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Republicans Buy Sneakers Too: How the Left Is Ruining Sports with Politics
Sports media superstar Clay Travis wants to save sports from the social justice warriors seeking to turn them into another political battleground.
Have you ever tuned into your favorite sports highlights show, only to find the talking heads yammering about the newest Trump tweets or what an athlete thinks about the second amendment? The way Clay Travis sees it, sports are barely about sports anymore. Whether it’s in the stadium or the studio, the conversation isn’t about who’s talented and who stinks. It’s about who said the right or wrong thing from the sidelines or on social media. And we know which side is playing referee in that game.
Having ruined journalism and Hollywood, far left-wing activists have now turned to sports. Travis argues it’s time for right-thinking fans everywhere to put down their beers and reclaim their teams and their traditions. In Republicans Buy Sneakers, Too he replays the arguments he’s won and lays out all the battles ahead. His goal is simple: to make sports great again.
Travis wants sports to remain the great equalizer and ultimate meritocracy—a passion that unites Americans of all races, genders, and creeds, providing an opportunity to find common ground and an escape from polarizing commentary. He takes readers through the recent politicization of sports, controversy by controversy and untalented-but-celebrated hero by hero, and skewers outlets like ESPN which spend more time mimicking MSNBC than covering sports.
Travis hopes that if we can stop sports from being just another political battlefield, and return it to our common ground, we can come together as a country again.
Have you ever tuned into your favorite sports highlights show, only to find the talking heads yammering about the newest Trump tweets or what an athlete thinks about the second amendment? The way Clay Travis sees it, sports are barely about sports anymore. Whether it’s in the stadium or the studio, the conversation isn’t about who’s talented and who stinks. It’s about who said the right or wrong thing from the sidelines or on social media. And we know which side is playing referee in that game.
Having ruined journalism and Hollywood, far left-wing activists have now turned to sports. Travis argues it’s time for right-thinking fans everywhere to put down their beers and reclaim their teams and their traditions. In Republicans Buy Sneakers, Too he replays the arguments he’s won and lays out all the battles ahead. His goal is simple: to make sports great again.
Travis wants sports to remain the great equalizer and ultimate meritocracy—a passion that unites Americans of all races, genders, and creeds, providing an opportunity to find common ground and an escape from polarizing commentary. He takes readers through the recent politicization of sports, controversy by controversy and untalented-but-celebrated hero by hero, and skewers outlets like ESPN which spend more time mimicking MSNBC than covering sports.
Travis hopes that if we can stop sports from being just another political battlefield, and return it to our common ground, we can come together as a country again.
272 pages, Hardcover
First published September 25, 2018
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February 12, 2023
Growing up in the 1980s and 1990s, sports was fun. Michael Jordan was the best player on the planet, every baseball player had a nickname, and weekends were for listening to Big Ten football and the Bears on the radio while we raked leaves in the fall. Sports were escapism, a place to go to get away from the rigors of everyday life, whether you were a kid bogged down in school assignments or an adult slogging away at work. If your team won, as Jordan’s Bulls did all the time, even better. Clay Travis, who is the same age as me, remembers the days when sports were just that: an escape. Today they are not and it’s why even hardcore fans like myself get turned off by most broadcasts, especially those on ESPN, which used to be home to Baseball Tonight and NFL Primetime, my two favorite shows. Chris Berman, the face of the network, buh bye.
The days when sports were an escape and Berman gave everyone a nickname are long gone. My preferred medium of broadcast: the radio. Should athletes voice their opinions on societal issues: yes, they are citizens just like the rest of us. Should athletes voice their opinions while in team uniform: no because for most of us sports is an escape from everything including politics and live sports is the only thing still shown in real time. Perhaps if sports returned to the 1980s mentality of being just sports, they would be fun again as Clay Travis suggests. In the meantime, I still enjoy my baseball games on the radio, where time slows down and sports is just sports. I will be checking out Travis’ Outkick the Coverage for further reading and listening enjoyment.
🏀 4 stars 🏈
The days when sports were an escape and Berman gave everyone a nickname are long gone. My preferred medium of broadcast: the radio. Should athletes voice their opinions on societal issues: yes, they are citizens just like the rest of us. Should athletes voice their opinions while in team uniform: no because for most of us sports is an escape from everything including politics and live sports is the only thing still shown in real time. Perhaps if sports returned to the 1980s mentality of being just sports, they would be fun again as Clay Travis suggests. In the meantime, I still enjoy my baseball games on the radio, where time slows down and sports is just sports. I will be checking out Travis’ Outkick the Coverage for further reading and listening enjoyment.
