Saturday, September 19, 2009

Holiday Gift Ideas: Books by Sports Personalities

It’s the Holiday season and I’m sure that some of you are searching for the perfect gift for that special sports lover in your family. Well, I’m here to help. I just happen to have a list of sports books that have come out during the past year that’ll be sure to fill the gaping hole (that beer and a hours of therapy obviously can‘t) of any sports fan on your holiday shopping list this season. Whether it’s a hardcore college football fan, or that Timberwolves fan that you just can’t seem to talk off the roof, there is a book on this list for fans of all shapes and sizes.*

Jesus Help Me…Literally by Charlie Weis

We almost won! The Herm Edwards Story by Herm Edwards

Beautiful Blondes and The Damned Cowboys by Tony Romo

Tuesdays with Marbury by Mike D’Antoni

The Sun Also Sets by Steve Nash

Oh SNAP! by Joe Theismann and Lawrence Taylor

Applebees be Dangerous as Shit These Days by Plaxico Burress

Limping to Perfection by Tom Brady

I’d Sooner be in Oklahoma than living with the Lions by 2008 Heisman Winner Sam Bradford

The Drinkest Drank in Drunktown (or Hooters) by John Daly

A Farewell to Labrums by Dusty Baker

The Never Ending Story of Boredom - PS, I Secretly Hate the Red Sox by Joe Buck

How to Survive an NFL Career with a body made from Cheap Taiwanese Glass by Steve McNair

Cheeseburgers, Milkshakes, Double Deep Fried Pudding Pops and 160 million dollars - The CC Sabathia Diet

Growing up in the Lollipop Guild by Dustin Pedrioa

I just won’t f@%*ing die and 100 other ways I’m just like Dracula by Raider Owner Al Davis

How to Lose Friends and Alienate Fanbases by Brett Favre

Where am I, Joe? by Troy Aikman

Floundering in the NBA by Tyler Hansbrough

All the King’s Horses and All the King’s men are moving to New York Soon by Lebron James

Ordinary People…who Date Madonna by Alex Rodriguez

A Life of Being Paid in Reality Checks by Manny Ramirez


I’m still here and I still play for the Spurs by Tim Duncan

Actually, I do hate you Cub Fans by God (first book was NY Times best seller of the Millennia)

Flagged, Paper Bagged and Tagged as the Worst of All-Time by The 2009 Detroit Lions

Zen and the Art of Flopping by Manu Ginobli

There may be a God, Detroit by Barry Sanders Jr.

Fear and Loathing in the Closet of Vogue Magazine by promiscuity policeman Sean Avery

Atlas Shrugged…So I Punched Him in the Face by Steve Smith

The 6 Dollar Man (And Still Overpriced) by Adam Morrison

How to Strike Out Without Really Trying by whiff-master Ryan Howard

3 Drop Steps to Being Unsuccessful by Rex Grossman

The Story of the SEC: Speed + Experience = Championships

I have no F@*%ing Clue What I’m Talking About by Tony Kornheiser

Hines Wald: Numbell One Smaltest Leceiver by Hines Wald

Woooooooooo: The Life and Times of The Nature Boy by Rick Flair

You Gonna Eat That? by Eddy Curry

The Story of Me and Me and Me and Me and Me and Me and finally, Me by more than a dozen Hershel Walkers

Hi, Welcome to McDonald’s, Would You like to Try a Detached Retina? by Kimbo Slice

Not So Great Expectations by Padre Pitcher Jake Peavy

The Bell Keeps Tolling, Yet Somehow I’m Still Here by Bengal Coach Marvin Lewis

2008: A Suck Odyssey by former Lions GM Matt Millen

Catch 23 by Cleveland Cavaliers Owner Dan Gilbert

People at IHOP F@*%ing Hate Me by Michael Phelps

Welcome to the Intensive Care Unit Mr. Green by Trent Green

Screw the Recession! How much do you want? by Yankee Owner Hank Steinbrenner

How to Piss Off Everyone Gambling on Today’s Game by NFL ref Ed Hockuli

Oh-Hell-I’m-Overmatched by Every Player Ever from Ohio State

I’m so bored now, I could choke somebody - Bobby Knight with a forward by Latrell Sprewell

The Secret…CHEATING by Bill Belichick

* Except for soccer. Soccer is not actually a sport and is considered a wildly inappropriate activity to people with attention spans, athletic ability and the men who don’t enjoy being bored to death by other men running around like Liberace at a sequin factory.

Is there one that I missed? Leave it in the comment section below…

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