| Don Nehlen's Tales from the West Virginia Sideline |
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Game of My Life: LSU |
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Author: Don Nehlen with Shelly Poe
In Don Nehlen’s Tales from the West Virginia, the man that is considered to be the most successful coach in West Virginia history talks about his 21-year tenure in his own words. When Coach Nehlen arrived in Morgantown in December, 1979, he had a large task in front of him—turn a losing team into a force to be reckoned with. In this book, he shares how he made it happen.
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Author: Marty Mulé
A continuing and on-going drama, LSU football is a string of improbable victories and sometimes valiant defeats, and within Game Of My Life: LSU Tigers the players responsible for perpetual story lift the curtain on their greatest acts. Here are the accounts of almost three dozen of the most remembered Tiger games of the last eight decades, as seen through the eyes—and from the memories—of some of LSU’s most remembered athletes.
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| Game of My Life: Ohio State |
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The Boys from Old Florida |
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Author: Steve Greenberg and Laura Lanese
A.J. Hawk can isolate the game of his life, the 2006 Fiesta Bowl against Notre Dame, not because of individual statistics, but because of what the game represented. "I think the fact that it was the end of an amazing four years-four big bowl wins; three Michigan wins; lots of victories in those four years; and an amazing group of teammates and coaches is why it felt like the game of my life," Hawk said.
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Author: Buddy Martin
In The Boys From Old Florida, Buddy Martin takes the reader beneath the surface of Florida football as, without bias or sugar coating, he skillfully excavates the truths behind "The Gator Nation."
In this book, Martin, a Florida native, has chronicled the real stories of Gator coaches and players through their own eyes and in their words over a 55-year period since 1950-and not all are valentines. All but one of the coaches interviewed were asked to leave or move up by the school. Some players became estranged or never really felt appreciated. Yet, others are forever grateful for their experience as Gator players and feel a sense of brotherhood.
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| Once a Vol, Always a Vol! |
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Game of My Life: Penn State |
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Author: Gus Manning and Haywood Harris
We can't speak for other schools, but at the University of Tennessee, they never want to turn loose of their sports heroes. After bidding their seniors farewell in their final game at Neyland Stadium, Vol fans begin charting the career paths of the school's athletes. When safety Charles Davis is featured on national television providing commentary for a West Coast football game, they will tune in. Or if towering offensive lineman Tim Irwin becomes the judge at Knoxville's Juvenile Court, they rejoice in their community's good fortune. It's safe to say UT fans have trouble letting go.
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Author: Jordan Hyman
Do not be fooled by the title Game of My Life: Penn State. This isn't a book that dwells solely on happy memories of great games of years past. When author Jordan Hyman, a Penn State graduate, went looking for 20 game recollections from some of Penn State's football legends, he discovered in his interviews feelings of joy, respect, and pride, but also locked-away emotions dealing with anger, racism, and regret. Thus, Wally Triplett will rave about the famous 1948 Cotton Bowl, Penn State versus Doak Walker-led Southern Methodist, but he'll also relay his experiences as a black football player in State College in the 1940s. Rosie Grier will recall upsetting Illinois in 1954, but he'll also reminisce about his roots on a Georgia farm and how he came to arrive in University Park in the first place.
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| Game of My Life: Virginia Tech |
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Damn Good Dogs |
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Author: Mike Harris
Virginia Tech's Shayne Graham trots onto the field at West Virginia on November 6, 1999, with two thoughts in his mind. One is a missed field goal that would have beaten Miami a year earlier. The other is the 44-yard field goal he is about to try against the Mountaineers, a kick he must make if the Hokies are to stay unbeaten and on track for a national championship. Head down, he focuses on his mark as the ball is snapped. He steps forward, the dream of an entire team resting with his leg.
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Author: Sonny Seiler and Kent Hannon
The name Uga is synonymous with the Georgia Bulldogs, a perennial powerhouse ranked among the top 20 football teams in the country virtually every year. These English bulldogs are so revered that when they die they are buried in a mausoleum at Sanford Stadium. But Uga is also a family pet, and Damn Good Dogs! gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at the history of these nationally acclaimed mascots. Filled with color photos and anecdotes such as Uga V's famous lunge at an Auburn player in 1996, his appearance in the film version of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and Sports Illustrated's decision to put him on the cover of their 1997 college sports issue. Damn Good Dogs! provides the back story to a half-century of mascot and collegiate sports history.
