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Preview: 1983 America's Cup 40th Anniversary Edition
Forty years ago, on the 26th of September 1983, Australia II crossed the finish line in the deciding race of the America’s Cup, ending the longest wi…
3 years ago
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 o…
3 years 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, h…
3 years, 1 month 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 te…
3 years, 1 month 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 ban…
3 years, 1 month 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 Bra…
3 years, 1 month 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 b…
3 years, 1 month 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,…
3 years, 2 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 ove…
3 years, 2 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 N…
3 years, 2 months ago