🏀 4 stars 🏈
March 19, 2019
"A mind is like a parachute. It does not work if it is not open." -- Frank Zappa
Zappa's insight is something to consider if the title of Travis' book would cause you to give it a pass. Also, he often presents himself as just a guy's guy type - see the rear cover vitriolic responses from his contemporaries - and his stated love for two specific things in his intro may induce eye-rolling.
Travis, an attorney-turned-sports commentator, mentions - and I immediately thought of sports / political writer-journalist-commentator Bernie Goldberg with the similarities - that he has never voted Republican and has previously worked on Democratic political campaigns. (Though he self-describes as a moderate, some of his beliefs may be considered 'left of center.') Quite humorously although just as intelligently he examines and blasts the usual double standards that are becoming increasingly common in 21st century America with the mixing of sports, politics, and social media.
(Actually, social media near-continually takes an appropriate bruising in this book. While it gives a 'voice' and provides connection to more people than ever before, it often simultaneously becomes a war-zone and a mine-field - and there's a difference - to those caught up or targeted in stories.)
Using some reasonable examples Travis makes a good claim for liberal bias in the media, such as some 'talking heads' getting taken to task (or in some cases, being fired outright) for expressing conservative viewpoints. Said activity happens while they're off-air on their own time, just simply expressing an opinion, yet they still get in trouble at the workplace is concerning and just wrong. Pleasingly, Travis argues that we need liberal AND conservative voices to be an effective society.
Nicely, he also deflates some of what I refer to as "if I'm loud and/or angry sounding enough I'm therefore correct" attitude with certain athletes or teams and their sometimes misguided or just nonsensical causes. It is mind-boggling and upsetting when people or organizations simply buckle to demands made, when a calm response, a debate, or just the answer 'no' - though be prepared to still be tagged as a racist, he observes, because it's the easy go-to accusation - should be a first step.
I may not agree with absolutely everything Travis wrote, but a lot of it seemed like common sense.
Zappa's insight is something to consider if the title of Travis' book would cause you to give it a pass. Also, he often presents himself as just a guy's guy type - see the rear cover vitriolic responses from his contemporaries - and his stated love for two specific things in his intro may induce eye-rolling.
Travis, an attorney-turned-sports commentator, mentions - and I immediately thought of sports / political writer-journalist-commentator Bernie Goldberg with the similarities - that he has never voted Republican and has previously worked on Democratic political campaigns. (Though he self-describes as a moderate, some of his beliefs may be considered 'left of center.') Quite humorously although just as intelligently he examines and blasts the usual double standards that are becoming increasingly common in 21st century America with the mixing of sports, politics, and social media.
(Actually, social media near-continually takes an appropriate bruising in this book. While it gives a 'voice' and provides connection to more people than ever before, it often simultaneously becomes a war-zone and a mine-field - and there's a difference - to those caught up or targeted in stories.)
Using some reasonable examples Travis makes a good claim for liberal bias in the media, such as some 'talking heads' getting taken to task (or in some cases, being fired outright) for expressing conservative viewpoints. Said activity happens while they're off-air on their own time, just simply expressing an opinion, yet they still get in trouble at the workplace is concerning and just wrong. Pleasingly, Travis argues that we need liberal AND conservative voices to be an effective society.
Nicely, he also deflates some of what I refer to as "if I'm loud and/or angry sounding enough I'm therefore correct" attitude with certain athletes or teams and their sometimes misguided or just nonsensical causes. It is mind-boggling and upsetting when people or organizations simply buckle to demands made, when a calm response, a debate, or just the answer 'no' - though be prepared to still be tagged as a racist, he observes, because it's the easy go-to accusation - should be a first step.
I may not agree with absolutely everything Travis wrote, but a lot of it seemed like common sense.
October 11, 2018
Read this with an open mind and you will have your world rocked. He doesn’t just spout his beliefs he backs them up with facts. His writing style is very easy to read and he is on point with his points, although he can repeat the same point a few too many times in the same paragraph. I find it terrifying the standards that have been set by ESPN, what happens when your employer decides they have a different political view than you and fire you? That is the standard that is being set today. I have never listened to his radio show but heard him on NFL Radio and after reading this book I will be listening to him.
November 5, 2018
The author voted twice for Barak Obama, and also worked to get Al Gore elected. He definitely leans to the left, but he is able to recognize the hypocrisy and faux outrage by the far left sports media.
