Sporting Profiles

by Michael Parkinson (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $4.17

  By the author of Sporting Lives , this is a further collection of the author's articles on sport taken from The Daily Telegraph . It contains pieces on football, golf, cricket, rugby, tennis, rowing and motor racing. It describes sporting championships and the travelling freak show that surrounds the teenage superstars - Jennifer Capriati or newcomer Martina Hingis - and deprives them of a childhood. It profiles many of the greatest sporting figures of our times, from Fred Perry, Jackie Stewart, George Best and Denis Compton to Nick Faldo, Mike Atherton, Steve Redgrave and Rory Underwood.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.25

  This is a collection of profiles of many famous sporting figures of today. It includes Fred Perry, Jackie Stewart, George Best, Nick Faldo, Denis Compton, Steve Redgrave, Michael Atherton, Rory Underwood, Allan Border, David Lloyd and Laura Davis. It also features interviews with sporting celebrities. The sports looked at are football, golf, cricket, rugby, tennis, rowing and motor racing, and the book also examines the more serious side of sport, such as the problems facing teenage tennis superstars like Jennifer Caprati, who are deprived of their childhoods. The opposite approaches to captaincy shown by Mike Gatting and Mike Atherton are discussed, highlighting the differences to be found in the same sport.