Crimson &amp; Gold: The Denver Pioneers' Magical Run to the 2004 National Championship follows the Pioneers through their incredible, unpredictable drive to the program's first national championship in 35 years. 
Go behind the scenes and learn the thoughts of the players and coaching staff as the Pioneers rallied from a two-goal deficit in the national semifinals against Minnesota-Duluth, and why, at the end of their incredible journey, there was little doubt they would hold off a late Maine power play in the title game to secure the program's sixth national championship. Then join the celebration as Crimson &amp; Gold follows the raucous Denver homecoming that greeted the team and their hard-earned trophy. 
The electricity that surrounded the Pioneers throughout their NCAA tournament run, from their thrilling victories against Miami of Ohio and North Dakota in the NCAA West Regional to the frenzied atmosphere of the Frozen Four, is recaptured through the insightful writing of Pat Rooney who covered the team all season for the Rocky Mountain News. 
Included in Crimson &amp; Gold are comprehensive stat pages, biographies on each national championship player, and recaps of DU's glorious hockey history, all wrapped in a volume bursting with an impressive collection of action photos.

Crimson & Gold: The Denver Pioneers' Magical Run to the 2004 National Championship

Pat Rooney

KCI Sports Publishing

Officially licensed by the University of Utah and featuring a foreword by the "Voice of the Utes'" Bill Marcroft, BCS Breakthrough: Utah's Historic 2004 Season takes you game-by- game through the Utes' compelling 2004 season with game stories, player and coach features including in-depth stories on Head Coach Urban Meyer and Heisman Trophy candidate Alex Smith, game and season stats and a behind-the-scenes look at how Utah overcame tremendous odds to forge a triumphant path to their first Bowl Championship Series game in school history. The full-color, commemorative hardcover also includes an eye-popping 24-page section on the Utes' historic appearance in the Fiesta Bowl featuring game photos and stories, as well as coverage of all the team functions and bowl events leading up to the big game! BCS Breakthrough: Utah's Historic 2004 Season is unquestionably the most comprehensive review of one of the most unforgettable seasons in Utah football history. A valued addition to any Utah fan's personal library.

BCS Breakthrough: Utah's Historic 2004 Season

Dirk Facer

Sports & Outdoors

The 2004-2005 college basketball season provided University of Illinois fans with some of the greatest moments in program history. In Head Coach Bruce Weber’s words and with his insights, Bruce Weber: Through My Eyes provides the Illini Nation with a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most amazing seasons in college basketball history, including a 29-0 start, 15 weeks atop the national rankings, an NCAA record-tying 37 victories and a compelling style of play that captivated the country. Through My Eyes also offers a revealing look at the man who orchestrated such an unforgettable season. Find out how Weber learned the game from a father who coached, the adjustments he needed to make to get the team to buy into his style when he first arrived at Illinois, how he kept his squad focused on St. Louis and the Final Four in the midst of a media circus, how he dealt with the pressure of being ranked #1, and how he was able to continue on as a coach and son despite the loss of his mother during the Big Ten tournament. Coach Weber shares his thoughts on the early-season win over Wake Forest that vaulted the Illini to the #1 ranking in the country. He comments on tough road wins over Wisconsin and Michigan State and the road trip to Purdue, where he squared off against his mentor, Gene Keady. Weber talks about the NCAA regional game against his alma mater, UW-Milwaukee, the amazing comeback against Arizona, the craziness of the Final Four, and Illinois’ battle against North Carolina in the national championship game. Bruce Weber: Through My Eyes takes you into the locker room and onto the court to learn firsthand the strategies and stories that made this an unforgettable Illinois season.

Bruce Weber: Through My Eyes An inside look at the man, the coach and the greatest season in Illini history.

Bruce Weber

Mark Tupper

Biographies & Memoirs

Throughout the years the University of Wisconsin football program has provided Badger fans with many memorable moments at Camp Randall StadiumÃ‚Â—the running of Heisman Trophy winners Alan The Horse Ameche and Ron The Great” Dayne; the rough-and-tumble days of the ’1951 Hard Rocks; 1942 legends like Elroy Crazy Legs” Hirsch and Dave Schreiner; the Matt Schabert-to-Lee Evans touchdown pass to beat #3-ranked Ohio State in 20’03; and the 1981 upset of #1-ranked Michigan. Which moment is the most memorable? Let the great debate begin. The 2005 Wisconsin football season slogan, Celebrate the Legacy,” is exactly what author Mike Lucas does as he takes an inside look at the players, coaches and teams who make up The 25 Greatest Moments in Camp Randall History. Lucas, who has covered the Badgers in five different decades dating to the late 1960s, painstakingly researched each of the greatest moments and has ranked them in order of their importance and impact on the UW progam. Read firsthand accounts from the players and coaches who helped make Camp Randall one of the most difficult places for opponents to play and the # 4-rated college football venue according to a 2004 ESPN ranking. Featuring an impressive collection of color throughout, with forewords by current Badger head coach Barry Alvarez and former Badger football great and athletic director Pat Richter, The 25 Greatest Moments in Camp Randall History promises to be a cherished keepsake for Wisconsin fans everywhere.

