history Archives - Awful Announcing

CBS paid homage to 1924 Michigan-Illinois game with press outfits, radio reenactment

From a radio reenactment to Brad Nessler, Gary Danielson, and Jenny Dell dressing in 1924 fashions and Nessler reading a Grantland Rice column, this was quite the open.

Bill James in 2010. (@dishfunctional on Flickr.)

MLB

Can we separate Bill James’ contributions from his commentary?

A graphic of some of Sports Illustrated’s ownership/publisher history.

Arena Group

How did Sports Illustrated get here? A full timeline

Lynette Woodard (L) and Caitlin Clark. (Woodard photo from Bernard Gotfryd at the 1986 Ms. Magazine Woman of the Year Awards, via Wikipedia. Clark photo from a Feb. 22 game against Indiana, from Rich Janzaruk/The (Bloomington) Herald-Times via USA Today Sports.)

College Basketball

‘Inconsistent’ NCAA ignoring of women’s basketball history and records bashed: ‘It should not be dismissed.’

A graphic for ESPN’s “Playmakers.” (L’Equipe.)

ESPN

Looking back at ESPN’s scripted sports content, from ‘A Season on the Brink’ to ‘Playmakers’ and ‘Tilt’

ESPN writer David Fleming’s ‘Who’s Your Founding Father?’ gives a fascinating look at the first Declaration of Independence

Fleming makes a compelling case for the historical importance of the oft-overlooked Mecklenburg Declaration of 1775.