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Twenty-four hours a day in every city in America, you can hear shock jock radio types screaming their outrage at the latest sports scandal, and the din has become loud and steady. Diana Nyad, on the other hand, is thirsting for the poetry, the sociology, Primary Format : Sports Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Unknown State/Province : Unknown User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of KCRW's The Score Podcasts Methings.com listings of KCRW's The Score Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

Villa, Star of '08 Surely swimming phenom Michael Phelps will top most '08 year-end lists from sports writers and broadcasters. Count me in on that choice. But there was an American athlete who medaled in Beijing whose story didn't get enough attention, in my opinion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Kinship Far from Home One of the delightful and somewhat eccentric aspects of the American sports landscape is that there are sports bars dedicated to highly popular school and pro programs all over the country. If you bleed the blood of America's team, the Dallas Cowboys, but you have left the lone-star state, you can find kinship every Sunday in many faraway places... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Burress a Liability It's a phrase that rolls easily off the tongue: there's a plethora of talent around the NFL so if a talent's giving you trouble, get rid of him...there are plenty just like him right around the next draft corner. But that generally accepted football truth doesn't actually apply to Plaxico Burress... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Gambler's Empathy Incorrect officials' calls have been a big back story in this year's NFL season. Come Mondays, newspaper headlines in various NFL cities have blared outrage over Sunday's inept calls, a few of which have, in hindsight and further video review, proven to actually have changed the final score. But the rants and raves were at an all-time decibel this Monday... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | NASCAR Nation Fades The NASCAR season ends this weekend with the final chase for the Spring Cup race in Homestead-Miami. The stands aren't nearly as crowded and rowdyas they were just a couple of years ago. Last week NASCAR fans suffereda slap of indignity when the penultimate race at Phoenix was bumped offthe ABC air waves with 34 laps left and replaced withAmerica’s Funniest Home Videos.NASCAR Nation is losing some of its once-mighty muscle and thisill-conceived chase for the Sprint Cup is the culprit.. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Obama's Moment Naïve of me, leading up to Tuesday, not to have foreseen the emotional moment that would come with a black man winning the presidential election. With millions of Americans, I was zeroed in on the greatness of the man, race aside, on the potential of hope. Early morning Tuesday, huddled under my big golf umbrella with a few fellow voters in a light drizzle outside my neighborhood voting station, an African American woman of some 70 to 75 years welled up with tears as she told us she knew ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | New York City Marathon The New York City Marathon runs this Sunday and it's an odd thing. It's odd that, while the eventhas grown hugely in participant numbers (some 40,000 this year,compared to the few 55 maverick souls in the inaugural year, 1970) andhas attracted bigger and bigger crowds each year (some 2 million linethe neighborhood streets now, offering tastes of their Italian orPolish or Vietnamese goodies as the runners stream by), but whereas theevent used to be televised nationally, its coverage is now a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jack Kelly a Diamond his past weekend marked the annual Head of the Charles Regatta.When I saw some photos of the 8,000 rowers in various boats, glidingdown the Charles River on a crisp, quintessential New England Octoberday, with some 300,000 people watching and cheering from both shores, Igot to wondering about the history of rowing... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A League of Their Own A League of Their Ownwas the popular 1992 Penny Marshall movie, basically a comedy, based on the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. While the history of the league was portrayed at least somewhat accurately via the film's storyline and a few of the characters came through with at least a semblance of similarity to the real people, one thing that the movie lacked was a recreation of the extraordinary athleticism of those women ball players... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Clutch It's one of the magical monikers of sports. "Mr. October." It came about thirty-one years ago, during the sixth game of the WorldSeries between the Yankees and the Dodgers. Yankee super-slugger ReggieJackson clobbered three home runs and when his teammate Thurmon Munsonwas being interviewed after the game about the pressures of post-seasonplay... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | LeMond Hard Times Before there was the hero Lance Armstrong, there was the hero Greg LeMond. LeMond, with his muscled style, his bon-vivant party-all-night, ride-the-Alps all-day fervor, with his three Tour de France victories back in the late ---80's, brought a passion for cycling to America and brought respect for an American cyclist to Europe. He was the first American to win the prestigious Tour. He was the first to win it on an American-made bicycle... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Tiger Paradox The fabled Masters golf tournament is under way as of today down in Augusta, Georgia. Tiger is of course the story. Tiger. The greatest crossover sports star since Mohammed Ali. Tiger. The paradox of today's sports world. He's both the greatest element of this era of golf, and he's what's wrong with this era of golf... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |