Jock Itch

We’ve all made poor decisions when it comes to dating. Actress Rosa Blasi just seemed to make them with professional athletes. Over, and over, and over again. It took some unique serious relationships, over the course of 10 years, with men from several different professional sports for Rosa to finally have her Oprah “aha!” moment. Rosa Blasi shares the intimate details of her wild journey with self-deprecating honesty. She shares behind-the-scenes details of her misadventures with professional athletes, following in the appealing and bestselling tradition of Tucker Max, Chelsea Handler, and Kathy Griffin.

There was the Hockey player (whose member she mistook for a rolling pin), the Basketball player (who was like her Karmic Grim Reaper), the Baseball player (who seemed great “on paper” until she had to read about him in the papers), the Mormon Football player (not so religious he couldn’t have a nationally televised roid rage). Sneaking into the Playboy mansion and eventually getting into Maxim Magazine were only some of the ups and downs of dating people you could Google, all while trying to ignore the insecurities that plague women dating athletes.

They say that tragedy plus time equals comedy, and Rosa Blasi’s acerbic wit, originality, and raw honesty in this hilarious cautionary tale make this a memoir you won’t be able to put down. It may just make you run screaming in the opposite direction of any athlete you ever encounter.