A powerful voice for integration and the oppressed, baseball and civil rights icon shows his humanitarian nature. After Jackie Robinson ended his major league career with the Brooklyn Dodgers, he became a nationally syndicated columnist... Read More

Adopt a positive attitude to achieve “golf flow” and improve your game. Gio Valiante, a sports psychologist and established mental-game consultant in the sport, speaks from a credible position in Golf Flow: Master Your Mind, Master... Read More

Betting on horse races is a huge industry in the United States. Frederic Donner’s Zen and the Successful Horseplayer: How to Win and Find Calmness in Horse Wagering is an entertaining introduction to this popular form of gambling.... Read More

Miller and Kane show how techniques of handling potentially violent individuals can apply to a range of real situations. Whether dealing with a belligerent drunk at a bar or facing down a potential mugger, surviving a fight with minimal... Read More

An old nautical joke notes that the two happiest days of a man’s life are the day he buys his boat and the day he sells it. In his delightful, insightful, and adventurous memoir, "Sailing with Rhyme and Reason", Robert E. Jack explains... Read More

Few basketball coaches can fill a resume with both the amount and the variety of experience Lee Rose has compiled in the past four decades. After working as an assistant coach at the college level, Rose led both UNC-Charlotte and Purdue... Read More

Lifelong runner Ed Ayres uses the John F. Kennedy fifty-mile ultramarathon as a backdrop for his new book, The Longest Race: A Lifelong Runner, an Iconic Ultramarathon, and the Case for Human Endurance. Throughout it we run alongside the... Read More

Jake Steinfeld, perhaps better known by his media persona, “Body by Jake,” had what he considered a great idea. And once Jake Steinfeld gets a great idea, it’s nearly impossible to deter him from seeing it through. This time it was... Read More