Sporting House

In this truly heartwarming and relatable journey, Tim McMahon will show you how to close the gap from where you are to where you want to be by harnessing the power of authentic leadership and championship caliber teamwork.

Diego Armando Maradona ya era un adicto cuando millones quedaron atónitos ante aquel gol inigualable contra los ingleses durante el Mundial 86. A partir de entonces, a las drogas se sumaron el alcohol, la adicción al sexo y el descontrol alimentario. Esos consumos terminarían por acorralarlo en un cuarto sórdido del Gran Buenos Aires.

Johnny Adcock is an aging Major League pitcher with the perfect retirement plan—he moonlights as a private investigator. Major League Baseball, as it turns out, is a prime source of employment for a philosophically inclined, discreet detective who has both the brains and the brawn to handle the unique problems of professional athletes. Those infamous baseball salaries attract gangsters, hustlers, and predators of every persuasion who prey on the outsized egos of primetime stars. When players, coaches, agents, or wives have a problem they can’t make public, they call Johnny Adcock.

Soccer has been the world’s most popular sport for the last century, and an irresistible game for political and social leaders seeking shortcuts to the hearts of their people. Sometimes it worked, momentarily, but as renowned sports journalist Luciano Wernicke writes in this fascinating and original audiobook, the game and its glories have survived them all.

The loamy black "muck" that surrounds Belle Glade, Florida once built an empire for Big Sugar and provided much of the nation's vegetables, often on the backs of roving, destitute migrants. Many of these were children who honed their skills along the field rows and started one of the most legendary football programs in America. Belle Glade's high school team, the Glades Central Raiders, has sent an extraordinary number of players to the National Football League - 27 since 1985, with five of those drafted in the first round.

This audiobook is the window into the underground world of cheating at the highest levels, which set off a frenzy of activity and hand-wringing in the offices of Major League Baseball and Congress. Through the authors' pursuit of sources and documents, they were able to open for public view a world in which elite athletes trade money and risk their health for the edge that will allow them to run faster, hit harder, and compete longer, and then cash in on the fame and wealth.

Sports Romance trifft auf eine Vegas Wedding und Fake Dating! Band 4 der unwiderstehlichen Windy City-Reihe als Hörbuch! Kennedy ist in ihrem Job als Sportmedizinerin für das Chicagoer Baseballteam stets professionell – bis zu einem Ausrutscher: Eines Morgens wacht sie in Las Vegas auf – mit Erinnerungslücken und einem Ehering am Finger! Neben ihr liegt ausgerechnet Isaiah, der unverschämt gut aussehende und charmante Spieler, dessen Flirtversuche sie schon ewig abwehrt.

Modern sports culture is causing many former athletes to face an identity crisis. We are unfulfilled, discontented, and depressed. If athletic achievement isn't our purpose in life, what is? Is life itself just a big game? In his raw and vulnerable real-life account, Ben will help you discover YOUR game and how to play it best.

From the revered Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and writer, comes his national best seller on one of the world’s oldest and most popular activities, fishing. Presented in narrative form as a conversation between a fisherman and the stranger, Hersey draws upon his own experiences and passion as the fisherman reflects on the age-old sport, offering his own insights and thoughts. From the depths of the ocean to the creatures near the shore, Hersey perfectly answers why fishing has been such an integral part of humanity.

I used to think life was perfect until a broken heart changed everything. Growing up and moving on, I now own the top event-planning company in the Midwest. Suddenly tragedy strikes and I learn the hard way, you can’t run from the past. Even if that past has a body built like a god, mesmerizing green eyes, and a panty-melting smile. Asher Stoll had me once and ruined it. I refuse to make the same mistake twice.

Bobby Tom ha nacido en Heaven, Texas, bendecido por los dioses: tiene cuerpo de modelo, los ojos azules y ha sido un legendario futbolista de los Chicago Stars, hasta que una lesión lo aparta de los terrenos de juego.

Sports Romance trifft auf Fake Dating, Forced Proximity und Grumpy x Sunshine – der TikTok-Hype als Hörbuch! Für Superstar Ryan zählt nur Basketball. Der gutaussehende, abgeklärte Captain des NBA-Teams von Chicago gilt als kalter Einzelgänger ohne Privatleben. Das denkt auch Indy von ihm. Die quirlige beste Freundin von Ryans Schwester ist von den Männern enttäuscht und hat großen Liebeskummer. Als sie aus der Not heraus bei Ryan einzieht, fliegen zwischen den beiden regelmäßig die Fetzen. Dann machen sie einen Deal: Beide können von einer Fake-Beziehung profitieren.

From 338BC to the sinners of today, Titus O'Reily leads us into the temptations of sportspeople across the globe. We have stories from cricket and ice hockey, soccer and baseball, tennis and boxing, NFL and competitive eating, and more. We meet the players, mascots and administrators whose sins are absurd, unwise, inspired or reckless and sometimes lead to losing (sport's greatest sin).

Nuclear war, hurricanes, pandemics, global economic collapse, or the power grid goes down. Name your disaster - you need to be prepared. The best way to be as prepared as possible is to build an emergency bunker. I will teach you how! Then, I’ll explain why you’re likely listening to this book. I'll go in-depth into how to plan, design, build and prepare your emergency shelter. I will cover all aspects so you can find a shelter that meets your needs and living situation.

As a kid, Nina O'Brien spent all her summers at her grandparents' cabin by the beach at Stepping Stone Bay. Long, sunny days full of fun and laughter with her best friends, Leo, the boy from the boatyard next door, his older brother, Adrian, and local girl Maeve - and, as Nina grew older, the magic of falling in love with Leo. But one summer night changed everything, and those glorious days came to an abrupt end for them all.

Helen Garner is one of the most “prodigiously gifted” writers of our time (New York Times Book Review), best known for her intricate portraits of “ordinary people in difficult times” (New York Times). In The Season, she trains her keen, journalistic eye on the most difficult time of all: adolescence. Garner and her grandson Amby are deep in the throes of a shared obsession with Australian football—or “footy”—as Amby advances into his local club’s Under-16s. From her trademark remove, Garner documents the camaraderie and the competition on the field.

From the lush fields of his boyhood in Jamaica, to the basketball courts of Oakville, where he came of age in one of Canada’s most thriving cultural mosaics, to his sprint toward double Olympic gold for Canada in Atlanta in 1996, Donovan Bailey got a long way on natural talent. But he also learned that in the bureaucratic world of Canadian sports, an athlete who didn't come up in the system needed to take charge of his fate if he was going to become the world’s best.

In 1966, a male baby, Chris, was adopted by an upper-middle-class Toronto family. From early childhood, Chris felt ill at ease as a boy and like an outsider in his conservative family. An obsession with sports - running, waterskiing, and cycling - helped him survive what he would eventually understand to be a profound disconnect between his anatomical sexual identity and his gender identity. In his 20s, with the support of newfound friends and family and the medical community, Chris became Kristen.

Welcome to Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, in a working-class corner of the Bronx, where a driven coach inspires his teams to win games and championships - and learn Russian history and graduate and go on to college.

Por estas páginas desfilan Pelé, Maradona, Baggio, Ronaldo, Zidane y Suárez; pero también hay espacio #entre diversos personajes# para una futbolista de Nigeria, una monja fanática de la selección chilena, un delantero austriaco que se negó a jugar por la Alemania Nazi y un defensa africano que salvó la vida de sus compañeros.