An Unforgiving Sport

Thomas Hauser has become must reading in the boxing community, and his latest book demonstrates why. An Unforgiving Sport brings together Hauser s 2008 articles from secondsout.com and espn.com, in which he exposes the inner workings of HBO Sports, goes behind the scenes at boxing s biggest fights, revisits historical figures like John L. Sullivan, and offers revealing portraits of Don King, Oscar De La Hoya, Manny Pacquiao, Ricky Hatton, Bernard Hopkins, and a host of others. Booklist praised an earlier collection of Hauser s articles as one more testament to [Hauser s] talent and passion for the most elemental of our sports. An Unforgiving Sport adds to Hauser s definitive record of the contemporary boxing scene."