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

Miller, James Andrew; Shales, Tom

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9780316178105: Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316178101 ISBN 13: 9780316178105

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 2011

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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, restaurants, 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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""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.

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