Advantages: The fast paced narrative matches the pace of life in the saddle Disadvantages: A touch one-dimensional, never delving into personal things
With all the revelations about the systemised doping culture surrounding Lance Armstrong's team in the 1990s, it was interesting to read a story of a time before cycling was embroiled in one drugs scandal after another. Although perhaps not as memorable ...
Advantages: Keeps the family name going Disadvantages: I dont get royalties!
...As a child the Prof, my grandfather, was a figure of legend. Unfortunately he slipped his mortal coil several years before I was born, however I was lucky enough to be raised in the same boxing gymnasium that he founded in the Marylebone Road in London. ...
Advantages: Excellent, well written, well researched biography. Disadvantages: Not a thing
~ ~ Ben Hogan was born in 1912 in Dublin, Ohio, the youngest of three children. His father owned the local blacksmith’s shop, and there was nothing in the young Hogan’s childhood that would have indicated that as an adult he would become (arguably) the gr ...
Advantages: Interesting look into top-level cricket, good coaching pointers too Disadvantages: Sometimes suffers from being too defensive
England's Ashes win of 2005 is the highpoint of English cricket so far this century, and probably the most memorable test series since Botham's Ashes in 1981. The man who plotted the 2-1 win over the Aussies, coach Duncan Fletcher, enjoyed an eight-ye ...
There are serious sports autobiographies and the then there are books like this, written specifically to make their money by being serialized in the broadsheets with chunky controversial chapters making good tabloid copy, the Boycott rant an example of he ...
