Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day

Series produced by Richard Stull

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Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day

Doc Stull‘s Sports Today and in the Day is a series of seventy 2 1/2 minute radio shows that have run consecutively since Sept, 2010 on ESPN Sports Radio 1340 AM, Eureka, CA.

The show features dramatic and inspirational stories about sport and sport personalities in American history and popular culture as well as ancient sport. 22 sports are represented as well as pieces on sport in art, cinema, music and literature.

Also included are selected book, documentary and movie reviews and original stories and reflections. Upbeat, highly entertaining, provocative and informative, each segment is written and narrated by Doc Stull and features original music compositions by jazz composer/performer Tim Randles.


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78 Pieces

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Jack London becomes the St. Paul of Surfing
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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America's literary sensation Jack London becomes the St. Paul of the sport of kings: Surfing USA.

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  • Added: Sep 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:44
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Dempsey vs. Firpo Painting
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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George Bellow's painting of the 1924 Heavyweight Championship brawl between Jack Dempsey and Luis Firpo becomes one of America's most iconic sports...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2012
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
Jim Thorpe
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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The triumph and tragedy of America's Greatest All-Around Athlete

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2012
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
Dick Fosbury
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Just Jump: Innovation born of desperation changes the nature of the sport of high-jumping. To listen, click below. It takes a couple seconds to l...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2012
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2009) Documentary Review
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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College football classic in 1968 eerily reflects and portends America's political and popular culture future.

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2012
  • Length: 02:34
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Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) Film Review
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Ancient Hindu religious classic revealed as golf's eighteen holes.

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
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Steve Prefontaine
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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American 1970s rebel runs to win on the track and in life.

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2012
  • Length: 02:41
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Bernie Williams - Rhythms of the Game
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Bernie Williams, native of Puerto Rico and graduate of a performing arts high-school, retired Yankee five- time all-star center-fielder and now pro...

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  • Added: Jan 08, 2013
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
Joe Gans - The Old Master
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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The first African-American boxing champion (1902), Joe Gans is unknown to many but his legacy lives large in American popular culture history. To...

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2012
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
The Game (Book Review, 2005) by Hockey Superstar Ken Dryden
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Ken Dryden of the Montreal Canadians writes one of the most thought-provoking books in sports. Dryden writes like a poet - his analyses of the pla...

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  • Added: Oct 01, 2012
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
NFL Films
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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The father and son team of Ed and Steve Sabol use the artistic masters to market to the masses in the 1960's and pro football becomes the dominant ...

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  • Added: Oct 01, 2012
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Shelby's Folly
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Heavyweight championship boxing match between Jack Dempsey and Tommy Gibbons is heroically staged by a Montana mining town in 1923 with Dempsey's p...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
The Greatest Rivalry: Affirmed vs. Alydar
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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These two horses went to the wire three straight times in a Triple Crown win for the ages - the Ali-Frazier of horse-racing!

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
Jr. Johnson - The Last American Hero
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Race-car driver Jr. Johnson sets the tone for racing in the 1960's and embodies the term "good 'ol boy"

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
Dorando!
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Diminutive Italian marathoner is denied gold medal in 1908 Olympic marathon in London but becomes an international celebrity after his surreal stag...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:35
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The Catch
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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"The Catch" in San Francisco in 1982 becomes one of the great plays in football history. To hear the show, click on the INTRO and 2 MIN links belo...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
King Kelly
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Baseball star in the late 1800's sets the standard for sport celebrity pop culture in the subsequent 20th and 21st centuries. To hear the show, c...

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  • Added: Jul 01, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
Stephen Crane - Sport and War
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Author Stephen Crane uses images and descriptions from sport to describe a war he never experienced in his classic novel about the American Civil ...

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  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
The Greatest Sports Writing
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Homer's 23rd chapter in the 2800-year-old poem The Iliad has no rival. As the western world's oldest sports-writing, it set the standard for the t...

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  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
Bruce Lee
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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The greatest mixed martial artist.

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2012
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1

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