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Tacky and his fellow penguins on Team Nice Icy Land train hard for the Winter Games, but Tacky's antics make their chances of winning a medal seem slim.

John and Abby Reynolds, behaving like newlyweds after a near-divorce, are called upon to be beacons of faith to their children and the community when John, a high school coach, is paralyzed in an automobile accident caused by star football player Jake Daniels.

When twelve new teammates join the Knights, thirteen-year-old Leoforms a rivalry with another player who seems determined to take his position, risking a serious injury and the fate of the entire season.

Voted captain, Jimmie declares himself pitcher. But Paul is a better pitcher. After Paul leaves to pitch for another team, Jimmie's team starts losing. Paul Karoski is pitcher for the planets until Captain Jimmie Todd decides he can do the job best; nothing goes right for the team until Jimmie admits his lack of sportsmanship.

The bestselling biography of Muhammad Ali, with an Introduction by Salman Rushdie. On the night in 1964 that Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) stepped into the ring with Sonny Liston, he was widely regarded as an irritating freak who danced and talked way too much. Six rounds later Ali was not only the new world heavyweight boxing champion: He was "a new kind of black man" who would shortly transform America's racial politics, its popular...

Sportscaster Len Berman showcases amazing and bizarre sports stories, from a baseball player who ran the bases backwards to a basketball player who scored for both teams in the same game.

The world of fantasy sports is no longer the purview of nerds and stat geeks. In fact, versions of the game are currently played by tens of millions of people worldwide. But while fantasy sports may have begun as a light-hearted diversion, to many of its participants winning or losing is no laughing matter. And as a professional fantasy sports expert who doles out advice on a daily basis for ESPN.com, author AJ Mass has learned one basic and inescapable...

Guide to the latest methods of injury prevention and treatment.

"In the early days of WWII, President Roosevelt was faced with a difficult decision: stop all of professional baseball for the good of victory or lose a vital part of morale. Roosevelt's answer saved baseball for generations to come. He decided that THE GAME MUST GO ON. This is the story of American baseball during WWII, both the players who left to join the war effort, and the struggle to keep the game going on the home front. Many of the top players...

"The hits just keep coming for Troy Barrett. Traded to the worst team in the league would be bad enough, but coming on the heels of a messy breakup and a recent scandal... Troy just wants to play hockey and be left alone. He definitely doesn't want to 'work on his online presence' with the team's peppy social media manager. Harris Drover can tell standoffish Troy isn't happy about the trade, but Harris doesn't give up on people easily. Even when he's...