Al Michaels, L. Jon Wertheim

You Can't Make This Up (eBook, ePUB)

Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One of America's most respected sportscastersand the play-by-play voice of NBC's Sunday Night Footballgives us a behind-the-curtain look at some of the most thrilling games and fascinating figures in modern sports.

No sportscaster has covered more major sporting events than Al Michaels. During the course of his forty-plus-year career, he has logged more hours on live primetime network television than anyone in history, having covered all four major sports championshipsthe Super Bowl, the World Series, the NBA finals, and the Stanley Cup finalas well as the Olympic Games, the Triple Crown, and many more. He has witnessed firsthand some of the most memorable events in sports, and in this highly personal and entertaining account, he brings them all vividly to life.

Michaels's stories cover unforgettable chapters over the past half centuryfrom the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics' Miracle on Ice to the earthquake that rocked the 1989 World Series to the drama of what many consider the most exciting Super Bowl everSuper Bowl XLIII between the Steelers and the Cardinals. Some of the biggest personalities on and off the field are herePete Rose, John Wooden, Brett Favre, Tommy Lasorda, O. J. Simpson, John Madden, Cris Collinsworth, Roone Arledge, Bill Parcells, Tiger Woods, Doc Rivers, Dennis Miller, and many, many more. Complementing access with insight, Michaels adds to the stories you thought you knew: Michael Jordan's eyesight; Howard Cosell's prickly, bombastic personality; even Peyton and Eli Manning's sibling rivalry.

From start to finish, Al Michaels gives us an up-close portrait of an industry that istoday more than evera vital part of our national culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062314987
• Artikelnr.: 41658159

Autorenporträt

Al Michaels has logged more hours on network television than anyone in history, including twenty years as the play-by-play voice of Monday Night Football. Michaels is currently the play-by-play voice of NBC's Sunday Night Football, TV's highest-rated show.