No Time Outs: What It's Really Like to Be a Sportswriter Today

by Christopher J. Walsh

For anyone who has wondered what it is like to be a sports writer, Christopher Walsh brings you No Time Outs. Detailing his beginnings as a small-time clerk in Florida, to a one-man bureau in Phoenix, to the Green Bay Packers beat at one of the largest newspapers in Wisconsin, Walsh presents his proudest moments as well as his shortcomings. This is the handbook for any aspiring sports journalist - an inside look at what the job and industry are like, some of the do's and don'ts, and many entertaining sports anecdotes.

312 pages, Paperback

First published April 25, 2006

Reviews

[Agatha Donkar Lund · Rating 3 out of 5]

Part memoir, part how-to, mostly Walsh wanking about how awesome he is. There was a lot of good stuff in this, but it was all buried in unreadable dreck (namely, what appeared to be reprints of every article Walsh ever wrote in his career) and I found myself flipping past more article reprints than I did reading actual memoir or how to. I wanted to know how he did things, not how awesome he thought he was.