Sports Essays

In her 20s Rachel Kushner went to Mexico in pursuit of her first love - motorbikes - to compete in the notorious and deadly race, Cabo 1000. As fellow racers died on the roadside, bikes were stolen and friends abandoned one another in the heat of the chase, she crashed at 130mph and miraculously survived; soon after, she decided to leave her controlling boyfriend and manoeuvred her way into a freer new life.

What's it like to be a trail angel and can romance truly blossom from first meeting to marriage on the Pacific Crest Trail? How do trail names get bestowed and what does it mean when you find yourself roaring back at a mountain lion? How have climate change, technology, and the sheer number of hikers affected life on the PCT? Find the answers to all these questions, and so many more, in the diverse writings gathered in Crossing Paths, an anthology of stories and poems written by PCT hikers.

棒高跳でオリンピック金メダル獲得、世界陸上６連覇、世界記録を35度更新した“鳥人”ブブカ。その後は世界陸連上席副会長、ICO理事などを務めるほかに、多数のビジネスで成功し続けている。

ボールパークを創りたい、その夢を北海道で実現した男たちの物語

今も語り継がれる世紀の名勝負 総勢50名の証言で紐解く史上最高の日本シリーズ。1992年、93年と2年間にわたって激闘が繰り広げられた西武ライオンズとヤクルトスワローズの日本シリーズ。

Chronicling the stories of 50 of India's leading Olympians for the first time ever in one comprehensive edition, Digvijay Singh Deo and Amit Bose bring you the games through the eyes of some of the best sportspersons in the country. These first-person accounts of Olympic medalists from 1948 till 2012, such as Balbir Singh, Leander Paes, Karnam Malleswari, Abhinav Bindra, and Sushil Kumar, and pioneers like Milkha Singh, P. T. Usha, and Anjali Bhagwat, reveal their hopes, superstitions, grit, and challenges.