Triple Overtime

The ultimate guide to the stories and the stats, the highlights and lowlights from every team in the NHL, by the author of Double Overtime Hello, hockey fans! It’s time to drop the puck for Triple Overtime Triple Overtime is your best guide to the stories and the stats, the highlights and lowlights from every team in the NHL. Canada vs. the U.S.—Who has the best hockey movies? Love at Second Sight: The new-and-improved Winnipeg Jets! The night the Chicago Blackhawks were born The best small forwards! Where did Steven Stamkos learn to score? Edmonton’s boy band of brothers Experience hockey history and hijinks like you never have before!

The NCAA tournament has always been an enormous spotlight for the underdog. Bracket-clenching fans root for long shots to upset the elite squads and score an unexpected win on their tournament sheetOif they picked them, that is. And normally thatis all the fans expectoone or two incredible upsets. But these days, the underdogs are breaking throughO Cinderella is an inside look at the NCAAis mid-major basketball programs, which fight for their shot to battle the elite teams for the national championship. The rise of mid-majors has been one of the most thrilling sports stories in recent years, and itis only getting bigger. Michael Litos spent the 2005n06 season on the frontlines of the Colonial Athletic Association, home of such mid-major standouts as Old Dominion, Hofstra, VCU and George Mason. With complete access to coaches and players, he found incredible tales of pressure and passion. He saw coaches and players struggling to put together a championship drive in spite of uncompromising schedules and half-filled arenas. And he was there when the ultimate underdog turned the world of college basketball upside-downoGeorge Masonis historic run to the Final Four. In what was dubbed iThe Year of the Mid-Major, i Cinderella delivers the ultimate look at what it means to be an underdog and how the sport of college basketball is being transformed. In the last great league of amateur athletes, this is the story of those who play for the love of the gameOand the thrill of achieving the unbelievable. Michael Litos spent the first eight years of his career as a magazine writer and editor for several sports and sports memorabilia titles with Landmark Communications. He has interviewed sports celebrities from Mickey Mantle to Alex Rodriguez to Brett Favre.

Two books on hoops weren’t enough, so now there’s a third: Basketball Championships’ Most Wanted™, focusing on the best, worst, greatest, and most amusing from basketball’s long history of championships in college and the pros—mens’ and womens’, ABA and CBA, and the Olympics as well! March Madness is one of the most exciting times of year, when anything can happen and Cinderella looks for her prince, sometimes even finding him. And when May and June roll around and the NBA playoffs are in full swing, the intensity ratchets up as the professionals take center stage. Basketball Championships’ Most Wanted™ celebrates both of these and more, with fifty top-ten lists on topics like unlikely heroes and fantastic freshmen in the NCAA tournament, some of the best long-range gunners in play-off history, players who stepped up big-time with a triple-double in important games, the best buzzer-beaters of all time, and even teams that excelled in the regular season but withered in the pressure cooker. The championship hunt is the most thrilling and action-packed time of the year in basketball, and now you can relive all the excitement. Get in on all the “hoopla” with Basketball Championships’ Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of March Mayhem, Playoff Performances, and Tournament Oddities.

Spanning decades with great columns from renowned writers, this time capsule recounts the greatest moments in Kansas lore and tracks the chronological progression of sports writing styles from the esoteric to the ultra-modern. The account details the Jayhawks from their roots of glory to their modern-day triumphs.

The Kentucky Wildcats are the winningest program ever in the history of college basketball, and The University of Kentucky Basketball Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive book ever assembled on the history of the team. Written in a unique, easy-to-read style that brings to life the exploits of Wildcat teams and players, the book includes details about The Fabulous Five, The Fiddlin? Five, Rupp?s Runts, The Unforgettables, Jamal Mashburn, Rex Chapman, Melvin Turpin, Kenny Walker, John Wall, and more. Coaching greats Adolph Rupp, Joe B. Hall, Eddie Sutton, Rick Pitino, Tubby Smith, and John Calipari are also featured, as are each of their seven NCAA championships. This is a must read for all Kentucky basketball fans.