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The man who invented the Melbourne Cup – Sports Bizarre
Season 1 Episode 18
Frederick Charles Standish left England in 1852 under a false name and fleeing moneylenders. Landing in Melbourne, he was forced to live on the goldf…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Philadelphia Eagles wild man – Sports Bizarre
Season 1 Episode 17
Timothy John Rossovich was a star defensive end and linebacker at the University of Southern California and the Philadelphia Eagles, but it was off t…
3 years, 10 months ago
Good Old Bob – Sports Bizarre
Season 1 Episode 16
Robert Standish Sievier was one of the most colourful personalities of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, a man who revolutionised bookmaking in Austr…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Weirdest Contracts in Sport – Sports Bizarre
Season 1 Episode 15
Contracts in sports contain clauses so weird they are scarcely believable.
There are clauses banning players from going to nightclubs, but there's al…
3 years, 11 months ago
Dock Ellis, LSD and other adventures – Sports Bizarre
Season 1 Episode 14
In an All-Star career, Dock Ellis managed to win a World Series, pitch a no-hitter on LSD, hit every batter that came to the plate in a game and set …
3 years, 11 months ago
The 2000 Spanish Paralympic team – Sports Bizarre
Season 1 Episode 13
At the 2000 Paralympic games, a new category, Basketball for the Intellectually Disabled, was to be included in the games.
It got the head of the Spa…
3 years, 11 months ago
The 1900 Paris Olympics – Sports Bizarre
Season 1 Episode 12
The 1900 Paris Olympics were a disaster of planning and execution, to the point many athletes never even knew they’d participated in an Olympics.
So …
4 years ago
The Monkey Testicle Doping Scandal – Sports Bizarre
Season 1 Episode 11
In the 1930s, several English football clubs experimented with a new treatment sweeping the globe, ingesting, injecting or transplanting testicular t…
4 years ago
Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong-un – Sports Bizarre
Season 1 Episode 10
Former Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman has recently offered to go to Russia to talk to President Vladimir Putin about the imprisoned WNBA star Brittney Gr…
4 years ago
The Curse of Colonel Sanders – Sports Bizarre
Season 1 Episode 9
Sporting curses are always strange, but perhaps none is stranger than the Curse of Colonel Sanders, which has seen the Japanese baseball team, the Ha…
4 years ago