Great Outdoors

Toronto's only audio guide to the city's beautiful trails through wooded ravines, the scenic Humber, Don and Rouge river valleys and along wild sections of the Lake Ontario shore - where you feel miles out of the city, but are all within reach by public transit. This guide details how to reach the trails and guides you along the walk and tells you how to get back. It also shares interesting stories about people who explored these paths in earlier times.

There are a lot of people who enjoy running. They do it for health. They do it for fun. Plus, it’s completely free to go for a run. There are a lot of places all over the world that have amazing trails that people can run along that not only gives them the workout they are looking for but provides them with beautiful scenery. In this audiobook, we are going to cover some of the best places to run in the UK. We will look at places in England, Scotland, and North Ireland.

Biking is a popular exercise and pastime among a number of people. Learning to ride a bike is nearly a rite of passage when we are children, and we all believe that once your learn how to ride, you’ll never forget. Whether you are a recreational bike rider, or your more of the professional sort, it’s important to have a good idea where some of the best biking trails are.

Dirty Feet is a fresh look at the now more than 100-year-old Tour de France. Les Woodland goes back to the blue-collar origins of the race when the father of the Tour, Henri Desgrange, was so bothered by the hygiene of his tough, beloved racers that at the end of each stage he would publish the names of the riders who did not wash after a day of racing on France’s mostly dirt and often muddy roads.

The father of the Kentucky Derby called him "the greatest all-around Thoroughbred in American racing history". Sportswriter Grantland Rice simply called him "the greatest racehorse". Now Eliza McGraw tells the story of how a gangling, long-shot Kentucky Derby winner named Exterminator became one of the most beloved racehorses of all time.

As a columnist for Time magazine, among many other publications, Tom Callahan witnessed an extraordinary number of defining moments in American sport across four decades. He takes us from Roberto Clemente clinching his 3,000th, and final, regular-season hit in Pittsburgh; to ringside for the Muhammad Ali - George Foreman fight in Zaire; and to Arthur Ashe announcing, at a news conference, that he'd tested positive for HIV.

Pat Williams has drawn on his basketball industry connections to compile great stories from on and off the court. Fans will be inspired, surprised, and even amused, by inside stories from well-known coaches and players, fascinating looks behind the scenes, and anecdotes from the people who make it all possible - the fans. Includes first person stories from 21 basketball celebrities, plus Pat Williams.

At fifteen, Willie Horton received his first contract offer to become a professional baseball player. At twenty, he smacked his first major-league home run. At twenty-four, Horton stood in full uniform on the hood of his car, in the midst of burning homes and overturned vehicles, and pleaded for an end to the violence of the 1967 Detroit riots. In this new autobiography, Horton shares the fascinating story of his life and career, from growing up in Detroit's Jeffries Projects as the youngest of twenty-one children to winning a World Series with his hometown Tigers in 1968.

Satchel Paige was 42 years old when he became the first Black pitcher in the American League in 1948. Although the oldest rookie around, he was already a legend. For 22 years, beginning in 1926, Paige dazzled throngs with his performance in the Negro Baseball Leagues. Then he outlasted everyone by playing professional baseball, in and out of the majors, until 1965.

Each November, about a hundred people with paper poppies pinned to their coats gather around a memorial in Edinburgh. They're there to commemorate the more than a dozen members of the local football team, Heart of Midlothian - almost every member of its starting lineup and many of its backup players - who went to war. A Bigger Field Awaits Us tells the little-known but poignant story of a group of Scottish athletes and their fans who went to war together - and the stories of the few who made it home.

When Ole Gunnar Solskjaer returned to Old Trafford as caretaker manager midway through the 2018-19 season, he breathed new life into a team that was drifting. In this new and definitive biography, Jamie Jackson investigates why he was the perfect man for the job to bring back the glory days. After the confusion under David Moyes, the stagnation of Louis van Gaal and the growing trauma under Jose Mourinho, Manchester United were a club increasingly struggling to challenge for major honours, something the fans had been accustomed to during the reign of Sir Alex Ferguson.

Through one-on-one interviews, this evocative collection of life stories explores the bittersweet tales of some of the NFL's most famous men, including, Mike Ditka, Hollywood Henderson, Ron Jaworski, Ronnie Lott, Dan Reeves, Rocky Bleier, and Pat Summerall. Co-creator Cynthia Zordich, wife of former pro safety Michael Zordich, had the presence of mind to dive into a world yet traveled and ask questions of those who had already left the game.

Every journey has its stories. Beginning with Enid Blyton and childhood in the Isle of Purbeck, Peter Fiennes embarks on a unique exploration of Britain. He follows in the footsteps of some our greatest writers, tracing the paths recorded in their books, journals and diaries, and looks for the country they knew. How much has time changed us? And has it been for better, or worse? Are we trapped in the past?

In Surviving the Shark, Jonathan Kathrein describes his incredible shark attack experience. The book covers all aspects of Kathrein’s survival, beginning with the eerie moments just before the attack, when something smashes into Kathrein’s hand as he paddles on his board, waiting for a wave off Stinson Beach in northern California. Realizing it is probably shark, and possibly a great white, Kathrein tries to paddle away, furiously trying to make it toward shore, where he sees some of his friends on the beach.

One of the most popular and contentious conversations you will hear from boxing fans is the subject of how a fighter from a previous era would have done against a present-day champion. Here we take a look at how popular boxing champion Manny Pacquiao would have fared in various "fantasy fights" against boxers from different time periods.

Charlamos de Usain Bolt, el jamaicano que es el hombre más veloz del planeta. Diego A. Maradona, el 10, el Dios que para muchos es el mejor jugador de la historia y Michael Phelps, quien se adueñó de las albercas para hacerlas sus campos de juego.

Floyd Mayweather has ruled the boxing scene for several years now. Here we analyze how Mayweather would have fared against some of the boxing legends of the past in fantasy fights. In this book Mayweather faces off against Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran, Julio Cesar Chavez, and more.

In order to increase the success of your soccer kick, you will need to have a plan before the ball reaches your feet. I will explain how you should think in order to gain the most advantage from your plan. This is something every soccer player should know, and if you have been wondering why your kicking is very poor, this could likely be the answer to your questions!

Many soccer players new to soccer believe that you have to pose exceptional skills in order to score many goals. This is far from the truth, because even a player with very basic skills can score a lot of goals if he knows how. I will reveal how you can do this as well, even if you have only played soccer a few months.

Charlamos de Johan Cruyft, el símbolo holandés del futbol total y astro del futbol de los 70s; además hablamos del rey del golf Tiger Woods y de 'El Bambino' Babe Ruth, beisbolista que es uno de los primeros ídolos y héroes del deporte.