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Weekend Warriors
Focusing on the players rather than the game itself, Weekend Warriors
is a collection of biographies of the leading athletes in professional
lacrosse and offers fans – young and old – a inside look
at the athletes in the fastest growing sport in the United States.
Playing for the love of the game, with much lower salaries than other
professional athletes, these players all have weekday jobs as diverse
as school teachers, firemen, policemen and insurance executives. Readers
will be intrigued to see their favorite players in their other roles
when they are not exhibiting their skills as the best lacrosse players
in the world.
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Bone
Appétit: Gourmet Cooking for Your Dog
So your dog is as spoiled as Paris Hilton’s? Then this is the
book for you – and your dog. When Suzan Anson’s whippet,
Emily, became distressed and stopped eating, Susan tried everything
– everything you can buy. Hard-liners told her to have self-discipline.
“When Emily gets hungry enough, she’ll eat…” Suzan
was also warned about table scraps. “If you give Emily ‘people
food’ she will become spoiled, and her digestion will be ruined.”
But Suzan was unwilling to watch Emily grow thinner and weaker…she
decided to cook for her.
“Fully aware that she could become insatiable…one day I
would experiment with zucchini and oyster sauce over kibble, the next,
fried eggs, rice and chicken. Success! Emily eagerly awaited each
day’s new fare. She brighted up, gained weight, and exhibited
her old doggie joie de vivre.”
Bone Appetit, the result of Suzan’s subsequent experience in
canine cuisine, includes over 100 recipes that will soon be your best
friend’s tasty favorites.
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The
Rules of Neigborhood Poker According to Hoyle
They play a funny card fame in Las Vegas. They call it poker. It doesn’t
sound like poker. For one thing, they always play the same game –
seven-card stud. This is not Real Poker. Real Poker is baseball –
3s and 9s are wild and a 4 gets you an extra card. Real Poker is Two-Card
Guts, or Spit in the Ocean, or Criss Cross, or Sevens Take All or
Five-Card Draw Jacks or Better To Open Trips to Win with One-Eyed
Jacks Wild. Real Poker is as many silly variations on a poker theme
as you can add, or teaching everyone a new game that you just made
up. Real Poker is poker as practiced in your living room. And it isn’t
about winning. It’s about having a good time.
In The Rules of Neighborhood Poker, you will learn:
- The rules for nearly 200 variations of neighborhood poker.
- Descriptions of the characters (The Bluffer, The Optimist, Mr.
Meticulous, The Bumper, and others) you find in every game.
- The right food (pizza, cold cuts) and the wrong food (Chinese)
to serve.
- Betting strategies that keep you from losing too much, too early.
- Dealing, talking, and the dos and don’t of a minimal standard
of behavior.
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Bar
Games: A Guide to Playing NTN and MEGATOUCH at Your Favorite Bar or
Restaurant
A lively and humorous guide to playing Megatouch and NTN games found
in thousands of bars and restaurants, this book includes amusing facts
from history, geography, and science for help in playing these trivia
games. Described are how the National Trivia Game is played via game
keyboard and a television set connected by satellite to the central
computer in California, how questions originate from this computer,
and how players' scores are recorded and displayed from there after
each game. Megatouch is described as a computer-based game that requires
eye-hand coordination, skill, and knowledge of trivia. Click
here for examples of Bar Games trivia (great for students).
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THE ROGER
FEDERER STORY, QUEST FOR PERFECTION
The Roger Federer Story, Quest for Perfection is the biography
of tennis superstar Roger Federer, the Swiss tennis player regarded
as the greatest player in the history of the sport. The book provides
an authoritative life storyline for Federer from the background of
his parents, to Roger’s early days as a temperamental junior
tennis player, through his early beginnings in professional tennis
to his lifting of the trophies of major tennis tournaments such as
Wimbledon and the US Open. Readers will be intrigued with anecdotes
from Roger’s early years and in professional tennis and on what
drives this champion to be great and his constant quest for perfection
on the tennis court. The author, the highly-regarded Swiss reporter
Rene Stauffer, has had many exclusive interviews over the last decade
with Federer, the Federer family and many people Federer encountered
and worked with through his journey to the top of the tennis world.
For more information on this book, go to www.rogerfedererbook.com.
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The Bud Collins History of Tennis
Published, June, 2008
Compiled by the most famous tennis journalist and historian in the
world, this book is the ultimate compilation of historical tennis
information, including year-by-year recaps of every tennis season,
biographical sketches of every major tennis personality, as well as
stats, records, and championship rolls for all the major events. The
author’s personal relationships with major tennis stars offer
insights into the world of professional tennis found nowhere else.
The book is written and compiled by Bud Collins, the world-famous
tennis journalist and historian, a long-time columnist for the Boston
Globe, and a television broadcaster for CBS Sports, NBC Sports, ESPN,
and The Tennis Channel. A 1994 inductee into the International Tennis
Hall of Fame, he is the coauthor of The Education of a Tennis Player
and Evonne! On the Move and the author of My Life with the Pros.
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BOYCOTT, Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games
By Tom Caraccioli and Jerry Caraccioli
FOREWORD BY VICE PRESIDENT WALTER F. MONDALE
Published, May, 2008
With a thorough exploration of the political climate of the time and
the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, this book describes
the repercussions of Jimmy Carter’s American boycott of the 1980
Olympic Games in Moscow. Despite missing the games they had trained
relentlessly to compete in, many U.S. athletes went on to achieve
remarkable successes in sports and overcame the bitter disappointment
of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity dashed by geopolitics. The book
is written by identical twins and sports PR superstars Tom and Jerry
Caraccioli. Tom is the president of Lions Roar, LLC, a communications
and public relations firm, and a former executive for NBC and USA
networks. Jerry is a television network executive in the CBS Sports
division. They are the coauthors of Striking Silver: The Untold Story
of America's Forgotten Hockey Team.
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ON THIS DAY
IN TENNIS HISTORY: A Day-by-Day Anthology of Anecdotes and Historical
Happenings
By Randy Walker
Published, September, 2008
Fun and fact-filled, this compilation offers anniversaries, summaries,
and anecdotes of events from the world of tennis for every day in
the calendar year. Presented in a day-by-day format, the entries into
this mini-encyclopedia include major tournament victory dates, summaries
of the greatest matches ever played, trivia, and statistics as well
as little-known and quirky happenings. Easy to use and packed with
fascinating details, this compendium is the perfect companion for
tennis and general sports fans alike.
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