October 2, 2018
If you have an open mind you'll love it, otherwise you'll hate it.
February 7, 2021
This is a good book. Pretty political, even though Clay is pretty down the middle on his politics (fiscal conservative, social liberal) , he makes no bones about the trend in sports to shove liberal ideology down fans’ throats.
He gives a history of the conservative or even innocent utterances of announcers / sports prognosticators that have been fired and or demanded groveling apologies for implied offenses.
Clay provides a perfect business case of what NOT to do as he gives the last 15 year history of ESPN’s decline in ratings and customers as they have gone hard left. He accurately shows that cord-cutting is a major issue, but then they have decided a clear progressive direction and have silenced dissenting opinions (many that fans agree with) and push liberal progressive ideas.
Now we can agree or disagree on the ideas, but there is little doubt of Clay’s title thesis that pissing off half your base, is not a recipe for long term success.
He shows how there is a clear double standard with announcers , athletes, coaches, etc on the outrage of their statements based on their ideology. He also accurately rejects twitter responses as criteria for measuring customer outrage/approval.
Overall a good book, but if you listen to him regularly, you’ve heard all these points multiple times.
He gives a history of the conservative or even innocent utterances of announcers / sports prognosticators that have been fired and or demanded groveling apologies for implied offenses.
Clay provides a perfect business case of what NOT to do as he gives the last 15 year history of ESPN’s decline in ratings and customers as they have gone hard left. He accurately shows that cord-cutting is a major issue, but then they have decided a clear progressive direction and have silenced dissenting opinions (many that fans agree with) and push liberal progressive ideas.
Now we can agree or disagree on the ideas, but there is little doubt of Clay’s title thesis that pissing off half your base, is not a recipe for long term success.
He shows how there is a clear double standard with announcers , athletes, coaches, etc on the outrage of their statements based on their ideology. He also accurately rejects twitter responses as criteria for measuring customer outrage/approval.
Overall a good book, but if you listen to him regularly, you’ve heard all these points multiple times.
July 26, 2018
Smart & funny. Made me rethink some hot topics in the news.
October 9, 2018
Awesome Book!!
I’m big fan of Clay Travis!! I listen to “Outkick the Coverage” on a daily basis. Clay does a great of expressing his opinions about sports in today’s culture. He doesn’t straddle the fence which I applause him for that
I’m big fan of Clay Travis!! I listen to “Outkick the Coverage” on a daily basis. Clay does a great of expressing his opinions about sports in today’s culture. He doesn’t straddle the fence which I applause him for that
November 8, 2023
Honest, biting and straight forward. A good book looking at the other side of popular topics.
December 30, 2018
One thing I loved, his sentence that starts something like, As a white, green eyed, brown haired male, I . . .
I loved the idea that we all need to stop with these insane disclaimers of our authenticity or our ability to have an opinion because of our skin or birth traits, that of course, we cannot change.
That is only one aspect of this book that I enjoyed. I felt like Clay Travis, like myself, is interested in truth, not political correctness. I appreciated his opinions in a day in which, if we are truthful, the media really is biased, and he calls them out on it. And ironically, although he has been called a right-winger, because he dares to call out leftist lies and bias, he is a democrat, not that that should matter.
One other favorite idea was the idea (not his) of being Twoke, the idea that most people are not “woke” at all beyond the simple Tweets they read, and those are frequently false or misleading.
So many truths. You should read it and consider it even if you are a Democrat. Maybe especially if you are a Democrat. Overall, the writing and his points are redundant, and although many parts are funny, it was not my favorite read of the year. If you also read his articles online, you will find it even more redundant!
I loved the idea that we all need to stop with these insane disclaimers of our authenticity or our ability to have an opinion because of our skin or birth traits, that of course, we cannot change.
That is only one aspect of this book that I enjoyed. I felt like Clay Travis, like myself, is interested in truth, not political correctness. I appreciated his opinions in a day in which, if we are truthful, the media really is biased, and he calls them out on it. And ironically, although he has been called a right-winger, because he dares to call out leftist lies and bias, he is a democrat, not that that should matter.
One other favorite idea was the idea (not his) of being Twoke, the idea that most people are not “woke” at all beyond the simple Tweets they read, and those are frequently false or misleading.
So many truths. You should read it and consider it even if you are a Democrat. Maybe especially if you are a Democrat. Overall, the writing and his points are redundant, and although many parts are funny, it was not my favorite read of the year. If you also read his articles online, you will find it even more redundant!
