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Q & A With Jeff Pearlman, Author Of ‘Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty’

Here is Jeff’s new book and here is Jeff’s website. We did this interview via email: * What were the biggest obstacles you had to overcome to make this book succeed? I would say the sheer volume of players involved. … Continue reading

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Attack of the Skanks

From Deadspin.com: "Boys Will Be Boys", Jeff Pearlman’s fascinating account of the glory days of the Cowboys dynasty is making the media rounds this week and we will happily join in to promote it. It is ridiculously entertaining. Yes, Charles … Continue reading

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Boys Will Be Boys

From Green Bay: Other players who stand out in Pearlman’s book are Haley, a “tragic and victorious” defensive end whose exploits can’t be repeated in print, and linebacker Robert Jones, one of the lone Cowboys to not give in to … Continue reading

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The Dallas Cowboys – The Team Of The Nineties

From the Philadelphia Inquirer: In Pearlman’s book, few Cowboys come off as fully functional human beings, least of all the architect of the success, Jimmy Johnson, who divorced his wife of 20 years and treated his sons "like third cousins" … Continue reading

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Jerry Jones – Football Genius?

Jeff Pearlman writes for the WSJ: If there was a key moment in Mr. Jones’s rise from laughingstock to laudable, it came in January, 2003 when he hired Bill Parcells as head coach. Unlike Mr. Johnson, who insisted on 100% … Continue reading

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Is It Evil To Speculate About Troy Aikman’s Sexuality?

Jim Buzinski writes: The author of a new book on the 1990s Dallas Cowboys rips a sportswriter at the time who speculated that then-Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman might be gay. Jeff Pearlman is getting a lot of pub for his … Continue reading

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‘Boys Will Be Boys’ Book Review

Jacob Simpson writes: This is a fantastic take on a subject that demanded good research and good writing. Pearlman provides both. Though keep the kids away, it’s definitely X-rated (and not for the squeamish). Some notes on Boys Will Be … Continue reading

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Who Comes Out Looking Good/Bad In ‘Boys Will be Boys’?

Former Cowboys beat writer Mike Fisher reviews Jeff Pearlman’s new book: NOT LOOKING GOOD JERRY JONES – In addition to re-telling details about Jones’ womanizing already printed in a book written by former Jones pilot Todd Cawthorn, Pearlman asserts that … Continue reading

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Herschel Walker

Jeff Pearlman’s new book is excerpted in the WSJ: In modern American history, few sports figures have possessed the mythological aura of young Herschel Walker. At Johnson County High School in Wrightsville, Georgia in the late ’70s, he was a … Continue reading

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Highlights From ‘Boys Will Be Boys’

From SI: Jeff Pearlman‘s Boys Will Be Boys is in bookstores now. Here are some tidbits Pearlman shared with Dan … 1. Emmitt Smith and Troy Aikman wouldn’t talk to him. But Pearlman explained the best sources were the guys … Continue reading

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