Showing posts with label World. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World. Show all posts

Monday, June 20, 2011

Ten Moments That Shook the Sports World: One Sportswriter's Eyewitness Accounts of the Most Incredible Sporting Events of the Past Fifty Years

Ten Moments That Shook the Sports World: One Sportswriter's Eyewitness Accounts of the Most Incredible Sporting Events of the Past Fifty YearsWant to know what really happened? Stan Isaacs knows. He was there!

"The Shot Heard Round the World," in 1951. "The Fight of the Century," in 1971. The horror of the 1972 Munich Olympics. Secretariat's legendary win at the 1973 Belmont Stakes. Stan Isaacs saw them all live. Isaacs covered thousands of sports stories in his more than fifty years as a journalist. But ten moments stand out in his memory. Ten Moments That Shook the Sports World offers Isaacs' eyewitness accounts of the events that changed sports history. This collection offers those old enough to remember these events a chance to relive them, and younger sports lovers will get to hear this history from someone who was there. Isaacs makes sports history live again.

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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN

Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPNESPN began as an outrageous gamble with a lineup that included Australian Rules Football, rodeo, and a rinky-dinky clip show called Sports Center. Today the empire stretches far beyond television into radio, magazines, mobile phones,the internet, video games and more, while ESPN's personalities have become global superstars to rival the sports icons they cover. Chris Berman, Robin Roberts, Keith Olbermann, Hannah Storm, Bill Simmons, Tony Kornheiser, Stuart Scott, Erin Andrews, Mike Ditka, Bob Knight, and scores of others speak openly about the games, shows, scandals, gambling addictions, bitter rivalries, and sudden suspensions that make up the network's soaring and stormy history. The result is a wild, smart, effervescent story of triumph, genius, ego, and the rise of an empire unlike any television had ever seen.

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Monday, May 30, 2011

Sports Illustrated for Kids: The Amazing World of Sports (Sports Illustrated Kids)

Sports Illustrated for Kids: The Amazing World of Sports (Sports Illustrated Kids)

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, kids, its time to get out your calculators! The Amazing World of Sports is the most amazing, most awesome, most jaw-dropping collection of sports photos youve ever seen! From diving catches to high-flying leaps, from bone-crunching hits to graceful landings, the most incredible sports photos we could find are in here. Readers will travelin photosthroughout the world of sports. Visit the Super Bowl, the Olympic ski slopes, baseball spring training, the coolest California skate parks, and more. We will put you right in the game with thrilling, stunning, and memorable sports photos by some of the greatest shooters on the planet. But thats not all. Each photo comes with a descriptive and informative caption, a fun fact, and a brain-testing trivia question. The Amazing World of Sports is for fans of all sportsand for fans of all sports. Whether you turn right to your favorite sport or discover a great new sport to love, youll find something to marvel at in The Amazing World of Sports.

Price: $18.95


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Saturday, April 23, 2011

2002 FIFA World Cup

2002 FIFA World CupHot on the heels of FIFA Soccer 2002, Electronic Arts has readied a World Cup-themed alternate version of the game. As the name suggests, the game focuses squarely on the World Cup tournament which takes place in Japan and Korea (May 31 to June 30 2002). Though FIFA 2002 featured a Road to the World Cup mode, players who wanted to take their favorite national team to victory were out of luck: qualification was as far as you could go. 2002 FIFA World Cup picks up where the old game left off and brings the excitement of the tournament home like no other game.

Features official FIFA World Cup insignia, mascots and the 20 new World Cup stadiums in Japan and Korea; Includes all the World Cup star players' looks and playing styles; New gameplay delivers intuitive one-button headers, volleys, scissor kicks, juggling, and more; New stadium environments and player-to-player animations; New camera angles and replays; key dramatic moments highlighted; Tournament Mode--seven-game series beginning with round-robin play, followed by playoffs leading to the final match.

System Requirements:
Windows XP/ME/2000/98/95 (Windows NT is not supported)
233 MHz Intel Pentium MMX or AMD K6 processor
32 MB RAM (64MB Windows 2000, 128MB XP)
4X CD/DVD-ROM
65MD free space +

Release Region: United States
Release Date: April 23, 2002

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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

The World of EA Sports (NBA Live 2004, Madden 2004, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004, NHL 2004, Nascar Thunder 2004)

The World of EA Sports (NBA Live 2004, Madden 2004, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004, NHL 2004, Nascar Thunder 2004)World of EA Sports includes five great games for the ultimate sports lover: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004, Madden NFL 2004, NHL 2004, NBA Live 2004, and NASCAR Thunder 2004.

Price: $19.99


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