September 29, 2018
Clay Travis hits the nail on the head with this book. It's a great read: witty, funny, and it will make you (GASP!!) think!
September 29, 2018
I absolutely loved this book
October 2, 2018
Funniest book ever!
December 13, 2021
I have never left a review before on Goodreads. However, this book was objectively one of the worst books I’ve ever had the displeasure of reading and I feel it warrants a review. As someone who leans more left on things, I wanted to try and expand my view and hear different opinions. However, instead of doing that, this book was full of conservative brain numbing lies and inflammatory statements hidden behind the guise of “red pill moments.” I do not recommend this book whatsoever. 0/10
January 8, 2019
Personal Response: I personally enjoyed Republicans Buy Sneakers, Too for its argumentative format. I enjoyed how Clay Travis used his experience in the sports industry to prove that most major sports networks are Left winged. I really don't know how he got the numbers he did, but they offered great evidence to the thesis statement. My favorite part of the book is his political views. He believes in two things, the First Amendment, and boobs. He says this because he is a first amendment absolutist.
Plot Summary: The author, Clay Travis, wrote this book about his experience with getting banned from CNN and ESPN. He also goes on to explain how sports networks have started leaning far left and picking stories that make their political views look better than any opinion contrary. The book starts out with Clay explaining how he got involved with politics in sports. His first altercation is when he found himself investigating a Mizzou protest there. The football players were on strike because the school was not doing enough about on-campus racism. There are two incidents that the team was protesting about. The first incident, a poop swastika, and the second incident was about two instances of racial slurs being said on campus. That was it. Those two incidents are what the football players were risking their entire football career for. As a result of the protests the school administrator resigned. This story was reported on many sports news networks and even CNN. They reported that the students were brave for protesting against the school and praised them up and down. One thing none of these major news networks didn’t report on was what incidents they were protesting. Why would they? If they would have reported on what incidents they were protesting the protests would have looked so senseless. This would have made the whole story die down in an instant. But that didn’t happen and the school administrator was forced to step down for a poop swastica and a student saying a racial slur. If the sports stations wouldn’t have ridiculed the school so much for “not doing anything” and “tolerating” it, nobody would have lost their job. There's nothing the school could do about these incidents but they still suffered. Clay then goes onto explain his experience with ESPN. Clay was very successful at ESPN and was offered his own morning show. There was only one thing that he couldn’t do on the show, talk about his political views. All of the other hosts could but he couldn’t. Why was this? This is because the other hosts had views pertaining to the democratic party. Clay had more conservative views and he was not allowed to speak to them. Travis turned down the offer and started his own show on Facebook live. His show was a huge success and was the first of its kind. It appealed to college kids greatly because they do not want to pay $60 for cable a month, so they watched it on facebook live for free. The next issue Clay talked about was Collin Kaepernick's protest. Colin Kaepernick took a knee for the national anthem to protest police brutality. Colin Kaepernick said he was protesting this because “There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.” First of all, there is always an investigation when the cop fires his or her gun. They are given paid leave until their innocence is proven. If proven guilty of unlawful shotting, they will be tried in a court of law, in front of a jury, for their crimes. So basically, Collin Kaepernick was protesting something that was already solved.
Recommendations: I would recommend this book to anybody who would like to to know more about politics in sports. The book shows the point of view of both political parties and presents the data for all of the stories. I would also recommend this book to anybody who is into politics.
Characterization: At the beginning of the book, Clay Travis was the host of a morning radio show and got very good ratings. His ratings were so good that he was offered his own morning talk show, but there was a catch. He could not talk about his political views on the show. Clay declined the offer and he is now running a successful show on Fox Sports and Facebook live.
