WBleachers was published on September 9, 2003. The hardcover edition was published by Doubleday and the paperback edition by Dell. The book focuses on whether the famous Eddie Rake, former coach of the Messina High School football team, was loved or hated by his former players.
WThe Blind Side: Evolution of a Game is a book by Michael Lewis released on September 2, 2006 by W. W. Norton & Company. It focuses on American football.
WBo Knows Bo is the autobiography of Bo Jackson, who excelled in both professional football and professional baseball, before injuries ended his careers.
WA Civil War: Army vs. Navy is a book published in 1996 by popular sports author John Feinstein. In it, Feinstein writes about his experiences spending time with both American football teams of the United States Military Academy (Army) and the United States Naval Academy (Navy) during the 1995 season, leading up to the annual Army–Navy Game at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia.
WCover Up: Mystery at the Super Bowl is a mystery novel written by sportswriter John Feinstein. It is the third book in the sports beat series, along with Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery and Vanishing Act.
WEnd Zone is Don DeLillo's second novel, published in 1972.
WEverybody's All-American is a novel by longtime Sports Illustrated contributor Frank Deford, published in 1981. It was made into a motion picture, directed by Taylor Hackford.
WA Few Seconds of Panic is a nonfiction first-person narrative by Stefan Fatsis, published in 2008. The book chronicles Fatsis, a professional 43-year-old sportswriter working for The Wall Street Journal, and his attempt to play in the National Football League. Along the way, he relates the personal stories and struggles that professional football players face in the league. After some setbacks, Fatsis eventually finds some success as a backup placekicker for the Denver Broncos. The book's title comes from Jason Elam's description of being a kicker as "hours and hours of boredom surrounded by a few seconds of panic."
WFootball Dreams is a novel by the American writer David Guy.
WThe Franchise is a 1983 novel written by former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver/tight end Peter Gent.
WFriday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream is a 1990 non-fiction book written by H. G. Bissinger. The book follows the story of the 1988 Permian High School Panthers football team from Odessa, Texas, as they made a run towards the Texas state championship. While originally intended to be a Hoosiers-type chronicle of high school sports holding together a small town, the book ended up being critical of life in the town of Odessa. It was later adapted for television and film.
WGame Plan for Disaster is the 76th title of the Hardy Boys Mystery Stories, written by Franklin W. Dixon. It was published by Wanderer Books in 1982.
WHusky Football in the Don James Era is a book published in 2007. It covers the years 1975–1993, when Don James was head football coach for the University of Washington Huskies. In eighteen years, James led his team to six Rose Bowls and one Orange Bowl, as well a national championship in 1991. His controversial sudden retirement in 1993 was in protest of Pac-10 sanctions against his team. In this book, James purportedly discusses his retirement publicly for the first time.
WInstant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer is a book written by Green Bay Packers offensive lineman Jerry Kramer and sportswriter Dick Schaap. Published in 1968, the book covers the 1967 Green Bay Packers season, which ended with the team winning Super Bowl II against the Oakland Raiders. It was also notable because the Packers earned the right to represent the National Football League (NFL) in the Super Bowl by winning the 1967 NFL Championship Game, more commonly known as the "Ice Bowl", with Kramer making a key block during the winning touchdown. Kramer authored the book by reciting his thoughts into a tape recorder, with Schaap then editing the words into the final written version. In Schapp's obituary in 2001, The New York Times called Instant Replay one of the "best-selling books of its era." In 2002, Sports Illustrated named Instant Replay the 20th greatest sports book of all time. The Washington Post's Jonathan Yardley called the book "the best inside account of pro football, indeed probably the best book ever written about that sport and that league."
