Product Description: Does the NFL have better athletes than the college teams? Yes. Does it ensure more direct flights? Undoubtedly. Which game is better, more entertaining, less predictable? It's not even close.Austin Murphy firmly believes that college football—with its rich traditions and deep passions, its marching bands and menagerie of living, breathing animal mascots, its arm-long lists of ancient blood grudges—is far more captivating, fan-friendly, and, frankly, more fun than the corporate, clinical, hermetically sealed game they play on Sunday...read more

A Sports Illustrated senior writer examines the relevance of college football as reflected by the 2006 season, arguing that college football is more fan-friendly than the corporate-driven professional league, in an account that traces the specific achievements of the teams at Notre Dame and USC. 50,000 first printing.

In a hilarious reminscence, a sportswriter for Sports Illustrated trades in his dream job to become a stay-at-home father, describing his epic battles with such unfamiliar tasks as grocery shopping, housecleaning, lice checks, spring break, and the chairmanship of the Lower Brookside Elementary Variety Show. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: The recent stock market bubble of the late 1990s and subsequent crash has made people more aware of the need to conduct practical financial analysis. Practical financial economics, i.e., the application of financial theory to practical financial analysis, is explained here with respect to a number of different topics, with a focus on valuation...read more

A veteran Sports Illustrated journalist takes a break from covering the NFL to cover the winningest coach in college football--John Gagliardi of St. John's College in Minnesota--with surprising results. Reprint.

Product Description: A state-of-the art treatment offering scientific procedures that require no special scientific expertise, Murphy's unusual new book provides a unified framework for the evaluation of investment assets and strategies―a particularly useful way to conduct security analysis, portfolio management, and trading, and for other general investment applications...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)