Sports & Recreation audiobooks

Deep Listening

By: Jillian Pransky

Narrated by: Jillian Pransky

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

World-renowned restorative yoga teacher Jillian Pransky came to the practice of yoga to heal herself. But before that, she avoided her feelings by burying them under a relentless “work hard, play hard” schedule. It wasn’t until a devastating personal loss took her through the dark halls of anxiety and into her own health crisis that she was... Read more

Betaball

By: Erik Malinowski

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“As lively, thorough, and engaging as the team it chronicles” (Nathaniel Friedman), Betaball is a compelling look at how the Golden State Warriors embraced savvy business practices, next generation science, and Silicon Valley’s technocentric culture not only to produce one of the greatest basketball teams in history but also to revolutionize the... Read more

How We Did It

By: Karl Subban & Scott Colby

Narrated by: Karl Subban

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The ultimate hockey dad, Karl Subban is a former school principal and father of five, including three sons--P.K., Malcolm and Jordan--who have been drafted to the NHL. Karl's inspirational and moving story follows the hockey journey from house league to the big leagues and shows how to grow the unlimited potential that is in every child.

In his... Read more

Play Big

By: Jen Welter

Narrated by: Jen Welter

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring, gutsy handbook for success from the first woman to ever coach in the NFL

When Jen Welter became a linebackers coach for the Arizona Cardinals in 2015, she was the first woman to ever break the glass sideline of the NFL. In Play Big, Welter reveals the grit that it took to be a trailblazer in the ultimate boys' club.

Pre-NFL,... Read more

The Big Chair

By: Ned Colletti & Joseph A. Reaves

Narrated by: Ned Colletti

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“An important contribution to 21st-century baseball literature. . . Mr. Colletti’s book might be even more groundbreaking [than Moneyball] in some ways: It’s a nearly unprecedented opportunity to see what running a baseball franchise looks like through the eyeballs of an actual general manager. . . [Colletti] has a gift for entertaining... Read more

Slobberknocker: My Life in Wrestling

By: Jim Ross, Paul O'Brien, Scott E. Williams, Stev...

Narrated by: Jim Ross & R.C. Bray

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

There are few people who have been in the wrestling business longer than Jim Ross. And those who have made it as long as he has (half a century to be exact) probably made enemies or burned bridges. But that’s just not JR.

Slobberknocker is the story of how an Oklahoman farm kid, with a vivid imagination and seemingly unattainable dreams, became... Read more

The McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss

By: John McDougall

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Lose weight, eat as much as you want, feel healthy, and look great. This may sound like an impossible dream, but with The McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss it is a dream come true for thousands of people. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. John A. McDougall draws on the latest scientific and medical information about nutrition, metabolism,... Read more

How to Read Nature

By: Tristan Gooley

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Nobody wakes up in the morning and decides to shut down their senses and stumble through each day in an oblivious bubble, and yet some people end up having much richer experiences than others. In this guidebook, natural navigator Tristan Gooley strives to reawaken our senses to help us understand and deepen our personal experience of nature. His... Read more

Thousand-Miler

By: Melanie Radzicki McManus

Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In thirty-six thrilling days, Melanie Radzicki McManus hiked 1,100 miles around Wisconsin, landing her in the elite group of Ice Age Trail thru-hikers known as the Thousand-Milers. In prose that’s alternately harrowing and humorous, Thousand-Miler takes you with her through Wisconsin’s forests, prairies, wetlands, and farms, past the geologic... Read more

To the Finish Line

By: Chrissie Wellington

Narrated by: Polly Lee

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Chrissie Wellington, the world's number one female Ironman athlete and four-time World Ironman Champion, presents her struggles, wisdom, and experiences gained from her hard-won career as a triathlete.

With close to 2 million core participants, triathlons of various distances and challenges are attracting more participants than ever before. In... Read more

The Chicago Cubs

By: Rich Cohen

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating blend of reportage and memoir exploring the history of the Chicago Cubs For Rich Cohen and millions of other fans, the Chicago Cubs have always been more than a team: they've been the protagonists of a King Arthur epic, in search of the Holy Grail that is winning the World Series. A chronicle of the last few miraculous seasons as... Read more

A Beautiful Work In Progress

By: Mirna Valerio

Narrated by: Mirna Valerio

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Runners’ vocabulary is full of acronyms like DNS for “Did Not Start” and DNF for “Did Not Finish,” but when Mirna Valerio stepped up to the starting line, she needed a new one: DNQ for “Did Not Quit.”Valerio has tied on her running shoes all across the country, from the dusty back roads of central New Jersey to the busy Route 222 corridor in... Read more

Running with Mindfulness

By: William Pullen

Narrated by: Roy McMillan

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This perfect gift for runners delves into the positive effect of running therapy, including anxiety relief and reduced stress by focusing on the meditative nature of exercise. This running workbook allows you to practice mindfulness in your everyday routine, whether you prefer an afternoon stroll or a morning jog. 

