Ergebnis für "Nick" in Sport

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Fever Pitch, by Nick Hornby read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. As a young boy, growing up in the Home Counties and watching his parents' marriage fall apart, Nick Hornby had little sense of home. Then his dad took him to Highbury...

Known for his iconic, bestselling books on both relationships (High Fidelity) and sports fandom (Fever Pitch), beloved writer Nick Hornby finally brings his two great talents into one irresistible story: a hilarious and emotionally gripping novel about soccer, love, and not selling yourself...

Eine völlige Fremde heiraten? Kein Ding. Mit ihr unter einem Dach leben, ohne mit ihr im Bett zu landen? Unmöglich. Eishockeystar Kiran Maloney soll bald das millionenschwere Familienunternehmen übernehmen. Dafür fehlt ihm laut Familienoberhaupt jedoch noch die Ehefrau. Als er die kratzbürstige Eve beim Duschen in der Mannschaftskabine überrascht, ist er überzeugt, eine Frau gefunden zu haben, in die er sich keinesfalls verlieben wird.

Lord Andrew believes that he has won the vote for the club chairmanship: his time has come, his victory is total. But not complete. What's the next challenge for the tennis player who's just won Wimbledon? To win the Australian Open in Oz of course, so our hero bids farewell to his beloved tennis club and sets off on his journey to Melbourne (known in the 'real' world as HM Prison North Sea Camp in Lincolnshire where our hero is serving out his sentence for arson having set fire to the tennis club's racquets.)

Ein Deal mit einem notorischen Regelbrecher? Keine gute Idee! Oder etwa doch? Nach seinem Rauswurf bei den Washington White Sharks lässt es Abraham Stelany krachen. Der ehemalige Center trinkt, feiert die Nächte durch und macht all das, worauf er als Footballprofi verzichten musste. Seine Karriere und was andere über ihn denken ist ihm egal. Doch das ändert sich, als ein prekäres Video von ihm an die Öffentlichkeit gerät. Als Abe eines Morgens mitten auf der Straße von einer Fremden geküsst wird, ahnt er nicht, dass er mit genau dieser Frau schon bald einen verrückten Deal eingehen wird.

Nothing like this has ever happened at a footy club. Honest. The embittered fringe players of an unnamed football club follow rules of their own. Kidnapping a teammate’s dog for a gag. Taking potent painkiller suppositories to get through the living nightmare of a sponsors’ event. Ticking...

Ich habe eine Schwäche für Eishockeyspieler. Ganz besonders für Josh Randolph, den erfolgreichsten Goalie der NHL. Das Problem? Ich bin seine Agentin. Nach dem College bin ich im Familienunternehmen eingestiegen, bei der Pierce Sports Agency. Weil ich nicht unter meinem Dad arbeiten wollte, bin ich zu meinem Onkel nach L. A.. In den letzten zehn Jahren ist mein Privatleben auf der Strecke geblieben, doch solange ich meinen Klienten die besten Deals verschaffen kann, bin ich glücklich. Unter anderen betreue ich auch Josh ... der gerade den Stanley Cup geholt hat.

Sophie has never really thought about money, and she certainly hasn’t thought about football, hasn’t so much as uttered a word about it – save for the few times she sees her uncle Keith at family gatherings, asking in mock politeness how his favourite team – Leicester City FC – might...

A gloriously absurd tennis comedy of delusion, desire and one man’s unstoppable sense of his own greatness. The third in the “Confessions” series, Les Conquêtes Normandes d'un Tennisman Vieillissant (The Norman Conquests of an Ageing Tennis Player) picks up where ‘The Courting Lives’ left off and tracks Andy’s inexorable rise to become the greatest GOAT: or ‘Greatest of All Time’ as they have it in contemporary tennis parlance, by challenging for the French Grand Slam at Roland Garros.

