The All-Time Biggest Sports Jerks skewers and roasts the most legendary hot dogs in baseball, basketball, boxing, football, golf, hockey, auto racing, media, and other fields of athletic play and extended adolescence. CBSSports.com columnist Michael Freeman offers a sardonic sense of humor befitting some of the more notorious characters in sports history in this humorous celebration of the obnoxious, the petulant, the greedy, and the absurd. The careful documenting of the infamous 100 jerks--including Roger Clemens, Evander Holyfield, Bill Belichick, Dale Earnhardt Sr., Kobe Bryant, Ben Johnson, John Daly, and many others--is complemented by behind-the-scenes stories, rich anecdotes, weapons-grade one-liners, and stories that highlight the most notable oddballs, weirdos, and even the oh-so-few good guys in amateur and professional sports.
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"I wanted to spend [the night] with my family and friends and the people who had supported me, not a bunch of stiffs who were 70-80 years old, telling you that you're acting like a jerk."
--John McEnroe's explanation for skipping the traditional Wimbledon Champion's Dinner in 1981
--John McEnroe's explanation for skipping the traditional Wimbledon Champion's Dinner in 1981
"I didn't know they allowed cannibalism in the NHL."
--Jim Peplinski after being bitten by Claude Lemieux during a game
"I really think that Terrell has some sort of diagnosable personality disorder...."
--Bob Costas discussing Terrell Owens in an interview with Miami sports journalist Dan Le Batard
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Michael Freeman is a national columnist for CBSSports.com. He has previously worked for the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, and Florida Times-Union. Freeman is the author of three other books and lives with his wife and dog in New Jersey.
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Weak,
By Bucco63 (Moon) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The All-Time Biggest Sports Jerks: And Other Goofballs, Cads, Miscreants, Reprobates, and Weirdos (Plus a Few Good Guys) (Paperback)
Pretty weak analysis of the majority of situations. One opinion of multiple events and people the write obviously has no more insight of than my grandmother who reads the newspaper as well.
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Poorly researched book,
This review is from: The All-Time Biggest Sports Jerks: And Other Goofballs, Cads, Miscreants, Reprobates, and Weirdos (Plus a Few Good Guys) (Paperback)
Just another sports commentator trying to be bigger than the athlete a la Stephan A Smith & the idiot guy on Sports Ceneter (Stuart Scott). A failed athlete taking his sadness out on those more athletically gifted than he is.
The book sucks & is a waste of time. We all know who the jerks are in sports, why read someone else's book about them. Go outside learn a trade or something.
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Didn't Care for it Much,
By Tom Morris "Tom" (Billings,MT) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The All-Time Biggest Sports Jerks: And Other Goofballs, Cads, Miscreants, Reprobates, and Weirdos (Plus a Few Good Guys) (Paperback)
I am astonished at what the author considers to be a 'jerk' and what he doesn't. For example he considers George Brett to be a jerk because of a one time gaffe of telling an immature story about defacating in his pants; while Deion Sanders, who has a history of childish 'jerky' behavior involving humiliating Tim McCarver by dumping ice water on him twice while he was working, trashing two time Superbowl winning coach Bill Parcell's career, and several other incidents of immature behavior - Doesn't even make a mention in this book!
He puts John Stockton in there for dirty play??? Right along with OJ Simpson?!?!?!? To inconsistent for me.
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