Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 23 days 11 hours 34 minutes
During the late 1960s, Dean Tolson ("") emerged as a standout prep basketball talent during his junior and senior years at Central High School in Kansas City, Missouri. His prowess on the court attracted the attention of a bevy of college recruiters,...
It's our first journey into the chaotically exciting history of "professional" roller derby with former skater and long-time keeper-of-the-flame Scott Stephens ("). From the moment he laced up his first pair of roller skates at age six in mid-1960s...
It's a special mea culpa episode this week, as we welcome back Szczecin University (Poland) history professor and Łukasz Muniowski () for a deep dive into the drama of the NBA's Vancouver Grizzlies move to Memphis in 2001 - and an assessment of the...
[A dip into the archives for a one of our first-ever episodes from 2017 - by request!] Author Matt Algeo () joins Tim Hanlon all the way from Maputo, Mozambique to discuss the marriage of convenience that literally saved the National Football League...
Former ESPN ad researcher, and current Elon University professor of communications and sport management David Bockino () helps us trace the evolution of the sports media industry - with historical points of interest both obvious (e.g., the 1958 NFL...
We reach back into the vaunted Good Seats library stacks this week for a deep dive into one of Tim's favorite sports reference books - - with its (prodigious non-fiction) author . Now in its third edition, Roadside is everything you'd imagine...
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...
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 () guest Clayton Trutor (""). Before...
We squint hard this week for a look into the story of American "professional" wrestling's formative years - with pop culture writer Jon Langmead (). Langmead takes us inside the raucous period roughly between the mid-1870s to the early-1940s -...
Harper's Contributing Editor and novelist/historian extraordinaire Kevin Baker ("") 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...