Historically Speaking Sports

Welcome back to another episode of the Historical NFL Matchup for Week 2 of the 2025 NFL seasons. In this short podcast episode, we will take a look at three memorable postseason games from NFL history that are part of the NFL schedule for week two. One of the games that we will focus on is a recent super bowl that is considered one of the greatest games in Super Bowl history that featured a contr...

Here on the podcast we are starting a new series. Every week during the NFL season we will take a few games off the schedule that are rematches of famous games in NFL History. Some will be memorable post season games while others are memorable in other ways. Here in week one we will talk about three games that are on the week one schedule of games that are rematches of great games of the past. The...

Another eagerly awaited NFL season is upon us and it seems like everyone has an opinion on who will end up in New Orleans in February competing for the Lombardi Trophy. Professional pro football analysts all the way down to your neighbor has an opinion on who will be this years Super Bowl Champion. This practice has gone on seemingly since the beginning of the modern NFL. Everyone has an opinion i...

On June 24, 1946, a bus carrying the Spokane Indians high in the Cascade Mountains in Washington, crashed to the bottom of a ravine, killing nine of its players. In this episode of the podcast, host Dana Auguster talks with Eric Vickrey about his book "Season of Shattered Dreams: Postwar Baseball, the Spokane Indians and A Tragic Bus Crash That Changed Everything." He discusses what inspired him t...

Paris. The City of Light. Paris. The City of Love and the capital of fashion. Also Paris is the city of Olympic dreams this summer. Over the last two weeks the eyes of the sporting world have been fixated on the city along the river Seine and everyone for the most part have been entranced with the competition and the spectacle that we know as the summer Olympics. In this edition of the Historicall...

In a couple of weeks, the eyes of the sporting public around the world will look upon the city of Paris for the 33rd Summer Olympics. this much anticipated event will take place for the third time in the "City of Light". Four years from now, in 2028, the City of Los Angeles will host it for a third time. In this episode of the podcast, in anticipation of the Olympics, we will take a look at the ga...

The month of June is what I call the "Month of Champions". We have the College baseball and softball tournaments happening this month but also the NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup finals talking place simultaneously. This year the Boston Celtics and the Edmonton Oilers both played for their league championship in the month where summer begins Alot like 1984 when both teams reached the NBA Finals and...

In the fall of 1967, the National Hockey League underwent major expansion, doubling the size of the league from its original six to 12 teams which included teams on the west coast of the United States. One of the teams that brought the NHL to the Pacific coast was the California Golden Seals along with the Los Angeles Kings. The Seals were hockey's representative in the San Francisco Bay area alth...

In the late 1980s, NBA Commissioner David Stern looked to take full advantage of the growing popularity of his league. So on April 5, !987, the NBA announced the addition of four new teams to the NBA. Beginning in the fall of 1988, the Charlotte Hornets and the Miami Heat took the floor for the first time as NBA franchises. One season later, in 1989 two more teams, the Orlando Magic and Minnesota...

When you think of classic ballparks throughout the history of Major League Baseball, Ebbets Field or Yankee Stadium or Shibe Park in Philadelphia comes to mind. Yet Comiskey Park, located on the corner of 35th and Shields on Chicago's southside, is just as charming and as famous as all of the others. It was the home park for the Chicago White Sox from 1910 through 1990 and has been the site of so...

Through the duration of the American Basketball season which spaned nine years, only two teams played every season of that league. One was the Indiana Pacers who is one of the four teams that merged with the NBA in 1976. The other was the Kentucky Colonels. In their nine seasons as a member of the ABA, the Colonels won more games, had the highest winning percentage in league history and featured t...

University of Iowa star Caitlin Clark may be the best college basketball player this season. This season she is without a doubt the most well known. She is one the verge of surpassing a record that most basketball historians felt would never be broken. Clark is set to surpass Pete Maravich as college basketball's all-time leading scorer, a record set back in 1970. In this episode of Historically S...

