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This week on “Only A Game,” Penn State strives for further football glory, a ghost named Grange gallops again across various gridirons, courtesy of his biographer, and we solve all your seasonal gridlock with our annual “Only A Game” gift guide. Audio for http://www.bu.edu/wbur/storage/2008/12/onlyagame_1213.mp3Continue reading »
Red Grange was a dominant college football player and the first true star of the National Football League. In his book, The Galloping Ghost: An American Football Legend, Gary Andrew Poole profiles the man who was an American icon long before the NFL was the place where players went to become stars. Bill Littlefield shares his observations on the book.
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This week on Only A Game, the NBA’s Thunder rumbles into Oklahoma City at supersonic speed. Also, the latest Major League Baseball post-season news, and a conversation with Gary Smith, author of Going Deep: 20 Classic Sports Stories. Audio for http://www.bu.edu/wbur/storage/2008/10/onlyagame_1018.mp3 Continue reading »
The league championship series have arrived. This week on Only A Game, a baseball postseason update. Also, Jose Feliciano remembers his controversial national anthem performance at the 1968 World Series, and we meet a team of athletes who are literally strong as oxen.Audio for http://www.bu.edu/wbur/storage/2008/10/onlyagame_1011.mp3Continue reading »
In his new book, War As They Knew It: Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler, and America in a Time of Unrest, Michael Rosenberg describes how the intense rivalry between Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes and Michigan coach Bo Schembechler during the sixties and seventies reached far beyond the football field. Only A Game’s Karen Given comments.
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