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Gland Slam, Andropause, Mr. Adequate, Google Gamble, and Happiest Places!
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
Series: 2 Boomer Babes Radio Hour
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First, tennis great Pam Shriver talks about her amazing career, family, and the young tennis stars on the horizon. Then, Damon Raskin, an internis...

Bought by WCWP


  • Added: Sep 09, 2014
  • Length: 54:51
  • Purchases: 1
Sports Extremes: Football and Bouts of Mania
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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First, football may be Americas favorite sport. If it’s not, it may certainly be the most lucrative and of sports for owners. In his book, Against ...

Bought by WCWP


  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 1
"Baaga'adowe: The Creator's Game" by Art Coulson
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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We will talk with author Art Coulson about his book, The Creator's Game, a children's book focusing on the game of lacrosse. For more information o...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 22, 2014
  • Length: 06:37
  • Purchases: 1
Brazil. Soccer, Magical Realism and Alternate Reality
From: Richard Stull
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The great nation of Brazil’s ignominious 7-1 defeat by Germany at the World Cup semi-finals in July of 2014 in front of their home crowd was a thun...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2014
  • Length: 02:33
Cuban Baseball and Alternate History
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Cuba has a great baseball tradition going back 150 years - Luque, Dihigo, Minoso, Perez, El Duque, Canseco and many current stars hail from the sto...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
The Black Power Salute?
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Brian Balogh talks with sociologist Harry Edwards, founder of the Olympic Project for Human Rights, about the iconic moment at the 1968 Olympi...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXDU, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 14, 2014
  • Length: 09:20
  • Purchases: 4
Ping-Pong Diplomacy
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Producer Bruce Wallace explains how ping-pong helped to thaw U.S.- China relations during the 1970s, while remaining a potent field for propaganda ...

Bought by WOUB, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 14, 2014
  • Length: 11:14
  • Purchases: 3
International Pressures, Domestic Pain
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Producer Kelly Jones and archivist Jane Tuttle bring us the story of trailblazer Lucile Godbold’s participation in international athletics in the 1...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 14, 2014
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 3
Sticking the wicket: America's first co-ed sport returns to Brooklyn
From: Eric Winick
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Gabriel Vaughan and Piper Goodeve have set upon a singular mission: to revive the sport of croquet in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, where it once thri...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2014
  • Length: 12:59
Ski Champion's Invention Transformed The Sport
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
Caption: Hjalmar Hvam was a champion ski jumper., Credit: courtesy of the Oregon Historical Society
A Norwegian immigrant in Oregon invented the first quick-release ski binding, which made skiing safer and more appealing.

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 16:51
  • Purchases: 2
Mildred "Babe" Didrickson-Zaharias
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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She was nicknamed “Babe” because of her remarkable athletic skills.

Bought by KTTZ, KTTZ, and KAMU


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
Jack Johnson
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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The first African-American man to win the heavyweight boxing title.

Bought by KTTZ, KTTZ, and KAMU


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Alous: First Dominican/Latino/Baseball Family
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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The fabulous Alou brothers Felipe, Matty and Jesus had more hits that any other brother trio in baseball history (over 5000) and all played in the...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: May 06, 2014
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Storyville: "Finding It In The Sun"
From: WWNO
Series: Storyville
Caption: The 1910 New Orleans Pelicans baseball team; Shoeless Joe Jackson is #12.
This piece by Eric Millman is about moving to New Orleans from California hoping to join a baseball community, and drowning in the unavoidable Sain...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:31
Gym Teacher
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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An audio postcard from the University of Virginia’s Memorial Gym resurrects a famous speech given there by FDR.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Radio Newark, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 3
The Game that Changed the South...Sort Of
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Ed Ayers explains how the South used college football to reassert itself in American culture after the Civil War, and Backstory producer Eric ...

Bought by Radio Newark and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 12:34
  • Purchases: 2
PROMO - Turf War: A History of College Sports [2014]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: Promos for Upcoming Shows
Caption: Player for the Chicago Kent College of Law indoor baseball team, 1910 , Credit: Library of Congress
30-second promo for BackStory episode, "Turf War: A History of College Sports [2014]," with 5-second music bed at end for station-specific time/dat...

Bought by WUFT and KALW


  • Added: Mar 18, 2014
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Big East Tourney Wednesday Preview
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
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Sports Director John Fanta previews the Big East Tournament games for Wednesday Evening March 12th. Included in this preview is the Seton Hall- B...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 04:03
Brow Anxiety (Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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During the 1910s and 1920s, the question of whether one was “highbrow” or “lowbrow” became a concern in the minds of modernist Americans. Brooks He...

Bought by WCNY and WTJU


  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 2
The Decline of Football, Data and Reality
From: Ben Orlando
Series: History Repeating Itself
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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
The Decline of Football and Boxing
From: Ben Orlando
Series: History Repeating Itself
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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
Anishinaabe Olympic Hockey Star Henry Boucha
From: WTIP
Series: Anishinaabe Way: Lives, Words and Stories of Ojibwe People
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Henry Boucha is Anishinaabe from Warroad MN. A professional hockey player for six seasons, including a run with the MN North Stars, Boucha was indu...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, and WDSE


  • Added: Jan 01, 2014
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 4
The Future of Presidential Elections
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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Dan Balz, uses sources from inside each campaign as well as his own observations of the race for the White House in 2012 to dissect how new strateg...

Bought by WCNY and WCWP


  • Added: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 2
Jack London Got Game
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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American turn-of-the-20th century author Jack London was one of the founders of serious American sport fiction. Stemming from his own love of spor...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
Horse Companions
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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When horses need social time they turn to everything from farm animals to spider monkeys.

Bought by KGUA and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 2