And Nobody Got Hurt!: The World’s Weirdest, Wackiest True Sports Stories

Today Show regular Berman showcases the funniest and most amazing stories in the history of sports in this collection taken from his popular TV segments. Illustrations.

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ESPN: The Mighty Book of Sports Knowledge

In The ESPN Mighty Book of Sports Knowledge, Steve Wulf, acclaimed author and founding editor of ESPN The Magazine, delivers an arena’s worth of sporting wisdom, trivia, best-of lists, curiosities, legendary feats, and sacred objects–from the magic of Lou Gehrig’s farewell speech to the lore of hockey’s Stanley Cup to the art of the perfectly thrown Wiffle Ball pitch. Written to remind us all why we love the games, this indispensable reference features contributions from the finest minds at ESPN, as well as guidance from actual professionals. Inside you’ll discover

• twenty-five of the greatest sporting nicknames
• the keys to being a mascot
• what happens during a pit stop
• the five best (worst?) on-field temper tantrums
• a tour of Donovan McNabb’s locker
• how Wayne Gretzky tapes his sticks
• the unbeatable secret of rock-paper-scissors
• how to tape an ankle, fold a paper football, hit a hole in one, whistle with your fingers, throw a knuckleball, jump rope like a champ, and oil a baseball glove
• advice from star athletes–learn to run routes like Jerry Rice, take a penalty kick like Landon Donovan, fake opponents out like Chris Paul, and put on your socks the John Wooden way

The ESPN Mighty Book of Sports Knowledge is the perfect antidote to our video-game culture and an essential gift for any fan who ever dreamed of throwing a tight spiral in a Super Bowl, closing out a World Series game, or lining up a putt to win a major. In other words, it’s a book for the young and the young at heart.

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All the Good in Sports: True Stories That Go Beyond the Headlines

Stories about athletes and coaches usually focus on their championships or their scandals. All the Good in Sports features 20 contemporary sports personalities who go beyond the headlines to candidly share how their relationship with Christ has helped them cope with a variety of difficulties, both professional and personal, and how in Christ they found victory in their personal lives. Many professing Christians in the sports world have achieved wealth and notoriety, but life s luxuries do not exempt them from life s difficulties. Name recognition and personal fortune cannot rescue one whose marriage is on the rocks, one facing substance abuse, or one facing disease or even death. The sports heroes featured in All the Good in Sports are not super human. They go through the same pendulum of emotions you and I do when life deals us a punch in the stomach. However, what they discover or rediscover is a God who is faithful and responsive in their time of need.

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Review by David Jarvis:

“All the Good in Sports” is an insightful compilation of real-life stories of numerous sports standouts. I must say that I gained a greater appreciation for the adversities that many of the featured individuals overcame with faith and perserverance. It is one of those books that one feels connected to many of those who are biographied. I recommend this book for the distinguished participant’s uplifting messages.

Review by must_edit_copy:

“All the Good in Sports” takes a look at sports icons as more than just big-winning celebs; showing us a more personal (and human) side to these legends. As someone who likes to read around the numbers in sports, I’d say this book makes for a great read, and I strongly recommend it.

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Sports Illustrated The Football Book Expanded Edition

The NFL has never been hotter–witness the .4 billion it will rake in on the TV-rights deals now in place (not to mention its own network), the proliferation of football news and information and the game’s booming popularity among sports fans, including the 23 millioin who read SPORTS ILLUSTRATED every week. These 320 pages capture, in breathtaking words and pictures, the essence of America’s game: the players and performances, the crucial moments and classic matchups, the enduring dynastics and unique characters that have made pro football the new national pastime.

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Review by the bridge:

bought this for my son, a huge football fan, i looked at alot of books, this is a great one. the price is excellent too, it’s double in the book stores. definately get it, you won’t be dissappointed

Review by Drake:

This is a remarkable book with lots of pictures. Great for hardcore football fans. Geaux Saints

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The Sports Book

Featuring the largest and most diverse range of sports of any comparable book-more than 200 in all-from basketball to bobsledding, karate to korfball, synchronized swimming to ski-jumping, this up-to-date and authoritative guide presents information sourced from leading experts and sports governing bodies around the world to give you the most comprehensive book on sports to ever hit the market.

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Review by M. Coutts:

Purchased as a birthday gift for my 12-year-old nephew and he just loves it. Says it has EVERYTHING in it.

No problem with the order. Arrived on time and was exactly as depicted.

Review by Shran:

I’m a sports enthusiast, and this book caught my eye quite a while ago with its grassy cover. Good gimmick. I just found it on a bargain rack and decided to pick it up.

It’s not bad, but it could be a lot better. If you’re looking to get a very cursory overview of lots of sports, and maybe learn about a few you never knew existed, this is a great book. But if you want in-depth details, you’re going to be very disappointed.

The book is also littered with grammatical errors (if I see another incorrect usage of “due to,” I think I’ll scream) … don’t publishers hire copy editors anymore? And then there are the little details that the publisher didn’t get right in the graphics. For example, the rugby pitch is shown as being 100 meters long, from dead-ball line to dead-ball line. The text directly above it correctly states that it’s 100 meters from try line to try line. A page earlier, an illustration of a Canadian football field lists it as being 150 yards long to the back of each end zone … which is right, but the graphic shows the center of the field as being the 50-yard line, not the 55.

It’s the little details like these that make me suspicious about the accuracy in describing the sports I know nothing about.

Too bad. A project like this held a lot of promise.

