New Releases by Sports illustrated

For more than 50 years, Sports Illustrated has been the gold standard of sports writing, and during that time, football—once a popular college pastime but only a rag-tag professional game—has moved to center stage, taking its unquestioned place as America’s most popular sport. This book brings together dozens of football classics from the pages of SI, featuring the work of such esteemed writers as John O’Hara and Jack Kerouac, Dan Jenkins and George Plimpton, Don DeLillo and John Undrwood and John Ed Bradley. And, of course, the collection includes many of the longtime favorites of SI readers: Frank Deford and Rick Reilly, Steve Rushin and Gary Smith, Peter King and Rick Telander and the inimitable Dr. Z, Paul Zimmerman. Covering more than half a century of the game at every level from high school to the Super Bowl, this volume will be indispensable reading for serious football fans.

Get everything you ever wanted to know about America''s pastime in FULL COUNT: TOP 10 LISTS OF EVERYTHING IN BASEBALL . Presented in the format of Top 10 lists, this book is a comprehensive yet fun look at the greatest aspects of the game. From the top World Series moments to the most colorful characters, SI Kids ranks a variety of topics from the baseball diamond. Readers are guaranteed to love the big, exciting action photos from the Sports Illustrated collection and the insider knowledge of SI Kids. Filled with trivia and information, this dynamic book will be the definitive kids book on baseball. Top 10 Rankings include: Hardest throwers Slickest infielders Powerful sluggers Loveable losers Fastest base stealers Best ballparks

America''s Team? These days it''s the Pittsburgh Steelers. Want to argue? The six-time Super Bowl champions are the favorites of network television programmers, have the broadest and most impassioned fan base-the Steelers outsell all other NFL teams in merchandise, and at some stadiums Steel City fans outnumber the home team''s faithful-and embody a winning spirit that have made them the model franchise in the most popular sport in the U.S. Founded in 1933 by the beloved Rooney family in the gritty heartland of industrial America, the team suffered through nearly four decades of futility until the arrival of brilliant, laconic coach Chuck Noll in 1969, followed by a host of players who would etch their names in the history of the game. Behind future Hall of Famers Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Lynn Swann, Mean Joe Greene, Jack Lambert and Mel Blount, the Steelers teams of the ''70s won four Super Bowls in six years and captured the imagination of a nation with their style-dashing on offense, devastating on defense. The love affair has endured ever since, through the hard-nosed era of Bill Cowher and Jerome Bettis to today''s team, with crossover stars such as Hines Ward and Troy Polamalu. This book from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED tells the extraordinary story of the Steelers through the eyes of SI''s renowned writers and the world''s most accomplished sports photographers. As the Steelers embark on their 80th anniversary, there''s no better way to celebrate football''s best.

As Fenway Park gets set to mark its centennial anniversary in 2012, Sports Illustrated celebrates America''s oldest and perhaps most-storied ballpark on the occasion of its 100th birthday. In beautiful photography and stirring prose from SI''s finest writers, the book tells the story of Fenway from its birth on a winter''s day in Kenmore Square to its current handsome incarnation. Readers will travel from the early days of Babe Ruth, through the years of Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemskiand right up to the 2000s, when the hometown Red Sox won not one but two championships with stunning Fenway Park shining as it rarely has. The book explores the incomparable features that define Fenway: See Manny Ramirez peer out of the green door by the manual scoreboard and Dwight Evans reach to pluck a would-be home run out of Williamsburg. See a ball glance off Pesky''s Pole and members of Red Sox Nation seated atop the great Green Monster as dusk falls behind the Citgo Sign. In these dazzling oversized pages ballplayers like Williams and Johnny Pesky and Jim Rice will come alive, but the book''s exquisite images and fresh words go beyond the Red Sox to honor the park itself. Here, games of pro soccer and football have been played since the1930s. This was the sporting home of another Babe, quarterback Babe Parilli and his Boston Patriots in the 1960s. FDR spoke at Fenway. The Rolling Stones lit up a night. The NHL unveiled its 2010 Winter Classic before a soldout crowd. Soon Fenway Park will be officially designated a National Historic Landmark, but truly it has been that for decades-the baseball field that no fan should miss, a park that has been at the heart not only of a great American city but also of American sports and sports culture.

