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Dr. Bob Rotella is one of the hottest performance consultants in America today. Among his many professional clients are Nick Price, Tom Kite , Pat Bradley, John Daly, and many others. In IGolf Is Not a Game of PerfectI, Rotella, or Doc, as most players refer to him, goes beyond just the usual mental aspects of the game and the reliance on specific techniques. Rotella creates an attitude and a mindset about all aspects of a golfers game, from mental preparation to competition and with a conversational fashion in a dynamic blend of anecdote and lesson. Rotella helps golfers improve their golf game and have more fun playing.

Phil Gordon plays poker with the best players in the world. He has won, and lost, in tournaments and cash games around the globe, all the while studying the game and learning from every hand dealt. As the resident expert and cohost of Celebrity Poker Showdown, Phil has quickly become one of the most sought-after teachers of No Limit Texas Holdem. Its a tough game. But anyone can become a winning player with the right amount of courage, patience, aggression, observation, and, perhaps most important, dedication to becoming a better player.p After fifteen years of keeping notes on the things hes learned, the greats hes played with, and the celebrities hes taught, Phil Gordon has poured every single thing he knows about No Limit Texas Holdem into this little green book. Taking a page from Harvey Penicks bestselling book of golf wisdom, Phil plays the role of both teacher and student, offering up insightful tips on how to think about poker and how to develop a singular style of play. Through philosophy, psychology, strategy, math, and the knowledge gleaned from playing poker with everyone from T. J. Cloutier and Phil Ivey to Hank Azaria and Ben Affleck, Phil breaks down the game into enlightening instructional tidbits and illustrative anecdotes that inspire the kind of persistence and motivation necessary to improve your game.p A book to rank with Doyle Brunsons iSuper Systemi and David Sklanskys iThe Theory of Pokeri, iPhil Gordons Little Green Booki deserves a spot on the shelf of every serious student of the game.

Audible RSS Feeds - Sports. Sports Audio Programs. Sports Audio Programs-Perhaps the least controversial sports honor in living memory was the selection of John Wooden as Coach of the Century by ESPN. Wooden presided over college sports most famous dynasty, winning 10 NCAA basketball championships in 12 years. His UCLA teams won with quickness, and always with class. Wooden was a teacher first and foremost, and his lessons - taught on the basketball court, but applicable throughout ones life - are summarized in his famed Pyramid of Success. p An all-city high school player in Los Angeles, Andrew Hill played - a little - in three national championships, from 1970 to 1972. At that time, Hill was upset at how unequally Wooden treated his starting players, and clashed with Wooden over a variety of social and political issues. p Hill went on to a successful career in television, rising to the presidency of CBS Productions. And one day, some 25 years after graduating from UCLA, he realized that everything he knows about getting the best out of his people he had learned directly from Coach John Wooden. p IBe Quick - But Dont Hurry!I tells the story of their renewed friendship, while sharing the lessons and secrets that hold the key to managing creativity in the idea-driven economy of the 21st century. Full of sound advice and warm reminiscence, this is the management audiobook of a lifetime.

Audible RSS Feeds - Sports. Sports Audio Programs. Sports Audio Programs-Best-selling author George Vecsey is an esteemed and award-winning sports journalist for the iNew York Timesi. In iBaseballi, he recounts the history of Americas national pastime. Baseball has been around in various forms for thousands of years, but only within the last 200 years has it become an American institution. Growing from a sport played in open fields and big-city streets, baseball has seen its share of innovators and detractors, heroes and villains. Vecsey details them all, from the scandalous Black Sox of 1919 and modern steroid abusers to icons like Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, and the countless underdogs that came out of nowhere to capture the imaginations of fans everywhere.p Vecseys iBaseballi is a concise history filled with details and stories that will appeal to rookie and veteran fans alike. Narrator Alan Nebelthaus warm voice punctuates all of the wit and charm of Vecseys prose.

Audible RSS Feeds - Sports. Sports Audio Programs. Sports Audio Programs-Iconic humorist Dan Jenkins bring his matchless sense of hilarity to this riotous send-up of professional golf.pForty-something sportswriter Jack Brannon is bored to tears with the mens tour. So he decides to check out Ginger Clayton, the hot, new franchise babe on the ladies links. Things get interesting in a hurry, as it becomes clear somebody wants the gorgeous superstar disqualified for good.

