Cover Up

By: John Feinstein

Aakash Pai Bush 4/5

Cover Up

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

for HGH, and Meeker is covering it up…’” (Feinstein 92)

Another example of someone helping the bad person is

“We come to the rescue of kids being bullied be sleazebag

doctors … who work for a punk like Don Meeker”

(Feinstein 189).By that they are referring to Dr. Snow who

is Meeker’s partner in crime. Every time there is a bad guy

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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In this book the author’s purpose was to inform the reader

that in the world the sports profession things might look all

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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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

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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

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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