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Cohn-Head: A No-Holds-Barred Account of Breaking Into the Boys' Club
CohnHead A NoHoldsBarred Account of Breaking Into the Boys' Club Author:Linda Cohn One of America's most successful female anchors lays bare her hard-fought rise to the top of the sports-casting boys' club and her life inside the ESPN empire. She talks candidly about her own successes and missteps and reveals her humorous, rewarding and frightening interviews with sports personalities. — Growing up in a dysfunctional fa... more »mily, Linda Cohn became a diehard sports fan and a goalie on her high school (boys') hockey team--setting the stage for college hockey stardom, when she was affectionately known as "Cohn-Head" by her teammates. She got her first break in sportscasting by covering a team she hated. She discusses the sexual tension all too present both in the workplace and the locker room, and her close encounters with the likes of Micheal Jordan, Matthew McConaughey and Jay-Z.
Written with verve, Cohn-Head is a riveting read--a must for sports fans of both sexes, as well as anyone who seeks insight into how one woman made a man's world a world of her own.« less