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69: Detroit Wheels-Football
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - November 12, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsWhen the World Football League launched its inaugural season in 1974, all of the leagues 12 teams had very high hopes. But one team in particular thought it was going to do much better than it did – the Detroit Wheels. But, in reality, this team never stood a chance. After all, how can team expe...
68: Chuck Taylor-NBA
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - October 29, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsThere are figures in sports who are larger than the game whom people know so little about. One of the biggest of those names is Chuck Taylor. In fact, almost everyone who has ever laced up a pair of sneakers has worn a pair of Chuck All Stars, Converse’s best-selling shoe. Interestingly, very fe...
EP57: Enough with the excuses, what can you do differently? (Part 1 of 2)
Creative Career Solutions for Parents - October 15, 2019 23:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsI'm back... and calling myself out for making excuses on a few important fronts, in the past couple of months. This episode includes a bit of a reintroduction about what the Creative Career Solutions for Parents podcast is all about (amid my rant!) and I am transparent about some of the excuses ...
EP57: Enough with the excuses, what can you do differently?
Creative Career Solutions for Parents - October 15, 2019 23:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsI'm back... and calling myself out for making excuses on a few important fronts, in the past couple of months. This episode includes a bit of a reintroduction about what the Creative Career Solutions for Parents podcast is all about (amid my rant!) and I am transparent about some of the excuses ...
67: AAFC-NFL
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - October 15, 2019 15:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsFor four years, 1946 through 1949, the NFL faced stiff competition from an upstart league, the All America Football Conference. The AAFC was the real deal. Rosters featured such stars as Otto Graham, Joe Perry, Frankie Albert and Y.A. Tittle. It’s champion team, the Cleveland Browns, could compe...
66: Blanton Collier-NFL
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - October 01, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsBlanton Collier was the last coach to lead the Cleveland Browns to an NFL Championship; and he did so in 1964. Amazingly, if you ask most Browns fans who the last coach was to lead the team to a Championship most will say Paul Brown. Of course, Brown, for whom the team is named, was at the helm ...
65: Ernie Nevers-NFL/MLB
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - September 17, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsOn November 28, 1929, Ernie Nevers scored six touchdowns for the Chicago Cardinals and kicked four extra points. That’s 40-points in one NFL game by one player, and that’s still the record. And Nevers did NOT do this against a pushover franchise. He scored all of the Cardinals points in a 40-6 w...
64: Brovia/Bauman/Crues-MLB
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - September 03, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsJoe Bauman was the first player in professional baseball history to hit more than 70 homeruns in a season. Bob Crues nearly hit 70 homeruns in a single season but came up just short with 69. Joe Brovia had nothing left to prove in the minor leagues and finally realized his dream of playing Major...
63: Burleigh Grimes-MLB
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - August 20, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsBaseball outlawed the spitball in 1920. However, each team was allowed to designate two pitchers (if they already threw the spitter) to throw it until they retired. Burleigh Grimes of the Brooklyn (Dodgers) Robins was one of those pitchers. His spitball was quite unique in that he “coated” the b...
62: Ray Billows-Golf
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - August 06, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsRay Billows was one of golf’s greatest players of his generation. But, instead of trying to make a living as a professional, Billows decided to remain an amateur and compete as such. Of course, this was at a time when amateur golf was considered a bigger game than professional golf and when the ...
61: Ken Williams-MLB
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - July 23, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsKen Williams was one of baseball’s most feared sluggers of the 1920s. A star for the St. Louis Browns, Williams was a career .319 hitter who hit 196 home runs for his career while toiling in relative obscurity for a team that usually finished near the bottom of the standings. Williams, who never...
60: Hal Trosky-MLB
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - July 09, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsWhen you are competing for notoriety against the likes of Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx and Hank Greenberg, you have to be really good … great … to grab headlines. You need to hit a ton of homeruns. You need to rack up the RBI’s and you better have a terrific batting average to go along with all of th...
EP56: OMG - Where is the year going?
Creative Career Solutions for Parents - June 30, 2019 08:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt's happened again. No sooner were we in awe that it's January... it's now already the second half of the year. What madness is this? Because half time is traditionally a great time to take stock of what's been going on and to recalibrate - this episode of the Creative Career Solutions for Pare...
59: Ray Collins-MLB
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - June 25, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsSo many baseball players have had their careers cut short by injury. Some of those careers might be considered marginal, and others might be considered a tragedy based on the fact that the career was on an upward trajectory and headed for greatness. Ray Collins, who pitched for the Boston Red So...
58: Park, Brown & Fleck-PGA
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - June 11, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsThree golf champions. Three remarkable championships. Three very unique stories about three guys who had never won before: Mungo Park, 1874 Open Championship; David Brown, 1886 Open Championship; Jack Fleck, 1955 U.S. Open. Each have very unique stories and joining Sports’ Forgotten Heroes to he...
