After 26 seasons as head football coach at Virginia Tech University, Frank Beamer is not only the longest tenured but also the winningest active coach of any major college program, and Let Me Be Frank contains his personal reflections on more than a quarter-century leading the Virginia Tech program. Beamer has directed his alma mater to 20 consecutive bowl appearances, including six BCS bowls, five top-10 finishes, and a trip to the National Championship Game in 1999 led by a fres...

Virginia Tech’s Shayne Graham trots onto the field at West Virginia on November 6, 1999, with two thoughts in his mind. One is a missed field goal that would have beaten Miami a year earlier. The other is the 44-yard field goal he is about to try against the Mountaineers, a kick he must make if the Hokies are to stay unbeaten and on track for a national championship. Head down, he focuses on his mark as the ball is snapped. He steps forward, the dream of an entire team resting with his leg...

Get on the court with basketball superstar LeBron James in this in-depth, updated biography!LeBron James was a sensation in his early days playing ball in Akron, Ohio, and he continued to amaze as a high school phenomenon. Now an international icon and the heart of his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers, he is widely known as one of the greatest basketball players ever to step onto the court.Discover LeBron James's incredible story in this in-depth biography of o...

Exploring what it means to be a school, a coach, and a player in college basketball's Final Four, Feinstein exposes the driving forces behind one of the most revered events in American sports. Readers will also find dramatic stories from the officials and referees to the scouts and ticket-scalpers.

An intimate insider’s look at one season of college basketball, following teams from late-night strategy sessions and grueling practices to electrifying victories and more, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Season on the Brink“A buoyant and entertaining tribute to college basketball.”—The New York TimesGet a close-up look at recruiting, referees, injuries, winning, losing, and the private lives of c...

Lebron James and Kevin Durant are international superstars. This book follows both men's lives from their humble beginnings to becoming two of the best basketball players in the world.LeBron James, The Chosen One, is one of the greatest basketball players ever to play the game. He is an eight-time NBA All-Star, a three-time league MVP, and an NBA champion. Most fans are aware of his amazing accomplishments on the court and of his controversial "Decision" to leave Cleveland for Sout...

From its raw beginnings on Southern dirt tracks, NASCAR smacked of a slightly depraved spectacle, as if nothing but trouble could come from the unbridled locomotion of a V8 engine. By the time NASCAR roared into the twenty-first century, it had grown into a billion-dollar sports and marketing colossus, its races attended by hundreds of thousands of fans on any given weekend from mid-February through mid-November, watched on television by the second-largest viewing audience in sports, and b...

Ricky Williams is not only the best running back in the history of college football, but also a known for his down-to-earth personality and willingness to help others. His decision to stay at UT for his senior year despite opportunities to join the NFL meant the world to UT and fans of the soft-spoken, dreadlocked, talented athlete. Richardson delves deep into the personal life of Williams', who was forced to grow up at an early age in order to take care of his twin sister, younger sibling...

LASTCAR.info's Brock Beard pens his own history of the NASCAR Cup Series from the perspective of the series' last-place finishers, providing detailed analysis of every season run from 1949 through today. Each article includes career snapshots of each and every LASTCAR Cup Series Champion, featuring more than one hundred pages of never-before-published statistics on some of the most important moments in LASTCAR history. Includes a full introduction by the author.

Boasting six national championships and scores of Hall of Fame coaches and players, Carolina Basketball has come a long way from the first season — when the campus newspaper published a notice asking an unknown culprit to return the team’s basketball. These pages are packed with little-known stories from the program’s earliest days and new insights into its best-loved moments. All the greats are here, from Jack Cobb and the “Blind Bomber” George Glamack to Lennie Rosenbluth, Phil Ford, Jam...

A slot-by-slot analysis of every NBA Draft since 1947. "Best" and "Featured" players are identified at each slot, along with recapsand statistics. The Top 30 slots include the five best players ever selected ine ach slot. Also included is a worst-to-first ranking of each draft in NBA history.

Revisit some of the fantastic moments in the history of basketball at the University of Maryland.The University of Maryland sent a varsity team to the court for the first time in 1923 and now boasts one of a handful of high-profile college basketball programs in the country. Legends of Maryland Basketball features more than two dozen former prominent Terrapin players and coaches, including men and women who played significant roles in developing one of the...