Category: Historical
Labor strife, war, assassinations, riots, an earthquake and a virus: A 100 year log of cancelled sports
Nothing in the past has ever stopped sporting events in their tracks the way COVID-19 […]
Lighter moments in Minneapolis? Icon Sid Hartman,100, remembers sports’ characters and joys
In somber times, it’s nice to remember lighter moments! Sports in Minneapolis? All roads […]
Gary Thorne’s podcasts go deep into rivalries like Red Sox-Yankees; Fred Lynn and Lou Piniella talk 1978
A few years ago a TV producer friend, Jay Kutlow, and I got to […]
No NCAA title game Monday night; But the 57 year TV history of the Final Four is full of characters
Here we sit. At home. Some with family. Some not. Some with lots of […]
While the Kobe tragedy dominates discussions, let’s remember victims of other sports accidents
Many of the radio opinion mongers are already situated in South Florida at Super […]
With World Series in full swing, Curt Smith ranks the top five presidents as baseball fans
NIXON’S THE ONE: THE BEST PRESIDENTIAL FAN Yesterday, we ran a Top Ten ranking […]
It’s World Series time: Historian Curt Smith ranks top 10 U.S. presidents as baseball fans
Recently, we etched virtually every American president’s tie to sports since George Washington […]
The cancelled World Series 25 years ago: Local voices remember 1994 well; Has MLB fully recovered?
For Major League Baseball 25 years ago, it was indeed a dark October. The […]
The cancelled ’94 World Series: Network voices remember a baseball low point 25 years ago
It’s been 25 years since the World Series was cancelled. To millions it was unthinkable. […]
Pres. Trump loved the Yanks of the ’50s who knew how to make a deal long before The Donald
“American Presidents, like great French restaurants,” said the writer and educator S. Douglass […]
With 44,000 sets in U.S., the first World Series telecast was 72 years ago today; See timeline: 1947-2019
Seventy two years ago today, history was made. The first ever World Series game […]