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This week on Art Beat, we visit with Dylan Overhouse, the director of Downhill Skateboarding which was part of the 2016 Frozen River Film Festival ...
- Added: Aug 08, 2017
- Length: 09:33
Here's Gerald's audio book review of BMW 5-Series M Car by Robert P. Hall
- Added: Jan 15, 2017
- Length: 03:07
How do you define wilderness? Why are humans drawn to summits? Will the cold-hardy kiwi save a struggling local economy, or will it destroy a nativ...
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 56:29
Ari Ofsevit is a guy from Boston fueled by an intense, nerdy love for sports. The day after running this year’s Boston Marathon, his face was all o...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 20:12
What happens when the person you love doesn't love what you do?
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 14:07
We all have our secret talents— like that poem you memorized in high school, or your ability to burp the alphabet. This podcast explores three extr...
- Added: Jun 04, 2015
- Length: 26:34
In Part 3 of our series on the decline of football, we talk to experts, examine new studies and try to answer the question, will football survive, ...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 37:21
- Purchases: 1
In Part 2, we look at the rise and fall of boxing in America. At one time boxing rivaled baseball as the country's most popular sport, but then it ...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 21:14
- Purchases: 1
In part 1 of our series on the decline of football in America, we look at the importance of football in America, and we also examine the rise and f...
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 15:00
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
The oldest and most revered piece of hardware in professional sports has arrived in Los Angeles for the first time. So, how will the Los Angeles Ki...
- Added: Jun 28, 2012
- Length: 08:02
The real life version of "Field Of Dreams" takes place in Alpine, Texas in the 1940s and 50s. This is a story about a man, his baseball field and ...
Bought by KMXT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WNMU-FM, KMXT, and KUT
- Added: Nov 08, 2010
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 5
Like many baseball seasons before it, the new season will be played largely under lights, although players and team owners alike once called night ...
- Added: Mar 24, 2007
- Length: 03:44
Dave Kerpen keeps creating fame for himself- first as a vendor with an unusual flare, then on TV, and now with an outrageous wedding
- Added: Sep 28, 2006
- Length: 06:53
Discovering the the dangerous trials and tribulations of the modern knife thrower
- Added: Sep 28, 2006
- Length: 09:34
- Purchases: 3
Major League Baseball is OK, but I prefer baseball as it was played by me and others in baseball-crazy Boonville and the other small towns in the M...
- Added: Mar 29, 2006
- Length: 04:02
Skydiving can go wrong, terribly wrong, and that can even happen when the parachute opens. This piece chronicles the author's dive on assignment fo...
- Added: May 10, 2005
- Length: 21:55