Plot Summary: The author, Clay Travis, wrote this book about his experience with getting banned from CNN and ESPN. He also goes on to explain how sports networks have started leaning far left and picking stories that make their political views look better than any opinion contrary. The book starts out with Clay explaining how he got involved with politics in sports. His first altercation is when he found himself investigating a Mizzou protest there. The football players were on strike because the school was not doing enough about on-campus racism. There are two incidents that the team was protesting about. The first incident, a poop swastika, and the second incident was about two instances of racial slurs being said on campus. That was it. Those two incidents are what the football players were risking their entire football career for. As a result of the protests the school administrator resigned. This story was reported on many sports news networks and even CNN. They reported that the students were brave for protesting against the school and praised them up and down. One thing none of these major news networks didn’t report on was what incidents they were protesting. Why would they? If they would have reported on what incidents they were protesting the protests would have looked so senseless. This would have made the whole story die down in an instant. But that didn’t happen and the school administrator was forced to step down for a poop swastica and a student saying a racial slur. If the sports stations wouldn’t have ridiculed the school so much for “not doing anything” and “tolerating” it, nobody would have lost their job. There's nothing the school could do about these incidents but they still suffered. Clay then goes onto explain his experience with ESPN. Clay was very successful at ESPN and was offered his own morning show. There was only one thing that he couldn’t do on the show, talk about his political views. All of the other hosts could but he couldn’t. Why was this? This is because the other hosts had views pertaining to the democratic party. Clay had more conservative views and he was not allowed to speak to them. Travis turned down the offer and started his own show on Facebook live. His show was a huge success and was the first of its kind. It appealed to college kids greatly because they do not want to pay $60 for cable a month, so they watched it on facebook live for free. The next issue Clay talked about was Collin Kaepernick's protest. Colin Kaepernick took a knee for the national anthem to protest police brutality. Colin Kaepernick said he was protesting this because “There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.” First of all, there is always an investigation when the cop fires his or her gun. They are given paid leave until their innocence is proven. If proven guilty of unlawful shotting, they will be tried in a court of law, in front of a jury, for their crimes. So basically, Collin Kaepernick was protesting something that was already solved.
Recommendations: I would recommend this book to anybody who would like to to know more about politics in sports. The book shows the point of view of both political parties and presents the data for all of the stories. I would also recommend this book to anybody who is into politics.
Characterization: At the beginning of the book, Clay Travis was the host of a morning radio show and got very good ratings. His ratings were so good that he was offered his own morning talk show, but there was a catch. He could not talk about his political views on the show. Clay declined the offer and he is now running a successful show on Fox Sports and Facebook live.
October 26, 2018
Fact based and a fun read. Take the red pill and join us.
I was wondering over the last 10 years or so why I kept getting angry at sports coverage, besides being a Cowboys fan, and this book has a very reasonable explanation. Some one had been sneaking their politics in to my sports! Clay lays out a nice reasoned and fact based story of why this is happening and begs us all to help stop it in its tracks.
I was wondering over the last 10 years or so why I kept getting angry at sports coverage, besides being a Cowboys fan, and this book has a very reasonable explanation. Some one had been sneaking their politics in to my sports! Clay lays out a nice reasoned and fact based story of why this is happening and begs us all to help stop it in its tracks.
October 2, 2018
Must read. If you wish to be a free thinkong individual and not someone who regurgetates the hate disguised as progression in online realms of anonymity, read this. Listen to the other side instead of realigning your world views.
October 30, 2018
There’s a lot to think about in this book, and a lot I agree with. Travis is very engaging, but this book needed a lot more editing. He could’ve developed his arguments more thoroughly and not repeated himself as often.
February 8, 2019
This book was less than interesting. Although the author brought up some good points it was slanted so far to the right that it was awful. The one redeeming quality was the fact that the author berates Colin Kaepernick for his ridiculous and nonsensical protest.
February 7, 2021
Funny, well-written, and thoroughly researched...This book provides insight into how ESPN turned to politicizing their coverage of sports with a left-wing bias to make up for the falling subscriber base starting in the 2010s when their monopoly over sports highlights and panel discussions was diminished by the rise of social media and competition from Fox Sports, CBS, etc. This set the stage wherein any perceived deviation of ESPN TV personalities from ESPN management's left-wing political views resulted in swift retribution and getting "cancelled". The most egregious example of this being Curt Schilling getting fired for sharing a post with conservative views on his private Facebook (i.e. not in his capacity as an ESPN host) while other hosts like Max Kellerman, Bemani Jones, Rachel Nichols, and Jemele Hill facing no consequences for expressing left-wing views on air or in their professional capacity. Many other examples of sports media's hard turn left are highlighted by the nature of their coverage on Lebron James's baseless claim of his LA home being vandalized with racial slurs or Michael Bennet's completely debunked claims of being subjected to racial profiling/police brutality by Las Vegas police during an active shooter incident.
This transformation of the sports media has left a huge chasm where they try to cater to a loud minority of left-wing Twitter voices while demonizing the majority of sports fans who hold views that were completely acceptable as recently as 10 years ago. I highly recommend this book to sports fans across the political spectrum. It certainly changed my mind on a lot of popular news coverage by the author's meticulous and rational approach to investigating the incidents. It's likely this book would have been much longer had been written in 2021 and included all the lunacy of sports stars in 2020. The book also leave you somewhat perplexed at why Clay Travis has a reputation of being a conservative though he holds heterodox political views, as evidenced by having voted for Obama twice and campaigned for Al Gore.
