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Night Games
- Sex, Power and Sport
- By: Anna Krien
- Narrated by: Casey Withoos
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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What does a young footballer do to cut loose? At night, some play what they think of as pranks or games: night games with women. Sometimes these involve consensual sex, sometimes not, and often the lines are blurred. In Night Games, Anna Krien follows the rape trial of an Australian Rules footballer. She also takes a balanced and fearless look at the dark side of footy culture - the world of Sam Newman, Ricky Nixon, Matty Johns and the Croa Sharks.
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Night Games
- Sex, Power and Sport
- Narrated by: Casey Withoos
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 01-09-21
- Language: English
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Football, the People's Shame
- How to Revolutionise a National Sport
- By: Micky Kerr
- Narrated by: Luke Collins
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Asks what has happened to English football and how we can launch a revolution amongst English fandom in order not just to take back control of the game, but invent new ways our society and economy can work in the interest of the people again. Football has always been the People's Game and even after three decades of clubs being loaded with debt, ticket prices hiked, and fans blasted with gambling ads, football persists as a source of solidarity, civic engagement and national and international pride.
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A brilliant thought provoking read
- By Mr. G. L. Turner on 03-04-25
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Football, the People's Shame
- How to Revolutionise a National Sport
- Narrated by: Luke Collins
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 23-12-24
- Language: English
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Toolbox
- Building Better Pro-Wrestling
- By: Mike Quackenbush
- Narrated by: Mike Quackenbush
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
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Professional wrestling has always been wrapped in mystery. After a century of masquerading as legitimate sport, at last pro-wrestling has begun to show the potential of its form. At its core, it is live combat theatre, and no one has done more to codify and analyze this mesmerizing art form than Mike Quackenbush. To aid a generation of evolving performers to meet the demands of modern audiences, here is Toolbox - Building Better Pro-Wrestling.
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So engaging
- By Jellybean on 20-07-22
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Toolbox
- Building Better Pro-Wrestling
- Narrated by: Mike Quackenbush
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 13-10-20
- Language: English
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Start by Believing
- 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
- Unabridged
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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. For decades, osteopathic physician Larry Nassar built a sterling reputation as the go-to...
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Excellent telling of a tragic secret
- By Jackie on 14-02-20
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Start by Believing
- Larry Nassar's Crimes, the Institutions that Enabled Him, and the Brave Women Who Stopped a Monster
- Narrated by: John Barr, Dan Murphy, Chloe Cannon
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 14-01-20
- Language: English
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Across the River
- Life, Death, and Football in an American City
- By: Kent Babb
- Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson, Kent Babb
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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On the west bank of the Mississippi lies the New Orleans neighborhood of Algiers. Short on hope but big on dreams, its mostly poor and marginalized residents find joy on Friday nights when the Cougars of Edna Karr High School take the field. For years, this football program has brought glory to...
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Best book I’ve listened on here
- By Marc M on 06-11-22
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Across the River
- Life, Death, and Football in an American City
- Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson, Kent Babb
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 10-08-21
- Language: English
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The Competitive Buddha
- 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
- Unabridged
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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. Understand how Buddhism can help you to be better prepared for sports and life, and how sports and life can teach you about Buddhism. Lynch sheds light on the positive aspects of competition, adding Eastern thought and spirituality to sport, while elevating competitors and the game.
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The Competitive Buddha
- How to Up Your Game in Sports, Leadership and Life
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 13-07-21
- Language: English
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Head On
- By: Carl Hayman, Dylan Cleaver
- Narrated by: Michael Walley
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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An All Black's memoir of rugby, dementia, and the hidden cost of success 'The best sports book I have read in decades' - Kevin Norquay, Stuff 'Startlingly honest' - Phil Gifford 'A brilliant read. Bold, brave and honest' - Mike Hosking, Newstalk ZB Carl Hayman, All Black #1000, once the most...
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Great, truly heartbreaking!
- By MR on 12-09-23
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Head On
- Narrated by: Michael Walley
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 12-07-23
- Language: English
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Mornings with Madden
- My Radio Life with an American Legend
- By: Stan Bunger
- Narrated by: Stan Bunger
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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John Madden is synonymous with football. He was the television face and voice of the nation’s most popular sport, the namesake of its best-selling sports video game, and the man with the highest career winning percentage of any NFL coach. Despite his international fame, there was a side of Madden known only to those who listened to morning radio broadcasts in the San Francisco Bay Area. That’s where Madden grew up, lived, and died. It's where for decades he found joy in a daily chat with his hometown radio station: a chance to unwind, tell stories, and impart his own brand of wit and wisdom.
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Mornings with Madden
- My Radio Life with an American Legend
- Narrated by: Stan Bunger
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 15-10-24
- Language: English
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Big Fan
- Two Friends, 82,490 Miles, and the Wild, Wonderful Sports We Love
- By: Michael Schur, Joe Posnanski, Tom Hanks - introduction
- Narrated by: Michael Schur, Joe Posnanski, Ivy Schur, and others
- Length: 10 hrs
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New York Times bestselling authors Mike Schur and Joe Posnanski travel the world in a hilarious and heartwarming celebration of fans and the things they love: baseball, basketball, chess, darts, football, futbol, Indigenous North American stickball, pickleball, WWE, Taylor Swift, Star Wars, and...
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Big Fan
- Two Friends, 82,490 Miles, and the Wild, Wonderful Sports We Love
- Narrated by: Michael Schur, Joe Posnanski, Ivy Schur, Nick Offerman, Cord Jefferson, Ellen Adair, Katie Posnanski
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 19-05-26
- Language: English
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Rough House
- A Father, a Son, and the Pursuit of Pro Wrestling Glory
- By: Alison Lyn Miller
- Narrated by: Alison Lyn Miller
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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Professional wrestling is both a cultural phenomenon and a multibillion-dollar industry that has launched some of the biggest names in entertainment. But what does it take for a wrestler to break through? In Rough House, journalist Alison Lyn Miller introduces Hunter James, an aspiring star born into a family of wrestlers in Georgia. Hunter lifts, runs, and pounds protein, sculpting himself into a human action figure with the goal of being signed by a major promotion and finishing what his father started.
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Rough House
- A Father, a Son, and the Pursuit of Pro Wrestling Glory
- Narrated by: Alison Lyn Miller
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 20-01-26
- Language: English
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Brazil’s Dance with the Devil
- The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy
- By: Dave Zirin
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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In this compelling new book, relying on original reporting from the most dangerous corners of Rio to the halls of power in Washington, DC, Dave Zirin examines how sports and politics are colliding in remarkable fashion in Brazil, opening up an international conversation on the culture, economics, and politics of sports.
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Brazil’s Dance with the Devil
- The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 21-10-14
- Language: English
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Overtime
- Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines at the Crossroads of College Football
- By: John U. Bacon
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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For the past year, John U. Bacon has received unprecedented access to Jim Harbaugh’s University of Michigan football team: coaches, players, and staffers, in closed-door meetings, locker rooms, meals, and classes. Overtime captures this storied program at the crossroads, as the sport’s...
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Overtime
- Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines at the Crossroads of College Football
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 03-09-19
- Language: English
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The Last Shot
- City Streets, Basketball Dreams
- By: Darcy Frey
- Narrated by: Darcy Frey, JD Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams is the “revelatory” (New York Times), “deeply empathetic” (New Yorker) true story of four teenagers attempting to escape the cycles of poverty, crime, and despair in 1990s Brooklyn by getting recruited to play college basketball. With poignant intimacy, Darcy Frey chronicles the aspirations of these young men, including the future superstar Stephon Marbury, who are among the most promising players in Coney Island.
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The Last Shot
- City Streets, Basketball Dreams
- Narrated by: Darcy Frey, JD Jackson
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 18-06-24
- Language: English
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Guns and Needles
- A Journey into the Heart of South African Sport's Steroid and Drug Culture
- By: Clinton van der Berg
- Narrated by: Gareth Dry
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
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South Africa revels in its reputation as a sport-loving country. Yet just beneath the surface lurks a dark underbelly that reeks of cheating and illicit shenanigans, where shady characters and willing athletes are prepared to do whatever it takes to come out on top. South African sport is awash with steroids, a habit that formed in the late 1980s and continues unabated today, with participants and champions alike opting to play dirty.