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Sports Illustrated 50 Years: The Anniversary Book

For 50 years, Sports Illustrated has set the standard for sports writing and action photography. Now, for the culmination of the magazine’s 50th Anniversary celebration, some of the finest writing and most memorable pictures from Sports Illustrated’s archives have been collected in a lavish coffee-table book that will be treasured by the magazine’s devoted readers for years to come. Along with the stunning photography, which includes every one of the magazine’s covers since its launch in 1954, and the great writing that has appeared in Sports Illustrated’s pages, this 288-page book will also be chock full of all-new facts and figures that will give readers an entertaining view of 50 years of American sports.This colorful book celebrating fifty years of America’s most prominent sports magazine is certainly more practical than hoarding 2,500 issues. The six-part book plays to the strength of the magazine: “The Stories” and “The Photographs” sections are the largest. The 35 articles are truncated, often just whetting your appetite for more. The companion book Fifty Years of Great Writing offers many of these in their full glory. On the other hand, the pictures are often bigger than they were in the magazine (or could ever have been with the smaller size). Lose minutes staring at Michael Jordan or Walter Payton frozen in midair. Examine the juxtaposition of a close play at the plate with the bizarre styles of a 60s women’s track team. Try not to be swept away at a shot of Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain defining basketball. If you have picked up the special issues released during SI’s anniversary year, you already seen a decent portion of this book. The notable new writing is Richard Hoffer’s essay about the world (both sports and at large) when the magazine began in 1954 and senior

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Amazing But True Sports Stories

Eighty amazing and unusual stories, about every sport imaginable, with thirty black and white photographs.

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The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to The Sports Guy

There is only one writer on the planet who possesses enough basketball knowledge and passion to write the definitive book on the NBA.* Bill Simmons, the from-the-womb hoops addict known to millions as ESPN.com’s Sports Guy, is that writer. And The Book of Basketball is that book.

Nowhere in the roundball universe will you find another single volume that covers as much in such depth as this wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining look at the past, present, and future of pro basketball.

From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opens–and then closes, once and for all–every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons’s one-of-a-kind, five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball.

Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game’s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.

* More to the point, he’s the only one crazy enough to try to pull it off.
Amazon Best of the Month, October 2009: The Book of Basketball is a 700-page work of hoops genius that would make Dr. James Naismith beam proudly – and probably blush. Author Bill Simmons, best known as ESPN.com’s “The Sports Guy,” explores the NBA with hilarious insight, brilliant analysis, and a bevy of irreverent

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Review by Charbel Eid:

I need to preface this by saying that I’ve been reading Bill Simmons for over 8 years now, before the fame, before the podcasts and almost frightening fan following.I’ve seen him mature from the old Boston Sports Guy to this all-media presence now, and in the process, his writing has greatly improved. The culmination of such an improvement is this wonderful book, “The Book of Basketball”.

I managed to get an early copy of this book, and spent the next 48 hours plowing through it as fast as I could. It’s very clear that Simmons put everything he had into the book. There aren’t a lot of loose words around. Even the genitalia jokes are well-constructed. Yes, it’s pretty good.

The basis of this book is determining who mattered in the NBA. Which teams, players, coaches, etc. played the biggest role in getting us to where we are today, in shaping our perception of what it takes to win in the NBA, and how we remember different players and events. It’s very interesting to see him go back into the 60s and 70s and try to write about Walton, Russell, and Chamberlain and how they were perceived then, and try to get to see what forces created and changed that perception. This is ultimately what the book is all about. It reads almost like a history of the NBA, in a very easy-to-read style.

My personal favorites are his ABA pieces. Not nearly enough has been written about this crazy league, and Simmons did a very good job looking at just how things broke down, at what could have been, and how the ABA led to many fundamental changes in the NBA itself.

Finally, this is definitely a book for the NBA junkie. It’s comic style and easy-to-read writing style does make it accessible to those with only mild-to-intermediate interest in the NBA, but at its core, it’s for the junkies who want to fill up with as much NBA knowledge as possible. It’s a great book, and for its price (as of October 27, 2009), a great deal.

Review by Hubcap:

If you know who the Sports Guy is, then you know what this book is like. I enjoyed it well enough, but by the end it got a bit tiresome. I’ve got no problem with 700-page books, but I can do without a 700-page book that recycles the same gags over and over and over (and over) again.

The positive side is that it’s a fun ride and an easy read; there’s a ton of info about the NBA and players who should be remembered; and Simmons’ love of the game leaps off of the page.

The negative side is that there’s a lot of padding, a lot of opinion presented as fact, and a whole lot of pseudo-statistics that are less convincing the more you think about them.* Editors are your friends, Simmons. You don’t use the verb “sauntered” twice in three pages. The game is Bid Whist, not Bid Wist. You can’t use your own “Trade Value” columns as independent evidence to support your own opinions. And “infinitely better” does not mean the same thing as “a lot better.”

If Simmons had taken his best 400 pages this would have been a really great book. But he didn’t. But if you like Simmons you’ll like this. Buy it and read it like he recommends: dip into it for 50 pages, then walk away for a while. Because it’s kind of like eating Halloween candy – enjoyable at the moment, but if you do it for too long you get sick of it.

*(My favorite is the table comparing performances for two guards from ages 22 through 24. Except for Allen Iverson he makes the “executive decision” to show ages 23-25 because AI “spent five months in jail and missed his senior year in high school.” Yeah…that’s not really how stats work. You can’t just toss the numbers you don’t like and pick the ones that support your argument. Well, obviously you CAN, but that’s cherry-picking, not statistics.)

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