Written By: Jon Finkel “What’s more productive, running gassers with my clients and bonding out here, or taking them to a crowded bar somewhere?” Drew Rosenhaus asks as he stops at the goal line on a high school football field between sprints. “When we’re pushing through a workout together, they see that when I say […]
Columns
Jeff Pearlman: The Making of a New York Times Bestselling Sportswriter (and Admitted Book Whore)
By: Jon Finkel FBI profilers aren’t necessary to decode the personality traits and behavioral patterns that make up most successful sportswriters. The specific breed of journalist that Jeff Pearlman, the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime, The Bad Guys Won and Boys Will Be Boys, belongs to is one of the more prevalent strains […]
Pro Bull Riders On Excruciating Injuries and Why Bull Snot is Glorious
By: Jon Finkel Brendon Clark’s worst injury as a professional bull rider happened when a near one-ton American Bucking Bull thumped his chest, resulting in a lacerated liver, bruised lung and broken ribs, which sounds horrible. Yet it seems far more tolerable than having to lug your melon-sized, black and blue, swollen genitals around for […]