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Unscripted

The Unpredictable Moments That Make Life Extraordinary

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Unscripted

By: Ernie Johnson Jr., John Smoltz
Narrated by: Ernie Johnson Jr.
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About this listen

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 unscripted moments you never anticipated.

In this heartfelt, gripping autobiography, the three-time Sports Emmy Award winner and popular host of TNT's Inside the NBA provides 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 - Unscripted is for all of these.

©2017 Ernie Johnson, Jr. (P)2017 Tantor Basketball Personal Development Personal Success Sports Adoption Heartfelt

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Critic reviews

"In Unscripted, you will enjoy some wonderful sports stories, but more than that, you will learn some invaluable life lessons." (Tony Dungy, best-selling author of Quiet Strength)
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What a fantastic read, every page is a blackberry moment. Thank you Ernie, I hope they’ll be another book in the future

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Ernie Johnston’s unscripted story provides many learnt life lessons and stories well worth hearing.

The asterisk of this recommendation is that it might be perceived as a bit preachy the more you go through the book. Religion played a big part of the latter stages of the story and this is fine but some parts may come across a little ‘preachy’.

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