A refreshing and thought-provoking look at athletes whose legacies have already been reduced to one defining moment of defeat-those on the other hand of the epic triumph-and what their experiences can train us about competition, existence, and the human spirit.

Every sports fan recalls with amazing accuracy a pivotal winning moment involving a favorite team or player-Henry Aaron striking his 715th home run to pass Babe Ruth; Christian Laettner’s well-known buzzer defeating shot in the NCAA tournament for Duke. Yet about Shedding Isn’t Everything: The Untold Stories and Hidden Lessons Behind the Toughest Deficits in Sports Background lost will be the stories on the other side of these history-making occasions, the sports athletes who experienced not transcendent glory but crushing disappointment: the cornerback who missed the tackle in the big touchdown; the comfort pitcher who lost the series; the world-record keeping Olympian who dropped on the snow.

In Losing Isn’t Everything, famous sportscaster Curt Menefee, joined by bestselling writer Michael Arkush, examines a range of signature ‘disappointments’ in the wide world of sports, interviewing the subject in the centre of each loss and uncovering what it means-months, years, or decades later-to be connected with failure. While history is written by the victorious, Menefee argues that these occasions when an athlete has fallen short are equally useful to sports background, offering deep insights in to the individuals who experienced them and about mankind itself.

Telling the dropping stories behind such famous moments as the Patriots’ Rodney Harrison guarding the Giants’ David Tyree during the ‘Helmet Capture’ in Super Bowl XLII, Mary Decker’s fall in the 1984 Olympic 1500m, and Craig Ehlo who gave up ‘The Shot’ to JORDAN in the 1989 NBA playoffs, Menefee examines the legacy from the hardest loses, revealing the unique path that athletes need to walk after they lose on their sport’s biggest stage. Losing new light a few of the most recognized scapegoat stories in the sports cannon, he also revisits both the Baltimore Colts’ reduction to the Jets in Super Dish III, aswell as the Crimson Sox reduction in the 1986 World Series, showing why, despite many years of humiliation, it could not be all Expenses Buckner’s fault.

This considered and compassionate study offers invaluable lessons about pain, resilience, disappointment, remorse, and acceptance that will help us take a look at our lives and ourselves in a profound new way.