Over 100 interviews from current/former coaches, players, personnel execs, analyst and entertainers on their love for the game of football

A collection of stories about high school students from one end of the social spectrum to the other.

A one-click, damn he’s funny, enemies-to-lovers romance and sexy love story with the hottest quarterback in the NFL. From USA Today Bestselling author, Lisa Lang Blakeney, comes an enemies-to-lovers, football romance set in the world of professional NFL football. “In front of me, you can do anything. Say anything. Don't hide from me. Ever.” -Saint Stevenson I hate sports and he is football royalty. I like quiet and predictable, but he's sex and swagger personified. I didn't particularly care for Saint Stevenson the first moment I laid eyes on him. But his warped brain seemed to process our initial meeting as foreplay. I don’t care that he’s filthy rich. Or that I can’t stop staring at him. Or that I need to remember to breathe when he’s in my presence. He is nothing but a distraction. From my five-year master plan. That’s why I’m going to hate every minute of this. Right? The Nighthawk Sports Romance Series: Saint Wolf Diesel Jett Rush Freak Brick *** Themes of this novel are: sports football romance, enemies-to-lovers, friends to lovers, romance series, romantic comedy, new adult romance Topics for this novel include: Sports romance, football romance, college sports romance, sports romance books, sports romance series, sports romance angst, sports romance baby, sports romance box set, sports romance comedy, sports romance enemies to lovers, sports romance high school, sports romance novels, sports romance player, sports romance standalone, sports romance suspense, sports romance trilogy, sports romance virgin, college football romance books, sports romance with baby, romantic comedy, billionaire romance, love scenes, sex, steamy romance, good girl bad boy, contemporary romance, fated love, strong hero, strong heroine, professional football, US football, college football, friends to lovers, bestselling romance, new adult romance

For every athlete or sports fanatic who knows she's just as good as the guys. This is for fans of The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen, Grace, Gold, and Glory by Gabrielle Douglass and Breakaway: Beyond the Goal by Alex Morgan. The summer before Caleb and Tessa enter high school, friendship has blossomed into a relationship . . . and their playful sports days are coming to an end. Caleb is getting ready to try out for the football team, and Tessa is training for cross-country. But all their structured plans derail in the final flag game when they lose. Tessa doesn’t want to end her career as a loser. She really enjoys playing, and if she’s being honest, she likes it even more than running cross-country. So what if she decided to play football instead? What would happen between her and Caleb? Or between her two best friends, who are counting on her to try out for cross-country with them? And will her parents be upset that she’s decided to take her hobby to the next level? This summer Caleb and Tessa figure out just what it means to be a boyfriend, girlfriend, teammate, best friend, and someone worth cheering for. “A great next choice for readers who have enjoyed Catherine Gilbert Murdock’s Dairy Queen and Miranda Kenneally’s Catching Jordan.”—SLJ “Fast-paced football action, realistic family drama, and sweet romance…[will have] readers looking for girl-powered sports stories…find[ing] plenty to like.”—Booklist “Tessa's ferocious competitiveness is appealing.”—Kirkus Reviews “[The Football Girl] serve[s] to illuminate the appropriately complicated emotions both of a young romance and of pursuing a dream. Heldring writes with insight and restraint.”—The Horn Book

Origin Stories: The Pioneers Who Took Football to the World charts the growth of the game in each major footballing country, from the very first kick to the first World Cup in 1930. Football's global spread from muddy playing fields to colossal, purpose-built stadiums is a story of class, race, gender and politics. Along the way, you'll meet the people who established football around the world and discover the challenges they faced. Featuring interviews with leading historians, journalists, club chairmen and descendants of club founders and players, Origin Stories tells the fascinating country-by-country tale of how football put down its roots around the world. The sport's early growth includes a cast of English aristocrats and 'Scotch professors', French tournament pioneers, international merchants, keen students, raucous rebels and more. Origin Stories shows that football's early development was a truly global team effort.

This is a book about football. It's about unconditional love for a club, even when it doesn't always seem to love you back. But it is also a book about much more than that. Anthony Clavane loves Leeds - certainly the football club, but also the city, and the tribes that make it. Now that he is an exile in the South, his frequent pilgrimages to the stadium speak for themselves. But he no less loves the rarely-glimpsed back-streets of his youth; and even has a feel for the long-gone slums where his ancestors once settled. Leeds is his promised land; idealised and unreachable, yet still it defines him. 'Sports writing at its very best' Daily Telegraph

"The story of a young man from small-town Iowa who decided to take his own life rather than continue his losing battle against the traumatic brain injuries (CTE) he had sustained as a no-holds-barred high school football player, and at the same time a larger story about the hot-button issues that football raises about masculinity and violence, and about what values we want to instill in our kids"--