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Culturology: The Mail Run Sled Dog Race
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Gunflint Mail Run
When the John Beargrease sled dog marathon was cancelled, racers banded together to offer an alternate course. The Mail Run race, only a couple wee...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 08:50
John Wooden
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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An impressionable high school student witnesses a small act of grace on the basketball court involving the legendary college basketball coach John ...

Bought by KSLU and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 2
The Great Trade of '62
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Best friends in first grade trade Mantle for Mays baseball cards in a Berkeley schoolyard during a magic year of innocence before the storms of soc...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
The Canterbury Trail
From: James Mills
Series: The Joy Trip Project
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In this interview author Angie Abdou brings to her latest book themes from an ancient English text first made popular in the middle ages to put a m...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 14, 2012
  • Length: 12:29
  • Purchases: 1
Film Review: A League of Their Own (1992)
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Penny Marshall's film brings awareness and respect for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1943-1954.

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Feb 04, 2012
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
Women Warriors
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Women Warriors in antiquity set the bar high for future female role models.

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Feb 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:47
  • Purchases: 1
Jack Johnson and The Great "Race" Race
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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America’s first African-American heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson challenges auto-racing champ Barney Oldfield... on the racetrack in pre-W...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
The Fight of the Century: Ali - Frazier I
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Two undefeated heavyweight boxing champions capture the imagination of a polarized America on March 8, 1971.

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
Humankind: Rubin Carter's Hurricane
From: Humankind
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Memorialized in a Bob Dylan song and an Academy Award nominated Denzel Washington film, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was a successful prize fighter, wh...

Bought by WEZU, WOUB, NPR Illinois, RadioFreePalmer, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 28
The Last Man on the Mountain
From: James Mills
Series: The Joy Trip Project
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An interview with writer and climber Jennifer Jordan on her book that recounts the events surrounding the first American to die on K2 the second hi...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 04, 2011
  • Length: 15:39
  • Purchases: 1
The Raven's Gift
From: James Mills
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An interview with explorer and author Jon Turk

  • Added: Oct 04, 2011
  • Length: 11:54
Ball Game Days of Swan's Island
From: Meghan Vigeant
Series: Swan's Island Memory Project
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The softball players on Swan's Island were more than a team. They were a family.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 04:41
Wonder Girl: Babe Didrikson Zaharias
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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Don Van Natta Jr. and David Baldacci, this week on Prime Time Radio.

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Jul 12, 2011
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 1
Robert Leo Sheppard (Voice of Yankee Stadium) July 11, 2010
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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For more than fifty years ... an unbroken streak of more than 4500 games, Bob Sheppard was the voice of Yankee Stadium. As Reggie Jackson said, "t...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Who's Yo Sensei!? Pt. 1
From: Karate Cafe
Series: Karate Cafe
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Martial arts lineage, is it important?

  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 03:29:15
Jack Dunn (Discovered Babe Ruth), October 22, 1928
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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His was a life that nearly didn't happen. He fell under a boxcar, his left arm mangled as a child, yet went on to own and manage one of the greates...

  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
Glenn Cunningham, March 10, 1988
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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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
Baseball: Great American Pastime
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
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“Whoever would understand the heart and mind of America had better learn the game of baseball...” As this quotation sums up our attitude toward the...

Bought by KZYX and KREV-LP


  • Added: Apr 06, 2011
  • Length: 58:48
  • Purchases: 2
"We're All Giants": the story of the SF Giants’ 2010 World Series victory
From: KALW
Caption: Civic Center in orange lights for World Series, Credit: Martina Castro
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
Ruffian
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
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When Re:sound host, Gwen Macsai was fourteen, the incredible female race-horse, Ruffian, ran straight into her heart and left a permanent impression.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KZYX, KISU and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2011
  • Length: 09:40
  • Purchases: 10
Jack Norworth, September 1, 1959
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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You may not know his name, but chances are good you could sing, hum or whistle one of his tunes.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
Big Time Baseball in a Small Texas Town
From: Marfa Public Radio
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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
Swashbucklers go public in Bemidji
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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A secret society of swordsmen revealed their talents and charitable aspirations to their home community of Bemidji at the Swashbucklers' Guild Equi...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 09:34
  • Purchases: 1
Jim Thorpe, The World's Greatest Athlete
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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A sports icon of the first half of the 20th century, Jim Thorpe, was a Native American athlete who rose to athletic stardom at the Carlisle Indian ...

Bought by KPIK-LP


  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 26:20
  • Purchases: 1
The Mckenzie River Drift Boat
From: KLCC
Caption: McKenzie River Drift Boats
The piece tells the history of the rapid-running fishing boat that was designed and built along the shores of the Mckenzie River in Oregon.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2009
  • Length: 08:12