Jim Lampley, Art Chansky

Gebundenes Buch

It Happened!

A Uniquely Lucky Life in Sports Television

Beschreibung

"Jim Lampley's story is a 50-year travelog of an unlikely career that catalogs the evolution of sports television from his emergence as the first sideline reporter, through hosting and covering 14 Olympics, to working with all major sports networks"--

Autor

Jim Lampley is a Hall of Fame sportscaster with 50 years of on-site experience at numerous live sports events that include college and NFL football and ABC’s Wide World of Sports, inside NBA and MLB locker rooms, Wimbledon, Ryder Cup PGA Golf, and 14 Olympics. For  30 years, he was the face and voice of HBO World Championship boxing, including anecdotes and interactions with the most famous fighters of his era (Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Ray Leonard and George Foreman) and the biggest boxing matches up to and including the “Billion Dollar Bout” between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, which had the largest gross income in the history of  pay-per-view sports. Art Chansky is the author of ten sports books, including best-sellers The Dean’s List, Blue Blood, and Game Changers. Chansky was the ghost writer for The Kid Who Couldn’t Dunk, the inspirational children’s book by former All-American point guard Phil Ford. He has written hundreds of columns and feature stories for newspapers and websites in Atlanta, Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Benbella Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781637746431
• ISBN-10: 1637746431
• Artikelnr.: 70955121