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Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes the world has ever known. A Native American hero who broke records in three different sports. Today his...
Bought by South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WILL, KOSU, KAAD-LP, KUT and more
- Added: Feb 27, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 17
Harold Lucas, Jr. sits down with his daughter, D’Lorah Butts-Lucas, to remember seeing Jackie Robinson train to become the first Black player in M...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Apr 21, 2022
- Length: 03:07
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, we tell the story of Chuck Ealey's long and winding road to the College Football Hall. Especially long ...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Feb 07, 2022
- Length: 06:40
- Purchases: 1
Award-winning historian Dr. Amanda Foreman argues that a history that pushes women to the margins is an untruth that must be challenged. To this en...
- Added: Jun 09, 2016
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 4
Derrick Henry of Alabama Football
- Added: Dec 13, 2015
- Length: 10:50
Teaser answer: He was a superb athlete but native to another country! Find out who as author Scott Ellsworth reads from The Secret Game: A Wartime ...
- Added: Nov 25, 2015
- Length: 01:40
Bowling as a competitive sport and family pastime peaked decades ago. The game still exists, but with fewer participants. KFAI producer Bill Lindek...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 06:01
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
In 1993, Julie Krone became the first woman to win the Belmont Stakes.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:26
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 02:47
- Purchases: 1
He was a runner, early on. Before it was popular. Before Spandex, before Nike and Gatorade. At one time, he was one of a handful of the fastest hum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2011
- Length: 03:00
This is the story of the underdog team that was always pushing the envelope when it came to fashion, to nicknames and to hairstyles … on their face...
Bought by North State Public Radio
- Added: Apr 04, 2011
- Length: 01:00:00
- Purchases: 1
Just before the opening of the 2008 Bejing Olympics, Don Spero tells his daughter, for the billionth time, of the epic rivalry he once had with gre...
- Added: Oct 13, 2008
- Length: 05:09
From: Deborah Van Fleet
Johnny, "The Jet" Rodgers, Heisman '72, honors another pioneer Nebraska athlete, Marion Hudson, and talks about the importance of black communities...
- Added: Feb 14, 2007
- Length: 04:31
- Purchases: 2
From: N Lorde
A personal insight into the life of former boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter - his life after the blockbuster hit movie.
- Added: Jan 08, 2006
- Length: 14:07
- Purchases: 5
