Good Bounces & Bad Lies: The Autobiography of Ben Wright

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Summary: If you buy one sports bookthis year, this is it.
Review: This is what the sports/golf writer, Gary Nuhn, form the Dayton Daily News said, and needless to say, I was very doubtful that it would be this good, as most reviews are too high or two low about a book. HE WAS RIGHT. Good Boundes & Bad Lies reads as if Ben Wright really pours his heart and soul into the book, all of his incredible lifes peaks and valleys. I belly laughed all through the book and gasped a few times as well. It is the most 'inside' book that I have read on sports since Ball Four. As ESPN's Gary Miller said to Wright at the close of his inteivew on Up Close, "Golf misses you." I agree, though his book is clearly makes you feel as though you are on the tour and in the booth with him.

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Summary: A GREAT Read
Review: Wright is as witty and colorful as his broadcasts were. Gives an image of broadcasting which most of us aren't aware of. We sense the morals and ethics of these public individuals are different. Appreciated even more his love for the game and extreme pain the LPGA comments have brought upon him. Image is everything!

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Summary: No secret is sacred - no one is spared
Review: Wright's book basically, after he gets through some obligatory stories about golf in England when he was young, is a tell all about most of the peole he has worked with at CBS Sports. If it is not a tell all, it will do 'til one comes around. Most of the problem is with alcohol...we hear of interventions, wild partys, stupid episodes of behavior...yet through it all...even after an intervention which sent him to Betty Ford...one of the staff told him before he left that he was not an alcoholic but an abuser of alcohol. What that distinction is remains lost to me but was understood by Ben. No matter. You wonder how CBS managed to produce a cohesive telecast of the Masters or any other tournament they were assigned to based on Ben's recollections. He also ran into some world travelers that he thought behaved badly. It is a "tell all" from one who is still in the dog house for telling all about his opinion of women's golf and the difference betwen the men's game and theirs. No matter that he had that just right,,,he was PC'd out and the world of golf broadcasting is the worse for it. I miss him behind the microphone, but the book goes a bit long.