Sports & Recreation audiobooks

Eight Weeks to Optimum Health, New Edition, Updated and Expanded - Abridged

By: Andrew Weil, M.D.

Narrated by: Andrew Weil, M.D.

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now expanded and updated: The audiobook in which one of America's most brilliant and respected doctors gives us his famous program for improving and maintaining health--already the program of choice for hundreds of thousands.
Eight Weeks to Optimum Health focuses all of Andrew Weil's expertise in both conventional and alternative medicine on a... Read more

The Rant Zone - Abridged

By: Dennis Miller

Narrated by: Dennis Miller

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In this fourth installment of his acclaimed Rants series, the bestselling author, Emmy® Award-winning talk show host and wise-cracking analyst for ABC's Monday Night Football makes hamburger out of society's most sacred cows as only he can, with the kind of allusions that require high SAT scores—or at least a smart crib sheet. In ranting against... Read more

Wins, Losses, and Lessons - Abridged

By: Lou Holtz

Narrated by: Lou Holtz

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When I die and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be. For reasons known only to God, I was asked to write an autobiography. Most people who knew me growing up didn't think I would ever read a book, let alone write one.—Lou HoltzFew people in the history of college sports... Read more

Begegnungen mit dem Licht

By: Bernhard Jakoby

Narrated by: Bernhard Jacoby

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Gefühlvolles Hörerlebnis mit Meditation und Musik, das Hoffnung und Trost beim Verlust eines Menschen gibt. \n \nEine Phantasiereise in die andere Welt: Bernard Jakoby führt ein einfühlsames Gespräch mit dem Hörer, er gibt konkrete Hinweise zur Sterbebegleitung, beschreibt den inneren Sterbeprozess und erläutert das Thema Nachtodkontakte.... Read more

Neue Lebensenergie

By: Inka Jochum

Narrated by: Stefanie Müller

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Mensch fühlt sich gesund, vital und voller Kraft, wenn die Energie frei fließen kann. Die Basisübungen des Stillen Qi Gong sind ein Teilgebiet der Traditionellen Chinesischen Medizin. Sie vitalisieren alle Organe und lösen Blockaden in den Energiebahnen des Körpers. Durch das Üben wird die Yin- und Yang-Energie im gesamten Körper... Read more

Passage to Juneau - Abridged

By: Jonathan Raban

Narrated by: Jonathan Raban

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Acclaimed travel writer Jonathan Raban invites us aboard his boat, a floating cottage cluttered with books, curling manuscripts, and dead ballpoint pens. Read more

The Pro

By: Butch Harmon

Narrated by: Joseph Buttler

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Butch Harmon is the world’s number one golf coach. He taught Tiger Woods through one of the greatest stretches of victories in golf history (and, perhaps even more conspicuously, did not teach Tiger Woods following his unprecedented run), as well as superstars like Greg Norman, Adam Scott, Fred Couples, Darren Clarke, Natalie Gulbis, and Davis... Read more

Miracle in the Andes

By: Nando Parrado & Vince Rause

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes—and one man’s quest to lead them all home

“In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took—and what it actually felt like—to survive high in the Andes for seventy-two days... Read more

The Pro - Abridged

By: Butch Harmon

Narrated by: David Bishins

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Butch Harmon is the world’s number one golf coach. He taught Tiger Woods through one of the greatest stretches of victories in golf history (and, perhaps even more conspicuously, did not teach Tiger Woods following his unprecedented run), as well as superstars like Greg Norman, Adam Scott, Fred Couples, Darren Clarke, Natalie Gulbis, and Davis... Read more

Body For Life - Abridged

By: Bill Phillips & Michael D'Orso

Narrated by: Bill Phillips

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Listen to Bill Phillips as he introduces you to his Body-for-LIFE program! Change Your Mind 'Change Your Body 'Change Your Life.Imagine, just 12 weeks from now, having the lean healthy body you've always wanted and not having to turn your life upside down to get it. Imagine having the energy to be at your peak from dawn to dusk, having the... Read more

Miracle in the Andes - Abridged

By: Nando Parrado & Vince Rause

Narrated by: Josh Davis

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes—and one man’s quest to lead them all home

“In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took—and what it actually felt like—to survive high in the Andes for seventy-two days... Read more