The 25 Greatest Moments in Camp Randall History

MIKE LUCAS

Football (American)

When Bill Snyder arrived as head football coach at Kansas State University prior to the 1989 season, he inherited the worst NCAA Division I football program on planet Earth. In 93 previous seasons, the Wildcat football record was a miserable 299-510-40. The program had earned exactly one league title, that coming in 1934, well before Snyder was born. In the years just prior to SnyderÃ‚Â’s arrival, the Wildcats had slumped to their worst, even by K-State standards. The program had lost 13 games in a row, and except for one tie, and had not rung the victory bell in 27 games. Seventeen years later, SnyderÃ‚Â’s orchestration of the greatest turnaround in college football history defines the American dream of achieving the unimaginable. This is his story, from Bill SnyderÃ‚Â’s unique viewpoint, of the process by which he helped transform a program considered the laughingstock of college football into one that won 136 games over seventeen years including eleven bowl appearances and seven seasons of at least ten wins. ItÃ‚Â’s also the story of SnyderÃ‚Â’s own triumphant journey, one that forced him at a young age to deal with his own lack of discipline and academic shortcomings in a single-parent family, one that saw him climb to the top of big-time college football, and one that ultimately brought him face-to-face with the toughest decision of his life. Bill Snyder: They Said It Couldn't Be Done captures, in SnyderÃ‚Â’s candid, upfront style, the action behind the scenes in running a major college football program, the strategies employed by early K-State coaches to change the culture of losing that had permeated an entire university, and the magic with which Snyder pulled off the Miracle in Manhattan.

Bill Snyder: They Said It Couldn't Be Done

Bill Snyder

Mark Janssen

Despite inheriting a moribund college football program, and half-empty stadium, Barry Alvarez never compromised his values, never flinched Â— even after a 1-10 first season Â— and never stopped believing in his blue print for success at the University of Wisconsin. 
By establishing a solid foundation, adhering to fundamentals and demanding an uncommon toughness from his players, Alvarez became the architect of three Rose Bowl triumphs in the Â‘90s and became the schoolÂ’s all-time winningest football coach. While changing the culture of the sport on the Madison campus, raising expectations to heretofore unthinkable levels, Alvarez left an indelible mark on the Badgers during his 16 seasons on the sidelines. Not only did Alvarez take over a Big Ten footwipe and build the program into national prominence, but he sustained the success by sticking to a plan rooted to his upbringing in Western Pennyslvania and his exposure to three legendary coaches, NebraskaÂ’s Bob Devaney, IowaÂ’s Hayden Fry and Notre DameÂ’s Lou Holtz. 
In his autobiography Â— DonÂ’t Flinch Â— Alvarez talks about the lessons that he learned from his mentors, the hurdles that he had to overcome as a young assistant and high school coach, and the challenge of taking over his own college program while living in a fishbowl, especially from his familyÂ’s perspective. Alvarez maps out a strategy and game plan for young coaches who are seeking to achieve similar goals, and he also talks about his future as Wisconsin athletics director, and the future of college football.

Don't Flinch - Barry Alvarez: The Autobiography The Story of Wisconsin's All-Time Winningest Coach

Barry Alvarez

If ever a sports franchise could afford to run on cruise control, the Green Bay Packers could, with their guaranteed sellouts and 65,000-person season ticket waiting list. But Bob Harlan never let that happen. Harlan joined the team in 1971, was elected as its president in 1989 and became the single biggest force in re-establishing the Packers as an elite NFL organization both competitively and financially. In the 18 years that Harlan was in charge, the Packers went to the playoffs ten times, played in two Super Bowls, won one of them and lived through only three losing seasons an incredible feat in the era of salary caps and free agency. Perhaps Harlan s greatest moment as chief executive came in 2000 when he was widely recognized as the driving force behind the passing of a local referendum allowing for the renovation of historic Lambeau Field. In his autobiography Green and Golden Moments Harlan invites Packers fans to reminisce with him about the highs and lows of a career spent in sports. From his time at Marquette University with legendary coach Al McGuire to winning a World Championship with Stan Musial and the St. Louis Cardinals to his 36 years with the Green & Gold, Harlan shares his stories and offers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the greatest franchises in professional sports: the Green Bay Packers. This is the story of how a kid from Iowa who wanted to be a sports writer built a career, in his own low key, unassuming way, as one of the most effective executives in any game in America.

