Uncle John's Facts to Go Sports Shorts

by Bathroom Readers' Institute

Overview

Uncle John’s Sports Shorts lets you relive the sporting world’s most incredible moments! From ancient stick-and-ball games to the physics of football, it’s all in here: great finishes, embarrassing losses, inside secrets, bizarre pastimes, and disastrous “Dumb Jocks” quotes—including this bewildering gem from the NFL’s Erik Ainge about Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez: “He’s stupid while being stupid. You have to be smart while being stupid, and he’s dumb while being dumb.” Don’t even try to comprehend that, just read about what else you’ll find in Sports Shorts:

-Bowling for humans
-Reasons you should never mix hipsters, kickball, and alcohol
-The hidden power of Olympic swimming champion Mark Spitz’s mustache
-The origins of surfing, instant replay, ESPN, March Madness, cricket, stock car racing, and more
-How the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders changed the way America watches sports
-The biggest conspiracy theories in pro sports, the most shocking uses and abuses of the Stanley Cup, and the most hellish holes in golf
-Baseball records that will never be broken
-When soccer moms go ballistic

And much, much more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626862371
Publisher:	Portable Press
Publication date:	06/09/2015
Series:	Facts to Go , #17
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	50
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

The Bathroom Readers' Institute is a tight-knit group of loyal and skilled writers, researchers, and editors who have been working as a team for years. The BRI understands the habits of a very special market—Throne Sitters—and devotes itself to providing amazing facts and conversation pieces.

Also Known As:

Paul "Binzer" Brennan