Broughton Coburn, the author of The Vast Unknown: America's First Ascent of Everest, shares with Everyday eBook a few interesting facts he uncovered while researching his latest book.
Jon Krakauer's thrilling personal story of the 1996 ascent of Mount Everest and the furious natural disaster that claimed lives and devastated survivors is a must-read for the armchair adventurer.
Former professional cyclist Tyler Hamilton shares his account of what life on Lance Armstrong's Tour de France-winning team was really like -- doping allegations and all.
Elizabeth Letts, author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion, talks about reviving the unlikely but true story of a horse with a hidden talent and a poor man with a big dream, who together became a legend.
Closing ceremonies got ya' down? In need of a little more excitement, competition, heartbreak, and glory? Then the latest from the author of Little Bee is the novel for you.
John Grisham's latest, Calico Joe, and the imminent arrival of springtime have us thinking about -- what else? -- baseball.
When Bob Weiss, a former NBA coach, was invited in 2008 to teach China’s worst professional basketball team how to play like Americans, he looked forward to a year spent abroad with his wife at a laid-back consultant position. What he actually got was a season spent as an on-and-off head coach, trying to lead a team that hadn’t seen a winning season in years, while navigating the mores and cultural idiosyncrasies of a nation on the rise.
Endgame is acclaimed biographer Frank Brady's decades-in-the-making tracing of the ascent -- and confounding descent -- of enigmatic genius Bobby Fischer. Here, Brady recalls playing Speed Chess with Fischer.
Despite spending four years on the Ohio State Buckeyes, Mark Titus played very little college basketball. However, he manages to make every single one of his forty-eight career minutes into a memorable moment in his new memoir, Don't Put Me In, Coach.
The Art of Fielding is the story of an exceptional shortstop named Henry Skrimshander whose flawless fielding skills make the Derek Jeters of the world look like amateurs.
In what type of football-crazed society do we live? This is the exact question ESPN reporter Sal Paolantonio asked himself when he examined the ties between Americans and our national pastime, professional football. In his book How Football Explains America, Paolantonio seeks to understand what makes football, and specifically the NFL, America’s most popular (and profitable) sport.
As one reads Haruki Murakami’s brilliant memoir, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, he or she may imagine the sensation of quiet and solitude one feels when absorbed in motion, covering ground, thinking or not thinking.
When one of the top sports-medicine doctors in the country told Chris McDougall his foot injury demanded that he quit running, McDougall instead got a cortisone shot and a second opinion. And then a third. Because as he aptly analogizes in his fascinating 2009 narrative Born to Run, running is fundamentally about love.
David Beckham is soccer’s biggest name (though never its biggest talent) and arguably its first international superstar. In most parts of the world, he’s known for his triumphs with some of the most celebrated clubs in Europe (Manchester United, Real Madrid, and AC Milan) and with the English national team. In America, however, he’s primarily famous for his good looks, sartorial choices, fashionably skeletal wife, and provocative Armani ads. But with rumors that the midfielder may depart the Los Angeles Galaxy for French team Paris Saint-Germain, now is a good time to check out The Beckham Experiment.
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