EPISODE 83 | Play Ball! Sportspiracies

Guest: Mark Fitzhenry, EFL teacher in Prague, co-founder of the Imperfectionists improv group

Sport seems to almost lend itself to rumor, innuendo and conspiracy thinking with accusations of wrongdoing, curses that plague a team for years and even the occasional crossover of the geopolitical and athletic worlds.

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SECTIONS

  1. 03:12 - BASEBALL - The Curse of the Bambino
  2. 07:01 - The Black Sox Curse, the Curse of the Billy Goat, the Reds throw a key game
  3. 13:36 - The Curse of the Colonel with the Hanshin Tigers in Osaka, Japan
  4. 15:23 - AMERICAN FOOTBALL - The Patriots, Spygate and Deflategate
  5. 24:46 - FOOTBALL (SOCCER) - Barcelona goal is code to Syrian rebels, 1966 World Cup - England & West Germany vs. South America
  6. 34:29 - 1978 World Cup in Argentina
  7. 38:09 - BASKETBALL - The 1985 draft lottery and the frozen envelope
  8. Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info:

  • The Imperfectionists FB page
  • The Imperfectionists Instagram page
  • The 'Curse of the Bambino,' explained
  • The Black Sox Scandal
  • Forget What You Know About the Black Sox Scandal
  • The Billy Goat Curse - The Curse Is Broken!
  • The Curse of Colonel Sanders
  • An End To Japan Team's 'Curse Of Col. Sanders'?
  • The Spygate scandal's impact on the New England Patriots and the NFL
  • What really happened during Deflategate? Five years later, the NFL's 'scandal' aged poorly
  • A timeline of Patriots scandals: Spygate, Deflategate and other controversial incidents under Bill Belichick
  • Football's Most Bizarre: Barcelona Sending Coded Signals to Syrian Rebels?
  • Why not everyone remembers the 1966 World Cup as fondly as England
  • Remembering Argentina 1978: The Dirtiest World Cup Of All Time
  • The dark story of the murderous dictatorship behind Argentina's 1978 World Cup win
  • The Ewing Conspiracy
  • The 1985 Patrick Ewing, Knicks, David Stern ‘Frozen Envelope’ Conspiracy… Proved!
  • Knicks have a dubious NBA Lottery history
  • What If the Knicks Never Won the 1985 Draft Lottery?
  • Rigging the NBA Draft

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