America''s favorite sports almanac since its introduction 21 years ago, the Sports Illustrated Almanac now has 2011 covered, from football to fencing, hockey to handball, and everything in between. The Sports Illustrated Almanac features essays by top Sports Illustrated writers; all-time stats and records; and ticketing and venue information for pro baseball, basketball, football and hockey. It''s the ultimate argument-ender.

The history of college basketball is a tale of giants (Mikan, Russell, Alcindor), mammoth personalities (Wooden, Knight, Krzyzewski) and larger-than-life moments (N.C. State''s upset in 1983, Laettner''s shot in 1992 and, just last year, Butler''s near-miss at a championship miracle). With over a half-century of experience covering the game, Sports Illustrated is uniquely positioned to tell that story, and in 256 super-sized pages, continuing in the tradition of its annual sport-specific coffee-table series, it has found just the right format to capture the enormously entertaining wonder of it all. Hall of Fame writers, including Frank Deford, Curry Kirkpatrick, Alexander Wolff and Gary Smith, have covered all the great back-door plays, morality plays and passion plays of perhaps our most emotional sport. They were there for North Carolina''s triple overtime takedown of Wilt Chamberlain and Kansas in 1957, for Texas Western''s historic upset of Kentucky in 1966 and for Villanova''s brilliant upending of Georgetown in 1985. Having chronicled all the madness from the fall (Midnight) through the spring (March) year after year, SI''s award-winning photographers have captured the indelible images of buzzer-beating shots, of court-storming celebrations and of some of the world''s largest men bawling over heartbreaking defeats. Those memorable stories and pictures are presented here as never before in this magnificent, must-have book for any college hoops fan.

The editors of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Kids bring you the world''s best sports photography-in eyepopping In Your Face 3D will pull readers right into the action. You''ll feel like you''re grabbing rebounds with NBA stars, reeling in a big catch with pro fi shermen, and riding high on big waves. This 80-page book showcases the best 3D images taken by veteran Sports Illustrated photographer David E. Klutho. With big-impact photography and state-of-the art 3D, In Your Face 3D isguaranteed to knock sports fans of all ages off their feet.

The NFL has never been hotter--witness the $21.4 billion it will rake in on the TV-rights deals now in place (not to mention its own network), the proliferation of football news and information and the game''s booming popularity among sports fans, including the 23 millioin who read SPORTS ILLUSTRATED every week. These 320 pages capture, in breathtaking words and pictures, the essence of America''s game: the players and performances, the crucial moments and classic matchups, the enduring dynastics and unique characters that have made pro football the new national pastime.

As the University of Texas Longhorns begin their 117th football season, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED pays tribute to this Lone Star treasure with a book that draws on 55 years of award-winning magazine coverage. SI tells the Longhorns'' story with excerpts from classic articles and with vintage photographs, as well as rare images from the team''s earliest years. Inside you''ll find our selections of 20 great moments in Longhorns history (including the opening of Memorial Stadium) and10 of the program''s most historic victories, as well as profiles of five giants of University of Texas football. In addition, you''ll get an all-access pass that takes you behind the scenes of coach Mack Brown''s current program. Legendary sportswriter Dan Jenkins introduces the book, which includes contributions from SI''s Walter Bingham, Tim Layden, Austin Murphy, Bruce Newman, Pat Putnam, Roy Terrell, John Underwood and Jenkins himself. James Street, the former quarterback, provides the valedictory. This hardbound edition also includes a bonus 16-page section with some of the most vivid Longhorns images that have appeared in SI. This is Texas football.

If every picture tells a story, every slide tells an even deeper one. Tucked away in Sports Illustrated''s photo archive sits 50 years worth of film, a frame-by-frame depiction of the history of sports over the last half a century. The stickers and scribbles along a single slide''s border are like tags on a streamer trunk, telling the story of that photo''s journey from the playing field to the magazine. This book selects the most colorful of these slides and presents the mounts as objects of art in an oversized 176-page collection, complete with behind-the-scenes vignettes of how the shots came to be. Some slides capture classic SI cover images (Dwight Clark''s catch in the 1982 NFC Championship Game or Brandi Chastain ripping her shirt off at the 1999 World Cup) while others are simply great photos (Pete Rose running at full speed or Joe Namath lounging poolside before Super Bowl III). The images themselves are iconic, but by seeing them as slides you get that extra step back. You can see the history that has been made from these flashes of an instant.

