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Tropic of hockey: my search for the game in unlikely places
By Dave Bidini. 2000
Author, musician, and hockey fan Bidini decided to seek out Canada's export sport in the far corners of the world.…
His quest led him to a rink on the eighth floor of a Hong Kong shopping mall, the gritty city of Harbin in northern China, to Dubai and even Transylvania. He discovers that hockey is a powerful connector around the world, and glories in its exhilaration and moments of grace. Some strong language. 2000.Trent Frayne's allstars: [an anthology of Canada's best sports writing]
By Trent Frayne. 1996
A collection of sports writing by some of Canada's best known authors. Some authors are known for other kinds of…
writing, such as Mordechai Richler, Paul Quarrington, and Barry Callaghan. Others are sports writers or sports heroes, like Red Fisher, Roy MacGregor, Ken Dryden, and Conn Smythe. 1996.Tour de France nostalgie
By Christian Laborde. 2012
Christian Laborde raconte la fabuleuse histoire du Tour à la façon d'un troubadour. Riche de photos et d'illustrations d'époque, Tour…
de France nostalgie se lit et se feuillette comme un livre de contes épiques. Courage, bravoure, chevalerie et goût de l'exploit animent les pages de cet album.Tough calls: NHL referees and linesmen tell their story
By Dick Irvin. 1997
Total immersion: the revolutionary way to swim better, faster, and easier
By Terry Laughlin, John Delves. 2004
Coach and editor of Fitness Swimmer describes techniques for becoming a more efficient swimmer. Covers training, racing, balance, and moves…
to learn for fishlike motion through the water. Includes drills, tips, and dry land exercises for strength, suppleness, and slimming. Revised edition. 2004.Tiger Woods: la vie secrète
By Tiger Woods, Steve Helling, Jules Mauricet. 2010
Jeune, élégant et souriant, père de deux jeunes enfants, Tiger Woods incarne le sportif rêvé. Un parcours sans faute qui…
allait subitement s'arrêter le 27 novembre 2009, après l'annonce de son étrange accident de voiture. Les blessures du golfeur éveillent les soupçons. Une dispute conjugale pourrait être à l'origine de l'accident. Quel est donc ce secret si embarrassant que Tiger Woods tient tant à cacher? 2010. Titre uniforme: Tiger, the real story.Things that go squeak in the night and other stories
By Gregory Clark. 1976
The world of golf: the best of Peter Dobereiner
By Peter Dobereiner. 1981
The internationally known golfing journalist presents a collection of his articles on diverse golfing topics, including profiles of famous golfers,…
a survey of courses and tournaments, a historical look at the game, a commentary on the rules and characteristics of the game, and some amusing anecdotes. 1981The world is a ball: the joy, madness and meaning of soccer
By John Doyle. 2010
A journey through soccer, starting with the first game the author saw, in 1960s-era Ireland, to the 21st century -…
the World Cups in 02 and 06, the European Championships in 04 and 08. In between the drunken fans, crazed taxi drivers, leprechauns and lederhosen, Doyle muses on the evolution of soccer as a global phenomenon, and shows a sport where for 90 minutes on the pitch anything seems possible. Some strong language. 2010.The way of the hunter: the art and the spirit of modern hunting
By Thomas McIntyre. 1988
This comprehensive study gives both an appreciation of the hunt, and a guide to bagging wildlife from squirrels to lions.…
The author's defense of the hunt leans on humanity's need for contact with other animals. c1988.The way it looks from here: contemporary Canadian writing on sports
By Stephen Brunt, Ed Brunt Stephen. 2005
Classic Canadian sports writing, covering Joe Carter's World Series-winning home run for the Jays in 1993 to the excitement of…
the back-to-back men's and women's hockey gold medals in Salt Lake City. Brunt includes stories of lower profile sports such as wrestling, horse racing, and even Monster Truck battles. An examination of the deep role sport plays in our lives and imaginations, in our sense of self and nationhood. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2004.The summer game
By Roger Angell. 1972
Recaptures some of the funniest and finest moments of baseball in the 1960s. Includes the rise of California's teams, the…
sufferings of the Mets, the fall of the Yankee empire, the triumphs of the Dodgers, Cardinals, and Orioles, and much more. Bestseller. 1972.The story of golf from its origins to the present day
By Tom Scott. 1972
The stick: a history, a celebration, an elegy
By Bruce Dowbiggin. 2001
Consider the London schoolteacher whose basement is a treasure trove of old sticks, the Calgary handyman who turns broken ones…
into children's furniture, or the NHL owner whose rec room floor is made of hockey sticks. The hockey stick, from the earliest ones carved from tree-roots by the Mi'kmaqs of Nova Scotia to today's scientifically precise models, is an iconic symbol of the place that gave it birth, a tangible bit of Canadian culture, a link to Canada's past. Dowbiggin introduces us to the people and legends of the distinctly Canadian stick. 2001.The shining mountain: two men on Changabang's west wall
By Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker. 1984
Recounts the endurance and determination of two British mountain climbers in making a forty-day ascent up the treacherous west wall…
of Changabang Mountain in the Indian Himalayas. Winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize. 1984.The Runner's World complete book of running for beginners
By Amby Burfoot. 2005
Everything you need to know to begin running for pleasure, for health - for life! From the first steps you…
take (and the shoes you take them in) to building a sound training plan, boosting your endurance and learning to run with an ease and speed you could never have imagined possible. 2005.The Red Smith reader
By Red Smith, Dave Anderson. 1982
Omnibus of the late Pulitzer Prize-winner's sports columns, many chosen from personal scrapbooks and never collected before. Organized by subject,…
it includes chapters on racing, football, baseball, fishing, boxing, and various personalities. 1982.The professor in the cage: why men fight and why we like to watch
By Jonathan Gottschall. 2015
When a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym moves in across the street from his office, Jonathan Gottschall sees a challenge,…
and an opportunity. Pushing forty, out of shape, and disenchanted with his job as an adjunct English professor, part of him yearns to cross the street and join up. The other part is terrified. Gottschall eventually works up his nerve, and starts training for a real cage fight. He’s fighting not only as a personal test but also to answer questions that have intrigued him for years: Why do men fight? And why do so many seemingly decent people like to watch? 2015.The punch: one night, two lives, and the fight that changed basketball forever
By John Feinstein. 2002
The master sportswriter uncovers the stunning truth behind one of the most violent acts in basketball history - the moment…
when the Los Angeles Lakers' Kermit Washington punched and almost killed the Houston Rockets' All-Star team captain Rudy Tomjanovich. 2002.The physics of hockey
By Alain Haché. 2002
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to play hockey, but consider this: the same universal principles that sent…
men to the moon also go into launching a slapshot, crashing into the boards, accelerating across the blue line, or cutting down a shooter's angle. The author, a physicist, explores and explains the science behind the game, including how a sharpened blade glides on ice, or why Bobby Hull's slapshot zipped through the atmosphere so much faster than his modern counterparts' did. Haché even includes explanations on how a Zamboni works. 2002.