May 30, 2022
We're taking a few days of early summer vacation this week - but not before sitting down for a very fun interview with pro football enthusiast and friend-of-the-show Arnie Chapman - as a guest on his popular Sports History Network podcast "The Football History Dude."
Tim and Arnie dive into some of the most memorable...
May 23, 2022
While more than a few
generations of NBA fans believe the Sacramento Kings franchise
began its life when the team played (and lost) its very first
exhibition game against the Los Angeles Clippers at the
warehouse-converted ARCO Arena (I) on October 25, 1985 - serious
students of the game know better.
Indeed, a very...
May 16, 2022
"Dave Bancroft should not be
in the Hall of Fame."
That's how this week's guest Tom
Alesia's new book "Beauty at
Short: Dave Bancroft, the Most Unlikely Hall of Famer and His Wild
Times in Baseball's First Century" starts - a curious way
to begin the first (and only) biography of one of Cooperstown's
most...
May 9, 2022
We revisit the endlessly
fascinating World Football League - and its enigmatic founder/first
commissioner Gary Davidson - with ESPN.com senior writer Ryan
Hockensmith ("The Renegade Who
Took On the NFL [And the NBA and the NHL]").
Drawing on recent interviews
with Davidson, former NFL defectors Larry Csonka & Paul...
May 2, 2022
Hollywood film producer
(Ray; The Game
of Their Lives; Sudden Death) and original New
England/Hartford Whalers founder/owner Howard
Baldwin (Slim and
None: My Wild Ride from the WHA to the NHL and All the Way to
Hollywood) returns after a three-year absence to help fill
in some of the gaps left over from
Episode 100,...