Sports & Games

It was the upset to end all upsets. On 8 April 1967 at Aintree racecourse in Liverpool, a 100-1 outsider in peculiar blinkers sidestepped chaos extraordinary even by the Grand National's standards and won the world's toughest steeplechase.

The jumps-racing establishment - and Gregory Peck, the Hollywood ...

Freddie Flintoff and W.G. Grace: together at last! W.G. Grace Ate My Pedalo is a spoof 1896 periodical from The Wisden Cricketer archives that looks at cricketing events of 2010 through a Victorian lens. Funny, irreverent and lavishly illustrated, this is the most original cricket book of the last 114 years.

Each of these three books contains 50 exciting PE challenges. They are aimed at busy primary school teachers, who are required to teach PE, but don't have much knowledge of the subject. Each book contains a variety of individual, group and whole class activities, designed to develop skills, foster enjoyment ...

Rock climbing is one of today's most popular 'extreme sports.' Although many women are involved, the sport retains a particularly male image and culture. This book presents a study of rock climbing in the UK, analysing what it reveals about the contemporary construction and performance of masculinity through sport.

My Decade as a Red is a visual celebration of Rio Ferdinand's phenomenal career in football. The book features more than 300 photographs and exclusive, interactive elements with contributions by other major international footballers.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The riveting, unlikely story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who first identified CTE in professional football players, a discovery that challenges the existence of America's favorite sport and puts Omalu in the crosshairs of football's most powerful corporation: the ...

From the late 1960s, Northern Ireland has been mired in violence. Yet it has had seen more than its fair share of sporting heroes - from footballer George Best, through snooker champion Alex Higgins, to boxer Barry McGuigan. But sport - like everything else in Northern Ireland - could quickly turn nasty when politics were involved.

Body shapes: men provides guidance to getting the best from your body shape: identifying body type and shape, setting realistic goals and developing a suitable fitness programme.

Finding Seams On Apples is a compilation of wit, intelligence and fervour of an online cricket community, and one of the largest cricket forums, cricketweb.net.

Shows how our belief in the value of sport is misplaced. Tracing the history of organised game-playing, this book argues that sport is a last refuge for sexism, racism, homophobia and animal cruelty. It cites neglected research in psychology, showing how playing sport tends to impinge negatively on your morals.

Offers advice on freshwater fishing, describing the gear needed for a trip, angling and hooking techniques, how to determine the best locations and times of activity, what to do with a fish that is kept, types of fishing, and different species.

The bicycle has played a unique part in human civilisation. This work chronicles this cultural and social history of the bicycle. It also looks to the future, raising pertinent questions about what governments and cyclists could be doing to further enhance cycle awareness and cycle safety.

A history of Bristol speedway 1928-1949

Throughout the history of football there have been those players who have inspired supporters and teammates alike. This title profiles the game's notorious hard men, including anecdotes and a selection of illustrations.

Sir Learie Constantine was an extraordinary figure by any yardstick. One of the greatest and most popular of all West Indian cricketers, he left the game to become, among other things, a barrister, cabinet minister, diplomat, broadcaster, author and journalist.

A history of Durham County Cricket Club

Ethnographic account of English football fans who travel home and away following their team, based on sixteen years' participant observation

Sports, and in particular the Olympic Games, are enjoying a rapid increase in interest among social scientists worldwide, who see them as important "public events." This volume offers the first analysis of the Winter Olympic Games, primarily based on the Lillehammer Games of 1994.