Book Review: Phil

Review by Budd Bailey An interesting character, this Phil Mickelson. He can be funny, smart, mysterious, petty, giving, loyal, cocky and generous – all in the same week, or so…

Book Review: Swagger

Review by Budd Bailey Jimmy Johnson can be a difficult personality to love. After all, this was someone who jumped from coaching the University of Miami (Florida) after a great…

Book Review: Freedom to Win

Review by Budd Bailey When it comes to emotion and drama in international hockey games, the standard was set in 1972 in the Super Series between Canada and the Soviet…

Book Review: The Lineup

Review by Budd Bailey Paul Aron has given himself quite a challenge, and it’s revealed in the subtitle to “The Lineup.” It reads, “Ten Books That Changed Baseball.” Fans of…

Review: In the Inner Sanctum

Review by Budd Bailey There probably isn’t a better boxing writer out there than Thomas Hauser. He’s been out there forever, it seems, writing about the Sweet Science. Much of…

Book Review: Game of Edges

Review by Budd Bailey Perhaps the biggest overall story about professional sports these days might be the most underreported story as well. Not surprisingly, it’s about money. It’s almost always…

Book Review: Boom Town

Review by Budd Bailey “Boom Town” recently popped up in a recently circulated article on the best sports books of our time, basketball division. I hadn’t heard about it, but…

Review: Coach K

Review by Budd Bailey In the spring of 2022, it was relatively easy to be tired of Mike Krzyzewski. The longtime Duke basketball coach had announced in the summer of…

Book Review: The Cap

Review by Budd Bailey It might be the most important day in American sports history that no one notices, let alone celebrates. The day is October 8, 1982. The National…