Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN - Softcover

Shales, Tom; Miller, James Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 031604301X ISBN 13: 9780316043014

Publisher: Back Bay, 2019

Synopsis

ESPN began as an outrageous gamble with a lineup that included Australian Rules Football, rodeo, and a rinky-dinky clip show called Sports Center. Today the empire stretches far beyond television into radio, magazines, mobile phones,the internet, video games and more, while ESPN's personalities have become global superstars to rival the sports icons they cover. Chris Berman, Robin Roberts, Keith Olbermann, Hannah Storm, Bill Simmons, Tony Kornheiser, Stuart Scott, Erin Andrews, Mike Ditka, Bob Knight, and scores of others speak openly about the games, shows, scandals, gambling addictions, bitter rivalries, and sudden suspensions that make up the network's soaring and stormy history. The result is a wild, smart, effervescent story of triumph, genius, ego, and the rise of an empire unlike any television had ever seen.

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Review:

""Those Guys Have All the Fun" delivers a hell of a narrative...[and] an outstanding work of journalism. Easing interviewees into such comfort that they said what they did on record is an enormous achievement for Miller and Shales." --Fortune "Daniel Roberts "

Book Description:

A behind-the-scenes chronicle of the rise of ESPN by the authors of the New York Times bestseller Live From New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Back Bay
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 031604301X
• ISBN 13: 9780316043014
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 816