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Title: What gives books by journalists a bad name.
Review: As one who reads and writes sport, and is a political progressive, I was looking forward to a book that took on the sports establishment. I found this book a great disappointment, however. It reads as if it were slapped together in a hurry without much thought given to organization or coherence. This is one more book that begs the question: what do today's editors do? Certainly they don't edit. Zirin weakens his thesis by repeatedly overstating the case, stretching the point, and taking cheap shots. I wish he would have put some more time and effort into this. Dave Meggyesy (who did the forward) wrote a much better book. Read Harry Edwards or Jack Scott if you're interested in this topic.
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