Jeff Benedict

"Tiger Woods" cuenta la trepidante historia, llena de claroscuros, de la ascensión, caída y renacimiento del mejor golfista de todos los tiempos.En 2009, Tiger Woods era probablemente el deportista mas famoso del mundo; una estrella de fama y fortuna inconmensurables que gozaba de lo que, en apariencia, era una vida idilica, casado con una bella mujer, dos hijos y el mejor swing del circuito. Con un palmares que incluia catorce majors y setenta y nueve torneos del PGA Tour, Woods tenia unos ingresos anuales de mas de cien millones de dolares y era la cara de multinacionales como Nike, Gillette, AT&T o Gatorade. Pero todo pendia de un hilo. Tras un aparatoso accidente de madrugada, cuando se estampo con su todoterreno contra un arbol y quedo inconsciente tras huir precipitadamente de su mansion, se destapo un historial de infidelidades que hicieron que la cuidada imagen del deportista perfecto se desmoronara.Los periodistas Jeff Benedict, de Sports Illustrated, y Armen Keteyian, once veces ganador de un Emmy, trazan un fascinante relato del que posiblemente sea el mayor deportista individual de la historia moderna a partir de mas de cuatrocientas entrevistas con personas cercanas a Woods y mas de tres años de investigacion. El resultado es un monumental retrato psicologico del niño prodigio que, espoleado por u...

Tiger Woods cuenta la trepidante historia, llena de claroscuros, de la ascensión, caída y renacimiento del mejor golfista de todos los tiempos.En 2009, Tiger Woods era probablemente el deportista más famoso del mundo; una estrella de fama y fortuna inconmensurables que gozaba de lo que, en apariencia, era una vida idilica, casado con una bella mujer, dos hijos y el mejor swing del circuito. Con un palmares que incluia catorce majors y setenta y nueve torneos del PGA Tour, Woods tenia unos ingresos anuales de mas de cien millones de dolares y era la cara de multinacionales como Nike, Gillette, AT&T o Gatorade. Pero todo pendia de un hilo. Tras un aparatoso accidente de madrugada, cuando se estampo con su todoterreno contra un arbol y quedo inconsciente tras huir precipitadamente de su mansion, se destapo un historial de infidelidades que hicieron que la cuidada imagen del deportista perfecto se desmoronara.Los periodistas Jeff Benedict, de Sports Illustrated, y Armen Keteyian, once veces ganador de un Emmy, trazan un fascinante relato del que posiblemente sea el mayor deportista individual de la historia moderna a partir de mas de cuatrocientas entrevistas con personas cercanas a Woods y mas de tres años de investigacion. El resultado es un monumental retrato psicologico del niño prodigio que, espoleado por unos padres que lo sometieron a una ferrea disciplina castrense y que afirmaban que era "el Elegido", se convirtio muy pronto en la gran promesa del golf con precoces apariciones en television con tan solo dos años, pero, como contrapartida, desarrollo una enfermiza relacion con su entorno y conductas compulsivas y adictivas que propiciarian una caida en desgracia de proporciones shakesperianas.

The definitive biography of LeBron James the greatest basketball player of the 21st century and a global icon

An unprecedented look at how the Mormon faith has shaped some of todays most successful CEOs and businessmen.The Founder of JetBlue.The CEO of Dell Computers. The CEO of Deloitte & Touche. The Dean of the Harvard Business School. They all have one thing in common. They are devout Mormons who spend their Sundays exclusively with their families, never work long hours, and always put their spouses and children first. How do they do it? Now, critically acclaimed author and investigative journalist Jeff Benedict (a Mormon himself) examines these highly successful business execs and discovers how their beliefs have influenced them, and enabled them to achieve incredible success. With original interviews and unparalleled access, Benedict shares what truly drives these individuals, and the invaluable life lessons from which anyone can benefit.