Movement is medicine. Letting... Read more

The Clever Gut Diet

By: Dr. Michael Mosley

Narrated by: James A. Gillies

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

People often joke about "going with their gut" but the truth is that this part of your body exercises an astonishing degree of control over your mood, hunger, and general health. Written with the latest research on the microbiome—the alien bacteria that lives in our guts—The Clever Gut Diet also clearly explains what goes on inside your stomach... Read more

Through the Valley of the Shadow

By: Jim Terbush

Narrated by: Jim Terbush

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

On June 13, 1999, a rumble began high on a sheer cliff wall, like faraway thunder, at Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. 100 tons of rock rained down on three young climbers. Peter, a college student from Colorado, turned to a long-ago climbing lesson taught to him by his father. As a little boy first astride a mountain, he learned to... Read more

Die Weisheit eines Yogi - Wie innere Veränderung wirklich möglich ist (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Sadhguru

Narrated by: Herbert Schäfer

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Noch nie hat ein spiritueller Lehrer die Botschaft des Yoga so spannend und unterhaltsam erklärt. Sadhguru ist für unzählige Menschen ein leuchtendes Vorbild. Er ist aber ebenso ein pragmatischer und mitfühlender Kämpfer für Menschenrechte, für universelle Bildung und für globalen Frieden. In seinem Hörbuch schildert er seine persönlichen... Read more

Wrecking Ball: A Big Lad From a Small Island - My Story So Far

By: Billy Vunipola

Narrated by: Nathan Turner

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Wrecking Ball is a captivating and humorous memoir by Billy Vunipola, one of the stars of England's recent rugby renaissance, and will be enjoyed by those who have read the recent autobiographies by Jonny Wilkinson, Brian O'Driscoll, Dan Carter and Paul O'Connell.

Standing at 6 feet 2 inches and weighing almost 20 stone, Billy is a rampaging and... Read more

Lose Your Final 15

By: Rovenia M. Brock, PhD

Narrated by: Rovenia M. Brock, PhD

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Rovenia Brock is the nutrition coach who helped Sherri Shepherd of The View lose more than forty pounds and viewers of The Dr. Oz Show shed more than 5 million pounds. In Lose Your Final 15, she reveals her best-ever program to help you lose fifteen pounds in fifteen days by eating fifteen servings a day.



Dr. Ro's plan is divided into three... Read more

Hypnos

By: Dr. Michael Weh

Narrated by: Dr. Michael Weh

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Hypnos Endlich einschlafen - Magie der Hypnose! Warum heißt dieses hypnotische Spezialprogramm "Hypnos"? Der Name ist angelehnt an den griechischen Gott des Schlafs: Hypnos. Wir wollen mit diesem hocheffektiven, wissenschaftlich fundierten Hypnoseprogramm zum einen dazu beitragen, die immer weiter zunehmende Volkskrankheit Schlafmangel und... Read more

The TB12 Method

By: Tom Brady

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross & Tom Brady

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller by the 7-time Super Bowl champion

The first book by NFL legend Tom Brady, former quarterback with the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who reached unimaginable heights of excellence into his forties—a gorgeously illustrated and deeply practical “athlete’s bible” that reveals Brady’s revolutionary... Read more

Spiritual Graffiti

By: MC YOGI

Narrated by: MC YOGI

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Before he was one of the most well-known yoga teachers in North America and an international hip hop artist, MC YOGI was a juvenile delinquent who was kicked out of three schools, sent to live at a group home for at-risk youth, arrested for vandalism, and caught up in a world of drugs, chaos and carelessness.At eighteen, fate brought him to his... Read more

How this 72-year-old weightlifter is lifting expectations

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, a 60-year-old grandmother from Fairfax, Virginia, developed a love for weightlifting and garnered up to 12 world records in her age and weight categories. Now 72, Linda Leightley can deadlift 273 pounds and is breaking preconceptions about the limitations of age and gender. Read more

The Boxing Kings

By: Paul Beston

Narrated by: Alexander Cendese

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The Boxing Kings tells the story of the heavyweight title in the days when it was a defining institution in the United States. Author Paul Beston places special emphasis on those champions who held a central place in American culture beyond just in the boxing ring, including John L. Sullivan, who made the title a commercial property; Jack... Read more

Unstoppable

By: Maria Sharapova

Narrated by: Maria Sharapova

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

From Maria Sharapova, one of our fiercest female athletes, the captivating—and candid—story of her rise from nowhere to tennis stardom, and the unending fight to stay on top.

In 2004, in a stunning upset against the two-time defending champion Serena Williams, seventeen-year-old Maria Sharapova won Wimbledon,... Read more