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Sports Explains the World

By: Wondery | Meadowlark
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  • Sports Explains the World unveils some of the wildest and most surprising sports stories you’ve never heard. And they’re all true. From the unemployed history teacher turned CIA agent and Uganda national basketball coach, to the teenager who invented a mythical athlete…then watched him sign a million-dollar deal, these stories will amaze and move you at every turn. From award-winning journalists across the globe, Sports Explains the World reveals the human side of sports in provocative and unusual ways. Whether you’ve ever thrown a spiral or been in one, prepare to experience the action on and off the field from an unexpected – and sometimes shocking – vantage point.


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  • Listen Now: Once Upon a Beat

    Listen Now: Once Upon a Beat
    May 1 2024

    Get ready to hear your favorite stories remixed with beats and hooks that you can’t find in books!


    In Once Upon a Beat, host DJ Fyütch and his sidekick/turntable Baby Scratch drop the needle on classic stories, spinning them up with a hip-hop twist. They’re turning the tables on your favorite fables – putting the Rap in Rapunzel, letting Goldilocks rock out, and helping the Ugly Duckling march to his own beat! Where hip hop and fables meet, It's Once Upon a Beat!


    Listen to new episodes of Once Upon a Beat here.

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    7 mins
  • 40 | Two Dreams: China and the NBA | Part III

    40 | Two Dreams: China and the NBA | Part III
    May 1 2024

    When late NBA Commissioner David Stern arrived in Beijing, he came with a lucrative business proposal. Stern pushed for American basketball games to be broadcast on Chinese national television, introducing millions of Chinese people to inspiring NBA narratives of individual glory. As the country’s spirits rose, so did the league’s revenues. In the final installment Two Dreams, reporter Kerry Seed explores the budding partnership between China and the NBA at the turn of the millennium, before the infamous Daryl Morey tweet.

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    24 mins
  • 39 | Two Dreams: China and the NBA | Part II

    39 | Two Dreams: China and the NBA | Part II
    Apr 24 2024

    Former Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey Morey’s ill-fated tweet in support of the 2019 Hong Kong protests sparked an existential showdown between the NBA and China, where, by some estimates, there are more basketball fans than people in the United States. In part two of Two Dreams, reporter Kerry Seed looks back at the crucial time during the 1980s when the NBA and the People’s Republic of China began to form a unique partnership.



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    32 mins
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Well-produced, interesting podcast

These are interesting stories - a blend of history and human interest with a connection to sports as a common thread..

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