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Crazy, with the Papers to Prove It
Stories about the Most Unusual, Eccentric and Outlandish People I've Known in Four Decades as a Sports Journalist
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Artikel-Nr:
9781598510683
Veröffentl:
2010
Erscheinungsdatum:
04.10.2010
Seiten:
254
Autor:
Dan Coughlin
Gewicht:
282 g
Format:
216x139x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Dan Coughlin has covered Cleveland sports for more than four decades, as a sportswriter for The Plain Dealer (1964-1982) and on WJW-TV 8 (since 1983). His columns also appeared in the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram, Medina Gazette, Lake County News-Herald, Painesville Telegraph and other newspapers. He was twice named Ohio sportswriter of the year and was honored with an Emmy award. He traveled with the Browns and Indians, and covered some of the biggest college football games of the 20th century, including five major bowl games. He was at ringside for several world championship fights as well as the Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier series. He covered 17 Indianapolis 500s and several auto races in Europe. He lives in Rocky River, Ohio.
Dan Coughlin is not crazy, but for 45 years he covered sports in Cleveland, which means he lived life under a full moon. Now, in his first book, the award-winning Plain Dealer and WJW-TV reporter reflects on the unusual, eccentric and outlandish people and events he covered. "I never met a wacko I didn't like," Coughlin says. Not only did he write about them, they became his best friends, including a degenerate gambler, a sportswriter who ripped open beer cans with his teeth, an Olympic champion who turned out to be a hermaphrodite, a football player who was a compulsive practical joker . . . Every day was an adventure, but it wasn't all laughs; some of his boxers went to jail, his softball players got shot, his race car drivers were killed. Luckily, Coughlin kept notes! Any Cleveland sports fan will enjoy meeting these memorable characters.