Truly the GOATs: Recent Episodes
Os Davis and Inclusive Medium
Truly the GOATs is a sports history podcast with a sense of perspective. Host Os Davis together with guests tell the stories of once-in-a-century athletes, their games and the worlds in which they lived.
When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.
HIGHLIGHTED SHOW: THIS DAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
Relive the greatest moments in sports every day of the year. From the triumphs to the tragedies, the first to do it to the last time it happened, the unbelievable to the strange, This Day in Sports History is a 365-day journey remembering those significant events that made a lasting impact.
HOST: STEVE WHITE
Steve White has spent most of his life behind a microphone. As a kid, he realized the power of the spoken word, hanging out with his dad while the pair talked to people around the world via ham radio.
Later, Steve put that penchant for communication into practice and ventured into radio and TV. He worked for a few television stations in North Carolina doing sports reporting and anchoring before transitioning to voiceover in 2015. He’s voiced more than 80 audiobooks in a variety of genres.
He’s never been much for awards, probably due to the fact he’s never won any but he loves the challenge of diving into new projects. His ‘This Day in Sports History’ evolved from a lifetime of watching, listening to, and going to ballgames, reading books, magazines, and newspaper articles about his favorite teams and sports heroes. It’s not only a labor of love but a voyage of discovery, finding those forgotten tidbits or fascinating things he never knew.
Learn more about the show on the Sports History Network.
NO NONSENSE, OLD SCHOOL WEIGHTLIFTING HISTORY is presented by the Sports History Network, the headquarters for sports yesteryear.
ABOUT SHOW:
My name is Mark Morthier, and I host yesterday’s Sports on the Sports History Network. As many of you know from reading my articles and listening to my podcasts, I am not only an avid weightlifter but a fan of the sport as well. I’m excited to share my newest adventure, a show dedicated to promoting weightlifting, while also looking back at some weightlifting history. I’ll share some of my own stories and interview weightlifters from both past and present.
I competed in Olympic Weightlifting from 1981 to 1989 and powerlifting from 2011 to 2019. Although I wasn’t what one might call “a naturally gifted lifter,” I managed to clean & jerk 140 kilos/308 lbs at 179 lbs body weight. In my later years, I achieved a 600-pound deadlift and a 431-pound front squat in my mid-fifties. Although I was more successful in powerlifting, setting New Jersey and New York State records in Masters Competitions, I’ll always consider myself an Olympic Weightlifter. I’ve also written a book on weight training titled No Nonsense, Old School Weight Training, which is available on Amazon.
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I hope that you will enjoy the show, and please leave a comment or offer a suggestion. And if you’re an Olympic lifter, past or present, let me know if you’d like to set up an interview, and I’ll do my best to have you on the show. Stay strong and God bless!
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HIGHLIGHTED SHOW
I am Chad Cain your host of One Guy with a Mic Presents: History of Dingers and Dunks. I am going to be bringing the history of baseball and basketball to life. For every one of you that doesn’t know anything about the history of baseball or basketball, this is your place to learn.
If you know some knowledge about baseball and basketball this is your place to know more. If you have more knowledge than others around you this is your safe space. I can always learn from each and every one of you as well.
Learn more about the show on the Sports History Network.
Total Sports Recall is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.
EPISODE SUMMARY
“Covering Sports from a Different Angle”
HARV ARONSON (HOST) BACKGROUND
Harv Aronson was born and raised in Pittsburgh but now lives in Florida with his beautiful wife Melissa. Harv currently writes for Abstract Sports, the Sports History Network, and the magazine Gridiron Greats.
Harv wrote the published book "Pro Football's Most Passionate Fans" (Amazon link) and as a professional writer has had articles published in an array of sports publications. Harv loves all sports but football, baseball, and MMA are at the top of his interest. His passion is for sports history.
You can email Harv at totalsportsrecall@gmail.com or reach him via Twitter @TSRHarv59.
Listen to the TOTAL SPORTS RECALL podcast on your app of choice.
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When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.
HIGHLIGHTED SHOW - FOOTBALL LEARNING ACADEMY
Each week, the official Football Learning Academy podcast will take you deep into the history of this great game.
Through interviews with players, coaches, or administrators in the NFL, as well as interviews with Pro Football Hall of Fame selectors, authors, and historians, you will learn about how the game evolved and important moments that shaped the sport into what it is today.
You will also get first-hand accounts from the people who have made history in pro football.
Host: Ken CrippenKen Crippen was in a leadership position within the Professional Football Researchers Association for 15 years and is now the founder and lead instructor at the Football Learning Academy.
He has been researching and writing about pro football history for over 30 years and has been a sought-after interview for publications like the Wall Street Journal and Rolling Stone magazine, and a sought-after guest on podcasts and radio shows, namely The History Channel, ESPN Radio, and Fox Sports Radio.
He has written two books, been the managing editor of two other books, and a contributor to yet two more books. He has also written hundreds of articles on pro football history, has won the Dick Connor Writing Award for Feature Writing (which is now called the Lesley Visser Enterprise News/Features Award) from the Pro Football Writers of America, as well as the Professional Football Researchers Association’s Ralph Hay Award for lifetime achievement in pro football research.
Learn more about the show on the Sports History Network.
When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.
HIGHLIGHTED SHOW
Welcome to Fantasy Football Origin Stories, a weekly show here on the Sports History Network, where each episode is a journey back in time to explore some unique experiences from some of the coolest and most influential people in the fantasy football industry.
My name is Arnie Chapman, also known as The Football History Dude, and fantasy football is one of my greatest passions. I want you to come along with me each Wednesday to explore the yesteryear of this game of skill we all love so much. Yeah, that’s right, it’s a game of skill, all you wannabe champs out there.
This is an ode to the spreadsheet warriors, the game tape gurus, team name savants, and everyone in between. I’ll take you behind the scenes to explore the origin stories of your favorite fantasy football analysts, but I won’t stop there, because this show will include all roles in the industry.
You’ll get to know the game behind the game that’s behind the game like you’ve never heard it before, and I can't wait for you to ride shotgun with me back in time, to learn about some of these armchair gridiron knowledge nuggets.
