Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Who Knows Bo?

The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson by Jeff Pearlman

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A few years ago, a sportswriter I like and admire named Craig Calcaterra became Twitter’s punching bag for the day when, on the occasion of Bo Jackson’s birthday, he wrote that while Jackson was a tremendous athlete, his legacy was vastly overblown by guys in their 40s and 50s who just remembered a few highlight clips and his video game avatar’s dominance in Tecmo Super Bowl. Jeff Pearlman’s The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson is a disquisition on the subject […]

Sho-Be

Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty by Jeff Pearlman

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(TW: this book mentions Kobe Bryant’s rape case and so does this review. The book goes into graphic detail; the review does not.) I always enjoy Jeff Pearlman’s sports books and this one was no exception. Just as he did for the Showtime Lakers, so he does for the Shaq-Kobe Lakers. Personally speaking, I hated those teams. I thought they were arrogant and selfish. I rooted hard against them in the Finals every year. But that was also in the time when I didn’t care […]

Spring Football is a Good Idea

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I saw Jeff Pearlman speak on this, his new book at a nearby Barnes and Noble. He was concerned that nobody would read it. Pearlman has written books on such exciting sports subjects as Roger Clemens, the 90s Dallas Cowboys, and the 1980s Showtime Los Angeles Lakers. And yet, it was this subject, the relatively obscure minor league USFL that excited him more than anything else he’s worked on. But he knew it would be a tough sell, which is why, despite his relative success […]



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