Sport set to see a lot of Trump over next four years

Brendan O’Brien reveals how Donald Trump could affect sport in the US over the next four years.

January, a month spoiled by ill-conceived resolutions, overflowing sock drawers and frantic searches for gift receipts. Disappointment comes in all guises and few are worse for the confirmed bookworm than opening up that eagerly-awaited hardback only to have your hopes shredded within a chapter, or even a page, of prose.

It’s far, far worse though when the purchase is your own: In this instance, one made in some haste on a whizz through Amazon last month. Hands up, it was a rookie error in choosing to judge it by its cover, but Dylan Gwinn’s title, Bias In The Booth: An Insider Exposes How Sports Media Distort The News, was sufficient bait.