Grand Finals Vol. III - 1979-2017 by THE SLATTERY MEDIA GROUP (EDIT

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Carn: The Game, and the Country That Plays It by Andrew Mueller

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There have been histories of Australian football before. There has not been one like Carn. Carn tells the story of the Victorian Football League and its successor, the Australian Football League, from 1897 to the present day, by focusing on 50 of the thousands of games which have been played down the decades. Some of these matches have been significant to the game of Australian football; others have been significant to Australia as a whole.  Carn recognises that while the game is only a game, it has also always been much more than that: anything which consumes so much of the nation's attention can't help but reflect something of the nation's character. Carn is a book replete, as the Australian game is, with great yarns and extraordinary people. It is a book for fans of Australian football, and fans of Australia. ...Show more

Best of Paul Harvey Footy Stars

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The Playmaker's Advantage by Leonard Zaichkowsky; Daniel Peterson

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Discover the next frontier in sports training--improving your mental game, no matter your age or experience--and how to become the Playmaker, both in your professional and personal life.   Coaches search for it. Parents dream of it. Fans love it. Athletes want it.   The playmaker on any sp orts team possesses it: an elusive, intangible quality combining anticipation, perception, and decision-making skills. This quality raises their game above the competition and allows them to pass when no one else can, anticipate the movement of opponents, avoid costly mental mistakes, and ultimately, hold the team together.   Now, for the first time, cognitive science research is revealing the secrets of the playmaker's keen sense of awareness. Just as tests of speed, strength, and agility have provided a baseline of physiological biomarkers, coaches can now capture cognitive metrics including attention, pattern recognition, anticipation, and the ability to take quick, decisive action during the chaos of competition.   The Playmaker's Advantage is a groundbreaking book that will educate athletes of all ages about this essential creative capability in an accessible, easy to understand method. ...Show more

Winx Collected Edition of Every Race by Ray Thomas

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Follow Winxs journey from cover to cover, or open the book at any page. Its one champion writing about another and readers are the winners. During myriad visits to courses to cover all facets of the sport; from midweek meetings to Melbourne Cups, Cox Plates, Golden Slippers and The Everest, Ray Thomas c hanced upon Winx at her first two runs in 2014. As this book of stories about her show, he knew early on he was glimpsing a champion but kept a tight rein on making that prediction. As Winxs career began to blossom, Ray Thomas started to expand his writing to include insightful stories on Chris Waller and his training methods, the owners and how the horse has affected their lives, and how the public has reacted to the new phenomenon of the turf. Rays vast racing knowledge and ability to engage with trainers, jockeys, owners, bookmakers, farriers, strappers, form analysts, administrators and others involved in the industry have allowed him to bring all aspects of horse racing to the page and the reader. ...Show more

Crossing the Line: How Australian Cricket Lost Its Way by Gideon Haigh

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What Did You Say Stopped Play? - 25 Years of the Wisden Chronicle by Matthew Engel (Editor); Nick Newman (Illustrator); Wisden

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It's normal for rain to stop play in cricket. But that's not all: flying objects, passing dictators, animals of all kinds including a very improbable tiger--they have all had the same effect. But even when the game keeps going, cricket is a magnet for the weird and wonderful. For the past quarter-centur y the Chronicle section ofWisden has been collecting the most remarkable events in the game: the eccentric, the extraordinary and the excruciatingly funny. This is the cricket that reference books would normally ignore, from the village greens of England to the back alleys of Asia. This selection is about Tendulkar-worshippers and angry neighbors; about scoring a thousand and being all out for nought. There are politicians and protesters; celebs and streakers; judges and jobsworths . . . and batsmen who really do murder the bowlers. ...Show more

World Racecourses: History, Images and Statistics for 100 Favorite Horse Racing Venues by Cornelius Lysaght

