About MORE Crazy Days & Wild Nights by Howie Mooney:
This is the follow-up to Mooney’s successful Crazy Days & Wild Nights. This book continues in the vein of recounting outlandish and detailed stories of wild events that have taken place over the last fifty years. This book contains eleven different stories that again capture the wildly random nature of sports. Rational players can become irrational given certain circumstances. A pro hockey player is arrested during a game for an assault he had committed the year before. But, he’d evaded the cops back then. A Soviet hockey star with desires to play in North America was spirited away from his homeland amid lethal surroundings. Two boxers, from disparate backgrounds, with the world in their hands, engaged in a bout that ended in the worst possible way. What so many of the stories in this book have in common is that in each, there is a window of time – a few seconds, a few minutes, a few hours – in which something happens that may never have been planned for, but careers and possibly lives are changed forever. These actions force everyone involved to deal with the consequences of random chance.
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Author Bio:
Howie Mooney has been the co-host of The Sports Lunatics Show, a sports history podcast since 2020. He has also been writing a sports history column on The FiredUp Network and thesportslunatics.com for the past three years. Howie grew up in Ottawa where he worked in local television and radio. While there, he covered the CFL’s Ottawa Rough Riders, he did colour commentary for Ottawa Lynx games. He also hosted the TV broadcasts of Ottawa 67s games. Howie also spent four seasons covering the Ottawa Senators for local television.