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| Bo: Bo Schembechler 1929-2006 |
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Unstoppable: Ohio State Buckeyes 2006 |
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Author: Sports Publishing LLC
Joe Paterno called him “one of the great football coaches of all time.” Lou Holtz called him “his own man.” Tom Osborne called him “a genuine football man.” Barry Switzer called him “a fireball.” Bo Schembechler asked to be called something else entirely, however. When asked what his player’s called him, he replied, “They call me ‘Bo.’ We’re on a first-name basis here.” It’s easy to see why Vince Dooley said of the Michigan coaching legend, “He personally gave that tough outward appearance, but he had a soft spirit and a great sense of humor.”
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Author: The Columbus Dispatch
Ohio State football fans can celebrate the Buckeyes’ perfect regular season in this new softcover book presented by The Columbus Dispatch. It features stories from the award-winning Dispatch sports team, taking readers through the Buckeyes’ Big Ten Championship regular season. Also loaded with dozens of eye-popping full-color Dispatch photos of head coach Jim Tressel’s team, this book is a great way to relive and remember an incredible season, including the historic win over No. 2 Michigan on November 18.
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| Fighting Irish Legends, Lists and Lore |
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The Oklahoma Football Encyclopedia |
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Author: Karen Heisler
This book captures the history, tradition, and spirit of one of the nation’s most storied and revered athletic programs. The year-by-year accounts chronicle the exploits and accomplishments of the University of Notre Dame’s most famous athletes and coaches in every sport, while recapping the moments and legends that have become an unforgettable part of Fighting Irish lore. Among the hundreds of athletes and coaches featured are Knute Rockne, Joe Montana, The Four Horsemen, Brad Lidge, Digger Phelps, Adrian Dantley, Austin Carr, Ruth Riley, and Muffet McGraw.
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Author: Ray Dozier
The Oklahoma Football Encyclopedia is an historical description of every University of Oklahoma football game from the beginning in 1895 through 2004. Learn how the team got its start and how coach Bennie Owen laid the foundation for the Sooners to become one of the most respected teams on the college football scene. This book provides insight into "Sooner Magic." Many OU football teams appeared to have a supernatural force carry them to victory when victory was not assured. Was it sleight of hand? Smoke and mirrors? No, just pure talent and inspiration helped push the Sooners to the overwhelming tradition the teams have displayed on the gridiron.
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| Centered By A Miracle |
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Heart of a Husker |
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Author: Steve Rom and Rod Payne
Miracles can happen to anyone. Steve Rom, a sportswriter at the Ann Arbor News, never thought his friendship with a recently retired Super Bowl champion would last. Rod Payne, a member of the 2000 world champion Baltimore Ravens, and a former All-America center at the University of Michigan, never thought the camaraderie he shared with his teammates in the NFL could be found with a rookie reporter. But when the two met by chance on Michigan’s campus early in the summer of 2001, they discovered they had a lot in common.
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Author: Mike Babcock
Heart of a Husker is a portrait of Nebraska football coaching legend Tom Osborne, drawn with interviews from former players and coaches who were with the team during his 25 seasons as head coach. Osborne is a congressman now, in his third term in the House of Representatives. Among the most successful coaches in college football history, Osborne's Cornhuskers had a combined record of 255-49-3 from 1973-1997. They won or shared 13 conference titles, went to bowls in each of his 25 seasons and won three national championships in his final four seasons. Osborne reached 200 victories and 250 victories quicker than any major college head football coach and is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame. Heart of a Husker is an intimate look at a man whose quiet, but intense, demeanor touched thousands of lives, both on and off the college gridiron.
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| Tiller: Not Your Average Joe |
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Tales from Clemson's 1981 Championship Season |
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Author: Joe Tiller with Tom Kubat
When opportunity knocked, Joe Tiller busted the door down. Tiller became a major college head football coach somewhat late in his career. He was hired as the head coach at Wyoming just 12 days after his 48th birthday and became the head coach at Purdue two weeks before his 54th birthday. A disciple of the wide-open offenses used in the former Western Athletic Conference, Tiller’s Wyoming teams enjoyed great success in what he fondly refers to as the "Wacky WAC."
