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After a rocky, abbreviated stint in Sacramento, the 64-year-old Karl hints that he’d like to coach again. That may explain the frustrating honesty-with-limits approach employed here.

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The trick is to let the writing wash over you, rather than fighting it, and even to skip certain passages. Happily, readers will find themselves needing to do this less and less in the second half of the book, as the final nears and both authors get into their stride.

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The accomplishments Carney documents are unbelievable and fascinating; this isn’t a how-to for those looking to perform extraordinary feats, but it is an entertaining account that will appeal to the adventurous.

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The chatty tone, clear scientific explanations, and broad range of athletics discussed mean there’s something here for just about every kind of sports fan.

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With a comic yet reverent approach to his life and broadcasting, Buck effectively captures the merging of his career and the popularity of American sports.

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Less focused on the why than the how, Johnson connects the dots in a way that sheds new light on everyday concepts.

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This is an accurate and professional look at the American Hockey League, the sport's top minor league. The catch is that the story is told in a rather dry manner, and may not hold the interest of more casual fans. But it accomplishes its goal, and people in AHL cities might like it.

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Chasing the Dream: Life in the American Hockey League by Ted Starkey

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Photos get readers up-close and personal with the sights of winter; many are cropped to look like mittens, and many pages are decorated with stunning photographs of snowflakes. Readers will be doing a snow dance and waiting for winter all the more.

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Using highly poetic language, he explores an “edgeland”, the no man’s land between city and country, near the Yorkshire town of Harrogate.

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Winning is often considered all that matters in sports, but the aftermath of defeat can be equally important according to Menefee...Richly illustrated, Menefee’s thoughtful account of loss in sports mirrors the real world.

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A national legend when he retired, he nonetheless slipped away from public consciousness, his name now known principally to residents of Kansas and basketball cognoscenti. A biography whose dough needs less honey and more salt.

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An erudite, engaging book that will find the broadest readership among nature lovers on the other side of the Atlantic.

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Some may take issue with Tebow's simplistic affirmations of faith (including seeing God in coincidence); others will see them as the book's greatest strength. All readers will be won over by Tebow's dedication and perseverance, and admire him for staying true to service-oriented Christianity through a quite unconventional life.

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That’s why “Gunslinger” is so outstanding: with a backbone of compulsive research and reporting, Mr. Pearlman succeeds in taking football fans deeper into the stories about Brett Favre that have been told so many times already...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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A mostly photographic look back at the hockey career of Darryl Sittler, one of the greatest Toronto Maple Leafs ever. Big fans certainly will enjoy the photos, although I would guess some of the ground in the text already has been covered in his previous memoirs.

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Captain: My Life and Career by Darryl Sittler

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The most interesting athletes are never the stars on the ascent or the gods at the top of the game, but rather the humans on the other side. For all he was in his prime, 99, and the stories he shares, are about as human as they get.

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The story of Wayne Gretzky's chase of an NHL scoring record (50 goals in 50 games) gets a game-by-game review here. The authors try hard, but there's a little too much dry material about games from more than 30 years ago - which ultimately have nothing to do with the thrust of the story - to make this an interesting read at this point.

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Unbreakable: 50 Goals in 39 Games: Wayne Gretzky and the Story of Hockey's Greatest Record by Mike Brophy

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...have the earlier published report that his death “may have been caused by an overdose of heroin,” which in these pages doesn’t seem like an accident. Assael offers a good starting point for another book to build on his revelations.

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Neely capably explores the complexity of his subjects with polish and finesse, looking carefully and thinking deeply.

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McKnight gives an exemplary history of hockey itself and adds excellent chapters on related subjects such as how changes in hockey arenas have affected how the sport is broadcast, and appends a survey of significant announcers from the past whose influence lives on today.

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