Jim Tom Pinch is a smart-ass sportswriter who's followed around too many blond-haired skiers, basketball players with names like Potatus Fry, and Russian figure skaters who want to know how much a house with a toilet costs in America. Now he tells the story of a year of romance, cursing, bimbos, touchdowns, pandering, padded expense accounts-from the Olympics to the Indy 600 to the heavyweight championship-a year that will leave neither Jim Tom nor the wide world of sports the same.