Hey Rube Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and

With "Hey Rube," Thompson has put together his most hilarious, thought-provoking, genuine, outlandish, and highly irreverent writings from his recent career as columnist on ESPN.com's popular Page 2. This look at Gonzo journalism in his most organic form includes some "extra" columns that have never before been published.

Hunter S. Thompson was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. His books include Hell's Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72, The Curse of Lono, Songs of the Doomed, Better Than Sex, The Proud Highway, The Rum Diary, and Fear and Loathing in America. He died in January 2005.

Foreword by John A. Walsh, Senior Vice President and Executive Editor of ESPN.com

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Author's Note

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PART ONE

The New Dumb

3

(1)

The Fix Is In

4

(4)

Welcome to Generation Z

8

(3)

The White House Disease

11

(7)

Get Ready for Sainthood

18

(3)

The Xmas Vice

21

(3)

The Curse of Musburger

24

(3)

Cruel Twist in the Coaching Business

27

(3)

The NFL Sucks...Another League Bites the Dust...Rich Kids with Weapons

30

(4)

Slow Week for Sports, in Politics

34

(4)

Lynching in Denver

38

(3)

Mad Cow Disease Comes to the NBA

41

(2)

Death in the Afternoon

43

(2)

XFL, R.I.P.

45

(2)

The Most Horrible Curse in Sports

47

(3)

Urgent Warning to Gamblers: Beware the Ides of March

50

(2)

I Told You It Was Wrong

52

(1)

Where Were You When the Fun Stopped?

53

(3)

Running Away with the Circus

56

(3)

NBA and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness

59

(2)

Bad Craziness at Owl Farm

61

(3)

Can the Three Stooges Save the NBA?

64

(3)

Kentucky Derby and Other Gambling Disasters

67

(3)

Quitting the Gambling Business While I'm Ahead

70

(1)

The Most Dangerous Sport of All

71

(5)

Patrick Roy and Warren Zevon-Two Champions at the Top of Their Game

76

(2)

Wild Days at the Sports Desk

78

(2)

Eerie Lull Rattles the Sports World

80

(2)

Olympic Disaster in Utah

82

(1)

The Wisdom of Nashville and the Violence of Jack Nicholson-A Football Story

83

(6)

PART TWO

Fear and Loathing in America: Beginning of the End

89

(2)

When War Drums Roll

91

(4)

Will Sports Survive Bin Laden?

95

(3)

Stadium Living in the New Age

98

(3)

Football in the Kingdom of Fear

101

(3)

Foul Balls and Rash Predictions

104

(2)

Getting Weird for Devil's Day

106

(3)

The Yankees Are Dead: Long Live the Yankees

109

(3)

The Man Who Loved Sport Too Much

112

(4)

The Shame of Indianapolis

116

(4)

Failure, Football, & Violence on the Strip

120

(3)

Madness in Honolulu

123

(3)

Break Up the Ravens

126

(2)

Pay Up or Get Whipped

128

(3)

Getting Braced for the Last Football Game

131

(4)

Sodomized at the Airport: Are Terrorists Seizing Control of the NFL? And Who Let It Happen?

135

(3)

Slow Dance in Rap Town

138

(3)

Dr. Thompson in Beirut

141

(2)

Dr. Thompson Is Back from Beirut

143

(2)

The NFL: We Will March on a Road of Bones

145

(6)

PART THREE

A Wild & Woolly Tale of Sporting Excess

151

(3)

My 49er Habit

154

(3)

Don't Let This Happen to You

157

(2)

Grantland Rice Haunts the Honolulu Marathon

159

(4)

Honolulu Marathon Is Decadent and Depraved

163

(4)

Public Shame and Private Victory

167

(4)

Shooting the Moon with the Raiders

171

(3)

The Last Super Bowl

174

(4)

Extreme Behavior in Aspen

178

(2)

Billionaire Swine and Kiwi Catastrophe

180

(3)

Fleeced by Ed Bradley

183

(2)

Love Blooms in the Rockies

185

(2)

Love in a Time of War

187

(4)

A Sad Week in America

191

(5)

The Doomed Prefer Oakland

196

(2)

The Tragedy of Naked Bowling

198

(3)

West Coast Offense

201

(3)

Great Fleecing in Woody Creek: Lakers Staggered in Series Opener

204

(2)

The Sport of Kings

206

(4)

The Good, the Bad, and the Vicious

210

(4)

Rewarding the Ugly

214

(2)

Killed by a Speeding Hummer

216

(2)

When in Doubt, Bet the Dark Side

218

(2)

Welcome to the Big Darkness

220

(2)

The Nation's Capital

222

(3)

Speed Kills and Other Football Wisdom

225

(3)

Nightmare in Hollywood

228

(3)

Speed Will Rule the NFL This Year

231

(4)

The Bush League

235

(1)

Boxing Sucks

236

(3)

George Plimpton

239

(2)

Victory

241

(3)

Wisdom

244

(1)

Honor Roll

245

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