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StoryCorps Griot: Harold Lucas, Jr., D'Lorah Butts-Lucas, and Darryll Lucas
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: D’Lorah Butts-Lucas, Harold Lucas, Jr. and Darryll Lucas at their StoryCorps interview in Daytona Beach, Florida on March 21, 2022., Credit: Jarrod Sport for StoryCorps.
Harold Lucas, Jr. sits down with his daughter, D’Lorah Butts-Lucas, to remember seeing Jackie Robinson train to become the first Black player in M...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 21, 2022
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 1
RDD: The Freedom of Choice
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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On this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, we tell the story of Chuck Ealey's long and winding road to the College Football Hall. Especially long ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 07, 2022
  • Length: 06:40
  • Purchases: 1
Bigger Than A Game (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Serena Williams is widely regarded as one of the best athletes of all time. But far too often her passion on the tennis court has been criticized a...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Ohm Radio , KHEN-LP, WCNY, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 18, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 7
Bigger Than A Game (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Serena Williams is widely regarded as one of the best athletes of all time. But far too often her passion on the tennis court has been criticized a...

Bought by WTJU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, Ohm Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 18, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
Bigger Than A Game (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Serena Williams is widely regarded as one of the best athletes of all time. But far too often her passion on the tennis court has been criticized a...

Bought by WXDU, KICI Iowa City, Kansas Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WJCT and more


  • Added: Mar 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 13
Bigger Than A Game (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Serena Williams is widely regarded as one of the best athletes of all time. But far too often her passion on the tennis court has been criticized a...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Mar 18, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 3 - Sports!
From: This Land Press
Series: This Land Radio
Caption: On the hunt for bass at Grand Lake in Oklahoma for the 2013 Bassmaster Classic, Credit: Shane Benel
This week on This Land Radio, we learn the rules of the game just enough to question them.

Bought by KMXT, KGOU, KBGA 89.9 FM, and KOSU


  • Added: Jul 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Combat and Incarceration, Part Three
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week’s episode ends our series of conversations with Valrice “Whop” Cooper. Whop is the legendary cornerman who learned his craft training pri...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Combat and Incarceration, Part Two
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week continues our set of conversations with Valrice “Whop” Cooper, the legendary cornerman who learned his craft training prisoners in the Lo...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Combat and Incarceration, Part One
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week starts our series of conversations with Valrice “Whop” Cooper, the legendary cornerman who learned his craft training prisoners in the Lo...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
The Golden Age of Black Baseball (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Before Jackie Robinson, there were the Negro Leagues -- home to some of the greatest untold stories in baseball.

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 4
In New Orleans, Before Baseball, Football Or Soccer, There Was Raquette
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: In 1834, artist George Catlin witnessed Choctaw lacrosse in Indian Territory near present-day Oklahoma., Credit: GEORGE CATLIN / SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM
Laine Kaplan-Levenson returns with a new story about an indigenous sport that became popular before the Civil War.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 10:19
The Secret Basketball Game That Desegregated Louisiana High School Sports
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: The Purple Knights pose on the court; Harold Sylvester is kneeling next to his coach., Credit: HAROLD SYLVESTER / AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER
In this episode, Laine Kaplan-Levenson discusses the first integrated high school sports contest in Louisiana between St. Aug and Jesuit--and talks...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 11:26
  • Purchases: 1
Who Invented Modern Basketball?
From: Peter Johnson
Series: THE AUTHOR'S CORNER ON PUBLIC RADIO, DECEMBER 2015
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Teaser answer: He was a superb athlete but native to another country! Find out who as author Scott Ellsworth reads from The Secret Game: A Wartime ...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
Author Peter Gorton Talks About the Greatest Baseball Player You May Have Never Heard Of, Negro League Pitcher John Donaldson, and His History in Minnesota
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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Summer is the time for baseball all over the country, and in Minnesota that’s no different. The history of baseball in Minnesota, however, has inc...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2015
  • Length: 29:56
StoryCorps: Frank Scott and Warrick Scott
From: StoryCorps
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Frank Scott remembers his father, Wendell Scott, who recently became the first African American driver in the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jan 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 1
Jack Johnson
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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The first African-American man to win the heavyweight boxing title.

Bought by KTTZ, KTTZ, and KAMU


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3
William Devine Golf Course Audio Postcard
From: Mason Sand
Caption: Mr. Jones on the course, Credit: Mason Sand
A collection of sounds and voices from William Devine Golf course, one of America's oldest public courses, located in inner-city Boston in the hear...

  • Added: May 16, 2012
  • Length: 01:55
Jack Johnson and The Great "Race" Race
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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America’s first African-American heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson challenges auto-racing champ Barney Oldfield... on the racetrack in pre-W...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
The Fight of the Century: Ali - Frazier I
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
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Two undefeated heavyweight boxing champions capture the imagination of a polarized America on March 8, 1971.

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
Humankind: Rubin Carter's Hurricane
From: Humankind
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Memorialized in a Bob Dylan song and an Academy Award nominated Denzel Washington film, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter was a successful prize fighter, wh...

Bought by WEZU, WOUB, NPR Illinois, RadioFreePalmer, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 28
This I Believe - Muhammad Ali
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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To be the “Greatest of All Time,” boxing legend Muhammad Ali says you have to believe in yourself.

Bought by WEZU, KRZA, KFAI Minneapolis, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: May 13, 2009
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 10
Inside the Capoeiristas' Circle
From: Aaron Henkin
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A profile of a centuries-old martial art with roots that go back to Angola, Africa

  • Added: Apr 03, 2008
  • Length: 18:30
Me and Hank
From: Homelands Productions
Series: World Views
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The story of a boy and his hero, baseball home run champion Hank Aaron, and an exploration of the hatred Aaron endured in chasing a white man's rec...

Bought by WXDU, KFAI Minneapolis, KISU, Connecticut Public (WNPR), PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2007
  • Length: 16:54
  • Purchases: 8
Nebraska's first Heisman Trophy winner honors another pioneer black Nebraska athlete.
From: Deborah Van Fleet
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Johnny, "The Jet" Rodgers, Heisman '72, honors another pioneer Nebraska athlete, Marion Hudson, and talks about the importance of black communities...

Bought by WTIP and KRCC-FM


  • Added: Feb 14, 2007
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 2