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Sports in Hell: My Search for the World's Dumbest Competition

✍ Scribed by Reilly, Rick

Book ID: 108522980
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 1 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780385532693

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

The most popular sports columnist in America puts his life (and dignity) on the line in search of the most absurd sporting event on the planet.

What is the stupidest sport in the world? Not content to pontificate from the sidelines, Rick Reilly set out on a global journey--with stops in Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Denmark, England, and even a maximum security prison at Angola, Louisiana--to discover the answer to this enduring question.

From the physically and mentally taxing sport of chess boxing to the psychological battlefield that is the rock-paper-scissors championship, to the underground world of illegal jart throwing, to several competitions that involve nudity, Reilly, in his valiant quest, subjected himself to both bodily danger and abject humiliation (or, in the case of ferret legging, both).

These fringe sports offer their participants a chance to earn a few bucks and achieve the eternal glory that is winning--even when the victory...

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