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    Breathe: A Life in Flow

    by Rickson Gracie ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 33 min

    From legendary Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA master Rickson Gracie comes a riveting, insightful memoir that weaves together the story of Gracie’s stunning career with the larger history of the Gracie family dynasty, showing how the connection between mind and body can be harnessed for success both inside and outside the ring.Undefeated from the late 1970s through his final fight in the Tokyo Dome in ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Ball is Round

    A Global History of Soccer

    by David Goldblatt ...
    Narrated by Liam Gerrard ...

    Unabridged

    38 hours 58 min

    The definitive book about soccer, from the author of The Games: A Global History of the Olympics. There may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of soccer are universal. No world religion can match its geographical scope. The single greatest simultaneous human collective experience is the World Cup final. In this ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Blind Side

    Evolution of a Game

    by Michael Lewis ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Abridged

    5 hours 34 min

    In football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play.When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of thirteen children by a mother addicted to crack; he does not know his real name, his father, his birthday, or any of the things a child might learn in school. And he has no serious experience playing ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Curse of the Bambino

    by Dan Shaughnessy ...
    Narrated by Ken Coleman ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 57 min

    The Boston Red Sox's loss to the New York Yankees in the final game of last year's playoffs has been called "the game of the century," evidence that the rivalry between the Red Sox and the Yankees is hotter than ever. In the wake of that defeat, author and Boston Globe sports columnist Dan Shaughnessy has updated his bewitching story of the curse that has lain over the Red Sox since they sold Babe ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Black Fives

    The Epic Story of Basketball’s Forgotten Era

    by Claude Johnson ...
    Narrated by Claude Johnson ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 46 min

    A groundbreaking history of Black basketball African Americans were making moves in basketball generations before the rise of the NBA. Their pioneering efforts helped popularize the sport in big cities and small towns alike and shaped the game we know and love today. From the invention of the game in 1891 to the racial integration of all-White professional leagues in the 1950s, dozens of teams ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    If These Walls Could Talk

    Boston Red Sox

    by Jerry Remy, Nick Cafardo, Sean McDonough ...
    Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 7 min

    A New York Times Sports and Fitness Bestseller The Boston Red Sox are one of the most iconic teams in Major League Baseball, with nine World Series championships and countless greats who have donned the Sox uniform. In If These Walls Could Talk: Stories from the Boston Red Sox Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box, former player and longtime broadcaster Jerry Remy provides insight into the team's ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The "Down Goes Brown" History of the NHL

    The World's Most Beautiful Sport, the World's Most Ridiculous League

    by Sean McIndoe ...
    Narrated by Sean McIndoe ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 52 min

    Sean McIndoe of Down Goes Brown, one of hockey's favourite and funniest writers, takes aim at the game's most memorable moments--especially if they're memorable for the wrong reasons--in this warts-and-all history of the NHL.The NHL is, indisputably, weird. One moment, you're in awe of the speed, skill and intensity that define the sport, shaking your head as a player makes an impossible play, or ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Sports Byline: Pierre Turgeon

    by Ron Barr ...
    Narrated by Ron Barr, Pierre Turgeon ...
    series Sports Byline Classics

    Unabridged

    26 min

    In this interview, Ron Barr talks to Pierre Turgeon, 19 season NHL center and the 34th player in NHL history to score 500 goals.Turgeon reminisces about growing up 7 hours north of Montreal, learning English, and Canada’s 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships bench-clearing brawl with the Soviet Union. ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Perfect Pass

    American Genius and the Reinvention of Football

    by S. C. Gwynne ...
    Narrated by Santino Fontana ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 53 min

    An “excellent sports history” (Publishers Weekly) in the tradition of Michael Lewis’s Moneyball, award-winning historian S.C. Gwynne tells the incredible story of how two unknown coaches revolutionized American football at every level, from high school to the NFL.Hal Mumme spent fourteen mostly losing seasons coaching football before inventing a potent passing offense that would soon shock players ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest

    by Thomas Hauser ...
    Narrated by Eric Meyers ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 22 min

    Pulitzer prize nominee and William Hill award-winning writer Thomas Hauser’s tribute to Ali, the greatest sporting icon the world has ever seen.Few global personalities have commanded an all-encompassing sporting and cultural audience like Muhammad Ali. Many have tried to interpret in words his impact and legacy. Now, Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest allows us to more fully appreciate the ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Speed Kings

    by Andy Bull ...
    Narrated by Eric Meyers ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 14 min

    In the 1930s, as the world hurtled towards terrible global conflict, speed was all the rage. It was described by Aldous Huxley as 'the one genuinely modern pleasure', and one of the fastest and most thrilling ways to attain it was through the new sport of bobsledding. Exotic, exciting and above all dangerous, it was by far the most popular event at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics. It required an ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Grand National

    A Celebration of the World's Most Famous Horse Race

    by Anne Holland ...
    Narrated by David Thorpe ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 44 min

    Every year the Grand National produces very different stories from jockeys and horses alike; uplifting scenes from a victor and heartbreak when a mere inch divides the loser from the winner at the end of nearly four-and-a-half miles and thirty challenging fences. In 1839 the first winner was aptly named Lottery. Back then, huge crowds rode to Aintree by horseback, in carriages, carts or on foot. ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Newcastle United Stole My Heart

    Sixty Years in Black and White

    by Michael Chaplin ...
    Narrated by Michael Chaplin ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 9 min

