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Bloody Confused

Chuck Culpepper

A sportswriter burns out, moves across the pond, adopts footie and lets loose his inner hooligan. Overwrought but not without charm.

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The Domino Diaries

Brin-Jonathan Butler

Gripping—if eyebrow-raising—memoir explores Cuban boxing, including a chat with Teófilo Stevenson and a tryst with Castro's granddaughter.

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Saban

Monte Burke

Insidery, detailed and absorbing. Come for the chapter titled "Why Can't He Be Happy" and stay for the one called "Miami Vice."

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Twelve Yards

Ben Lyttleton

Everything you never knew you wanted to know about penalty kicks, although the drama doesn't quite hold for all 313 pages.

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