Three Weeks, Eight Seconds: Greg LeMond, Laurent Fignon And The Epic Tour de France Of 1989 was shortlisted in the Cycling Book of the Year category at the Sports Books Awards and has since been published in the Netherlands, Spain and the US.His other books include Mr Gig: One Man’s Search For The Soul Of Live Music, Butch Wilkins And The Sundance Kid: A Teenage Obsession With TV Sport, and Boot Sale: Inside The Strange And Secret World Of Football’s Transfer Window.
At the Guardian, Tassell tagged five favorite sports books, including:
HG Bissinger is one of the select group of fortunate sportswriters who have managed to charm their way into sport’sRead about another entry on the list.inner sanctum: the dressing room. In 1988, Bissinger went to live in Odessa, Texas, a town that was built on the bounty of the oil industry, but now revolves around the fortunes of its high school American football team. In Friday Night Lights, he charts the inside story of the Permian Panthers’ season, examining how the teenagers cope with the pressures of playing in front of crowds numbering as many as 20,000. For most of them, Bissinger realises, these Friday night games will be the pinnacle of their entire lives.
Friday Night Lights is among LitHub's fifty best small-screen adaptations of literary works.
--Marshal Zeringue
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