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On this Why We Root, a story of a classic American sports town and the season that started with tragedy but ended with a championship. We’ll recall...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Nick Temperine, a kid in Hi-5 Sports, loves to come and play basketball with his friends. , Credit: (c) 2015 Hi-5 Sports
Hi-5 Sports was founded in Clifton Park, N.Y. by Jim Fitzgerald to give children with physical and developmental disabilities the chance to play si...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 03:30
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Two skydivers died in a fatal tandem jump. The men’s parachutes didn’t open completely. A month later, what happened to the man who found the parac...

Bought by PRX Remix, HowSound, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 08:51
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Lisa Smith and Tad Wagner skate at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, MN., Credit: Noel Clark
Built in 1982, the Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome has seen it’s share of sporting events. Baseball, football, soccer. But off the field, a community o...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
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In Timor-Leste, members of Martial Arts Groups outnumber the local police officers forty-five to one and are legendary for the violence they have w...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2010
  • Length: 08:18
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In the absence of govenrment in the rebuilding process organizations like operation blessing have stepped in to rebuild.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2007
  • Length: 05:59