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The man who electrified the world with his amazing performance in Brazil opens up for the first time about how a hyperactive kid from New Jersey with Tourette's syndrome defied the odds to become one of the world's premier goalkeepers.

Thomas Hauser provides a compelling retrospective of Ali's life. Hauser argues that there has been a deliberate distortion of Ali, making him more presentable for advertising purposes by sanitizing his legacy--a disservice to history as well as to Ali himself.

The iconic superhuman endurance runner shares the hard-won wisdom and lessons he's learned from thirty years of competition as he embarks on his toughest challenge yet, the Western States 100.

Olympic diver Tom Daley explores the experiences that have shaped him and the qualities that brought him success and joy--from the resilience he developed competing at a world-class level, to the courage he discovered while reclaiming the narrative around his sexuality, to the perspective that family life has brought him.

Growing up, Wade always struggled to gain his father's approval. But when his father's health takes a turn for the worse, he returns home and the two reconcile over the one thing they have in common, a love for baseball.

When New York Knicks basketball star Chris Fagan was diagnosed with ALS, his daughter Kate decided to leave her high-profile job at ESPN to be closer to him and take part in his care. Kate spent the last year of her father's life determined to return to him the kind of joy they once shared on the court. This is Kate Fagan's completely original reflection on the very specific bond that one father and daughter shared, forged in the love of a sport which over time came to mean so much more.

An inspiring story of hope and resiliency On April 6, 2018, sixteen people died and thirteen others were injured after a bus taking the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team to a playoff game collided with a transport truck in a rural intersection. The tragedy moved millions of people to leave hockey sticks by their front door to show sympathy and support for the Broncos. People from more than eighty countries pledged millions of dollars to families whose relatives had been directly involved in the accident.

A finalist for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature On January 14, 2015, Tommy Caldwell, along with his partner, Kevin Jorgeson, summited what is widely regarded as the hardest climb in history; Yosemite's nearly vertical 3,000-foot Dawn Wall, after nineteen days on the route. Caldwell's odds-defying feat, the subject of the documentary film The Dawn Wall to be released nationwide in September, was the culmination of an entire lifetime of pushing himself to his limits as an athlete.

After watching the World Cup on television, a group of Thai boys is inspired to form their own team. But on the island of Koh Panyee, in a village built on stilts, there is no open space. How will a group of Thai boys play soccer? The boys can play only twice a month on a sandbar when the tide is low enough. Everything changes when the teens join together to build their very own floating soccer field. This inspiring true story by debut author Scott Riley is gorgeously illustrated by Nguyen Quang and Kim Lien.

This engaging interdisciplinary collection seeks to shed light on narratives and research that challenge hockey's norms, push its boundaries, and provide new ways of conceptualizing its role in North American culture. The volume's editors use the metaphor of the neutral zone trap to explore how traditional ideologies and practices within the sport have contributed to exclusion and the misperception of various ways of existing in its community.