From World Sports Headquarters in historic Bristol, Connecticut, comes the book that's more colorful than Dennis Rodman's hair. Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick, the former tag-team partners of ESPN's award winning SportsCenter, mark for the ages their most unforgettable moments, which have transformed the art of sports broadcasting -- bringing what People magazine calls their "Letterman-like loopiness and Koppelesque smarts" to the printed page in THE BIG SHOW Less expensive (and easier to read) than a big-leaguer's autograph, The Big Show gives you the honest, horrifying, yet always entertaining story of two men, three cameras, and highlights run amok, including: How Keith and Dan made The Big Show run slicker than Pat Riley's hair The origins of Dan and Keith's patented phrases Keith and Dan's on-air flubs -- errors that made Bill Buckner's blunder seem minor Dan and Keith's pantheon of all-time greatest athletes (Okay, who picked Coach Reeves from The White Shadow?) And so much more we couldn't -- and wouldn't dare -- mention here!
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CONTENTS
PREFACE v
INTRODUCTION xi
1 • HI, HELLO, AND HOW ARE YOU? 1
2 • A SORT OF GLOSSARY OF TERMS 9
3 • THE OFFICIAL TIME-LINE HISTORY OF THE BIG SHOW 33
4 • HOW WE DO THE VOODOO THAT WE DO 49
5 • "BILL BUCKNER -- COULD YOU DESCRIBE WHAT HAPPENED?" Dan and Keith's Top Ten Weirdest Things Said by Athletes 63
6 • GOOD GRIEF, WE'RE FAMOUS, SORT OF, PART-TIME 93
7 • HOW TO BE A SPORTSCASTER WHEN YOU GROW UP Dan and Keith's Top Ten Free Pieces of Advice to Other Sportscasters 115
8 • PETE ROSE AND THE HALL OF FAME 139
9 • KEITH'S COMPLAINT: IF YOU BUILD IT FOR ME, I WON'T LEAVE Dan and Keith's Top Ten Most Troubling Sports Team Names 187
10 • DAN'S COMPLAINT: WE BLAME ATHLETES FOR THE WRONG THINGS Dan and Keith's Top Ten Favorite Types of Sports Figures to Interview 199
11 • OUR TWENTY-ONE TOP TEN ATHLETES 207
12 • KEITH'S COMPLAINT, PART II: TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR ALBERT BELLE TO HATE MY GUTS 233
13 • PLAYS OF THE WEEK Dan and Keith's Top Ten Pleas to Athletes Who Are Being Interviewed 241
14 • OUR GREATEST GAMES (WATCHED, THAT IS, NOT PLAYED) Keith's Top Ten Prominent Baseball Players' Names (Submitted Without Dan's Approval) 249
15 • PUT YOUR BASEBALL CARDS IN YOUR BICYCLE SPOKES, NOW! 281
16 • BUT ENOUGH ABOUT US, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT US? 295
17 • TOM 305
