As we entered a new millennium, the LA Lakers were in search of the sequel to Showtime. GM Jerry West was looking for answers after the curtain had dropped on Magic, Kareem and Worthy.
He found them in Shaq, a larger than life centre and a petulant, singularly focused, rising superstar named Kobe. In assembling this new era of dominance under head coach Phil Jackson, The Lake Show was flying high...but with a whole lot of drama unfolding behind the scenes.
Jeff Pearlman (current host of Two Writers Slinging Yang Podcast, former sr. writer at SI and ESPN columnist) is well versed with such themes. This, his ninth book, follows along the arc of trouble in paradise established in earlier works such as Boys Will Be Boys about the wild 1990s Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl runs, and Love Me, Hate Me, which details the inner machinations of "anti-hero" Barry Bonds.
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SportsLit (Season 6, Episode 8) - John U. Bacon (seven-time best-selling author) - The Greatest Comeback
SportsLit (Season 6, Episode 7) - Corey Hirsch (NHL goalie) - The Save of My Life: My Journey out of the Dark
SportsLit (Season 6, Episode 6) - Dan Good (Journalist) - Ken Caminiti: Playing Through the Pain
SportsLit (Season 6, Episode 5) - Howard Bryant (Sr. Writer - ESPN) - Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original
SportsLit (Season 6, Episode 4) - Les Stroud - Around the World with Survivorman
SportsLit (Season 6, Episode 3) - Tyrone (Muggsy) Bogues - Muggsy
SportsLit (Season 6, Episode 2) - André Lachance & Jean François Ménard - Team Chemistry
SportsLit (Season 6, Episode 1) - Scott Morrison (Journalist) - 1972: The Series That Changed Hockey Forever
SportsLit (Season 5, Episode 7) - Brian McFarlane (Hockey Hall of Fame - 1995) - A Helluva Life in Hockey
SportsLit (Season 5, Episode 6) - Perdita Felicien (Canadian Olympian, World Champion Hurdler) - My Mother's Daughter: A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph
SportsLit (Season 5, Episode 5) - Ryan Minkoff (83 LLC) - Thin Ice
SportsLit (Season 5, Episode 4) - Eurico Rosa da Silva (Champion Jockey) - Riding for Freedom
SportsLit (Season 5, Episode 3) - Brantt Myhres - Pain Killer: A Memoir of Big League Addiction
SportsLit (Season 5, Episode 2) - Rich Cohen - Pee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent
SportsLit (Season 5, Episode 1) - Spencer Haywood - The Spencer Haywood Rule: Battles, Basketball and the making of an American Iconoclast
SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 14) - Ken Reid (Sportsnet) - One to Remember - Stories from 39 Members of the NHL's One Goal Club
SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 13) - Paul Romanuk - Hockey Superstars 2020-2021
SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 12) - Serge Savard with Philippe Cantin - Forever Canadien
SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 11) - Al Strachan - Hockey's Hot Stove - The Untold Stories of the Original Insiders
SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 10) - Rick Westhead (TSN) - Finding Murph - How Joe Murphy Went From Winning a Championship to Living Homeless in the Bush
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