An audio supplement to the weekly community newspaper The Taylorsville Times in Alexander County, NC.
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Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer tells of a semi-famous roving reporter working for the Pittsburgh Guardian in the 1920s, a time of distinctive and exciting new fashions, music, politics, technology and, of course, sports. Get onboard with Orville for season 1 as he travels the country in 1924 and '25, from Pittsburgh to Chicago to Pasadena to New York and back, meeting with America's sports superstars, rumrunning gangsters, up-and-coming radio personalities and even a U.S. President... --- O ...
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SHN PRESENTS: GP Soccer Podcast - SHN Trailers
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0:40GP Soccer Podcast is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. HIGHLIGHTED SHOW Giovanni Pacini is a noted expert in the game with significant expertise in the areas of player and coach development. He is a United Soccer Coaches Master Coach, member of its National Staff, and National Goalkeeper Staff. He is a USY…
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SHN Presents: This Day in Sports History - SHN Trailers
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4:25When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. HIGHLIGHTED SHOW: THIS DAY IN SPORTS HISTORY Relive the greatest moments in sports every day of the year. From the triumphs to the tragedies, the first to do it to the last time it happened, the unbelievable to the strange, This Day in Sports H…
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SHN Presents: NO NONSENSE, OLD SCHOOL WEIGHTLIFTING HISTORY - SHN Trailers
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6:08NO NONSENSE, OLD SCHOOL WEIGHTLIFTING HISTORY is presented by the Sports History Network, the headquarters for sports yesteryear. ABOUT SHOW: My name is Mark Morthier, and I host yesterday’s Sports on the Sports History Network. As many of you know from reading my articles and listening to my podcasts, I am not only an avid weightlifter but a fan o…
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SHN Presents: Gridiron Greats Magazine Podcast - SHN Trailers
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4:21When Football Is Football is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. NETWORK SPONSORS Row One - the vintage shop for sports history fans! HIGHLIGHTED SHOW I am Chad Cain your host of One Guy with a Mic Presents: History of Dingers and Dunks. I am going to be bringing the history of baseball and basketball to lif…
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SHN Presents: Total Sports Recall - SHN Trailers
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4:13Total Sports Recall is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. EPISODE SUMMARY “Covering Sports from a Different Angle” HARV ARONSON (HOST) BACKGROUND Harv Aronson was born and raised in Pittsburgh but now lives in Florida with his beautiful wife Melissa. Harv currently writes for Abstract Sports, the Sports His…
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Robbie Herman is a young musician from western Alexander County, North Carolina, who loves old-time folk string music that hails from the late 19th and early 20th Century -- some songs date even earlier. He plays old-time style guitar and banjo and is learning the fiddle as well.
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New Year’s Day, 1925. The Rose Bowl: As the capper to the college football season, it’s the Big One, the kingmaker, the Grandaddy of Them All. By the mid-1920s, the Rose Bowl’s reputation as a top highlight on the sports calendar was already well affirmed and the 11th game featured two programs about to enter the national consciousness forever: the…
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December 1924. Legendary Ernie Doogle has passed away – but that’s not about to stop him from having some fun with his old pal in the trenches, Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer. By the grace of the almighty Harold, the man most knew as “Doogs” returns in ghostly form to take Orville on a metaphysical ride to witness Football Past, Football Present a…
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December 1924. When Orville Mulligan, Sports Writer for the Pittsburgh Guardian newspaper is assigned to cover the Rose Bowl in five days, he figures he’s out of luck – until learning he’ll be traversing the country in a whole new way: Via air. Piloting Orville to the big game is Walter Lees, a private-sector test pilot, member of the Caterpillar C…
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Thanksgiving and Football (or maybe Vice Versa)
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27:58Thanksgiving Day, 1924. The recently-established tradition of the University of Pittsburgh Panthers football team hosting the Pennsylvania State Nittany Lions on the afternoon of the national autumnal holiday continues. Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is sent to cover the Pitt-Penn State “Keystone Classic” of 1924; in so doing, he discovers a throu…
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the 1924 Colored World Series, as told by Oscar “Heavy” Johnson
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10:58Major League Baseball’s 1924 World Series was an instant classic, a seven-game thriller between the New York Giants and Washington Senators that for 50 years was unquestionably considered the finest ever played. But that same year another Fall Classic for the ages was played” The 1924 Colored World Series was the first of its kind, a meeting of the…
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November 1924. Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is but a few weeks removed from witnessing game 7 of the World Series, thought by nearly all to have been the Finest Ever Played, alongside President Calvin Coolidge and First Lady Grace Coolidge. Now, Orville is about to learn another World Series just as fine had also been played that very same year:…
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The Anniversary of the Notre Dame vs Army game 1924
