Sporting Events & Management

The stadium century traces the history of stadia and mass spectatorship in modern France from the vélodromes of the late nineteenth century to the ...

On an April morning in 1896, unemployed single mother Stamata Revithi ran the 40 kilometers from Marathon to Athens, finishing in 5 hours 30 min...

The New England Small College Athletic Conference has won glowing appraisals in the sporting press since its founding in 1971. Established to stren...

In its long and rich history the GAA has provided many great moments. This book is a celebration of one hundred of the best of them: the Thunder an...

'Probably the biggest story in football of the last decade ... Reads like a Cold War thriller.' - Best Football Books of 2019, FourFourTwo ***One a...

Philosophy and Football: The PFFC Story is the extraordinary account of how a team of friends kicking a ball about in Regent's Park was transformed...

Of all winter sports, none is so widely watched and commented upon by the media as figure skating, which is often considered the Winter Olympics...

''My favorite read of 2022, I am recommending it to everyone I know. Reader ReviewThree strangers all caught in the deep end but can they help eac...

Roberto Bobby Maduro (1916-1986) was a visionary baseball team owner and executive. His dedication to promoting the game internationally from th...

Rossendale United Football Club 18982011: A Season by Season History is the roller coaster story of one of North West England's oldest non-league c...

Chariot races. Gladiatorial combat. Fishing. Hunting. Swimming. The ancient Romans enjoyed these sports--sometimes with fanatical enthusiasm. Th...

Notre Dame's rallying cry was once Win one for the Gipper. The football series with Army that spawned that memorable slogan has long since faded in...

Not many people are aware of the drama of Ivy League basketball. Outside the Limelight is a wonderful tribute to one of the most undervalued confer...

In an era of unique baseball stadiums, the Polo Grounds in New York stood out from the rest. With its horseshoe shape, the Polo Grounds had extr...

Sidestepping the inflated egos and scandal that have infiltrated many men's sports, college female softball players exhibit power and grace on t...

The Birmingham Black Barons were a nationally known team in baseball's Negro leagues from 1920 through 1962. Among its storied players were Hall...

`. . . those two mighty products of the land, the Canterbury lamb and the All Blacks, have made New Zealand what she is in spite of politicians' cl...

Telling the story of LSU football through coverage of each of the Tigers' 50 bowl games--from 1907 through 2019--this book provides summaries of...

Seven decades of the intense Steelers-Browns rivalry.Football historians regard the games between the Cleveland Browns and the Pittsburgh Steelers ...