Cameo Critic: NBC tennis analyst Mary Carillo recommends 'The Boys in the Boat'

June 12, 2015 at 2:45PM
Olympic Correspondent & Tennis Analyst Mary Carillo. NBC photo
Olympic Correspondent & Tennis Analyst Mary Carillo. NBC photo (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Mary Carillo loves the sporting life. She parlayed a successful tennis career into a spot in the NBC broadcast booth and is a longtime correspondent for "Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel." So it's not surprising that one of her latest reads centers around athletics.

Neal Justin

"Have you read 'The Boys in the Boat' [by Daniel James Brown] yet? It's about a bunch of Americans on a crew team that go to Berlin and go up against the Nazis in the 1936 Olympics. If I had it with me, I'd give it to you. It's the best book I've read in a long time."

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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