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How far would you go to win your lifelong dream? When filmmaker Zoë Whipple agrees to shoot a documentary about a hockey team’s season, she doesn’t sign on for scandal, crime and murder. But she discovers that players, rabid to win the championship, don’t let morality or the law stand in the way of their ambitions. When a rookie dies from cardiac arrest, Zoë is saddened but not suspicious until another player, in the grip of ’roid rage, goes berserk on the ice and ends up in the hospital. Digging into the mess reveals illegal painkillers and steroid abuse among most of the team. ...

From Booklist Marti Solis is an accomplished physical therapist who works wonders with severely injured patients, but Jim Wellman is a macho football star who can't seem to get past her cute looks and smart mouth. He's always flirting, and his recovery is hampered by complications from the poor care he received after the injury--by both the team doctor and the hospital where he spent the past eight months. His career in football is over, but Marti is determined to get him walking again. Jim, however, is his own worst enemy, making injudicious comments to the press and trying to talk Marti ...

It is the summer of 1952 and three men—well, one man and two boys—are on a spiritual and commercial mission. Dispatched from Minnesota to Western Ontario, they have been hired by an upstart Mormon baseball card company to find licensees for their products among the young men filing out Korean War-era rosters in the Northern League, at the bottom-most rung of professional baseball. What the Northern has for them, and the secrets and deceptions they have for each other, will drive their two weeks in Canada into ever-growing chaos.

Before the Super Bowl…There Was High School Football’s State Championships The first Super Bowl was played January 15, 1967. Long before that first iconic game between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs, and long after the next will be played, state championships were, and are, the Super Bowl of high school football. It would be better to have died at birth than quit football in Sisco Flats, Texas. To desert Warrior football would be unthinkable, but to keep company with a woman who works in a local bar would shred every page of the moral code that ruled Sisco Flats. In ...

A tumba abierta, significa asumiendo todos los riesgos sin medir consecuencias. Esa es la filosofía de Alicia, Braider y Emi, cuyas vidas van a verse influenciadas por el asesinato de una prostituta. Cuando Alicia y Braider son contratados por un equipo ciclista profesional, el patrocinado por el padre de Emi, creerán que su sueño se ha cumplido. No obstante, se irán dando cuenta de que a veces los sueños se convierten en pesadillas, viéndose arrastrados a un mundo plagado de delitos en el que todos tienen secretos que no quieren desvelar.

Two Harvard undergraduates must decide how to juggle their travails in Cambridge with the increased tensions in Europe. As they endure the horrors of the Western Front, William clings to the hope that he may somehow find answers about his past.

This fictional story is a snap shot in time. Donald Sutton was a pioneer women’s basketball coach. Basketball had just stopped restricting women from playing only one half of the court. As you will see, due to the relative scarcity of college women’s basketball teams (pre-Title IX), you will see small schools and large schools in the same conference. Due to limited travel budgets often times the conferences were established along state lines. As the pages unfold of the challenges that women’s sports still face today, his message was so clear: Passion and commitment is not measured by ...