Sports History Network

SHN Trailers is part of the  Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports' Yesteryear. HIGHLIGHTED SHOW SHN Showcase is hosted by Os Davis and is a weekly podcast with partners of the Sports History Network to showcase the host of each show. Learn more about the show on the Sports History Network.

SHN Trailers is part of the  Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports' Yesteryear. HIGHLIGHTED SHOW Over the course of 365 days a year, something in the world of sports always makes us stop and take notice. This new member of the Sports History Network highlights the accomplishments, memories, and anniversaries of some of the greatest moments in sports history and delves into some...

SHN Trailers is part of the  Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports' Yesteryear. HIGHLIGHTED SHOW The History of College Football , an NCAA gridiron memory lane. From Heisman winners to National Champions, all-time teams, players, and their record settings performances, streaks and scores, we strive to remember. Teams that formed our memories, the rivalries that ensued, Alabama-...

SHN Trailers is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports' Yesteryear. HIGHLIGHTED SHOW Sports’ Forgotten Heroes  is the online home to the Sports’ Forgotten Heroes podcast. Every other week a new podcast is uploaded, and every episode of Sports’ Forgotten Heroes is a tribute to the stars who shaped the games we love to watch and the games we love to play. Sports’ Forgo...

Football Is Family is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . Sports and American Trials           There are certain events in your life where you can remember what you were doing, where you were, and what you were thinking when they took place.  These events may only shape your life.  But t...

The Football History Dude is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY This week we go back to cover 5 1/2 decades of the greatest day of the year (well, not if you're a Lions' fan like me).....the SUPER BOWL!!! Tommy Phillips covers each game in-depth in his podcast, with each episode dedicated to a single game. This week, we deci...

Even though he never played a minute of professional basketball, he was known as “The Goat” back in the 1960s. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar called him the best player he ever played with. So who exactly is Earl “The Goat" Manigault? This episode of Basketball History 101 will answer that question. CREDITS Rick Loayza: Head researcher, writer, and voice Jacob Loayza: Editor, producer, and publisher MUSIC "T...

The SHN Showcase is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports' Yesteryear... On this week's episode of the SHN Showcase, host Os Davis chats with Jeremy McFarlin of the SHN Network's Football is Family podcast . Jeremy talks about the importance of football fandom, his beloved Tennessee Titans (particularly with reference to a pair of plays in the 1999 playoffs, and gets goa...

Spec Sanders was somewhat of a football phenom. In fact, his days at the University of Texas made NFL teams take notice and in 1942 the Washington Redskins made Sanders the first-ever Longhorn to be taken in the first round when they selected him sixth overall. However, Sanders never put on the wine and gold of Washington. Following his days at Texas, Sanders joined his brothers in the Army as the...

Lombardi Memories is part of the  Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY I’m your host, Tommy A. Phillips, and today we have Super Bowl VII, between the NFC champion Washington Redskins and the AFC champion Miami Dolphins. It was held on January 14, 1973, at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in the heart of USC country, the final Super Bow...

Pigskin Past is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY For the next several Pigskin Past programs, I will try to talk about and re-explore some of those thrilling games. The first of these unique games occurred way back in 1972, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. In 1972, pro football was still primarily a running game....

Historically Speaking Sports is part of the  Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . Host: Dana Auguster Growing up in south Louisiana, my interest in sports has been a major part of my life since an early age. If I think about it long enough, if there was anything I enjoyed more than playing sports was talking about it. I attended Southern University...

The SHN Showcase is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports' Yesteryear ... On this week's episode of the SHN Showcase, host Os Davis chats with Darrin Hayes of the SHN Network's Pigskin Daily History Dispatch . Darrin talks football officiating as a path into history geekdom and the rigors of doing a daily podcast before predicting this weekend's NFL conference championsh...

Football Is Family is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . Jack Gilden The history of the NFL is marked by great moments- moments that make people famous, moments that make cities celebrate, and moments that make franchises become dynasties. In the history of the NFL, you will find moments when people (players and coaches) come together to ei...

Hello Old Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY Join us this week for Part 2 of our Quarterback Mt. Rushmores! This week it's all about the NFC as we select four quarterbacks for each NFC team. We'll talk about such legends as Brett Favre, Joe Montana, Sid Luckman, Sammy Baugh, Fran Tarkenton, and Aaron Rodgers. Also...

We have a very important announcement today: Basketball History 101 is now officially part of the Sports History Network, a collection of podcasts all centered around the history of various sports! The network is headed up by Arnie Chapman, the host of The Football History Dude podcast. Go check out his podcast as well as the podcasts of all the other creators within the Sports History Network, th...

Yesterday's Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY When they added the final votes to name the best USA lifter of 1976, Lee won 93% of the votes. In winning, Lee acknowledged that he could have never done it alone. Lee gave special thanks to John Terpak and Bob Crist for convincing the Army to allow him to train i...

When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY When you mention the name of George Halas, several things may come to mind. Born in 1895, Halas was the founder of the Chicago Bears as well as the National Football League. But he was also an outfielder for the New York Yankees and the MVP of the 1919 Rose Bowl...

Hello Old Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY It's all about quarterbacks this week on Hello Old Sports! We'll select the four best quarterbacks for each team in the AFC, and then determine which AFC team has the best quarterback Mt. Rushmore of all time. There are lots of strong lineups to choose from including the...

Football Attic is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . EPISODE SUMMARY This week on “Football Attic,” I was pleased to welcome Jerry Foley, senior editor of  The Giant Insider , and co-host of the  Giant Insider  podcast. I asked him how his love of the New York Football Giants came to be. He said that when he was very young, h...

Join Gridiron Greats Magazine Publisher and Editor Bob Swick along with his co-host Joe Squires for the all new 2020 of Gridiron Greats Magazine-The Podcast Gridiron Greats Magazine is the only publication in America which focuses upon the history and memorabilia of the North American Football Game since its inception in 1869. Covering 150+ years of football history and memorabilia, Gridiron Great...

Lombardi Memories is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports' Yesteryear. LOMBARDI MEMORIES Lombardi Memories is a show that takes you back in time, into January or February, to the greatest one-day spectacle in all of sports. This is the every-other-Tuesday podcast that looks back at each and every one of the 50-plus Super Bowls and tells the story of who won and why. For...

Truly the GOATs is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters for Sports' Yesteryear. “The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.” –Washington Irving “The Greatest of All-Time”: An expression that has become so ubiquitous in 21st-century sports reportage that it’s often more convenient to use the...

Football Is Family is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . Joe Zagorski             The Sports History Network is blessed with a lot of talent.  Men who have a special love for sports, for the history of sports, and for communicating that history through means of podcasts, articles,...

Football Attic is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters for Sports' Yesteryear. FOOTBALL ATTIC My name is John Gidley, and as I’m looking on my bookshelf, I see a lot of books about the National Football League. There’s a book about the 72 Dolphins, one about the 85 Bears, another about the Immaculate Reception. Let’s be honest with ourselves, though: how many times have we heard t...