La biographie de Lebron James.LeBron James est sans aucun doute le plus grand basketteur du XXIe siecle et lun des rares a pouvoir sadjuger le titre de meilleur joueur de tous les temps avec Michael Jordan et Kobe Bryant. En dehors des parquets, il prend la parole sur des sujets varies, se positionnant sur les questions raciales Black Lives Matter et sociales. Lebron est lun des sportifs les plus suivis au monde avec 117 millions de followers sur Instagram et 51 millions sur Twitter. Son nom est une marque internationale qui vaut des millions de dollars. Il ne passe pas simplement des deals avec les plus grandes marques : il sassoit a la table des directeurs et negocie avec eux. Parmi ses amis, on peut compter Barack Obama et Warren Buffet. LeBron James est aujourdhui plus quun sportif.Son histoire est riche : sa mere Gloria la eu a lage de 16 ans, il a grandi sans pere, nallait presque pas a lecole. Ce nest qua 9 ans quil decouvre le football americain, puis le basket.Pour raconter son histoire, Jeff Benedict sest appuye sur des centaines dinterviews, de videos, darticles, de livres. Il a conduit plus de 300 interviews de gens qui connaissent ou ont connu LeBron James depuis son plus jeune age.Jeff Benedict nous raconte lhistoire de LeBron, un jeune homme ayant grandi sans figure paternelle, jeune etoile dAkron devenu comete lors de sa derniere annee de lycee.Comment lenfance de LeBron a façonne son caractere, mais aussi son jeu ? Comment cela la-t-il mene a rendre autant a sa communaute ? De ces interrogations, Jeff Benedict a tire lessence de ce qui fait de LeBron James "le King".

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the #1 bestselling author of The Dynasty and Tiger Woodsthe definitivefantastic (Sports Illustrated) biography of basketball superstar LeBron James, based on three years of exhaustive research and more than 250 interviews.LeBron James is the greatest basketball player of the twenty-first century, and hes in the conversation with Michael Jordan as the greatest of all time. The reigning king of the game and the first active NBA player to become a billionaire, LeBron wears the crown like he was born with it. Yet his ascent has been anything but effortless and predeterminedthe truth is vastly more interesting than that.What makes LeBrons story so compelling is how he won his destiny despite overwhelmingly long odds, in a drama worthy of a Dickens novel. As a child, he was a scared and lonely little boy living a nomadic existence in Akron, Ohio. His mother, who had LeBron when she was sixteen, would sometimes leave him on his own. Destitute and fatherless, he missed close to one hundred days of school in the fourth grade. Desperate, his mother placed him with a family that gave him stability and put a basketball in his hands.An absorbing chronicle of talent, character, pluck, and luck (Wall Street Journal) LeBron tells the full, riveting saga of how a child adrift found the will to become a titan. Jeff Benedict, the most celebrated sports biographer of our time, paints a vivid picture of LeBrons epic origin story, showing the gradual rise of a star who, surrounded by a tight-knit group of teenage friends and adult mentors, accelerated into a speeding comet during high school. Today LeBron produces Hollywood films and television shows, has a social media presence that includes more than one hundred million followers, engages in political activism, takes outspoken stances on racism and social injustice, and transforms lives through his visionary philanthropy. He went from a lost boy in Akron to a beloved hero who uses his fortune to educate underprivileged children and lift up needy familiesand brought home Clevelands first NBA championship.But LeBron is more than just the origin story of a GOAT or a recap of his multi-championship, multi-MVP, gold medaldecorated career on the court. Benedict delves into LeBrons relationship with fame and power: how he has cultivated it, harnessed it, suffered from it, and leveraged it. In these pages, we watch his evolution from a player who avoided politics and was widely criticized for not joining his teammates in protesting Chinas role in the Darfur genocide to becoming an athlete who partnered with President Obama; campaigned for Hillary Clinton; became an advocate against gun violence, racism, and voter suppression; and openly clashed with President Trump, empowering other athletes to speak out against social injustice.To capture LeBrons extraordinary life, Benedict conducted hundreds of interviews with the people who were involved with LeBron at different stages of his life. He also obtained thousands of pages of primary source documents and mined hundreds of hours of video footage. Destined to be the authoritative account of LeBrons life, LeBron is a masterfulpropulsive (Los Angeles Times) and unprecedented portrait of one of the worlds most captivating figures.

