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What's New in Sports? February 2026 |
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Let the Games Begin - Everything Winter Olympics
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Unforgiving: Lessons from the Fall
by Lindsey Jacobellis
After committing one of the biggest “unforced errors” in all of sports history as a twenty-year old at the 2006 Olympics, Lindsey Jacobellis endured intense criticism and second-guessing until she twice reached the top of the podium at the 2022 Olympics. In this deeply personal memoir, the winningest snowboardcross rider of all time chronicles her career, a story of self-growth that reveals the secret of her resilience and how she overcame crushing early failure to win Olympic gold.
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One Jump at a Time: My Story
by Nathan Chen
The three-time World Champion, Olympic gold medalist, and the first Asian American man to stand at the highest podium in figure skating reflects on the events that led him to where he is today, in this testament to the love of family and the power of persistence, grit, and passion.
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Curling for Dummies
by Bob Weeks
This book covers curling's fascinating origins, explains the rules of the game, teaches readers the fundamentals of the sport, and explores different kinds of shots and when to use them.
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Eddie the Eagle (DVD) Cut from the Olympic ski team, British athlete Michael "Eddie" Edwards (Taron Egerton) travels to Germany to test his skills at ski jumping. Fate leads him to Bronson Peary (Hugh Jackman), a former ski jumper who now works as a snowplow driver. Impressed by Edwards' spirit and determination, Peary agrees to train the young underdog. Despite an entire nation counting him out, Eddie's never-say-die attitude takes him all the way to a historic and improbable showing at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. Inspired by true events.
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NFL Moments: 125 Icons and Stories That Define the NFL
by Allan Maki
Over its 105-year history, the NFL has built franchise empires, created icons, integrated itself into the fabric of American culture and captivated fans around the globe. At the core of the NFL are the stories of the iconic players and leaders who drove the NFL from a modest association struggling to define itself against the college game to the most exciting and profitable sports league in the world. Through snappy prose and historic photographs, NFL Moments catalogs the league's larger-than-life characters and their defining stories.
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Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's Tennis
by Giri Nathan
For more than two decades, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, and Roger Federer dominated men's tennis so thoroughly that it became difficult to imagine how the game would keep its shine once they retired. Then came 2024--the first year since 2002 that none of them won a Grand Slam tournament. The major titles were divided between a pair of prodigies in their early twenties: the effervescent showman Carlos Alcaraz, whose infinite variety of shots won him the French Open and Wimbledon; and the relentlessly cool Jannik Sinner, whose power and precision secured him the Australian Open and US Open even amid a doping controversy. Though other young contenders jostled for the spotlight, and Djokovic tried to hold his ground, the transcendentally gifted Alcaraz and Sinner just kept installing their new regime.
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The Lions Finally Roar: The Ford Family, the Detroit Lions, and the Road to Redemption in the NFL
by Bill Morris
Deeply researched and briskly written, The Lions Finally Roar is about much more than football. It explores the American class system, the linked histories of Detroit and its auto and music industries, the city's changing racial dynamics, the rising power of television, and how all of it played into the NFL's transformation from a fall sport into the multi-billion dollar, year-round entertainment behemoth that is a cornerstone of American popular culture.
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