The All-Time Biggest Sports Jerks

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And Other Goofballs, Cads, Miscreants, Reprobates, and Weirdos (Plus a Few Good Guys)

By Michael Freeman

There are steroids in baseball, crooked refs in basketball, and the salaciousness of Peeping Toms with video cameras in the shenanigans known as Spygate. If there was ever a time for the chronicling of jerks in all of their glorious jerkiness, the time is now.

The All-Time Biggest Sports Jerks: And Other Goofballs, Cads, Miscreants, Reprobates, and Weirdos (Plus a Few Good Guys) by Michael Freeman, skewers and roasts the most legendary hot dogs in baseball, basketball, boxing, golf, hockey, auto racing, media, and other fields of athletic play and extended adolescence.

With a sardonic sense of humor, CBSSports.com columnist Michael Freeman compiled a comprehensive list celebrating some of the more infamous characters in sports history, including:

¨ Top 10 jerk John Daly, who even took the time to sue Freeman for defamation of character

¨ Brett Favre and his off-season diva jerkiness

¨ A-Rod and his ongoing ascension as one of the biggest jerks in sports or otherwise

¨ The "Come after me! I'm a man! I'm forty!" jerkiness of OK State football coach Mike Gundy

¨ Ty Cobb matching his historic play with an unprecedented jerk level off the field

The All-Time Biggest Sports Jerks is not simply a depressing recital of the pitfalls of the athletic rich and famous. The careful documenting of the infamous 100 jerks is complemented by the interesting stories, rich anecdotes, weapons-grade one-liners, and stories that focus on some of the oddballs, weirdos, and even the oh-so-few good guys (and gals) in sports history.

About the Author

Michael Freeman, for the most part, isn't a jerk, though that is up for debate. Freeman is a national columnist for CBSSports.com and has previously held full-time writing positions for the Florida Times-Union, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Dallas Morning News. Freeman is the author of three other books including Bloody Sundays, which was a New York Times Notable Book, and Jim Brown: The Fierce Life of an American Hero, which was nominated for best biography in the NAACP's Image Awards in 2006. That year Freeman also became one of only a handful of writers ever to win three Associated Press Sports Editors top-10 writing awards in one year. In 2007 he was named an honorable mention in the book Best American Sports Writing following his story for CBSSports.com on the rebuilding of the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. He lives with his wife and dog in New Jersey. Neither are jerks, either.

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