Curse? There Ain't No Stinking Chicago Cub Curse and Other Stories about Sports and Gamesmanship is a humorous and thought-provoking collection of eleven short stories about the games people play. From baseball, golf, and tennis to bocce ball, blackjack, and Scrabble, these games demonstrate the good and bad facets of the human competitive spirit. A golfing womanizer takes the old adage, "so much fun to be had, and so little time" just a bit too much to heart; a woman comes up with a system for betting at the racetrack-and wins every time; a pair of adult brothers revert to childish...

Collected for the first time are hundreds of funny, provocative, and thought-provoking comments, put-downs, bon mots, and earthy observations on civilization's favorite subject: S-E-X. Alphabetically arranged by subject, Sex Talk, provides a decidedly bawdy take on hundreds of topics, such as: Clothes: 'In my day hot pants were something we had, not wore.' -Bette Davis Confessions: 'My ass is way too big.' -Marilyn Monroe Kissing: 'Two people kissing always look like fish.' -Andy Warhol Marriage: 'What do I know of sex? I'm a married man.' -Tom Clancy Liberally spiced with sexy observations...

How to Rig the NCAA Basketball Championship for Fun and Profit is a humorous, poignant and alarming novel about a guy who plans to fix the biggest college game of them all to draw attention to the games mounting problems, for revenge and to make a whole lot of money. Over the many years Stanley Osborn reffed, college basketball had grown into a huge business, enriching universities, coaches, equipment and apparel manufactures, donors and the NCAA; everybody associated with the game except the players. The brutal treatment of refs by rabid fans, overpaid coaches, the media and the many...

Have you ever achieved something but still felt like something was missing? Have you ever thought that there must be more to life, like maybe there's something happy, fulfilled, successful people know that you don't? Are you sometimes happy but sometimes suffering in silence? Well, suffer no more. Level Up will show you how to live a life that is both fulfilling and successful in a real, meaningful way. The best part is that you get to be yourself; perhaps even MORE than you are right now. What Readers are Saying: "Level Up empowers readers to transform the way they view themselves starting...