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Playing golf on Christmas Day, Travis McKinley, 50, has a Zen-like vision and suddenly he is playing like a pro, which is a godsend because he has just been fired from his job, writing jingles for McDonald's and needs money. His golfing career zooms, but his marriage hits the skids. Still, it all turns out well in the end.

A year ago, Travis McKinley, an unknown golfing amateur, shocked the world by winning the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach. Now he's famous, he makes his living playing the game he loves, and everything should be perfect. Still Travis can't shake the feeling that he's a fraud, an imposter who doesn't deserve his success - and after a series of disappointments and, to be honest, personal screw-ups, he might just prove himself right. A shot at redemption...

When a young man spends his life savings to enter a team into the Rucker Classic street ball tournament, he calls upon an elderly player and his former teammates for help.

The superstars of WWE will be surrounded by an unforgiving steel prison in a night where the only way to emerge is to inflict and endure career-altering punishment. It is a match so brutal that only eleven men in the history of WWE have claimed victory, and even fewer have summoned the strength to walk away on their own. Now an annual fall tradition, who if any, will add their name to this illustrious list?

"The new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada and Revenge Wears Prada--a dishy tell-all about a beautiful tennis prodigy who, after changing coaches, suddenly makes headlines on and off the court. Charlotte "Charlie" Silver has always been a good girl. She excelled at tennis early, coached by her father, a former player himself, and soon became one of the top juniors in the world. When she leaves UCLA--and breaks...

"From European football to the Major Leagues, professional sport is in thrall to the cult of the superstar coach. Nowhere is our obsession with leadership better illustrated than at golf's Ryder Cup, where the job of team captain has become one of the highest-profile roles in world sport on either side of the Atlantic. The Captain Myth examines that role and what it tells us about our obsession with leadership, celebrity and a need for certain answers...

King Arthur, under the instruction of Merlin the magician, is transformed into a fish, a squirrel, and a bird, and explains how he is returned to normal and named king.

Jenkins has selected the best of his original dispatches from the past sixty years.