Mar 26, 2024
Sharing something special, an episode of the new podcast "Ways to Win" - where coaches Craig Robinson and John Calipari use their on-court wisdom to solve off-court problems.
In this first episode (recorded before the start of the NCAA basketball tournament!), there's no better way to kick off March Madness than with...
Mar 25, 2024
We bust some
brackets this week in honor of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball
Tournament, with a look back at the old East Coast Athletic
Conference and the coaching cradle of city of Boston - with return
(Episode
237) guest Clayton Trutor ("
Mar 18, 2024
We squint hard this
week for a look into the story of American "professional"
wrestling's formative years - with pop culture writer Jon Langmead
(Ballyhoo! The Roughhousers,
Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional
Wrestling).
Langmead takes
us inside the raucous period roughly between the mid-1870s
to...
Mar 11, 2024
Harper's
Contributing Editor and novelist/historian extraordinaire
Kevin Baker ("The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise
of a New City") brings his blended affection for
(and evocative portrayals of)
both "The Big
Apple" and the "National Pastime" - to make a compelling case for
New York City as the rightful...
Mar 4, 2024
It's a celebration
of women's hoops this week, as we look back at the "early days" of
the Women's National Basketball Association - including stops with
the oft-forgotten Utah Starzz and San
Antonio Silver Stars - with three-time league all-star
Marie Ferdinand-Harris (