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A refreshing and thought-provoking look at sportsmen whose legacies have been reduced to 1 defining point in time of defeat - those on the other hand of epic triumph - and what their encounters can instruct us about competition, life, and the human being spirit. Every sports lover recalls with amazing reliability a pivotal profitable moment involving a favorite team or player - Henry Aaron reaching his 715th home run to cross Babe Ruth, Christian Laettner's famous buzzer-beating shot in the NCAA tournament for Duke. Yet lost will be the stories on the other hand of these history-making moments, the sportsmen who experienced not transcendent glory but crushing disappointment: the cornerback who skipped the tackle on the top touchdown, the pain relief pitcher who lost the series, the world-record holding Olympian who fell on the ice. In Losing Isn't Everything, famed sportscaster Curt Menefee, signed up with by best-selling writer Michael Arkush, examines a range of signature disappointments from the huge world of activities, interviewing the subject in the centre of each reduction and uncovering what this means - calendar months, years, or ages later - to be associated with inability. While history is written by the victorious, Menefee argues that these moments when an sportsman has fallen short are similarly valuable to activities history, offering profound insights into the individuals who endured them and about mankind itself. Telling the losing reports behind such famous moments as the Patriots' Rodney Harrison guarding the Giants' David Tyree through the "Helmet Get" in Super Dish XLII; Mary Decker's fall in the 1984 Olympic 1500m; and Craig Ehlo, who gave up "The Shot" to JORDAN in the 1989 NBA playoffs, Menefee examines the legacy of the hardest losses, revealing the initial path that sportsmen have to walk once they lose on their activities' biggest periods. Shedding new light on a few of the most accepted scapegoat reports in the activities canon, he also revisits both Baltimore Colts' reduction to the Jets in Super Dish III and the Red Sox reduction in the 1986 World Series, showing why, despite years of humiliation, it could not be all Costs Buckner's fault. This considered and compassionate review offers important lessons about pain, resilience, disappointment, remorse, and acceptance that can help us look at our lives and ourselves in a deep new way.