And remember, you got to tell all of your fantasy football-loving friends that this show is available to listen to for free in any app that supports podcasts. It’ll be the one fantasy football show you’re ok with sharing. Because even though there might be a fantasy tip here and there, this show is all about getting to know the people in the industry, not a weekly list-building show.
This show is also a proud member of the Sports History Network, the Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. So grab your friends, and hop aboard my DeLorean, because we’re about to get this baby up to 88mph.
Learn more about the show on the Sports History Network.
Unpopular Essays on Sports History is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.
HIGHLIGHTED SHOW
Unpopular Essays on Sports History
Supposition. We live in a golden age of sports.
I mean this not in the sense of athletes becoming stronger, speedier, savvier and smarter than ever before, nor in terms of the amazing access we have to live streams and stat feeds, instant insights and opinionating, the quirks and personalities of our celebrity heroes.
This, rather, is a golden age of sports in humanistic, historical terms. The truth is that the great majority of people today, willingly or not, have a direct and regular connection to organized and/or participatory sports in their everyday lives than anyone born before the 20th century.
In the United States, not a person alive can recall a time when sports was not a staple of the daily newspaper. For four generations, the notion that nightly news programs should devote up to one-quarter of their airtime to sports is taken for granted. Why do we take this for granted?
At Unpopular Essays on Sports History, everything is questionable.
Supposition: Those who play the games have ascended in the public eye to heights unimaginable in times past. Playing top-level sports can get today’s athlete into business, TV production, national politics – and just how did this happen?
At Unpopular Essays on Sports History, everything is up for examination.
Supposition: Sports – wherever they are played but particularly in these places where they are invented – effect culture, even pace it. One could argue that sports are more important than ever.
Corollary: Sports history, too, should be more important, yet is probably more disrespected and disavowed than ever.
At Unpopular Essays on Sports History, we love the past while marveling at the present, and wondering about the future.
The “unpopular essays” of the title is a nod to Bertrand Russell, the logical positivist and my favorite philosopher. (Plus it’s a great excuse to get my BA degree to finally pay off.) And as we’re taught in philosophy, It’s not about answering the questions; it’s about making them clearer.
Three days a week, Unpopular Essays on Sports History will examine a moment in sports history, probe some modern ethos of our games, or speculate on what the past can teach the future – and all in 500 words or less – though probably occasionally throwing in the occasional longer interview. We’ll tour the spaces and times of the whole wide world of sports history about as quickly as Secretariat ran the Belmont Stakes.
Supposition: Sports history is fascinating, illuminating and fun. Join me, Os Davis, in making the questions of sports history clearer right here an Unpopular Essays on Sports History, an SHN production.
Os Davis, host of Unpopular Essays on Sports History
Os never played the games but has enjoyed a nearly 30-year career in sports writing, reporting, blogging, and podcasting. He has hosted/co-hosted and produced/co-produced podcasts on NFL football, CFL football, European basketball and sports movie review. For the Sports History Network, he currently writes and co-produces the historical fiction audiodrama Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer and will return soon with more episodes of Truly the GOATs (promise).
Learn more about the show on the Sports History Network.
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HIGHLIGHTED SHOW
Please join me in welcoming Asher and Tyler to the Sports History Network. They bring to us their podcast, "Talkin' Two Tone: A Titans Podcast," where they talk all things revolving around their beloved Tennessee Titans. You'll of course get some up to date stuff with the current season, but they also take you back in time to reminisce some of the greatest moments in Titan history.
Learn more about the show on the Sports History Network.
The Official PFRA Podcast is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.
HIGHLIGHTED SHOW
The Professional Football Researchers Association (PFRA) was founded in Canton, Ohio in 1979 to foster the study of professional football as a significant and athletic institution; to establish an accurate historical account of professional football; and to disseminate research information. In each episode of The Official PFRA Podcast, co-hosts George Bozeka and Jon Bozeka will discuss the storied history of pro football, including interviews with prominent pro football historians and authors, and former players.
Born in Canton within walking distance of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, George is the current President of the PFRA. He has had a number of articles published in the PFRA’s official magazine The Coffin Corner and he is the lead editor for the PFRA’s Great Teams in Pro Football History book series.
Jon has been a radio broadcaster in the Canton area since 2014. He has been involved in every facet of radio sports coverage including play-by-play and color commentary for local high school and college football broadcasts. He is also a stringer for CBS Radio’s Eye on Sports show covering all Cleveland Browns Sunday home games.
Learn more about the show on the Sports History Network.
Thanksgiving Day, 1924. The recently-established tradition of the University of Pittsburgh Panthers football team hosting the Pennsylvania State Nittany Lions on the afternoon of the national autumnal holiday continues.
Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is sent to cover the Pitt-Penn State “Keystone Classic” of 1924; in so doing, he discovers a throughline of the football-on-Thanksgiving tradition going back to 1621 (okay, actually, that’s going back to 1869) and reminds us that high-level football games on Thanksgiving are nearly as old as the official Thanksgiving holiday itself.
Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is an audio drama podcast from Number 80 Productions and theSports History Network.
Thanksgiving and Football (or maybe Vice Versa) script & story by Os Davis.
Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer stars Doug Fye, Ilona Fye, and Eric Bodwell. Thanksgiving and Football (or maybe Vice Versa) co-stars, in order of appearance, Caedmon Holland, Forrest Hartl and Wayne Brett.
Additional direction by Eric Bodwell. Sound recording and primary editing by Don McIver.
The theme song of Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is “the Dayton Triangles Rag” and was arranged and performed byBruce Smith.
Other tracks in this episode include
• “Jazz Club” by Kriss (available through fair-use agreement via FreeMusicArchive.org);
• “Litany of the Street” by Silverman Sound Studios;
• “Bimini Bay” (1921) by the Benson Orchestra of Chicago; and
• “Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer (Outro)” by David Liso of Dynamo Stairs.
Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is produced by Os Davis and Darin Hayes. Series concept by Darrin Hayes.
Stay tuned for more episodes of Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer – coming soon!
