Calling It Like I See It: True Stories and Tall Tales about Kentucky Sports

By Earl Cox • Paperback • 6 x 9 • 168 pages

Earl Cox is the most honored sportswriter in Kentucky. A former columnist and sports editor for the Louisville Courier-Journal, and now the weekly sports editor and columnist for Louisville's Voice-Tribune, Cox is the only member of all three of these organizations:

• The Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame
• The Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame
• The Dawahares Kentucky High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame

For his years of quality sports reporting he is known as the dean of Kentucky sportswriters.

Calling It Like I See It, his first book, collects years of Cox's writing — in his typical brash, brassy and funny style — and documents scores of true stories and tall tales about all of Kentucky's legendary sports teams, events and personalities: University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, Cawood Ledford, Denny Crum, Rick Pitino, Joe B. Hall, Pete Rose, Bobby Knight, Ed Diddle, Blanton Collier, Ralph Beard, Wes Unseld and much more.