One of the many storylines heading into Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas is the opportunity of the Kansas City Chiefs to become one of the handful of NFL franchises to win consecutive Super Bowls. One of the teams that accomplished this was the Denver Broncos in 1997 and 1998 led by Hall of fame quarterback John Elway. Yet from a historical standpoint, the Denver Broncos are far more than just John E...

During the 1990's, a sports phenomenon took hold in South Louisiana that was impressive yet unexpected. In the part of the country where football is king and the other sports are fighting for relevance, the sport of hockey fired the imaginations of passionate sports fans in the heart of Cajun Country. Host and native of South Louisiana Dana Auguster is joined in this episode by longtime friend and...

This upcoming weekend the Baltimore Ravens will host the AFC Championship game for the first time in franchise history. In fact it will be the first time since 1971 that a conference title game will take place in Baltimore. In this episode of the Historically Speaking Sports Podcast, host Dana Auguster will highlight the glory years of sports in Baltimore. Between 1966 and 1971, the teams that cal...

In this episode of the Historically Speaking Sports Podcast we will take a look back at perhaps the most hectic week we have in sports in the last few years. Just two days after Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines defeated the Washington Huskies in the National championship game, two coaching giants Nick Saban of the Alabama Crimson Tide and Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots each ann...

On January 2, 1984, top ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers entered the 50th Orange Bowl classic coached by Tom Osborne. The undefeated Huskers was looking for its first national championship since winning back-to-back titles in 1970 and 71. Standing in the way was the Miami Hurricanes coached by Howard Schnellenberger. The Canes was ranked #5 in the AP Poll and with the results of the Cotton, Rose and Su...

It seems like every year, when the four teams are announced that will faceoff for the biggest prize in college football, there is always one or team teams that feel left out. This is was no execption as undefeated Florida State and defending National Champion Georgia appeared to be all dressed up with no where to go. This year the four teams Michigan, Washington, Texas and Alabama are ready to bat...

Heading into this NFL season, a number of so-called football experts were predicting that the once lowly Detroit Lions were poised to be a legitimate power in the NFC. After all, they had been "Rebuilding since 1957" as so the slogan goes. But this year feels different for Lions' fans in and around Motown. In this episide of Historically Speaking Sports, host Dana Auguster welcomes the co-host of...

Every NFL team from time to time has to deal with the starting quarterback going down to injury or the coach is faced with replacing the high-priced starting quarterback with the most popular player in town -- the Back-up. In this episode we will highlight some of the most famous quarterbacks to come off the bench and became stars in their own right. Some for one game, others for a season and stil...

On this edition of the podcast, host Dana Auguster will announce his picks on who will represent the AFC and the NFC in this years Super Bowl in Las Vegas on February. Also in the program he will go team-by-team, disclosing thier record and a quick synopsis of thier upcoming season. Later in the podcast, Dana Auguster will also send a "Shout Out" to a team that was once beloved not only in the NFL...

Ladies and Gentlemen! Football is back! Heading into this college football season, most of the talk was the slow demise of the Pac-12 conference which had been around since 1915 as the Pacific Coast Conference. In this episide, podcast host Dana Auguster talks about the history of the Pac-12 conference and its member schools and how it compares to other conference that are no longer around, specif...

The city of Oakland California has a special and unique place in sports history. The town that is in the shadow of the more popular and affluent San Francisco actually has more in common with blue collar, gritty cities of the east such as Cleveland, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. In this edition of the Historically Speaking Sports Podcast, host Dana Auguster highlights the names, events and great ga...

After a long and grueling NBA postseason, the two teams that remain standing are the Denver Nuggets and the Miami Heat. The Nuggets, a hold over from the old American Basketball Association, are in the NBA Finals for the very first time. Meanwhile the Miami Heat are looking for their third NBA Championship in franchise history. In this episode Dana Auguster will take a look at the history of these...

This week marks the 50th anniversary of Secretariat winning the Kentucky Derby. In this episode of Historically Speaking Sports' Dana Auguster talks with author Curtis Stock and his new book "The Turcottes: The Remarkable Story of a Horse Racing Dynasty". The book tells the story of the five Turcotte Brothers from New Brunswick Canada and how they overcame adversity and tragedy to become the first...