American Football

In his brilliant new memoir, Pat Nevin takes us on a journey to the less glamorous side of football. From Tranmere to Kilmarnock, he plays some of the best football he's ever played. Then, in an unprecedented twist of fate, finds himself both player and Chief Executive of Scottish First Division club Motherwell.

Leon Searcy was an All-American at Miami who won three national championship titles with the Hurricanes. He was a first round draft pick by the Pittsburgh Steelers, and played in Super Bowl XXX. He was also selected as one of the Top 25 Jacksonville Jaguars players of all time. Hear Leon's stories about a life of luxury and glory as the NFL's highest paid offensive lineman, and the series of choices and circumstances which ended with Leon's retirement from the game of football broke and alone. In the fourth down of his life, how did Leon find redemption?

Liebe spielt in einer anderen Liga. Vanessa Mazur weiß, dass ihre Kündigung das einzig Richtige war! Schließlich war ihr Job als Assistentin (und Köchin und Putzfrau und Social-Media-Managerin) von Football-Superstar Aiden Graves nur als Übergangslösung gedacht. Doch jetzt steht Aiden vor ihr und bittet sie, ihn zu heiraten! Aiden? Ihren launischen, unfreundlichen - und zugegeben unheimlich attraktiven - Ex-Chef, der sie zwei Jahre lang wie Luft behandelt hat?

La rivalidad entre el Barcelona y el Real Madrid, la codicia del jugador y su entorno y las fortunas que mueven las grandes estrellas del fútbol han llevado al club catalán y a Neymar Jr, acompañado por su famoso padre, ante la justicia. Según la acusación particular y la Fiscalía de la Audiencia Nacional, el fichaje del astro brasileño por parte del club blaugrana esconde una larga historia de pactos bajo cuerda, pagos millonarios y presuntos engaños que empezó a mediados de 2011.

In the midst of violent, impassioned racial tensions in Birmingham, Alabama, new football coach Tandy Gerelds was struggling to create a winning football team at Woodlawn High School - one of the last schools in Birmingham to integrate. The team he was handed did not have the caliber of players he needed to win - until he saw Tony Nathan run.

Ernie Davis was an All-American on the gridiron and a man of integrity off the field. A multi-sport high school star in Elmira, New York, Davis went on to Syracuse University, where as a sophomore he led his team to an undefeated season and a national championship in 1959, and earned his nickname: the Elmira Express. Two seasons later, Davis broke the legendary Jim Brown's rushing records and became the first black athlete to be awarded the Heisman Trophy.

Robert Griffin III exploded onto the NFL scene with a style and flair anything but typical. With a Heisman Trophy on his mantel, RG3 entered professional football in 2012 under a spotlight that glowed beyond his own team, the Washington Redskins. Could the Baylor graduate electrify the NFL as he had the college game? Could he return a fabled franchise to the realm of elite Super Bowl contenders? Ted Kluck deepens the listener’s connection to a man who became the face of a revered NFL franchise before his 23rd birthday.

In the life of every sports fan, there comes a moment of reckoning. It may happen when your team wins on a last-second field goal and you suddenly find yourself clenched in a loving embrace with a large hairy man you've never met. Or in the long, hormonally depleted days after a loss, when you're felled by a sensation similar to the one you first experienced following the death of a pet.

Simply put, Mike Westhoff is the greatest special teams coach in National Football League history. Sharp-witted, creative, and intensely focused, Westhoff spent 32 years working alongside and learning from some of the legends of the sport—including Don Shula, Dan Marino, Bear Bryant, and Woody Hayes—while revolutionizing the most misunderstood phase of the game. Over the course of 657 games, primarily with the New York Jets and the Miami Dolphins, Westhoff was a relentless innovator.

On November 29, 1941, Army played Navy in front of 100,000 fans. Eight days later, the Japanese attacked, and the young men who battled each other in that historic game were forced to fight a very different enemy. Author Lars Anderson follows four players - two from Annapolis and two from West Point - in this epic true story. The tale of these men is woven into a dramatic narrative of football and war that's unlike any other.

In this biography designed for children, your child will learn all about their hero in a way that's enjoyable and easy to understand. We wanted to make football books for kids that they would really enjoy.

Five years removed from winning a state championship in Nowata, Jerry Bailey had ended his run as the head coach at Sapulpa and was ready to move on to another high school and another football team. However, Bailey and his assistant Reagor left school on a January morning and never returned. Because of the Hate is the true story about the murder of Jerry Bailey, a beloved high school football coach in Oklahoma. In 1976, Jerry Bailey had resigned as the Sapulpa High School head football coach but was murdered by his assistant Paul Reagor, Jr.

Following a stellar 12-year career as a linebacker, including a Super Bowl win with Baltimore in 2000, O. J. "Juice" Brigance joined the Ravens' front office. But in 2007, Brigance was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - also known as Lou Gehrig's disease - and told he had only three to five years to live. As a player, he'd battled hundreds of injuries and setbacks. None of them prepared him to face ALS.

As head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners, Barry Switzer was the fourth most successful coach in NCAA history. Both praised and reviled by the media as the "outlaw" of college football, Switzer was characterized as the "greatest rogue, pirate, hustler, and con man" ever to command a football team. As head coach for the Dallas Cowboys, he led America's team to victory in Superbowl XXX. In Bootlegger's Boy, Switzer gets the chance to tell it all from his point of view.

Voilà plus d'un siècle que le football déchaîne les passions à travers l'Europe. Imaginé comme un passe-temps pour ouvriers dans l'Angleterre brumeuse du 19ème siècle, le football a pris une place prépondérante dans nos sociétés occidentales.

On the second oldest football pitch in the world, Jonathan Sayer stands atop a beer crate to address the assembled fans of Ashton United FC. As his initial optimism and disillusionment begin to slip through his fingers, the new co-chairman and co-owner (alongside his dad) starts to realise the scale of the challenge ahead.

Dall'esperienza dei campioni, una guida a tutti i segreti del calcio. I ruoli: il portiere e l'attaccante, il mediano e la riserva, l'arbitro e l'allenatore. I trucchi e le azioni più emozionanti: dribbling, rigore, parata impossibile. E la grandezza degli assi come Buffon e Totti, Maradona e Pelè.

Football is at a crossroads, its future imperiled by the very physicality that drives its popularity. Its grass roots - high school and youth travel program - are withering. But players from the small South Pacific American territory of Samoa are bucking that trend, quietly becoming the most disproportionately overrepresented culture in the sport. But the very thing that makes them so good at football - their extraordinary internalization of discipline and warrior self-image - makes them especially vulnerable to its pitfalls, including concussions and brain injuries.

Life has been described as a game, but the stakes are much higher - it's a matter of life and death! Christ's followers compete against an adversary who not only wants to defeat them but to eternally destroy them. Coaching is the catalyst we use to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, conquer any rival, and propel us into the winner's circle. In Game On!: A Coach's Game Plan for Discipleship, you will discover how to apply proven concepts that serve as a foundation for increasing your spiritual strength, while becoming a team leader who can help others elevate their game.

La NFL es el deporte de equipo por excelencia y el rendimiento de cada jugador está en estrecha relación con lo que hace el resto del conjunto. A lo largo de más de veinte años de carrera profesional, Tom Brady ha puesto en cuestión este principio. Su juego es el que ha elevado el rendimiento de sus compañeros, a los que ha conducido en múltiples ocasiones hacia la más absoluta de las glorias: el anillo de campeón de la NFL. La historia de Brady se basa en la determinación, esfuerzo, confianza en sí mismo y éxito.