The Fix Is in: The Showbiz Manipulations of the Nfl, Mlb, Nba, NHL and NASCAR

by Brian Tuohy

Book Overview

Professional sports in America: it's all about fair play and the goal of winning championships. At least that's the spin. But could it be a massive showbiz operation filled with greedy owners, crooked referees, and coddled players, all with the unstated goal of grabbing as much money as possible? Author Brian Tuohy provides a full-sourced saga of the corruption that has infected the storied histories of the NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL, and NASCAR. With reality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932595813
• ISBN13: 9781932595819
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Feral House
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

good book

I really good read. If you like sports (or even if you hate sports) I think you will find this a very interesting book. I highly recommend it!!!!!!!!!1

SEE?.............I WAS RIGHT!

I'm just a girl, so when I told my husband I thought the games he watches were "fixed" he not only Poo-Poo'd my opinion, he called me vile sexist names, stormed off to his "man-cave" & pouted for hours in front of his 50" Plasma. Then, he was AMAZED when I could call the winner of each game in a championship series. Even a NON sports-watching chick like me could see a Championship almost always goes seven games, not a sweep. Just think of the revenue an additional game or two adds. Then there's all those she-nanny-gans going on at USC ( & other places, I'm sure.) And look how football teams always seem to screw the point spread. If I could see it ......anyone could. It just was never talked about. I heard this author promoting his book on that overnight radio show....the one I call the WOO-WOO show. (they usually talks about the benefits of tin-foil hats, BIGFOOT, & UFO's.) It was a refreshing change to listen to this guy because finally...FINALLY someone agrees WITH ME! I'm getting the book & throwing at at my "smarter" half.

A recommended book

This is a fantastic book. Anyone who watches professional sports, who lives and breaths with a team or player should get this book. It covers a wide variety of sports and situations. It will take off those rose-colored glasses if you are wearing them.

CONSPIRACIES DO EXIST! ASK REFEREE TIM DONAGHY

TERRIFIC BOOK. I bought a copy after I heard author Brian Tuohy doing an interview. I was skeptical, but it's hard to ignore the arguments and information put forth here. It's amazing that no one has written this book until now. Michael Jordan's sudden and abrupt retirement now makes sense against the backdrop of his unpublicized gambling issues; the emotional Daytona 500 win by Dale Earnhardt one year after his father's death which seemed way too good to be true and Referee Tim Donaghy who admitted fixing games but who has now been silenced and has disappeared...AND these are only three stories out of DOZENS AND DOZENS. Tuohy makes a good point when he states that cheating or fixing is not illegal. Professional sports are self-regulated. Despite the fact that cities subsidize these franchises which gives the leagues the ability to negotiate billion dollar deals for broadcast rights, there is no accountability. The players that succumb to their own demons will always exist (that's why as Tuohy points out that the leagues have their own ad-hoc police force made up of ex-FBI agents-it's amazing and TRUE!) AND the sports reporters in order to keep their jobs and preserve access will always look the other way. It's the big money-no ethics mentality of the sports leagues that is the root of all evil and the league commissioners are the true villains. If they clean up their act when it comes to drug testing, etc., perhaps professional sports will have the integrity that the fans deserve and should demand. I checked out author Brian Tuohy's webpage [...]. On it he states "There are no coincidences." This couldn't be truer.

Great read! Check it out!

I have to say that Im totally enjoying this book. Im not even a big sports fan and I dont think you really need to be one to enjoy this. Its just super interesting reading about all the,drugs, greed, booze, and gambling (and the cover ups by the leagues, owners, coaches and players: WOW!!) that plays a HUGE roll in pro and college sports. Im about half way done and I dont want it to end. I just love reading about these so-called "role models" hanging around with gangsters, getting wasted, getting high, and gambling themselves so deep, that they have to throw games to get out! This book helps me justify my own feelings about most sports (especially football) being fake and or rigged by players, owners or even umpires. ....and I havent even got to the Pete Rose section yet!!!! GET THIS BOOK!!! HIGHLY ENTERTAINING AND HIGHLY RECOMENDED!