Sports History Network As the new MLB season gets underway, there will be plenty of interesting twists and turns across the 160+ games that make up the regular season. And once we reach the fall and the postseason, you can be sure there will be at least a couple of teams that nobody was talking about contenders at … Read more
The season of 1971 might be considered to most casual observers as a mediocre year for the Atlanta Falcons. But it was actually a watershed year for the team. The 1971 season marked the first year that Atlanta achieved a winning record, finishing with a 7-6-1 mark. Their overall numbers were for the most part … Read more
I am a big fan of the 1981 film My Dinner with Andre. The film stars Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory as fictionalized versions of themselves. They play old friends who haven’t seen each other in five years and agree to meet for dinner. Andre is a theater director and Wallace is a playwright. The … Read more
I started Olympic Weightlifting in 1981, and up to that point, I didn’t know much about weightlifting history or the athletes that made the sport great. I liked watching it when it was televised, which wasn’t too often. Other than seeing weightlifting in the Olympics every four years, the only other times it was televised … Read more
A few weeks ago I found an Instagram video of Ric Flair having a heart attack on a live WCW broadcast and it blew my mind. Of course, with all things wrestling you have to see these things for yourself to tell if they’re real or not, but this one looked very real. A red-faced Flair, … Read more