Sports from Hell
My Search for the World's Most Outrageous Competition
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
15 June 2011
Summary
Bestselling author and ESPN star, Rick Reilly delivers a hilarious, unabashedly fun, and at times, skin-searing tour through some of the world’s most amazing and outrageous sportsFrom the physically and mentally taxing sport of chess boxing to the psychological battlefield that is the rock-paper-scissors championship, to the underground world of illegal jart throwing, Rick Reilly subjected himself to both bodily danger and abject humiliation (or, in the case of ferret legging, both) in order …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780767919708 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 076791970X |
| Author: | Rick Reilly |
| Publisher: | Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc) |
| Imprint: | Broadway Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2011 |
| Weight: | 187g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 135mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
“Reilly could write about lawn bowling and make it funny, informative, and entertaining.”–Los Angeles Times
“[Reilly] knows and delivers a good story when he sees it … readers can’t help but be touched by the sheer ingenuity of many of these games and the sheer courage of many of the participants.”–Booklist
About The Author
Rick Reilly
Rick Reilly has been voted National Sportswriter of the Yeareleven times. Formerly a senior writer for Sports Illustrated,henowis a front-page columnist for ESPN.com and an essayist for ESPN SportsCenter, as well as ESPN’s and ABC’s golf coverage. He is also the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including Who’s Your Caddy?
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