Big league babble on : the misadventures of a rabble-rousing sportscaster and why he should be dead by now

Veteran radio and television personality John Gallagher's salacious, voracious, and dangerously delicious memoirs of a life lived on the edge in the midst of some of the world's biggest celebrities. Long-time sportscaster John Gallagher has had close to four decades of hosting some of the top-rated radio and TV shows in Canada and, while he was at it, doing enough drugs to wipe out a small village. Along the way there was plenty of drinking, cavorting, and gallivanting with some of the coolest, biggest, and baddest sports stars and Hollywood celebs around. In Big League Babble On , John spares no one, not even himself. Read about his nights boozing with the likes of Tony Curtis, Stevie Nicks, Colin Farrell, and Leafs head coach Pat Burns. Find out how partying with Gallagher saved Mark Wahlberg's life. Or how he once came a little too close to Princess Di. And the time Muhammad Ali stole John's Penthouse magazine ... for the articles. Gallagher is a pop culture Cuisinart and a walking — but mostly talking — sports almanac. From hot tubbing with Wendel Clark to his friendship and falling-out with Robbie Alomar, Gallagher has met (and often partied with) all of the greats. This book is your backstage pass. Veteran radio and television personality John Gallagher's salacious, voracious, and dangerously delicious memoirs of a life lived on the edge in the midst of some of the world's biggest celebrities. Long-time sportscaster John Gallagher has had close to four decades of hosting some of the top-rated radio and TV shows in Canada and, while he was at it, doing enough drugs to wipe out a small village. Along the way there was plenty of drinking, cavorting, and gallivanting with some of the coolest, biggest, and baddest sports stars and Hollywood celebs around. In Big League Babble On , John spares no one, not even himself. Read about his nights boozing with the likes of Tony Curtis, Stevie Nicks, Colin Ferrell, and Leafs head coach Pat Burns. Find out how partying with Gallagher saved Mark Wahlberg's life. Or how he once came a little too close to Princess Di. And the time Muhammad Ali stole John's Penthouse magazine ... for the articles. Gallagher is a... "There's an old saying about life, "It's not who you know, it's who you ̥well, you know "̥ I'm here to tell you, in this "business of show" that I'm in, it's definitely who you know. And that is how I got to this place in my life. After decades and decades of wine, women, rockstars, Hollywood's finest, and oh, yeah ̥sports ̥it's all come down to who you know. So this is the story of the people I've had the pleasure (and sometimes displeasure) of knowing. I've had close to forty years of hosting some of the top-rated radio and TV shows in Canada, chasing skirt and bedding some of the most beautiful women in North America, and along the way doing enough cocaine to kill a small horse, drinking, cavorting, and gallivanting with the some of the coolest, biggest, and baddest broadcasters and celebs in the business. With this book, you'll get a credited backstage pass."-- Provided by publisher While many of John Gallagher's broadcasting contemporaries went home to the suburbs at the end of the day, Gallagher threw himself fully into the kind of nightlife the average Joe could only dream of. He dishes dirt and names names in this salacious memoir of a career lived on the edge.;Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- ONE -- TWO -- THREE -- FOUR -- FIVE -- SIX -- SEVEN -- EIGHT -- NINE -- TEN -- ELEVEN -- TWELVE -- THIRTEEN -- FOURTEEN -- FIFTEEN -- SIXTEEN -- SEVENTEEN -- EIGHTEEN -- NINETEEN -- TWENTY -- TWENTY-ONE -- TWENTY-TWO -- TWENTY-THREE -- TWENTY-FOUR -- TWENTY-FIVE -- TWENTY-SIX -- TWENTY-SEVEN -- TWENTY-EIGHT -- TWENTY-NINE -- THIRTY -- THIRTY-ONE -- THIRTY-TWO