sports rivalries

Chronicles the 1944 Army-Navy football game against a backdrop of World War II, the deteriorating health of the president, and food shortages, in an account based on interviews with surviving players that offers insight into how the game united and uplifted a struggling nation.

Chronicles the fifty-year rivalry between the Duke and Carolina basketball teams, examining the contrasts between the two schools and their teams and describing some of the games that have influenced the rivalry.

Sports columnist Mike Vaccaro examines the century-long New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox rivalry and discusses the 2003 and 2004 American League Championship Series.

Photographs and text recount some of the greatest rivalries in the past one hundred years of sports history.

Examines the relationship and rivalry between NFL quarterbacks Joe Montana and Steve Young.

Examines the history of six long-standing college football rivalries including Yale vs. Harvard, Army vs. Navy, and Michigan vs. Ohio State.

Chronicles the major league baseball rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, from the Red Sox early days when the Yankees were perennial losers, through the Babe Ruth era, Ted Williams versus Joe DiMaggio, all the way through the American League Championship Series in 2004. Includes photographs.