Future Sports

Foreword by Chris Mosier A timely, illuminating plan for how trans and cis athletes can both fairly play sports Fair Game offers an insightful, timely examination of the ongoing battle for equality in athletics. As LGBTQ athletes break barriers in the Olympics, transgender athletes still face...

In the last two decades, innovation, data analysis, and technology have driven a tectonic shift in the sports business. Game of Edges is the story of how sports franchises evolved, on and off the field, from raggedly run small businesses into some of the most systematically productive companies around.

⭐Messi vs. Ronaldo Two GOATs Lessons in Confidence, Resilience & Teamwork ⭐A powerful guide to help young athletes build character, confidence, and lifelong skills. What if your child could learn confidence, resilience, and teamwork from two of the greatest players in soccer history?What if they could discover how to bounce back from setbacks, stay motivated, and believe in themselves — even when things get tough? This book makes that possible. ⭐ A Motivational Playbook for Kids and Teens Messi vs. Ronaldo Two GOATs Lessons in Confidence, Resilience & Teamwork brings readers into ...

Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the way it is transforming human society—and what this technology means for us all. An AI learned to win chess by making moves human grand masters had never conceived. Another...

Women’s sports are no longer a side story in the business of sports. They are becoming one of its most important growth engines. Game Changers explains how an undervalued part of the sports world turned into a powerful force in media, branding, fan culture, and long-term investment. Beginning with a modern championship moment that showed the scale of the shift, this book follows the deeper transformation behind the headlines: the rise of audience demand, the expansion of media rights, the role of college sports, the emergence of athlete-driven brands, and the changing behavior of younger ...

Recent years have brought home a startling truth: soccer is no longer an also-ran among top U.S. sports. How did we get here? How did we go from having multiple professional soccer leagues flounder to having Major League Soccer prove to its doubters that it's here to stay? How did we evolve from barely having a Women's National Team to a golden era of women's soccer with a captivating style of play, great stars, and unforgettable moments?

"Redskins Through the Ages" is a comprehensive exploration of the remarkable history of the Washington Redskins. From their origins as a franchise to their glory years and championship triumphs, this book delves into the team's journey through the decades. Discover the birth of the Redskins, their early challenges, and the development of their first rivalries. Explore the glory years of the Lombardi era, the Super Bowl triumphs, and the legendary players who made the Redskins great. Uncover the intense rivalries with the Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, and Philadelphia Eagles, and learn ...

In what is being hailed by many, probably, as the best literary work since the New Testament, PFT Commenter takes you on a realistic-fiction journey through the backdoor politics of today's NFL. Set in the 2014 offseason, Roger Goodell and President Barack Obama become locked in a mano-a-mano battle over the future of the Dallas Cowboys, culminating in a literal fight to the death.

In the 1960s, on the heels of the “Greatest Game Ever Played”, professional football began to flourish across the country - except in Texas, where college football was still the only game in town. But in an unlikely series of events, two young oil tycoons started their own professional football franchises in Dallas the very same year: the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, and, as part of a new upstart league designed to thwart the NFL’s hold on the game, the Dallas Texans of the AFL. Almost overnight, a bitter feud was born.

An inside look at how women athletes are leading the fight for equality—on and off the field Women’s sports receive a fraction of the airtime allotted for men’s sports, as well as a fraction of the marketing dollars, media coverage, and training resources. For every dollar that the NBA’s...

Soccer has been America's Sport of the Future since 1972. Propelled by the rise of the World Cup, Premier League, the glory of the United States Women's National Team, Lionel Messi's DemiGod-esque talent and repeat exposure to Cristiano Ronaldo's preening abs, that Future has finally arrived...

From a Nevada sideline to a nationwide phone-in-your-pocket industry, sports betting in America changed faster than anyone expected. This book explains how — and what’s coming next. After the Supreme Court struck down PASPA in 2018, the U.S. didn’t get one betting market. It got fifty. In just a few years, legalization, mobile apps, and media partnerships transformed sports wagering into a mainstream billion-dollar ecosystem. Inside you’ll find: How PASPA fell and why that ruling mattered Why mobile betting became the dominant model A clear state-by-state view of who’s legal, ...

The year is 2060, and field goals have gotten stupid. The World Football League’s 80-yard rule awards four points instead of three for field goals kicked from eighty yards or beyond. Only two kickers on Earth can consistently make them. One is Dante Cruz, the greatest kicker alive. The other is a twenty-eight-year-old beach bum who doesn’t yet know it. Zack Bach destroyed his knee playing soccer at twenty-four. For four years, he’s been hosting parties at a beach house in Encinitas, California, living off his dead father’s savings and pretending he doesn’t miss competing. Then a ...

Learn about real baseball heroes, big dreams, and unshakable confidence. Looking for a way to inspire your child with something more meaningful than screen time? This powerful book is packed with thrilling true stories of players and coaches and life-changing lessons your child will always remember. From Babe Ruth to Jackie Robinson, each story teaches resilience, confidence, teamwork, and heart—values that matter both on and off the field.

Major League Baseball is a beloved American institution that has been a product of the economic, social, and media structures that have evolved in the United States over the last century. In his shrewd analysis, Will Big League Baseball Survive?, Lincoln Mitchell asks whether the sport will continue in its current form as a huge, lucrative global business that offers a monopoly in North America - and whether those structures are sustainable.

The IPL has expanded, but Australia's Big Bash is contracting; the 2023 men's Ashes were concertinaed into a tiny window but The Hundred continues to dominate. Is there still hope for Test cricket in this tumultuous sporting landscape? Turbervill recalls the poignancy of the final Test of the English summer at The Oval in 2022, and describes how the match could be seen as a metaphor for the demise of the longer game.

Will fly fishing survive the 21st century? Author and angler Paul Guernsey argues that angling and the natural resources it depends upon - clear rivers, unpolluted oceans, and much more - are threatened by a host of increasingly complex social and environmental factors.

This is the book that fills in all the gaps, on and off the field, during the tumultuous years of Farhad Moshiri’s ownership, right up his sale of the club to The Friedkin Group in December 2024. More than a book about modern-day football, The Unofficial Everton Timeline documents unbridled ambition crashing into chaotic reality between 2014-2024. It is a comprehensive and detailed chronicle of important matches, big dreams, colossal financial investments, unproductive transfers, property deals and engineering marvels.

Letters to a Future Champion is a loving tribute to the power a mentor can have on an athlete's career. Written by 17-time LPGA Tour winner, two-time major champion, and lead CBS golf reporter Dottie Pepper, this audiobook traces the influence "Mr. Pulver", a retired PGA golf professional, had on her skills, as well as her character, both on the practice range and in the letters the two exchanged after lessons and tournaments. Mr. Pulver would carefully tap out advice a young Dottie would need to rise to the top, sending her nearly 100 letters by the time of his death in 1986.

Reinhold Messner, oltre che grande scalatore, è anche un attento e impegnato comunicatore del mondo dell'alpinismo, consapevole che la grande sfida, oggi, più che nelle altezze e nei record, sta nel rispetto della montagna e nello spirito con cui la si vive. Nella grande impresa, l'anima di un luogo e il confronto sincero, autentico con se stessi contano di più della bandierina su una vetta. Nella rubrica che tiene periodicamente su "La Gazzetta dello Sport", Messner ha raccontato i protagonisti e gioito dei traguardi dell'alpinismo contemporaneo.