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What is Fun and Games : My 40 Years Writing Sports about?

“Covering many of the biggest names and greatest events in sports, it's a wonderful collection of yarns and reminiscences, told in Perk's inimitable style” (Postmedia News). Dave Perkins was once told by a bluntly helpful university admissions officer: “You don't have the looks for TV or the voice for radio. You should go into print.” Which he did, first at the Globe and Mail, and then for thirty-six well-traveled years at the Toronto Star. In Fun and Games, Perkins recounts hysterical, revealing, and sometimes embarrassing personal stories from almost every sport and many major championships. After forty years of encountering a myriad of athletes, fans, team managers, and owners, Perkins offers unique observations on the Blue Jays and Raptors, fifty-eight major championships'worth of golf, ten Olympic Games, football, hockey, boxing, horse racing, and more. Learn why Tiger Woods asked Perkins if he was nuts, why he detected Forrest Gump in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and why Super Bowl week is the worst week of the year. Perkins exposes the mistakes he made in both thought and word—once, when intending to type “the shot ran down the goalie's leg,” he used an “i” instead of an “o”—a

Author

Dave Perkins; Brian Williams

Publisher

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: ECW Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781770909298

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

4.5 / 5 (28 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14