Títulos en Deportes

Atene 2004, le prime Olimpiadi post 11 settembre. Oltre 1 miliardo d'euro in sicurezza. Un esercito di circa 70 000 uomini e 1250 telecamere, quattro volte più che a Sydney. Ma non sarà un'edizione da ricordare solo per questo. Sono le Olimpiadi del "centenario", ma con otto anni di ritardo, sono le Olimpiadi con la più alta partecipazione femminile di sempre e sono, soprattutto, le Olimpiadi di Ivano Brugnetti. È il 20 agosto del 2004 e Ivano Brugnetti corre la 20 km di marcia.

For 36 years, Jerry Howarth ushered in eternal hope each spring and thrived in the drive of each fall as the voice of the Toronto Blue Jays. In 1982, the lifelong avid sports fan joined Tom Cheek as full-time play-by-play radio announcer for the Blue Jays, and for the next 23 years, “Tom and Jerry” were the voices of the franchise. Jerry became part of the fabric of a nation and a team, covering historic moments like the rise of the Blue Jays through the 1980s that culminated in back-to-back World Series Championships in 1992 and 1993.

Hervé Barmasse, uno degli ultimi eredi dei grandi alpinisti del passato, racconta la sua storia: le salite su cime inviolate in terre lontane e il ritorno al Cervino, la sua montagna; la passione, la preparazione, la fatica e l'emozione della scalata; l'apertura di nuove vie; i momenti in cui il coraggio delle decisioni si intreccia alla fragilità e alla paura. In parete, come nella vita.

Londra, 6 agosto 2012. È in corso la gara della carabina a 50 metri tre posizioni. Si spara sdraiati, seduti, in piedi. Le Olimpiadi sono l'unica vera vetrina per il tiro a segno, uno di quelle discipline che trovi nella pagina "altri sport" dei giornali sportivi. Se le trovi. Il dominatore è un italiano, Niccolò Campriani. Arriva ai 10 tiri finali con un vantaggio di 8 punti, solo lui può buttare via tutto. E sembra intenzionato a farlo.

La superficie della Guinea Equatoriale è attraversata da est a ovest dal Rio Mbini, a nord il fiume Ntem percorre il confine col Camerun, a Sud il Rio Muni quello col Gabon. Lo sport più diffuso è la pelota, importata dagli spagnoli. "Unità, pace e giustizia" recita il motto del popolo Fang, un'etnia, tra le più diffuse del Paese, Eric Moussambani Malonga nel 2000, a 22 anni, ha potuto partecipare alle Olimpiadi, quelle Sidney. Specialità: 100 metri stile libero. Eric prima d'ora non era mai stato in Australia, non aveva mai visto una piscina olimpionica lunga 50 metri e fino a pochi mesi prima, otto per l'esattezza, non sapeva nuotare.

Depois de ficar totalmente sem combustível, o avião da LaMia, voo 2933, no qual viajavam jogadores, dirigentes e convidados do clube de futebol Chapecoense, da Bolívia a Colômbia, se arrojou na madrugada de 29 de novembro de 2016 perto do Monte Gordo, quando se aproximava para pousar no Aeroporto Internacional José María Córdova. No acidente morreram 71 das 77 pessoas que embarcaram no avião. Sobreviveram três jogadores, dois tripulantes e um jornalista. Neto, um dos jogadores sobreviventes, conta aqui seu relato e experiência após alguns meses do acidente.

Lo zar semplicemente era imbattibile. E lo zar era Aleksandr Popov. Per tutti era lo zar, ma per gli americani era Big Dog, il cagnaccio. Perché non ti mollava mai. Inesorabile. Nel 2000 Popov si presenta a Sidney per affrontare la sua terza olimpiade. Può diventare l'unico nuotatore nella storia a vincere tre ori di fila nella stessa specialità. Il traguardo è lì ad un passo.

How do you turn ranting about hockey into a career? Steve “Dangle” Glynn is a YouTuber, podcaster, and sports personality from Toronto who managed to turn a 16-second online rant about the Maple Leafs into a career in sports media. From video blogging in his parents’ house at 19 to yelling on televisions across Canada at 28, Dangle has been involved with some of the most important sports companies in the country.

