Product Description

Stories about athletes and coaches usually focus on their championships or their scandals. All the Good in Sports features 20 contemporary sports personalities who go beyond the headlines to candidly share how their relationship with Christ has helped them cope with a variety of difficulties, both professional and personal, and how in Christ they found victory in their personal lives. Many professing Christians in the sports world have achieved wealth and notoriety, but life s luxuries do not exempt them from life s difficulties. Name recognition and personal fortune cannot rescue one whose marriage is on the rocks, one facing substance abuse, or one facing disease or even death. The sports heroes featured in All the Good in Sports are not super human. They go through the same pendulum of emotions you and I do when life deals us a punch in the stomach. However, what they discover or rediscover is a God who is faithful and responsive in their time of need.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11161 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 184 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780830744749
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
MIKE SANDROLINI has worked for more than 20 years as a professional writer, editor, reporter and columnist with four newspapers (daily and weekly) and one magazine publishing company. He has also been involved in Christian publishing as a reporter and writer since the early 1990s, including work for Sports Spectrum magazine. He has been published in Sharing the Victory, the official magazine of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes; Breakaway and Charisma; SLAM; Basketball Digest; and Preview Sports. Other venues for his work include the Chicago Tribune, Daily Herald, Copley Newspapers, Liberty Suburban Chicago Newspapers and the Chicago Bear Report. His work has been recognized in various state and national newspaper editorial excellence contests.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant "must read"
This book is a brilliant compilation of successful Christian athletes who are proud to declare and share their faith. I found it was a terrific representation of many sports. When the going got tough, these role models let their faith propel them forward. Many had to endure some major issues that were life changing, and all navigated threw their difficult times with grace and perserverance. This book offers an inside glimpse into the real lives of our hero's and an opportunity to enlighten us to the fact that we all have difficulties in our lives that can strengthen us. We all have to incur roadblocks some passable some not. It's how these athletes handled the roadblocks that are the key. I found this book to extremely encouraging, motivating, and refreshing. I'd call is a definite "feel good", inspirational read.

what many big-time sports editors mistakenly think you wouldn't care about
"All the Good in Sports" is an insightful compilation of real-life stories of numerous sports standouts. I must say that I gained a greater appreciation for the adversities that many of the featured individuals overcame with faith and perserverance. It is one of those books that one feels connected to many of those who are biographied. I recommend this book for the distinguished participant's uplifting messages.

Inspirational read
"All the Good in Sports" takes a look at sports icons as more than just big-winning celebs; showing us a more personal (and human) side to these legends. As someone who likes to read around the numbers in sports, I'd say this book makes for a great read, and I strongly recommend it.