PRX - Pieces for Topic: Sports
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A Norwegian immigrant in Oregon invented the first quick-release ski binding, which made skiing safer and more appealing.
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 16:51
- Purchases: 2
When horses need social time they turn to everything from farm animals to spider monkeys.
Bought by KGUA and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 01:47
- Purchases: 2
Homer's 23rd chapter in the 2800-year-old poem The Iliad has no rival. As the western world's oldest sports-writing, it set the standard for the t...
Bought by KSLU
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 02:43
- Purchases: 1
Ancient Greek and post-modern verse.
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 2
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
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
He was a runner, early on. Before it was popular. Before Spandex, before Nike and Gatorade. At one time, he was one of a handful of the fastest hum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2011
- Length: 03:00
You may not know his name, but chances are good you could sing, hum or whistle one of his tunes.
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:00
