Preferred Lies and Other Tales: Skimming the Cream of a Life in Sports Tapa dura - 1998

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The graceful, funny, entertaining reflections of Jack Whitaker -- sports TV's answer to Charles Kuralt and Charles Osgood -- draw on his long and stellar career at the heart of the action in televised sports.

There isn't a major sporting event Jack Whitaker hasn't covered -- from golf's major championships and the first Super Bowl, to the Kentucky Derby, the Olympics, and the Indy 500.

In Preferred Lies and Other Tales, this charming raconteur takes us along on a 45-year spin through sports history -- standing behind the 18th green with Jack Nicklaus at Pebble Beach, watching Tom Watson chip in on 17 to steal the U.S. Open; riding in the pace car at the Indy 500 the year a starting-line crash wiped out a third of the cars; careening through the Cresta, the St. Moritz Toboganning Club's annual event, where he joined Errol Flynn and the Duke of Westphalia in having taken the ultimate sleigh ride.

With stops around the world in such locales as Nairobi, Cairo, Moscow, Paris, Le Mans, Havana, and Australia, Jack Whitaker has had the opportunity, in the words of Henry Longhurst, to "skim the cream" off the sports world's bounty. Whitaker holds us in his thrall with his deliciously engaging tales, told with the wit, style, and effortless grace that sports fans everywhere have come to know and love.