Author Richard King joined Downtown to talk about his book “Redskins”. King spoke about his decision to write the book and talked about the problem America still has with having […]
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Richard King on offensive team nicknames and Washington DC football
James Walker on “expert” prognostication of sports
Author James Walker joined Downtown for Sports Lit 101 on Wednesday afternoon to talk about sports predictions by experts which often go awry. Walker went into some of the analytics […]
Author Richard King on his book “Meeting Tom Brady”
Author Richard King joined Downtown on Wednesday as part of Sports Lit 101 where he talked about his book, “Meeting Tom Brady”. King talked about how the thought of writing […]
Poet Jesse Graves on his piece “AM Radio”
Poet Jesse Graves joined Downtown on Wednesday to talk about his work and recited his poem, “AM Radio”. Graves talked about how listening to radio growing up and why […]
Sports Lit 101 with Bruce Pratt: “Playing with Tigers”
Bruce Pratt was back on Downtown on Wednesday for Sports Lit 101 to talk about another book, this time with Playing With Tigers by George Gmelch. Pratt went into the […]
Author Kevin Hayes on his book “The Two Wheeled World of George B. Thayer”
Author Kevin Hayes joined Downtown for another edition of Sports Lit 101 to talk about his book “The Two Wheeled World of George B. Thayer”. Hayes talked about what inspired […]
Greg Allen on the Syracuse 8 and the Missouri football boycott
Greg Allen joined Downtown to talk about the Syracuse 8 and the parallels from his group to the Missouri football team of this season. Allen spoke on his time with […]
Author David Davis on his book “Waterman”
Author David Davis joined Downtown on Wednesday to elaborate on his book, “Waterman: The Life And Times of Duke Kahanamoku”. Rich and Bruce previously spoke about “Waterman” in an earlier […]
Joe Bathanti talks about his book “East Liberty”
Joe Bathanti came on Downtown as a part on Sports Lit 101 with Bruce Pratt. Bathanti talked with Rich and Bruce about his book “East Liberty” and his connection to […]
Bill Littlefield of NPR’s “Only A Game” talks about W.C. Heinz
Bill Littlefield of “Only A Game” joined Downtown for Sports Lit 101 to discuss the new book “The Top of His Game”, a collection of the writings of legendary sportswriter […]
Author James R. Walker on baseball radio broadcasts
Author James R. Walker joined Downtown to talk about baseball on the radio and his book Crack of the Bat. Walker spoke about some of the greats in the […]
Sue Eisenfeld on her book “Shenandoah”
Sue Eisenfeld, the author of the book Shenandoah, joined Downtown for Sports Lit 101 to talk about work and how a proposed new national park in Maine could impact the […]
Jay Smith on his book “Cheated”
Author Jay Smith came on Downtown to talk about his recent book Cheated which detailed some of the academic problems within the UNC athletic departments. Smith talked about what he […]