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Scoreboard, baby

a story of college football, crime, and complicity
2010
Go behind the scenes of the 2000 Huskies' Cinderella story to discover a timeless morality tale about the price of obsession, the creep of fanaticism, and the ways in which a community can lose even when its team wins.

Say it ain't so

Lenny and his best-friend Mike investigate rumors of foul-play going on behind Mike's new position as starting catcher for their seventh-grade baseball team, as the former pitcher claims he was framed for theft, which got him kicked off the team last year.

Foul play

the dark arts of cheating in sport
2013
An exploration of cheating in sports, discussing how athletes gain an unfair advantage, levels of wrongdoing, significant cases, and more.

The hundred yard lie

the corruption of college football and what we can do to stop it
1989

Arctic adventure

2013
For the third leg of the robot races the contestants must choose between three possible Arctic routes, all of which are dangerous--especially when some of the racers are not playing by the rules.

The Secret race

inside the hidden world of the Tour de France
2013
This is the book that rocked the world of professional sports and revealed the doping culture that surrounded the sport of cycling, the Tour de France and its most iconic champions. Former Olympic Gold medalist Tyler Hamilton was once one of the sport's elite and a member of Lance Armstrong's inner circle.

Illegal procedure

a sports agent comes clean on the dirty business of college football
2013
Former sports agent Josh Luchs looks at the real economy of college football, how agents win players legally and otherwise, the staggering sums colleges make from an unpaid workforce, the shortfalls of supposed full-ride scholarships, and the myth of a college education given to scholarship athletes.

The world according to Monsanto

pollution, corruption, and the control of the world's food supply
2010

Say it ain't so

2014
"Lenny gets jealous when Mike makes the school baseball team, but together they and Other Mike stumble upon a stealing signals scandal that could go further up than anyone knows"--Provided by publisher.

Cycle of lies

the fall of Lance Armstrong
2014
Chronicles fourteen years in Lance Armstrong's career, from his cancer recovery to his fall after revelations about his systemic doping became public.

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