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Thanksgiving Day Intro from SHN for OMSW episode
When Football Is Football is part of the https://sportshistorynetwork.com/ (Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear). HIGHLIGHTED SHOW - MINNESOTA SPORTS HISTORY SHOW Each episode explores the rich history of Minnesota sports and considers its impact on the current cultural zeitgeist. The Minnesota Sports History Show strives to entertain as well as inform, tickle the sense of nostalgia, and share the joy and hardships of triumph and heartbreak. Episodes will range from musings about the Dome Dog era to interviews with athletes and sports personalities. https://minnesotasportshistory.sportshistorynetwork.com/ (Learn more about the show on the Sports History Network.)
The Playbook is part of the https://sportshistorynetwork.com/ (Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear). NETWORK SPONSORS https://sportshistorynetwork.com/row1/ (Row One) - the vintage shop for sports history fans! HIGHLIGHTED SHOW Hello everyone, my name is Zach, and this is my co-host Jarod, and we are The Playbook Podcast. Where we are here to talk about the Past, Present, and Future of the Gridiron, The Hardwood, and even all the way out to the Octagon. We are just two fans who not only love our sports teams but the play of the game and how it evolved from past to now. So get ready to open them playbooks with us and we hope you enjoy it. https://theplaybookpodcast.sportshistorynetwork.com/ (Learn more about the show on the Sports History Network.)
The Playbook is part of the https://sportshistorynetwork.com/ (Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear). NETWORK SPONSORS https://sportshistorynetwork.com/row1/ (Row One) - the vintage shop for sports history fans! HIGHLIGHTED SHOW Hello everyone, my name is Zach, and this is my co-host Jarod, and we are The Playbook Podcast. Where we are here to talk about the Past, Present, and Future of the Gridiron, The Hardwood, and even all the way out to the Octagon. We are just two fans who not only love our sports teams but the play of the game and how it evolved from past to now. So get ready to open them playbooks with us and we hope you enjoy it. https://theplaybookpodcast.sportshistorynetwork.com/ (Learn more about the show on the Sports History Network.)
Marty's Illegal Stick is part of the https://sportshistorynetwork.com/ (Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear). NETWORK SPONSORS https://sportshistorynetwork.com/row1/ (Row One) - the vintage shop for sports history fans! HIGHLIGHTED SHOW Marty’s Illegal Stick a Hockey History Podcast is exactly that – a podcast dedicated to hockey history. Each week, host Scott Kinville and co-host Dave “The Save” Warner hop on the Zamboni Time Machine and go back in time to look at the characters, teams, and events that make up hockey’s glorious history! Marty’s Illegal Stick a Hockey History Podcast is recorded in upstate New York about thirty miles from the home of the legendary Clinton Comets as well as the Utica Memorial Auditorium. Parts of the classic hockey movie “Slap Shot” were recorded at he Aud – including the infamous “I’m listening to the f-ing song” scene during the national anthem! Marty’s Illegal Stick a Hockey History Podcast is of course named after one of the most notorious moments in Stanley Cup history. Although Marty McSorley is remembered for this lapse in judgement when it comes to stick selection, in fact the LA Kings would not have made it to the final were it not for McSorley’s stellar play that season. Although the show is named for an incident that happened in the NHL, Marty’s Illegal Stick a Hockey History Podcast covers hockey history from any league and any time period. You can subscribe to Marty’s Illegal Stick a Hockey History Podcast on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. You find the show on social media on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and at https://martysillegalstick.com/ (https://martysillegalstick.com). If you like hockey history, you’re going to love this show! https://sportshistorynetwork.com/podcasts/martys-illegal-stick/ (Learn more about the show on the Sports History Network.)
Marty's Illegal Stick is part of the https://sportshistorynetwork.com/ (Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear). NETWORK SPONSORS https://sportshistorynetwork.com/row1/ (Row One) - the vintage shop for sports history fans! HIGHLIGHTED SHOW Marty’s Illegal Stick a Hockey History Podcast is exactly that – a podcast dedicated to hockey history. Each week, host Scott Kinville and co-host Dave “The Save” Warner hop on the Zamboni Time Machine and go back in time to look at the characters, teams, and events that make up hockey’s glorious history! Marty’s Illegal Stick a Hockey History Podcast is recorded in upstate New York about thirty miles from the home of the legendary Clinton Comets as well as the Utica Memorial Auditorium. Parts of the classic hockey movie “Slap Shot” were recorded at he Aud – including the infamous “I’m listening to the f-ing song” scene during the national anthem! Marty’s Illegal Stick a Hockey History Podcast is of course named after one of the most notorious moments in Stanley Cup history. Although Marty McSorley is remembered for this lapse in judgement when it comes to stick selection, in fact the LA Kings would not have made it to the final were it not for McSorley’s stellar play that season. Although the show is named for an incident that happened in the NHL, Marty’s Illegal Stick a Hockey History Podcast covers hockey history from any league and any time period. You can subscribe to Marty’s Illegal Stick a Hockey History Podcast on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. You find the show on social media on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and at https://martysillegalstick.com/ (https://martysillegalstick.com). If you like hockey history, you’re going to love this show! https://sportshistorynetwork.com/podcasts/martys-illegal-stick/ (Learn more about the show on the Sports History Network.)
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Sports Film Pitch is part of the https://sportshistorynetwork.com/ (Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear). NETWORK SPONSORS https://sportshistorynetwork.com/row1/ (Row One) - the vintage shop for sports history fans! HIGHLIGHTED SHOW Hollywood’s next sports movie. We tell true sports stories as if they are getting made into movies. We cast the leads and give you the facts and inspiring moments that actually happened. Be ahead of Hollywood and know the story before they do. https://sportsfilmpitch.sportshistorynetwork.com/ (Learn more about the show on the Sports History Network.)
When Football Is Football is part of the https://sportshistorynetwork.com/ (Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear). NETWORK SPONSORS https://sportshistorynetwork.com/row1/ (Row One) - the vintage shop for sports history fans! HIGHLIGHTED SHOW I am Chad Cain your host of One Guy with a Mic Presents: History of Dingers and Dunks. I am going to be bringing the history of baseball and basketball to life. For every one of you that doesn’t know anything about the history of baseball or basketball, this is your place to learn. If you know some knowledge about baseball and basketball this is your place to know more. If you have more knowledge than others around you this is your safe space. I can always learn from each and every one of you as well. https://sportshistorynetwork.com/podcasts/one-guy-with-a-mic-dingers-and-dunks/ (Learn more about the show on the Sports History Network.)
