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  You Can’t Make This Up. Al Michaels. Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television. Would you believe that Al Michaels wrote a book about his illustrious career as a sports announcer?     Well, he did (although this is not recent) and the following is my review.    This is an older book, published late 2014, but finally decided to give it a try.     Not surprisingly it was worth the effort as Al Michaels put together a pretty good account of his esteemed career as a renown sports broadcaster ultimately reaching the highest levels of the sports broadcasting business.    The book is interesting, well written and contains many enjoyable stories and accounts of his lengthy career. Michaels does not delve too much into his personal life, however, he does provide some background from his childhood growing up in Brooklyn and then moving to Southern California as a young teenager in the late 1950’s. ...

The Burden of Sport.    John Weston Parry. How and Why Athletes Struggle with Mental Health.   Sports-related books tend to discuss the personal and team success in terms of results and outcomes.     This will always be the most significant way of measuring success and status.     However, one author has decided to write about how many athletes, especially competing at the highest levels of their sport, may experience and suffer from an emotional and mental health standpoint while chasing their dreams and goals.     John Weston Parry is the author of The Burden of Sports and delivers an extensive, detailed manual getting the reader to see how the underbelly of competition impacts the social and mental health of athletes.   This book looks like and reads like a textbook that could be used in any college sport studies department around the nation.    It is very organized and structured.     T...