanan / em When the Game Was Ours Houghton Mifflin Harcourt From the moment these two players took the court on opposing sides they engaged in a fierce physical and psychological battle Their uncommonly competitive relationship came to symbolize the most compelling rivalry in the NBA These were the basketball epics of the 1980s--Celtics vs Lakers East vs West physical vs finesse Old School vs Showtime even white vs black Each pushed the other to greatness--together Bird and Johnson collected 8 NBA Championships and 6 MVP awards and helped save the floundering NBA at its most critical time When it started they were bitter rivals but along the way they became lifelong friends / With intimate fly-on-the-wall detail When the Game Was Ours transports readers to this electric era of basketball and reveals for the first time the inner workings of two players dead set on besting one another From the heady days of trading championships to the darker days of injury and illness we come to understand Larrys obsessive devotion to winning and how his demons drove him on the court We hear him talk with candor about playing through chronic pain and its truly exacting toll In Magic we see a young invincible star struggle with the sting of defeat not just as a player but as a team leader We are there the moment he learns hes contracted HIV and hear in his own words how that devastating news impacted his relationships in basketball and beyond But always in both cases we see them prevail / A compelling up-close-and-personal portrait of basketballs most inimitable duo When the Game Was Ours is a reevaluation of three decades in counterpoint It is also a rollicking ride through professional basketballs best times align left class h1 Amazon Exclusive Bill Walton Reviews When the Game Was Ours / r / r/ Bill Walton played in the NBA for 13 years and in 1996 was named one of the top 50 players in NBA history Hes been an analyst for CBS Sports and NBC Sports and since 2002 hes been a game analyst for ESPN NBA telecasts Read his guest review of When the Game Was Ours / r / mg align right border 0 src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ books/ hmh-ems/ Bill Walton150 jpg / Larry Bird and Magic Johnson are transcendent iconic and timeless standard bearers of excellence who changed The Game forever always bringing out the best in each other and never failing to put a smile on all our faces / I was one of the lucky ones I had the incredible good fortune to have witnessed firsthand the Bird/ Magic rivalry It was an intense and constant thing for us all But even I didnt realize how powerful their connection was until I read When the Game Was Ours a riveting and page-turning masterpiece that could only be written with the help of someone like Jackie MacMullan who was there every step of the way and who sensed there was a whole lot more to their story than what happened on the court or got played over and over again on the highlight reels In this book Larry and Magic tell stories like they never have before I was enthralled page after page Theirs was a unique relationship They were polar opposites but in ways few of us realized they were very much the same They both wanted the same thing day in and day out--to win And did they know how to win / When the Game Was Ours perfectly captures the defining moments of their lives from the very beginning of their fiercest of rivalries through their constantly evolving historical relationship and friendship right up to the present This epic tome is the capstone of their landmark careers It is also so much more than anyone could ever dream for When the Game Was Ours brilliantly explains why The Game will always belong to Larry and Magic -- Bill Walton / Photo Joe Faraoni/ ESPN / r/ hr class bucketDivider size 1 / r/ align left class h1 Amazon Exclusive A Q A with Larry Bird and Magic Johnson / r/ mg Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Liberty Mountain Knopf ISBN13 9780307266309 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a Full of incredible characters amazing athletic achievements cutting-edge science and most of all pure inspiration Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question Why does my foot hurt In search of an answer Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong r r Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence With the help of Caballo Blanco a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans including a star ultramarathoner a beautiful young surfer and a barefoot wonder r r With a sharp wit and wild exuberance McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit and finally to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons Born to Run is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet and that you indeed all of us were born to run r r r From the Hardcover edition Book Description / r/ Full of incredible characters amazing athletic achievements cutting-edge science and most of all pure inspiration Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question Why does my foot hurt In search of an answer Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong r/ Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence With the help of Caballo Blanco a mysterious loner who lives among the tribe the author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country pitting the tribe against an odd band of Americans including a star ultramarathoner a beautiful young surfer and a barefoot wonder / With a sharp wit and wild exuberance McDougall takes us from the high-tech science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America where ever-growing numbers of ultrarunners are pushing their bodies to the limit and finally to the climactic race in the Copper Canyons Born to Run is that rare book that will not only engage your mind but inspire your body when you realize that the secret to happiness is right at your feet and that you indeed all of us were born to run / r/ span class h1 Amazon Exclusive A Q A with Christopher McDougall / / span r/ mg align right border 0 src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ randoEMS/ McDougall credit James Rexroad jpg / Question / Born to Run explores the life and running habits of the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico s Copper Canyon arguably the greatest distance runners in the world What are some Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman Doubleday ISBN13 9780385522267 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a The bestselling author of Into the Wild Into Thin Air and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning eloquent account of a remarkable young man s haunting journey r r Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast In May 2002 Tillman walked away from his 3 6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army He was deeply troubled by 9/ 11 and he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban Two years later he died on a desolate hillside in southeastern Afghanistan r r Though obvious to most of the two dozen soldiers on the scene that a ranger in Tillman s own platoon had fired the fatal shots the Army aggressively maneuvered to keep this information from Tillman s wife other family members and the American public for five weeks following his death During this time President Bush repeatedly invoked Tillman s name to promote his administration s foreign policy Long after Tillman s nationally televised memorial service the Army grudgingly notified his closest relatives that he had probably been killed by friendly fire while it continued to dissemble about the details of his death and who was responsible r r In Where Men Win Glory Jon Krakauer draws on Tillman s journals and letters interviews with his wife and friends conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him and extensive research on the ground in Afghanistan to render an intricate mosaic of this driven complex and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the definitive account of the events and actions that led to his death Before he enlisted in the army Tillman was familiar to sports aficionados as an undersized overachieving Arizona Cardinals safety whose virtuosity in the defensive backfield was spellbinding With his shoulder-length hair outspoken views and boundless intellectual curiosity Tillman was considered a maverick America was fascinated when he traded the bright lights and riches of the NFL for boot camp and a buzz cut Sent first to Iraq a war he would openly declare was illegal as hell and eventually to Afghanistan Tillman was driven by complicated emotionally charged sometimes contradictory notions of duty honor justice patriotism and masculine pride Book Description / r / The bestselling author of em Into the Wild / em em Into Thin Air / em and em Under the Banner of Heaven / em delivers a stunning eloquent account of a remarkable young man s haunting journey r / em r / / em Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast In May 2002 Tillman walked away from his 3 6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army He was deeply troubled by 9/ 11 and he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban Two years later he died on a desolate hillside in southeastern Afghanistan r / r / Though obvious to most of the two dozen soldiers on the scene that a ranger in Tillman s own platoon had fired the fatal shots the Army aggressively maneuvered to keep this information from Tillman s wife other family members and the American public for five weeks following his death During this time President Bush repeatedly invoked Tillman s name to promote his administration s foreign policy Long after Tillman s nationally televised memorial service the Army grudgingly notified his closest relatives that he had probably been killed by friendly fire while it continued to dissemble about the details of his death and who was responsible r / r / In em Where Men Win Glory / em Jon Krakauer draws on Tillman s journals and letters interviews with his wife and friends conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him and extensive research on the ground in Afghanistan to render an intricate mosaic of this driven complex and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the definitive account em / em of the events and actions that led to his death Before he enlisted in the army Tillman was familiar to sports aficionados as an undersized overachieving Arizona Cardinals safety whose virtuosity in the defensive backfield was spellbinding With his shoulder-length hair outspoken views and boundless intellectual curiosity Tillman was considered a maverick America was fascinated when he traded the bright lights and riches of the NFL for boot camp and a buzz cut Sent first to Iraq a war he would openly declare was illegal as hell and eventually to Afghanistan Tillman was driven by complicated emotionally charged sometimes contradictory notions of duty honor justice The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel Harper Paperbacks ISBN13 9780061537967 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a A heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family love loyalty and hope a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life as only a dog could tell it / Eating the Dinosaur Scribner ISBN13 9781416544203 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a ig align center A Book of All-New Pop Culture Pieces by Chuck Klosterman / ig / Chuck Klosterman has chronicled rock music film and sports for almost fifteen years Hes covered extreme metal extreme nostalgia disposable art disposable heroes life on the road life through the television urban uncertainty and small-town weirdness Through a variety of mediums and with a multitude of motives hes written about everything he can think of and a lot that hes forgotten The world keeps accelerating but the pop ideas keep coming In Eating the Dinosaur Klosterman is more entertaining and incisive than ever Whether hes dissecting the boredom of voyeurism the reason why music fans inevitably hate their favorite bands latest album or why we love watching cant-miss superstars fail spectacularly Klosterman remains obsessed with the relationship between expectation reality and living history Its amateur anthropology for the present tense and sometimes its incredibly funny Q What is this book about / A Well thats difficult to say I havent read it yet - Ive just clicked on it and casually glanced at this webpage There clearly isnt a plot Ive heard theres a lot of stuff about time travel in this book and quite a bit about violence and Garth Brooks and why Germans dont laugh when theyre inside grocery stores Ralph Nader and Ralph Sampson play significant roles I think there are several pages about Rear Window and football and Mad Men and why Rivers Cuomo prefers having sex with Asian women Supposedly theres a chapter outlining all the things the Unabomber was right about but perhaps Im misinformed Q Is there a larger theme / A Oh something about reality What is reality maybe No thats not it Not exactly I get the sense that most of the core questions dwell on the way media perception constructs a fake reality that ends up becoming more meaningful than whatever actually happened Q Should I read this book / A Probably Do you see a clear relationship between the Branch Davidian disaster and the recording of Nirvanas In Utero Does Barack Obama make you want to drink Pepsi Does ABBA remind you of AC/ DC If so you probably dont need to read this book You probably wrote this book But I suspect everybody else will totally love it except for the ones who absolutely The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN13 9780393330472 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a Lewis has such a gift for storytelling he writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons Janet Maslin em New York Times / em / One day Michael Oher will be among the most highly paid athletes in the National Football League When we first meet him he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack he does not know his real name his father his birthday or how to read or write He takes up football and school after a rich white evangelical family plucks him from the streets Then two great forces alter Oher the familys love and the evolution of professional football itself into a game in which the quarterback must be protected at any cost Our protagonist becomes the priceless package of size speed and agility necessary to guard the quarterbacks greatest vulnerability his blind side This paperback edition contains a brand-new 2007 afterword Hard Work: My Life On and Off the Court Algonquin Books ISBN13 9781565129597 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a Coach Roy Williams one of the most respected successful and dominant basketball coaches in the nation had an unlikely rise to the Hall of Fame and a career that boasts the highest winning percentage among all active college coaches Now for the first time Williams tells the story of his life that few people know from his turbulent family life as a child to the North Carolina Tar Heels National Championship victory in 2009 He speaks candidly of his past his passions his inspirations and the coaching philosphy behind one of college basketballs most successful programs And he recounts the determination that took him from a small home in the mountains of North Carolina to the very pinacle of coaching success K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain Random Broadway ISBN13 9780767932509 Condition NEW Notes Brand New from Publisher No Remainder Mark a title Condition Guide href / content/ Condition and Shipping Guide htm target blank Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices / a A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2 the worlds most difficult and unpredictable mountain by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the Top r r At 28 251 feet the worlds second-tallest mountain K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement in mountaineering with good reason Four times as deadly as Everest K2 has claimed the lives of seventy-seven climbers since 1954 In August 2008 eleven climbers died in a single thirty-six-hour period on K2 the worst single-event tragedy in the mountains history and the second-worst in the long chronicle of mountaineering in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges Yet summiting K2 remains a cherished goal for climbers from all over the globe Before he faced the challenge of K2 himself Ed Viesturs one of the worlds premier high-altitude mountaineers thought of it as the holy grail of mountaineering r r In K2 Life and Death on the Worlds Most Dangerous Mountain Viesturs explores the remarkable history of the mountain and of those who have attempted to conquer it At the same time he probes K2s most memorable sagas in an attempt to illustrate the lessons learned by confronting the fundamental questions raised by mountaineering questions of risk ambition loyalty to ones teammates self-sacrifice and the price of glory Viesturs knows the mountain firsthand He and renowned alpinist Scott Fischer climbed it in 1992 and were nearly killed in an avalanche that sent them sliding to almost certain death Fortunately Ed managed to get into a self-arrest position with his ice ax and stop both his fall and Scott s r r Focusing on seven of the mountains most dramatic campaigns from his own troubled ascent to the 2008 tragedy Viesturs and Roberts crafts an edge-of-your-seat narrative that climbers and armchair travelers alike will find unforgettably compelling With photographs from Viesturss personal collection and from historical sources this is the definitive account of the worlds ultimate mountain and of the lessons that can be gleaned from struggling toward its elusive summit span class h1 Amazon Exclusive Christopher Reich Reviews em K2 Life and Death on the Worlds Most Dangerous Mountain / em / / span r / r / Christopher Reigh is the em New York Times / em bestselling author of / em Rules of Vengeance / em em Numbered Account / em and em The Patriots Club / em which won the International Thiller Writers award for best novel in 2 / 006 / r / r / mg alt Christopher Reich photo Katja Reich height 180 src http / / g-ecx images-amazon com/ images/ G/ 01/ books/ rando/ christopher reich jpg style float right width 250 / Is there anything more enthralling than a true tale of high adventure well told Stories about men and women braving impossible odds under daunting conditions in far flung locales often risking life and limb keep me glued to the page every time I m talking about books like em Papillion / em em Alive / em em Into Thin Air / em and em The Perfect Storm / em Well today I m happy to add another book to that list em K2 Life and Death on the World s Most Dangerous Mountain / em by Ed Viesturs with David Roberts r / r / K2 is the world s second tallest mountain Located in the Karakoram Range in northern Pakistan it has more than earned its nickname as the world s most dangerous mountain Just a year ago thirteen climbers lost their lives on the mountain in a single day A few mountains may have killed a higher ratio of those who have tried to climb them notably Annapurna but none combine the danger lore and prestige of K2 In Viesturs new book he tells the story of six expeditions to the fabled mountain Some successful Some ill-fated All spellbinding r / r / First a word about the author Ed Viesturs is widely acknowledged to be among the world s top five living mountaineers In 2005 he became the first American to summit all fourteen of the world s 8000 meter peaks And he did so without supplemental oxygen His fine memoir em No Shortcuts to the Top / em chronicles that adventure To offer but one example of his prodigious skills Viesturs once climbed 7 000 feet from an altitude of 16 000 feet to 23 000 feet up a near vertical slope in only eight hours Did I mention he was carrying a forty-pound pack on his back The man is to mountaineering what Michael Jordan is to basketball If that is Michael Jordan had risked