Foreword / by John A. Walsh, Senior Vice President and Executive Editor of ESPN.com
Author’s Note
Chapter 3: Welcome to Generation
Chapter 4: The White House Disease
Chapter 5: Get Ready for Sainthood
Chapter 7: The Curse of Musburger
Chapter 8: Cruel Twist in the Coaching Business
Chapter 9: The NFL Sucks…Another League Bites the Dust … Rich Kids with Weapons
Chapter 10: Slow Week for Sports, in Politics
Chapter 11: Lynching in Denver
Chapter 12: Mad Cow Disease Comes to the NBA
Chapter 13: Death in the Afternoon
Chapter 15: The Most Horrible Curse in Sports
Chapter 16: Urgent Warning to Gamblers: Beware the Ides of March
Chapter 17: I Told You It Was Wrong
Chapter 18: Where Were You When the Fun Stopped?
Chapter 19: Running Away with the Circus
Chapter 20: NBA and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness
Chapter 21: Bad Craziness at Owl Farm
Chapter 22: Can the Three Stooges Save the NBA?
Chapter 23: Kentucky Derby and Other Gambling Disasters
Chapter 24: Quitting the Gambling Business While I’m Ahead
Chapter 25: The Most Dangerous Sport of All
Chapter 26: Patrick Roy and Warren Zevon—Two Champions at the Top of Their Game
Chapter 27: Wild Days at the Sports Desk
Chapter 28: Eerie Lull Rattles the Sports World
Chapter 29: Olympic Disaster in Utah
Chapter 30: The Wisdom of Nashville and the Violence of Jack Nicholson—A Football Story
Chapter 31: Fear and Loathing in America: Beginning of the End
Chapter 32: When War Drums Roll
Chapter 33: Will Sports Survive Bin Laden?
Chapter 34: Stadium Living in the New Age
Chapter 35: Football in the Kingdom of Fear
Chapter 36: Foul Balls and Rash Predictions
Chapter 37: Getting Weird for Devil’s Day
Chapter 38: The Yankees Are Dead: Long Live the Yankees
Chapter 39: The Man Who Loved Sport Too Much
Chapter 40: The Shame of Indianapolis
Chapter 41: Failure, Football, & Violence on the Strip
Chapter 42: Madness in Honolulu
Chapter 43: Break Up the Ravens
Chapter 44: Pay Up or Get Whipped
Chapter 45: Getting Braced for the Last Football Game
Chapter 47: Slow Dance in Rap Town
Chapter 48: Dr. Thompson in Beirut
Chapter 49: Dr. Thompson Is Back from Beirut
Chapter 50: The NFL: We Will March on a Road of Bones
Chapter 51: A Wild & Woolly Tale of Sporting Excess
Chapter 53: Don’t Let This Happen to You
Chapter 54: Grantland Rice Haunts the Honolulu Marathon
Chapter 55: Honolulu Marathon Is Decadent and Depraved
Chapter 56: Public Shame and Private Victory
Chapter 57: Shooting the Moon with the Raiders
Chapter 58: The Last Super Bowl
Chapter 59: Extreme Behavior in Aspen
Chapter 60: Billionaire Swine and Kiwi Catastrophe
Chapter 61: Fleeced by Ed Bradley
Chapter 62: Love Blooms in the Rockies
Chapter 63: Love in a Time of War
Chapter 64: A Sad Week in America
Chapter 65: The Doomed Prefer Oakland
Chapter 66: The Tragedy of Naked Bowling
Chapter 67: West Coast Offense
Chapter 68: Great Fleecing in Woody Creek: Lakers Staggered in Series Opener
Chapter 69: The Sport of Kings
Chapter 70: The Good, the Bad, and the Vicious
Chapter 71: Rewarding the Ugly
Chapter 72: Killed by a Speeding Hummer
Chapter 73: When in Doubt, Bet the Dark Side
Chapter 74: Welcome to the Big Darkness
Chapter 75: The Nation’s Capital
Chapter 76: Speed Kills and Other Football Wisdom
Chapter 77: Nightmare in Hollywood