A review by jakewritesbooks
Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love by Dave Zirin

3.0

This book should be read by all sports fans but with a grain of salt the size of Montana. Zirin makes a lot of good points about how owners have hampered the sports that we all love. I particularly enjoyed his chapter on Liverpool and the loathsome Tom Hicks (who gives American soccer fans a bad rap). Nevertheless, the author makes way too many leaps based on shaky evidence or goes to far to justify a point that backs his political leanings. Not that I am opposed to what he believes but he lets his judgment get clouded often. For instance, one thing he doesn't mention at all about the reconstruction of the Super Dome is that it was heavily, heavily insured and all of that money was put back into it. Again, he makes great points and it would help for sports fans to have some light shed on the owners' collective greed (especially considering the pending NFL lockout). But because he takes too many liberties, I really can't rate this more than a 3 (more like a 3.5).