Colin Cowherd has written a book for those who like their sports opinions delivered unvarnished. The host of “The Herd with Colin Cowherd,” a three-hour sports talk program on FOX radio, aims to uphold his reputation as one of America’s most outspoken sports commentators in “Raw.” His provocative observations range widely, from the NFL to NASCAR and from the politics of sports to what happens behind closed doors at high and mighty ESPN .
Here’s an excerpt from Raw:
“Here’s something I guarantee you won’t realize at the time it happens: when your son or daughter comes home in tears after being cut or relegated to the bench, use that night for a little family reevaluation. It’s not the darkest hour or the saddest moment.
“Don’t consider it the death of a dream. Consider it the birth of reality.
“It you play it right, your child will not only go to college but also actually be a college student. That sad night, with all the tears and angst and end-of-the-world drama, could be the best day of their lives, and yours.”
“The travel schedules for college sports such as soccer, basketball, and baseball are so daunting it’s hard to understand how they’re even allowed. Basketball teams drop kids into hotels at three in the morning to catch a few hours of sleep before a televised game that night. After four years of that, you know your way around a Holiday Inn Express breakfast buffet but next to nothing about a profession. Yes, there are some, like my friend Doug Gottlieb, a basketball star at Oklahoma State in the early 1990s and now a respected sportscaster, who contends that college sports gave him a life he wouldn’t have otherwise. He’s not alone in that belief, and maybe I’m being too cynical.
“But go stare at those success-rate numbers and try to square them with the hours devoted to trying to beat them.”
