Cover of Unscripted: The Unpredictable Moments That Make Life Extraordinary

Unscripted: The Unpredictable Moments That Make Life Extraordinary

Ernie Johnson Jr. has been in the game a long time. With one of the most recognized voices in sports broadcasting, he is a tireless perfectionist when it comes to preparing and delivering his commentary. Yet he knows that some of sports' greatest triumphs—and life's greatest rewards—come from those unscriptedmoments you never anticipated.

Read more

In this heartfelt, gripping autobiography, the three-time Sports Emmy Award-winner and popular host of TNT's Inside the NBAprovides a remarkably candid look at his life both on and off the screen. From his relationship with his sportscaster father to his own rise to the top of sports broadcasting, from battling cancer to raising six children with his wife, Cheryl, including a special needs child adopted from Romania, Ernie has taken the important lessons he learned from his father and passed them on to his own children. This is the untold story, the one Ernie has lived after the lights are turned off and the cameras stop rolling. Sports fans, cancer survivors, fathers and sons, adoptive parents, those whose lives have been touched by a person with special needs, anyone who loves stories about handling life's surprises with grace—Unscriptedis for all of these.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 224 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Unscripted: The Unpredictable Moments That Make Life Extraordinary? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Unscripted: The Unpredictable Moments That Make Life Extraordinary. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. The Guy on the Left: Sports Stories from the Best Seat in the House Shares sports, biography, memoir
  2. Finally Free: An Autobiography Shares sports, biography, memoir
  3. Number Two: More Short Tales from a Very Tall Man Shares sports, memoir, biography
  4. You Can't Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television Shares sports, biography, memoir

“If you want more of the same (biography about sports), start with these.”

  1. Domestique: The Real-life Ups and Downs of a Tour Pro
  2. Eddy Merckx: The Cannibal
  3. At Speed
  4. Harold Larwood

“If it was the sports that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Beckham: Both Feet on the Ground: An Autobiography
  2. On the Right Track: From Olympic Downfall to Finding Forgiveness and the Strength to Overcome and Succeed
  3. A Father First: How My Life Became Bigger Than Basketball
  4. Approaching Ali: A Reclamation in Three Acts

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Lucky Bastard: My Life, My Dad, and the Things I'm Not Allowed to Say on TV
  2. Uppity: My Untold Story About The Games People Play
  3. Always By My Side: A Father's Grace and a Sports Journey Unlike Any Other
  4. Truth Be Told: Off the Record about Favorite Guests, Memorable Moments, Funniest Jokes, and a Half Century of Asking Questions