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  Peter Alliss - Reflections on a...

  Peter Alliss

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  Peter Alliss was a truly monumental figure in the world of golf. His voice was the soundtrack to many who have paid even the scantest attention to the old game. This book records Peter's vivid recollections of a life well lived, looking back on his double-edged career in sport and media, one that is unlike any other and is surely never to be repeated.
  Sit back and listen to Peter Alliss do what he did best: ramble on about this and that in that famous voice of his, drawing sharp and funny observations from disparate quarters of life before inevitably tying everything neatly together and returning to the subject of golf. His memory for long-passed names and distant places remained extraordinarily sharp.
  He was also a man of his age which, naturally, meant there were more than a few facets of modern life he found confusing and exasperating. This, however, is surely true for any of us who have lived beyond the point where we wake up each day wondering what we ought to do with our lives.
  He appreciated his good fortune at being able to make a living from his 'ramblings' while, at the same time, possessing an acute awareness of his rare talent for finding the appropriate word or phrase while winging it over a television picture. His belief that, sometimes, silence is more eloquent than words flies in the noisy face of much modern broadcasting. He was all the more appreciated by many of us for sticking to this conviction and for daring to hold firm in the face of changing convention. Peter is gone now, but the spirit of kindness in which he lived his life reverberates still.

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  Rigged Justice - How the College...

  John Vandemoer

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  Theformer Stanford University sailing coach sentenced in the Varsity Blues collegeadmissions scandal tells the riveting true story of how he was drawnunwittingly into a web of deceit in this eye-opening memoir that offers adamning portrait of modern college administration and the ways in which justiceand fairness do not always intersect. 
   Foreleven years, John Vandemoer ran the prestigious Stanford University sailingprogram in which he coached Olympians and All-Americans. Though the hours werelong and the program struggled for funding, sailing gave Vandemoer’s life shapeand meaning. 
  But earlyone morning, everything came crashing down when Vandemoer, still in hispajamas, opened the door to find FBI and IRS agents on his doorstep. He quicklylearned that a recruiter named Rick Singer had used him as a stooge in asophisticated scheme designed to take advantage of college coaches and play tothe endless appetite for university fundraising—and wealthy parents looking foran edge for their college-bound children. 
  Vandemoerwas summarily fired, kicked out of campus housing, his children booted fromcampus daycare. The next year of his life was a Kafkaesque hellscape, andthough he was an innocent man who never received a dime was the first person tobe convicted in what became known as the Varsity Blues scandal. 
  A truestory that reads like a suspense novel, Rigged Justice lays bare how asophisticated scheme could take advantage of college coaches and universitymoney—and how one family became collateral damage in a large governmentinvestigation that dominated national headlines.

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  On the Ashes

  Gideon Haigh

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  In On The Ashes, Gideon Haigh, today's pre-eminent cricket writer, has captured over a century and half of Anglo-Australian cricket, from WG Grace to Don Bradman, from Bodyline to Jim Laker's 19-wicket match, from Ian Botham's miracle at Headingley to the phenomena of Patrick Cummins and Ben Stokes, today's Ashes captains. 
   
  From over three decades of covering The Ashes, Gideon has brought together an enduring vision of this timeless contest between Australia and England - the world's oldest sporting rivalry - from the colonial era to the present day. 
   
  'The best cricket writer in the world' GUARDIAN 
   
  'The Bradman of cricket writing' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 
   
  'The finest cricket writer alive' THE AUSTRALIAN 
   
  'Australia's finest writer on cricket' THE TIMES 
   
  'The most gifted cricket essayist of his generation' RICHARD WILLIAMS, GUARDIAN

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  A Rare Recording of Roger Bannister

  Roger Bannister

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  Sir Roger Bannister - born on March 23, 1929 - is an English former athlete best known for being the first to run the mile in less than four minutes, remarkably while practicing as a junior doctor. This was achieved on May 6, 1954, at Iffley Road Track in Oxford, with Chris Chataway and Chris Brasher providing the pacing. The resulting time was 3 min. 59.4 sec. 
  Retiring from running shortly after, Bannister went on to become a distinguished neurologist and an important contributor to research into the human nervous system. The following is Bannister's perspective on the famous race. 
  ©2013 Rick Sheridan (P)2013 Rick Sheridan

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  The Best Tennis of Your Life -...

  Jeff Greenwald

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  Play with Freedom...And Win More! 
   
  The Best Tennis of Your Life: 50 Mental Strategies for Fearless Performance is an inspirational and practical guide that will help players of all levels finally master the mental game. Author Jeff Greenwald draws from his unique background as a world-class player, sports psychology consultant, psychotherapist, and former coach to provide 50 specific tools you can immediately apply in any match situation. 
   
  This comprehensive guide will show you how to:Embrace nerves and play even better under pressureMaintain confidence to win more consistentlyDevelop a pinpoint focusAccess an ideal level of intensityPlay with a renewed sense of passion and freedom 
   
  Why wait any longer to play the best tennis of your life? Get the mental edge with this invaluable resource and watch your game soar. 
   
  This isn't a book about how to hit a better backhand. It's about how to stop overthinking, stay composed under pressure, and rediscover the joy of the game—even in the heat of battle. Blending hard-earned lessons from the pro tour with insights from his work as a licensed therapist, Jeff writes with the rare combination of authenticity, vulnerability, and wisdom. His practical yet deeply human approach has resonated with athletes around the world—helping The Best Tennis of Your Life sell over 75,000 copies and remain a trusted companion for players seeking not just better results, but a more meaningful way to compete. 
   
  This audiobook is expertly read by Chris Brinkley, and was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. Audio engineering by Sam Platt.

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  Thirty - The World by Bicycle

  Daddy Blondlegs

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  Travelogues are boring, especially the ones about cycling. 
  My 30th birthday present to myself was to quit my job, set out from Seattle, and maybe cycle the world. BOOK RED begins this insane journey. When my bike started falling apart in the first two days, things weren’t looking so good. When pedaling 9 hours a day wasn’t supplying enough serotonin, things weren’t looking so good. An elated mind will smile at strangers; a diseased one will make games of passing bottles of urine, dead animals, and roadside crosses. 
  I die in the book, a few times. In fact, it's one of my favorite things to do while cycling. Though many have cycled to Mesa Verde, I detour into the Hopi’s Land of the Dead. Hallucinations of a former lover haunt at the most unsuspecting times: on a frisbee golf course, behind Germany’s Disneyland castle, and chasing rabbits at night. The songs and poems in the book hearken back to a time before the DSM, while ridiculous recipes don’t offer assurance I’m going to make it. 
  THIRTY has all the pieces of an adventure novel: how to fix things, unreal encounters, braving the unknown... yet seems to see everything the wrong way. The world it creates, the choices made, are at times absurd, but when you're in unfamiliar places and only talk to strangers, it all starts to makes sense.

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