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In the 1980s, Neil Hornsby was one of very few National Football League fans in England. Never one to do anything casually, he began keeping hand-written score sheets of every game using his own tracking system. Soon he&#39;d enlisted some fellow British super fans in his mission to take football information an extra layer deeper.<br /><br />This was the beginning of Pro Football Focus, an analytics company that now supplies data to all 32 NFL teams and every major broadcasting corporation. PFF player grades appear on the screen during Sunday Night Football broadcasts, and PFF&#39;s pioneering research and analysis informs discussions at the highest level, from coaching to drafting to game-planning and player evaluation.<br /><br />In <em>Football Is a Numbers Game</em>, Matthew Coller chronicles this improbable start-up tale with unprecedented access, exploring the company&#39;s origin as a band of obsessive outsiders, its pivotal acquisition by Cris Collinsworth, and its role in the proliferation of data in the NFL and professional sports.<br /><br />Featuring a cast of memorable characters, this is a portrait of an unlikely business success as well as a behind-the-scenes look at the forces guiding modern NFL teams as they search for a competitive edge.

<p>Miami University in Oxford, Ohio&nbsp;is recognized&nbsp;for its beauty, highlighted by the red brick throughout its grounds.&nbsp;Poet Robert Frost even called it &quot;the prettiest campus ever there was.&quot; It has a nationally acclaimed business school, and it has spent the last decade providing more CEOs of Fortune 500 companies with undergraduate Miami Ohio degrees than any other.<br /><br />Yet, the best kept secret for those inside the Miami Ohio family is The Cradle of Coaches, and the astounding track record over the last century of producing some of the greatest coaches, managers, and sports executives in sports history.</p><p>In&nbsp;<i>Red Brick Magic: Sean McVay, John Harbaugh and Miami University&rsquo;s Cradle of Coaches</i>, Miami Ohio alum and pioneering sports journalist Terence Moore explores this unparalleled sports leadership legacy, from Weeb Ewbank, Paul Brown, Ara Parseghian, and Bo Schembechler to John McVay, John Harbaugh, Sean McVay, and everyone in between.</p><p>Highlighted by Sean McVay&rsquo;s Super Bowl LVI win with the Los Angeles Rams &ndash; the record fourth NFL championship captured by a team coached by a Miami Ohio alum &ndash; Moore tells the inside story of how a mid-major sports school in the Mid-American Conference has evolved into an industry trailblazer, and a true powerhouse when it comes to producing leaders and thinkers helping shape the past, present, and future of the sports world.</p>

<p>&ldquo;You can if you will.&rdquo; A phrase uttered to a young Jerry Kramer by his line coach at Sandpoint High School in tiny Sandpoint, Idaho, that would go on to push him to a celebrated NFL career with the Green Bay Packers and a sentiment that he would repeat to close his speech at his long awaited enshrinement into the Pro Football Hall of Fame almost seven decades later in 2018.</p><p>In the spirit of Jerry Kramer&rsquo;s unforgettable and bestselling collaborations with the great Dick Schaap, his first book about his life and career in over two decades,&nbsp;<i>Run to Win</i>&nbsp;will serve as Kramer&rsquo;s definitive statement about a remarkable life and career of perseverance, teamwork, and gridiron greatness. Spanning the beginning of the legendary Vince Lombardi era through Kramer&rsquo;s confoundingly long wait to receive his bust in Canton, Kramer tells his amazing story as one of the most memorable and toughest Packers in franchise history.</p><p>Including insightful commentary about the eminently intriguing Lombardi, as well as fellow Hall of Fame teammates Jim Taylor, Forrest Gregg, Willie Davis, Bart Starr, Emlen Tunnell, and many more,&nbsp;<i>Run to Win</i>&nbsp;is a must read for all true Packers fans from one of the legends who helped lay the foundation for one of the most identifiable and successful franchises in the history of professional sports.</p>

<strong>A behind-the-scenes perspective on Buffalo Bills history from longtime broadcaster John Murphy</strong><br /><br />As the longtime play-by-play voice of the Buffalo Bills, John Murphy knows what it means to live and breathe Bills football. In<em> If These Walls Could Talk: Buffalo Bills</em>, Murphy opens up about his life and career in Buffalo and provides insight into the team&#39;s inner sanctum as only he can, from Jim Kelly to Josh Allen and beyond.<br /><br />Featuring conversations with players and coaches past and present as well as off-the-wall anecdotes only Murphy can tell, this indispensable volume is your ticket to Bills history.

Famously&nbsp;selected as the 199th pick, in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft, Tom Brady&#39;s career trajectory is nothing short of legendary.<br /><br />By the time he hung up his cleats in 2023, Brady held nearly every major quarterback record, including career passing yards, career touchdown passes, and quarterback wins. He won seven Super Bowls with the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers and was named Super Bowl MVP five times.<br /><br />These moments and memories are collected in <i>Sports Illustrated Tom Brady,&nbsp;</i>a fully illustrated gift book commemorating the career of the NFL&#39;s greatest player of all time.<br /><br />Featuring more than 100 photographs and unparalleled written coverage from the pages of&nbsp;<em>Sports Illustrated&trade;</em>, this new volume provides readers a complete portrait of the player whose impact on football history cannot be overstated&mdash;from his earliest days in New England to Super Bowl euphoria and beyond.

