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How to Cheat in Sports: Professional Tricks Exposed!
It's no secret that pro athletes cheat. But how exactly do they do it? Original interviews with former professional athletes and coaches reveal step-by-step instructions and technical drawings on how to throw a spitball, become an unblockable linebacker, foul a jumpshooter without getting caught, and other ways to gain an advantage over opponents. Hilarious accounts from insiders place these trade secrets in context, divulging what really happens in baseball, football, basketball, NASCAR, hockey, and even bowling, horseshoes, and kickball. When athletes say they give 110%, How to Cheat in Sports explains the extra 10%.
- GenresSportsNonfiction
160 pages, Paperback
First published April 23, 2008
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August 26, 2011
Oh-kay now...
I didn't plan on reading this to weaselly learn to Cheat. This is more of a being able to pick up on these infractions as they occur because I can then more easily see fraud and how it was accomplished.
Also appears I'm the first person to say what anything informational transpired to me from reading and then commenting upon the scope of the book. These informational books interest me.
I can't say that I myself when I was younger I may had somewhat honesty had a situation of dishonesty. Nothing really bad or often. Friends say I'm a trustworthy soul. Even today I corrected a clerk at the Till on too much money given me in exchange (and this was at a Bank).
Nevertheless... Cheaters. Yup, they are out there.
Yup, the Basketball moves look fiendish and the bending of the Horseshoes I would never had known.
The Author mixes in some humor and this proved to be a decent read. I think any Sports Fan should have a glance at this book.
I can see how some people can take advantage if certain things were opted to be 'in the right place at the right time'. Most people like to Cheat. No, not everyone, but the percentage of a few traits that all Mankind (no, not the Wrestler) DNA'ed in our true-being is where survival is way behind greed and aggression as an instinct we've developed and mostly revert. To win is only human. It's the Left Side of your Brain rather than the more passive impulses from the Right Hemisphere.
Cheating? Just like the final game in a past Stanley Cup that Hull DID have his foot in the crease that year where the NHL had that stupid rule and it got reversed after a few seasons, yet it was counted as a Goal in the 4th OT period as the f*ckin' Refs seemed to want to just end the Game and allowed it (if I remember it was scored at around midnight). I think it would had been more classy if Hull himself called-back the Goal because he was being honest and the Game went on until a real Goal happened? Would had nailed him as having Morels in the Sports World then how it turned out. Hull lost my respect on that Goal. Only because the Goal Ref. Great for Dallas, but not honestly deserved.
Tyson working his incisors?
Remember the Glowing Puck on televised Games? Gary Bettman should bring that back. It was funny.
Nevertheless, do read this if you have a chance because it makes you think of what may be transpiring down there on the Playing Field and you'll never see Sporting Events in the same frame of mind again. There may be some form of BS going on.
I didn't plan on reading this to weaselly learn to Cheat. This is more of a being able to pick up on these infractions as they occur because I can then more easily see fraud and how it was accomplished.
Also appears I'm the first person to say what anything informational transpired to me from reading and then commenting upon the scope of the book. These informational books interest me.
I can't say that I myself when I was younger I may had somewhat honesty had a situation of dishonesty. Nothing really bad or often. Friends say I'm a trustworthy soul. Even today I corrected a clerk at the Till on too much money given me in exchange (and this was at a Bank).
Nevertheless... Cheaters. Yup, they are out there.
Yup, the Basketball moves look fiendish and the bending of the Horseshoes I would never had known.
The Author mixes in some humor and this proved to be a decent read. I think any Sports Fan should have a glance at this book.
I can see how some people can take advantage if certain things were opted to be 'in the right place at the right time'. Most people like to Cheat. No, not everyone, but the percentage of a few traits that all Mankind (no, not the Wrestler) DNA'ed in our true-being is where survival is way behind greed and aggression as an instinct we've developed and mostly revert. To win is only human. It's the Left Side of your Brain rather than the more passive impulses from the Right Hemisphere.
Cheating? Just like the final game in a past Stanley Cup that Hull DID have his foot in the crease that year where the NHL had that stupid rule and it got reversed after a few seasons, yet it was counted as a Goal in the 4th OT period as the f*ckin' Refs seemed to want to just end the Game and allowed it (if I remember it was scored at around midnight). I think it would had been more classy if Hull himself called-back the Goal because he was being honest and the Game went on until a real Goal happened? Would had nailed him as having Morels in the Sports World then how it turned out. Hull lost my respect on that Goal. Only because the Goal Ref. Great for Dallas, but not honestly deserved.
Tyson working his incisors?
Remember the Glowing Puck on televised Games? Gary Bettman should bring that back. It was funny.
Nevertheless, do read this if you have a chance because it makes you think of what may be transpiring down there on the Playing Field and you'll never see Sporting Events in the same frame of mind again. There may be some form of BS going on.
March 30, 2013
Several chuckles during reading about how cheating is accomplished in many sports. It is always humorous to read how those from the past have used special advantages to excel and then to contemplate how today's stars might similarly be finding ways to bend the rules.
October 18, 2011
I lived reading Scott Ostlers sports column in the SF Chronicle, but this book was not his typical style.
December 10, 2012
didn't like it..
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