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Jeff Pearlman
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Jeff Pearlman is an American sportswriter and bestselling author of narrative nonfiction, known for books about football and baseball including a 2008 history of the 1990s Dallas Cowboys.
Biography
Jeffrey Pearlman (born 1972) is an American sportswriter and author. He has written ten books that have been New York Times Best Sellers, including four about football, three about baseball, two about basketball, and a biography of rapper Tupac Shakur.
Pearlman has reported notable features, including a 1999 Sports Illustrated interview with pitcher John Rocker in which Rocker made several racist and controversial comments. He is the author of Boys Will Be Boys (2008), which chronicles the 1990s Dallas Cowboys' rise from a 1–15 season in 1989 to three Super Bowl trophies and examines the team's combination of on-field greatness and off-field dysfunction.
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Books by Jeff Pearlman
Boys will be boys
Boys Will Be Boys (2008) chronicles the 1990s Dallas Cowboys, who rose from a 1–15 1989 season to win three Super Bowls in four years under owner Jerry Jones and coaches Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer. Pearlman details the team's on-field stars—Emmitt Smith, Deion "Prime Time" Sanders, Troy Aikman, and Michael Irvin—alongside off-field excesses, including Irvin's battles with drugs and women, Charles Haley's team parties, and the players' large egos.