Christy Mathewson was one of the most dominant pitchers ever to play baseball. Posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of the “Five Immortals,” he was an unstoppable force on the mound, winning at least 22 games for 12 straight seasons and pitching three complete-game shutouts in the 1905 World Series. Pitching in a Pinch, his witty and digestible book of baseball insights, stories, and wisdom, was first published over a hundred years ago and presents listeners with Mathewson’s plainspoken perspective on the diamond of yore.

When she retired at age 19, Shannon Miller did so as one of the most recognizable gymnasts in the country. The winner of seven Olympic medals and the most decorated gymnast, male or female, in US history, Shannon tells a story of surviving and thriving. A shy, rambunctious girl raised in Oklahoma, Shannon fell in love with gymnastics at a young age and fought her way to the top.

"I can lick any son of a bitch in the world." So boasted John L. Sullivan, the first modern heavyweight boxing champion of the world, a man who was the gold standard of American sports for more than a decade and the first athlete to earn more than a million dollars. He had a big ego, a big mouth, and even bigger appetites. His womanizing, drunken escapades, and chronic police-blotter presence were godsends to a burgeoning newspaper industry.

Honus Wagner, whose career in baseball (most of it with the Pittsburgh Pirates) stretched from 1895 to 1917, was the first American sports superstar of the twentieth century. One of the first five players to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in its first year (1939), he was probably the best shortstop in baseball's history.

From Para to Dakar is so much more than the story of one man reaching the Dakar finish line. It is a story of friendship and respect, compassion and kindness. It is about defying the odds to reach a dream, it is about grit, endurance and raw courage, and it is inspiring in its true heroism. 

On the evening of July 27, 1985, five hikers made a fateful choice to climb Yosemite's fabled Half Dome, even as the sky darkened and thunder rolled. By night's end, two would be dead from a lightning strike, three gravely wounded, and desperate EMTs would be overseeing a harrowing midnight helicopter rescue.

When boxing was bold, bright, and glamorous and the fights were the hottest sporting events of the year, Joe Frazier was king as the Heavyweight Champion of the World. From 1970 to 1973 he reigned. With a career record of 32-4-1 with twenty-seven knockouts and an Olympic gold medal, Frazier leaves little question that he was one of the greatest fighters of all time.

The Climb is a true, gripping, and thought-provoking account of the worst disaster in the history of Mt. Everest: On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by experienced leaders attempted to climb the highest mountain in the world, but things went terribly wrong...

Since 1950, the instantly recognizable voice of Vin Scully has invited listeners to “pull up a chair” for his peerless play-by-play sports reporting. Recruited and mentored by the legendary Red Barber, Scully has narrated NBC’s Game of the Week, twelve All-Star Games, eighteen no-hitters, and twenty-five World Series, describing players from Duke Snider to Orel Hershiser to Manny Ramirez, with hundreds in between.

In questa storia ci sono un sacco di iuta riempito con stracci, pannocchie e mattoni, c'è un'isola caraibica dove l'amore di un popolo è più forte del richiamo dei soldi, ci sono adolescenze povere e turbolente con vite salvate solo dal sudore e dall'odore forte delle palestre, ci sono le regole che vengono cambiate perché a volte le persone vanno più veloci delle leggi. In questa storia ci sono tante storie, quelle di Joe Frazier, di Teofilo Stevenson, di George Foreman, di Ken Norton, dei loro incontri e dei loro scontri.

As a boy in the 1890s he went looking for thrills in a rural Georgia that still burned with humiliation from the Civil War. As an old man in the 1960s he dared death, picked fights, refused to take his medicine, and drove off all his friends and admirers. He went to his deathbed alone, clutching a loaded pistol and a bag containing millions of dollars worth of cash and securities. During the years in between, he became, according to Al Stump, "the most shrewd, inventive, lurid, detested, mysterious, and superb of all baseball players." He was Ty Cobb. In Cobb, Stump tells how he was given a fascinating window into the Georgia Peach's life and times when the dying Cobb hired him in 1960 to ghostwrite his autobiography.

Life hit Pat and Tammy McLeod hard when their son Zach collapsed on a high school football field; he had sustained a severe brain injury. Facing the devastating possibility that things would never be the same for their beloved son, they committed to staying strong as a family and finding a way to maintain their footing. But the journey would reshape their faith, their family, and their future in ways they never saw coming.