Green And Golden Moments: Bob Harlan And The Green Bay Packers

Dale Hofmann

Bob Harlan

The 1982 Milwaukee Brewers, affectionately dubbed Harvey s Wallbangers after legendary manager Harvey Kuenn, carved a permanent niche in the hearts of Milwaukee Brewers fans with their captivating march to the 1982 World Series. Led by future Hall-of-Famers Robin Yount, Paul Molitor and Rollie Fingers, this close-knit, blue-collar team captured the very essence of the city, a major reason why those players remain so popular 25 years after that glorious summer. Where are the 82 Brewers today? Many remain in baseball but others found different paths to take in retirement. Their stories are as varied as their personalities and the unique roles they served on that championship club. In the first-ever compilation of interviews with each player on the roster, we learn what moments remain vivid from that season, and how the experience affected their lives for years to come. Told in their own words, Where Have You Gone, 82 Brewers? recalls many of the anecdotes and memories from the 82 season that have never before been printed. Some, no doubt, have been embellished over time. But isn t that the fun of it?

Where Have You Gone '82 Brewers?

Tom Haudricourt

Baseball

Naturally, the Green Bay Packers beat the hated Chicago Bears in the first game ever played at Lambeau Field. How else could the National Football League s most storied stadium possibly begin? In the half century since Gary Knafelc caught Babe Parilli s fourth-quarter touchdown pass to stun the heavily favored Bears, Lambeau Field has been the scene of countless thrills for fans from coast to coast. Brett Favre to Kittrick Taylor for 35 yards and the first touchdown in a Hall of Fame quarterback s unparalleled career; the Packers and the Washington Redskins trading punches in a record shattering 48-47 Monday Night slugfest; Vince Lombardi being carried off the field after his first heart stopping victory as a head coach; Ron Wolf near tears in the end zone as the Packers return to glory; and of course, Bart Starr plunging over the goal line to end the historic Ice Bowl. The place they called City Stadium when it was built for the princely sum of $967,000 is celebrating its 50th birthday, and ranking its most golden memories is a daunting task. But Cliff Christl and Dale Hofmann have taken it on and relived them all in The 25 Greatest Moments in Lambeau Field History. Their painstaking research, first hand accounts from players and coaches and a dramatic collection of color and black and white photos put the reader right back in the stands. Nothing has been overlooked in this inside account of the best Lambeau Field has to offer. It s a keepsake that all true Packer fans will want for their libraries.

The 25 Greatest Moments In Lambeau Field History

Cliff Christl

Bo knows hoops. As a member of the exclusive 500-win club, University of Wisconsin head coach Bo Ryan has the second highest winning percentage among active coaches (with at least 500 victories) in college basketball, second only to North Carolina's Roy Williams. Ryan's formula for success can be traced back to UW-Platteville, where he won four national championships during a memorable 15-year run punctuated by two undefeated seasons. But there was still another hill to climb for Ryan, the all-time winningest coach in Division III history. After a short layover at UW-Milwaukee, where he coached the Panthers to their first back-to-back winning seasons in eight years, Ryan welcomed the challenge of proving himself all over again at the Big Ten level. And it didn't take long for Ryan to make his mark with the University of Wisconsin basketball program. In his first season, he guided the Badgers to their first share of the conference title in 55 years. Since then, Ryan has raised the bar to unprecedented heights, leading the Badgers to the four winningest seasons in school history. Ryan's first six teams averaged 23.7 wins per season, capped by the program's first ever No. 1 national ranking and a school record 30 victories in 2006-07. The victory record was broken the next year as the 2007-08 team finished 31-5. Ryan's competitive fire, attention to detail and commitment to executing the fundamentals has been at the core of his success, along with his signature Swing offense. And it all serves as a valuable road map for young coaches. In his autobiography Another Hill To Climb Ryan talks about the many people who have influenced his journey, beginning with his formative years in Chester, PA., where the 'street-smart'' Ryan nurtured his point guard mentality. Known as a fascinating storyteller, Ryan also talks about the hurdles and the highlights that accompanied each step, and the importance of developing a plan that will transcend any level of competition.

Bo Ryan: Another Hill to Climb

Bo Ryan

Biographies

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