<strong>The riveting true story of a sham school run by longtime con men whose scheme crashed and burned live on television</strong><br /><br />In August of 2021, a high school football team became the talk of the nation. A featured matchup on ESPN pitted national powerhouse IMG Academy against a school called Bishop Sycamore—a program with an unfamiliar name, a barely functional website, and a long list of baggage.<br /><br />The supposedly elite Bishop Sycamore lost 56-0, embarrassing broadcasters and setting social media alight. Within days, the program fired its coach, deleted its website, and prompted a string of official investigations.<br /><br />The story of the school, however, began three years earlier when an unknown program called COF Academy launched in Columbus, Ohio. Journalist Andrew King and whistleblower Ben Ferree pushed for years to expose this exploitation of high school football and education systems which left vulnerable students in the crossfire and culminated in a series of lawsuits and criminal charges.<br /><br /><strong>Readers will learn how a pair of old friends hatched a disastrous plan in this rigorously reported tale of ambition, greed and the allure of sports.</strong><br /> 

<div><strong>Fully revised and updated!</strong><br /><br /><em>My First Book of Baseball</em>, a&nbsp;Rookie Book from Sports Illustrated Kids, coaches young kids through the game of baseball with a visual retelling of an actual MLB game--from the first pitch to the game winning hit! Strikes, outs, steals, foul balls, home runs and more are all explained using a fun mix of <em>Sports Illustrated</em> action photography, simple text with engaging graphics, and a full glossary of essential baseball terms and phrases.<br /><br />An illustrated rookie player character also appears on every page, providing fun facts to help the next generation of fans better understand the game. Perfect for beginning readers, <em>My First Book of Baseball</em> is meant to be a shared reading experience between parents and their young minor league rookies before, during, and after the ball game.</div>

Troy Polamalu was the guiding spirit behind a Pittsburgh Steelers dynasty that won two Super Bowls and led the NFL in total defense five times during his 12-year career.<br /><br />His explosiveness and instinct shone on the field, yet is is Polamalu&rsquo;s grace and character, his humility and dignity that have made the greatest impression on those closest to him.<br /><br />This biography, the first written on the Steelers&rsquo; Hall of Famer, was over a decade in the making. Author Jim Wexell covered every step of Polamalu&#39;s career and interviewed countless family members, friends, coaches, team officials, front office executives, and teammates to produce a moving portrait of a remarkable athlete.<br /><br />Polamalu&#39;s days as a child in Santa Ana, California; his formative years in Tenmile, Oregon; his college days at the University of Southern California; and his glory days with the Steelers are all covered in this essential chronicle of a Pittsburgh great.<br /><br />&nbsp;

Featuring traditions, records, and lore from over a century of Saskatchewan Roughriders history, this guide is the ultimate resource for Rider Nation. Whether you've traveled to countless away games or are a more recent supporter, these are the 100 things every fan needs to know and do in their lifetime. Veteran sportswriter Rob Vanstone has collected every essential piece of Rider knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all from 1 to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist as you progress on your way to fan superstardom.

<div>If necessity has been the mother of invention throughout the history of professional football, it could also be said that desperation is the father. Rare are the football innovations that have occurred without an owner, general manager, coach, or player up against the wall and reaching for a way to succeed anyway. In this meticulously researched, lively book, <em>Bleacher Report</em> lead NFL scout Doug Farrar traces the schematic history of the pro game through these &ldquo;if this/then that&rdquo; moments&mdash;paradigm shifts in the game from 1920 through the present. More than just a book about schemes and strategies, <em>The Genius of Desperation: The Schematic Innovations that Made the Modern NFL </em>also tells the stories of the game&rsquo;s most prominent innovators, the adversities they endured, and the ways in which they learned to exceed their own expectations on the path to true greatness. Everyone from George Halas to Greasy Neale, Paul Brown to Sid Gillman, Bill Walsh to Chip Kelly is featured, as well as many more.</div>

<div><strong>Renowned NFL analysts&rsquo; tips to make football more accessible, colorful, and compelling than ever before</strong><br /><br />More and more football fans are watching the NFL each week, but many of them don&rsquo;t know exactly what they should be watching. What does the offense&rsquo;s formation tell you about the play that&rsquo;s about to be run? When a quarterback throws a pass toward the sideline and the wide receiver cuts inside, which player is to blame? Why does a defensive end look like a Hall of Famer one week and a candidate for the practice squad the next? These questions and more are addressed in <em>Take Your Eye Off the Ball 2.0</em>, a book that takes readers deep inside the perpetual chess match between offense and defense. This book provides clear and simple explanations to the intricacies and nuances that affect the outcomes of every NFL game. This updated edition contains recent innovations from the 2015 NFL season.&nbsp;</div>