ESPN: The Uncensored History

by Michael Freeman

Book Overview

This book traces the first 24-hour sports network from its inception through its evolution into a slick media outlet reaching more than 60 million homes via more than 26,000 cable providers. ESPN has... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878332391
• ISBN13: 9780878332397
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Inside the Turmoil

A very interesting look at ESPN and how it started from scratch to become the powerhouse we all know it as today. The book gives us a unique view of life inside the network as well as a closer look at the anchors we all know. Several reviews have criticized the amount of time spent on sexual harassment issues at ESPN, but it's vital considering the workplace as we know it here in the new millenium.

Excellent

I watch ESPN and I would have never thought that network to be as what the author Michael Freeman describes. Michael Freeman is a talent writer as well as journalist. His writing technique invites you to continue to read-on. The way he describes certain events with so much detail is breath-taking. Although I can't see behind the seens of ESPN, I would have never imagined that network to be discriminatory as he describes. Everything about this book is so life-like, it's so vivid. That's what captures your attention when reading it.Excellent writer, Excellent book."5 Stars" - Superb! Sign,"A True Fan"

The whole book

I bought this book because of all the buzz about the shenanigans that go on inside ESPN's headquarters in Bristol, but I was surprised to discover that the real meat is in author Freeman's chronicling of the early days of the network; it's fascinating stuff. The material about sexual harassment, though compelling, only represents one part of the book. The rest is the best.

Very entertaining

You will look at ESPN in an entirely different way. This is one of the best books about the building of a corporation that will you read. It gives the good and the bad. This is what I wanted to read, a book about the total ESPN network, not what ESPN wants me to believe with its fluffy ads that I know now aren't true.

The Gods of Sports

Mike Freeman, one of the New York Times top sports reporters, has written a gem of a book, ESPN: The Uncensored History. Through diligent reporting, Freeman traces the history of the most powerful cable network in the world from its humble beginnings to the 800-pound "mouse" it is today. Along the way he startles the reader with tales of drugs, gambling and sexual harrassment at ESPN, revelations that surely won't make the folks at Disney -- or in Bristol-- very happy. Buy this book; it's a great read.