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A Drunken Le Mans: Part Two – Sports Bizarre

Season 2 Episode 31

In part two of our series, Duncan Hamilton and Tony Rolt begin their assault on the Le Mans 24-hour race.

Signing with Jaguar, the 1953 seemed full of promise, only for them to be disqualified during…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

A Drunken Le Mans: Part One – Sports Bizarre

Season 2 Episode 30

As a baby, Duncan Hamilton crashed his pram down 38 steps. This proved to be just a precursor to him crashing cars and planes.

Despite the crashes, he was fast, incredibly fast, becoming one of the g…

Published on 2 years, 3 months ago

Bunker Spreckels – Sports Bizarre

Season 2 Episode 29

Bunker Spreckels became famous as a surfer, but he was born into the wealthy Spreckles family, a dynasty built on the sugar trade that gave us the term ‘sugar daddy.’

At five, Bunker’s mother remarri…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Mob Football – Sports Bizarre

Season 2 Episode 28

Before organised sport, there was mob football, where entire villages played against each other for days, with no rules, and the kings of England banning it, then legalising it and then banning it ag…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Tex Rickard: Sports Greatest Promoter Part Two – Sports Bizarre

Season 2 Episode 23

In part two, Tex Rickard moves to Argentina to raise cattle. Instead, he ends up in the middle of a war between Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil, with Argentina asking him to lead their army.…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Tex Rickard: Sports Greatest Promoter Part One – Sports Bizarre

Season 2 Episode 26

By his mid-twenties, Tex Rickard had been a cowboy, a Marshal, was friends with Wyatt Earp and had followed the gold rushes to Alaska.

In Alaska he became friends with people with names like Swiftwat…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

The Footballer Who Wasn't – Sports Bizarre

Season 2 Episode 25

Carlos Kaiser had one of the longest careers in Brazilian football, joining all the big four clubs Botafogo, Fluminense, Flamengo, and Vasco da Gama, plus stints in Mexico, Argentina and France.

Howe…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Sports Biggest Family Feud Part Two – Sports Bizarre

Season 2 Episode 24

Last week we left off with the two Dassler brothers splitting apart their shoe company after a vicious falling out.

With the Second World War now over, the two brothers start building their new compa…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Sports Biggest Family Feud Part One – Sports Bizarre

Season 2 Episode 23

In 1923, two brothers formed a new shoe company, Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik, or Geda.

The company grew quickly against the backdrop of the rising Nazi party, and by the 1936 Berlin Olympics, top at…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

The LIV Golf-PGA Merger Part Two – Sports Bizarre

Season 2 Episode 22

In part two of our look at the LIV Golf-PGA Tour merger, Greg Norman is now CEO of LIV Golf, unleashing a civil war in the sport.

Money is thrown around like a loose bucks night, as golfers make hund…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago