Category: Historical
From the World Cup to the Immaculate Reception; Howard Cosell’s enormous pioneering work
This Week in Sports History 12/19 – 12/23 Oftentimes, the spectacle of sport […]
This week in sports history: Namath’s last game as a Jet; First ever NFL OT game, 50 years ago
This Week in Sports History 12/12 – 12/16 With the World Cup reaching its […]
From Wilt to Barry Bonds, to Bo Jackson to Eric Dickerson and beyond; it’s about events past
This Week in Sports History December 5- Dec 12 This week the United States, despite […]
NFL TV continues to explode; This past spring and summer were spawning times for sports voices
The NFL expanded to 32 teams for the 2002 season with the addition of the […]
This week in sports: From Wayne Gretzky, the NHL’s greatest scorer to flashy Kobe Bryant
This Week in Sports History 11/28 – 12/2 The largest global sport spectacle is […]
The accomplishments of the greats and the voices who covered them; Barber, Cosell, Scully and others
This Week in History 11/14 – 11/18 As the baseball award season approaches, let’s look […]
Remembering some powerful names: Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Elston Howard and Fernando Valenzuela
This Week in Sports History 11/7 – 11/11 As mid November approaches, we can officially […]
Curt Smith profiles Frick’s 2023 top ten, MLB is most transparent of all sports’ ballots; Winner named in Dec
It is striking how many broadcasters of the four major sports—baseball, basketball, football, and […]
Sports history thickens through the years; Events of the week and the voices who covered them
This week in sports and who covered them With the World Series between the […]
Remembering the earthquake World Series; the Holy War battles between Boston College and ND plus more
This Week in Sports and Sports Broadcast History 10/24 – 10/28 The […]
Curt Smith on Russ Hodges: Author of baseball’s most famous call ever; “The Giants WIN the pennant!”
In 2021, the Giants won the NL West by a game over the Dodgers. […]
Broadcasting’s centennial: The top 100 LOCAL TV and radio voices on the electronic media’s 100th birthday
We all know that we live in a divided country. But both sides of […]