Sports & Recreation : Football

Helps you: gain mega-pounds of muscle and increase your power; get fast and shave time off your forty-yard dash; supercharge your endurance; improve your agility and flexibility; turn your mental toughness to steel; and, more. This title includes personal routines of NFL stars like Denver's Champ Bailey, and Washington's Antwaan Randle El. more...

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The popular college football analyst weighs in on the craziness of college football and the 2008 season. If television's college football analysts had a Hall of Fame, Craig James would definitely be in it. His opinion and insight on ABC and ESPN-not to mention occasional jabs of sharp humor and Texas charm-are as addictive as the games are. Game Day takes a complete inside look at the 2008 college football season-from James's behind-the-scenes Spring Tour when he met with players and coaches from twenty top programs to the bowl season. He makes the book timeless by using the season as a springboard to tell tons of great college football stories from his twenty years spent covering the sport .: Captures twenty years of unforgettable college football wit and wisdom from his time as a player at SMU and for the New England Patriots through his time in the booth; Includes details about most of the top twenty programs around the country; Covers the game the way only James can ("No one can capture the essence and spirit of a college football season better than Craig."-Doug Flutie). No matter what team you support or how well they did in 2008, if you love college football, Game Day is a book you just have to read. more...

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In Giant, Plaxico Burress takes you into the locker room, onto the practice field, and into the huddle, providing a flat-out-honest look at life on and off the field with the New York Giants and at the making of a champion. Throughout the 2007 season, Plaxico battled near-crippling injuries, and despite rarely practicing, being heavily bandaged, and on serious painkillers, he led the New York Giants in receptions, yards, and touchdowns. He continued to play through pain in the playoffs, only to be further injured before Super Bowl XLII. Playing the arrogant Patriots—who were inviting the Giants to their victory party before the game was over—Plaxico concealed a significant injury that might have changed the outcome of the game if the Pats had known. When he first joined the Giants, Plaxico expected to be the go-to guy for the young quarterback Eli Manning. What he didn't expect was the media and fan scrutiny that was heaped on Manning as they battled to win games. What Plaxico also didn't expect was the difficult relationship he had with head coach Tom Coughlin, who was a stickler for discipline and who would fine players for even the mildest offenses. For five years Plaxico had played for the laid-back Bill Cowher and the Pittsburgh Steelers. In contrast, within weeks of joining the Giants, Plaxico and Coughlin were butting heads, and the fines followed. But there to make things a little easier were friends like Jeremy Shockey and Amani Toomer, nearly polar opposites. With Shock, everything was always full-tilt and his mouth would usually get him into trouble. Toomer was the easygoing elder statesman—at times absentminded, but a brilliant receiver. And in 2007, Manning, with Plaxico's advice and support, would rise above the scrutinizing media and come into his own, and Coach Coughlin would relax his grip somewhat and let the team breathe. The results were obvious. It's all here. The ups and downs, the trash-talking, the sweat and more...

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In 1958 Frank Gifford was the golden boy on the glamour team in the most celebrated city in the NFL. When his New York Giants played the Baltimore Colts for the league championship that year, it became the single most memorable contest in the history of professional football. Broadcast to an audience of millions, it was the first title game ever to go into sudden-death overtime. Its drama, excitement, and controversy riveted the nation and helped propel football to the forefront of the American sports landscape. Now, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of "The Greatest Game Ever Played," New York Giants Hall of Famer and longtime television analyst Frank Gifford provides an inside-the-helmet account that will take its place in the annals of sports literature. Drawing on the poignant and humorous memories of every living player from the game—including fellow Hall of Famers Sam Huff, Andy Robustelli, Art Donovan, Lenny Moore, and Raymond Berry—as well as the author's own experiences and reflections, The Glory Game captures a magnificent moment in American sports history. It is the story of two very different cities and teams, filled with the joy, the disappointment, and the eternal pride of a day that will forever symbolize all that is great about sports. Told with gripping immediacy, The Glory Game is an indelible portrait of the NFL's most transcendent hours—a winter version of The Boys of Summer, told by one of football's true legends. more...

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If it were just a game, it would still be heart-pounding enough to justify book-length treatment. The last game of the season, two conference rivals and nearby neighbors, two coaches whose legends still run strong in their home states some thirty years later, both teams unbeaten, ranked #1 and #2 in the nation - with a President in attendance, and seemingly the whole of the country watching. And then, as if that setup wasn't enough, the teams played a game for the ages, a 15-14 contest that turned on an incredible gamble by the winning coach, calling for a long pass play on fourth-and-three in his own territory with a little over four minutes to go in the game. (The young man who made the reception is now in his fifties, and when he is introduced to people to this day he is always greeted with, "Oh yes - you're the guy who caught The Pass."). But it was not just a game, because nothing was so simple in December 1969. The South in general had violently resisted the winds of change that blew through the rest of the country in the 1960s. George Wallace had run an effective and divisive campaign for the presidency the year before, ensuring the election of Richard Nixon and blasting apart the Solid South that had been the backbone of the Democratic party since the Civil War. Nixon's "Southern Strategy" was aimed at building a new coalition by drawing disaffected whites into the Republican ranks; he succeeded spectacularly, losing only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia in the '72 election. And nowhere was the pride of Southern Man more alive than on the gridirons of the colleges throughout the south. In Texas, it is said that the only two true sports seasons are college football and spring college football practice. The Southwestern Conference - no longer in existence today, a victim of shifting alliances of the NCAA and the TV networks - consisted of seven teams in Texas and one outlander over in Fayetteville, Arkansas. more...

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