Procure The Smart Girl's Guide To Sports A Hip Handbook For Women Who Don't Know A Slam Dunk From A Grand Slam Presented By Liz Hartman Musiker Represented In Print

book is awesome I read this because my then fiancé now husband is really into sports I learned a ton and now I can definitely hold my own when watching football and to a lesser extent basketball I got made fun of for reading it but I swear that I really understand the rules of football now And I still like hockey the best Stupidly sexist and chock full of great info Very informative I'm one of those women who has NEVER been interested in sports I wasn't interested in PE in school either I had tried having people explain football to me during a game and would get frustrated because they would throw out all this lingo to explain something else that I still didn't know Also the illogical rules would also get to me I picked up this book at a library sale and wasn't sure if I should get it because I am STILL not interested in sports but my son IS interested in sports so I'm glad I did pick it up and even glad that I read it I am a feminist and did not have a problem with the language sexist or no because it was very clearly tongue in cheek and meant to alleviate the tedium of explaining a subject adult women reading probably never had an interest in before with a little humor I APPRECIATED being able to laugh a little when I became a little bored The humor did not take away from the information at all My only gripe is that if Musiker ever decides to update this book I hope she includes a chapter on soccer as that is the sport my son is MOST interested in Written like a ditsy girl for a ditsy girlshe explains everything but in a off putting way She describes Hockey players as marshmallow men and claims it's hard to keep track of the puck while you watch Informative but hard to tolerate reading it Right up there with one of the worst books I've ever read I read this because although I'm a huge baseball and hockey fan there are things about other sports that I don't understand Reading a book that simplified the other sports in a way I could understand appealed to me and I thought this book

would be a good readBut I was wrong Oh so wrong Sure I learned a few basic things But this book is full of blatant sexism that it just pissed me off It appalls me that it's written by a woman who perpetuates the stereotypes that women are nothing but airheads obsessed with hot men purses and pedicures The content in the book wasn't the greatest either There was so much about each sport the author could have explained but didn't Don't even get me started on the absence of soccer in this book Crap utter crap Although the edition I bought was fromstill all that affected was what team who was on and the fact that Tiger Woods was not yet on the author's list of Stars Behaving Badly I know than I want to know about the latter and the former is easily enough checked up on I found two things remarkable reading this book how little I knew going in and how easy Liz Hartman Musiker made it to learn it I took notes but did not actively study them and still I know reams now than I ever thought I would or would want to I know what a skyhook is and that Kareem Abdul Jabbar was famous for them With genuine affection for her subject combined with humor and an eually genuine understanding of the bafflement and lack of interest some women I feel she hits the highlights and covers the bases Sorry I mean I read this purely for Jeopardy But it's actually interestingThing is though if I'm ever in a position to use one of her guaranteed lines to make you a goddess in men's eyes I'd probably be giggling too much to make it work Football Oh man though the Drive There's never been anything to match thatyards For the woman whose significant other spends hours glued to ESPN comes a fun and irreverent guide to understanding and enjoying the male dominated world of spectator sports From The Smart Girls Guide to Sports Welcome ladies This book will not make you a sports expert It will not make you put down a great novel to watch football or stop you from helping your kids with their homework because you have to watch the last five minutes of a basketball game It will however give you a glimpse of why men do these things And it will allow you to enjoy sportsreally I swear The beautiful thing about sports unlike say neurosurgery is that a little bit of knowledge is not a dangerous thing If youre amidst a herd of men and the topic turns to sports you only need to know a few key points and youre in If the discussion turns to home runs for instance and you say “Yes but theres never been anything exciting than when McGwire and Sosa were after Mariss record” you instantly win a new kind of respect from the testosterone crowd We dont have the sports gene men have We have other better ones Thus this book aims to give you only the most fundamental most fun and most entertaining informationthe tools to enjoy sports or to participate in the game in whichever way you choose The Smart Girls Guide to Sports covers all the major professional sports football basketball baseball hockey golf soccer boxing and even car racing Each chapter includes a “Heres How It Works” section that explains the basics of the game profiles of each sports timeless greats and “contemporary cool” players and a funny readable glossary of key terms.