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A first American mountaineer to have ascended all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter peaks explores the history of K2 as reflected by six dramatic climbing campaigns, describing the tragedies that have marked many attempts as well as his own near-fatal 1992 ascent.

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A lively and opinionated tour of the past, present, and future of pro basketball, written by ESPN's "Sports Guy" columnist, shares provocative insights on everything from major NBA events and underrated players to how the author believes Hall of Famers should be selected. By an award-winning author.

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Draws on the insider perspectives of the Cy Young Award-winning all star and the World Series home-run champion to evaluate "America's pastime" while describing their visions for its future, sharing behind-the-scenes stories of such athletes as Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and Joe Torre.

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In his latest work, Capstick takes readers from the African bush to the rocky salmon pools of Iceland, from the moon-washed Gulf of Mexico to the equatorial Amazon lowlands. 32 drawings throughout.

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THE WINNER'S MANUAL: FOR THE GAME OF LIFE shares Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel's "Big Ten" fundamentals for success: Attitude, Discipline, Faith, Handling Adversity & Success, Excellence, Love, Toughness, Responsibility, Team, and Hope. Peppered with personal stories from Tressel's storied coaching career, the book shares the fundamental lessons that he has been imparting to his players for the past 20 years. A perfect blend of football stories, spiritual insights, motivational reading, and practical application, The Winners Manual provides an inside look at the core philosophy that has served as the foundation for one of the most successful college football programs of all time. Includes 8 pages of color photos and a foreword from NYT best-selling author John Maxwell.

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More than two million people a week rush to SI.com to read Peter King's column, Monday Morning Quarterback. There they find a potent mix of analysis, opinion, humor and inside-the-NFL locker- room information delivered as no one else can. In this book, King, the award-winning Sports Illustrated pro football writer, brings the same blend of wit and wisdom, ranging from his famous "10 Things I Think I Think" to his Top 100 player rankings; from the football clichés he hates to the coaching hires he loves; from Brett Favre's golf game to Peyton Manning's comedic skills. And all freshly flavored with King's inimitable observations on the best hotels, the worst airports, the greatest traditions-and coffee, coffee, coffee. There is no journalist better connected to the NFL's players, coaches, general managers and owners, and no writer renders the inside information as entertainingly as Peter King.

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A musician and visual artist describes his preference for traveling by folding bicycle throughout New York City, a choice that has enabled his discovery of the mode's ensuing sense of freedom as well as his observations on the city's inner workings and rhythms.

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Authored by one of the leading experts in the field, this comprehensive text introduces students to the fields of physical education, exercise science, and allied health--presenting the history and trends in physical education and the human movement sciences. The text includes a discussion of careers and professional issues in all areas of physical education and kinesiology, as well as an introduction to the major subfields, including exercise physiology; biomechanics; motor learning, control, and development; sport sociology; sport and exercise psychology; sport pedagogy; sport humanities; and related areas in athletic training, sport management, and allied health.

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Nobody teaches the short game better than internationally revered golf instructor Dave Pelz. Here he explores the art of chipping, lobs, pitches, long-distance wedge shots, and bunker play. 75 photos & charts.

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Featuring hundreds of wrestling superstars--from the World Wrestling Federation of the 1960s and 70s to today's WWE--a thrilling, one-of-a-kind reference includes a visual glossary of all wrestling moves; a look at the video games, music, toy lines, and other media-related tie-ins; and photos from the many showcase events held throughout the years.

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Acclaimed author Mike Vaccaro presents a riveting, must-read account of what remains, nearly a century later, the greatest World Series ever played. In October of 1912, seven years before gambling nearly destroyed the sport, the world of baseball got lucky. It would get two teams-the Boston Red Sox and the New York Giants, winners of a combined 208 games during the regular season-who may well have been the two finest ball clubs ever assembled to that point. Most importantly, during the course of eight games spanning nine days in that marvelous baseball autumn, they would elevate the World Series from a regional October novelty to a national obsession. The games would fight for space on the front pages of the nation's newspapers, battling both an assassin's bullet and the most sensational trial of the young century, with the Series often carrying the day and earning the "wood." In THE FIRST FALL CLASSIC, veteran sports journalist and author Mike Vaccaro brings to life a bygone era in cinematic and intimate detail-and gives fans a wonderful page-turner that re-creates the magic and suspense of the world's first great series.

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The ultimate guide for men searching for the perfect body contains hundreds of full-color photographs celebrating the beauty of the human body, along with easy-to-understand terminology and workout programs geared toward all levels of discipline from beginner to advanced.

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An award-winning golf writer for <IT>Sports Illustrated<RO> follows his family's obsession with golf on a personal odyssey that takes him to his ancestral home in Ireland, now home to a magnificent golf course, to Musselburgh, Scotland, home of his maternal ancestors, and to Wisconsin, where his father learned to play.

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When her sister Robin suffers a massive heart attack that leaves her in a coma from which she may never wake up, Molly Snow and her family struggle to cope with the tragedy as their relationships are put to the ultimate test and Molly is forced to make some tough decisions, as she makes some surprising discoveries about the sister she thought she knew. 200,000 first printing.

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A lighthearted and lyrical new collection of observations on fly-fishing by the author of <IT>Still Life with Brook Trout <RO>features whimsical complaints about what the author believes is wrong with the world, both within and outside the fishing community. 50,000 first printing.

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In the tradition of Jon Krakauer&#8217;s <b>Into Thin Air </b>and Sebastian Junger&#8217;s <b>The Perfect Storm</b> comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery&#8211;and make history themselves.<br><br>For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, navigating through wreckage as perilous as a minefield, they pushed themselves to their limits and beyond, brushing against death more than once in the rusting hulks of sunken ships.<br>But in the fall of 1991, not even these courageous divers were prepared for what they found 230 feet below the surface, in the frigid Atlantic waters sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey: a World War II German U-boat, its ruined interior a macabre wasteland of twisted metal, tangled wires, and human bones&#8211;all buried under decades of accumulated sediment.<br>No identifying marks were visible on the submarine or the few artifacts brought to the surface. No historian, expert, or government had a clue as to which U-boat the men had found. In fact, the official records all agreed that there simply could not be a sunken U-boat and crew at that location.<br><br>Over the next six years, an elite team of divers embarked on a quest to solve the mystery. Some of them would not live to see its end. Chatterton and Kohler, at first bitter rivals, would be drawn into a friendship that deepened to an almost mystical sense of brotherhood with each other and with the drowned U-boat sailors&#8211;former enemies of their country. As the men&#8217;s marriages frayed under the pressure of a shared obsession, their dives grew more daring, and each realized that he was hunting more than the identities of a lost U-boat and its nameless crew.<br><br>Author Robert Kurson&#8217;s account of this quest is at once thrilling and emotionally complex, and it is written with a vivid sense of what divers actually experience when they meet the dangers of the ocean&#8217;s underworld. The story of <b>Shadow Divers</b> often seems too amazing to be true, but it all happened, two hundred thirty feet down, in the deep blue sea.

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Shares the "slump stories" of some of history's forefront golf champions to offer encouragement to frustrated players, in a compendium that includes contributions by such figures as Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, and Phil Mickelson.

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An insider's account of the pivotal playoff game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox traces the season leading up to the game; the contributions of such figures as Carlton Fish, Reggie Jackson, and Carl Yastrzemski; and the stakes that rendered the contest of particular significance. 60,000 first printing.