The Football Men: Up Close with the Giants of the Modern Game

Why England Lose: And Other Curious Football Phenomena Explained

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski
• Narrated By Colin Mace

Why do England lose? Why does Scotland suck? Why doesn’t America play the sport internationally… and why do the Germans play with such an efficient but robotic style?

Using insights and analogies from economics, statistics, psychology and business to cast a new and entertaining light on how the game works, "Why England Lose" reveals the often surprisingly counterintuitive truths about soccer.

Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 34 mins)
• By L. Jon Wertheim, Tobias Moskowitz
• Narrated By Zach McLarty
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Drawing from Moskowitz's original research, as well as studies from fellow economists such as bestselling author Richard Thaler, the authors look at: the influence home-field advantage has on the outcomes of games in all sports and why it exists; the surprising truth about the universally accepted axiom that defense wins championships; the subtle biases that umpires exhibit in calling balls and strikes in key situations; the unintended consequences of referees' tendencies in every sport to "swallow the whistle," and more.

Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Graham Hunter
• Narrated By Graham Hunter

Barcelona is the greatest football team in the world, the greatest for a generation, and possibly the greatest of all time. This is the untold inside story of how the best and most loved football team in the world came to redefine how the game is played. We start with the 2011 Champions League final at Wembley, the game that ended the debate about whether Barcelona was the greatest team in the world and began a new one: are they the best ever?

Born to Run:: The Hidden Tribe, the Ultra-Runners, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Christopher McDougall
• Narrated By Fred Sanders

Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world's greatest distance runners and learn their secrets - and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about running is wrong.

Soccernomics

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Simon Kuper, Stefan Szymanski
• Narrated By Colin Mace

Why does England lose? Why does Scotland suck? Why doesn't America play the sport internationally... and why do the Germans play with such an efficient but robotic style? Using insights and analogies from economics, statistics, psychology and business to cast a new and entertaining light on how the game works, Soccernomics reveals the often surprisingly counterintuitive truths about soccer.