Feb 27, 2023
Legendary Boston sports
photographer Steve Babineau ("Behind
the Lens: The World Hockey Association 50 Years Later")
joins the pod this week to discuss his new, lovingly-curated
collection of largely never-before-seen images of the colorful
1970s challenger hockey league that helped kick-start a life-long
love for...
Feb 20, 2023
[After an entertaining "inaugural" weekend of the XFL's third incarnation, we dig into the archives for this 2019 conversation with author Brett Forrest - and a rewind to the league's original season back in 2001!]
As another NFL season closes, we shift gears toward the forthcoming Alliance of American Football –...
Feb 13, 2023
On the eve of the most
significant changes to Major League Baseball's rules and
scheduling, we continue our lament of 2021's radical streamlining
of the minor leagues and obsess about the demise of its oldest
circuit - the New York-Penn League - with City University of New
York history/philosophy/political science...
Feb 6, 2023
We channel our inner yellow
tuxedo this week for a revealing conversation with the inimitable
minor league baseball impresario Jesse Cole - and a look
into the phenomenon behind his ground-breaking Savannah Bananas franchise -
as it migrates from its collegiate summer Coastal Plain League
roots into an audacious (and...