Quick Sports Book Review

Over the last few days my boredom has lead to a lot of reading so here's a couple of recommendations:

God Save The Fan: How Preening Sportscasters, Athletes Who Speak in the Third Person, and the Occasional Convicted Quarterback Have Taken the Fun Out of Sports (and How We Can Get It Back) by Will Leitch.
This is a real good read. The chapters on Athletes and Media are both excellent and humorously point out a lot of the problems with sports today. Some of the innerworkings at ESPN that he uncovers are hilarous. the owners and fans chapters have some good parts but overall aren't as strong as the others. Overall its a quick read and great for any sports fan.

Can I Keep My Jersey? 11 Teams, 5 Countries, and 4 Years in My Life as a Basketball Vagabond- Paul Shirley
This book contains diary entries from Paul Shirley a basketball player that is just good enough to not quite make the NBA. In his travels he goes from Greece, to Spain, to Russia, to the ABA, CBA and NBA. Finding out some of the innerworkings of a team from an insiders perspective was really interesting and Shirley has a very dry sense of humor that comes across well. A good book for any basketball fan.