Introduction: First lucky break -- The four as -- White and Black -- Cassius Marcellus Clay -- Magic man -- First meetings -- Miracle on snow -- New York calling -- Free agency -- Reggie and "Stacks" -- My miracle on ice -- 1980s endurance races -- Sarajevo and "silent Boléro" -- Tinseltown games -- The boxing mistake -- Cosell and me -- Tennis: the Ashe effect -- Mike Tyson and me -- Pay cable on HBO -- Anchors away -- Tokyo takedown -- The reckoning -- Trial of the century -- The lead dog -- "It happened!" -- The last round -- Epilogue: coming home

"Jim Lampley's story is a 50-year travelog of an unlikely career that catalogs the evolution of sports television-from his emergence as the first sideline reporter, through hosting and covering 14 Olympics, to working with all major sports networks"--