For Mike Krzyzewski, head coach of the Duke University mens basketball team, certain words have special importance and force. Coach K uses them every day to energize, motivate, and teach his players how to be winners on the court and in every aspect of their lives. Now, in iBeyond Basketballi, he offers 40 short, hard-hitting audio essays that will educate and inspire. Each is centered on an important keyword and illustrated with anecdotes from his personal experiences.

Audible RSS Feeds - Sports. Sports Audio Programs. Sports Audio Programs-Originally drawn to the game by his father, Carl Hiaasen wisely quit golfing in 1973. But some ambitions refuse to die, and as the years - and memories of shanked 7-irons - faded, it dawned on Carl that there might be one thing in life he could do better in middle age than he could as a youth. So gradually he ventured back to the dreaded driving range, this time as the father of a five-year-old son -and also as a grandfather.pWhat possesses a man to return in midlife to a game at which hed never excelled in his prime, and which in fact had dealt him mostly failure, angst and exasperation Heres why I did it: Im one sick bastard.pAnd thus we have Carls foray into a world of baffling titanium technology, high-priced golf gurus, bizarre infomercial gimmicks and the mind-bending phenomenon of Tiger Woods - a maddening universe of hooks and slices where Carl ultimately (and foolishly) agrees to compete in a country-club tournament against players who can actually hit the ball. Thats the secret of the sports infernal seduction, he writes. It surrenders just enough good shots to let you talk yourself out of quitting.pHiaasens chronicle of his shaky return to this bedeviling pastime and the ensuing demolition of his self-esteem - culminating with the savage 45-hole tournament - will have you rolling with laughter. Yet the bittersweet memories of playing with his own father and the glow he feels when watching his own young son belt the ball down the fairway will also touch your heart.pForget Tiger, Phil and Ernie. If you want to understand the true lure of golf, turn to Carl Hiaasen, who offers an extraordinary audiobook for the ordinary hacker.

From his perspective as a journalist and a true fan, Bob Costas, NBCs award-winning broadcaster, shares his views on the forces that are diminishing the appeal of Major League Baseball. In this cogent and provocative audio, Costas examines the growing financial disparities that have resulted in nearly two-thirds of the teams in Major League Baseball having virtually no chance of contending for the World Series. He argues that those who run baseball have missed the crucial difference between mere change and real progress. And he presents a withering critique of the positions of both the owners and players while providing insights on the wild-card system, the designated-hitter rule, and interleague play. Costas answers each problem he cites with an achievable strategy for restoring genuine competition and rescuing fans from the forces that have diluted the sheer joy of the game.p Balanced by Costas unbridled appreciation for what he calls the moments of authenticity that can still make baseball inspiring, IFair BallI offers a vision of our national pastime as it can be, a game that retains its traditional appeal while initiating meaningful changes that will allow it to thrive into the next century.

Tiger Woods has called the U.S. Open the most difficult national championship. With IOpen,I John Feinstein goes behind the scenes to tell for the first time the full story of how the 2002 U.S. Open Championship came into being - how a public course was transformed into one of the most difficult and surprising in the tournaments history, and how the greatest golfers in the world rose to its almost insurmountable challenges.P The 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black, in Bethpage, New York, was the first time in history that golfs greatest championship has been help at a true public golf course. IOpenI is the full drama of that championship, from the moment that officials first considered holding it there until the last putt rolled in at dusk on Sunday. Along the way John Feinstein reveals the full glory of golf as its never been explored before. He digs deep to find out what it really takes to make golfs most famous event worthy of the champions who compete in it. He tells the remarkable story of the artisans who transformed the Black from a downtrodden and rough-around-the-edges public course to one that top pros hailed as unbelievable and the toughest par-70 Ive ever played in my life. He also tracks the drama of the masters who battled for the supremacy at the Black - Tiger Woods, Sergio Garcia, Nick Faldo, Phil Mickelson, Jeff Maggert - to show how true champions respond to the toughest conditions.

The 2008 Beijing Olympics take place in August.pJohn Goodbody, for many years chief sports news writer for iThe Timesi, has covered every Olympics since 1964. In this entertaining and informative account, he tells the main stories of each of the modern Olympics.p Here are some of the heroes and heroines who have made sporting history, as well as the main disasters and scandals that attend the worlds greatest sporting event.