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Talking Sports Books with Tim Caple The sports book review and author interview show dedicated to the world of sports literature. Established in 2019, Talking Sports Books brings you reviews, author interviews, new-release features and discussions about the best sports books from the UK, USA and around the world. For more than seven years, Tim Caple has been talking to authors, journalists, broadcasters and sporting personalities about the stories behind the books — from football and boxing to golf, cricket, motorsport and the wider world of sport.

  1. Oct 12

    "Inside The Business Of Sport" With Andrew Brandt

    Welcome to the new edition of "Talking Sports Books" The final score tells you who won. The contract tells you how the sport actually works.That is the territory Andrew Brandt has spent four decades mapping. He has worked as a player agent, sat inside an NFL front office, helped steer the Green Bay Packers through one of the franchise’s defining transitions, taught sports law, advised athletic departments, and explained the business of sport to a public that increasingly knows a salary cap from a hard cap.His book, Smarter About Sports, promises more than a collection of locker-room anecdotes. It is a tour of the machinery behind the spectacle, where money, law, ego, leverage, timing, and public pressure all fight for the same yardage and if you had a dream of being involved in this world and becoming a success and think that you can do it on a budget of long lunches and sitting in an exec box at the stadium then think on as you are about to find out why it takes a certain kind of person to succeed here and sorry to be blunt about this but for 99% of you it's not you and never will be.

    "Inside The Business Of Sport" With Andrew Brandt

  2. Sep 14

    Referee "The Impossible Job" The Truly Unbelievable World Of Football Referee's

    Ever thought about becoming a referee ? well this book reveals what it s really like from an author who decided the best way to find out what it was really like was to become one which he did,he also got access to elite level referees to talk to them about what life is like not only on the pitch but off it as well Every football fan knows the feeling. A whistle goes, an arm points, and half the stadium erupts. The other half feels robbed. Within seconds, the referee has become the story. William Ralston’s The Impossible Job asks a sharper question than the usual post-match argument: what if most of us are watching officials with confidence, but without real understanding? This is a book about referees, but it is also about pressure, judgement, fear, authority, technology, and the strange way football turns human decisions into public trials. Ralston follows officials from grassroots matches to the elite game, including access around UEFA, FIFA, and PGMO circles, and builds a portrait of a role most people see every week but rarely understand.

    Referee "The Impossible Job" The Truly Unbelievable World Of Football Referee's

  3. Aug 27

    "Stories From the Summits of Sport" with ESPN's Seth Wickersham

    Great sportswriting does more than explain who won. It asks why the contest mattered, what it cost, and what the people inside it were really chasing. That is the territory Seth Wickersham has made his own. Across more than two decades at ESPN, he has reported from locker rooms, family homes, private conversations, NFL power centres, and the edges of obsession quite literally. His new collection gathers 26 essays that show the full range of that work, from Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes to Kobe Bryant, Alex Honnold, NASCAR, football’s violence, and the strange cultural afterlife of “We Will Rock You”. Coming up on the TALKING SPORTS BOOKS SHOW this month ,this is the kind of book that invites a richer conversation than a standard sports biography. It is about winners, yes. It is also about ambition, loneliness, control, risk, memory, and the human need to turn performance into meaning. Coming up then we talk about a Kenyan runner who had both feet amputated, the story behind the most played piece of music in US stadiums and arenas, we look into some of the most lonely roles in sport with the vet's responsible for euthanising injured horses at racetracks and the young DA thrust into the global limelight when he took on the role of prosecutor going up against NBA icon Kobe Bryant . The Book is titled "Be On That Hill" it is available 9/22/26

  4. Jul 24

    "Tom Coyne "A Course Called Home"

    Tom Coyne opened an email one day and his life changed when he decided owning a golf course was a good idea. Golf often conjures images of pristine fairways, elite players, and exclusive clubs. Yet, Tom Coyne’s latest book, A Course Called Home, invites readers to explore a different side of the game—one rooted in community, resilience, and the love of a local course that many might overlook. Coyne, a New York Times bestselling author known for his deep research into golf culture, takes us on a personal journey that reveals how golf can be about more than just the game itself.

    "Tom Coyne "A Course Called Home"

  5. Jul 10 ·  Bonus

    Sports Greatest Books

    Beginning this month we will be looking at the greatest ever books on sport and we begin with not only the greatest ever book on boxing but one of the greatest ever books on sport . Norman Mailers "The Fight"

    Sports Greatest Books

  6. Jun 9

    Killing Maradona Part 2 From Napoli to his Final Days

    In part 2 of "Killing Maradona" author David Arrowsmith returns to look at the years from joining Napoli to his tragic final days .

    Killing Maradona Part 2 From Napoli to his Final Days

  7. May 26

    Killing Maradona Part1 + World Football Food

    David Arrowsmith joins me to talk about his new book Killing Maradona how cocaine the camora and crime corrupted footballs greatest talent and with the World Cup almost here Will Gray has released a book "The World Football Food" book a collection of recipes inspired by the 48 nations taking part in this summers tournament.

    Killing Maradona Part1 + World Football Food

  8. Apr 28 ·  Bonus

    World Cup Brazil "The Glorious Failure"

    The World Cup is almost upon us so we are looking back at some of the great World Cup stories we have featured since "Talking Sports Books" began and we go back to "Brazil 1982 The Glorious Failure" with author Stu Horsfield they were the team that had it all the team everyone thought would win the world cup yet on July 5 82 Italy destroyed the dream .

    World Cup Brazil "The Glorious Failure"
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Talking Sports Books with Tim Caple The sports book review and author interview show dedicated to the world of sports literature. Established in 2019, Talking Sports Books brings you reviews, author interviews, new-release features and discussions about the best sports books from the UK, USA and around the world. For more than seven years, Tim Caple has been talking to authors, journalists, broadcasters and sporting personalities about the stories behind the books — from football and boxing to golf, cricket, motorsport and the wider world of sport.

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  • Creator
    TIM CAPLE
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    100
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © TIM CAPLE
  • Show Website
    Talking Sports Books

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