Basketball history podcasts
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
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
Every great idea begins with a simple question. What if? What if another women’s professional basketball league were launched—not to compete with the WNBA, but to complement it? What if that league focused on communities where basketball has long been more than just a sport? What if it gave thousands of young girls another opportunity … Read more
Inside the NBA Casino Sponsorship Boom For most of its history, the NBA treated casino brands as untouchable. Today, gaming companies rank among the league’s largest sponsorship categories, with more than two dozen teams holding casino or sportsbook partnerships. This article traces how the reversal happened, what it changed for fans, and where the money … Read more