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ID: 335457

Title: Sports Byline: Paul Beston

Author: Ron Barr

Narrator: Paul Beston, Ron Barr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:10:56

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-18

Publisher: Happyland

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Other

Summary:

Paul Beston, author of The Boxing Kings: When American Heavyweights Ruled the Ring talks about his book and the history of America's fascination with heavyweight champs.

His book focuses on the history of boxing in America through the careers of John L. Sullivan, Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Joe Lewis, Rocky Marciano, Mohamad Ali and Mike Tyson; iconic figures that had the ability to appeal to people beyond the ring.

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ID: 335462

Title: Sports Byline: Andrea Kramer

Author: Ron Barr

Narrator: Andrea Kramer, Ron Barr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:10:54

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-18

Publisher: Happyland

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies

Summary:

Andrea Kramer talks about her HBO's Real Sports piece on the state of legalization of sports gambling. Legal sports betting is an estimated 5 billion dollar industry, while illegal sports betting in the rest of the country has an estimated 150 billion dollar value.

Kramer talks about the fight to legalize sports betting in the state of New Jersey, which would change the climate for sports culture in the rest of the country. Kramer also analyzed the pushback from sports leagues against the legalization of sports betting.

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ID: 335460

Title: Sports Byline: David West

Author: Ron Barr

Narrator: David West, Ron Barr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:22:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-18

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Basketball

Summary:

David West—a power forward who played 15 years in the NBA with the Warriors, Spurs, Pacers and the Hornets/Pelicans, and won an NBA Championship with the Golden State Warriors—talks about his influential coach, playing college ball for Xavier, and the two instrumental coaches hes played for in the NBA, Gregg Popovich of the Spurs and Steve Kerr of the Warriors.

West touches on how he uses basketball as a medium to reach and influence young people.

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ID: 335455

Title: Sports Byline: Otis Wilson

Author: Ron Barr

Narrator: Otis Wilson, Ron Barr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:10:55

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-18

Publisher: Happyland

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Football

Summary:

All-Pro linebacker Otis Wilson of the Chicago Bears talks about his 9 NFL seasons, 8 with the Chicago Bears, and the successes-and pranks-of the famous 1985 Super Bowl winning Bears team, including the filming of the 'Super Bowl Shuffle'. Wilson is the author of the autobiography If These Walls Could Talk: Chicago Bears.

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ID: 335468

Title: Sports Byline: Sam Smith

Author: Ron Barr

Narrator: Ron Barr, Sam Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:15:11

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-18

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Basketball

Summary:

Sam Smith, author of theNew York Times best-seller The Jordan Rules talks about his book, Hard Labor: The Battle that Birthed the Billion-Dollar NBA, which details exactly how and why the NBA, and NBA players, make so much money.

Smith explains the significance of the historic Oscar Robertson v. National Basketball Association lawsuit that allowed players free agency for the first time.

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ID: 335470

Title: Las Vegas Connection: Richard Jeni

Author: Bart Torres

Narrator: Bart Torres, Richard Jeni

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:10:59

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-18

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Art & Music

Summary:

The late comedian Richard Jeni of Platypus Man and The Mask talked to Bart Torres in this interview from 2005 about his most recent HBO special, A Big Steaming Pile of Me.

Jeni makes some humorous observations about hotels and explains how he enjoys Las Vegas without gambling. Jeni also talks politics and about the ever-widening partisan gap in America.

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ID: 335458

Title: Sports Byline: Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton

Author: Ron Barr

Narrator: Jonathan Dayton, Ron Barr, Valerie Faris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:10:54

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-18

Publisher: Happyland

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Other

Summary:

In this episode of Sports Byline, Ron Barr talks to the directors of the film Battle of the Sexes, a film based on the historic tennis match of 1973 between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, starring Steve Carell and Emma Stone.

Directors Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton discuss the technical difficulties of making a great sports movie and the lesser known backstories of King and Riggs.

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ID: 335452

Title: Sports Byline: Pierre Turgeon

Author: Ron Barr

Narrator: Pierre Turgeon, Ron Barr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:26:18

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-18

Publisher: Happyland

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Other

Summary:

In this interview, Ron Barr talks to Pierre Turgeon, 19 season NHL center and the 34th player in NHL history to score 500 goals.

Turgeon reminisces about growing up 7 hours north of Montreal, learning English, and Canada's 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships bench-clearing brawl with the Soviet Union.

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ID: 335453

Title: Sports Byline: Gilbert Black

Author: Ron Barr

Narrator: Gilbert Black, Ron Barr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:22:01

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-18

Publisher: Happyland

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies

Summary:

One of the last living Negro American League players, Gilbert Black of the Indianapolis Clowns talks about growing up in NYC and sneaking into the Polo Grounds to watch baseball games as a child.

Black recalls the segregation and discrimination he and other black baseball players faced in the major leagues, including being made to sleep outside on a porch at training camp with the Atlanta Braves.

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ID: 347173

Title: Anastasia Project

Author: Loren John Presley

Narrator: Jarrad Erreca, Loren John Presley, Rebecca Voyda, Renee Bayard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:05:24

Language: English

Release date: 12-29-17

Publisher: Authors Republic

Genres: Teen, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Summary:

Anastasia, a lost dolphin, fights for her survival in an unfamiliar ocean oppressed by a mysterious threat which promises to doom the planet.

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