Tim Coffeen Talks Indy car and Racing History is part of the https://sportshistorynetwork.com/ (Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear). NETWORK SPONSORS https://sportshistorynetwork.com/row1/ (Row One) - the vintage shop for sports history fans! HIGHLIGHTED SHOW Tim Coffeen, the host of “Tim Coffeen Talks Indy car and Racing History,” will share stories and memories from his long career with top Indy car teams. As a winner of seven championship rings, Tim not only understands the history of open-wheel racing, he has lived it! https://sportshistorynetwork.com/podcasts/tim-coffeen-talks-indy-car-and-racing-history/ (Learn more about the show on the Sports History Network.)
One hundred years or so ago, the sporting pages of the local newspaper were simultaneously novel and essential for any sports fan in America. In this teaser trailer for the fiction podcast Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer, meet Harvey and Mabel Taylor of Pittsburgh, loyal subscribers to the Pittsburgh Guardian, and at least one a big fan of a certain roving sports reporter of the 1920s... This episode stars Richard Kress and Shari Gould. Story/script by Os Davis and Darin Hayes. Series concept by Darin Hayes. Theme song by Bruce Smith. Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is an audiodrama by Number 80 Productions and Sports History Network. Look for full-length episodes of Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer in early 2022. Mentioned in this episode: null null
Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is part of the https://sportshistorynetwork.com/ (Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear). NETWORK SPONSOR https://sportshistorynetwork.com/row1/ (Row One) - the vintage shop for sports history fans! Orville Mulligan: Sports WriterA Different way to hear sports history. I am Orville Mulligan and yes the career journey I took was as a Sports Writer. My story will fill the listener’s ears with my journey of perhaps the greatest time in sports history, the roaring 1920s. I was fortunate enough to rub elbows with the greatest legends of sport in the era and attend some of the most iconic events in sports history. The tales are complete with the music, people, places and slang used at the time to place the listener into the feelings that we experienced as I started my epic career. Join us in the adventure of a lifetime, Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer, found here on Sports History Network, on https://orvillemulligan.com/ (OrvilleMulligan.com) or your favorite podcast provider. Head to the https://orvillemulligan.com/ (ORVILLE MULLIGAN OFFICIAL WEBSITE) for more information. Mentioned in this episode: null null
Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is part of the https://sportshistorynetwork.com/ (Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear). NETWORK SPONSOR https://sportshistorynetwork.com/row1/ (Row One) - the vintage shop for sports history fans! Orville Mulligan: Sports WriterA Different way to hear sports history. I am Orville Mulligan and yes the career journey I took was as a Sports Writer. My story will fill the listener’s ears with my journey of perhaps the greatest time in sports history, the roaring 1920s. I was fortunate enough to rub elbows with the greatest legends of sport in the era and attend some of the most iconic events in sports history. The tales are complete with the music, people, places and slang used at the time to place the listener into the feelings that we experienced as I started my epic career. Join us in the adventure of a lifetime, Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer, found here on Sports History Network, on https://orvillemulligan.com/ (OrvilleMulligan.com) or your favorite podcast provider. Head to the https://orvillemulligan.com/ (ORVILLE MULLIGAN OFFICIAL WEBSITE) for more information. Mentioned in this episode: null null
Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is part of the https://sportshistorynetwork.com/ (Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear). NETWORK SPONSOR https://sportshistorynetwork.com/row1/ (Row One) - the vintage shop for sports history fans! Orville Mulligan: Sports WriterA Different way to hear sports history. I am Orville Mulligan and yes the career journey I took was as a Sports Writer. My story will fill the listener’s ears with my journey of perhaps the greatest time in sports history, the roaring 1920s. I was fortunate enough to rub elbows with the greatest legends of sport in the era and attend some of the most iconic events in sports history. The tales are complete with the music, people, places and slang used at the time to place the listener into the feelings that we experienced as I started my epic career. Join us in the adventure of a lifetime, Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer, found here on Sports History Network, on https://orvillemulligan.com/ (OrvilleMulligan.com) or your favorite podcast provider. Head to the https://orvillemulligan.com/ (ORVILLE MULLIGAN OFFICIAL WEBSITE) for more information. Mentioned in this episode: null null
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Beginning next week is the world’s second-largest international sports competition: the Paralympic Games, an event with a surprisingly long and interesting history beginning with roots as physical rehabilitation/therapy for World War II veterans. Guesting on this extra edition of Truly The GOATs is now three-time(!) guest Dr. Dennis Frost. Dennis has previously joined TTG for https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/04f8b6e6-5493-4772-8fab-34dc1a724aaa/truly-the-goats-episode-6-raiden-vs-hakuho-vs-sumo-history-vs.mp3 (episode #6 on sumo wrestling) and https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/c656f258-5f1a-4bc5-8652-600a9fcdff4c/truly-the-goats-episode-14-kinue-hitomi.mp3 (episode #14 on 1920s track-and-field superstar Kinue Hitomi), but his latest book entitled More Than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan shows his academic specialty. Dennis talks with host Os Davis about Paralympics history, the influence of the Games on Japanese culture, the local populace’s reaction to hosting another mega sports event after a pretty locally controversial Tokyo Olympics, a couple of notable (or notorious) Paralympians of the past, China’s recent dominance and, since this is Truly The GOATs, a handful of GOAT Paralympians. Truly The GOATs: Down with Spirit In Motion...