The Big Bam

By: Leigh Montville

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

He was the Sultan of Swat. The Caliph of Clout. The Wizard of Whack. The Bambino. And simply, to his teammates, the Big Bam. From the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Ted Williams comes the thoroughly original, definitively ambitious, and exhilaratingly colorful biography of the largest legend ever to loom in baseball—and in... Read more

The Big Bam - Abridged

By: Leigh Montville

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He was the Sultan of Swat. The Caliph of Clout. The Wizard of Whack. The Bambino. And simply, to his teammates, the Big Bam. From the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Ted Williams comes the thoroughly original, definitively ambitious, and exhilaratingly colorful biography of the largest legend ever to loom in baseball—and in... Read more

Clemente - Abridged

By: David Maraniss

Narrated by: David Maraniss

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Discover the remarkable life of Roberto Clemente—one of the most accomplished—and beloved—baseball heroes of his generation from Pulitzer Prize winner David Maraniss.

On New Year’s Eve 1972, following eighteen magnificent seasons in the major leagues, Roberto Clemente died a hero’s death, killed in a plane crash as he attempted to deliver food... Read more

Game of Shadows

By: Mark Fainaru-Wada & Lance Williams

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete inside story of the shocking steroids scandal that turned the sports world upside down

For years, in the shadowy reaches of the world of sports, there were rumors that some of our nation’s greatest athletes were using steroids, human growth hormone, and other drugs to run faster, jump higher, and hit harder. But as track stars blazed... Read more

Woman's Guide to Baseball

By: Paula Duffy

Narrated by: Paula Duffy

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

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The Dark Side of the Game - Abridged

By: Tim Green

Narrated by: Tim Green

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this book, 8-year veteran of the NFL Tim Green reveals for the first time the scandals, the horrors, the abuses and also the wonders of playing football. Read more

Game of Shadows - Abridged

By: Mark Fainaru-Wada & Lance Williams

Narrated by: Arnie Mazer

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The complete inside story of the shocking steroids scandal that turned the sports world upside down

For years, in the shadowy reaches of the world of sports, there were rumors that some of our nation’s greatest athletes were using steroids, human growth hormone, and other drugs to run faster, jump higher, and hit harder. But as track stars blazed... Read more

A Woman's Guide to Football

By: Paula Duffy

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Hail Mary, Sports Widows! Get off the bench and into the game with a relationship kick off that will lead you straight into the end zone. In less than an hour, you can learn all the football basics you need to help you connect with your favorite guy.

Join in the fun as Paula Duffy, lifelong sports enthusiast and founder of Incidental Contact, a... Read more

Full Throttle

By: Robert Edelstein

Narrated by: Rex Linn

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Motor racing and mayhem, the non-stop pursuit of outrageous dreams, high-speed thrills and a really good time: these are the raw materials of Full Throttle.Curtis Turner was the most dynamic stock-car racer of all time; he wrote the book on living fast and dying young. The first NASCAR celebrity, his life embodied all that made NASCAR a hit... Read more

The Sweet Science

By: A. J. Liebling

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of A. J. Liebling's classic New Yorker pieces on the "sweet science of bruising" brings vividly to life the boxing world as it once was. It depicts the great events of boxing's American heyday, including Sugar Ray Robinson's dramatic comeback, Rocky Marciano's rise to prominence, and Joe Louis's unfortunate decline. Liebling... Read more

Sound and Fury

By: Dave Kindred

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2007 Audie Award NomineeOne of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2006Muhammed Ali and Howard Cosell, a legendary athlete and a television icon, were individually interesting, but together they were mesmerizing. They were profoundly different—young and old, black and white, a Muslim and a Jew, Ali barely literate, Cosell an editor of his... Read more

Striking Back

By: Aaron J. Klein

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

1972. The Munich Olympics. Palestinian members of the Black September group murder eleven Israeli athletes. Nine hundred million people watch the crisis unfold on television, witnessing a tragedy that inaugurates the modern age of terror.Back in Israel, Prime Minister Golda Meir vows to track down those responsible and, in Menachem Begin’s... Read more

Go Long!

By: Jerry Rice

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Football hero Jerry Rice grew up in Crawford, Mississippi, the son of a brick mason. He developed his hands by catching the bricks that his brothers threw at him. From these humble beginnings, Rice blazed a path to greatness, becoming the greatest wide receiver in the NFL and winning three super bowl rings for the San Francisco 49ers.In spite of... Read more