Featured Book of The Month

Perfect I'm Not: Boomer on Beer, Brawls, Backaches, and Baseball - by David Wells, Chris Kreski (Contributor)
David Wells' controversial book is almost ready for delivery. The man they call "Boomer" has made the news again. This time for his ever-so-annoying nightlife habits. A newspaper story from Thursday reports that in Wells' upcoming book, "Perfect I'm Not. Boomer on Beer, Brawls, Backaches and Baseball," the pub-hopping pitcher admits he threw his perfecto while still drunk from the previous night's "Saturday Night Live" cast party. Whatever your opinion is on the controversy or the player, you can bet this book will live up to its advanced billing.

Co-Feature of The Month

How I Play Golf - by Tiger Woods, Golf Digest (Editor)
There's no denying that Tiger Woods has taken golf by storm. It seems like every time this 25-year-old swings a club, another PGA record is shattered. While his explosive drives, accurate approach shots, and steady putter certainly contribute to this success, both fans and critics agree that it's Tiger's devastating mental game that has propelled him to become the premier golfer of our time. Now Tiger shares his thoughts on what he calls the game of a lifetime.

Football

Bill Walsh : Finding the Winning Edge - by Bill Walsh, Brian Billick, James A. Peterson
You don't win three Super Bowls with luck. Bill Walsh, head coach of the San Francisco 49ers during the great Montana years, provides an inside look at his tenure with a team that will be remembered as one of the era's most dominating professional sports organizations.

It's Only a Game
- by Terry Bradshaw, David Fisher (Contributor)
This is the absolutely guaranteed 100% mostly true story of Terry Bradshaw: the man who gained sports immortality as the first quarterback to win four Super Bowls -- and the man who later became America's most popular sports broadcaster.

Elway - by John Elway & Elise Glading
An intriguing hybrid, Elway, a coffee-table tribute to one of football's most exciting quarterbacks, is part autobiography, part photographic celebration, and all MTV packaging; like an Elway comeback drive, it moves quickly and is filled with exuberance.

Football For Dummies
by Howie Long, Terry Bradshaw (Contributor), John Czarnecki (Contributor) - Get in on all the play-by-play action of professional and college football. Eight-time Pro Bowl defensive end, award-winning TV commentator, and action-adventure movie star Howie Long takes you into the huddle and onto the playing field with Football For Dummies, a complete look at all the plays, positions, and penalties of the game, along with plenty of game-day insight and playing-field strategies. Baseball may be America's favorite pastime, says Howie, but football is America's passion.

Joe Montana's Art and Magic of Quarterbacking

by Joe Montana, Richard Weiner (Contributor), John Madden

Basketball

Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made - by David Halberstam - Playing for Keeps gives the reader a keenly observed picture of Jordan's career. Even as he is chronicling Jordan's exploits, Halberstam uses his storytelling skills to give the reader a vivid sense of the personalities surrounding him on the court, most notably Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, Phil Jackson, and their struggles with the Bulls' front office. Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours

Dennis Rodman: As Bad As I Wanna Be
by Dennis Rodman and Tim Keown
He's not only the NBA's greatest rebounder of all time, he's the most interesing character Pro Basketball has ever enjoyed. Here, Rodman's candid account of his life experiences is as intruiging and unforgettable as he is. Hear his claims of sex, money and racial advantages that exposes the NBA in a way no one else has ever dared to.

Boxing

Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times
by Thomas Hauser
Friends, enemies, opponents, relatives, ex-wives and world leaders recount their experiences with Ali and pull no punches while providing their opinions of boxing's greatest fighter of all time. When Ali's biographer, Thomas Hauser put this piece together, Ali insisted that all commentary go to print uncensored. No boxing fan should continue following the sport without reading this book!

The Fight - by Norman Mailer - In 1975 in Kinshasa, Zaire, at the virtual center of Africa, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other until one was declared winner. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irrepressible "professor of boxing" who vowed to reclaim the championship he had lost. The other was George Foreman, who was as taciturn as Ali was voluble and who kept his hands in his pockets...

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HOCKEY

Hockey for Dummies - by John Davidson, John Steinbreder (Contributor), Mike Myers (Preface)
Like its teammates in the Dummies series, Hockey for Dummies is cleverly organized and clearly focused, geared to both fans and players. It is filled with fun stuff such as lists of the 10 best things about the game, the 10 best players, the 10 best teams, and, given even a novice's inability to mistake hockey for Zen, the 10 best hitters. Hockey for Dummies also contains plenty of good, practical advice: Wayne Gretzky offers a clinic on passing, Mark Messier hosts one on face-offs, Brian Leetch counsels players in clinics on defense, and Ron Hextall teaches goaltending.