A really great book for physical education teachers, coaches, and avid sports enthusiasts is a volume entitled Sports in Literature: Experiencing Literature Through Stories, Poems, and Nonfiction About Sports, edited by Bruce Emra. This collection of stories, essays, poems, and biograhical sketches presents athletic heroes and villains, the famous and the obscure, and their triumphs and defeats, as seen through the eyes of contemporary and classic writers. Each selection included in the volume explores both the dramatic and the personal aspects of sports, and the stories reveal sports as a metaphor for the human experience. Terrific as a read for yourself, and equally great to offer to students as leisure reading. Each selection is followed by several comprehension questions and a thought-provoking essay assignment, which makes this book perfect for classroom assignments, make-up work for absences, bad-weather work, or extra credit opportunities. This wonderful book can be ordered from amazon at this link: Sports in Literature.