| Sports from Hell: My Search for the World's Most Outrageous Competition Contributor(s): Reilly, Rick (Author) |
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ISBN: 076791970X ISBN-13: 9780767919708 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Essays - Humor | Topic - Sports - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 796 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.24" W x 8.03" (0.50 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Bestselling author and ESPN star, Rick Reilly delivers a hilarious, unabashedly fun, and at times, skin-searing tour through some of the world's most amazing and outrageous sports 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, Rick Reilly subjected himself to both bodily danger and abject humiliation (or, in the case of ferret legging, both) in order to personally find the world's strangest sporting event. Chronicling his adventures as only he can, Rick enters a world of bizarre characters, fierce competition, and exotic locals--with stops in Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Denmark, England, and even a maximum security prison at Angola, Louisiana--and the result is a laugh-out-loud book perfect for any sport's fan. |