"Mi innamorai del calcio come mi sarei poi innamorato delle donne: improvvisamente, inesplicabilmente, acriticamente." La passione per il football e l'amore per la squadra del cuore possono, si sa, essere così intensi da trasformare radicalmente la vita di un uomo, e così è stato per Nick Hornby, tifoso dell'Arsenal fin da bambino. In Febbre a 90' racconta in prima persona, con tono ironico e affettuoso, appassionato e divertito, gli entusiasmi e le depressioni, le impagabili emozioni e le cocenti delusioni vissute da un "ossessionato» del pallone.

Confessions of an Ageing Tennis Player is the guidebook that navigates dreams and disappointments, failures and triumphs—a satirical mid-life-crisis handbook for everyone who has never quite fulfilled their fantasies, on the tennis court or anywhere else. This is the story of a man of a certain age who has never quite moved on from his youthful fantasies as he goes from sporting zero to sporting hero. And back again. Set against the backdrop of Wimbledon in 2013 when Andy Murray was the first British player to win the championship for decades, unsurprisingly, ‘Andy’ makes an appearance.

A cricketing legend faces his final innings in this moving BBC radio drama starring Kenneth Cranham and Benedict Cumberbatch Easter Monday, 1908, and there's snow on the ground as ageing icon W.G. Grace arrives at the Oval to contemplate another day in his lifelong cricketing obsession. He can't...

The hilarious sequel to Rick Reilly’s beloved bestselling golf novel Missing Links Life is going pretty well for Raymond “Stick” Hart. He’s happily married to the former Ponkaquogue Municipal Golf Club assistant pro, the beauteous Cajun firecracker Dannie, raising his rambunctious son...

Eric Simms had always lived life in the fast lane. But after a devastating accident while attempting to qualify for the Indianapolis 500, he wakes up in a hospital room not remembering the race or his injuries—only that something is terribly wrong. In place of his own memories, he finds vivid recollections of other lives—lives that span across time and space. From a carpenter in 1980s Chicago to a soldier on the beaches of Normandy, from a butler in Victorian London to a cowhand in the untamed Colorado frontier, Eric experiences them all with terrifying clarity.

Seven centuries into the future, aliens and humans compete for the greatest prize in the universe: the Galaxy Bowl trophy. Quarterback Quentin Barnes enters his third season at the helm of the Ionath Krakens. He's reshaped the team in his image, and the time for excuses is over; it's win, or be replaced. Quentin's championship quest carries him and his teammates across the galaxy in a brutal 12-game season fraught with injury and death. But he faces more than just on-field challenges.

Set in a lethal American professional football league seven centuries in the future, The MVP puts huge humans on the field with four alien races, creating a game that is faster, stronger, and deadlier than anything we know today. Star quarterback Quentin Barnes has spent three seasons putting together a hard-hitting, hard-fighting team that combines rookies, rejects, discarded free agents, and seasoned veterans from all five species. He has fought against racism and bound his team together through shared sacrifice, blood, tragedy, and victory.

Set in a lethal American professional football league seven centuries in the future, The MVP puts huge humans on the field with four alien races, creating a game that is faster, stronger, and deadlier than anything we know today. Star quarterback Quentin Barnes has spent three seasons putting together a hard-hitting, hard-fighting team that combines rookies, rejects, discarded free agents and seasoned veterans from all five species. He has fought against racism and bound his team together through shared sacrifice, blood, tragedy, and victory.

Set against the backdrop of a professional American football franchise seven centuries in the future, the Galactic Football League puts huge humans on the field with five alien races to create a game that is faster, stronger and deadlier than anything we know today. Quarterback Quentin Barnes has grown from a racist, small-town standout into a proven leader, a uniter of peoples, and the Galaxy’s most-famous being. Willing to do anything for his team, his Ionath Krakens have bound together through shared sacrifice, tragedy, devastating losses and thrilling victories.

In the seaside town of San Benedetto, soccer (or calcio) is more than just a sport: it's an obsession. Twenty-two-year-old Etto, however, couldn't care less about soccer. His twin brother Luca, a rising soccer star, died tragically in a motorcycle accident, and their mother, unable to cope with her grief, drowned herself on the anniversary of Luca's death.

Billy Phelan, small-time bookie, pool hustler, and poker player, becomes an unlikely go-between in the 1938 kidnapping of an Albany, New York, political boss's son.