The Worst of Sports: Chumps, Cheats, and Chokers from the Games We Love

Цена 11.85 - 23.55 USD

EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780345498915


Издатель Ballantine Books

Страниц 336

Год выпуска 2007

From star running back Bryon "Bam" Morris"s interesting (and totally illegal) sideline career to the 1950s Kansas City A"s sneaky relationship with the New York Yankees; from French golfer Jean Van de Velde"s epic choke on 18 at the 1999 British Open to the infamous Cleveland Ten-Cent Beer Night riot of 1974; from Hungary"s bloody 1956 Olympic water polo match with the Soviet Union to the definitive analysis of basketball coach Larry Brown"s sartorial evolution and hoops maven Mike Fratello"s hair devolution - if it"s bad and sports related, then it"s likely in "The Worst of Sports: Chumps, Cheats, and Chokers from the Games We Love". An uproarious collection of the most controversial and regrettable moments in major pro and college athletics, with a sprinkling of the obscure, "The Worst of Sports: Chumps, Cheats, and Chokers from the Games We Love" is a compendium of abject failure, harebrained decision-making, avarice, and rank stupidity - in other words, the stuff that some...