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Golf: For Sport & Friends
From: Dale McLovin
Caption: Beautiful Golf Coarse, Credit: Google Images
This documentary shows the sport of golf and how fun it can really be, and also how it helps you connect with friends.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 01:53
The Lacrosse Life Style
From: Brendan Yelnats
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The documentary talks about my thoughts on lacrosse and a couple other peoples thoughts on the sport.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2013
  • Length: 01:49
The Farewell Season of Rollerdome
From: Radio K
Caption: Lisa Smith and Tad Wagner skate at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, MN., Credit: Noel Clark
Built in 1982, the Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome has seen it’s share of sporting events. Baseball, football, soccer. But off the field, a community o...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
Chapter 21 - Reinie
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
At Union Seminary Richard immediately audits a seminar being co-taught by John Bennett and Reinhold Niebuhr on “Christianity and Communism.” Richar...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 26:22
A Basement in Queens
From: Anne Noyes Saini
Caption: Arkadiy Aronov., Credit: Photo courtesy of Spartak Sports Club, Rego Park, Queens.
Judo olympians train in humble surroundings at Spartak Sport Club in Rego Park, Queens.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:34
The Trick That Turned Skateboarding Upside Down
From: Andrew Norton
Caption: The February 1985 cover featuring McGill unveiling the McTwist, Credit: Transworld Skateboarding
After almost 30 years, the McTwist still perplexes skaters—and sends them to the hospital. Tony Hawk and other skaters recount the history of the t...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 05:25
  • Purchases: 1
The 113th Annual Army-Navy Pageant
From: War News Radio
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The annual Army-Navy football game is one of the few opportunities for civilian types to have a front row seat to military culture. War News Radio’...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2012
  • Length: 08:40
The Great Race
From: Emma de Campo
Caption: Pete Stringer, approaching the finish of his 212th marathon. , Credit: Photo-Chambers
Pete Stringer loves to run. Really long distance. Since he began a running log in 1976, he's run over 80,000 miles in competitions and training. Th...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
Frankie’s Diary, Part 2: Football
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
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Frankie’s second Teenage Diary follows his season playing running back for the Valley Head Tigers. Recorded in 1997, Frankie documents his life as ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 16:24
  • Purchases: 1
One Step at a Time: Handling Loss
From: Open Orchard Productions
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How does a teenage boy handle loss? David must face his father's impending death from lung cancer while also maintaining his studies and athletics.

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 2
Shirley Muldowney
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Shirley Muldowney was the first person to win two and then three National Hot Rod Association Top Fuel dragster championships.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:19
Julie Krone
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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In 1993, Julie Krone became the first woman to win the Belmont Stakes.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
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...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
  • 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!

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
The 1968 World Series Version 2 Times are Changing
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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The 1968 World Series featured two of the finest pitchers of the day, The St. Louis Cardinal's Bob Gibson (1.12 ERA) and Detroit Tiger's Denny McLa...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
Is Chess Sport? Fischer vs. Spaasky for the Cold War Heavyweight Championship
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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The international chess match of the century that filled up the sports bars and captivated the world in the sizzling summer of '72 - Fischer vs. S...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Sep 13, 2012
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
Teenage Iron-Woman
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Core by Open Orchard Productions
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Rachel, at 16 years old, pushed herself through the rigors of training for and completing a 1/2 Ironman Triathlon to raise money to vaccinate 1,000...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2012
  • Length: 12:13
Target Shooting
From: Y-Press
Series: Youth and legal uses of guns
Caption: Project Appleseed students take aim. Instructor Kate Bixler is in yellow at right., Credit: Peter Shirley, Y-Press
Indiana youth can attend a 4-H shooting sports program or a conservation camp with the Department of Natural Resources to learn gun safety and how ...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2012
  • Length: 03:26
Tim Eaton: Bowling Lane Inspector
From: Andrew Norton
Caption: Tim Eaton Bowling in Falmouth, MA, Credit: Andrew Norton
Tim Eaton is certified by the USBC (United States Bowling Congress) to inspect bowling lanes. Behind the pins at his home alley in Falmouth, MA he ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:08
  • Purchases: 2
HV Special: Home Team (Baseball)
From: Hearing Voices
Series: Hearing Voices
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Baseball Stories from Public Radio's Hall of Fame

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WNIJ, KQED, KSUT, KERA and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
UnFictional: The Ballad of Dock Ellis
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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Dock Ellis is one of the most memorable characters to ever play baseball. He challenged the baseball establishment, but always had impeccable stye.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KMXT, Louisville Public Media, KOSU and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 7
Teen Contender
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
Caption: Claressa Shields, Credit: Sue Jaye Johnson
Boxing has been an Olympic sport since the time of the ancient Greeks. But only men have taken part. This year, that changes. For the first time ev...

Bought by WXDU, KUOW, PRX Remix, KGOU, KUT and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2012
  • Length: 15:53
  • Purchases: 7
The Olympic Games: Who Wins?
From: Making Contact
Caption: Torch Blocked at Downtown East Side, Credit: AMANDA ZEIDERS / Pittsburgh Indymedia
The Olympic Games have grown into a multibillion dollar industry. But with that growth comes concerns about the negative effects of the event on t...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio, Marfa Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KVSC


  • Added: Jul 12, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 4
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...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 02:43
  • 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 ...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1

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