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The No.1 football series - over 1 million copies sold!
Hailing from a footballing family, Jude Bellingham started his football career as an under-8 at Birmingham City before going on to make history as the club's youngest ever first-team player when he made his senior debut at the age of 16. His natural talent caught the eye of the scouts at Borussia Dortmund. Joining the German team in 2020, Bellingham became the club's youngest ever goalscorer...
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Rowman & Littlefield
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[2024].
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"Mind Game takes a deep look at how the best of the best-including Simone Biles, Michael Phelps, LeBron James, Serena Williams, Terry Bradshaw, and so many more-have struggled with and persevered through mental illness, while working on their mental performance skills that make them the great athletes they are"
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Dating Coach Rule Number 1: Don't fall for your client, especially if he's your best friend.
Cole
I don't suck at dating. I suck at getting over the girl who friend-zoned me back in college.
But I have a plan: Let her set me up. Bomb the dates.
Then she can be my dating coach and I can finally show her I'm the one for her and not that jerk boyfriend she's always crying on my shoulder about.
Arianna
I've had the same boyfriend for three...
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Considered to be "as monumental - and enigmatic - a legend as American sport has ever seen" (Sports Illustrated), Willie Mays is arguably the greatest player in baseball history, still revered for the joy and passion he brought to the game. Mays began as a teenage phenom in the Negro Leagues, became a cult hero in New York, and was the headliner in Major League Baseball's bold expansion to California. With 3,383 hits, 660 home runs, and 338 stolen...
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"Gigi Graham has exactly three goals: qualify for the women's national hockey team, win Olympic gold, and step out of her famous father's shadow. So far, so good, except for two little things. Fine-a little thing and a big, grumpy thing. She needs to improve her game behind the net, and she needs help from Luke Ryder. Ryder is six-foot five, built, opinionated, rude...and sexy as hell. But he's still the enemy. Briar's new hockey co-captain has his...
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Summary of Ben Reiter's Astroball tells the dramatic story of how the Houston Astros transformed from being the worst team in professional baseball to the best. Reiter first made the bold prediction that the Astros would win a World Series in a Sports Illustrated cover story in June 2014…
10) Rise and Run
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Rise and Run: The Path to Running Greatness: Discovering the Rise and Run Method for Optimal Performance
"Rise and Run" is your invitation to embark on a transformative running journey that transcends the ordinary. Experience running as a mindful practice where the rhythm of your breath harmonizes with the beat of your heart, and each step becomes a path to self-discovery and equilibrium.
Within the pages of this audiobook, you'll unravel the art...
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For more than a century, professional wrestling has cultivated some of the most eccentric and compelling personalities. As the embodiment of flamboyance and intensity, the "Nature Boy" Ric Flair stood at wrestling's apex for decades, cementing his place as a once-in-a-lifetime athlete and performer. When he was in the ring, fans knew they were witnessing the very best, and he not only became a multi-time world heavyweight champion in the NWA, WCW,...
12) Football Leaks 2
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Geld, Lügen und geheime Deals - die Enthüllungen gehen weiter! Ob es um die dubiosen Geschäftspraktiken von internationalen Spitzenklubs wie dem FC Barcelona, Manchester City oder Paris Saint-Germain geht, um die Ausbeutung von Jugendspielern oder die Vertuschung von Straftaten: Die Gier im Fußball kennt kaum noch Grenzen. Die SPIEGEL-Journalisten Rafael Buschmann und Michael Wulzinger geben neue, exklusive Einblicke in die zunehmend mafiösen...
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Eine Kegelbahn als Ablöse für drei Handballer, "Schneewittchens Rache" an Heiner Brand, Howard Carpendale statt Krokodil, "Räuber Hotzenplotz" stiehlt den DHB-Pokal. Kuriose Geschichten, die ebenso Teil der spannenden 50-jährigen Geschichte der Bundesliga sind, wie die Liga-Gründung, die goldene Ära des VfL Gummersbach, die Erfindung der schnellen Mitte, das Bosman-Urteil, die Tragödie des Joachim Deckarm und die unglaubliche 68:0 Punkte-Saison...
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In the April of 1945, exactly two years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, liberal Boston City Councilman Izzy Muchnick persuaded the Red Sox to try out three black players in return for a favorable vote to allow the team to play on Sundays. The Red Sox got the councilman's much-needed vote, but the tryout was a sham; the three players would get no closer to the major leagues. It was a lost battle in a war that...
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Being the fastest cyclist in the world at the start line means nothing if your mind isn't strong enough to get you to the finish line
In 2018, Leigh Timmis became the fastest person to cycle across Europe - in just 16 days, 10 hours and 45 minutes - breaking the previous world record by an astonishing 8 days and 17 hours. But when he set out to break the record, Leigh wasn't just trying to conquer the road.
As he prepared his body for this ultra-endurance...
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Summary of Lauren Weisberger's The Singles Game, a novel by Lauren Weisberger, follows the rising star of Charlotte "Charlie" Silver, a 24-year-old tennis pro who has set her sights on winning her first Grand Slam tournament. Through tribulations that include an injury, an abusive coach, and countless grueling practice sessions and games, Charlie comes to realize that the old saying is true: It's not whether she wins or loses that matters; it's how...
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Born of tumult in 1909, the Giro d'Italia helped unite a nation. Since then, it has reflected it's home country-the Giro's capricious and unpredictable nature matches the passions and extremes of Italy itself. A desperately hard race through a beautiful country, the Giro has bred characters and stories that dramatize the shifting culture and society of its home. There was Alfonsina Strada, who cropped her hair and raced against the men in 1924 and...
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Through the seventies and into the mid-eighties a cohort of young climbers challenged the siege mentality of their seniors on high mountains in the Greater Ranges with fast moving, lightweight expeditions run on a shoestring. Brian Hall was one of them and, in High Risk, he describes their daring adventures and the counterculture they lived within, their rivalries and relationships, and the terrible price many of them paid. When all was done, they...
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Eliminate daily stress, free your mind and improve your sports performance with meditation techniques!
Do you suffer from severe stressful periods and don't know how to clear your mind of your thoughts?
Do you want to achieve a brilliant performance during sports competitions?
Would you like to buy a manual to understand and apply the discipline of meditation?
Meditation is a practice that is implemented to achieve a better mastery of one's mental...
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Have you tried and failed to will your short body to dunk a basketball? Learn how even the most vertically challenged players can slam the ball home with ease.
Have you been told you're far too short to touch the rim, let alone throw the ball down? Having trouble increasing your vertical leap no matter how much weightlifting you do? Author James Wilson is a 30-year veteran of basketball coaching in 20 different countries. He's cracked the scientific...
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