PODCAST · sports
The Narrative
by Sports Illustrated
Podcast by Sports Illustrated
Episodes
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A Single Frame
Sports Illustration has been around as long as organized sports have. From Olympians on Grecian urns to our modern digital drawings, illustration expresses something no camera can capture: the entirety of sport in a single frame. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy &...
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The Iron Men of Sewanee
Who is the greatest college football team of all time? They hail from Tennessee, but it’s not the Vols. Rather it's the 1899 Sewanee Tigers, who after beating 5 teams in 6 days by a collective score of 91-0 were known simply as the “Iron Men.” Here's their story. Advertising Inquiries:...
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The Alliance
The Alliance of American Football is not the first to try and set up a second football league. In the past half century, the Alliance is the 5th challenger to the NFL’s throne. That means roughly every 10 years an upstart takes a shot at winning its piece of the football pie. This February 9th…
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Knuckle Up
Bare Knuckle boxing isn’t a street fight. It’s one of the oldest organized sports around. It’s strategic. It’s fast paced. It’s skillful. And it’s making a comeback. On June 2nd 2018 Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship will hold what they’re billing as the first legal, sanctioned and regulated…
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International Rules
Sports love their hometown heroes, but for every LeBron James there is an Anton Tinnerholm. Tinnerholm left his native Sweden in January to come and play soccer for NYCFC. Being a professional athlete is tough. Being a professional athlete in a foreign land is downright daunting. Advertising...
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Miyagi Do: Ralph Macchio on 34 Years as the Karate Kid
When the Karate Kid came out in 1984, Ralph Macchio as his on-screen counterpart Daniel LaRusso became an American martial arts icon and kicked off a karate craze that swept America. 34 Years later, he reprises his role as a good-hearted karate practitioner from New Jersey in the YouTube Red…
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The Future of Baseball
In 1998 MLB imagined baseball's future with their Turn Ahead the Clock promotion. It's not quite 2027 yet, but Major League Baseball whiffed on their predictions of wonky jerseys and the Mets relocating to Mercury. Instead baseball's future hinges on juiced balls, fantasy stats and the Latinx...
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Color Theory
Color is iconic. From the first row, to the cheap seats, all the way through the television hundreds of miles away fans can find their players with ease and identify compatriots rooting just like them. Color can give a team the mental edge, sell jerseys and even change the outcome of the game....
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A Brief Guide to the Winter Olympics
Our lives are busy and since the last Winter Olympics I’m sure you haven’t been closely following your favorite speed skaters or checking in on the luge circuit. That’s why this episode of the Narrative is dedicated to reminding you what the winter games has to offer and more importantly to give...
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A Golden Opportunity
In 1969, the Continental Football league welcomed the Golden Aztecs, or Aztecas Dorados into the league as the first professional American Football team in Mexico. The team only played 8 games and the Continental Football league folded at the end of the season, but in the wild west of…
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Own the Game
Who owns your favorite sports team? There are still the Jerry Joneses and MarK Cubans of the world that drive their team with cult of personality, but more and more family owned teams are being replaced by corporate ownership for financial stability. The owners of the Philadelphia 76ers, New…
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Storytellers of Sport
Sports generates and endless amount stories. Game recaps, profiles, investigations, features, economics, statistics, culture; there's countless angles to attack. But what really goes into the magazine in your mailbox or recap you read online? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands...
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In the Shadow of Giants
In the Golden Age of Baseball New York had three championship caliber teams. Then, suddenly, the city had only one. In 1957, the Giants joined the Dodgers in announcing a move to the West Coast, making MLB a truly national pastime. 60 years and 3,000 miles later the fans, the city, and baseball...
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Morningside 5 By 25
25 years ago, producer/director Mike Tollin filmed 5 high schoolers as they tried to repeat as California State Basketball Champions. He revisited their lives more than two decades after their senior campaign and found profoundly different men than he watched take the court in the 90s. In the...
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Leagues Apart: Women in professional sports
Historically, sports have been a boys-only club. Even modern women sports superstars like Serena Williams and the USWNT continually have to battle for equal pay and respect. But women refuse to lose, even if a win gets them less than it should. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands...
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Sports "Just So" Stories
Sports are weird. Athletics are a collection of idiosyncratic rules, customs, traditions, and superstitions. Here we delve into the backstories for four of the strangest things in sports: baseball stirrups, the forward pass, basketball shoes, and the hat-trick. Advertising Inquiries:...
