The middle of the 2006 football season was a back-against-the-wall moment for Rich Brooks and his Kentucky football team.  Coming off what he termed as an embarrassing loss at LSU, Brooks thought he might not get to finish out the season if his team did not win its next game.  The Wildcats did win and they would lose only twice more over the next 13 games--a stretch that included the school's first bowl win in 22 years and the first upset of a number one team in more than 40 years.  A new book by Brooks and “Voice of the Wildcats” Tom Leach tells this remarkable comeback story, orchestrated by a coach revered for his integrity, toughness, loyalty and determination.

Documents the rise of the iconic boxer against a backdrop of the mid-twentieth century, describing his Harlem youth and emergence as a symbol of black America while offering insight into his athletic talents and his relationships with such figures as Langston Hughes, Lena Horne, and Miles Davis.

The best-selling author of Downtown Owl and Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs takes a humorous look at expectations versus reality in pop culture, sports, and media, in a book that explores such questions as: Why is pop culture obsessed with time travel?; What do Kurt Cobain and David Koresh have in common?; and much more.

"All true obsessives, whatever their object of adoration, love making lists. It's a way of trying to organize (or at least make sense of) the sprawling, life-controlling nature of their obsession. Sports Illustrated editor Gorant, being the kind of self-described "idiot" who has spent far too much of his life watching televised sports (any kind, "the more obscure, in some ways, the better") took his particular list and made it into a book. If Gorant's genial account of attending the 10 ultimate sporting events seems at times like little more than an excuse to get out of the office and make random alcohol-based friendships with assorted strangers, so much the better. As an exercise in vicarious frivolous fandom, Gorant's year-plus-long odyssey—he starts at the Eagles-Patriots Super Bowl in February 2005 and ends with Fenway Park's Opening Day on April 11, 2006—is serenely satisfying reading in the manner of a lengthy magazine article. Gorant's selection trends toward the obvious (a Packers game at Lambeau, the Masters, the Daytona 500) and the decision to include only one non-American event (Wimbledon) comes off as a little lazy. All that to the side, Gorant brings a fresh and appreciative eye to each event, whether it's the days spent lazing around an RV at the Daytona 500 with a self-described "family" of NASCAR fans or discovering how a relaxed afternoon game at Wrigley "could be all the romance a man needs." (Publishers Weekly)

Provides an entertaining and thought-provoking look at some of the most hotly debated controversies in sports history, from who is the best quarterback of all time, to who would win in a confrontation between Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis, to whether or not today's athletes are as good as the greats from the past.

"The public can't get enough of highlight reels, it seems, and this book/DVD combo may just be the sweetest of them all. Krantz has put together the top 50 final moments in sports history. Sure there will be debate over the selections, but whether you think that Havlicek's steal in Game 7 of the 1965 NBA Eastern Conference Finals should be ranked higher than Fisk's waving-it-fair homer in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series makes no difference. The beauty here is in having all of these moments recorded not only in print but also on DVD, narrated by Jim McKay in his familiar style." (BookList)

"Following in the footsteps of his own bestselling We Interrupt This Broadcast, radio veteran Garner has put together this gift-perfect compilation of 47 of the most memorable sporting events ever broadcast on radio or TV. This coffee-table-sized volume includes a foreword by Hank Aaron and an afterword by Wayne Gretzky. It also features two accompanying audio CDs that combine sturdy backstory narration of each event by Bob Costas with snippets of the original broadcast. From Babe Ruth's called shot in the 1932 World Series to the U.S. women's 1999 World Cup soccer victory, Garner's collection is a diverse sampling of the century's most significant sporting moments." (Publishers Weekly)

A collection of photographs from Sports Illustrated magazine records the greatest moments in sports, including scenes from the Olympics, boxing confrontations, and the worlds of baseball and football.