Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPNby James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales
Little, Brown & Company/Hachette Book Group
Hardcover
From the publisher website:
It began, in 1979, as a mad idea of starting a cable channel to televise local sporting events throughout the state of Connecticut. The handful of founders called their modest venture "Entertainment and Sports Programming Network." Today, ESPN is arguably the most successful network in modern television history, spanning eight channels in the United States and around the world. Online or mobile, in HD, 3D, or print, it is an unprecedented media empire. Presidents have applauded it, parents have named children after it, and some of its personalities have become more celebrated than the superstar athletes they cover. But the inside story of its rise has never been fully told-until now. Drawing upon over five hundred interviews with the greatest names in ESPN's history-among them Keith Olbermann, Dan Patrick, Chris Berman, Bob Ley, Linda Cohn, Tony Kornheiser, Robin Roberts, Bill Simmons, Jim Rome, Erin Andrews, Lou Holtz, Barry Melrose, Tom Jackson, and Dick Vitale-and an all-star collection of some of the world's finest athletes, bestselling authors James Miller and Tom Shales take us behind the cameras, into the locker rooms, and deep inside the ESPN "campus" in Bristol, Connecticut. Here, in their own words, the men and women who made ESPN great reveal the secrets behind its success-as well as the many scandals, rivalries, off-screen battles, and triumphs that have accompanied that ascent. From the unknown producers and business visionaries to the most famous faces on television, it's all here.
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