marți, 30 iunie 2015

The Best-Selling Sports Books

According to The New York Times, here are the best selling sports books:

Trying to decide what to read on the beach this holiday weekend? Here are the best-selling sports books in May 2015, according to the New York Times best-seller list.
1. THE BOYS IN THE BOAT by Daniel James Brown (Penguin). The University of Washington’s eight-oar crew and its quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
2. UNBROKEN by Laura Hillenbrand (Random House). An Olympic runner’s story of survival as a prisoner of the Japanese in World War II; now a movie.
3. MY FIGHT / YOUR FIGHT by Ronda Rousey with Maria Burns Ortiz (Regan Arts). An Olympic judo medalist and Ultimate Fighting Championship women’s bantamweight champion and Hollywood celebrity tells her story.
4. H IS FOR HAWK by Helen Macdonald (Grove/Atlantic Inc.). A British woman who is also a lifelong falconer raises a fierce goshawk, rekindling the spirit of an Arthurian sport as she reflects and quotes from T. H. White’s book “The Goshawk.”
5. PEDRO by Pedro Martinez and Michael Silverman (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Memoir from an eight-time All-Star, three-time Cy Young Award winner and World Series champion pitcher.
6. THE JOURNEY HOME by Jorge Posada (Dey Street/HarperCollins). A former Yankees catcher tells his story, from the ball fields of Puerto Rico to behind home plate at Yankee Stadium.
7. THE A SWING by David Leadbetter with Ron Kaspriske (St. Martin’s). A golf instructor shares the evolution of his swing theories.
8. NATURAL BORN HEROES by Christopher McDougall (Knopf).Scrutinizing historical and contemporary figures, the author of “Born to Run” discusses what makes a hero and what fitness techniques we can learn from some of them.
9. TY COBB by Charles Leerhsen (Simon & Schuster). A biography that takes another look at a controversial outfielder who died in 1961.
10. EVERY DAY I FIGHT by Stuart Scott with Larry Platt (Blue Rider). A memoir by an ESPN anchor and commentator who died of cancer in January.
And One . . .
11. BIG DATA BASEBALL by Travis Sawchik (Flatiron). The end of the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 20-year streak of losing seasons came in 2013 when the team adopted big-data strategies.

What is your opinion?

Top 5 biggest stadiums in the world

If you wander which are the 5 biggest stadiums in the world check this:
1.Rundrago May Day Stadium – 150 000 – Pyongyang, North Korea
2.Salt Lake Stadium – 120 000 – Bidhannagar, Kolkata, India
3.Estadio Azteca – 114 463 – Mexico City, Mexico
4.Bukit Jalil National Stadium – 110 000 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

5.Camp Nou – 98 772 – Barcelona, Spain

Manchester United bid £28.6m for Sergio Ramos, according to Sky sources

Manchester United have made a bid of £28.6m for Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos, according to Sky sources.
Sky sources also understand that Ramos has told Madrid he wants to leave the club and join Louis van Gaal's side.
Widespread reports in the British and Spanish media have linked the defender, who has two years left on his contract at the Bernabeu, with a move to Old Trafford in recent weeks.
And Sky Sports Spanish football expert Graham Hunter thinks the deal could go through because the player has made it so clear to Madrid that he wants a move away.
"Ramos has told Madrid directly that he is absolutely and completely committed to leaving the club this summer, that he specifically wants them to begin negotiations with Manchester United and that he doesn't want them to negotiate with anybody except Manchester United," Hunter toldSky Sports News HQ.
"People have been questioning Sergio Ramos' intentions, whether Manchester United [are] being used as was the case a couple of summers ago when Cesc Fabregas looked like he might be available to David Moyes.

duminică, 28 iunie 2015

Phil Neville swaps TV punditry for Valencia coaching job

Phil Neville swaps TV punditry for Valencia coaching job. • Neville will replace Ian Cathro who has joined Newcastle

• Valencia manager Nuno praises Neville’s experience


Phil Neville has joined the coaching staff of Valencia. The former Manchester United and England full-back, who has been working as a pundit for the BBC, was as a coach during David Moyes’s ill-fated spell in charge at Old Trafford.

joi, 2 aprilie 2015

The signs as football wags

Aries: Nagore Aramburu
Taurus: Daniella Semaan
Gemini: Aine Coutinho
Cancer: Sofia Balbi
Leo: Anna Stachurska
Virgo: Olalla Torres
Libra: Antonella Roccuzzo
Scorpio: Clarisse Alves 
Sagittarius: Alex Gerrard
Capricorn: Shakira
Aquarius: Victoria Beckham

Pisces: Núria Cunillera