African Football

During football season, when NFL coaches gear up for war on the gridiron, their wives are left to fend for themselves. NFL wife B.J. Almond has had enough. When she walks in to find her head-coach husband in bed with one of his assistant coaches' wives, she is livid. But what really sets her off is when she discovers the other wives knew about the affair all along. Now she's furious and hungry for revenge. And what better way to exact that revenge than to air everyone's dirty laundry in a juicy tell-all book!

Skylar Addison is one of the best sports attorneys in the city, so when the firm she worked for “reallocated” her out of a job, she felt as if the rug had been snatched from up under her. Finding out that her ex had her terminated after she decided that she no longer wanted to be in a relationship, only made matters worse. After a pity party at a local bar and grill, Skylar found herself falling for the type of man she swore she would never think twice about.

From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture. Stadiums struggled to contain him. Clocks failed to capture his speed. His strength was legendary. His power unmatched. Video game makers turned him into an invincible character—and they were dead-on. He climbed (and walked across) walls, splintered baseball bats over his knee, turned oncoming tacklers into ground meat.

Football Erotica by Erotica Reid is a steamy short story that sizzles with tension, temptation, and fantasy. When Angie’s beautiful best friend, Christine, lands NFL superstar Devon Lassiter, Angie smiles on the outside—but inside, she’s burning with envy. Instead of letting jealousy win, Angie dives deep into her own sensual imagination… and finds a fantasy that’s hotter than any football game. 💦 Fast, fierce, and full of desire—this short read will leave you breathless. #erotica, #shortstory, #footballfantasy, #sportsromance, #blackromance, #urbanerotica, #spicyreads, #...

Caleb has one Rule.. No more Straight Men; No More Jocks Ever since Caleb caught his ex Bradley cheating with a female, he vowed that he would never be friends with or date jocks or anything resembling a straight man again. He considers them rude, insecure and has no interest in closet cases. There is only one problem. He finds them irresistible. All that changed when Marcus, the hunky new curly-haired football player, transferred to Julius High. He’s kind, thoughtful, and friendly toward the LBGT community and needs a tutor that will help him pass English. He asked Caleb to tutor him ...

When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of 13 children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school. And he has no serious experience playing organized football.

On the heels of the cult television hit Friday Night Lights, The New York Times best-selling author of The Junction Boys pens the story of Texas high school football integration, and the three men who put together a championship team.

I’m the football coach’s daughter. I’m off limits to the players. My best friend said I never do anything spontaneous. I went after what I wanted that night and I don’t regret it. The one-night stand with the star football quarterback was hot and unforgettable. He wants more. I can’t go down that path. My dad said I was off limits for a reason. Will Josh sacrifice his career for me?

Quentin Robinson is in his second year in the NFL, and he has records to break and points to make. With his relationship on the rocks, Quentin starts to think that, during such a pivotal point in his career, he should remain single. Doing a good deed puts him in the path of Melody Lane, a grieving single mother who only wants the best for her son. Quentin sees so much of his mother in Melody that he can't help but offer to help her in any way he knows how.

Young people have the power to affect sweeping change, and the key to mending the racial divide in America lies in giving them the tools to ask honest questions and take in the difficult answers. Approaching every awkward, taboo, and uncomfortable question with openness and patience, Emmanuel Acho connects his own experience with race and racism - from attending majority-white prep schools to his time in the NFL playing on majority-black football teams - to insightful lessons in black history and black culture.

In Episode 3 of Confessions of a Straight Football Player, Coach James saw his old flame Christian and his sexy friend of over ten years, Dean, getting busy on the balcony and immediately became filled with rage. But, when he confronted Christian about it, the truth came out, and their clothes and egos got left on the bedroom floor. My name is Dillon, and I’m straight, but I occasionally fantasize about doing sinful things to my older, muscular, and chocolate-toned football coach, Coach James. One day, he asked me to visit his office to discuss the game we lost last Friday. I prepared ...

Today, sports arenas have been transformed into staging grounds for American patriotism and the hero worship of law enforcement. Teams wear camouflage jerseys to honor those who serve; police officers throw out first pitches; soldiers surprise their families with homecomings at halftime. Sports and politics are decidedly entwined. But as journalist Howard Bryant reveals, this has always been more complicated for black athletes, who from the start were committing a political act simply by being on the field.

Thursday Night Lights tells the inspiring, largely unknown story of African American high school football in Texas. Drawing on interviews, newspaper stories, and memorabilia, Michael Hurd introduces the players, coaches, schools, and towns where African Americans built powerhouse football programs under the PVIL leadership. He covers 50 years (1920-1970) of high school football history.

Carl was the best wide receiver in professional football. The key word in that statement is the word, was. Carl was smart enough to leave the game with his health still intact. Now that he’s retired from professional football at only thirty years of age, he plans to spend his newly found free time settled down with the woman he loves. He is set for life financially and about to marry a dreamboat of a Brazilian supermodel. His upcoming wedding feels like the perfect time to catch up with old friends. After all he’s got all the time in the world now to become reacquainted with his old ...

Tackling the Everyday shows how college football particularly harms the young Black men who are overrepresented on gridirons across the country. Although coaches and universities constantly invoke the misleading "football family" narrative, this book describes how a brotherhood among Black players operates alongside their caring mothers, who support them on and off the field. With a Black feminist approach—one that highlights often-overlooked voices—Canada exposes how race, gender, kinship, and care shape the lives of the young athletes who shoulder America's favorite game.

Jasmine Phillips has always had her sights set high, and it seems like she has everything figured out. She has the grades, the looks, the money—and let’s not forget her perfect boyfriend. To anyone on the outside looking in, she has the perfect life. Little do they know, it’s not what it seems. Despite her stellar grades and top percentile MCAT score, her parents still aren’t happy. Jasmine’s surgeon parents want her to follow in their footsteps while she wants to pursue a career in pediatrics. However, this turns out to be the least of her worries. Her perfect, med student ...

In Mavericks, Money and Men, football historian Charles Ross chronicles the AFL's key events, including Buck Buchanan becoming the first overall draft pick in 1963, and the 1965 boycott led by black players who refused to play in the AFL All Star game after experiencing blatant racism. He also recounts how the success of the AFL forced a merger with the NFL in 1969, which arguably facilitated the evolution of modern professional football.

Love can cross any distance. Including a football field. Tiana Brown is a model student. Meticulous, driven, and hardworking, the last thing she expects when she arrives at the VBU campus for her freshman year, is to be schooled in love. Sure, she doesn’t have a lot of experience in the field, but that’s what college is for, right? She’ll meet new people, go to a party or two, and spend the rest of her time focused on her studies. That’s where she’s wrong. When Tiana meets Quay Thompson, local college football star and heartthrob extraordinaire, any plans she had before fly out ...

For the past decade, an audacious program called Football Dreams has held tryouts for millions of young boys across Africa, looking for soccer's next superstars. Led by the Spanish scout who helped launch Lionel Messi's career and funded by the desert kingdom of Qatar, the program chooses just a handful of boys each year to train to become professionals; the process is one thousand times more selective than getting into Harvard University.

In Rocket Men, John Eisenberg offers the definitive history of Black quarterbacks in the NFL—men who shaped not only the history of football but the cause of civil rights in America. From early pioneers like Fritz Pollard to groundbreaking modern standouts like Marlin Briscoe and James “Shack” Harris, Black quarterbacks had to be twice as good as their white counterparts to get playing time—and even then, many never got that chance. That didn’t begin to change in earnest until the 1990s and the 2000s, when racist notions about what Black quarterbacks supposedly couldn’t do began to fade.