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100 major horse racing venues with detail of each one's history and heritage from BBC journalist, Cornelius Lysaght. Text is accompanied by contemporary photography and detailed diagrams created by Collins, the world-leading publisher of maps and atlases, making it an essential purchase or gift for any horse racing fan. The book features each track in regional order, starting with the famous Epson Downs course in England then taking in renowned locations such as Churchill Downs, Royal Ascot and Flemington Racecourse, all the way up to the state-of-the-art Meydan Racecouse in Dubai. More unusual and lesser known courses are also featured including the Pardubicka in Czech Republic, St Moritz in Switzerland and Ngong in Kenya. Each course is accompanied by an array of statistics and the latest photographs from these scenic venues. It also features alphabetical and by country' indices for ease of reference. ...Show more

Sporting Chance A by Titus O'Reily

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In sport, the term 'good bloke? doesn't mean what it says. Like 'fun run?, it often actually means exactly the opposite.Titus O?Reily, the sports historian Australia neither needs nor deserves, examines why our nation?s sportspeople are so readily forgiven for doing terrible things. With ridiculous tale s from Australia?s chequered sporting history, A Sporting Chance dissects the scandals big and small, the mistakes made in covering them up and the path athletes tread back to redemption. From the Essendon supplements saga and the sandpaper-loving Australian cricket team to whatever it is Nick Kyrgios has done now, Titus reveals the archetypes at the heart of our greatest sporting scandals. There?s the corrupt cop who gave us the race that stopped a nation and the boxing champion who refused to train. There?s the cashed-up businessmen who bankrupted clubs and the commentators who can?t get their foot out of their mouth. And of course there?s the good blokes, like Wayne Carey, Matthew Johns and Shane Warne, who it seems we?ll forgive for absolutely anything. In his rambling and at times incoherent style, Titus asks the question- are Australians really that forgiving of their sporting heroes? With the rise of social media, women?s sport and the drive towards greater equality, are the good blokes of Australia?s sporting landscape an endangered species? ...Show more

Race Across the World: The Incredible Story of the World's Greatest Road Race - the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon by John Smailes

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The rollicking adventure of the world's greatest car race - the 1968 London to Sydney Marathon. 1968, ninety-eight competitors stormed out of London on the world's greatest automotive adventure, the London to Sydney Marathon, the most ambitious and epic car race ever staged.  Four weeks later the y arrived in Sydney-or at least half of them did. The others lay in ruin along its 10,000-mile route. Unimaginable now in either concept or execution, the marathon captured the rapt attention of the countries through which it passed, and of the world, as it created front-page news. It was more than a car race, more than a rally, more than the trials that opened up outback Australia only a decade before: it was the world's most gruelling test of driver and vehicle.For Australians, the race became a focal point of the rivalry between local car-manufacturing giants Holden and Ford, as the Monaro Coupe and the iconic Falcon GT went head to head. Neither was to win, but the story of their duel is motor-sporting legend.John Smailes was a young journalist at the time, covering the race for the Sydney Daily Telegraph. Fifty years after this extraordinary race was run, John's dramatic, compelling and utterly fascinating story-drawing on his own first-hand, eyewitness account and enhanced by in-depth interviews over the intervening years with all the race's key participants-brings the marathon vividly to life. ...Show more

You Are the Ref by Paul Trevillion (Illustrator)

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Could you be the man in black and make the right decisions? Do you think you know the laws of the game better than the officials? Test your football knowledge with this collection of 300 dilemmas from legendary artist Paul Trevillion's famous 'You Are The Ref' series. With expert text from the referees' referee Keith Hackett and an array of bizarre and entertaining scenarios for you to adjudicate on, this is an engrossing and entertaining read. With a special in-depth section on the controversial rules around the VAR system and questions covering everything from mid-game bust-ups and unexpected intrusions on the pitch to bitter disputes about penalties, these sporting conundrums will give even the biggest football fan a run for their money. ...Show more

Remarkable Golf Courses by Iain Spragg

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Sports journalist and author Spragg takes readers to some of the world's most spectacular gold courses through stunning full-color photography. This volume encompasses the extremes of the sport, from the highest golf course, in Bolivia, to the lowest, in Death Valley; from the most northerly in the Arct ic Circle, to the most southerly in Tierra del Fuego. ...Show more