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Everyone loves an underdog. That’s why we’re drawn to sports movies—there’s something special about the magic depicted in Remember The Titans, Miracle, or even something silly like The Waterboy. But good sports books, and we mean good ones, go even deeper.
2) Ten-gallon war: the NFL's Cowboys, the AFL's Texans, and the feud for Dallas's pro football future
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In the 1960s, on the heels of the "Greatest Game Ever Played," professional football began to flourish across the country-except in Texas, where college football was still the only game in town. But in an unlikely series of events, two young oil tycoons started their own professional football franchises in Dallas the very same year: the NFL's Dallas Cowboys, and, as part of a new upstart league designed to thwart the NFL's hold on the game, the Dallas...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Puts readers on the sideline of one of North America's most popular sports. Readers will find easy-to-read explanations of football's beginnings, basic rules and strategies, and how they can suit up and get on the field.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
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A satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq that explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. Follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys, their fans, promoters, and cheerleaders.
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"Frank Gifford brings the contest so alive that you find yourself almost wondering, 50 years later, how it will turn out in the end."
-New York Times Book Review
The Glory Game recreates in breathtaking detail the 1958 National Football League Championship Game between the New York Giants and the Baltimore Colts, which many football fans feel was "The Greatest Game Ever Played." This first-hand, field level, "behind-the-helmet" account by ex-Giant...
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Raucous, raw, and reliably remarkable, the century–old football riavlry between the state universities of Texas and Oklahoma stands as testimony that hate–based relationships are the most enduring. Texas and Oklahoma have been top–level programs for a long time, but in the last few years the rivalry has garnered ever more national attention. Mike Shropshire, an observer of this football war for more than 40 years, chronicles the long and colorful...
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When Jon Gruden asks his Tampa Bay Bucs, "Do you love football?!" it's to remind them why they pull on their shoulder pads every Sunday morning. It's not about the money or the fame; it's about their passion for what they do.
And passion is something that has fueled Gruden's entire career. From his college playing days and his climb through the coaching ranks -- from college to assistant coaching jobs with the NFL's elite teams, to his first head...
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One man's odyssey into the brutal hive of the National Football League
As an unsigned free agent who rose through the practice squad to the starting lineup of the Denver Broncos, Nate Jackson took the path of thousands of unknowns before him to carve out a professional football career twice as long as the average player. Through his story recounted here-from scouting combines to preseason cuts to byzantine film studies to glorious touchdown catches-even...
16) The big game
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IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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Danny Owens is dedicating his seventh-grade football season to his recently-deceased father, an NFL legend, but the pressure to succeed is magnified by his inability to read.
17) The playmaker
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This is it--Tori Lomax's senior year. Her last chance to leave Nelson High without a bucketload of regrets. Number one priority--get Colt Burgess to fall in love with her. So what if he's the Raider's number one playmaker? So what if he's so far out of her league, the idea of them together would rupture the school's social order? She has to try, before it's too late. She's come up with the perfect set of plays. All Colt has to do now is buy into them....
18) The handoff
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It's nearly spring break. Mack is leaving for New Zealand to win back his girl, and he asks Finn to do him a favor--keep an eye on his little sister, Layla. Finn has his reservations about the party girl, but he isn't about to let one of his best friends down, so he agrees. Unfortunately for him, he has no idea what he's getting into ... or the effect this dynamic beauty will have on him.
19) Shoot the gap
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Tyler Schumann has always been known as Nelson High's goofy clown, the guy with the big mouth. But there's something people don't know: he's tired of being in the shadows of his Raiders' buddies, and he's ready to do whatever it takes to get the one girl in school he wants to finally notice him: Roxanne Carmichael. Sammy Carmichael is just one of the guys, known for her mad boarding skills and her razor-sharp wit. But she has a secret, too--a crush...
20) The red zone
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Mack Mahoney is hot, popular and used to getting exactly what he wants ... until he sets his sights on the new girl--Kaija Bennett. She's an exchange student from New Zealand and attending Nelson High for three months. Mack's never been one for love at first sight, but this chick has him feeling things he never knew existed within him and in spite of her feisty rejections, he's determined to get to know her. Kaija Bennett did not escape her New Zealand...
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