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For the last quarter century, Dan Jenkins has been fixing his cold-eyed stare and wisecracking style on the real-life Billy Clyde and Kenny Lee Pucketts of the sports world. You Call It Sports, But I Say It's a Jungle Out There is a collection of his best work from Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Golf Digest, and his nationally syndicated column, and includes a stack of new pieces written especially for this book. Jenkins spares no one in his search for the culprits who have taken the fun out of sports: NFL owners and refs, PGA Tour administrators, basketball players who can't read, tennis players who can't speak English (or say anything worth hearing when they do). He also finds things worth celebrating: the electric charge given off by Arnold Palmer at his best, the excitement of a truly great college football game, or a real heavyweight champion, like Joe Louis. Overflowing with good ol' boys, great one-liners, famous sporting events, and barroom tales, this is the best of Dan Jenkins--which is to say, it's as good as sportswriting gets anywhere.… (mais)
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
For all the poets who've had their funniest leads rewritten by imbeciles, their best quotes killed by quote Nazis, their favorite kicker lines chopped off by mysterious phantoms, and their expense accounts chewed on by eunuchs who've never been to Beverly Hills.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
In all my years of covering sports, I can honestly tell you I've never heard any athlete say, "We're going to beat the apple-walnut pie out of those strawberry sundaes," but on more than one occasion I've heard a football coach say something like, "I'll tell you one goddamn thing - we're about two niggers away from winnin' this fuckin' conference."
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
"Sports is my life" is something I hope to be saying a while longer in press boxes or press tents, but right now, an impatient Yorkshire terrier named "Barbara Jane Bookman" is staring up at me wistfully, telling me it's time to go for her walk.
For the last quarter century, Dan Jenkins has been fixing his cold-eyed stare and wisecracking style on the real-life Billy Clyde and Kenny Lee Pucketts of the sports world. You Call It Sports, But I Say It's a Jungle Out There is a collection of his best work from Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Golf Digest, and his nationally syndicated column, and includes a stack of new pieces written especially for this book. Jenkins spares no one in his search for the culprits who have taken the fun out of sports: NFL owners and refs, PGA Tour administrators, basketball players who can't read, tennis players who can't speak English (or say anything worth hearing when they do). He also finds things worth celebrating: the electric charge given off by Arnold Palmer at his best, the excitement of a truly great college football game, or a real heavyweight champion, like Joe Louis. Overflowing with good ol' boys, great one-liners, famous sporting events, and barroom tales, this is the best of Dan Jenkins--which is to say, it's as good as sportswriting gets anywhere.