Sports from Hell: My Search for the World’s Dumbest Competition Audiobook (Free)
- Mike Chamberlain
- 7 h 0 min
- Random House (Audio)
- 2010-05-04
Summary:
The most popular sports columnist in the us puts his life (and dignity) at risk searching for one of the most absurd sporting event on the planet.
What is the stupidest sport in the world? Not content material to pontificate from your sidelines, Rick Reilly set out on a global journey-with halts in Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Denmark, Britain, and a good maximum security prison at Angola, Louisiana-to discover the response to this enduring issue.
In the physically and mentally taxing sport of about Sports from Hell: My Seek out the World’s Dumbest Competition chess boxing towards the psychological battlefield that is the rock-paper-scissors championship, to the underground world of illegal jart throwing, to many competitions that involve nudity, Reilly, in his valiant quest, subjected himself to both bodily danger and abject humiliation (or, regarding ferret legging, both).
These fringe sports offer their participants a chance to earn a few bucks and achieve the eternal glory that’s winning-even when the victory involved might strike some as pointless, like the capability to sit in an oven-hot sauna for the longest time. It’s debatable whether these sports activities push the body or just human idiocy towards the outermost limits, but a very important factor is for certain: Sports in Hell is laugh-out-loud hilarious and can deliver plenty of unabashed fun.