Presents an irreverent study of the history of sports that combines real-life facts, offbeat trivia, fantastical exaggerations, and humorous personal anecdotes

Painstakingly faithful to its title, Kenny Mayne’s book is neither complete nor is it particularly accurate. Ostensibly an A-to-Z encyclopedia of all known sp

The rules of the game have changed in the past hundred years, but human nature has not. "In March [1892] Stanford and California had played the first college fo

Lance Allred was probably the last person you'd expect to make it in professional sports. Not only did he grow up on a polygamist commune in Montana, he struggl

The process of converting the ‘past’ into ‘history’ involves engagement with a multitude of different sources and methods, and sports historians inevita