Fiction, Sports
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When Cheers Are Not Enough
by Slavko Ray
Baker, Conrad, Angus, and Masaccio are high school teachers who occasionally meet to jam as a crude alt-rock garage band. They are also diehard hockey fans desperate to see an end to their beloved Toronto Mighty Pines’ fifty-seven year Cup...
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On Thick and Thin Ice
To play, or Not to play, That is the Question by Ken Slyziuk
It’s hockey registration time for the upcoming Belton Junior High season, and gifted forward Gord Jason surprises his teammates and coaches when he doesn’t sign up. What made Gord decide to quit the sport he has been playing since he was eight...
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The Music of the Gridiron
by Gary J. Kirchner
An offence with attitude and a mean streak. A defence so radical it’s dubbed “the Weird.” A fractured coaching staff ready to come to blows. It is Head Coach Arne Viimets’ third year at McGill, and he’s been told his contract will not be renewed....
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First and Ten
by Gary J. Kirchner
What do you do when your first season as head coach has been a disaster? If you are Arne Viimets, a brilliant but controversial iconoclast who likes to discuss football strategy with his dog, you ignore the advice of your alumni, your coaching...
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Pacing the Sidelines
by Gary J. Kirchner
Arne Viimets is not a typical coach. Kevin Willister is not a typical player. This is not a typical football story. Arne Viimets has a passion for opera, he owns a dog named Chopin, and he quotes Thoreau at dinner parties. He also happens to have...
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Woman Behind Home Plate
by J. Stephen Thompson
Who is this woman? At every Toronto Blue Jays game, an elderly woman sits behind home plate, her story a mystery. When sports journalist Richard Dixon notices the reclusive woman, he finds himself enthralled, determined to uncover her identity....
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The Defining Line
by Barbra Burdett
The Defining Line takes you through the story of Charles “Chuck” Bennis’s Greek immigrant heritage, his childhood in Lincoln, Illinois, and his rise to All-American football player at the University of Illinois. Amidst stories of his first fight,...
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The Call
To Major League Baseball by Doug Ernest
Young baseball players dream of one thing: to get the call up to the Majors. When, as a fan, five year old Hunter Austin experiences his first professional baseball game, he proclaims to the folks in the bleachers that, one day, he’ll get The...
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The Madness of March
A Love Story by Marguerite Nardone Gruen
Paul Tanner and Nicky Newman were two of the most highly recruited Point Guards in the country for Basketball. New Coach at the U Bob Barrows built his whole program around them. Everything was going fine and the team was on track to become one...
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The Green Owls
by Thomas RC Miller
When twelve-year-old Dusty decides to shave his head and become a “Skinhead”, his mother actually approves of his new look. But it’s 1971 in Leeds, England, and the Skinhead movement is not yet one of white supremacy as it is today. For Dusty,...
