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Sports From Hell: My Search For The World's Dumbest Competition (2010)

by Rick Reilly(Favorite Author)

3.46 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0385514387 (ISBN13: 9780385514385)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Doubleday/ESPN Books

review 1: The funniest thing, out of many things, was a midst all of the "sports from hell" which included chess boxing, nude bicycling, bull poker in a rodeo at Angola Prison, world sauna championships (where your skin can LITERALLY melt off your body!) and some weird New Zealand sports which include cave rafting and something called zorbing, Reilly included a chapter on baseball being a sport from hell. He had a point.
review 2: Parts of this book had me laughing so hard I was crying. I especially loved the chapters on the World Sauna Championship, the 3-mile golf hole, and the Rock Paper Scissors Championship (I so want to go to that one). The last chapter, on homeless soccer, isn't funny and isn't meant to be, but it does give a great alternative view on how to hel... morep others in a truly meaningful way.The only complaint I have with this book is that the author referred to his then-girlfriend (now wife) as TLC (The Lovely Cynthia) throughout. I don't have a problem with this per se, I just wish he had given her an acronym that wasn't also a TV channel. less

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