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Sports History This Week
Sports History This Week brings to life moments in competition that redefined sports and our culture. Every week, host Kaelen Jones will unpack one sporting event that occurred within that calendar week sometime in the past. Through gripping narratives, illustrative archival and interviews with athl...
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66 EpisodenHISTORY This Week: Nixon Does Whatever It Takes to Win in ’68
This is a brand-new episode from HISTORY This Week, available wherever you listen to podcasts!
September 16, 1968. Richard Nixon isn't exactly s...
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HISTORY This week is about to return! We'll be back with new episodes this Monday, September 16th. In the meantime, listen to our trailer for Season 5...
Looking Back at Sports History
August 16th, 2023. Over the past 16 months, Sports History This Week has covered sporting events from football to baseball to roller derby to a man sk...
“The Great One” Becomes a King
August 9, 1988: Coming off their fourth Stanley Cup win in the last five seasons, the Edmonton Oilers do the unthinkable: trade Wayne Gretzky, hockey’...
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Street Fighter’s EVO Moment #37 (ft. Justin Wong & Daigo Umehara)
August 1, 2004. Before esports became a billion-dollar industry, a few college halls in Southern California hosted a video game tournament: the Evolut...
Barry Sanders Retires in His Prime
July 27, 1999. Barry Sanders, star running back of the Detroit Lions, writes a letter announcing his intentions to abruptly retire from the NFL. At ju...
Seattle Loses the Supersonics (ft. Damien Wilkins)
July 18, 2006. The owner of the Seattle SuperSonics, Howard Schultz, calls a press conference. Ever since the Starbucks chairman took over the team, h...
Chastain’s World Cup Winner (ft. Kristine Lilly & Briana Scurry)
July 10, 1999. It’s 107 degrees on the soccer field in Pasadena, California, at third-ever Women’s World Cup. The US Women’s National Team is stuck in...
Kobayashi Arrested at the Hot Dog Eating Contest (ft. Takeru Kobayashi & Joey Chestnut)
July 4, 2010. Nathan’s Famous is holding its annual hot dog eating competition on Coney Island. But this year, one perennial champion is not taking th...
Maddux Throws a Maddux (ft. Greg Maddux)
July 2, 1997. Atlanta Braves ace Greg Maddux takes the mound for a regular-season start against the defending champion New York Yankees. And in typica...
F1 Wrecks Its Chance in America
June 19, 2005. Formula 1 is hosting its U.S. Grand Prix at the famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway. For years, F1 has desperately tried to establish a...
Michael Jordan Completes His Return from Baseball
June 16, 1996. Michael Jordan leads the Chicago Bulls to their fourth NBA Championship. Many basketball fans consider 1995-96 to be Jordan’s best indi...
The No. 8 Seed Knicks Reach the ’99 Finals
June 11, 1999. Inside Madison Square Garden, Game 6 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals tips off between the New York Knicks and Indiana Pacers. Hard...
The World's Deadliest Race
May 29, 2003. Every year, a little island off the English coast is home to the world’s most dangerous race: the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy. Motorcycli...
Moneymaker Wins the World Series of Poker (feat. Chris Moneymaker)
May 23, 2003. Chris Moneymaker is the last amateur standing. The 28-year-old Tennessee accountant has defied the odds and outlasted over 800 of the be...
Victor Wembanyama & the Boom-or-Bust NBA Lottery
May 16, 2023. If you were watching TV last night, you may have seen NBA history being made. A few ping-pong balls bounced around a lottery machine, an...
A.I. Defeats Humanity… at Chess
May 11th, 1997. The eyes of the world are focused on a chessboard. It's the decisive game of one of the most highly anticipated chess matches of the 2...
The "We Believe" Warriors
May 3rd, 2007. Oracle Arena is rocking. In Oakland, 20,000 fans, all wearing mustard-yellow t-shirts with the slogan “We Believe,” are amped. It’s so...
The NFL Draft Premieres on ESPN (feat. Mina Kimes & Peter King)
April 29, 1980. An upstart media company has proposed a strange idea to the NFL: broadcast the pro football draft live on TV. Nobody really paid much...