57: Hank O'Day-MLB
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - May 28, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsHank O’Day is one of the most unique and important figures in the history of Major League Baseball. He broke into the game as a pitcher in the American Association for Toledo in 1884. He finished his career seven years later with the New York Giants. During his career, on occasion, O’Day stepped...
EP55: #IAmBecoming - Nuggets of wisdom from Michelle Obama's book tour
Creative Career Solutions for Parents - May 16, 2019 09:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis episode is a must listen for everyone: I was honoured to hear Michelle Obama speak live in London as part of her European book tour and I found her so relatable as a citizen wanting to make her community better, as a leader wanting to impact her country and the world and in other important ...
56: Roy Sievers-MLB
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - May 14, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsRoy Sievers was one of the most clutch hitters in baseball history. In fact, Sievers, who won the 1949 American League Rookie of the Year with the St. Louis Browns, hit nearly a quarter of his 318 career homeruns in the eighth inning or later. But, becoming a clutch hitter almost didn’t happen. ...
55: Seattle Pilots-MLB
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - April 30, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsIn 1969, Major League Baseball expanded to four cities: San Diego, Montreal, Kansas City and Seattle. Montreal moved to Washington and became the Nationals and Seattle moved as well. Yes, there was a team in Seattle before the Mariners – the Seattle Pilots. The Pilots played in Seattle for just ...
EP54: Making the most of (long) weekends
Creative Career Solutions for Parents - April 21, 2019 07:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBefore you get yourself in that cycle of "where did all the time go" that we all recognise (you've been there right... haven't we all?!) - listen to this podcast about making the most of long weekends. (If listening in real time), we are at the time of year where there are a series of longer wee...
54: Dolf Luque-MLB
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - April 16, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsDolf Luque won 194 games over the course of his 20-year Major League career. In 1923, he put together one of the greatest seasons ever for the Cincinnati Reds going 27-8. Luque, however, never again won 20-games in a season, but remained extraordinarily consistent. In fact, in 1925 he went 16-18...
53-Jimmy Demaret-PGA
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - April 02, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsJimmy Demaret won 31 times on the PGA TOUR … was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame … and was the first golfer to win the Masters three times. Yet, when the discussion of the game’s greats rolls around, Demaret’s accomplishments are severely overlooked. He is rarely, if ever, mentioned in...
EP53: The power of imperfect action
Creative Career Solutions for Parents - March 27, 2019 04:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEver get in your own way? Have your perfectionist tendencies ever held you back? This episode is for you if you need a short, sharp reminder of why you should sometimes just get on with it (and figure things out along the way). Working parent or otherwise - imperfect action is the key to so much...
52-Kansas City Scouts-NHL
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - March 19, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsThe NHL expanded to two cities for the 1974-75 season: Kansas City and Washington. Washington, of course, has turned into one of the National Hockey League’s marquee teams having won the 2017-18 Stanley Cup Championship. Kansas City, however, is one of the least-known teams in the history of spo...
51: Ron McDole-NFL
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - March 05, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsRon McDole had the great fortune of playing for two of football’s greatest defensive minds: Lou Saban and George Allen. McDole, who graduated from Nebraska before the Cornhuskers became such an elite program, played 18 years of professional football. He started off with the St. Louis Cardinals i...
50: Kentucky Colonels-ABA
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - February 19, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsThe Kentucky Colonels were one of the original franchises of the American Basketball Association (ABA) and one of just three teams to play all nine years of the ABA’s existence. However, when the ABA folded, the Colonels were not one of the teams to merge with the NBA. Owner John Y. Brown did no...
49: Cincinnati Royals-NBA
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - February 05, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsOne of the NBA’s original teams was the Rochester Royals. In fact, the Royals won an NBA Championship in 1951. But, Rochester was not an ideal location as the NBA was trying to grow and establish itself in larger cities. So, after the 1956-57 season, the Royals packed up and left for Cincinnati....
EP52: Don't write off that new years hopefulness yet
Creative Career Solutions for Parents - February 02, 2019 05:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOnce January comes to an end, it's sometimes tempting to resign yourself to the "fact" that once again, your resolutions or goals haven't started as positively as you intended or hoped and therefore it's okay to give up on that idea. In this episode of the Creative Career Solutions for Parents...
48: Red Kelly-NHL
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - January 22, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratings2019 an honor long overdue was finally righted, the retirement of the No. 4 by the Detroit Red Wings, the sweater worn by Red Kelly, one the greatest to ever lace-up a pair of skates. Kelly, who joins me on this episode of Sports’ Forgotten Heroes, along with Waxy Gregoire, co-author of “The Red...
47: St. Louis Hawks-NBA
Sports' Forgotten Heroes - January 08, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsThe NBA has played witness to several teams packing up an moving to new cities. The Lakers went from Minneapolis to Los Angeles, the Warriors moved from Philadelphia to San Francisco to Oakland where they play right now (they’re moving back to San Francisco), The Jazz moved from New Orleans to U...
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