Sports from Hell: My Search for the World's Dumbest Competition. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.
462 Bewertungen von Goodreads
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Doubleday/ESPN Books, 2010
- Hardcover
- Gebraucht
Anbieter: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, USAWorld of Books (was SecondSale)
Verkäufer/-in mit 5 Sternen
Verkäufer:in bei ZVAB seit 20. Dezember 2007
Nicht verfügbar
Hardcover
Zustand: Gebraucht - Befriedigend
EUR 5,13
Artikelbeschreibung des Verkäufers
Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers.
Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00095762903
- Titel
- Sports from Hell: My Search for the World's Dumbest Competition
- Autor
- Reilly, Rick
- Verlag
- Doubleday/ESPN Books
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2010
- Zustand
- Good
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Sprache
- Englisch
- ISBN-10
- 0385514387
- ISBN-13
- 9780385514385
The most popular sports columnist in America puts his life (and dignity) on the line in search of the most absurd sporting event on the planet.
What is the stupidest sport in the world? Not content to pontificate from the sidelines, Rick Reilly set out on a global journeywith stops in Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Denmark, England, and even a maximum security prison at Angola, Louisianato discover the answer to this enduring question.
From 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, to several competitions that involve nudity, Reilly, in his valiant quest, subjected himself to both bodily danger and abject humiliation (or, in the case of ferret legging, both).
These fringe sports offer their participants a chance to earn a few bucks and achieve the eternal glory that is winningeven when the victory in question might strike some as pointless, like the ability to sit in an oven-hot sauna for the longest time. It's debatable whether these sports push the body or just human idiocy to the outermost limits, but one thing is for sure: Sports in Hell is laugh-out-loud hilarious and will deliver plenty of unabashed fun.
What is the stupidest sport in the world? Not content to pontificate from the sidelines, Rick Reilly set out on a global journeywith stops in Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Denmark, England, and even a maximum security prison at Angola, Louisianato discover the answer to this enduring question.
From 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, to several competitions that involve nudity, Reilly, in his valiant quest, subjected himself to both bodily danger and abject humiliation (or, in the case of ferret legging, both).
These fringe sports offer their participants a chance to earn a few bucks and achieve the eternal glory that is winningeven when the victory in question might strike some as pointless, like the ability to sit in an oven-hot sauna for the longest time. It's debatable whether these sports push the body or just human idiocy to the outermost limits, but one thing is for sure: Sports in Hell is laugh-out-loud hilarious and will deliver plenty of unabashed fun.
„Inhaltsangabe“ gehört möglicherweise zu einer anderen Auflage dieses Titels.
Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor
RICK REILLY has been voted National Sportswriter of the Year ten times. Formerly a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, he now writes a column for ESPN: The Magazine and ESPN.com and appears on the TV network. He is also the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including Who's Your Caddy?
„Über diesen Titel“ gehört möglicherweise zu einer anderen Auflage dieses Titels.
Suchergebnisse für Sports from Hell: My Search for the World's Dumbest Competition
Es sind 3 weitere Exemplare dieses Buches vorhanden.Alle Ergebnisse anzeigen