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NPR Morning Edition's Frank Deford gives weekly commentary on a cross section of the world of sports. Sometimes acerbic, often funny, always insightful. Primary Format : Sports Language : English Also Listed as: City : Unknown State/Province : Unknown Country : USA Region : NA 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 NPR: Sports with Frank Deford Podcasts Methings.com listings of NPR: Sports with Frank Deford Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of NPR: Sports with Frank Deford When Football's Deadly Brutality Outraged America In just one season 100 years ago, 26 players died from injuries sustained in football games. The deaths sparked a national outcry and forced the new collegiate athletic association to take action to make the sport safer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Favre Gets A Bye Week -- But Will He Ever Say Bye? The Minnesota Vikings had a bye week this weekend — and that's a problem for both sports fans and wordsmiths. But a week off is not really a bye — nor is it a reason not to discuss the NFL's age-defying quarterback, Brett Favre. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A-Rod's New Success: Enough To Put Demons To Rest? When the New York Yankees won the American League title, Alex Rodriguez was embraced by his teammates. The moment marks a turnaround for A-Rod, who has struggled in past post-seasons — and hasn't always had the affection of teammates and fans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tailgating: When A Picnic Turns Into An Event For some football fans, firing up the grill and sharing a beer are as essential to pregame ritual as the coin toss and "The Star-Spangled Banner." Even late in the season, football fans will tailgate, gathering on the cold, hard tarmac to dine alfresco Americano — even when the weather is cold and very un-picnic-y. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Boise State Needs NCAA's Help To Buck BCS Boise State has one of the upwardly mobile teams in college football — but there may be a limit to how far the team can go. Commentator Frank Deford says the powers that be in college football keep teams like Boise State from having a shot at the big time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Chicago, Chrissie And Khloe: Of Love And The Game Love blossoms for some athletes, while it wilts for others — including Chicago and the brutal rejection of its proposal to host the 2016 Olympics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Baseball Announcers: More Than Just A Voice They may not wear a uniform, but baseball announcers like Ernie Harwell become as much a part of the team as the players for some fans, says commentator Frank Deford. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Hockey: Why Can't The NHL Just Keep It Canadian? Back in the mid-1960s, the National Hockey League was bullish about its prospects in the United States. Today, the expanded league is struggling to pick up Sun Belt fans in far-flung markets in the South and Southwest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TV Flap: Will The NFL Live Up To Its Socialist Ideals? The NFL has a long-standing agreement that franchises share equally in television revenues. To commentator Frank Deford, that's socialism — and, he says, the league's TV policies are out of step with the times. At issue: blackouts meant to punish fans who are happy to watch the local team's games from home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Can You Believe These Rankings? Sports has always loved rankings, says commentator Frank Deford. But what do the rankings really mean? The latest brouhaha is in women's tennis, where Serena Williams, who's won three of the last four Grand Slams, is ranked No. 2 after a player who's won none. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Fading Champ, But A Champ Still: Muhammad Ali Former boxing phenomenon Muhammad Ali is hobbled by age and illness, but he continues to make public appearances. While some people find these appearances sad and unsettling, Frank Deford says many more have come to embrace him. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | NFL: Dodging The Concussion Discussion? Nobody's sure how dangerous the contact in football is to the brain. But high school players will experience more than 40,000 concussions this season and many former players suffer from dementia or depression. So why is pro football taking a Big Tobacco approach to research? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | In Sports And Life, Once-Lazy August Is Filling Up August used to be downtime for all of us, including most athletes. But now, students go back to school before Labor Day, and schools play football during August. If the NFL also expands into August, we might as well call it September, says commentator Frank Deford. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Many Halls Of Fame, Only One 'Bullet Bob' Hayes In the world of sports, halls of fame proliferate. There's even one for mascots. But Frank Deford says it's still good to see a deserving athlete enshrined — in this case, a football legend once known as "the World's Fastest Human." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | High-And-Mighty ESPN Should Take It Down A Notch ESPN has multiple channels, a magazine, a radio network and some unbecoming habits — like subtly claiming it alone uncovers all the news in sports. Commentator Frank Deford says the network would benefit from a bit more humility. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Deford: 'That's No Lady, That's An Athlete!' There are so many mixed messages in women's athletics. For example, what most people remember about the 1999 World Cup was Brandi Chastain taking off her shirt, not that she scored the winning goal, says Frank Deford. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Baseball's Graybeards? They Manage Major League Baseball could advertise for AARP. The sport's managers include many of the oldest head mentors in big-league sports, including the ageless Joe Torre of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The football and hockey leagues have some of the youngest. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Loathing The Bowl Championship Series Frank Deford wants the NCAA to come clean on the big business of college football and stop treating it like an amateurish game. Deford also wants Congress to think of the athlete and not the schools when considering the BCS. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A-Rod, Manny Still All-Stars To Many Fans Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez, who in recent months admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs, were noticeably absent from Tuesday night's All-Star game in St. Louis. Frank Deford explains that baseball fans no longer seem to care about the use of steroids. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Is Chicago An Olympics Kind Of Town? The International Olympic Committee will decide soon which city will host the 2016 games. The front-runners include Rio de Janeiro — a first for South America — and Chicago, which has never hosted the games. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |