Sports & Recreation - Business Aspects

The story of one team's final season in a new era of college sports A major shift in college athletics began in 2018. That year, the NCAA launched its transfer portal. NIL would soon follow. Title IX directives were sending athletic departments into compliance...

Globe-trotting golf writer Tom Coyne is ready to put down roots. For a fanatic like Coyne, that means living out every golfer's dream--or nightmare?--and buying his very own golf course. It also involves Bill Murray and Jason Kelce, for some reason. Tom Coyne, the...

"A MUST BUY" -- New York Times / The Athletic New York Book Festival - General Nonfiction Winner "An instant classic--not just a great sports book but a great cultural history."--Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of King: A Life Pull back the curtain on...

The athlete's guide to building a personal brand and a future beyond sports.Athletes Are Brands Too teaches athletes at every level how to build a brand that can lead to success in life, regardless of what happens in their athletic career. One part road...

Your sport was never the destination. It was always the platform.Today's athletes have more opportunity than any generation before them. They can earn, build an audience, launch ideas, use artificial intelligence, invest, and own more of what they create. Yet most are still trained...

A #1 USA TODAY NATIONAL BESTSELLER! In a world fixated on fleeting success, Molly Fletcher, renowned keynote speaker, podcast host, and entrepreneur, invites you to challenge the status quo and redefine your understanding of drive so that you can achieve greater fulfillment and purpose-driven...

From veteran New York Times Business & NFL reporter, Ken Belson, a deeply-reported account of how the NFL's Commissioner, Roger Goodell, and its two most powerful owners, Jerry Jones & Robert Kraft, turned the league into a cultural phenomenon. On February 11, 2024, NFL...

This jaw-dropping book pulls back the curtain on the alluring yet perilous world of American sports gambling. Built around explosive interviews with the power players of the betting boom at FanDuel, DraftKings, and beyond, it reveals the troubling methods that are being used to...

A cinematic celebration of college football's exploding influence and a rigorous look at how and why the sport may look totally new once again College football in 2025 would look unrecognizable to a fan, player, or coach from even the recent past. Between massive...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "This book is going to become the sports gambling bible...The formula's in the book." --Pat McAfee "The greatest and most controversial sports gambler ever" (ESPN) Billy Walters shares his "rollicking and edgy life story" (The Wall Street Journal)--revealing the...

A fascinating tour of Oakland sports history and a look toward the future of professional sports in the East Bay. Oakland is a sports city like no other. It is the only city in America to be abandoned by the same team twice, with...

ESPN personality and New York Times bestselling author Mike Greenberg (Got Your Number, Got Your Answers) and mega-producer Hembo rank the franchises of the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL from best to worst and reveal who is on the Mount Rushmore of legends for...

Here for the first time, Graham reveals the fascinating data that informed some of the club's most pivotal moments of the past decade, from the appointment of Jurgen Klopp as manager in 2015 to the signing of Mohamed Salah in 2017. Along the way,...

The official, no-holds-barred inside story of the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula 1 Team--"nobody has ever been this close to what happens behind the scenes" (Toto Wolff) "Fascinating [and] compelling . . . the most illuminating look at the inner workings of an F1 team to...

Go inside the high-stakes world of sports ownership as New York Times bestselling author and owner of the Baltimore Orioles David M. Rubenstein reveals the financial strategies, leadership secrets, and billion-dollar deal-making behind championship franchises through conversations with America's most powerful owners--Robert Kraft, Jeff...

There's a revolution underway across the world of business. It's being driven by people who want to work for, buy from, invest in, and advocate for organizations that stand for something more than just profits. It is becoming more and more clear that organizations...

IF YOU CAN SEE IT YOU CAN ACHIEVE IT") If You are reading this book than I'm 100% pretty sure that you have been constantly mistreated, disrespected, by your bosses and Co-workers and you are Fed up and tired Of rushing To Work daily...

Essential World Cup Reading Featured in The New York Times' "What to Read During the World Cup"Wall Street Journal reporters Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg offer a deeply reported account of the intertwined sagas and legacies of two of the greatest soccer players of...

Just before the 2002 season opens, the Oakland Athletics must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players and is written off by just about everyone--but then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins. How did one of the...

Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball book ever" (Rob...