Sports History This Week
Sports History This Week brings to life moments in competition that redefined sports and our culture. Every week, host Kaelen Jones will unpack one sporting event that occurred within that calendar week sometime in the past. Through gripping narratives, illustrative archival and interviews with athletes and experts, Jones will guide listeners through the pivotal triumphs, failures and turning points that shaped today’s sports world and beyond. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...
Episodes (66)
HISTORY This Week: Nixon Does Whatever It Takes to Win in ’68
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HISTORY This Week is returning this Monday, 9/16!
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Looking Back at Sports History
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“The Great One” Becomes a King
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Special Announcement
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Street Fighter’s EVO Moment #37 (ft. Justin Wong & Daigo Umehara)
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Barry Sanders Retires in His Prime
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Seattle Loses the Supersonics (ft. Damien Wilkins)
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Chastain’s World Cup Winner (ft. Kristine Lilly & Briana Scurry)
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Kobayashi Arrested at the Hot Dog Eating Contest (ft. Takeru Kobayashi & Joey Ch...
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Maddux Throws a Maddux (ft. Greg Maddux)
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F1 Wrecks Its Chance in America
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Michael Jordan Completes His Return from Baseball
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The No. 8 Seed Knicks Reach the ’99 Finals
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The World's Deadliest Race
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Moneymaker Wins the World Series of Poker (feat. Chris Moneymaker)
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Victor Wembanyama & the Boom-or-Bust NBA Lottery
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A.I. Defeats Humanity… at Chess
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The "We Believe" Warriors
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The NFL Draft Premieres on ESPN (feat. Mina Kimes & Peter King)
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Rosie Ruiz Scams the Boston Marathon
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Tiger Woods & Jack Nicklaus Defy Age at the Masters
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Ping Pong Diplomacy
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Baseball's Newest (and Oldest) Rule Changes
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Magic & Bird Take Over March Madness (feat. Jackie MacMullan & Howard Bryant)
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Serena and Venus Williams Boycott Indian Wells
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An NBA Star Pays the Price for Speaking Out (feat. Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf)
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Introducing: American Football (Episode 1: Canton, Ohio)
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Wilt Chamberlain Breaks Basketball
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A Baseball Pioneer Finds His Way Behind Home Plate
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Replay: Black Baseball Goes Pro (from History This Week)
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Diane Crump Rides Into History (feat. Diane Crump & Barbara Jo Rubin)
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Super Bowl Special: The First Black QB in the Super Bowl (feat. Doug Williams)
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Björn Borg Shocks The Tennis World
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Gambling Destroys New York City College Basketball
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The NBA All-Star Boycott
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The Flying Finn Burns Out
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Green Bay’s First Lambeau Leap
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WWI Soldiers Find Peace in Football
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The Man Who Saved Man U
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Canada’s Oldest Rivals Battle on the Ice
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The Golden Age of Roller Derby
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Muhammad Ali Enters Boxing’s “Moral Crusade”
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The Marshall University Plane Crash
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Jackie Robinson Tries Out for the Majors (History This Week Replay)
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The Birth of Cheer
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The Blue Jays Take On America
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The NBA Forces a Fit Check
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Jim Thorpe's Lost Gold (w/ History This Week)
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Sandy Koufax’s Yom Kippur Stand
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