Sporting Events & Management

The Drake Relays are one of the iconic events of track and field in the United States. World and Olympic champions test their speed and stamina on ...

It is probably not surprising to learn that the modern craze for running is not new: our species has been running since we were able to stand uprig...

The emergence of baseball as the national pastime established the dynamics of spectator sports. Evolving in an urban landscape, the game attracted ...

The hilarious, heartwarming and - unbelievably - true story of Maurice Flitcroft, the World's Worst Golfer'The story of its greatest anti-hero is j...

Every runner's story is part of a great tradition of running stories. Running Throughout Time tells the best and most important of them. From Atala...

A brilliant, entertaining deconstruction of basketball, drawing on the expertise of board-game creators, winemakers, therapists, and more Basketbal...

Game Shooting for sporting purposes has taken place in England since the first half of the sixteenth century. David Jones has written a fascinating...

The powerful story of Ken Caminiti, who changed baseball forever as the first player to confess to having used performance-enhancing steroidsIn Pla...

In Praise of Famous Horses is an A-Z companion to perhaps the most loved of all domesticated animals. From D.H. Lawrence's horse Aaron, whose hide ...

The Undisputed Champions of Europe is a trilogy-ending homage to the golden era of the European Cup. A place where the gods of the game battled for...

Peak Rock is a celebration of significant developments at the cutting edge of rock climbing in the Peak District, from the day that James W Puttrel...

From the teams inception in 1903, the New York Yankees were a floundering group that played as second-class citizens to the New York Giants. The te...

Will lightning ever strike twice? Can David beat Goliath a second time? These questions haunt everyone in the small town of Milan, Indiana, whose b...

Shortlisted, Toronto Book AwardsOn May 2, 1967, Montreal and Toronto faced each other in a battle for hockey supremacy. This was only the fifth tim...

Bushido: A Complete History of British Jujutsu reveals the untold stories behind the UK's martial arts. Jujutsu was brought to the UK in the 1890s,...