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Minor Players: How big league hopefuls carried baseball through World War II
Everyone knows the MLB war heroes, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Hank Greenberg, but for every all-star that went abroad, scores of Minor Leaguers served on the front lines, as they deferred their fight to make the big leagues to fight for their country. This is the story of one of them, Harry…
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Memories in your Pocket: The History of Baseball Cards
Baseball cards are as American as well ... cigarettes and chewing gum. Cards have captured the imaginations of the young and the young at heart for over a century as a portal into memories of the game they love. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out:...
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The Easter Epic
In 1987, the Islanders and the Capitals battled for 4 overtimes in game 7 of the division semifinals to determine a winner. In suburban Massachusetts, a young boy watched the two hopeless teams fight to the end and learned a bit about life from a game of hockey. Advertising Inquiries:...
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Sports...Illustrated: Comics' love affair with athletics
Superheroes may be the comic book industry's bread and butter, but the weeklies have had their fare share of flannel-clad heroes too. From horse racing comics at the turn of the century, to Superman vs. Muhammad Ali, comics have shown that sport can be stranger than fiction. Advertising…
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Learning How to Dance: Northwestern's foolproof plan for a first NCAA Tournament appearance
In 1939, Northwestern University hosted the first NCAA Tournament. In the 77 years since NU has never made the tournament, but looks like it may be on the cusp of the big dance after borrowing a guaranteed 3-step slump stopper plan from their neighbors the Chicago Cubs. Advertising Inquiries:...
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Baseball's Blacksheep: Black people in baseball from the Negro League to the MLB
The Negro Leagues allowed black men play professional baseball in a segregated America. 80 years later the MLB is desperately trying to increase black involvement in their game. Baseball's biggest diamonds have not always been open to people of color, but when given the opportunity black baseball...
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The NHL at 100
From a tiny league of 6 teams in the Northeast of North America to a global sport phenomenon, the NHL has grown a lot. From Denis Brodeur's groundbreaking photography to the '72 Summit Series to Peter Puck to Ice Hockey in the Himalayas the NHL has proved robust. All it need was time. A century…
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Love AND1 Basketball
With two friends, a basement, and a love for street basketball, Seth Berger built AND1 athletic company to take on Nike. He now works for the 76ers Innovation Lab, but still is driven by a love for hoops. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out:...
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The Name on the Front
They say the name on the front of the jersey is more important than the name on the back, but what happens when there's two names on the front? Soon the Philadelphia 76ers will be the first big 4 sports team with an advertisement on their jersey. Is this the first step to ads alongside your teams...
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Giant: The amazing life of Andre the Giant
Andre Rene Roussimoff was larger than life. His immense size earned him the stage name Andre the Giant as he helped take pro wrestling from community center gyms to Madison Square Garden, but balancing family, health, and a fledgling sport was too big a task even for a Giant. Advertising…
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General Election: Donald Trump, the New Jersey Generals and the race for the White House
In 1984, Donald Trump became owner of the USFL football team, the New Jersey Generals. By 1986 the league had collapsed. Before America votes on whether Trump should be Commander in Chief, it should understand his time as a football General. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands...
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Burnt Orange And Crimson
Since the early 1900s, the universities of Texas and Oklahoma have played an annual game of football that has become one of the most heated rivalries in the world of sports. From the Texas State Fair, Lindsay Schnell speaks to several key figures in this historic rivalry, hoping to discover how...
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The Score Between the Scoring: The intersection of sport and music
A live soundtrack has always heightened game play. From military marching bands during civil war baseball games, to the huge production of the super bowl half time show, sports fans have become accustomed to a score to compliment the scoring. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands...
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Slow Motion: The story of Super Bowl XXXIV's final play
The first Super Bowl of the new millenium also turned out to be one of the most memorable editions of the NFL's championship game. To celebrate the beginning of football season, Don Banks visits with the characters involved in "The Tackle," which gave the Rams a Super Bowl title. -- Produced by...
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The Doping Addiction
Sports have a drug problem. Athletes have been doping for the better part of a century in order to gain an edge on the field and leagues have continued to look the other way. How do you cure sport's doping addiction when nobody will admit there's a problem? Advertising Inquiries:...
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A 'crazy' and the steeplechase
The Steeplechase is a bizarre sideshow in the world of track, a 3,000-meter obstacle course, involving several jumps into pools of water, was originally meant to be ridden on horseback. In modern times, the Olympic event has been dominated by Kenyans and those from other African countries. So…
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Minisode: Olympic Village missteps from Rio's fires to state prisons
Rio's Olympic Village has big problems, continuing a legacy of 'sub-par' athlete housing at the games. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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How Olympians make ends meet
You'll see American Olympians in Rio this summer, but how do these athletes make ends meet while spending time, money, and energy preparing for one of the biggest events of their lives? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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