Sports & Outdoors

The most enduring science of healing is founded on the principle of achieving balance between our body, mind, spirit, and environment. This science is called Ayurveda - a comprehensive approach to health and wellness that has been refined for 5,000 years....

The Inner Game of Tennis is a revolutionary program for overcoming the self-doubt, nervousness, and lapses of concentration that can keep a player from winning....

Coach Matt Fitzgerald examines more than a dozen pivotal races to discover the surprising ways elite athletes strengthen their mental toughness....

The 1989 Ironman World Championship was the greatest race ever in endurance sports....

Science journalist Alex Hutchinson presents a revolutionary account of the dynamic and controversial new science of endurance....

In 1982 Murakami began running to keep fit. Here he reflects on his running experiences....

Anfield, May 26th 1989. The final day of the Division One season. The rest of football stopped to watch as perennial champions Liverpool took on rank outsiders Arsenal in a head-to-head contest for the title....

The Complete Book of Five Rings is an authoritative version of Musashi's classic The Book of Five Rings, translated and annotated by a modern martial arts master, Kenji Tokitsu....

If you want to get bigger, leaner, and stronger without steroids, good genetics, extreme dieting, or wasting ridiculous amounts of time in the gym...you want to listen to this book....

Carlo Ancelotti is one of the greatest managers of all time, with five Champions League titles to his name....

Mark Webber was at the centre of one of the most captivating chapters in the history of Formula One....

Captain James Cook is one of the greatest maritime explorers of all time.... 

Despite her success setting a self-supported Fastest Known Time record on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2013, Heather “Anish” Anderson still had such deep-seated insecurities that she became convinced her feat had been a fluke. So two years later she set out again, this time hiking through mud, rocks, and mountain blazes to crush her constant self-doubt and seek the true source of her strength and purpose. The 2,189 miles of the Appalachian Trail, from Maine to Georgia, did not make it easy.

Canadian hockey is rife with tales of the odd, the strange, the funny and, occasionally, the disturbing side of the game: in 1976, Maple Leafs coach Red Kelly installed pyramids in the players’ dressing room and under the bench in an attempt to harness “pyramid power”; the Cusimano brothers started the tradition of “octopus hurling” during the 1952 playoff games; in 1930, Toronto Maple Leafs’ general manager Conn Smythe placed a winning bet on a longshot horse to pay the cash-strapped Ottawa Senators for star player Frank “King” Clancy; and more!

Thou Shall Not Pass (the title comes from a command England captain Terry Butcher would shout before every match) celebrates the football position where brutal characters are loved for their hard-hitting tackles and bruising mentality and yet laughed at for their apparent lack of skill. As well as covering the long and illustrious history of the centre-half, the book will take the listener into the muddy penalty area frequented by our protagonists, into their domain. 

Why are some athletes able to overcome overwhelming odds and rebound stronger than ever? And can we unlock the secret of their success? In The Comeback Quotient, best-selling sportswriter Matt Fitzgerald examines the science and stories behind some of the most astonishing sporting comebacks to uncover a new blueprint to survive and thrive.

Before the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public schools, and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, Jackie Robinson walked onto the diamond on April 15, 1947, as first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers, making history as the first African American to integrate Major League Baseball in the 20th century. Today a national icon, Robinson was a complicated man who navigated an even more complicated world that both celebrated and despised him. 

Els Visser overleefde een schipbreuk en werd daarna topatleet: dit is haar ongelofelijke en inspirerende verhaal over veerkracht en doorzetten. Nog één keer sprak ik mezelf toe. 'Dit is de race waar je het hele jaar naartoe hebt gewerkt. Je bent er klaar voor. Iedereen is hier voor jou, papa en mama, je vriendinnen. Vandaag ga je ze laten zien dat je de juiste keuze hebt gemaakt om prof te worden. Dat je alles wat je hebt meegemaakt niet voor niets hebt doorstaan.' Luid klonk een scheepstoeter. De adrenaline schoot door mijn lijf. We waren vertrokken.