Publisher Marketing: Beano Cook was an American sports media icon, an original character known for his wit and his one-liners, his eccentric personality, his encyclopedic knowledge of college football history, and his distinctive voice, which the writer Tom Callahan said sounded like "a plumbing fixture gargling Drano." That voice, which captivated countless college football fans for decades, narrates Cook's posthumously published biography, "Haven't They Suffered Enough?"