I've been picking up reading more with this stuck at home world we live in. I have been really enjoying some consistent themes of books and looking to see if anyone on the EB likes the same books and would recommend others in the same theme or overall entertainment. I will say that the books below I have read over the last decade, not just during COVID. I'm not a speed reader.
But overall all I like Sports and Entertainment themes, as you will see below:

Entertainment
Bruce Springsteen's Book
Keith Richards Book
The Wire -All the Pieces Matter
Live from New York - SNL
PowerHouse - Creative Artists Agency (CAA)
Those guys have all the fun (ESPN)

Sports
Loose Balls - ABA
Boys will be Boys - Cowboys of the 90's
Friday Night Lights - You know
The Perfect Pass - History of the Air Raid
Dream Team


If you haven't read the books above, HIGHLY recommend those. Any other suggestions in the sports and entertainment? I've pre-ordered "Alright, Alright, Alright" the oral history of Dazed and Confused. Love that movie and it was filmed in my neighborhood, so I have a lot of good movies about that film.

TIA

Twelve Mighty Orphans - I liked it more than Friday night lights. About the Masonic Home high school football team in the 30s and 40s.

A Civil War: Army vs. Navy - A Year Inside College Football's Purest Rivalry - Follows the 1995 football season for these programs


Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback - author talks his way onto lions squad for preseason camp

The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts
The Blindside

Open - Andre Agassi autobiography
Boom Town - Sam Anderson book about Oklahoma City, it's history, and the OKC Thunder

If you haven't read them yet, Moneyball (about how the A's revolutionized how baseball approached statistical analysis) and Bringing Down the House (about the MIT students who used card counting techniques to take Vegas for millions).

The Sports Gene by David Epstein

Very interesting book...explains the effects of genetics & training in sports.
Will answer some questions like why Europeans are good at swimming & why Ethiopians are the best distance runners, etc.

Every Week A Season - Brian Curtis
Each week of the 2003 football season, Curtis links up with a CFB program and chronicles what happened that week.

Meat Market - Bruce Feldman
Feldman also focuses on CFB, but it is on recruiting in the year leading up to signing day of 2007. Von Miller gets mentioned once or twice.

Gridiron Genius - keeping with the football topic.

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The Sports Gene by David Epstein

Very interesting book...explains the effects of genetics & training in sports.
Will answer some questions like why Europeans are good at swimming & why Ethiopians are the best distance runners, etc.

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2nd. I also enjoyed Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. It's not entirely about sports, but it talks about birth month correlates to likelihood of being a professional athlete.