Sports History Network Long before smartphone apps and online betting dashboards, sports gambling lived in the shadows, scribbled odds, whispered tips, and backroom deals. Today, it’s a billion-dollar industry that fits in your pocket. With the swipe of a finger, anyone in a legal state can place a bet from their couch. But how did we get here? … Read more
With the Super Bowl having just been played, I wanted to take a look back at a team that many fans assumed was going to win the Superbowl but didn’t. Some may have forgotten just how good the 1983 Washington Redskins were, but they were one of the most dominant teams of the 1980s, up … Read more
Remember the infamous “Spygate” scandal from a few years ago? As a reminder, one prominent NFL team was severely penalized for allegedly, and illegally, filming another team’s defensive signals from an on-field camera during a game, thus offering the offending club a significant offensive advantage. On this episode of “When Football Was Football” we’ll dance … Read more
Basketball is one of the most popular sports in the world, second only to soccer. It has a long and storied history that began in 1891 when James Naismith invented the game at a YMCA training school in Springfield, Massachusetts. Since then, basketball has grown internationally, with professional leagues and millions of fans worldwide. This … Read more
I was struggling to write this episode so I turned to poetry for inspiration. The poem was Maya Angelou’s CAGED BIRD. It is a poem that sounds like an allegory to the victims of morbid jealousy–the kind of extreme jealousy I can only assume Elizabeth Hulette struggled with for years; the kind of jealousy I grew up … Read more