Cover Up
By: John Feinstein
Aakash Pai Bush 4/5
Theme of the Book In the entire book, the author talks about sports, but the meaning is more than that. The author is trying to teach the readers that in life there are people who do bad things, and sometimes can get away with it. But the author is trying to make us realize what is wrong is wrong. That there are no exceptions are made even you didn’t do it, you just helped someone in a crime. One example of a person doing the wrong thing is, “’Dreams tested positive Cover Up
for HGH, and Meeker is covering it up…’” (Feinstein 92)
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Another example of someone helping the bad person is “We come to the rescue of kids being bullied be sleazebag
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doctors … who work for a punk like Don Meeker” (Feinstein 189).By that they are referring to Dr. Snow who
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is Meeker’s partner in crime. Every time there is a bad guy
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doing something wrong, there is a good guy doing something right, and in this book the good guys were Susan Carol and Stevie.”’The question is, what do we do with this?’”(Feinstein 95) By this they are trying to figure out how to bust the bad guys. One example of a person getting away with something is, “We’re a little more than forty-eight hours from kickoff and not even close to having enough proof to write this story. As of this moment, the bad guys win, and Meeker gets away with his cover-up” (Feinstein 236). At the end the bad guys mostly get busted just like in this book. “’Meeker is going own, and the player will be penalized’” (Feinstein 296). So in this book I learned that cheating and lying isn’t going to get you anywhere.
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Author’s Purpose In this book the author’s purpose was to inform the reader that in the world the sports profession things might look all
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glamorous and rosy, but the reality is actually not that pretty. The author gave me facts about how sports franchises actually function. Like in the story if Eddie Brennan exposed the story that there were people on his team who used steroids, he would be more hated than the people who used steroids. In the NFL he would be the person who ratted out his own teammates. The author also taught something, no profession is perfect. In the book the profession of sports journalism, sports and anchor looks like the best thing in the world, but when the author kind of took us behind the scenes it gave a better view, him being a sports journalist gave this book an edge.
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Word Tease Stevie and Susan Carol are at it again. They are now at the Super bowl in Indianapolis with Bobby and Tamera. Stevie is a journalist for the Washington Post and an anchor for CBS. Susan Carol is on a new T.V. show called “Kid Sports” with anchor Jamie Whitsitt, a handsome band player. Things start to get tense between Stevie and Susan Carol, Susan Carol’s bossy employer Tal Vincent, and Jamie. Or is it that he is jealous Jamie got Stevie’s job and might also get Susan Carol. They and discovered that the slime ball owner Don Meeker has five players on his team that tested positive for steroids. With Meeker’s Cover up the NFL didn’t know that five lineman were tested positive for steroids. Susan Carol and Stevie can’t prove to everyone Meeker’s cover up without help from Eddie Brennan, the Dreams QB. Even though they have Brennan on their side, can Stevie and Susan Carol reveal Meeker’s cover Up to everyone? Can Stevie get Susan Carol back?
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John Feinstein
Author’s Page John Feinstein is the author of many bestselling books, including Caddy for Life, A Season on a brink. Currently he is writing a series for young readers, Last Shot and Vanishing Act. He has the already wrote the fourth book of this series, Change Up. John Feinstein is a sports journalist that currently working for AOL Sports and Golf Digest, and continues to write
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regularly write for the Washington Post. That’s why in many of his books he talks about the Washington Post, and also uses real people in his stories. John Feinstein currently lives in Potomac, Maryland and Shelter Island, New York, with his wife, son, and daughter.
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