Jan 20, 2025
[While Tim gets off the mat after a bout with a vaccine-resistant strain of the flu this week, we go back to April 2018 for this classic ARCHIVE RE-RELEASE with the pied piper of classic football history!]
Upton Bell grew up at the knee of the National Football League’s second-ever commissioner – his father,...
Jan 13, 2025
Spurred on by a
hugely intriguing article in The Athletic penned last
November by
Episode 274 guest Pablo Maurer (as well as another by
Guardian soccer writer Jack Williams
back in 2016), we delve into the fascinating story of the
visionary, yet controversial 1990s American pro soccer league that
never was - League...
Jan 6, 2025
Renowned Presidential speechwriter-turned-sports-historian
Curt Smith joins the podcast this week for an
erudite look at the not-so-obvious concentricity between the story
of baseball in America with both the growth of broadcasting and the
evolution of electoral politics.
Drawing from some of his most seminal works...
Dec 30, 2024
It's our year-end
Holiday Roundtable Spectacular - featuring a
look back at the year's newest
additions to "what used-to-be" in professional sports (RIP MLB's
"Oakland" Athletics & the NHL's Arizona
Coyotes), and a predictive glimpse into what might be in
store for 2025 - with two of our favorite fellow
defunct...
Dec 23, 2024
It's a holiday gift-wrapped conversation with American soccer pioneer and US National Soccer Hall of Famer Johnny Moore - whose professional career as a player and coach across the original versions of both the North American Soccer League (San Jose Earthquakes, Oakland Stompers), and Major Indoor Soccer League (Detroit...