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100 Yards of Glory is a colorful and engaging coffee table book, filled with telling photos and insightful commentary covers nearly a century of the National Football League. From the Ice Bowl to the Immaculate Reception all the great plays as well as legendary coaches and brilliant dynasties are covered.

Legendary Pictures announced that Chadwick Boseman, who has appeared on “Justified,” “Fringe” and “Castle,” will play Dodger baseball great Jackie Robinson and will be joined by Harrison Ford to play Branch Rickey, the Brooklyn Dodgers GM who with Jackie Robinson broke the color line in baseball in 1947.

More important than being a Cardinal or Ranger fan, the 2011 World Series will go down for anyone who appreciates the sport as one of the true Fall Classics of All-time and now Major League Baseball Productions presents all 7 games on 8 DVDs.

He enjoyed outstanding success as a player and general manager for the Los Angeles Lakers, was voted one of the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players and his image has long been the NBA’s logo, but in his new book, West By West My Charmed, Tormented Life (co-authored by Jonathan Coleman), Jerry West presents a lot more of the dark shadows that have haunted him behind the glory of the arena spotlight.

Coinciding with the 2011 World Series, A&E Home Entertainment and Major League Baseball have assembled an impressive presentation of 10 exceptional and iconic games on DVD – BASEBALL’S GREATEST GAMES that include the clutch performances of players like Carlton Fisk, Bill Mazeroski and Derek Jeter.

Using both traditional portrait angles and innovative looks at the players, Charles Conlon captured the soul of baseball taking over thirty-thousand photographs from 1904 to 1942. Over 200 hundred of his most celebrated appear in his latest book- “The Big Show: Charles Conlan’s Golden Age Baseball Photographs”, a follow up to Baseball’s Golden Age which esteemed author Roger Angell of The New Yorker called “the best book of baseball photographs ever published”.

The 1991 world series had it all – stellar defensive play; savvy moves by both managers; Kirby Puckett pumping his fist as he circled the bases after his 11th-inning home run off Charlie Leibrandt to win Game 6, and Veteran Jack Morris caps it with an extraordinary Game 7 pitching performance against the relentless Braves with a 10 inning masterpiece in a game that had only one run.

Ten individuals representing a wide range of skills were enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame this weekend in Springfield, Massachusetts.

94-year-old former overcoat salesman from Philadelphia, Ed Sabol, in a long, long overdue tribute to the game of football will join the sport’s immortals this weekend after being inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The founder of NFL Films, who simply revolutionized how we experience the game, will be presented by his son Steve, NFL Films President who is battling brain cancer.

They swing from both sides of the plate. They maximize the time to see the pitch. They get a head start to first base. They come from many different positions (even catcher, Ted Simmons).