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    This Book Has Balls: Sports Rants from the MVP of Talking Trash
    This Book Has Balls: Sports Rants from the MVP of Talking Trash
    This Book Has Balls: Sports Rants from the MVP of Talking Trash
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    This Book Has Balls: Sports Rants from the MVP of Talking Trash

    Written by Michael Rapaport

    Narrated by Michael Rapaport

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    The sports world according to Michael Rapaport—actor, Top 50 podcaster, award-winning film maker, and sports fanatic—from the greatest and downright worst athletes, players, teams, and jerseys, but minus statistics, analytics, or anything else that isn’t pure hustle in this “hell of a book” (Shaquille O'Neal).

    In 1979, nine-year-old Michael Rapaport decided he was going to do whatever it took to be a pro baller. He practiced and practiced, but by the time he was fifteen, he realized there was no place for a slow, white Jewish kid in the NBA. So, he found another way to channel his obsession with sports: talking trash.

    In the “crazy, passionate, funny and intense” (Colin Cowherd) This Book Has Balls, Rapaport uses his signature smack-talk style and in-your-face humor to discuss everything from why LeBron will never be like Mike, that Tiger needs the ladies to get his golf game back, and how he once thought Mary Lou Retton was his true love. And, of course, why next year will be the year the New York Knicks win the championship. This book is a series of rants—some controversial, some affectionate, but all incredibly hilarious. “Something is wrong with Michael Rapaport but that’s what makes him right,” (Charlamagne tha God).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateOct 24, 2017
    ISBN9781508251118
    Author

    Michael Rapaport

    Michael Rapaport is an actor, director, and comedian who’s appeared on TV shows such as Friends, Justified, The War at Home, and Prison Break, and in films such as True Romance and Mighty Aphrodite. He directed the award-winning 2011 documentary Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest and an ESPN 30 for 30 film When The Garden Was Eden that premiered in 2014. His sports podcast, I Am Rapaport, has almost two million monthly listeners and regularly makes the iTunes top 50. He’s also a diehard Knicks fan. This Book Has Balls is his first book.

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    • 3/5
      A must for fans. Some hilarious chapters especially stickmen one.
    • 5/5
      Michael Rapaport views on sports are something else. While he does say the things that people don't have the balls to say.