By: Ethan,
on 6/1/2015
Even people who don’t follow the sport will know that international soccer, and the money that keeps it going, are hot topics in the news right now. Szymanski's guide is essential for anyone who wants a peek behind the curtain into how the industry works! Books mentioned in this post Money and Soccer: A Soccernomics [...]
By: Shawn D.,
on 8/5/2014
Growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1970s, it was impossible not to be a football fan. But like Steve Almond, I've struggled with its morality. The case he makes against the game is rational, compelling, and impossible to ignore. He won't win any popularity contests by addressing this difficult subject, but my hope is that [...]
By: Mary Jo,
on 5/23/2014
Brown masterfully narrates the tale of the 1936 American Olympic rowing team and their gold medal triumph. He paints a vivid picture of the men in the boat, their world, and their sport. A fascinating glimpse into a bygone era. Books mentioned in this post The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans... Daniel James Brown [...]
By: Shawn D.,
on 5/9/2014
The bestseller Born to Run did a wonderful job of explaining why humans have evolved to run long distances, but it left many readers wondering, How? The answer is simple. Follow Eric Orton's advice in The Cool Impossible and discover that you, too, were born to run. Books mentioned in this post The Cool Impossible: [...]
By: Matt Love,
on 1/16/2013
I've had three Deep Throats in my Oregon literary career. Each put me on to something incredible that enriched my recounting of modern Oregon history. For the uninitiated, Deep Throat was the code name of the legendarily secret source who helped Woodward and Bernstein unravel Watergate and overthrow a paranoid criminal in the White House, [...]
By: Simon Kuper,
on 9/13/2012
I am not Dutch, but when I was six years old my Dad took a job in the small town of Leiden, and so I spent most of my school years in the Netherlands. I grew up on Dutch Resistance stories. Even in the '70s and '80s, World War II seemed to be all around [...]
By: Jeremy,
on 8/16/2012
Of the many books written about baseball, Flip Flop Fly Ball ought to rank amongst the most unique, informative, and entertaining. Devised and written by Craig Robinson, an Englishman whose love for the game was late to bloom, Flip Flop Fly Ball is a collection of bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, Venn diagrams, and [...]
