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Phil Steele's 2024 College Football Preview, National Edition

Phil Steele's 2024 College Football Preview includes over 350 pages containing cutting-edge statistics, historical results and positional analysis on all 134 FBS teams, along with Projected Starting Lineups with two full pages on all 134 Teams. It has proven to be the most accurate college football preview magazine over the last 29 years.

Get in the game with our wide selection of sports books. Here you’ll find sports biographies like Jeff Fletcher’s Sho-Time and David Maraniss’s Path Lit By Lightning; memoirs by famous athletes including Open, by Andre Agassi, and The Mamba Mentality, by Kobe Bryant; as well as sports fiction like Harlan Coben’s Myron Bolitar series. Find a deeper understanding of sports and their connection to the world with books like Pele’s Why Soccer Matters, Woman, Captain, Rebel and Fair Play.

Discover bestsellers and new releases sorted by sport, including baseball, football, basketball, outdoor sports and more. Find books about your favorite athlete, sport, or historical sporting event today at Barnes & Noble®.

If you’re looking for books on exercise and fitness, you’ll find them in our Diet, Health & Fitness section. There, you’ll find books that reteach the basics, like Breath or Built to Move. You can invigorate your path to healing with Rehab Science or learn the depths of yoga with Living in the Light. You can also reinvent your health with nutritional guidance from books like The Blue Zones and How not to Die.

10 of the Best Sports Books to Read in 2023

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Carry Me Home: The Colorado Avalanche's Thrilling Run to the 2022 Stanley Cup
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering by Cameron Hanes
Back Spin by Harlan Cobe
The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant
The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham by Ron Shelton
Swing and a Hit: Nine Innings of What Baseball Taught Me by Paul O'Neill and Jack Curry
Shoe Dog by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf's Most Colorful Superstar by Alan Shipnuck

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