Sports History Network Today we are taking you to the barnstorming days of early basketball. Our subject is a team called the New York Rens, short for the New York Renaissance. Sometimes they were called the Renaissance Big Five, or the Douglas Rens after their owner Bob Douglas. Their hay day was all the way back to the … Read more
Seeing that this is the very first entry of this blog I thought, what better place to start than with the very first basketball game ever played. To do that I need to take you back to the year 1891 to western Massachusetts, to a town called Springfield. There we find a school called the … Read more
a trio of players from the Chicago Bears that you may have never heard about. After all, they played nearly a century ago and except for one, never received much public–or lasting-acclaim. Throughout the years, the National Football League has seen its share of rogues, complainers, whiners, and personality problems among its players…but we’ll just … Read more
Today we have Super Bowl XII, which was held on January 15, 1978, in the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana between the first-time AFC champion Denver Broncos and the four-time NFC champion Dallas Cowboys.As always, we have a pop quiz, and then homework at the end of the episode. The pop quiz question for today … Read more
The term “journeyman quarterback” is an unmistakable term. It means simply a quarterback who goes from team to team, trying to help each team, as he tries his best to stay in the league. Some journeyman quarterbacks have played for a half dozen different teams, while others only play for two or three. I feel … Read more