Book Review: Chris Myers looks back on his career in ’That Deserves a Wow’

There are few sports journalists working today with a resume as broad as Chris Myers. Simpson following the civil judgement against him in the Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman murders, the 1989 California earthquake that postponed the World Series for a week, and live on-the-scene reporting from the Centennial Park bombing at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 — but a lot of it is pulled from transcripts and comes across as a rather dry retelling of what fans will recall seeing on TV. And as he climbed to a top rung on the TV sports ladder, he followed this adage: “If you don’t jump at unexpected opportunities, you won’t get more than what’s expected.” That’s the tenet that convinced him to leave ESPN for Fox Sports, which was essentially a network start-up in 1998. There’s also some real heart here, as most fans will probably have forgotten the personal loss Myers experienced in 2012 when his 19-year-old son Christopher died in a car accident. “Back then I thought, ‘Well, there’ll be other days.’ I didn’t realize that that was the only day,” is a line spoken by actor Burt Lancaster as Archie “Moonlight” Graham in the movie “Field of Dreams,” and Myers uses it to reflect on how it felt to lose a son.