During Olympics season 2021, Truly The GOATs takes a look at the Greatest Of All-Time who starred in the modern Games. In this series-within-the-series, TTG presents the stories of superstars from the 1928, 1972/1976 and 1992 Olympics. This is the third, a review of three movies about men’s basketball at the ’92 Games. Between the 1988 and ’92 Olympic Games, a massive geopolitical shift seismically altered international sport and nowhere were the changes more evident than in Olympic men’s basketball. Most international fans inevitably associate the 1992 Games with The Dream Team, that 12-man squad assembled from the superstars of the NBA’s own golden age. But at least two other teams were loaded with the pride of their countries – and they were nearly as awesome to watch as was the GOAT Team USA. We’re talking about Team Croatia and Team Lithuania here, two sides that didn’t exist a year before the Barcelona game and both with storied histories of players starring for other countries’ national teams. On this episode of Truly The GOATs, we’ve got reviews of documentaries focusing on each team: • The Dream Team (2012), NBA TV’s 20th-anniversary production slick with highlights and (some) inside dope on what Marv Albert called “the greatest team ever assembled”; • Once Brothers (2010), an episode of ESPN’s first series of “30 for 30” documentaries on the dissolution of the nation of Yugoslavia and that of the splintering a top national team; and • The Other Dream Team (2012), an independent film chronicling both the long history of basketball (and basketball fanaticism) in the story as well as breakthrough stars Sarunas Marciulionis and Arvydas Sabonis joining the NBA and the long strange trip Team Lithuania had to make before even getting to Barcelona. Truly The GOATs: Still loving the Olympic Games – is that so wrong? Music used in this episode includes “Sport Brake” and “Dream Team” by Sergio Quadrado, used with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License (Attribution Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License) via FreeMusicArchive.org; Mozart’s “Requiem in D Minor” piano arrangement by Ferenc Liszt, in the public domain via https://musopen.org/ (Musopen.org); and “Dark Star Rebuild” by Kaleidoscope Jukebox, used by permission of https://kaleidoscopejukebox.bandcamp.com/ (Kaleidoscope Jukebox).
During this Olympics season, Truly The GOATs takes a look at the Greatest Of All-Time who starred in the modern Games. In this series-within-the-series, TTG presents the stories of superstars from the 1928, 1972/1976 and 1992 Olympics. This is the second, the story of Vasily Alekseyev of the USSR. Of all the phenomena of the 20th-century history, few are as untranslatable as the Cold War mentality, a pervasive social paranoia that stunted cultures worldwide through self-imposed isolationism. One exception to the cultural blackout was sports and the metaphorical battlefields of the Olympic Games. And all of the figures that now non-existent countries of the so-called Communist bloc such as the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, none was quite so impressive or attention-grabbing as the heavyweight weightlifter Vasily Alekseyev, perhaps the only true international sports celebrity the USSR ever produced. To talk the legend of Alekseyev, as well as Cold War era sports and the future of weightlifting is the Sports History Network’s own Mark Morthier of the Yesterday’s Sports podcast. As a former competitive lfter who’s written books on weight training and 1970s America, what better guest could we get? Truly The GOATs: Still loving the Olympic Games – is that so wrong? Music used in this episode includes “Cold War ” by Kai Engel and “Impudence” by Vadim Lankov; both are used with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License (Attribution Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License) via FreeMusicArchive.org.
During this Olympics season, Truly The GOATs takes a look at the Greatest Of All-Time who starred in the modern Games. In this series-within-the-series, TTG presents the stories of superstars from the 1928, 1972/1976 and 1992 Olympics. This is the first, the story of Kinue Hitomi of Japan. The 1920s was quite the boom period for sports in general and by the 1928 Olympic Games this general worldwide appreciation for organized sport had extended into women’s games, particularly in countries whose citizens were just beginning to come to grips with women voting. Onto the international stage at those games, the first to allow women’s track-and-field events, came Kinue Hitomi of Japan. Hitomi was literally a one-woman team for Japan at those games and her fame snowballed in international sports media for the years to come. An early golden age of women’s athletics was blooming rapidly, and Kinue Hitomi was one of the world’s biggest stars. Everything was set for instant history at Los Angeles Olympics until fate intervened… Truly The GOATs: Still loving the Olympic Games – is that so wrong? Music used in this episode includes “Cuba Moon” by Carl Fenton’s Orchestra, “Crazy Blues” by the Mamie Smith, and “Streetlife” by Lobo Loco. The first two are in the public domain, the last used with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License (Attribution Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License) via FreeMusicArchive.org.
For episode 13 of Truly The GOATs, we we privileged to have on the show Michael Foley, who as a journalist, author and podcaster is a real triple threat in the sports history world. Michael is sports editor/writer for the Sunday Times Irish edition and a member of the Gaellic Athletic Association's History & Commemorations committee, most recently acting as a driving force behind the GAA’s Bloody Sunday commemorations. As an author, Michael has written https://obrien.ie/kings-of-september (Kings of September), winner of the 2007 Irish Sportsbook of the year prize and https://obrien.ie/the-bloodied-field (The Bloodied Field), based on the events of Bloody Sunday, 1920. He's also ghostwritten the autobiography of Gaellic Football manager Mickey Harte. In short, Michael was the perfect guest to speak with Truly The GOATs about Irish sport. Naturally, not everything in TTG's interview with Michael made it into episode 13 and so here runs the full unexpurgated conversation on Ireland's sports past, present and future.
Episodes 12 and 13 of the Truly The GOATs podcast included excerpts from an interview with Emmet Ryan, sportswriter, journalist and old compadre from TTG host Os Davis’s days of European basketball reportage. Emmet is the author of the book https://www.amazon.com/like-loud-basketball-through-Europe/dp/1796221341 (I Like It Loud: A basketball tour through Europe), but he was invited on the show to talk Ireland’s national sports of hurling and Gaellic football. Emmet and Os do talk hurling and Gaellic football, certainly, and some basketball – and also American football, Canadian football, rugby, cricket, boxing… Enjoy this ride down the stream of sports consciousness, Os’s unexpurgated interview with Emmet.
