What started out as an idea for a regional sports service, blossomed into a sports media giant. ESPN has turned sports fans into addicts, and in fact, caused a woman to file for divorce claiming the network ruined her marriage. Devout ESPN watchers have even named their children ESPN, Travis Vogan offers an academic look […]
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Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was a place without hope, a prison of the mind. From 1934 to 1963, “The Rock” housed the prisoners the system deemed “high risk,” that required extra supervision. The incarcerated studied every square inch of the facility looking for any opportunity to escape what was considered the inescapable. While many may have
Who was the real Evel Knievel? When the daredevil’s bicycle helmet is taken off, and the legend is removed, the man remaining might not be the resemble the character we remember from his heydays. In “Evel,” Leigh Montville separates facts from fiction, and as you learn, that is not only the easiest proposition when it
“The Occasionally Accurate Annals of Football” takes a hard look at the history of NFL, with a twist of comedy and humor. As the book claims, you receive a little education with lots of entertainment. The wonderful sportscaster Dan Patrick is the narrator, and does a fantastic job taking the listener through this journey. You
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Eddie Waitkus received a note, while staying at a Chicago hotel in June 1949, from a deranged stalker asking to meet him regarding an important matter. Having no idea of the person in question, Waiktus, a major league baseball player, asked the front desk about who had checked into the room mentioned in the note.
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“The Texas 7” is an engaging true crime audiobook about the daring escape of seven inmates from a Texas maximum security prison on December 13, 2000. In Kennedy, Texas, seven dangerous convicts escaped the facility driving away in a Department of Corrections truck, and started a massive manhunt for their captures. Gary C. King shares
William C. Dear, a Dallas-based private investigator. was hired by the Milo family to find the killer of Dean Milo in 1980. Milo ran the successful Milo Barber and Beauty Supply Company, a family business, and had rubbed his siblings the wrong way by his business practices. Additionally, there were rumors that Milo’s death could
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“The Taco Bell Strangler” is Henry Louis Wallace, a series rapist and killer from North Carolina, who murdered 11 women between 1990 and 1994, before being arrested and confessing to his crimes. In “Bad Henry,” author Ron Chepesiuk documents his troubled youth, often being beaten by his controlling mother. Wallace claims to have witnessed a
Was Pretty Boy Floyd a stone cold killer, or Robin Hood as many viewed him? You will definitely have your answer upon completing “The Life & Death of Pretty Boy Floyd.” The outlaw was certainly a slippery character, alluding massive manhunts. It would come to an abrupt end in a small town in Ohio in
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There have been many books written about the notorious James “Whitey” Bulger. The organized crime boss addresses how he was portrayed by the media, and attempts to clear up any misconceptions in “James Whitey Bulger” by Alcatraz expert Michael Esslinger. Before he became the leader of the Winter Hill Gang in Boston, and spent many
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