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Do you have Olympic fever?

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The library has sports-related books and DVDs to get you excited about the London Olympics 2012, which begin on July 27th.

Here are some of our titles:

Sport and Society in the Global Age GV 706.5 .M36 2012

Muhammad Ali : the king of the ring GV 1132 .A44 H45 2011

Sports and Athletes GV 565 .S66 2011

Grace & Glory : a century of women in the Olympics GV 721.5 .G63 1996

Moneyball [DVD] PN 1997.2 .M66 2011

Invictus [DVD] PN 1997.2 .I58 2010

The Heart of the Game [DVD] GV 886 .H43 2007

 

Here is the official website for the summer Olympics:

http://www.olympic.org/london-2012-summer-olympics

Here is the ESPN Olympic portal:

http://espn.go.com/olympics/summer/2012/

Here is the Sports Illustrated Olympics coverage:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2012/

Have fun watching awesome athletes from around the world compete!