DENNIS RODMAN's new book, "Walk on the Wild Side," from
Delacorte Press, which was co-authored by SI's MICHAEL
SILVER, goes on sale today. In Chicago, Teddy Greenstein
notes that Rodman, "of course, is nude on the cover, except
for some body paint that is supposed to make him look like a
tiger." Greenstein adds the book "is filled with the kind
of juvenile insults you've come to expect from Rodman
literature." Rodman, in the book, on SHAQUILLE O'NEAL:
"Shaquille O'Neal not only whores himself out to a million
sponsors but acts like a damn fool. ... He might as well
dress up like a Pepsi can when he plays. No one should want
to sell a product that bad. It's pathetic" (CHICAGO
TRIBUNE, 4/30). The SUN-TIMES' Jim O'Donnell writes that
the book is "boring, foul," and is "as satisfying as drawing
industrial latrine duty on the day assignment sheet at
Ready-Man." O'Donnell adds Rodman's "15 minutes of fame are
long into overtime and he, sidekick DWIGHT MANLEY and
everyone else along the Wormlines must be realizing it"
(CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 4/30).