Truly The GOATs’ current infatuation with Irish sport continues. The previous TTG episode on hurling summarized some 3,100 years or so of the history of hurling, ancient game of the Celts, and concomitantly the whole of Irish history. That story took us up to late 19th century, that great period of codification of modern sports. So with the ruling elite importing and pushing organized soccer, rugby, cricket and the like, what’s a repressed country seeking to foster cultural revival to do? Make their own sport, of course! The result was Gaellic football, a unique member of the football family tree, and the creation of the “Dual Player,” a national hero who starred in Ireland’s emblematic sports of hurling and Gaellic football. Joining Truly The GOATs to talk about some great dual players of the early-, mid- and late 20th century is Sunday Times journalist and Gaelic Athletic Association committee member Michael Foley; rejoining the show is sportswriter/journalist Emmet Ryan, who piqued Os’s interest in hurling so much as to necessitate an additional episode on the Gaellic sports. We’ve got the stories of national heroes who just happened to be dual-sport superstars, discussion about the Gaellic equivalent of Bo Jackson and the sad reality that such GOAT-level dual athletes are likely an extinct species in the 21st century… Truly The GOATs: Kiss me – I’m (an) Irish (sports fan)! Music used in this episode includes “The Land of Luck” by Spectacular Sound Productions; “Gravel Walk” by the Rosen Sisters; “Roads that Burned our Boots” by Jahzzar; and “This Ain’t House” by Simon Mathewson. Used with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License (Attribution Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License )via https://www.FreeMusicArchive.org (FreeMusicArchive.org).
On this day, June 26, in 1911, Mildred Elle “Babe” Didrikson was born. Truly The GOATs shows our appreciation for this legend in international sports with a remastered re-release of the TTG podcast episode 4, “The Other Babe.” You’d think that earning three-American basketball team nods plus one national team championship, dominating the U.S. Olympic trials as a one-person team and winning more tournaments than any golfer except Tiger Woods would earn an American athlete a spot in the cultural consciousness forever – or at least 75 years. On this episode of Truly the GOATs, we’ve got the story of Mildred “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias, quite possibly the greatest female athlete ever. Host Os Davis is joined by W.L. Pate, president of the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum and its concomitant foundation. Further helping compose the story are excerpts from Babe’s autobiography read by Raechel Wong and contemporaneous reportage by the likes of Grantland Rice. Truly the GOATs: Recalling the legends, recounting the history. Babe Didrikson Zaharias’s autobiography This Life I Have Led is in the public domain and may be downloaded for free at http://www.trulythegoats.com/babebio/ (TrulyTheGOATs.com/babebio). Among the music used in this episode are the songs “Before I Ever Loved You by Cooper-Moore” and “Good Day” by Serge Quadrado; these are used with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License (Attribution Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License) via FreeMusicArchive.org.
On June 26, 1911, Mildred Ella Didrikson, later to become known worldwide as Babe Didrikson and after that as Babe Didrikson Zaharias, was born. To mark the occasion, Truly The GOATs releases this bonus episode, a collection of excerpts from http://trulythegoats.com/babebio/ (Babe’s autobiography This Life I Have Led), as read by Raechel Wong; these excerpts helped comprise https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/98b4e61d-4876-438f-a903-077abe1ed316/truly-the-goats-episode-4-babe-didrikson-zaharias.mp3 (episode 4 of Truly the GOATs, entitled The Other Babe). The excerpts run chronologically from her early days in AAU basketball in the late 1920s to her domination at the 1932 Olympic trials and Los Angeles Olympics to a golf career which is certainly still among the greatest ever and features a comeback after battling cancer. It is the story of a truly great 20th century athlete. Happy birthday, Babe…
Truly The GOATs episode 12 was devoted to the Irish sport of hurling and its interconnectedness with Ireland, but how can one summarize 3,000 years of myth & history in any decent amount of time? In this extra edition of Truly The GOATs, we talk origins, specifically those of Canada’s national pastime: Did the Irish actually invent hockey’s evolutionary predecessor? And what does it mean if they did? Aron Harris of the Sports History Network’s Football Odyssey podcast joins Os Davis to review the 2017 documentary https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/play/?pid=5687568899001&title=Poc+na+nGael&series=Poc+na+nGael&genre=Faisneis&pcode=493274 (Poc Na nGael (“Puck of the Irish”)), a movie that explores the deep connections between hurling and hockey as well as the Irish influence on Canada’s national sport. Truly The GOATs: The newest fan of hurling… To stream Poc Na nGael (Puck of the Irish) online, visit the TG4 official website at tg4.ie or https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/play/?pid=5687568899001&title=Poc+na+nGael&series=Poc+na+nGael&genre=Faisneis&pcode=493274 (click here). Music used in this episode includes “Went to Fight and a Hockey Game Broke Out” by Jared C. Balogh. Used with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License (Attribution Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License) via FreeMusicArchive.org.
What started as a “simple” look by an unsuspecting American at the GOAT two- (or more) sport stars of Ireland – particularly those of hurling and Gaellic football – instead ballooned into researching over 3,000 years of Irish myth and history on the game of hurling alone. Back when folks in Mesoamerica were just getting interesting ideas about putting rubber balls into vertical hoops, the Celts were already playing an intricate sport involving equipment and agreed-upon rules (albeit incredible variable rules). Truly The GOATs’ conclusion: To recount the history of hurling is to tell the history of Ireland – and really, the most important chapters in European sports history as well. Ready for a long, strange trip in sports history? Join host Os Davis and special guest journalist/sportswriter Emmet Ryan on Truly The GOATs’ quest to find a GOAT amid three millennia plus of hurling in Ireland. And here’s a non-spoiling spoiler: Irish sportswriting of the 18th century is freakin' awesome. Truly The GOATs: The newest fan of hurling… Music used in this episode includes “Funeral Battle” and “I've Not Fear” by Damiano Baldoni; “Beyond the Warriors” by Guifrog; “Guardians”, “Streets of Sant'ivo”, and “Land of a Folk Divided” by Mid-Air Machine; and Orbiting the Hurley, a DJ Dream Joker remix of “Orbiting the Earth” by Ultracat. Used with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License (Attribution Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License) via FreeMusicArchive.org.
