| The Fix Is Still in: Corruption and Conspiracies the Pro Sports Leagues Don't Want You to Know about Contributor(s): Tuohy, Brian (Author) |
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ISBN: 1627310770 ISBN-13: 9781627310772 Publisher: Feral House OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2019 |
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| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Organized Crime - Sports & Recreation | History - Sports & Recreation | Football |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.90 lbs) 256 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The sports entertainment complex generates 73 billion dollars per year for owners, players, investors, and advertisers. With that much money at stake, do you really think that the sports profiteers are leaving anything to chance? Brian Touhy, the renegade expert sports watchdog, has once again gathered the facts and figures that expose the abject, greedy collusion of professional sports leagues. Anything goes as long as the fans keep buying tickets and merchandise! Touhy's first book, The Fix Is In: The Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and NASCAR , blew open the doors on modern sports fixing. It's a decade later, and the fixers are bolder than ever. Kayfabe, a term used by professional wrestlers to describe the artifice and fakery specific to their craft, has applications far beyond that realm--as is evidenced by the New York Times using it to describe soccer great Neymar da Silva Santos rolling around the pitch in exaggerated pain. Have professional sports given up all pretense of pure chance and competition? The Fix is Still In demonstrates that from tax-funded stadiums to staged hockey fights, sports in America is the surest way to separate you from your money. |
Contributor Bio(s): Tuohy, Brian: - Brian Tuohy is officially a "scholarly authority" recognized by the US Supreme Court. The American Gaming Association cited him (and his book, "Larceny Games") in their brief filed in favor of repealing PASPA to allow states to legalize sports gambling. Robert Silverman and Vocativ.com labeled him the "king of sports conspiracy theories." |