Distant Replay

Every baseball fan knows about Pete Rose and his lifetime ban from Major League Baseball. It's a topic of debate for many people but the league hasn't budged on their stance.

But do you know how the entire scandal played out?

Today we'll take you through Pete Rose's relationship with the MLB front office and how the investigation into his gambling habits led to one of the greatest players of all-time having no association with the sport he helped make popular.

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The NBA Slam Dunk Contest has been a popular event for many years but you might be able to go back to February 6, 1988 to find the night it really became a big deal.

That All-Star weekend in Chicago featured a classic competition between seven players but Michael Jordan and Dominique Wilkins stole the show. Those two eventually squared off in the finals and four of their combined dunks would earn a perfect score of 50. It was the other two dunks that were a bit questionable by the judges.

Today we're taking you back to that night in Chicago Stadium and reliving this incredible slam dunk contest.

Here are some of the things we'll be talking about:

• Old school TBS broadcast
• A dunk tutorial
• The love of the word 'flare'
• Jordan takes off from the free throw line....twice
• The judges
• A very non-PC dunk comment
• Did Dominique have the better performance?

We'll talk all these things and many other observations we had after watching this event more than 30 years later.

If you want to go back and watch it, we've posted the full broadcast on our website here: https://distantreplaypodcast.com/ep-71-1988-slam-dunk-contest/

It's time for episode four of Last Chance U featuring East LA College, and we finally start getting a the background we were hoping for on head coach John Mosley.

Join us as we recap this episode, which ends with one of the best speeches of the entire series.

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Mookie Blaylock was a popular NBA players during the 90s thanks to a great personality and lockdown defense. The Atlanta Hawks' star made a name for himself during a tremendous decade in the NBA.

But off the court, Blaylock has struggled with alcohol. With multiple arrests for DUI, his life and that of two others changed forever when he crashed into a couple after suffering a seizure.

On today's true crime sports episode of Distant Replay, we'll give you the details of Blaylock and how he eventually got a 15-year sentence which included the inability to get behind a wheel.

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The 2015 Final Four matchup between 1-seeds Kentucky and Wisconsin was a rematch of the classic national semifinal game from 2014. The Wildcats came into the game with a perfect 38-0 record and it marked the first undefeated Final Four team since the UNLV team of the early 90s.

While the 2015 roster for the Wildcats was almost completely different, the Badgers returned the core of their team including player of the year Frank Kaminsky and rising draft prospect Sam Dekker. That aforementioned Kentucky roster was loaded and headlined by Karl Anthony Towns, Devin Booker, Tyler Ulis, the Harrison twins, Willie Cauley Stein and Trey Lyles. This was the matchup we waited all year for and it delivered in spades. Now we go back and watch it all over again. On this episode we discuss:

• Ben watching this game in Vegas originally
• John Calipari vs. Bo Ryan
• Did Kentucky have too many good players?
• The Harrison twins' role down the stretch
• Wisconsin's uniforms
• The veteran Wisconsin team vs. upstart UK. Which is the better way to build a program
• The benches below the court are terrible
• The refs with some terrible calls down the stretch
• A game of runs
• Final Four on TBS over CBS?

We'll talk this and much more on today's show. If you want to go back and watch it again, we have the video for you here on our website: https://distantreplaypodcast.com/ep-70-2015-final-four-1-kentucky-vs-1-wisconsin/

We're on to episode 3 of Netflix's reality series on East LA College. This Last Chance U season is ramping up and we learn a lot more about Deshaun Highler off the court, find out why Joe Hampton missed a few days of practice, get a peak inside the film room, and much more.

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The story of former UConn athlete Eric Naposki involved sex, money, adultery, betryal that we have come to expect from our most scandalous true crime cases.

Naposki along with his lover Nanette Johnston were accused of conspiring together to plan and carry out the murder of Nanette's fiancee Bill McLaughlin, a wealthy Orange County California entrepreneur. This case would take over 15 years to reach a conclusion and is one of the most sinister true crime stories you will hear. This is the true crime story of Eric Naposki, Nanette Johnston and the murder of William "Bill" McLaughlin brought to you by your sport true crime Youtubers, the Distant Replay Podcast.

The 2005 Elite 8 matchup between Arizona and Illinois is thought of by some to be one of the best regional final games in NCAA Tournament history. It's one of those games where all of the stars aligned for a great March Madness moment that fans of the sport live for.

The Fighting Illini had its best season in school history led by the legendary backcourt of Deron Williams, Dee Brown, and Luther Head. Add to that their road to the Final Four went through Rosemont Horizon and it was a great moment for the storied Big Ten program and this number one seed. On the other side was the 3-seed Arizona Wildcats led by legendary coach Lute Olsen, dynamic point guard Salim Stoudamire, and future pro Channing Frye. Hassan Adams also had a great game in this particular matchup as well. In this episode we discuss:

• How great this Illini team was
• The backcourt of Williams, Brown and Head and how it was trendsetting for the next generation of college basketball
• Lute Olsen and Bill Weber
• Bilas and Enberg on the call
• The Illini's legendary comeback
• Pesky Arizona never giving an inch
• Stoudamire's underrated season
• The eventual UNC v Illinois championship game

We talk all this and more on this episode of Distant Replay. If you'd like to watch this game as it aired on CBS, we have it for you here: https://distantreplaypodcast.com/ep-69-2005-ncaa-tourney-elite-8-1-illinois-vs-3-arizona/

The hit Netflix show Last Chance U takes to the hardcourt of East LA College (ELAC) in the first installment of Last Chance U Basketball.

Our plan is to recap every episode and we'll start with episodes 1 and 2 on today's show.

In these episodes we are introduced to head coach John Mosley and begin learning the stories of some of the ELAC players like Deshaun Highler, KJ Allen, Joe Hampton and Malik Muhammad. Among the topics on this podcast:

• Joe Hampton tells us the difference between a basketball player and a hooper
• The unique circumstances the ELAC players and coaches face as a program
• A 35,000 student junior college?
• Deshaun Highler and the impact his mother had on him
• The awesome soundtrack
• Can coach Mosley get all of these talented players to pull in the same direction?
• The background of KJ Allen and how he ended up at ELAC
• The elusive CA state JUCO championship that the program is chasing

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Darryl Henley was a former All-American at UCLA and a 2nd round pick in the 1989 NFL Draft by the Los Angeles Rams, but his football career came to an abrupt end when he was arrested for his involvement in a drug operation.

Things got even worse for Henley when he was set up by another inmate in prison and eventually got sentenced to 41 years.

Today we'll take you through the life and crimes of Henley and share the details of his case.

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