Parting Shots From the World of Sports
Imagine Joe Paterno as George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life. Or Terrell Owens sitting alone at a table for 11 at Thanksgiving. Or celebrity dogs playing poker. These are some of the humorous images that can be found on 0:01, the back page of every issue of ESPN The Magazine. Sometimes satirical, sometimes evocative, always current, these 0:01s chronicle the personalities, events, and cultural touchstones of sports and prove just what a slightly twisted picture is worth. Organized thematically-headliners, animals, holidays, and more-and with insider information on how the images are designed and created, 0:01 offers as many laughs as it does critiques on the world of sports. And as a bonus, the book will include some 0:00s-shots that the creative team behind 0:01 wish they had made.
Steve Wulf is the co-author (with Daniel Okrent) of the best-seller Baseball Anecdotes (Oxford University Press) as well as I Was Right On Time, the autobiography of Negro Leagues legend Buck O'Neil. A founding editor of ESPN The Magazine, Wulf has also been on the staffs of Time and Sports Illustrated. He has written for Entertainment Weekly, Life, The Wall Street Journal, and The Economist. A father of four, he can often be found watching his kids jump horses, throw fastballs, shoot pucks, and drain three-pointers.