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  • 19. Lucius Allen, Bob Ryan and the 74 NBA Finals

    19. Lucius Allen, Bob Ryan and the 74 NBA Finals
    May 13 2024
    The 1974 NBA Finals was a classic 7-game affair between the Celtics and the Bucks in which the road team won 5 games, including the final 4 contests. The Bucks won a thrilling double overtime game 6, in Boston to bring it back to Milwaukee. All the momentum was with the Bucks. But there was one thing in Bostons favor: Celtics Pride. Boston Globe Hall of Fame writer Bob Ryan literally wrote the book on that titled Celtics Pride: The Rebuilding of Boston's World Championship Basketball Team. It was the first Championship for the C's without Bill Russell and Ryan tells us how Boston shocked the Milwaukee Bucks and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to win banner #12. Could the Bucks have won had they had their star point guard, Lucius Allen? Lucius seems to think so. But a knee injury sidelined Allen for the series and the Celtics took advantage of that. Ryan and Allen join us for a wonderful discussion of what took place 50 years ago and what could have been. The favorites Kareem and Oscar vs the underdogs Havlicek and Cowens. A Finals for the ages on the Past Our Prime podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h et 38 min
  • 18. Bernie Parent and the Flyers back-to-back championships

    18. Bernie Parent and the Flyers back-to-back championships
    May 6 2024
    They were known as the Broad Street Bullies. They never met a fight they didn't want. They would beat you up... and then they would beat you down... But most of all... they would just beat you. And for two straight years they did just that in winning back-to-back Stanley Cups. Bernie Parent was the last man of defense for those great Philadelphia Flyers teams and came up with shutouts in clinching Cup wins two years running. A 2-time Conn Smythe winner as well as a 2-time Vezina Trophy recipient, Parent had a Hall of Fame career in his adopted hometown of Philadelphia. A city that loved him and that he loved right back---then and now. Parent tells us about how he almost celebrated that first win too soon, how his boyhood idol mentored him into a future Hall of Famer, and how he has stayed sober for the past 46 years! It's a great talk with one of the greatest goalies to ever play in the NHL as we look back on the Flyers Stanley Cup Championships from May of 1974 on the Past Our Prime podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h et 16 min
  • 17. Randy Moss of NBC Sports on the 1974 Kentucky Derby

    17. Randy Moss of NBC Sports on the 1974 Kentucky Derby
    Apr 29 2024
    It was the year after Secretariat owned the horse racing world... the 100th Running of the Roses... the biggest field in Kentucky Derby history... The Sport of Kings was riding high and in Arkansas, a 15-year old prodigy was taking it all in. Randy Moss has been covering horse racing since he was 13 years old... yes, you read that correctly... at age 13, he was giving out picks on the ponies in the local paper... and now, he's about to cover his 44th Kentucky Derby. Cannonade won the 74 race with Angel Cordero in the saddle with fellow Hall of Famer, Woody Stephens the trainer. Could they possibly surpass the level of excitement Secretariat had provided a year earlier? What about the state of racing in 2024? And who does Moss like in this years race? We talk with an expert in the field of horse racing as they head towards the gate... on the Past Our Prime podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h et 22 min
  • 16. Jenny Fulle: Little Girls vs Little League

    16. Jenny Fulle: Little Girls vs Little League
    Apr 22 2024
    It's 1974, and Jenny Fulle wants to play ball... Little League baseball. With the boys. That's gonna be a problem. Undaunted by being rejected at every turn, she writes a letter to President Nixon setting in motion a chain of events that would eventually lead her to being the first girl to ever legally play Little League. She was a pioneer 50 years ago and continues that to this day as a visual effects producer for such Major Motion Pictures as Apollo 13, Seabiscuit, Lord of the Rings and many more. It's a great chat with a girl who just wanted to have fun... playing with the boys... and hitting dingers... Join us for an illuminating conversation with a woman who changed the sports landscape for girls half a century ago on the Past Our Prime podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h et 20 min
  • 15. Tom House and the night Hank hit #715

    15. Tom House and the night Hank hit #715
    Apr 15 2024
    We know who hit #715--Hank Aaron. We know who threw #715-- Al Downing Now meet who caught #715 -- Tom House... correction... Dr. Tom House. The former MLB pitcher turned Quarterback guru talks about the night Hank hit that record breaking home run... how Aaron's mother was ready to die for her son... and how he caught the ball and became a part of Hank's Hall of Fame exhibit... House went on to get his PhD in psychology and helped Nolan Ryan pitch until he was 46. Then he turned his attention to the NFL, and guided Drew Brees and Tom Brady to play into their 40's. He's lived an incredible life and shared many of his insights and interesting stories on the Past Our Prime podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h et 27 min
  • 14a 1974 Fantasy Baseball Draft

    14a 1974 Fantasy Baseball Draft
    Apr 11 2024
    How does 383 strikeouts sound? 24 wins? 40-40 anyone? Who would have been the top pick in a 1974 Fantasy Baseball Draft? Former Dodgers Vice President of Communications Gary Miereanu joins the boys to talk about some of the stars from 50 years ago who might have gone in the first round of a Rotisserie Baseball League draft heading into the 1974 season. It's a bonus segment from the Past Our Prime podcast to celebrate the start of baseball now... and then! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    16 min
  • 14. Baseball Preview 1974

    14. Baseball Preview 1974
    Apr 8 2024
    The 1974 baseball season was littered with players who would one day be enshrined in Cooperstown. But on the cover of the Sports Illustrated issue was Pete Rose, one of the few who isn't in the Hall of Fame, but not because Pete couldn't play... he was the MVP in 1973, and is baseball's all-time leader in hits, but.... well, you know... Former Sportswriter and VP of Communications for the Dodgers, Gary Miereanu joins us to look back at a phenomenal time in baseball as the National Pastime was still king of the Sports World in America. Willie Stargell, Steve Garvey, Nolan Ryan, Tom Seaver, Jim Palmer and the Toy Cannon, Jimmy Wynn are a handful of the players we discuss in this episode. And as a bonus, a 2nd episode where we do a mock draft of a first round of fantasy baseball... if there was such a thing back 50 years ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h et 32 min
  • 13. Monty Towe and the 1974 National Champion Wolfpack

    13. Monty Towe and the 1974 National Champion Wolfpack
    Apr 1 2024
    In 1974, the UCLA Bruins dominated college basketball like no team ever has. Looking to win their 8th straight National Championship everyone wondered who would be the team to end their run. And in Greensboro, North Carolina we found our answer: North Carolina State. On the Past Our Prime podcast, Monty Towe, the 5'7 point guard joins us to talk about that Final Four win over UCLA... his bond with that Wolfpack team, how great David Thompson was as a player and as a teammate, and the invention of the 'alley oop' between Towe and Thompson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h et 13 min