Episode 11 of the Truly The GOATs podcast included excerpts from an interview with author Denis Crawford. Denis has to date written three books based in part at least on professional football in Tampa, Florida. His third and most recently released is the autobiographical work https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-life-and-teams-of-johnny-f-bassett/?#TrulyTheGAOTsPodcast (The Life and Teams of Johnny F. Bassett), the subject of which was also the focus of TTG #11. In this extra edition of Truly The GOATs, a mostly unexpurgated version of the TTG interview with Denis in which he discusses in-depth Johnny Bassett’s “successful failures,” his rogue leagues, his tug-of-war with one Donald J. Trump over the ultimate fate of the Untied States Football League and the legacy of a rogue franchise all-timer… The following is my entire unexpurgated interview with Denis -- okay, not completely unexpurgated; i took out a couple of "ums" and added a couple of transitional scratches, but very close. Enjoy!
With the evolution of sports, sports broadcasting and the ever-crazier sums of money associated with sports in the 20th century, entertainment became synonymous with the games themselves. And few entrepreneurial sorts were more imaginative in delivering entertaining sports product that Johnny F. Bassett. On this episode of Truly The GOATs, we discuss the P.T. Barnum of 20th-century sports with Denis Crawford, author of the biography https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-life-and-teams-of-johnny-f-bassett/?#TrulyTheGOATs (The Life and Teams of Johnny F. Bassett). Can someone who never played a single minute of professional sports be considered one of the most influential forces in recent sports history? Denis makes the case for a maverick who took on Canadian politicians, America’s biggest leagues and, inevitably, Donald J. Trump… Truly The GOATs: We love a good rogue sports league… Excerpts from The Life and Teams of Johnny F. Bassett were used by permission of McFarland Publishing Music used in this episode includes “Rare Bird” by Tab and Anitek; “Acquisition” and “Outlandish” by Anitek; and “Spy” by Eddy. Used with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License (Attribution Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License) via FreeMusicArchive.org.
Sports figures all over the world for at least a century have been called the Greatest Of All-Time, but there was only one to proclaim himself such with I AM THE GREATEST. That, of course, was Muhammad Ali. On this episode of Truly The GOATs, host Os Davis has on guests Simon Walters of the You Don’t Play Boxing podcast and Dan Neumann of our Sports History Network partner podcast Hello Old Sports to discuss Ali’s life and times, his career and legacy – and the oddity of the Super Fight, a cinematic battle of GOATs between him and undefeated former heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano. Truly The GOATs: We talk the greatest!
What’s the greatest baseball song of all-time? The answer is obvious, yet has somehow eluded mention on nearly every “Top Baseball-themed Songs” list ever composed. As far as Truly The GOATs is concerned, the answer is an objective truth – and you may just agree. Joining us for this episode of Truly The GOATs is George Boziwick, retired chief of the music division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. As a composer, music expert, researcher and baseball fan, George is imminently qualified to settle the dispute – and he’s got the surprising history behind one of America’s most beloved songs of any type. Truly The GOATs: The sports history podcast with a bit of a thing for Katie Casey…
Recently, the sad realization that Truly The GOATs would have to change our theme song set in. (Okay, so we didn't have to strictly speaking, but there was this thing with C.C. Sabathia and Bill Simmons's Ringer Network; it's explained in the episode.) Luckily a talented old friend came to the rescue and so we present the new Truly The GOATs theme song: Fun on Street (Greatest Remixxx of All-Time) by David Liso of Dynamo Stairs -- groovy!
What do Canadian football, Star Trek, George R.R. "Game of Thrones" Martin and Theodore Roosevelt have in common? They're all involved in Truly The GOATs episode 8, Buck Bokai: Baseball's Last GOAT, a look at the future of international sports after a 150-year golden age of humanity's ball gamess. Are fans of certain high-level sports league watching the last generation of GOATs...?
Episode 7 of Truly the GOATs guested Peter Gorton, founder/director of the John Donaldson Network. As probably the world's leading authority on this all-time great of American baseball as well as a historian of baseball in the midwest, Peter has also written a number of articles on Donaldson and baseball. Included in the episode devoted to the story of John Donaldson were excerpts from one such essay written by Peter . And so Truly the GOATs is proud to present here the audio version of "One Diamond at a Time," as read by Danny Solis. Enjoy!
John Donaldson played professional baseball for 33 years, racking up 413 wins as a pitcher – more (verifiable) wins than anyone in American professional baseball history except Cy Young and Walter Johnson. His 5,000-plus career strikeouts are topped only by Nolan Ryan, and Donaldson’s career highlights also include some 14 no-hitters and two perfect games. So how come you’ve never heard of him…? On this episode of Truly The GOATs, John Donaldson Network founder Peter Gorton tells host Os Davis of the incredible exploits of an African-American left-handed power pitcher who was a good century ahead of his time. And if you think you know baseball history, get ready to enter an entirely different universe of barnstorming teams, local rivalries and year ’round schedules that was the average American’s experience of the national pastime before World War II – and Jackie Robinson’s debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers… Truly the GOATs: Reassessing sports history in the 21st century. Additional music for this episode includes a sample of an arrangement of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” by Booby Howe. The song “Once Upon a Time” by Audiobinger is via FreeMusicArchive.org.
A sport that can trace roots 3,000 years back and has a solid 3½ centuries’ worth of stats – now we’re talking some true Greatest of All-Time athletes! In fact, this episode is devoted to two GOATs and their ancient yet steadily evolving sport, sumo. First up is quite possibly the greatest athlete of the 18th century – a time when most “Western” sports were at least a half-century away from embryonic. His name was Raiden, and he compiled a winning percentage that may be untouchable in all of combat sports. Raiden stood as the undisputed GOAT for a good 200 years. Until Hakuho showed up at the dawn of the 21st century. What does it take for any athlete to overcome a legend over two centuries old? As skeptical as Truly The GOATs is about crowning living athletes the GOAT, there’s a hell of a case to be made for Hakuho. Joining this episode of Truly The GOATs are Andrew Freund, director of USA Sumo, and Dr. Dennis Frost, director of East Asian Studies at Kalamazoo College. Together with host Os Davis, the discussion runs to both legendary wrestlers, the times in which they plied their sport and the trimillenia history of sumo, one of humanity’s great sports. Truly the GOATs: Never afraid to compare the all-time greats. Additional music for this episode provided by Eric Taylor Music, Yakov Gorman, Audiotoolz, and Action Davis. Tracks for the latter three made possible by FreeMusicArchive.org.
