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    • A Town, a Team, and a Dream
    • By: H. G. Bissinger
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,268 ratings
    • Socially and racially divided, Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but every Friday night from September to December, when the Panthers play football, dreams can come true....

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    • A Story of Football, Rivalry, and Revolution
    • By: Michael Silver
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The Why Is Everything is the story of old dogmas falling before astonishingly creative new strategies and game plans.

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    • A Woman Running in a Man's World
    • By: Lauren Fleshman
    • Narrated by: Lauren Fleshman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 396 ratings
    • Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her inspiring personal story and a rallying cry for reform of a sports landscape that is failing young female athletes....

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    • A History in 100 Moments
    • By: Joe Posnanski
    • Narrated by: Joe Posnanski
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • After his bestselling home run books Why We Love Baseball and The Baseball 100, Joe Posnanski turns from the national pastime to the number one sport in America.

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    • By: Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
    • Narrated by: Ken Burns
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 152 ratings
    • The companion to Ken Burns’s magnificent PBS television series—updated and expanded to coincide with the broadcast of a new, two-part "Tenth Inning"....

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    • Practical Youth Sports Psychology Strategies for Mindset Training to Instantly Boost Focus, Resilience, and Confidence in Just Minutes a Day
    • By: Rush Hemphill
    • Narrated by: Ian Patrick Freely
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Mental Toughness for Young Athletes Unleashed is a step-by-step guide to help athletes develop mental resilience, confidence, and a winning mindset.

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    • Baseball and the Rise of a New City
    • By: Kevin Baker
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • A hugely entertaining history of baseball in New York City, bursting with bigger than life figures, and long-forgotten heroes, spanning the game’s founding to the early 1940s....

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    • The Fall and Rise of a Football Family
    • By: Lars Anderson
    • Narrated by: Ian Alan Carlsen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • From New York Times best-selling author Lars Anderson comes a revealing portrait of the first family of American sports. What the Kennedys are to politics, the Mannings are to football....

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    • How the 1970s Transformed Sports in America
    • By: Michael MacCambridge
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Every decade brings change, but as Michael MacCambridge chronicles in The Big Time, no decade in American sports history featured such convulsive cultural shifts as the 1970s....

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    • My Radio Life with an American Legend
    • By: Stan Bunger
    • Narrated by: Stan Bunger
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Stan Bunger provides an intimate and freewheeling portrait of John Madden through the NFL legend's own words.

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    • Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth
    • By: Adharanand Finn
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 654 ratings
    • Whether running is your recreation, your religion, or just a spectator sport, Adharanand Finn’s incredible journey to the elite training camps of Kenya will captivate and inspire you....

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    • How Money and Mania Are Ruining Kids' Sports--and Why It Matters
    • By: Linda Flanagan
    • Narrated by: Abby Craden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Some 75% of American families want their kids to play sports. Athletics are training grounds for character, friendship, and connection; at their best, sports insulate kids from hardship and prepare them for adult life....

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    • Stories of the People Who Made Me: A Memoir
    • By: Kenny Smith
    • Narrated by: Kenny Smith
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • Kenny Smith reveals memorable inside stories of his playing and broadcasting careers, focusing on the star players, coaches, and mentors who inspired him along the way....

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    • By: Michael Bamberger
    • Narrated by: David Morse
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • After a lifetime of writing about the professional sport, Michael Bamberger, “the poet laureate of golf” (GOLF magazine), delivers an exhilarating love letter to the amateur game as it’s played—and lived—by the rest of us....

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    • Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping, Cover-ups, and Winning at All Costs
    • By: Tyler Hamilton, Daniel Coyle
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,648 ratings
    • A definitive look at the world of professional cycling—and the doping issue surrounding this sport and its most iconic rider, Lance Armstrong....

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    • An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference
    • By: Warren St. John
    • Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
    • Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-21-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • This is a complex and inspiring tale of a small town becoming a global community and an account of the ingenious and complicated ways we create a home in a changing world....

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    • Larry Nassar's Crimes, the Institutions that Enabled Him, and the Brave Women Who Stopped a Monster
    • By: John Barr, Dan Murphy
    • Narrated by: John Barr, Dan Murphy, Chloe Cannon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • The definitive, devastating account of the largest sex abuse scandal in American sports history - with new details and insights into the institutional failures, as well as the bravery that brought it to light....

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    • By: Daniel P. Mannix
    • Narrated by: Brian P. Craig
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Putting the games in the context of Rome's rise and dramatic fall, Mannix captures all the history, planning, and savage pageantry that went into creating the first spectator sports.

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    • How to Up Your Game in Sports, Leadership and Life
    • By: Jerry Lynch, Steve Kerr - foreword
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • The Competitive Buddha is about mastery, leadership, and spirituality. Learn what you need to keep, what you need to discard, and what you need to add to your mental, emotional, and spiritual skill set as an athlete, coach, leader, parent, CEO, or any other performer in life....

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    • By: Michael Bamberger
    • Narrated by: Michael Bamberger
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • To the Linksland is the captivating memoir of Bamberger’s golfing pilgrimage/extended honeymoon. From an all-night caddie bus on the back roads of southern Europe to Stark’s secret six-hole course in the Scottish Highlands, Bamberger takes you on a journey into the heart of golf.

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