Jan 23, 2023
While American tackle football
has long been considered an exclusively male sport, this week's
guest Russ Crawford ("Women's American Football: Breaking
Barriers On and Off the Gridiron") takes us on an
eye-opening journey over the decades that highlights the persistent
and still-growing interest of women playing the...
Jan 16, 2023
We point our GPS towards the
Garden State this week, for a return to the days of pro hoops in
places like the "RAC" (Piscataway's Rutgers Athletic Center), the
"Rock" (Newark's Prudential Center), and the strangely iconic
Meadowlands - as we look back at 35 seasons of the oft-forgotten
New Jersey incarnation of NBA...
Jan 9, 2023
In 2014, Major League Baseball's Official Historian John Thorn and veteran baseball journalist Alan Schwarz published an authoritative and thought-provoking list of "Baseball’s 100 Most Important People" - including more than its fair share of surprisingly influential figures.
Nestled between National...
Dec 26, 2022
[We kick off our holiday break this week with a deep descent into the "Good Seats" archives - and an eyebrow-raising revisit of the enigmatic Continental Indoor Soccer League of the 1990s with former play-by-play broadcaster Kenn Tomasch!]
Former sportscaster and fellow defunct pro sports enthusiast Kenn Tomasch joins...
Dec 19, 2022
In 1966, when
a still-young Dallas
Cowboys franchise ended six years of NFL
futility with its first winning season
and a championship game
appearance, the team’s founder/owner Clint
Murchison, Jr. was already
dreaming bigger.
In order
to vault his club into the league's elite, Murchison knew he needed
a better...