Apr 27, 2026
In the early years of professional basketball, before the bright lights and global reach of today’s NBA, the game was held together by grit, geography, and a patchwork of teams fighting to survive. Few franchises capture that fragile, formative moment better than the Tri-Cities Blackhawks — a team that...
Apr 20, 2026
Ron LeFlore’s trajectory from a maximum-security prison cell to starting in Major League Baseball's All-Star Game is a narrative of improbable survival and self-inflicted exile.
In this episode, we sit down with Adam Henig, author of "Baseball’s Outcast: The Story of Ron LeFlore", to unpack the...
Apr 13, 2026
From wartime England to the rise — and fall — of pro soccer’s first big American boom, Roger Faulkner has seen it all — and now, he’s telling that story in his new memoir, "You Can’t Get There from Here: My Soccer Journey from Derby to Detroit."
In this episode, we sit down with the Detroit...
Apr 6, 2026