For nearly fifty years, Jack Whitaker has brought style, grace, and wit to the American sporting scene through his reporting, his commentaries, and his essays. He's a living testament to the days when sports and television were glamorous, not routine; when world travel was adventure, not just transportation; when deluxe hotels and good scotch were as much a part of a TV journalist's arsenal as a blow-dryer and a perma-tan. There isn't a major sporting event in the world that he hasn't seen firsthand and helped put before the American people: Major League Baseball, the first Super Bowl, all of golf's majors, the Kentucky Derby, tennis's U.S. Open, the Olympics, the Indianapolis 500, Ali-Norton at Yankee Stadium... It's been a helluva life and a helluva ride-- one as exhilarating as the Cresta itself, that run down the St. Moritz bobsled course where Whitaker joined Errol Flynn, Paul Gallico, and the Duke of Westphalia in having taken the ultimate sleigh ride and living to tell about it. In "Preferred Lies and Other Tales", he shares his experiences and his thoughts in his trademark elegant, entertaining, and graceful style. The p