Sports History Network Last time, we explored a simple question. What if another women’s professional basketball league could thrive—not by competing with the WNBA, but by bringing professional basketball to the communities throughout America’s Heartland that have embraced the game for generations? As I mentioned in Part One, everything you’re about to read is fictional. The Women’s American … Read more
Manchester City’s 2-1 win over Arsenal in April 2026 became the most-watched Premier League match in US television history, averaging 2.6 million viewers across NBC, Peacock and Telemundo. That figure would have seemed unthinkable a decade ago, when English football was still a niche interest for most American sports fans. Anyone checking Premier League winner … Read more
Eight Chicago White Sox players threw the 1919 World Series, and baseball responded by inventing a job that had never existed before. A century later, in October 2025, federal prosecutors charged 34 people in a sweeping investigation into insider betting and Mafia-backed poker games, with a sitting NBA head coach and an active player among … Read more
Every major NBA gambling scandal has followed the same sequence: unusual money moves, someone notices, the league reacts after the fact. What separates the 1950s cases from the 2025 indictments is not the scheme but the evidence, and that difference explains most of what changed in league policy. Point shaving in the 1950s ran on … Read more
Welcome to the Total Sports Recall podcast as on this episode we move to Part Three of a four part series looking back at the history of first overall draft picks in all the major sports. I’m your host Harv Aronson and thus far in past episodes I covered Major League Baseball and the National … Read more