Beating the Odds: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Sports Handicapper - Hardcover

Lang, Brandon; Cohen, Stanley

 
9781602396807: Beating the Odds: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Sports Handicapper
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1602396809 ISBN 13: 9781602396807
Verlag: Skyhorse, 2009

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The incredible rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches true life story of acclaimed sports tout Brandon Lang, subject of the motion picture Two for the Money (Al Pacino, Matthew McConaughey). Beating the Odds describes in vivid, colorful detail Lang’s rise from small time sports-phone tout to big time national exposure, his dramatic fall, and his subsequent rebirth in the internet age. Also describes the series of improbable events, while working as a golf caddie in Los Angeles, that eventually led Lang to the optioning of his story to Hollywood and the making of Two for the Money.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stanley Cohen is a veteran award-winning newspaper and magazine journalist. He has worked as an editor, writer, and reporter for newspapers, magazines, and an international news service for more than fifty years and has also taught writing, journalism, and philosophy at Hunter College. He is the author of ten books, including the acclaimed The Game They Played. He lives in Tomkins Cove, New York.

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Verlag
Skyhorse
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1602396809
ISBN 13 
9781602396807
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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