Continuing its series of spectacular coffee-table books for the holiday season, Sports Illustrated presents The College Football Book, the ultimate gift for America''s most passionate fans. SI launched this series in 2005 with The Football Book, devoted to the professional game. A New York Times best-seller that year, the book has taken root as a perennial, selling more than 200,000 copies to date. Now the editors of Sports Illustrated return to the gridiron, this time to serve the most avid football fans of all. With the best words and pictures SI has to offer, The College Football Book, brings to life the game''s unparalleled excitement and pageantry, its legendary players, historic teams and epic rivalries. In 288 pages of the greatest photography and writing available anywhere, The College Football Book spans the sport''s history, from its infancy in the 1800s right up to the postseason showdowns of 2008. The book is packed with stunning pictures, award-winning stories, original stats, decade-by-decade all-star teams and iconic artifacts photographed exclusively for this book at the College Football Hall of Fame--the same exciting mix of elements that makes each book in the SI series a must-have for sports fan.

Recounts the New York Giants Super Bowl XLII win, covering some of the games they played during the regular season and the major plays and highlights of the championship game.

This exciting sports almanac will tell kids everything they want and need to know about the previous year in sports. It includes major sports (basketball, baseball, football, hockey); "secondary sports" (golf, tennis, swimming, auto racing); and action sports (BMX, snowboarding, motocross, skateboarding). Illustrated with fabulous action photos, the book will also feature an all-new sixteen-page, fourcolour insert that contains photos of the year''s most thrilling moments and memorable athletes.

Highlighted by dozens of photographs, a celebration of America''s college and professional basketball from some of Sports Illustrated''s finest writers captures the great teams, players, games, memorabilia, artifacts, and important moments throughout the more than one hundred years of basketball history.

America''s No. 1 sports almanac since its introduction 16 years ago, the Sports Illustrated Almanac has got it all covered, from football to fencing, hockey to handball, and everything in between. Spanning 864 pages, the Sports Illustrated Almanac features essays by top Sports Illustrated writers, all-time stats and records, and ticketing and venue information for pro baseball, basketball, football and hockey.

Americas No. 1 sports almanac since its introduction 15 years ago, the Sports Illustrated Almanac has got 2005 covered, from football to fencing, hockey to handball, and everything in between. Spanning 896 pages, the Sports Illustrated Almanac features essays by top Sports Illustrated writers, all-time stats and records, and ticketing and venue information for pro baseball, basketball, football and hockey. The Sports Illustrated Almanac 2006 is the ultimate guide to the year in sports. Americas #1 sports almanac since 1991. The ultimate argument-ender and guide to the year in sports. Packed with comprehensive statistics, colorful essays, humorous anecdotes from every major sport and dozens of minor ones. Includes the 2005 World Series results as well as a full round-up of all major sports. New special Trivia Guide included- A great way to test your sports knowledge.

A baseball anthology worthy of Cooperstown.

- Stunning photography chronicles the sports world''s most unforgettable game moments and the eccentric personalities that keep us entertained.- For the first time ever, Sports Illustrated gathers together all the craziest, weirdest and wildest photographs ever taken on a playing field.

Complemented by more than one hundred photographs, this close-up look at the upcoming NASCAR season provides complete statistical breakdowns for every race on the 2004 schedule, along with a retrospective of the 2003 season, profiles of the elite drivers on the circuit, memorable moments in the hist

Sporting Halls of Fame have been the repositories for the memories, highlights and legends of Americas favorite games since 1939, when the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was established in picturesque Cooperstown, New York.Now for the first time, all of the history, color and lore of the 12 most prominent Halls of Fame in North America are collected in one handsome volume.

Features essays, player profiles, and statistics for the 1998 sports year, covering football, baseball, hockey, tennis, boxing, and other sports; and includes month-by-month event listings for 1999.

Featuring thrilling full-color action photos and insightful commentary, this book lets you revisit all the memorable moments in sports from the past year whenver you like.

Are you MVP material? This championship collection features all your favorite puzzles -- crosswords, jumbles, spirals, and more -- and all your favorite athletes! Can you prove if you are really on the ball? Plus take an extra challenge and try What''s The Call? -- puzzlers that put you in the hot seat. You''re the umpire or You judge the action and then make the call! -- Is the player out or safe? -- Is the goal good? -- Does the basket count? The game is in your hands! So grab your pencil, and touch to solve these tricky sports teasers!

Collection of stories from Sports illustrated, 1954-1990.