Between two Chicago Bulls NBA championship threepeats came one of Michael Jordan’s greatest triumphs: Space Jam, the GOAT epic quasi-autobiographical cartoon science-fiction basketball movie. With ESPN’s 10-part series The Last Dance in our collective rearview mirror, Truly The GOATs host and sometime film critic Os Davis together with his former colleague in European basketball podcasting, David Hein. Dave, a sports journalist and native of Chicago, guested on Truly the GOATs episode 5, in which we reviewed The Last Dance, inevitably dissecting the myth of MJ, those Bulls and the mighty Dream Team of 1992. On this bonus episode of Truly The GOATs, Os digs into the personal archive to bring you this remastered review from a 2013 episode the Taking The Charge podcast, including some predictions about a film production being discussing back then called Space Jam 2. (Warning: References to Lebron’s Miami Heat and “The Harlem Shake” may induce flashbacks.) Truly the GOATs: We got a real jam going down…
Everybody else is talking about it, so why can’t we? With the coronavirus pandemic keeping most major professional leagues closed – Korean Baseball Organization notwithstanding – much of sports fandom worldwide is tuning into ESPN’s documentary series The Last Dance featuring basketball GOAT Michael Jordan. And whereas Truly The GOATs is based on a wide view of sports history, COVID-19 has schedules everywhere tied in knots, and ours is no exception. So TTG host Os Davis welcomes his former podcast co-host/-producer and Germany-based sports journalist David Hein to talk the 10-part series, those 1990s Chicago Bulls, the (literally) game-changing Dream Team and of course Michael Jordan himself. (In short, as European basketball fans, more on Toni Kukoc would be awesome, ESPN…) Truly the GOATs: Still taking MJ over Lebron in that argument…
You’d think that earning three-American basketball team nods plus one national team championship, winning the national Olympic trials as a one-person team and winning more tournaments than any golfer except Tiger Woods would earn an American athlete a spot in the cultural consciousness forever – or at least 75 years or so. On this episode of Truly the GOATs, we’ve got the story of Mildred “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias, quite probably the greatest female athlete ever and certainly the most naturally gifted. Host Os Davis is joined by W.L. Pate, president of the Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum and its concomitant foundation. Further helping compose the story are excerpts from Babe’s autobiography and contemporary reportage. Truly the GOATs: Recalling the legends, recounting the history. Babe Didrikson Zaharias’s autobiography This Life I Have Led is in the public domain and may be downloaded for free at TrulyTheGOATs.com/babebio.
By 1963, Angelo Mosca had already established himself as one of the Canadian Football League’s premier defensive lineman and was gaining ever-greater popularity in some of Canada’s regional wrestling associations. But thanks to a single play in that year’s Grey Cup championship game, Mosca ascended to new heights (or perhaps descended to new depths) as one all-time classic heel – in two sports. If we can consider professional wrestling a sport, that is. In this episode, Truly The GOATs has the concluding second part of the story of Angelo “King Kong” Mosca from his first Grey Cup win with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats through his career in Vince McMahon’s burgeoning World Wrestling Federation that moment in 2011 which solidified his tough guy badass reputation forever. Joining Truly The GOATs host Os Davis to talk Angelo Mosca’s careers, his legacy in both sports and just how much of the Kapp/Mosca dustup was a setup are Travis Currah, host of the 2 And Out CFL Podcast, and Josh Smith, host of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats-centered podcast Podskee Wee Wee. Truly the GOATs: Where we believe in sportsmanship – but also in good television…
In 2011, Angelo Mosca was co-star of a YouTube clip gone viral in the days before viral was a thing. The clip captures a fight between 70-year-olds over a Canadian football game played nearly 50 years prior: In some ways it was the culmination of a career playing “the man you love to hate” first in the CFL and later in the burgeoning World Wrestling Federation of Vince McMahon. If we can consider professional wrestling a sport, that is. In this episode, Truly The GOATs has the first part of the story of Angelo “King Kong” Mosca from his rough upbringing in Waltham, Massachusetts, through to his earliest years in Canadian football, when his Hamilton Tiger-Cats were so frequently stifled by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. And we’ve also got the story of his parallel rise in status to that of star heel in the pro wrestling ranks. Joining Truly The GOATs host Os Davis to talk Angelo Mosca, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, the city of Hamilton, the awesomeness of Canadian football and the strange attraction of professional wrestling are Travis Currah, co-host of the 2 And Out CFL Podcast, and Josh Smith, co-host of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats-centered podcast Podskee Wee Wee. Truly the GOATs: Where Canadian football is loved like American football...
To say that the gladiators in the arena games of ancient Rome were fighting for their lives tells just a small part of these incredible athletes’ stories. They fought for honor and for freedom, all while playing out a sport-based story of redemption – and likely none fought more, won more and perhaps even lost more bouts in the arena than Flamma the Galdiator. On this episode of Truly the GOATs, host Os Davis has the story of one of history’s all-time toughest, all-time baddest, all-time greatest athletes; joining us is historian Dr. Philip Matyszak, author of over 20 books on ancient civilizations and cultures. “Matty” drops the facts about the lives and lifestyles of the gladiators themselves, as well as the fans, the sponsors and that one wacky Emperor who wanted to be one… Truly the GOATs: Where ancient sports are loved as much as today’s… For books by Philip Matyszak including Gladiator: The Roman Fighter's (Unofficial) Manual, visit ThamesAndHudson.com. Material from Gladiator used with permission of Thames & Hudson.
Jim Thorpe was the NFL's first bonafide superstar and a decathlete who turned in the finest individual performance at the Olympic Games -- but is sports history forgetting him? On this episode of Truly the GOATs, host Os Davis tells the story of the 20th century's greatest athlete along with special guest Justin Lehhart of the Jim Thorpe Museum and Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame. And if you've got only passing knowledge of the man, you're certain to be surprised.
An introductory teaser/pilot episode to Truly the GOATs, the sports history podcast with a sense of perspective. Hosted by Os Davis.