All Blog posts Tagged: 'oral history'
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Lowe Post: Jackie Mac & Bartholomew On "Basketball: A Love Story"
Zach talks to Rafe Bartholomew and ESPN’s Jackie MacMullan about “Basketball: A Love Story,” their must-read new oral history of basketball.
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Lowe Post: Abrams On New Oral History Of 'The Wire'
Zach talks to Jonathan Abrams of Bleacher Report about his new oral history of “The Wire.”
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Jalen & Jacoby
Jalen Rose and David Jacoby give an oral history of the stretch four, then give thanks for Thanksgiving side dishes, a high-quality NBA rookie class, and first-class travel.
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53 Minutes of Madness in Toronto: An Oral History of the ALDS Inning That Broke Baseball
On October 14, 2015, the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Texas Rangers 6-3 in the fifth and final game of their American League Division Series. But Toronto’s win came at a steep cost to the sport, as the game’s senseless seventh inning pulled back baseball’s logical outer layer to expose the fetus fields and Langoliers below. For years, most participants have considered the inning too painful to talk about, but time has smoothed some of its emotional edges. Recently, we asked a few of the principals to delve into their pasts to explain the game’s troubling legacy.
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The Making of Les Grossman: An Oral History
The year was 2008. Tom Cruise was a national punch line. Then came ‘Tropic Thunder’ and the cameo role of a lifetime.
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Moses Malone: 1955–2015
Remembering the greatest rebounder that ever lived.
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NBA Shootaround: Beale Street Bullies
Featuring: “The Oral History of the Rockets’ Emojigate.”
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1990s Orlando Magic Oral History
An oral history of Shaq, Penny, and the Orlando Magic’s lost NBA dynasty.
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‘Are You Serious?’ The Unlikely Ascent of GGG to PPV
How a little-known Kazakh knockout artist became boxing’s cult hero.
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College Football Week 7 Wrap: The Ball Is Free
Michigan makes an all-time mistake, LSU rolls past a top-10 foe, Alabama crushes Texas A&M, and more from this weekend’s action.
