History of Sport

The 1990s, what a time to be an Evertonian! After a decade of success in the 1980s which saw cup and league wins, the 1990s brought brushes with re...

Evertonians know what it is to experience greatness. Since the club first came to life in 1878 there have been titles won, European adventures and ...

This is the story of football as it's never been told before. A cock-eyed compilation of match reports, correspondence, and reminiscences from pund...

The quarterback pass is one of the leading offensive components of today's National Football League and college football's top level of play. This ...

The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the even...

Since 1977 the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield has staged the snooker World Championship and in that time become one of the most beloved and iconic v...

In The Great and the Good, Ireland's leading football pundit and legend of the game John Giles looks back on more than fifty years of football, at ...

The Stoke City Miscellany is full of fascinating facts, trivia, stats, stories and anecdotes from the history of Stoke City. Featuring great matche...

Where were you on Sunday 15 May 2016, when the final whistle blew at the Championship play-off? Where were Ayr United playing when Willie Japp''''s...

Foxhunting with Meadow Brook on Long Island, New York, was always about more than the fox, the hounds, or the horses. Meadow Brook was about its pe...

Orioles Magic is a phrase fans still associate with the 1979-1983 seasons, Baltimore's last championship era, when they played excellent, exciting ...

This book provides the first comprehensive and complete history of Western Province cricket and the Cape Cobras in the 121 years from 1890 to 2011....

Notts County is a club rich on history but short on publications of the printed word. Lifelong Notts fan Paul Mace redresses that imbalance in One ...

The beautiful game at its most beautiful. Featuring over 200 pages of photographs from Leon''''s travels across Great Britain and into Europe watch...

For many football fans, the National Football League season of 1970 was a landmark year in the history of the game. The NFL and the American Footba...

Sports Geek is a visual and numerical tour through sporting debates and ideas. Sport revolves around two things: narrative and numbers. You need ...

The Ohio State Buckeyes have been a powerhouse in college football for decades, with numerous national championships and NFL draftees to their cred...

Sports history is no longer a marginal academic subject. It has now been recognised that sport is a significant cultural activity that matters to m...