Thomas Hauser On Sports

Author : Thomas Hauser
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781557286352

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Thomas Hauser on Sports by Thomas Hauser Pdf

Thomas Hauser is best known to sports fans as Muhammad Ali's biographer and for his recording of the contemporary boxing scene. Booklist says that Hauser is "the most respected boxing journalist working today and perhaps the best ever." Robert Lipsyte calls him "the best boxing writer of our time." Thomas Hauser on Sports brings together Hauser's articles on sports other than boxing. The journey begins in the days of Hauser's youth and follows the games we play into the era of steroids and multi-billion-dollar television contracts. It combines personal memories with issue-oriented commentary and an intimate look at some of the most remarkable athletes of modern times.

Author : Thomas Hauser
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1557289107

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An Unforgiving Sport by Thomas Hauser Pdf

Collects articles published in Secondsout.com and espn.com from the author that details the inner workings of HBO sports, historical figures, and the biggest fights.

Author : Thomas Hauser
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781610758048

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The Universal Sport by Thomas Hauser Pdf

Readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to each new collection of Thomas Hauser's articles about today’s boxing scene. Reviewing these books, Booklist has proclaimed, “Many journalists have written fine boxing pieces, but none has written as extensively or as memorably as Thomas Hauser. . . . Hauser remains the current champion of boxing. . . . He is a treasure.” Hauser’s newest collection meets this high standard. The Universal Sport features Hauser’s coverage of 2021 and 2022 in boxing. As always, Hauser chronicles the big fights and gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at boxing’s biggest stars. He offers a cogent look the rise of women’s boxing and shines a penetrating light on the murky world of illegal performance enhancing drugs and financial corruption at the sport’s highest levels. He explores how boxing has become a tool in the high-stakes world of “sportswashing” by Saudi Arabia and a flash point for discussions about Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. The book culminates in a memorable four-part essay on the craft of writing coupled with reflections on Hauser’s own induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

Author : Thomas Hauser
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781557289100

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An Unforgiving Sport by Thomas Hauser Pdf

Collects articles published in Secondsout.com and espn.com from the author that details the inner workings of HBO sports, historical figures, and the biggest fights.

Author : Thomas Hauser
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781610755726

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A Hurting Sport by Thomas Hauser Pdf

A Hurting Sport marks the tenth annual volume of Thomas Hauser’s boxing articles to be published by the University of Arkansas Press. Every year, readers, sportswriters, and critics alike look forward to these collections. In 2014, Booklist observed, “This annual series detailing the year in boxing should be a highlight, not only for fans of the sport but also for those who appreciate journalistic acumen and stylish prose.” Other sportswriters have called Hauser “the dean of fightwriters” (TheSweetScience.com) and “our craft’s most celebrated practitioner” (15Rounds.com). His readers call him one of the last real champions in boxing and one of the very best who has ever written about this sport. A Hurting Sport continues this tradition of excellence with a behind-the-scenes recounting of 2014’s biggest fights, a look at Floyd Mayweather’s conduct in and out of the ring, analysis of fight impresario Al Haymon’s burgeoning empire, and much more.

Author : Thomas Hauser
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781610755474

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Thomas Hauser on Boxing by Thomas Hauser Pdf

Booklist called Straight Writes and Jabs, last year’s collection of boxing articles by Thomas Hauser, “wonderful writing from a world-class journalist.” This year’s collection, Thomas Hauser on Boxing, is the latest in the popular annuals bringing together all Hauser’s writing from the previous year. Readers will enter the dressing room with elite champions in the moments before some of 2013’s biggest fights. Hauser’s award-winning investigative journalism is on display in his prize-winning exposé of the tragedy that befell heavyweight boxer Magomed Abdusalamov. There’s a look at the incomparable Don King in the twilight of his career, and much more.

Author : Thomas Hauser
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781557288592

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The Greatest Sport of All by Thomas Hauser Pdf

Author : Thomas Hauser
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781682260135

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A Hard World by Thomas Hauser Pdf

In 2015, Booklist observed, “the arrival of Hauser’s annual boxing review is akin to Christmas morning for fight fans. Nobody knows a sport any better than Hauser knows boxing.” Each year, readers, writers, and critics alike look forward to Thomas Hauser’s annual collection of articles about the contemporary boxing scene. He’s one of the last real champions of boxing and one of the very best who has ever written about the sport. A Hard World continues this tradition of excellence with dressing-room reports from big fights like Canelo Alvarez vs. Miguel Cotto, a behind-the-scenes look at Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao, and a foray into the world of mixed martial arts for a compelling portrait of Ronda Rousey. Most importantly, this new collection contains Hauser’s groundbreaking two-part investigative report on the relationship between the United States Anti-Doping Agency and boxing, a report that shook the industry and raised fundamental questions regarding the integrity of USADA’s drug-testing procedures as applied to boxing.

