Review by Budd Bailey “Up & Down” gives us the chance to talk about the curious case (and accompanying autobiography) of golfer Bubba Watson. Here’s someone who is almost tailor-made…
By Budd Bailey It can be easy to produce the biggest annual book regarding an upcoming baseball season every year. You’d think at Year 27 they’d get used to the…
Review by Budd Bailey The number of people that hate Roger Federer must be close to absolute zero. Yes, there might be a couple of tennis fans in Spain or…
Review by Budd Bailey Any discussion about a book called “Loserville” must start with its title. If you only knew that a sports volume was coming out by that name,…
Review by Budd Bailey For those of you who think the National Basketball Association has been the proverbial big-league organization forever, well, think again. It wasn’t that long ago –…
Review by Budd Bailey A good case could be made that the 1936 Summer Olympics were the most dramatic event of its kind in history. Few of the reasons why…
Review by Budd Bailey Dan Shaughnessy can be a tough sportswriter some times. That’s a little more rare than you might think. Criticism of sports figures has become increasingly rare,…
Review by Budd Bailey “Finding Murph” is one sad story. It’s the latest in something of an informal series of articles and books on the problems in the form of…
Review by Budd Bailey Books about the Canadian Football League don’t pop up on this space very often, and for a very good reason – I live in the United…
Review by Budd Bailey It’s time for another discussion about that literary phenomenon – the double autobiography. And the person in question is baseball standout David Ortiz. Fans of the…
Review by Budd Bailey At its heart, “Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised” isn’t about basketball. It’s more about sociology and urban studies than any other category. The book will be in…
Review by Budd Bailey Almost a year after the birth of the Super Bowl, the Ice Bowl was born. That became the unofficial nickname of the NFL Championship game of…