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Author: Ken Tysiac
In 1981, a team from a school nestled in the rural foothills of the Appalachians in South Carolina captured the fancy of college football fans everywhere. Coach Danny Ford’s Clemson Tigers struggled early against Wofford and edged Tulane before finding their groove to defeat national powers Georgia, North Carolina, and Nebraska to go 12-0, and eventually win the national title. In Tales from Clemson’s 1981 Championship Season, veteran ACC sports writer Ken Tysiac
tells the story of Clemson’s greatest team from the
perspective of the players and coaches who made it happen.
The team’s cast of characters is almost as impressive as its
accomplishments.
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| Pure Gold: Bobby Bowden |
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Game of My Life: Alabama |
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As Told To: Steve Ellis and Bill Vilona
"Remember, this is a man who is an intensely private guy. His idea of a good time is to go home, put on a pair of oversized black shorts, lie on the couch, and watch old World War II movies." — Seminoles Boosters Executive Director Charlie Barnes on Bobby Bowden. Pure Gold brings together 25 former players, staff members, and coaches to provide first-person insight into the all-time winningest coach in NCAA Division 1-A college football
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Author: Tommy Hicks
To borrow the slogan offered over the Bryant-Denny Stadium public address system before the start of every Alabama home game, "This is Alabama football." Ask a fan to talk about his favorite game and he'll probably answer, "Which season?" Ask another to describe his favorite Crimson Tide play, and he may also respond the same way. And if asking an Alabama fan to recall his favorite player, don't be surprised if you are asked to be more specific: "Which year? Which game? Which position?" Such is the tradition and legacy of the program.
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| Longhorns for Life |
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Pittsburgh Steelers: Men of Steel |
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Author: Whit Canning
Although University of Texas fans can be found in a variety of shapes, sizes, and locales, they are virtually the same in their support of the Longhorns-fanatical. Longhorns for Life offers the reader a glimpse of some of the more interesting-perhaps even exotic-members of the species: the man who invented the "Hook 'em" sign; another who says he invented the fajita; a World War II hero who has not missed a home game since 1945; an attorney who has attended 344 consecutive games, home and away; a UT fan in Arkansas who loves agitating his neighbors ...
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Author:Jim Wexell
Did you know that one former star for the Pittsburgh Steelers went on to lower the driving age to 16 as a member of his state's legislature? Or that one former Steeler now leads the St. Patrick's Day Parade every year in Chicago? Or that another owned a casino in Reno? And that's just the players from the dark ages of the Steelers' organization.
Where have guys like Ted Marchibroda, Roy Jefferson, Frenchy Fuqua, Jack Lambert, and Dermontti Dawson gone? What about Levon Kirkland, Kevin Greene, Carnell Lake, Bubby Brister, Bruce Van Dyke, and Frank Lewis? The answers are inside.ORDER NOW |
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| Steve Tasker's Tales from the Buffalo Bills |
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Sid Brooks' Tales from the San Diego Chargers Locker Room |
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Authors: Steve Tasker and Scott Pitoniak
A few days after becoming head coach of the Buffalo Bills midway through the 1986 season, Marv Levy made his first personnel decision, claiming Houston Oilers reserve wide receiver Steve Tasker off the waiver wire. It seemed like an afterthought at the time, but in retrospect, proved to be one of Levy's most prescient moves.
Over the next 11 seasons, the diminutive 5-foot-9, 175-pound Tasker was a huge contributor as the Bills strung together an unprecedented four consecutive Super Bowl appearances in the early 1990s. Along the way, Tasker earned seven invitations to the Pro Bowl, and during the National Football League's 75th anniversary celebration, he was named the greatest special teams player of all-time...
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Author: Sid Brooks with Gerri Brooks
During his 27-year tenure with the San Diego Chargers, equipment manager Sid Brooks kept over 5,000 football players from appearing naked before their cheering fans. The first African-American to hold the job of equipment manager in the NFL, Brooks’ job was to see that each player left the locker room in uniform. But the means to that end was far more complicated—and outrageous—than one would believe.
