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Few Seconds Of Panic: A 5-foot-8, 170-pound, 43-year-old Sportswriter Plays In The Nfl
by Fatsis, Stefan
$25.95
Sports - Football
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Reviewed By... Stan Hynds

The Word Freak author hangs a Plimpton on the Denver Broncos when he joins the team as a place kicker for the 2006 training camp and preseason. The NFL has changed a lot since Paper Tiger and Fatsis (who really can routinely nail a 40 yarder by the end of the book) offers a rare glimpse at this strange culture from the inside that is revealing, sobering, and very entertaining.

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
by Murakami, Haruki
$21.00
Non-Fiction - Paperback
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Reviewed By... Marie Leahy

This is a book runners and endurance athletes will appreciate for the detail and process Murakami chronicles in his preparations for marathons and ultra-distances. Runners who have gone the distance will note how this extraordinary writer runs very ordinary times, and is very much an everyman while he's pounding the pavement. This lovely memoir also provides insight into the author's process as a writer, how h... read more>>>

An Incomplete And Inaccurate History Of Sport
by Mayne Kenny
$24.95
Sports - General
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Reviewed By... Michael Schiavo

A book that truly lives up to its title, this memoir-as-sports-encyclopedia is filled with the EPSN commentator's surreal and deadpan brand of humor. There are three chapters on tackle football alone, yet, oddly, no mention of the movie Tron in the entire book. This is a funny and tender look at one man's love of all things sport-related. Great for both sports-lovers and those who have to liv... read more>>>

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