REVIEWS: This week's sporting film, book, game and app essentials

Sport360 staff 09:23 06/01/2017
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  • We take a look at the latest sporting releases across books, films, games and apps as well as some classics that you should be looking to buy.

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    BOOKS

    LEVELS OF THE GAME

    PRICE: Dh69
    WHERE TO BUY: desertcart.ae.

    Focusing on a semi-final match from the 1968 US Open between Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner, Levels of the Game tells the tale of two players with wildly differing backgrounds and personalities.

    MCILVANNEY ON BOXING
    PRICE: Dh50
    WHERE TO BUY: amazon.co.uk.

    Hugh McIlvanney on anything is required reading but this takes you to the heart of his talent: painstaking reportage, from ringside at many of the biggest fights, combined with lyricism and compassion.

    FILMS

    MCFARLAND USA
    PRICE: Dh72
    WHERE TO BUY: desertcart.ae.

    Jim White moves his family after losing his last job as a football coach. He sees that some of the students are worth starting a cross-country team and turns seven students with no hope into one of the best cross-country teams.

    RESURRECTING THE CHAMP
    PRICE: Dh20
    WHERE TO BUY: amazon.co.uk

    Josh Hartnett is the up-and-coming sports reporter who rescues a homeless man “Champ” only to discover that Samuel L Jackson is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away.

    GAMES 

    MADDEN NFL 17
    PRICE: Dh276
    WHERE TO BUY: menskart.com

    Take your team all the way in Madden NFL 17 with new and immersive features in the deepest Franchise mode to-date, putting you at the centre of your team’s Championship run. The most complete Madden…ever.

    APPS

    theScore
    PRICE: Free
    WHERE TO BUY: Android, iOS.

    theScore shines in delivering up-to-the-second game updates and statistics, as well as breaking sports news. Matches include detailed statistical breakdowns to warm the hearts of stat junkies, as well as play-by-play breakdowns.

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