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Guns and Needles
- A Journey into the Heart of South African Sport's Steroid and Drug Culture
- Narrated by: Gareth Dry
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 01-03-22
- Language: English
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Parkour and the Art du déplacement
- Strength, Dignity, Community
- By: Vincent Thibault, Casey Roberts - translator
- Narrated by: Yusuf Zine
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
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Parkour, the art of displacement, or freerunning—whatever the name, this new discipline born in the Paris suburbs is rapidly being adopted by people throughout the world. Not satisfied to suffer through urban life, these athletic artists or artistic athletes want to thrive in it, all the while earning dignity by daringly reappropriating three motor skills: running, jumping, and climbing. Vincent Thibault explores the philosophical and spiritual aspects of the art of movement and offers ideas on health, sports, urban living, and the relationship between the body and the environment.
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Parkour and the Art du déplacement
- Strength, Dignity, Community
- Narrated by: Yusuf Zine
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 30-05-22
- Language: English
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Fair Play
- The Ethics of Sport
- By: Robert L. Simon
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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Addressing both collegiate and professional sports, the updated edition of Fair Play explores the ethical presuppositions of competitive athletics and their connection both to ethical theory and to concrete moral dilemmas that arise in actual athletic competition. A major new section in chapter four examines the ethics of genetically enhancing athletic abilities. Other new material covers the analysis of sports and games according to influential philosopher Bernard Suits; the morality of cheating and the ethics of strategic fouling; and more.
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Fair Play
- The Ethics of Sport
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 25-02-14
- Language: English
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The Professor in the Cage
- Why Men Fight and Why We like to Watch
- By: Jonathan Gottschall
- Narrated by: Quincy Dunn-Baker
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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When a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym moves in across the street from his office, Jonathan Gottschall sees a challenge and an opportunity. Pushing 40, out of shape, and disenchanted with his job as an adjunct English professor, part of him yearns to cross the street and join up. The other part is terrified.
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Not what you're expecting
- By Mook on 24-04-24
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The Professor in the Cage
- Why Men Fight and Why We like to Watch
- Narrated by: Quincy Dunn-Baker
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 14-04-15
- Language: English
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Skating on Thin Ice
- Professional Hockey, Rape Culture, and Violence Against Women
- By: Walter DeKeseredy, Stu Cowan, Martin D. Schwartz
- Narrated by: Simon Kerr, Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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Skating on Thin Ice exposes the culture of toxic masculinity in professional hockey and suggests how sport and society can change the narrative on sexual assault and violence.
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Skating on Thin Ice
- Professional Hockey, Rape Culture, and Violence Against Women
- Narrated by: Simon Kerr, Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 30-10-23
- Language: English
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Talk of Champions
- Stories of the People Who Made Me: A Memoir
- By: Kenny Smith
- Narrated by: Kenny Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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A revealing, humorous, behind-the-scenes memoir from Kenny "The Jet" Smith—superstar basketball commentator, host of the top-rated show, Inside the NBA, and two-time NBA champion. Smith reveals memorable inside stories of his playing and broadcasting careers, focusing on the star players...
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Talk of Champions
- Stories of the People Who Made Me: A Memoir
- Narrated by: Kenny Smith
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 09-05-23
- Language: English
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The Lost Lionesses
- By: Gail Emms
- Narrated by: Gail Emms
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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Narrated by the daughter of one of the team members, Janice Barton, with unprecedented access to the secrets and insights of the first ever woman's team, this is a multi-generational story celebrating the power of a group of women who refused to accept the status quo - revealing how the events of 1971 shaped mother and daughter's lives both personally and professionally.
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The Lost Lionesses
- Narrated by: Gail Emms
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 26-09-24
- Language: English
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