Títulos em Esportes

Per migliaia di chilometri, in auto, a piedi, su traghetti, bus e funivie, una carovana piena di colori tenta di stare dietro al ritmo furibondo imposto dai ciclisti che in tre settimane girano tutta l’Italia, dalla costiera amalfitana agli aspri profili del Vajont. Ne fa parte anche uno scrittore, che fin da bambino sognava di partecipare al Giro d’Italia e si butta in quest’avventura con entusiasmo assoluto, pronto a infiammarsi per l’epica che il ciclismo da sempre sprigiona. Ma presto scoprirà che la tenacia e la passione dei corridori sono solo una parte della storia.

Ich hätte das Angebot meines Bosses, mich in seinem Ferienhaus zu erholen, nicht annehmen sollen. Denn als der General Manager der Philadelphia Pucks plötzlich selbst hier auftaucht, kommen wir uns näher, als es vermutlich angebracht ist. Früher hätte ich Brads Vorschlag sofort abgelehnt, doch nach meinem gewonnenen Kampf gegen den Krebs im letzten Jahr habe ich gelernt, das Glück am Schopf zu packen. Sein Anwesen in Hawaii gleicht einem Paradies... zumindest, bis plötzlich ein wildfremder, splitterfasernackter Typ vor mir steht und ich auf der Flucht vor ihm im Fenster stecken bleibe.

After spending the last twenty-five years in prison, former professional wrestler "Bad Guy" Brian Hearns is willing to do anything for a second chance. Then he learns the truth about the dark circumstances that landed him behind bars, and an old acquaintance gives him the means to go back in time and set things right.

The boy next door isn't next door anymore. He's in Vegas, preparing for the upcoming NFL season, and I'm still stuck in the small Midwestern town where we grew up. We should be together, but people wanted us apart. They won. Secrets are uncovered, and lives are forever torn apart.

It's the late 1970s and city league softball - and partying - reign supreme. Talented Jo Jo Van Dyne and company struggle to right themselves from a winless first season, in part by renaming themselves the Streakers because their first year team name, the Hard Machine, hadn't exactly brought them any kind of luck. This time around, though, the early twenties team has high hopes. This is a year where, they all truly believe, anything can happen. And who knows...maybe it will.

Humor is the best part of baseball. To survive a long season, the everyday schedule, and the failure that is inherent in the game people have always needed a good laugh about a ballgame from time to time. The stories in Baseball Humor: A Collection of Stories by Master Storytellers poke good fun at the struggles, ambition, greed, romance, envy, wisdom, and quirks of the players, managers, wives, and fans. Included are “The Pitcher and the Plutocrat” by P G Wodehouse, “Horseshoes” and “Alibi Ike” by Ring Lardner, “The Red-Headed Outfield” and “The Rube” by Zane Gray, and many others.

Genevieve Michaels didn’t realize how much emotional preparation she needed to do for her brother’s wedding. But when Leo Bishop walks into the bar five days before the big day, she’s reminded of exactly why she can’t stand her brother’s best friend...and exactly why she plans to steer clear of him all week.

Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are.

Esta es la historia de un joven resignado a que su vida jamás será como él quisiera. Su lesión de rodilla, su entrenador exigente y su novia, que lo acompaña sólo en una parte del camino, no son más que pruebas de ello.

I never asked for the spotlight, but inheriting a pro hockey team pulls me into a world of chaos. All eyes are on me now. I’m no stranger to the world of hockey, but watching from the sidelines and calling the shots are two very different things. Especially when you’re not wanted.

After years of trying to get back home to be closer to my daughter, I finally secured a spot on the newly expanded San Francisco Shockwaves. Juggling being the newly appointed Captain of the team and taking on full-time fatherhood to a teenager sends my life into chaos. I quickly find myself needing someone who can pick up the pieces and keep my life in order as I certainly can't do it alone.

There has been a long-standing belief that a woman slipped into the 1951 Boston Marathon undetected and ran the race. If that could be proven it would make her the first woman to have run a marathon on American soil. She wore “red,” as claimed by a group of Canadian runners who say they tried to bring the matter to the attention of race Director Jock Semple and other race officials. But to no avail, their story was never corroborated, and so today the “Runner in Red” remains a mystery and an urban legend.

Edna Coffman, School Board Chairperson and community icon, hires thirty-something coaches Luke Carter and Madison Danielsen with the specific directive of returning the town sports fortunes to its former championship status. The unique-to-small-town interactions are at the forefront in this tale, and clearly demonstrate the close interconnections between school, sport and community in rural small-town America.

In 'Punching Through: The Tommy Malone Legacy,' follow the gripping journey of Tommy Malone, a young boxer who discovers a pair of legendary gloves with mystical powers. As he rises to the pinnacle of the boxing world, a fateful loss forces him to redefine his path. This is a tale of resilience, redemption, and the true meaning of legacy in the world of professional boxing.

After landing her dream job as an assistant buyer for a luxury fashion retailer in Minneapolis, Taylor Hartigan's life becomes a nightmare. Performing mundane tasks and catering to the ridiculous whims of the boss from hell, she sees no opportunity for advancement. Though she's never quit anything in her life, Taylor walks out and heads home to Chicago, the city that holds her heart. With her confidence shaken and no job on the horizon, she knows she has to find herself again.

The bond that changed everything is put to its final test. It has been more than twenty years since the Kindred came to live in Rockwood. Most of the villagers have embraced the Kindred and all that they have to teach, but there are those who fear the Kindreds' influence, and so have drifted away to live as outcasts. The outcasts suffer, living as they do, but they refuse help, even from the Horse-Bonded.

When Rupert Kramer ousts him as coxswain of University’s Championship crew, Finn Sullivan’s dreams of athletic glory disappear into the murky Brisbane River. Picking himself up to pursue his passionate competitive ambitions, Finn commits to becoming a great rowing coach. But his growing achievements are upended when a tragic incident reignites his rivalry with Rupert and unearths the long-buried family secret behind his toxic relationship with his father.

Mark Wolfe, a brilliant if self-thwarting technical writer, lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and their toddler daughter. His half-brother Geoff, born and raised in the UK, is a desperate young soccer agent. He pulls Mark across the ocean into a scheme to track down an elusive prospect known only as “Godwin” – an African teenager Geoff believes could be the next Messi.

A flunking Midwestern college student drops out and moves west to live the ski bum life. In the Colorado mountains he finds a group of like-minded, and sometimes degenerate, friends who show him that a ski town is the ideal place for young people to raise a middle finger to societal norms and do as they please.

Die Jahrgangsbeste und der Quarterback – kann das gut gehen? Die prickelnde Sports Romance vom Bay Rouge College! Die ehrgeizige Studentin Taylor kann sich wirklich besseres vorstellen, als ihr nächstes Projekt mit dem arroganten Quarterback Zack Wilson als Partner zu absolvieren. Doch Zack muss bestehen, um weiterhin bei den Bay Rouge Lions spielen zu dürfen und Taylors Professor verspricht ihr ein Empfehlungsschreiben für ein Austauschjahr in Oxford, wenn sie Zack durch das Semester bringt. Zunächst sind die beiden wie Feuer und Wasser und halten nur an der Partnerarbeit fest, um ihre eigenen Ziele zu erreichen.