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| Captain Crash and the Dallas Cowboys |
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Floyd Little's Tales from the Broncos Sideline |
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Author: Cliff Harris
How does it feel to see your name among the Cowboys greats in Texas Stadium’s Ring of Honor? What was it like to be recruited by professional scouts? What happened to the guy that hooked Randy White in the back with a wayward fishhook? How did legendary coach Tom Landry motivate his players? How did a waterbed and transcendental meditation help Cliff Harris gain an edge over his opponents?
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Author: Floyd Little with Tom Mackie
Before John Elway, the Denver Broncos' "Franchise" was a tightly wound, 5-foot-10 bowlegged superstar named Floyd Little. Despite his lack of size, Floyd zigzagged his way to a legendary career-first at Syracuse wearing the famed No. 44 jersey shared by Jim Brown and Ernie Davis, then with the Broncos, piling up Hall of Fame-worthy numbers to finish his career as the NFL's seventh all-time rusher. Through it all, Floyd showed naysayers the only true measure of a man is the size of his pounding heart. His incredible impact during the late '60s and early-to-mid-'70s saved the franchise from relocation and helped the Broncos become the marquee organization it is today.
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| Game of My Life: Dallas Cowboys |
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Tiller: Not Your Average Joe |
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Author: Jean-Jacques Taylor
Game of My Life: Dallas Cowboys takes you inside the most memorable game of 24 players and of head coach Jimmy Johnson that earned each of them a place in the history and lore of America's Team. Each chapter provides colorful detail on the player's favorite game and its significance to the history of one of the world's most recognized franchises.
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Author: Joe Tiller with Tom Kubat
When opportunity knocked, Joe Tiller busted the door down. Tiller became a major college head football coach somewhat late in his career. He was hired as the head coach at Wyoming just 12 days after his 48th birthday and became the head coach at Purdue two weeks before his 54th birthday.
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| Cliff Harris's & Charlie Waters's Tales from the Dallas Cowboys |
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Danny Wuerffel's Tales from the Gator Swamp |
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Authors: Cliff Harris and Charlie Waters
Cliff Harris’s and Charlie Waters’s Tales from the Dallas Cowboys is a hilarious collection of stories and memories spanning nearly two decades of Cowboys history. Harris’s and Waters’s tales of the early 1970s contain stories about youth and experience. During that era, they played...
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Author: Danny Wuerffel with Mike Bianchi
The most beloved and decorated player in Florida history takes fans behind the scenes and into the locker room for one of the greatest eras in the annals of college football. Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Danny Wuerffel, now retired from the NFL, has finally had the time to look back, reminisce, and share his thoughts about that magical time when he was referred to by some "as the greatest passer to ever play college football."
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| All Things Being Equal: The Autobiography of Lenny Moore |
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Tales from the Packers Sideline |
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As Told To: Lenny Moore with Jeffrey Jay Ellish
He played with a quiet confidence. Statistically he had few peers. Even now, almost fifty years after his first professional contest, his impressive body of work has withstood the test of time. He was Marshall Faulk before there was a Marshall Faulk. He could catch, he could run, he could block--he did everything.
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Author: Chuck Carlson
There are probably as many stories from the Green Bay Packers sidelines as there are fans of one of the country's most storied sports franchises. That's what Tales from the Packers Sideline is all about. Since the earliest days of professional football, the Packers have been as much a part of the game as the ball itself, from Curly Lambeau to Johnny "Blood" McNally; from Bart Starr to Ray Nitschke; from...
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| Tales from the Patriots Sideline |
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Tales from the Eagles Sidelines |
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Author: Michael Felger
Some of the most entertaining stories from one of the most remarkable franchises in sports are told in this revealing look at the Super Bowlchampion New England Patriots. While the team’s owner, coach, and stadium now all rank among the best in the National Football League, the team was known for decades as having comically inept management and ownership, as well as the worst stadium in the NFL.
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Author: Gordon Forbes
Even in their worst of seasons, the Philadelphia Eagles maintained their tradition of toughness. This toughness is exemplified by the greats who have put on the Eagles uniform-from legends like Chuck Bednarik and Steve Van Buren to modern-day heroes like Reggie White and Donovan McNabb.
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