NOW A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARYFrom Jeff Benedict, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tiger Woods and The Dynasty, Poisoned chronicles the events surrounding the worst food-poisoning epidemic in US history: the deadly Jack in the Box E. coli infections in 1993.On December 24, 1992, six-year-old Lauren Rudolph was hospitalized with excruciating stomach pain. Less than a week later she was dead. Doctors were baffled: How could a healthy child become so sick so quickly? After a frenzied investigation, public-health officials announced that the cause was E. coli O157:H7, and the source was hamburger meat served at a Jack in the Box restaurant. During this unprecedented crisis, four children died and over seven hundred others became gravely ill.In Poisoned, award-winning investigative journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeff Benedict delivers a jarringly candid narrative of the fast-moving disaster, drawing on access to confidential documents and exclusive interviews with the real-life characters at the center of the dramathe families whose children were infected, the Jack in the Box executives forced to answer for the tragedy, the physicians and scientists who identified E. coli as the culprit, and the legal teams on both sides of the historic lawsuits that ensued. Fast Food Nation meets A Civil Action in this riveting account of how we learned the hard way to truly watch what we eat.

#1 New York Times Bestseller * A whirlwind of a biography that reads honest and true. The Wall Street Journal * There is beauty and awe in this perfectly pitched biography. The New York Times * Comprehensive, propulsive...and unsparing. The New YorkerBased on years of reporting and hundreds of interviews with people from every corner of Tiger Woodss life this is a searing biography of golfs most blazing talent (GOLF Magazine)who has made one of the most remarkable comebacks of all time.In 2009, Tiger Woods was the most famous athlete on the planet, a transcendent star of almost unfathomable fame and fortune living what appeared to be the perfect life. But it turned out he had been living a double life for yearsone that exploded in the aftermath of a Thanksgiving night crash that exposed his serial infidelity and sent his personal and professional lives over a cliff. In this searing biography of golfs most blazing talent (GOLF magazine), Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian dig deep behind the headlines to produce a richly reported answer to the question that has mystified millions of sports fans for nearly a decade: who is Tiger Woods, really? Drawing on more than four hundred interviews with people from every corner of Woodss lifemany of whom have never spoken about him on the record beforeBenedict and Keteyian construct a captivating psychological profile of a mixed race child programmed by an attention-grabbing father and the original Tiger Mom to be the chosen one, to change not just the game of golf, but the world as well. But at what cost? Benedict and Keteyian provide the starling answers in this definitive biography that is destined to linger in the minds of readers for years to come. IrresistibleImmensely readableBenedict and Keteyian bring us along for the ride in a whirlwind of a biography that reads honest and true (The Wall Street Journal). Ultimately, Tiger Woods is a big American storyexhilarating, depressing, tawdry, and moving in almost equal measure (The New York Times).

