Cook, Kevin

"The untold story of a national trauma--NASA's Challenger explosion--and what really happened to America's Teacher in Space, illuminating the tragic cost of humanity setting its sight on the stars"--Provided by publisher.

New Yorker Catherine "Kitty" Genovese became the face of crime in America in 1964 when she was stabbed to death on her front door stoop--and bystanders did nothing. Thirty-eight of her neighbors watched the crime but "didn't want to get involved." But is this the whole story? On the fiftieth anniversary of her murder, author Kevin Cook presents the real Kitty Genovese and reconstructs the crime itself. His account of what really happened on the night she died is the most accurate and chilling to date.

Between the Immaculate Reception in 1972 and The Catch in 1982, pro football grew up. In 1972, Steelers star Franco Harris hitchhiked to practice. NFL teams roomed in skanky motels. They played on guts, painkillers, legal steroids, fury, and camaraderie. A decade later, Joe Montana?s gleamingly efficient 49ers ushered in a new era: the corporate, scripted, multibillion-dollar NFL we watch today. Kevin Cook?s rollicking chronicle of this pivotal decade draws on interviews with legendary players?Harris, Montana, Terry Bradshaw, Roger Staubach, Ken ?Snake? Stabler?to re-create their heroics and off-field carousing. He shows coaches John Madden and Bill Walsh outsmarting rivals as Monday Night Football redefined sports? place in American life. Celebrating the game while lamenting the physical toll it took on football?s greatest generation, Cook diagrams the NFL?s transformation from second-tier sport into national obsession.

Contains photographs and articles from "Sports Illustrated" that recount moments, courses, and professionals throughout the history of golf, and also discusses records, technique, equipment, and more.

Examines the sport of golf in the twenty-first century with a focus on the younger generations of players, and describes life for the teenagers at the David Leadbetter Golf Academy, and also covers the lives of David Leadbetter, Michelle Wie, Ty Tryon, Mu Hu, and others.