Colin Kaepernick - An Unauthorized Biography

Ryan Braun is one of the most talented baseball players in the world today. While his accomplishments on the field are impressive, his actions off the field draw the attention of many non-baseball fans. Most fans are aware of his MVP status and his controversy with performance-enhancing drugs, but in order to truly understand Ryan Braun, you must first understand where he came from. Ryan Braun: An Unauthorized Biography explores Braun's upbringing, his high school and minor league careers, and his breakthrough into the MLB all the way through the 2012 season. 

Braun's exceptional talents and off-field issues have fans and critics alike wondering where his career will take him next. Inside, you will discover where it all started and learn why so many fans love Braun so much. From family to baseball to the future, all you need to know about Ryan Braun is right here, right now, in the most up to date coverage of Ryan Braun's life.

This book also includes all of Ryan Braun's MLB statistics.

A veteran Philadelphia Inquirer sportswriter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Frank Fitzpatrick has long followed and covered Villanova basketball.  In all that time, nothing compares with the Wildcats' legendary 1985 upset of Georgetown—a win so spectacular and unusually flawless that days after its conclusion, sports columnists were already calling it “The Perfect Game.”

The game, particularly its second half, was so different from what observers expected—so different, in fact, from what anyone had ever seen that a shroud of myth almost immediately began to envelop it. Over the years, the game took on mythological proportions with heroes and villains, but with a darker, more complex subtext. In the midst of the sunny Reagan Administration, the game had been played out amid darker themes—race, death, and, though no one knew it at the time, drugs.

It was a night when the basketball world turned upside down. Villanova-Georgetown would be a perfect little microcosm of the 1980s. And it would be much more. Even now, a quarter-century later, the upset gives hope to sporting Davids everywhere. At the start of every NCAA Tournament, it is recalled as an exemplar of March’s madness. Whenever sport’s all-time upsets are ranked, it is high on those lists, along with hockey’s Miracle on Ice. Now, through interviews with the players and coaches, through the work of sociologists and cultural critics, through the eyes of those who witnessed the game, Fitzpatrick brings to life the events of and surrounding that fateful night.

With 17 Championships, 32 conference titles, and 22 division titles, the Los Angeles Lakers are one of the greatest NBA teams of all time. Richard Barry looks at the incredible history of the team (from 1947 to 2011), and gives valuable insight into the management moves that brought the team some of it's greatest players and coaches.

Bestselling author Joe Drape reveals the unique pressures and expectations that make a year of Army football so much more than just a tally of wins and losses.

The football team at the U.S. Military Academy is not like other college football teams. At other schools, athletes are catered to and coddled at every turn. At West Point, they carry the same arduous load as their fellow cadets, shouldering an Ivy League–caliber education and year-round military training. After graduation they are not going to the NFL but to danger zones halfway around the world. These young men are not just football players, they are soldiers first.

New York Times sportswriter Joe Drape takes us inside the world of Army football, as the Black Knights and their third-year coach, Rich Ellerson, seek to turn around a program that had recently fallen on hard times, with the goal to beat Navy and "sing last" at the Army-Navy game in December. The 2011 season would prove a true test of the players' mettle and perseverance.