    When 5-year-old Michael Chaplin landed in a strange city of ships in the late 1950s, he looked in vain for something that would anchor him to it, make him feel at home. Then, one Saturday afternoon, it came: the roar of a crowd, and a football team to support. Young Michael became an avid Newcastle United fan, and has remained one–if sometimes disenchanted–for over sixty years.In this football ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Journey Through the Cycling Year

    by The Cycling Podcast, Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe ...
    Narrated by Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie, Daniel Friebe, Ciro Scognamiglio, Michelene Heine, Sebastien Piquet, Fracnois Thomazeau0, Orla Chennaoui1, Vidal Sancho2, Alexander Capon3 ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 5 min

    Random House presents the audiobook edition of A Journey Through the Cycling Year by The Cycling Podcast, read by Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe, plus contributions from special guests.Embark on a journey through the cycling year with The Cycling Podcast, which has been entertaining and informing fans since 2013.Richard Moore, Lionel Birnie and Daniel Friebe share their diaries ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Greater Than Gold

    From Olympic Heartbreak to Ultimate Redemption

    by David Boudia ...
    Narrated by Adam Verner ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 50 min

    One of America’s most heralded young divers, David Boudia twice went for Olympic gold, training obsessively and whole-heartedly for success. In his first Olympics, he failed miserably, not winning a single medal. Four years later saw a different story: he mounted the podium twice, winning both gold and bronze. The difference? In the intervening years, he’d changed the focus of his quest from ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Follow the Buzzards

    Pro Wrestling in the Age of COVID-19

    by Keith Elliot Greenberg ...
    Narrated by Keith Elliot Greenberg ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 30 min

    As a new decade dawned, 2020 was supposed to be the best year to be a wrestling fan. Finally, WWE had serious competition in All Elite Wrestling, and there were viable secondary promotions and a thriving international indie scene. Few in the industry realized that in China, a mysterious virus had begun to spread. By the time a pandemic was declared in March, the business-and the world-was in ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    50 Years, 50 Moments

    The Most Unforgettable Plays in Super Bowl History

    by Jerry Rice, Randy O. Williams ...
    Narrated by Mirron Willis ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 7 min

    In commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of America’s most beloved sporting event—the Super Bowl—an authoritative collection of the most pivotal plays through the decades, compiled by the legendary Jerry Rice, and illustrated with dozens of color photographs.New York Times bestseller 50 Years, 50 Moments celebrates five decades’ worth of memories, insights, and personal experiences of Super ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    A Hard Road to Glory, Volume 3 (1946-1992)

    A History of the African-American Athlete

    by Arthur Ashe ...
    Narrated by TBD ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours

    With a Foreword by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Fairytale

    A real and imagined history of Australian sport

    by H.G. Nelson ...
    Narrated by H.G. Nelson ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 58 min

    A sporting nation is only limited by its imagination. Every time this story is told it changes; something is always added, embellished or dropped from the run-on side.For more than thirty years, H.G. Nelson has been finding the poetry in the punt and humour during half-time. Now, he turns his keen eye for facts and folly to the illustrious history of our great sporting nation.In his trademark fast ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Power Players

    Sports, Politics, and the American Presidency

    by Chris Cillizza ...
    Narrated by Chris Cillizza ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 27 min

    A colorful look at how modern presidents play sports, have used sports to play politics, and what our fan-in-chief can often tell us about our national pastimes.POWER PLAYERS tells all the great stories of presidents and the sports they played, loved and spectated as a way to better understand what it takes to be elected to lead a country driven by sports fans of all stripes. While every modern ... Read more

    $55.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Rip Curl Story

    50 years of perfect surf, international business, wild characters and the search for the ultimate ride

    by Tim Baker ...
    Narrated by Jesse Lawrence ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 15 min

    The Rip Curl Story is the remarkable tale of two young surfers who pursued an audacious dream to make a living in pursuit of the ultimate ride. The brand they built, Rip Curl, not only satisfied their own surf- and wanderlust, but also inspired countless others, both fuelling and riding the wave of the global youth revolution of the late '60s.Rip Curl's mantra became 'the Search' - the chasing of ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Open Question

    Ben Hogan and Golf's Most Enduring Controversy

    by Peter May ...
    Narrated by Adam Barr ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 5 min

    In 1942, the United States Golf Association (USGA) cancelled its four golf tournaments for the duration of World War II. But then it did something different in only that year-it sponsored the Hale-America National Open on the same weekend as the cancelled US Open. The great Ben Hogan won that tournament and went to his grave believing he had therefore won a record five US Open titles. In The Open ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Red Kelly Story

    by Leonard “Red” Kelly ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Watton ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 27 min

    The life and times of the eight-time Stanley Cup winnerWhen Boston coach Lynn Patrick was asked who he’d pick between Rocket Richard or Gordie Howe he answered, “Neither! I’ll take Red Kelly!” The only player to have won eight Stanley Cups without playing for Montreal, Red began his life in hockey on the cedar swamps near Port Dover, Ontario, and went on to win accolades and championships as a ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Spotlight On Sports: High School, College, Pro, and the Olympics

    by Matthew Andrews ...
    Narrated by Matthew Andrews ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 36 min

    Learn from award winning professor Matthew Andrews in a set of five One Day University presentations on the cultural significance of sports.The history of sports is also the history of power, politics and progress. From ancient origins to groundbreaking firsts, sometimes sports is history. It has been with us through every historical period—from the indigenous tribes of premodern America, through ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial