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TAKE THEM OUT OF THE BALL GAME–PLEASE! From star running back Bryon “Bam” Morris’s interesting (and totally illegal) sideline career to the 1950s Kansas City A’s sneaky relationship with the New York Yankees; from French golfer Jean Van de Velde’s epic choke on 18 at the 1999 British Open to the infamous Cleveland Ten-Cent Beer Night riot of 1974; from Hungary’s bloody 1956 Olympic water polo match with the Soviet Union to the definitive analysis of basketball coach Larry Brown’s sartorial evolution and hoops maven Mike Fratello’s hair devolution–if it’s bad and sports related, then it’s likely in The Worst of Sports. An uproarious collection of the most controversial and regrettable moments in major pro and college athletics, with a sprinkling of the obscure, The Worst of Sports is a compendium of abject failure, harebrained decision-making, avarice, and rank stupidity–in other words, the stuff that some athletes, and fans, are best at. Whether you’re a casual fan or a face-painting zealot, you’ll find plenty to root for (or against) in The Worst of Sports. “Original and funny, this book will entertain the pessimist that lurks in all of us who don’t root for the Yankees.” –Mike Greenberg, author of Why My Wife Thinks I’m an Idiot

The fourth amazing, astonishing, all-action adventure journal of Charlie Small! Having escaped the clutches of the evil Puppet Master, Charlie joins Wild Bob France’s gang, the Daredevil Desperados of Destiny, whose sole aim is to get rid of the outrageous outlaw Horatio Ham and his band of hired gunslingers. Charlie, aka the Lariat Kid, brings down Ham’s posse of gunslingers, takes part in a daring bank raid, is caught up in a ferocious gunfight, lands up in jail, and is about to be sacrificed to the Great Bird of Death. Will Charlie escape? Will Ham be defeated? Only by reading Charlie’s extraordinary diaries will you find out!

The rags-to-riches tale of controversial media personality Dave Portnoy. “17 years ago, I started a little gambling rag in my parents’ basement called Barstool Sports. I had no idea, nobody could predict, the wild ride that it would set my life on.” —Dave Portnoy, January 2020 Dave Portnoy’s unpredictable rise to fame and fortune didn’t happen overnight. And as Barstool’s Kevin Clancy explained, “It’ll never happen again.” From handing out newspapers alone in a dirty subway station, to selling his digital media company for half a billion dollars, and then buying it back for $1, Portnoy’s 20-year, controversy-filled Barstool Sports adventure is one you have to read to believe.

And yes that is Dion carrying Tom Landry off the field in Superbowl XII.

Ever since his first gatecrashing adventures during the 1940s at movie theaters in his hometown San Diego, Dion Rich has made daring, ininvited appearances at Superbowls, All-Star games, the Olympics, Kentucky Derby races, Academy Award ceremonies, celebrity parties, and other exclusive events and ceremonies--often right under the noses of security personnel looking for him. In "The Life of Dion Rich," he reminscences about his favorite adventures and gives away, for the first time, the secrets he has used to become "the World's Greatest Gate Crasher." Written with the late sportscaster, Charlie Jones, and acclaimed sportswriter, Bill Swank, and accompanied by more than 200 photographs, "The Life of Dion Rich" is the fascinating and revealing story of this one-of-a-kind American icon.