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  • The Black Sox in six minutes

    The Black Sox in six minutes
    2026/09/12
    Eight Chicago players were acquitted by a jury of throwing the 1919 World Series. The next day, baseball banned all eight of them for life anyway. How you fix a World Series without anybody seeing it — you do not throw it, you are only slightly worse than you are. The first batter taking a pitch in the body as a signal to the gamblers. The betting money that moved in volumes that made no sense. The signed confessions that vanished out of the courthouse before the trial. And the sport's first commissioner, handed powers nobody had thought to limit, deciding that a jury's verdict had no bearing on whether a man belonged in the game.

    This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.
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    4 分
  • The Hand of God, 1986

    The Hand of God, 1986
    2026/09/11
    On 22 June 1986 at the Estadio Azteca, Diego Maradona scored the two most famous goals in World Cup history four minutes apart in the same quarter-final against England. The first he punched in past Peter Shilton while referee Ali Bin Nasser was unsighted and the linesman had already turned for the halfway line - no video review existed. The second, voted the Goal of the Century, ran from inside his own half through the England defence in eleven touches. This episode covers the Falklands War backdrop, what the officials actually saw, Maradona's 'a little with the head of Maradona and a little with the hand of God' line, and his later admission.

    This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.
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    5 分
  • Eddie the Eagle flies last and wins everything

    Eddie the Eagle flies last and wins everything
    2026/09/12
    Michael Edwards was a plasterer from Cheltenham who became Britain's first Olympic ski jumper largely by being the only man in the country who volunteered. At Calgary in 1988 he finished last in both events — in borrowed boots stuffed with socks, a helmet tied on with string, and spectacles that fogged under his goggles so badly he left most ramps unable to see the landing. Every jump he landed upright. At the closing ceremony the president of the organising committee named one athlete from the podium, and it was the one who had come last. The qualifying rule written afterwards is still informally named after him.

    This episode was produced with AI narration and scripting, with human editorial review.
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    4 分