The top national expert on athletes and crime and the author of Pros and Cons brings us a controversial in-depth look at criminals in the NBAThe Kobe Bryant rape case and the arrest of Baylor basketball player Carlton Dotson for allegedly murdering teammate Patrick Dennehy, has galvanized the attention of the public and the press on athletes and crime. Jeff Benedict, with his background in research regarding professional athletes and crime, uses these cases as a springboard into an unprecedented look at criminals who play professional basketball.In this raw expose, Benedict evaluates every single current player in the NBA and his criminal history, revealing new and startling information about NBA players, the crimes they commit, the leagues tolerance and complacency in these instances, as well as the manner in which these cases are handled or disposed of in the justice system.Based on thousands of police reports and hundreds of interviews, this landmark sports expose uncovers:True Crime Reporting: A meticulously researched investigation based on over 12,000 police and court records that goes beyond headlines to reveal the unreported stories of crime in the NBA. A Culture of Impunity: An explosive look at the leagues tolerance for criminal behavior and the powerful handlersagents and lawyerswho work to conceal it. Violence Against Women: Unflinching accounts of assault and domestic abuse, exposing a pattern of behavior often shielded from public view. Celebrity Justice System: The groundbreaking finding that 40% of players have been charged with a serious crime, and an inside look at how the system often fails to hold them accountable.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Now a 10-part docuseries on Apple TV+ From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Tiger Woods comes the definitive inside story of the New England Patriotsthe greatest sports dynasty of the 21st century.Its easy to forget that the New England Patriots were once the laughingstock of the NFL, a nearly bankrupt team that had never won a championship and was on the brink of moving to St. Louis. Everything changed in 1994, when Robert Kraft acquired the franchise and soon brought on board head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady. Since then, the Patriots have become a juggernaut, making ten trips to the Super Bowl, winning six of them, and emerging as one of the most valuable sports franchises in the world.How was the Patriots dynasty built? And how did it last for two decades? In The Dynasty, acclaimed journalist Jeff Benedict provides richly reported answers in a sweeping account based on exclusive interviews with more than two hundred insidersincluding team executives, coaches, players, players wives, team doctors, lawyers, and moreas well as never-before-seen recordings, documents, and electronic communications.Through his exhaustive research, Benedict uncovers surprising new details about the inner workings of a team notorious for its secrecy. He puts us in the room as Robert Kraft outmaneuvers a legion of lawyers and investors to buy the team. We listen in on the phone call when the greatest trade ever madeBill Belichick for a first-round draft choiceis negotiated. And we look over the shoulder of forty-year-old Tom Brady as a surgeon operates on his throwing hand on the eve of the AFC Championship Game in 2018.But the portrait that emerges in The Dynasty is more rewarding than new details alone. By tracing the teams epic run through the perspectives of Kraft, Belichick, and Bradyeach of whom was interviewed for the bookthe author provides a wealth of new insight into the complex human beings most responsible for the Patriots success.The result is an intimate portrait that captures the human drama of the dynastys three key characters while also revealing the secrets behind their success. The Dynasty is[a] masterpieceIts a relationship book, its a football book, its a business bookyoull just eat up these stories (Colin Cowherd).

« Brillante et impressionnante, la biographie de référence sur le plus grand athlète de ce siècle. Une épopée américaine. » The New York TimesGRANDEUR ET DÉCADENCE DUN ATHLÈTE UNIQUE ET DUN HOMME HOR

A biografia definitiva do maior jogador de basquete do século XXI, ícone global e bilionário, baseada em três anos de pesquisa e em mais de 250 entrevistas. São muitas histórias improváveis e fascina

A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year NCAA football is big business. Every Saturday millions of people file into massive stadiums or tune in on television as "athlete-students" give everything theyve got to make their team a success. Billions of dollars now flow into the game. But what is the true cost? The players have no share in the oceans of money. And once the lights go down, the glitter doesnt shine so brightly. Filled with mind-blowing details of major NCAA football scandals, with stops at Ohio State, Tennessee, Texas Tech, Missouri, BYU, LSU, Texas A&M and many more, The System explores and exposes the complex, and perhaps broken, machine that churns behind the glamour of college football. With a New Afterword

LA BIOGRAFÍA DEFINITIVA DE «THE KING»«Fantástica y rica en detalles minuciosos.» Sports IllustratedLa historia de LeBron James, la leyendaLeBron James es, sin duda, uno de los más grandes jugadores d

LA BIOGRAFÍA DEFINITIVA DE «THE KING»«Fantástica y rica en detalles minuciosos.» Sports IllustratedLa historia de LeBron James, la leyendaLeBron James es, sin duda, uno de los más grandes jugadores d