Author : Thomas Hauser
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781557287335

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A Year at the Fights by Thomas Hauser Pdf

Acclaimed boxing writer Thomas Hauser admires the sweet science, but he also recognizes and confronts its problems. His essays here portray the sport in all its glory and gore, its grace and disgrace. Hauser tracks the effects of big money on the sport, exposes corruption at the highest levels, and examines the emotional links between the September 11 attack on America and the way we experience the violence of boxing. He follows the biggest fighters and the most important fights through 2001 into the early months of 2002. He also depicts the broadcasters, government regulators, and others-the people behind the scenes who shape boxing without ever taking a punch. We meet fighters such as Lennox Lewis, Mike Tyson, and Bernard Hopkins, and non-combatants like ringside physician Margaret Goodman, trainer Eddie Futch, and the powers that be at HBO.

Author : Thomas Hauser
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781592139781

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The Boxing Scene by Thomas Hauser Pdf

From the bestselling author, an insiders look into a year of "the sweet science."

Author : Thomas Hauser
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781557289865

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And the New . . . by Thomas Hauser Pdf

Thomas Hauser's recording of the contemporary boxing scene has become the sport's most eagerly anticipated written work. Here's what readers are saying about And the New . . . "Masterful, as always . . . Awesome writing." "On a scale of one to ten, Hauser rates one hundred." "The most accurate, honest, and insightful writing about boxing that I've ever read." "Thomas Hauser is in a league of his own." "It doesn't get any better than this. Another five-star article from Hauser." "Brilliant, enlightening, and wonderful. This is what boxing writing should be." "Another great article from a truly great writer." Booklist says that Thomas Hauser is "the most respected boxing journalist working today and perhaps the best ever." Robert Lipsyte calls him "the best boxing writer of our time." And the New . . . is the latest compilation of Hauser's classic writing. It brings readers into the dressing room with fighters like Manny Pacquiao and Sergio Martinez in the moments before the year's biggest fights. Hauser's award-winning investigative journalism exposes the inner workings of HBO Sports and the economic realities that drive boxing today. There's a look back in time at the incomparable Henry Armstrong, and much more.

Author : Thomas Hauser
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781610756211

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There Will Always Be Boxing by Thomas Hauser Pdf

In 2016, Booklist observed, “Thomas Hauser is a treasure. Whatever he writes is worth reading. Boxing is blessed that he has focused so much of his career on the sweet science.” There Will Always Be Boxing continues this tradition of excellence. A poignant look at Muhammad Ali—whose life was celebrated throughout the world following his death on June 3, 2016—highlights this collection of Hauser’s work. The year’s biggest fights are, as always, put in perspective. And once again, Hauser takes readers behind the scenes, giving them a seat at the table with boxing’s biggest power brokers as he reveals the inner workings of the sport and business of boxing. There Will Always Be Boxing is sure not to disappoint the readers, writers, and critics who look forward to Hauser’s annual collection of articles about the contemporary boxing scene. This collection shows, once again, why Hauser is one of the last real champions of boxing and one of the very best who has ever written about the sport.

Author : Thomas Hauser
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-04
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781681771762

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Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest by Thomas Hauser Pdf

Stripping away the revisionism to reveal the true nature of the man himself, this new book recounts the life journey of a fighter universally recognized as a unique and treasured world icon. Few global personalities have commanded an all-encompassing sporting and cultural audience like Muhammad Ali. Many have tried to interpret his impact and legacy into words. Now, Muhammad Ali: A Tribute to the Greatest allows us to more fully appreciate the truth—and understand both the man and the ways in which he helped recalibrate how the world perceives its transcendent figures. In this celebratory volume, New York Times bestselling author Thomas Hauser provides a compelling retrospective of Ali’s life. relying on personal insights, interviews with close associates and other contemporaries, and memories gathered over the course of decades on the cutting edge of boxing journalism, Hauser explores Ali in colorful detail inside and outside the ring. Muhammad Ali has attained mythical status. But in recent years, he has been subjected to an image makeover by corporate America as it seeks to homogenize the electrifying nature of his persona. Hauser argues that there has been a deliberate distortion of what Ali believed, said, and stood for, and that making Ali more presentable for advertising purposes by sanitizing his legacy is a disservice to history as well as to Ali himself.

Author : Thomas Hauser
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781557289421

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Boxing Is . . . by Thomas Hauser Pdf

Presents a collection of articles about professional boxing and boxers, which were written in 2009.

Author : Thomas Hauser
Publisher : Anova Books
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781907554902

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Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times by Thomas Hauser Pdf

One of the most recognisable, respected and inspirational men on earth, Muhammad Ali is the world's most famous boxing hero. Ali brought unprecedented speed and grace to the sport, and his charm and wit changed forever what the world expects of a champion athlete. In the words of over two hundred of Ali's family members, associates, opponents, friends and enemies, this comprehensive and honest portrait relates his legendary sporting accomplishments, as well as the high drama of life outside the boxing ring. From Olympic gold in Rome, to stunning victory over George Foreman in Zaire, every historic victory and defeat of Ali's career is covered. His controversial embrace of the Nation of Islam - with the renunciation of his 'slave name', Cassius Clay - and the historic refusal to be inducted into the US Army makes for compelling reading. Ali became America's first national conscientious objector, and with a willingness to stage his fights in Third World locales, he continued his advocacy for people in need which was honoured in 2000 when he became a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Charismatic, dedicated and a skilful self-publicist, Ali is the living embodiment of the American Dream. This is the biography to match his achievements.