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From former NHL general manager and bestselling author of Draft Day comes an insiders look at the toughest job in sports.There is no other job in professional sports more dynamic than that of a general manager in the NHL. Every dayall daya GM deals with the team's owner and financial staff; the coaching staff; the players, their families, and their agents; the office staff; the sponsors; and the luxury-box holders, season-ticket holders, and corporate boxes. And then theres the media: news-hungry no matter where the team is based, from Toronto and Montreal to Miami and Los Angeles. GMs are responsible for free agency and salary caps, as well as their number one job: team construction. GMs make the final decisions on all hires, fires, trades, and buyoutsafter, that is, they have cleared all this with the owner. Through it all, GMs need a thick skin, and they make for easy targets. Keeping the entire fanbase happy is impossible, and their jobwhile they may enjoy every minute of the experienceis always at risk. In Game Day, MacLean shares insights from GMs current and past, finding out what makes these hockey executives tick. What trades do they regret making? Which player(s) do they wish theyd drafted? What coaching hire seemed wrong from the first practice? Whats it like to hoist the Stanley Cup or, conversely, miss the playoffs and head for the links? Game Day is a must-read for anyone who wants to know the secret moves made behind closed boardroom and locker-room doors.

The latest installment of the bestselling Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame series explains how wrestlers and promoters used monkeys, murderers, smelt, and social media to move their sport from the fringes of acceptability to a £1 billion industry that plays a crossover role in 21st century pop culture.

For nineteen years, Debrah 'Madusa' Miceli was a star in professional wrestling - WWE champion Alundra Blayze. She jumped into the world of monster trucks with reckless abandon, earning the nickname 'The Queen of Carnage.' For the first time, Madusa reveals her childhood traumas, her triumphs and tragedies, her loves and heartbreaks. Through four decades of entertaining, in the wrestling ring and on the monster truck circuit, Debrah 'Madusa' Miceli never could sit still. But her desire to learn, grow, and inspire legions of followers masked deep secrets... Her upbringing was a lie from the start, and the dark truths of her childhood, revealed here for the first time, are the earliest examples of Debrah's determination to persevere. Professional wrestling may have been an odd choice for a nursing student, but Madusa went all-in, toughening up in Japan before conquering WWE as Alundra Blayze. She held the WWE Women's belt... until being fired. In the rival WCW, Madusa infamously tossed the WWE belt in the garbage on live TV. Then, in 1999, Madusa changed lanes and revolutionized the monster truck world. At meet-and-greets, girls in pink 'Queen of Carnage' t-shirts would wait alongside ogling fanboys. By 2004, she was the world champion in a sport dominated by men. Only one thing has eluded her: motherhood. This is the spellbinding story of how one woman survived child abuse, financial disaster, death-defying injuries, heartbreak, and chaos to emerge triumphant.

The first comprehensive look at wrestling's tag team phenomenon, containing hundreds of extensive interviews with well-known wrestlers, promoters and managers. Fascinating profiles full of little-known information about top tag teams rub shoulders with detailed information, statistics and humorous anecdotes. Oliver and Johnson explain how tag team matches actually work - and why, sometimes, they do not - and collect a treasure trove of rare and historic photographs to create a unique reference book for all wrestling fans.