A review by charles9012
Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN by Tom Shales, James Andrew Miller

3.0

I highly anticipated this book, knowing that it was going to be in the same format as the Saturday Night Live book "Live From New York". This book was a fast and entertaining read, but slightly disappointing. Where Live From New York focused on the personalities of Saturday Night Live, after a while Those Guys Have All The fun bounces from event to event, feeling a little tedious by the end. Part of that is the nature of the personalities, as many of ESPN's faces come off as prima donnas, which wasn't unexpected. I found that I learned more from the earlier part of the book (how ESPN was founded and got off the ground) that the later part (obnoxious personalities butting heads with management and other obnoxious personalities.