Títulos em Esportes

Il ragioniere Walter Vismara ha un problema. Il suo nuovo datore di lavoro, il Tosetto, sarà di certo una brava persona, però ha una mania, quella per il "folber", e obbliga i suoi impiegati a strazianti allenamenti, ogni giovedì, in vista della partita dell'anno, la grande sfida scapoli-ammogliati del 1° maggio. Purtroppo a Vismara del calcio non importa nulla, ma è stato subito nominato portiere titolare della squadra. I colleghi già lo chiamano "il Zamora", come il famoso portiere del Real Madrid, anche se le sue doti atletiche e agonistiche sono nulle.

Hockey Stories is a fictional tale of two hockey players from rural Saskatchewan who find themselves on a winning NHL team. Billy Sinatra is accused of inappropriately organizing players to achieve the Stanley Cup win. Keeper was the goalie on his team. The story takes us from a confrontation in a first class airplane cabin, to NHL Head Office interviews, and back into the early junior league days of both players. Full of puns and light-hearted banter, the book’s narrator, El Gordo, brings in the tone of a play-by-play commentator.

A classic true story of sporting rivalry - unto death.

Blessed with good looks and elite talent, Lincoln Ross is destined for greatness. He has all the tools to be the next Tiger but just can't get out of his own way. The lure of a beautiful girl and the taste of a cold drink is often too much temptation for the young man.

She's a former Olympic figure skater whose world turned upside down. He's a pro football player who never let go of the past. What happens when these two finally have their second chance, and a stalker threatens everything?

Fighting against our relationship turns into keeping it a secret… most importantly from her father. At first, it's fun sneaking around, but then it feels like every time we're close to coming clean, something happens to stop us. Then, life takes another detour as the reminder that life is short plows into me. It's moments like these that make me think long and hard about the future. For the first time, the twelve years between us start to have some meaning as I wonder whether I'm robbing her of the future she deserves.

Ford’s love life isn’t non-existent, it’s just hopelessly one-sided. And the only woman he’s ever wanted—his childhood best friend, Amber—doesn’t reciprocate his feelings. So why bother dating? When Amber’s fiancé leaves her pregnant without health insurance, she’s prepared to do it all alone—until childbirth causes complications with her heart and she needs minor heart surgery. Ford proposes a plan: a quickie wedding, insurance for Amber and her baby girl, and two years of platonically wedded bliss.

I was a forever-bachelor kind of guy. I never planned on settling down. I never wanted a family of my own. Until a phone call came, the one woman I'd secretly loved my entire life needed my help.

She’d be the perfect catch if he could take his eye off the ball. Emmy Kasper knows exactly how lucky she is. In a sport with few opportunities for women at the pro level, she’s just landed her dream job as head athletic trainer for the San Francisco Felons baseball team. Screwing up is not an option.

Joe Skelton has never written anything longer than a shopping list, but now his brain tumor is making him write a novel. It's a baseball novel about a crippled janitor who cleans up at a forgotten minor league field, and who is accidentally discovered to be a perfect never-misses hitter. Will Joe die before we find out whether the Joltin' Janitor makes it to the big leagues? An imagined Roger Angell leads an unforgettable ensemble of quirky characters on a gentle and poignant race to discover the meaning of baseball, fate, will, and chance.

Minor league umpire Alice Darling loves everything about baseball. That means hunky ball players are strictly off limits—dating one would be professional suicide. With a young daughter and a brother to care for, she can’t afford to slip up. Truth is, as a young, stupid, nineteen-year-old townie, she did once date a player. That’s how she wound up with her precious, nine-year-old daughter…and a determination to never make that mistake again.

Hakeem was an all-American ball player who had offers for a full ride to just about every Division 1 school across the country. Everything changed when his parents died in a fatal car accident, leaving him to care for himself and his twelve-year-old sister. Seven years later, Hakeem is a senior at a local college, doing the best he can to ensure his sister Kaliyah graduates from high school while he balances hustling and college to ensure better days are on the horizon.

As it turns out, I can't stay away. Life keeps throwing us together, and it seems like she's everywhere all at once. She's in the same house as me, in the bedroom next to mine as I dream about what she's doing in there. She's interning at the baseball stadium when I'm there to focus on the game, and her boss has assigned her to shadow me as we work on a project together.

I knocked up my sister's co-worker. And I didn't even know her name. I know. This sounds really bad, but listen, I can explain. To hockey fans, I'm known for my strength and skills on the ice. To women, I'm known for my talent and endurance in the bedroom.

Novalee Heart liebt ihre Familie, ihre Freunde und Musik. Dagegen verabscheut sie egomane Menschen – besonders selbstverliebte, überbezahlte Profisportler. Der Radiosender, bei dem sie ihr Volontariat absolviert, wird überraschenderweise von dem Baseballstar Liam Cross aufgekauft. Und ausgerechnet der neue Eigentümer hört mit an, was Novalee von Leuten wie ihm hält ... Aufgeben ist für Novalee trotzdem keine Option, schließlich ist ihr größter Wunsch, Radiomoderatorin zu werden.

Per migliaia di chilometri, in auto, a piedi, su traghetti, bus e funivie, una carovana piena di colori tenta di stare dietro al ritmo furibondo imposto dai ciclisti che in tre settimane girano tutta l’Italia, dalla costiera amalfitana agli aspri profili del Vajont. Ne fa parte anche uno scrittore, che fin da bambino sognava di partecipare al Giro d’Italia e si butta in quest’avventura con entusiasmo assoluto, pronto a infiammarsi per l’epica che il ciclismo da sempre sprigiona. Ma presto scoprirà che la tenacia e la passione dei corridori sono solo una parte della storia.

Ich hätte das Angebot meines Bosses, mich in seinem Ferienhaus zu erholen, nicht annehmen sollen. Denn als der General Manager der Philadelphia Pucks plötzlich selbst hier auftaucht, kommen wir uns näher, als es vermutlich angebracht ist. Früher hätte ich Brads Vorschlag sofort abgelehnt, doch nach meinem gewonnenen Kampf gegen den Krebs im letzten Jahr habe ich gelernt, das Glück am Schopf zu packen. Sein Anwesen in Hawaii gleicht einem Paradies... zumindest, bis plötzlich ein wildfremder, splitterfasernackter Typ vor mir steht und ich auf der Flucht vor ihm im Fenster stecken bleibe.

After spending the last twenty-five years in prison, former professional wrestler "Bad Guy" Brian Hearns is willing to do anything for a second chance. Then he learns the truth about the dark circumstances that landed him behind bars, and an old acquaintance gives him the means to go back in time and set things right.

The boy next door isn't next door anymore. He's in Vegas, preparing for the upcoming NFL season, and I'm still stuck in the small Midwestern town where we grew up. We should be together, but people wanted us apart. They won. Secrets are uncovered, and lives are forever torn apart.

Humor is the best part of baseball. To survive a long season, the everyday schedule, and the failure that is inherent in the game people have always needed a good laugh about a ballgame from time to time. The stories in Baseball Humor: A Collection of Stories by Master Storytellers poke good fun at the struggles, ambition, greed, romance, envy, wisdom, and quirks of the players, managers, wives, and fans. Included are “The Pitcher and the Plutocrat” by P G Wodehouse, “Horseshoes” and “Alibi Ike” by Ring Lardner, “The Red-Headed Outfield” and “The Rube” by Zane Gray, and many others.