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Chuck Taylor had as much influence on growing the game of basketball as Michael Jordan or Yao Ming. He also helped develop the most popular basketball shoe ever worn, The Converse Chuck Taylor All-Stars. Rick profiles Taylor through his early years as a player and his later years as, essentially, a shoe salesman. His basketball shoe dominated a larger portion of the basketball market than the Air...

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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...?

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Hello Old Sports is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . HELLO OLD SPORTS BACKGROUND Each week on “Hello, Old Sports” Andrew and Dan Neumann examine a different sports history topic—baseball, basketball, football, hockey, boxing, and anything else that comes to mind. We’ll travel back to 1920 to relive the founding of the Negro Leagues and Ba...

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How is Ken Riley Not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame? In this episode we cover the following topics with Ken Riley II His college career playing for his father His father's career in college and NFL Why he feels Ken Riley deserves to be in the Hall of Fame Some of the reasons he was given for why Ken Riley has not been voted into the Hall Much more ​ The Football History Dude podcast is part of t...

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In today’s episode we talk about Darryl "Chocolate Thunder" Dawkins and his incredible influence on pop culture because of two famous dunks that he had back in 1979. His influence was so great that his name was used as part of a punchline on Saturday Night Live in 1999. His fame stemmed from his time with the Philadelphia 76ers, but he also played for the New Jersey Nets, Utah Jazz, and Detroit Pi...

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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...

47 Years Covering the NFL (with Rick Gosselin) In this episode we cover the following topics with Rick Gosselin His journey covering sports, primarily NFL What it was like knowing Jerry Jones, Jimmy Johnson, and the Triplets before they were winning An in-depth conversation about the Hall of Fame voting process, primarily speaking to the Senior Class Much more ​ Rick Gosselin Bio Note - this is fr...

On this week’s episode we tell the story of how NBA teams got their nicknames. We start with the Pacific Division, which is home to the Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, and Sacramento Kings. We will also touch on their color schemes and logos used over the years. This is a topic that we will revisit around once per month. Golden State Warriors logo his...

Sometimes superstars of the game are forgotten. There’s no real explanation for this. They just fade away with time, and this is the reason I launched Sports’ Forgotten Heroes. To remember the stars whom time has forgotten and for this episode, episode No. 89, this certainly holds true – Dutch Clark. A member of the inaugural class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Dutch was certainly on the of gr...

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Check out the post on Sports History Network This is a very special episode of The Football History Dude podcast, because we brought together 8 industry experts to share stories about the original teams of the NFL. The reason? Well, that's simple. Tomorrow (date of release) is the NFL's 100th Birthday, celebrating 100 years after the famous meeting at Ralph Hay's Hupmobile auto showroom in Canton,...

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In today’s episode we talk about how the jump shot was made popular by Stanford’s Hank Luisetti. In a single afternoon at Madison Square Garden he changed what East Coast fans thought a proper shot looked like.  CREDITS  Rick Loayza: Head researcher, writer, and voice  Jacob Loayza: Editor, producer, and publisher  MUSIC  "Big Swing Band" by Audionautix  "Horizons" by...

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 Football Is Family is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Your Favorite Sport's Yesteryear . Music from https://www.purple-planet.com/ I'll be honest- I'm not going to be very objective in the course of this podcast. I'm a Titans fan. Period. As soon as they moved to Tennessee (my home state), I was hooked. I've seen them as high as one yard away from tying a Super Bowl...