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Roone: A Memoir by Roone Arledge 9780060536015
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060536015Author Roone ArledgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
The Gold in the Rings: The People and Events That Transformed the Olympic Games by Stephen R Wenn
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.98Once a showcase for amateur athletics, the Olympic Games have become a global entertainment colossus powered by corporate sponsorship and professional participation. Stephen R. Wenn and Robert K... -
The Gold in the Rings: The People and Events That Transformed the Olympic Games by Stephen R Wenn 9780252042683
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £70.50Once a showcase for amateur athletics, the Olympic Games have become a global entertainment colossus powered by corporate sponsorship and professional participation. Stephen R. Wenn and Robert K... -
Sports Journalism: A History of Glory, Fame, and Technology by Patrick S. Washburn
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Patrick S. Washburn and Chris Lamb tell the full story of the past, the present, and to a degree, the future of American sports journalism. Sports Journalism chronicles how and why technology,... -
Home Team: Professional Sports and the American Metropolis by Michael N. Danielson
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £42.20Most books that study professional sports concentrate on teams and leagues. In contrast, Home Team studies the connections between professional team sports in North America and the places where teams... -
Winning is the Only Thing: Sports in America since 1945 by Randy Roberts 9780801842405
Booksplease Price: £28.18In Winning Is the Only Thing, Randy Roberts and James Olson take a hard look at the dark side of American sports. The scandals. The role of organized crime. How politicians and businessmen exploit... -
You Can't Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, And The Perfect Marriage Of Sports And Television by Al Michaels 9780062314970
Booksplease Price: £12.17No sportscaster has covered more major sporting events than Al Michaels. During the course of his forty-plus year career, he has logged more hours on live primetime network television than anyone in... -
Rocky Marciano: The Rock of His Times by Russell Sullivan
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.44In this captivating and complex portrait of an American sports legend, Russell Sullivan confirms Rocky Marciano's place as a symbol and cultural icon of his era. As much as he embodied the wholesome,... -
Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam by David Farber
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.85On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took sixty-six Americans captive. Thus began the Iran Hostage Crisis, an affair that captivated the American... -
College Football: History, Spectacle, Controversy by John Sayle Watterson 9780801871146
Booksplease Price: £33.31"In March [1892] Stanford and California had played the first college football game on the Pacific Coast in San Francisco ...The pregame activities included a noisy parade down streets bedecked with... -
The Last Coach: A Life of Paul "Bear" Bryant by Allen Barra 9780393328974
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £27.19When Paul William "Bear" Bryant died on January 26, 1983, it was the lead story on the all three networks' evening news. New York City newspapers reported his death on their front pages. ("Crimson... -
The Columbia History of American Television by Gary R. Edgerton 9780231121651
Booksplease Price: £40.22Television is a form of media without equal. It has revolutionized the way we learn about and communicate with the world and has reinvented the way we experience ourselves and others. More than just...