Basketball history podcasts
Every March, the NCAA tournament becomes a national discussion. Each upset seems personal in office pools, rivalries and on-line predictions. However, the men’s championship started with only eight teams. College basketball’s bracket history is one of growth and of a formula that introduced uncertainty to the fun. Readers interested in comparing college basketball odds can … Read more
In my last article, I made a case for the 1988-89 season being the best in Big Ten Men’s Basketball history. In this article, I will not make a case for which season was the best in ACC history. Much like the SEC is historically the best NCAA Football conference, the ACC is widely considered … Read more
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