WLeague of Denial is a 2013 book, initially broadcast as a documentary film, about traumatic brain injury in the National Football League (NFL), particularly concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The documentary, entitled League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis, was produced by Frontline and broadcast on PBS. The book was written by ESPN reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru. The book and film devote significant attention to the story of Mike Webster and his football-related brain injuries, and the pathologist who examined Webster's brain, Bennet Omalu. The film also looks closely at the efforts of researchers led by Ann McKee at Boston University's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, where the brains of a number of former NFL athletes have been examined.
WNecessary Roughness (1996) is a drama novel by Asian-American author Marie G. Lee which explores themes of discrimination and a clash of cultures between Korean parents and their children's American ways. It is the story of a young Korean-American boy's transplantation from the city of Los Angeles to the fictional rural town of Iron City, Minnesota and his use of football to escape the bigotry that he faces and the conflict he experiences with his parents.
WNever Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City is a nonfiction book by Albert Samaha about a youth football team in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York. The book was published on September 4, 2018 by PublicAffairs. It was named one of Booklist’s Top 10 Sports Nonfiction books of 2018 and received the 2019 New York Society Library Hornblower Award.
WPaper Lion is a 1966 non-fiction book by American author George Plimpton.
WPaterno is a 2012 biography of the Penn State football coach Joe Paterno book by sportswriter Joe Posnanski. The Paterno family granted Posnanski a great deal of access during the writing process, which included the time period of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal and Paterno's firing. The book debuted at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list for hardcover non-fiction best-seller.
WPatriot Reign is a best-selling book by The Boston Globe/The New York Times sports writer Michael Holley resulting from two years he was given unprecedented access to the inner sanctums of the world champion New England Patriots football operations, as they worked to turn a season of good luck into a legitimate contender of a team. The book was published in 2004 by the William Morrow subsidiary of Harper-Collins books.
WPlaying for Pizza is a short novel by John Grisham, released on September 25, 2007. The novel is about an itinerant American football player who can no longer get work in the National Football League and whose agent, as a last resort, signs a deal for him to play for the Parma Panthers, in Parma, Italy.
WSeason Of Passion is a 1979 romantic novel by American Danielle Steel. The book was originally published on June 1, 1979, by Dell Publications, containing 432 pages. It is Steel's fifth novel.
WSilent No More: Victim 1's Fight for Justice Against Jerry Sandusky is a 2012 book by Aaron Fisher, identified as "Victim 1" in the Penn State child sex abuse scandal. Fisher is called "Victim 1" because it was his reporting his abuse to high school officials that set off the investigation that led to Sandusky's conviction. The book follows Fisher's experience from the beginning of his interaction with Jerry Sandusky at The Second Mile through Sandusky's conviction of 45 of 48 counts related to child sex abuse.
WSpalding is an American sports equipment manufacturing company founded by Albert Spalding in Chicago, Illinois, in 1876. It is now headquartered in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Spalding currently focuses on basketball, mainly producing balls but also commercializing hoops, rims, nets and ball pump needles. Softballs are commercialized through its subsidiary Dudley Sports.
WTarnished Heisman: Did Reggie Bush Turn His Final College Season into a Six-Figure Job? is a book written by Don Yaeger. The book details the alleged payments to former USC Trojans player and former NFL player Reggie Bush while still a student in college. The book was released on January 15, 2007.
WTouched: The Jerry Sandusky Story is a 2001 autobiography of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky outlining his career with the Penn State Nittany Lions and his charitable work with The Second Mile. The book is somewhat unusual among sports biographies in that it focuses on an assistant coach, and in its focus on Sandusky's work with his charity. It garnered renewed attention after Sandusky was charged with several counts of child sexual abuse.
WTwo-Minute Drill is a 2007 children's book by Mike Lupica and the first book in his Comeback Kids series.
WWhen Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi is a biography published in 1999 and written by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Maraniss about former Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi. The book is an in-depth look at Lombardi's life, his coaching and leadership style, and his impact on the National Football League. After its release, it became a nationwide bestseller, with sales especially strong in the Wisconsin region. The book was adapted into a Broadway play titled Lombardi.