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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Contents
Foreword by Steve Young
Foreword by Brian Murphy
Introduction
01. Breaking News: Bill Walsh Is Dying
02. Mayo on the Side: Bill Walsh Dies
03. Rivalry: Al Davis Misses Bill Walsh, Sort Of
04. Cattle: Barry Bonds Uses a Bat in an Unusual Way
05. The Art of Debate: Frank Robinson Blows a Gasket
06. Kaepernick Meets Kierkegaard: Why Colin Kaepernick Is Suspect
07. National Anthem: How They Cheapen "The Star-Spangled Banner"
08. The Naked Coach: Jack Elway Takes It All Off
09. Naked Men: Why Naked Men in the Locker Room Aren't Sexy
10. Reggie Jackson Does His Business
11. An Old Knee: Duane Kuiper Offers to Kick Me You-Know-Where
12. Myth-Breaking: Billy Martin Offends the Jews
13. Billy Martin Sets Me Straight
14. A Fine How-D'Ye-Do: Reggie Smith Says the F-Word
15. The Sals: How Sports Writing Is a Fistfight on the Playground
16. Steve Mariucci Takes It Back
17. Dusty Stories: Dusty Baker Gets in Trouble Signing His Name
18. Space-Time Continuum: Randy Moss Gets His Feelings Hurt
19. The Bad-News Bearers: When Bad News Is Good News
20. Hard-On for Joseph Conrad: Why I Flopped at Sports Illustrated
21. The Winegardens: Street Games in New York
22. The Temple of Baseball
23. Michael Jordan Disappoints
24. The Permutations of Off-the-Record
25. Latrell Sprewell's Hands-On Experience
26. Why Sports Writers Are "You Guys"
27. Joe Morgan's Cleaning Lady
28. Rituals: Love Is Strange
29. Vida Blue Saves My Bacon
30. Choosing Up Sides: Jose Canseco Admires Bo Jackson
31. "My, my, my, like the spider to the fly": The Essence of Don Nelson
32. Drawing the Line: Desperate at Deadline
33. Priapic Fixation: Athletes and Their Doinkers
34. Fans
35. Fifteen %: The Total Tonnage of What We Don't Know about Athletes
36. What Joe Theismann Doesn't Know about Albert Einstein
37. Screen Snoopers: Press Box Plagiarists
38. Breaking the Ice: Tim Lincecum Feels Embarrassed
39. What Bruce Bochy Won't Say
40. Baby Amarone: Bruce Bochy Knows from Wine
41. High-Quality Sports Bullshit
42. Overall and Other Bad Words
43. Mensch: Steve Young as Usual
44. Death of Sparky: Charles M. Schulz in Memoriam
45. The Last Ride: Bobb McKittrick Ignores Bill Walsh
46. Hallowed Ground: 9/11, a Month Later
47. The Toughest Guy in Sports
48. The Real: The Unappreciated Virtues of Boxing
49. Thanks for the Memories: Don Zimmer Lets Me Down
50. Field of Dreams: Baseball and the Afterlife
51. The Philosopher King: Floyd Patterson Comforts Sonny Liston
52. Sonny Liston Signs His Name
53. The Killer: Sugar Ray Robinson's Grief
54. The Not: What Makes Good Sports Writing
55. His Nibs and the Burrito: Fabulous Sports Headlines
56. Go-Kart Mozart: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Finally Wins a Race
57. Baron Davis Learns Manners
58. Chair: No Cursing in the Press Box
59. Apostrophe
60. Byline Fever: A Sports Writer's Addiction
61. Glory Days: After Athletes Retire
62. Jim Harbaugh Says Goodbye
63. Elder Abuse on Twitter
64. Hello Goodbye: How I Didn't Say Goodbye to Steve Kerr
Afterword by Jim Harbaugh
Acknowledgments
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