Rosie Ruiz Scams the Boston Marathon
April 21, 1980. The Boston Marathon, the oldest and arguably most prestigious marathon in the world, attracts the sport’s top professional runners. So...
Tiger Woods & Jack Nicklaus Defy Age at the Masters
April 13, 1986. In honor of the Masters Invitational Tournament, we revisit two of its most famous finishes. First, an aging Jack Nicklaus attempts to...
Ping Pong Diplomacy
April 10, 1971. A team of ping pong players leaves Hong Kong to step across a border and become the first group of Americans welcomed to China in over...
Baseball's Newest (and Oldest) Rule Changes
March 27, 1986. Decades before pitch clocks and bigger bases, Peter Ueberroth, the Commissioner of Major League Baseball, has to make a decision. He k...
Magic & Bird Take Over March Madness (feat. Jackie MacMullan & Howard Bryant)
March 26, 1979. Magic Johnson. Larry Bird. The pair of basketball superstars have reached the biggest moment in their young careers: the NCAA Tourname...
Serena and Venus Williams Boycott Indian Wells
March 17, 2001. Serena Williams is getting booed. She’s trying to prepare to face Kim Clijsters in the finals of the prestigious annual tennis tournam...
An NBA Star Pays the Price for Speaking Out (feat. Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf)
March 12, 1996. The Denver Nugget's leading scorer, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, is shooting around before the big game tonight. Strangely, a large crowd of re...
Introducing: American Football (Episode 1: Canton, Ohio)
A new History Channel podcast, American Football is the untold tale of the rough-and-tumble origins of the National Football League. Produced and pres...
Wilt Chamberlain Breaks Basketball
March 2, 1962. Wilt Chamberlain, the NBA’s biggest star, makes the long drive out to Hershey, PA. There’s no pro basketball team in Hershey, but tonig...
A Baseball Pioneer Finds His Way Behind Home Plate
February 20, 1951 (or July 1951). Emmett Ashford is waiting inside the ballpark of the Mexicali Eagles. At 36 years old, he's toiled around the United...
Replay: Black Baseball Goes Pro (from History This Week)
Feb 13, 1920. For over thirty years, Black baseball players have been locked out of the major leagues. So on this day in Kansas City, Rube Foster, a f...
Diane Crump Rides Into History (feat. Diane Crump & Barbara Jo Rubin)
February 7, 1969. Diane Crump arrives at Hialeah Racetrack in Miami, Florida, and all eyes are on her. She’s a jockey, someone who races horses, but n...
Super Bowl Special: The First Black QB in the Super Bowl (feat. Doug Williams)
January 31, 1988. Quarterback Doug Williams steps onto the field in San Diego, California for the biggest game of his life. He's moments away from lea...
Björn Borg Shocks The Tennis World
January 23rd, 1983. Björn Borg, one of the top tennis players in the world, has become a global icon. But Borg hasn’t played in any of the sport’s maj...
Gambling Destroys New York City College Basketball
Under the harsh lights of Madison Square Garden, the Manhattan College basketball team loses to DePaul University. But this loss means that all is goi...
The NBA All-Star Boycott
January 14, 1964. Thousands of basketball fans have braved a massive snowstorm in Boston to watch the biggest names in basketball – from Bill Russell...
The Flying Finn Burns Out
January 6, 1925. Cigar smoke thickens the air inside Madison Square Garden. The New York City arena is packed to the brim, ready to watch the greatest...
Green Bay’s First Lambeau Leap
December 26th, 1993. It feels like 20 below zero on the “Frozen Tundra of Lambeau Field”. The Packers stand on the verge of making the playoffs for th...
WWI Soldiers Find Peace in Football
December 24, 1914. Soldiers are stuck in cold, wet trenches on either side of the conflict across the Western Front. The Great War has just begun and...
The Man Who Saved Man U
December 19, 1931. Walter Crickmer, the team secretary for a struggling Manchester United, is making the lonely walk up a long driveway to meet with a...