This transformation of the sports media has left a huge chasm where they try to cater to a loud minority of left-wing Twitter voices while demonizing the majority of sports fans who hold views that were completely acceptable as recently as 10 years ago. I highly recommend this book to sports fans across the political spectrum. It certainly changed my mind on a lot of popular news coverage by the author's meticulous and rational approach to investigating the incidents. It's likely this book would have been much longer had been written in 2021 and included all the lunacy of sports stars in 2020. The book also leave you somewhat perplexed at why Clay Travis has a reputation of being a conservative though he holds heterodox political views, as evidenced by having voted for Obama twice and campaigned for Al Gore.
December 4, 2020
It's a shame there is a lack of common sense in our country right now. Clay Travis uses timely examples of how the media encourages division among people. Why can't we all just get along?
November 16, 2018
Thought provoking, fact-based, smartly written to show a different perspective from the FAR-left that sports media has become.
October 22, 2018
Perfect example of not judging a book by its cover. If you do, you’d probably assume this is only a book for Republican/Conservative readers, which couldn’t be further from the truth. What you’ll find instead is compelling evidence and eye opening cases where even moderate opinions in today’s sports media can be labeled "alt-right" and too conservative. CT backs up the presented facts with numbers and inserts strong, compelling opinions. Worth the read no matter which political affiliation tickles your fancy.
July 12, 2019
Clay Travis has never been one of my favorite sports commentators; not that he was bad, or was wrong in the way that he did things ... he just didn't fit my preferences. I guess it has something to do with my age. My favorite all time sports show, was the old CNN show with NicK Charles, Fred Hickman, and Jim Huber -- just all of the sports that I wanted to know about. They didn't try to be cute, funny, or unnecessarily argumentative ... they just reported on the sports .... and I liked it. But, I really like what Clay Travis had to say in this book. The case that he lays out before the reader, explains why older, white, sports fans have been turned off by sports in the last 12-15 years. I don't agree with the politics or beliefs of Travis, but I believe he nails things on the head about how the sports media has controlled the thought process of their outlets, in an attempt to control what people say and believe. If you are a thinking person, I really believe that you will like this book; and I would encourage you to read it.
February 19, 2023
Clay Travis voted for Obama twice, worked on Al Gore’s campaign, is pro-choice and is an advocate for gay rights. In many ways he is pretty liberal in his beliefs. He also is a staunch advocate of freedom of speech, the pure meritocracy of sports and making America more like sports and sports less like America. I think that’s why I find his book so interesting. If you have an open mind, he has some insights to share that I think many could benefit from reading. Not because he’s right on everything, but because he explores multiple sides of arguments.
The LeBron vs Jordan comparison is put to rest (should this even be a question?) and several political instances in sports (including the Colin kaepernick protest, Missouri tigers protest, rush Limbaugh censorship, etc) are delved into with facts and questioned as only a lawyer knows how.
Worth the read for any sports fan.
The LeBron vs Jordan comparison is put to rest (should this even be a question?) and several political instances in sports (including the Colin kaepernick protest, Missouri tigers protest, rush Limbaugh censorship, etc) are delved into with facts and questioned as only a lawyer knows how.
Worth the read for any sports fan.
September 23, 2020
I wasn’t at all familiar with sportscaster Clay Travis when I spotted this book, nor with the quote borrowed from Chicago Bull Michael Jordan that makes its title. But I believe that sports should remain devoid of politics, so the book’s premise intrigued me. I particularly liked the way he traced the business model of sports media, and its ever-expanding outlets for sports coverage to the need for ESPN et.al to accordingly expand their paradigm for content, hence explaining sports networks forays into and creation of controversial or factious content. Travis has got pretty bold opinions, and would not be shy to elucidate how and when his ‘daring’ viewpoint got to be that way.
July 11, 2019
For a book criticizing pseudo-outrage, this book sure does use its fair share of pseudo-outrage. The book refuses to accept that politics does not exist in a void, and that it affects all areas of life. Despite this, a thought-provoking book that is quite relevant in this time.
December 1, 2018
A bit wordy and redundant, but good.
June 5, 2019
An almost unbearable asshole raising several good points.
March 2, 2024
Dawg this shit was so ass
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