Truly the GOATs
Truly the GOATs is a sports history podcast with a sense of perspective. Host Os Davis together with guests tell the stories of once-in-a-century athletes, their games and the worlds in which they lived.
Episodes
Thanksgiving Day, 1924. The recently-established tradition of the University of Pittsburgh Panthers football team hosting the Pennsylvania State Nittany Lions on the afternoon of the national autumnal holiday continues.
Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is sent to cover the Pitt-Penn State “Keystone Classic” of 1924; in so doing, he discovers a throughline of the football-on-Thanksgiving tradition going back to 1621 (okay, actually, ...
One hundred years or so ago, the sporting pages of the local newspaper were simultaneously novel and essential for any sports fan in America.
In this teaser trailer for the fiction podcast Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer, meet Harvey and Mabel Taylor of Pittsburgh, loyal subscribers to the Pittsburgh Guardian, and at least one a big fan of a certain roving sports reporter of the 1920s...
This episode stars Richard Kress and Shari Go...
Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.
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Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer
A Different way to hear sports history.
I am Orville Mulligan and yes the career journey I took was as a Sports Writer. My story will fill the listener’s ears with my ...
Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.
NETWORK SPONSOR
Row One - the vintage shop for sports history fans!
Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer
A Different way to hear sports history.
I am Orville Mulligan and yes the career journey I took was as a Sports Writer. My story will fill the listener’s ears with my ...
Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear.
NETWORK SPONSOR
Row One - the vintage shop for sports history fans!
Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer
A Different way to hear sports history.
I am Orville Mulligan and yes the career journey I took was as a Sports Writer. My story will fill the listener’s ears with my ...
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Beginning next week is the world’s second-largest international sports competition: the Paralympic Games, an event with a surprisingly long and interesting history beginning with roots as physical rehabilitation/therapy for World War II veterans.
Guesting on this extra edition of Truly The GOATs is now three-time(!) guest Dr. Dennis Frost. Dennis has previously joined TTG for episode #6 on sumo wrestling and episode #14 on 1920s tr...
During Olympics season 2021, Truly The GOATs takes a look at the Greatest Of All-Time who starred in the modern Games. In this series-within-the-series, TTG presents the stories of superstars from the 1928, 1972/1976 and 1992 Olympics. This is the third, a review of three movies about men’s basketball at the ’92 Games.
Between the 1988 and ’92 Olympic Games, a massive geopolitical shift seismically altered international sport and no...
During this Olympics season, Truly The GOATs takes a look at the Greatest Of All-Time who starred in the modern Games. In this series-within-the-series, TTG presents the stories of superstars from the 1928, 1972/1976 and 1992 Olympics. This is the second, the story of Vasily Alekseyev of the USSR.
Of all the phenomena of the 20th-century history, few are as untranslatable as the Cold War mentality, a pervasive social paranoia that s...
During this Olympics season, Truly The GOATs takes a look at the Greatest Of All-Time who starred in the modern Games. In this series-within-the-series, TTG presents the stories of superstars from the 1928, 1972/1976 and 1992 Olympics. This is the first, the story of Kinue Hitomi of Japan.
The 1920s was quite the boom period for sports in general and by the 1928 Olympic Games this general worldwide appreciation for organized sport h...
For episode 13 of Truly The GOATs, we we privileged to have on the show Michael Foley, who as a journalist, author and podcaster is a real triple threat in the sports history world.
Michael is sports editor/writer for the Sunday Times Irish edition and a member of the Gaellic Athletic Association's History & Commemorations committee, most recently acting as a driving force behind the GAA’s Bloody Sunday commemorations.
Episodes 12 and 13 of the Truly The GOATs podcast included excerpts from an interview with Emmet Ryan, sportswriter, journalist and old compadre from TTG host Os Davis’s days of European basketball reportage.
Emmet is the author of the book I Like It Loud: A basketball tour through Europe, but he was invited on the show to talk Ireland’s national sports of hurling and Gaellic football. Emmet and Os do talk hurling and Gaellic footb...
Truly The GOATs’ current infatuation with Irish sport continues. The previous TTG episode on hurling summarized some 3,100 years or so of the history of hurling, ancient game of the Celts, and concomitantly the whole of Irish history. That story took us up to late 19th century, that great period of codification of modern sports.
So with the ruling elite importing and pushing organized soccer, rugby, cricket and the like, what’s a re...
On this day, June 26, in 1911, Mildred Elle “Babe” Didrikson was born. Truly The GOATs shows our appreciation for this legend in international sports with a remastered re-release of the TTG podcast episode 4, “The Other Babe.”
You’d think that earning three-American basketball team nods plus one national team championship, dominating the U.S. Olympic trials as a one-person team and winning more tournaments than any golfer except Tig...
On June 26, 1911, Mildred Ella Didrikson, later to become known worldwide as Babe Didrikson and after that as Babe Didrikson Zaharias, was born.
To mark the occasion, Truly The GOATs releases this bonus episode, a collection of excerpts from Babe’s autobiography This Life I Have Led, as read by Raechel Wong; these excerpts helped comprise episode 4 of Truly the GOATs, entitled The Other Babe.
The excerpts run chronologically from h...
Truly The GOATs episode 12 was devoted to the Irish sport of hurling and its interconnectedness with Ireland, but how can one summarize 3,000 years of myth & history in any decent amount of time?
In this extra edition of Truly The GOATs, we talk origins, specifically those of Canada’s national pastime: Did the Irish actually invent hockey’s evolutionary predecessor? And what does it mean if they did?
What started as a “simple” look by an unsuspecting American at the GOAT two- (or more) sport stars of Ireland – particularly those of hurling and Gaellic football – instead ballooned into researching over 3,000 years of Irish myth and history on the game of hurling alone.
Back when folks in Mesoamerica were just getting interesting ideas about putting rubber balls into vertical hoops, the Celts were already playing an intricate sp...
Episode 11 of the Truly The GOATs podcast included excerpts from an interview with author Denis Crawford. Denis has to date written three books based in part at least on professional football in Tampa, Florida. His third and most recently released is the autobiographical work The Life and Teams of Johnny F. Bassett, the subject of which was also the focus of TTG #11.
In this extra edition of Truly The GOATs, a mostly unexpurgated ve...
With the evolution of sports, sports broadcasting and the ever-crazier sums of money associated with sports in the 20th century, entertainment became synonymous with the games themselves. And few entrepreneurial sorts were more imaginative in delivering entertaining sports product that Johnny F. Bassett.
On this episode of Truly The GOATs, we discuss the P.T. Barnum of 20th-century sports with Denis Crawford, a...
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