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In RUGBY TALES, Lawrence Dallaglio recalls with affection and razor-sharp humour, the behind-the-scenes stories that have previously only been shared within the world of international rugby, together with some classics from his rugby-playing colleagues and mates.There's...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2009-11-29
ePub
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The revealing and honest autobiography of Britain's leading National Hunt trainer.Paul Nicholls is the former jockey who began training in 1991. Gradually he built up a reputation as one of the most astute and successful trainers in the business, with a special knack...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2009-11-26
ePub
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From working the land in Narromine to winning cricket's World Cup three times, Glenn McGrath has always faced life with fierce determination and an unerring will to succeed, despite the odds. Now, following his retirement from international cricket, McGrath tells his...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2009-11-24
ePub
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MotoGP is enjoying a period of unprecedented popularity and Ring of Fire details the acclaim, the heroism and the pressures of riding motorbikes at speeds of more than 200mph. This is a world where manufacturers invest millions and the world champion celebrates by...
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Transworld Digital
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2009-11-24
ePub
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Boy Racer steps behind the scenes of the Tour de France. It unmasks the exotic, contradictory, hysterical and brutal world of professional cycling from the compellingly candid viewpoint of someone right in the thick of it.Written off as 'fat' and 'useless' in his youth,...
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Ebury Digital
Parution :
2009-11-10
ePub
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Voted the most popular Italian sportsman of the twentieth century, Fausto Angelo Coppi was the campionissimo - champion of champions. The greatest cyclist of the immediate post-war years, he was the first man to win cycling's great double, the Tour de France and Tour of...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2009-11-10
ePub
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It may be natural to play games, but the sports we love aren't natural at all. Each and every one of them has been invented, tweaked, pushed and pulled to come up with better rules, cleverer tactics and more effective techniques. There are no prizes for guessing who...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
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2009-11-10
ePub
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'A real knock-out' DAILY TELEGRAPHRandom occurences that shaped the history of football - an alternative history of the game from loveable broadcaster Colin Murray.Nowadays a top Premiership football club can spend £50 million on a Portuguese pin-up or a legendary...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2009-11-05
ePub
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The Wimbledon champion's early life in his own words'With Andy, the sky's the limit...' John McEnroeAt Wimbledon 2005, Andy Murray announced himself on the tennis world stage by thrashing star pros George Bastl and Radek Stepanek: a legend was born and Britain had a new...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2009-11-05
ePub
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What is the place of leisure in societies where people complain of 'over-work'? How do personal freedom and choice relate to the inequalities of class, gender, disability and ethnicity? This critical introduction to the field offers a systematic account of the...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-10-29
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Dónal Óg Cusack has been one of Ireland's leading hurlers for the past decade, winning five Munster titles and three All-Ireland medals with Cork, and establishing himself as one of the game's most compelling and articulate figures. In this book, he tells the story of...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-10-21
ePub
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Despite its immense wealth, and the high public profile it enjoys, English football is not a land of milk and honey. The national side has won the World Cup only once when England staged the tournament in 1966 and the woeful performances in recent years would suggest...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2009-10-15
ePub
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Hear the story of the rise of one of Irish rugby's great outsiders and, ultimately, his crushing fall.As the longest-serving national coach in Irish rugby history, Eddie O'Sullivan produced a team that rose to third in the world rankings and laid down the standards for...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2009-10-13
ePub
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At last! The award-winning Baker & Kelly bring you the most entertaining, radical and unreliable football book ever published. The Two Dannys argue the toss, spill the beans and chew that fat about everything and anything from the biggest questions down to stuff they...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2009-10-13
ePub
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Wimbledon is a paradox. While outwardly appearing the quintessential English lawn tennis club, as much a part of being British as strawberries and cream or picnics in the park, it is in fact the largest annual outside broadcast operation in the world and a multi-million...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2009-10-06
ePub
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Football isn't a matter of life and death,' Bill Shankly once famously said, 'it's much more important than that.' In The Heart of the Game, Jimmy Greaves looks back over his long association with the sport to give his take on all things football, and attempts to make...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2009-10-01
ePub
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Kenny Logan’s riveting story is one full of surprises. A Scottish rugby star, with 70 caps for his country, and a club legend at Wasps, winner of three Premiership titles and a glorious Heineken Cup,Kenny could not read or write until he was in his thirties. Born into a...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2009-10-01
ePub
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Stressing moderation and safety, fitness icon Bob Paris shows how anyone can build muscle, increase stamina, and improve fitness without drugs, steroids and dangerous exercise previously associated with weight training.
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-09-26
ePub
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The Olympic gold medalist offers a poignant, loving account of her life with her long-time partner and beloved husband, Sergei Grinkov, from their first introduction and successive world pairs skating championships, to their storybook romance and marriage, to the fatal...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-09-26
ePub
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The Bowdens are the First Family of college football. Bobby, the father, built the winningest program of the decade at Florida State. Son Terry took over an Auburn team on probation and led it back into the top tier of the sport. Son Tommy is Auburn's offensive...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-09-26
ePub
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