Shaun Assael

Author, "The Murder of Sonny Liston: Las Vegas, Heroin And Heavyweights." Now a feature documentary on Showtime.

[Shaun Assael @shaunassael]

RIP, Alex Zanardi , one of the finest people I had the pleasure to meet in a quarter century at ESPN. https://t.co/MUCocozbSH

[Shaun Assael @shaunassael]

For anyone using AI without checking the results..

[Shaun Assael @shaunassael]

My true crime collab with Alex Murdaugh's attorney, @DickHarpootlian, is now on pre-sale!

https://t.co/eFFGleKPHW

Here's Dick talking about the new Hulu series on Murdaugh. (Spoiler: He's no fan of Parks & Rec.)

Awesome product placement at the end!

https://t.co/kE5maiZzyU

[Shaun Assael @shaunassael]

Sunday hooping in Tangier, Morocco. @NBA in Africa is working.

[Shaun Assael @shaunassael]

5/5 You can get it on your Kindle for six bucks, or a used copy for two bucks. (I make a little money off the first, not the second.) Or read a free excerpt here: https://t.co/7d9rohqOdg At least know what you're getting into. Thanks, Shaun

[Shaun Assael @shaunassael]

4/5 Look, I'm not a prude about this. But it never ends well. As some point, you have to come off the stuff and you crash. There's no soft landing. Do yourself a favor. If you're thinking about doing it, pick up a copy of my book.

[Shaun Assael @shaunassael]

3/5 When I was writing the book in the early 2000s — and, no, I never used – anti-aging clinics were still relatively new. Now, they're everywhere. As the Journal reports, a Florida company called @thebiostation is giving out testosterone almost indiscriminately.

[Shaun Assael @shaunassael]

2/5 The book was about Dan Duchaine, whose Underground Steroid Handbook launched an era of abuse. His life was a cautionary tale of optimism and avarice. But now, a new generation is taking Dan's dangerous hucksterism out of the shadows.

[Shaun Assael @shaunassael]

Cheers to #TheWallStreetJournal for its front-page piece today about the explosion in testosterone therapy, as well as its all-too-often-glossed-over side effects. It's just striking how little has changed since I wrote my book, Steroid Nation, in 2002. https://t.co/o5jvlsb4Gj

[Michael Kruse @michaelkruse]

Good stuff here from @shaunassael for @POLITICOMag. https://t.co/ida9ntswhz

[Shaun Assael @shaunassael]

I'm thrilled to return to @POLITICOMag with this https://t.co/lLSKitDjF5 deep dive into the '68 election, and how Richard Nixon recruited an unlikely celebrity to woo Black voters. Wilt Chamberlain was pilloried for endorsing Nixon. But now, he may be on the cusp of vindication.

[Shaun Assael @shaunassael]

6/6 You can hear it all by going to the "Sports Explains The World" page on Wondery+. Or, for extra content, and more me, hear it on my website...

Thanks (literally) for listening...

https://t.co/mOmYfehDYB

[Shaun Assael @shaunassael]

5/6 We also go to the 1990s, and shows how Wilt's infamous boast that he slept with 20,000 women overshadowed everything else he'd done. Peter returns to put Wilt's stats into a modern context, and the two of us debate why the NBA turned its back on him.https://t.co/mOmYfehDYB

[Shaun Assael @shaunassael]

4/6 * I trace Wilt's years in Los Angeles, and how a second NBA championship — compared to the 11 won by Russell — failed to bring him the respect he felt he deserved.
https://t.co/mOmYfehDYB

[Shaun Assael @shaunassael]

3/6 * I delve into Wilt's isolation as a Black conservative in the 1960s, and the friendship with Richard Nixon that led to a starring, ill-fated role, at the 1968 Republican Convention. It's a political time capsule that feels surprisingly relevant today

https://t.co/mOmYfehDYB

[Shaun Assael @shaunassael]

2/6 * Brand new analytics, developed with the help of my buddy and go-to stats guru Peter Keating, which show that Wilt was even more dominant than his 68 personal records suggest. We put the debate about Wilt vs Bill Russell into a whole new light...

[Shaun Assael @shaunassael]

1/6 I'm thrilled to be able to share this three-part podcast I wrote and produced about the life and times of Wilt Chamberlain that's airing now. If you're wondering how it's different from anything else that's been done on Wilt, well, there's me. And...

https://t.co/CSROuF8rR4

[Shaun Assael @shaunassael]

A tourist's view of #Coronation. No one is lip syncing Frozen. But still feels over the top in a geriatric, Macy's Day Parade kind of way. WIlliam and Harry are the Liam & Noel Galligher of Buckingham Palace — with William doing Noel's parts. https://t.co/8PwhkfiKDr

[Shaun Assael @shaunassael]

This awards stuff never gets old. The piece on my website at https://t.co/g1mqKIRZkK.

[Shaun Assael @shaunassael]

@adena_andrews Hey, Adena. We worked at ESPN at the same time a few years back. I'm wondering if you can spare a second to chat? I'm doing a project with a doc company called Spring Hill Entertainment that dovetails with some other stuff you list on your bio. Would love to tell you about it.