Books: "The Fighters" On Americans In Combat, By C.J. Chivers

The Fighters: Americans in Combat in Afghanistan and Iraq
By C.J. Chivers
Simon & Schuster; hardcover $28.00

On this 17th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, it is time to reflect on the wars that the United States has fought since then in Iraq and Afghanistan.

C.J. Chivers, a former Marine infantry officer and a Pulitzer-Prize winning New York Times reporter, has been covering these wars since their origins, on scene minutes after the first passenger jet hit the World Trade Center.

St. John's Dribble for the Cure On Sept. 22

St. John's Head Coach Chris Mullin.

Dribble for the Cure, the St. John’s Basketball programs’ premier charitable event of the year, is scheduled for Saturday, September 22. Registration opens at 10 a.m. and the welcome ceremony starts at 11:30 a.m. 

St. John's Basketball Head coaches Chris Mullin and Joe Tartamella will once again partner to raise funds for the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation.

The eighth-annual event will serve as part of University Service Day.

Tiger Woods On His Comeback: "It's been quite a year"

Tiger Woods has had quite a year as he takes his place back at the top of the golf world. After a top-ten finish at the British Open in July, he finished second at the PGA Championship, making it feel like his first victory since 2013 is inevitable.

Woods shot a 65 Monday to work his way into contention at the BMW Championship, but ultimately fell short. He finished with a score of -17, three shots back of Keegan Bradley and Justin Rose. Bradley won the tournament in a playoff.

Books: "Beyond Broadway Joe" On The Jets Winning Super Bowl II

Beyond Broadway Joe: The Super Bowl TEAM That Changed Football
By Bob Lederer
Dey Street, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers; hardcover, $27.99; available this Tuesday, September 11

The New York Jets, then of the American Football League, stunned the heavily favored Baltimore Colts of the National Football League, in Super Bowl III on January 12, 1969.

Jets quarterback Joe Namath, known to all as "Broadway Joe," became synonymous with victory and was transformed into a household name.

Books: A Trip Back To 1970s Brooklyn In "Car Trouble" By Rorke

Car Trouble: A Novel
By Robert Rorke
Harper Perennial; paperback, $15.99; available this Tuesday, September 11

Once upon a time, before it became the cool spot to be and a haven for hipsters, Brooklyn was a rough-edged and industrial outer borough.

New York Post TV columnist Robert Rorke offers an intimate look at Brooklyn in the 1970s and what it meant to be a “Brooklynite” long before brownstones and Utica Avenue were regarded as prime real estate in his fierce debut novel, Car Trouble.

Books: Jeff Pearlman On The USFL & The Donald In "Football for a Buck"

Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL
By Jeff Pearlman
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; hardcover, $28.00; available this Tuesday, September 11

How does a league that faded from existence over three decades ago still fascinate people today?

Well, when it was a league stocked with superstars and one of the most prominent owners went on to be President, you can see why.
Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author of eight books, looks at this league in the new book Football For a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL.

Books: "Man of War" By Sean Parnell

Man Of War: A Novel
By Sean Parnell
William Morrow; hardcover; $27.99; avaialble Tuesday, September 11

U.S. Army Ranger Sean Parnell, a recipient of two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart, was 24 years old when he was named commander of a forty-man elite infantry platoon, which came to be known as the Outlaws. He was tasked with rooting out Pakistan-based insurgents from a mountain valley along Afghanistan's eastern frontier.