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55:28A special re-release of episode Number 8 "The Four Horseman" is being put out to celebrate the 98th anniversary of the famous Notre Dame vs. Army game of 1924. Grantland Rice has been credited with dubbing the all-time great quartet of backs who starred for the 1924 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team – Miller and Stuhldreher, Crowley and Layde…
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Interlude: A Cabbie’s Tale November 1924. On his way to meet with alleged crime boss and manager of the Ragen Athletic Club, a taxi driver regales Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer with a story of his chance meeting with the great Babe Ruth when he came through Chicago back in ’21. Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is an audio drama podcast from Number…
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November 1924. Sportswriter Orville Mulligan is assigned to cover two football games - one college, one NFL - in Roaring Chicago. Episode 2 features a twin bill of Red Grange & his University of Illinois Fighting Illini vs. the Coach Stagg-led U. Chicago Maroons followed by the Dayton Triangles at Chicago Cardinals in a game from the fledgling Nati…
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November 1924. Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer and his colleagues at the Pittsburgh Guardian newspaper live in times of revolutionary change in sport, art and culture, a period of advances in American women’s rights – but even the most radical of societal shifts is based in small, personal stories of the struggle for individual freedom. This is one…
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The Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer podcast and the Sports History Network are pleased to announce our advertising partnership with MANSCAPED™, the best in men’s below-the-waist grooming. On this special installment (read: advertisement) of ORville Mulligan: Sports Writer, we take you back to the very beginning, the origin story of MANSCAPED™ inno…
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The strangest interview ever done by Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer? That one he gave while suspended 50 feet up in the air, of course. Meet Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelly, pioneer of the 1920s fad known as polesitting – unless you count a certain saint who lived in Byzantium in the 5th century AD… Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is an audio drama podcas…
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Happy Father's Day wishes from the Pittsburgh Guardian
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7:37On Father's Day, Pittsburgh Guardian newspaper assistant editor Marla Delft presents a somewhat obscure story about her dad, Guardian editor-in-chief Frank Delft... Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is an audio drama podcast from Number 80 Productions and the Sports History Network. Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer stars Doug Fye, Ilona Fye, and Eric …
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Grantland Rice has been credited with dubbing the all-time great quartet of backs who starred for the 1924 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team – Miller and Stuhldreher, Crowley and Layden – as “The Four Horsemen.” But did he get the expression from another source, namely Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer…? October 1924. Like many of his peers in …
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Orville Mulligan Sports Writer: The Soundtrack (Vol. I)
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27:21Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer co-producer Os Davis plays disc jockey in this special edition of the audiodrama podcast, presenting the listeners wit a handful of musical tracks used in the production of episodes 1 and 2 of the audiodrama podcast series. Travel back in time (or simulate such) with: • “Dayton Triangles Rag (Orville Mulligan: Sports…
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The Making Of Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer
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54:06Episode 3 of Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is still in the works, so this week Number 80 Productions bring you a “making of” of sorts. Join the Sports History Network’s Greg James as he interviews Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer producers Darrin Hayes and Os Davis for an episode of the SHN Showcase podcast. Darin and Os talk the inspiration(s) fo…
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The 1924 World Series, a seven-game thriller between the Washington Senators and New York Giants, was a true “Fall Classic.” As an ardent fan of our national pastime – though not quite as much as the First Lady – President Calvin Coolidge was so moved by an action-packed game 7 and the heroics of pitcher Walter Johnson that he immediately dashed of…
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October 10, 1924. After six cliffhanging games between the New York Giants and Washington Senators making for an instant all-time classic World Series, the stage has been set for game 7 in the nation’s capital. Orville Mulligan, sportswriter for the Pittsburgh Guardian has been lucky enough to draw the assignment of covering a game that will be rem…
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A couple of hours before game 7 of the 1924 World Series – already an acknowledged instant classic after six – quasi-famous sportswriter Orville Mulligan tries out his poetic column lede on his peers Ernie “Doogs” Doogle and Max Mackey; debates the relative merits of radio vs print media with the doggedly persistent Freddy Carson; and reveals the i…
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October 1924. It all starts as a typical day in the life of quasi-famous Orville Mulligan, Sportswriter, who's been given the task to score an interview with Walter Camp, creator of modern football. But Orville’s follow-up assignment, covering the weekend’s Penn Quakers-Franklin & Marshall Diplomats football game, will force him to reckon with a ne…
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An Audio Drama to Kick start more Sports History - Pigskin Dispatch
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6:50We want to introduce the Pigskin Dispatch and Jersey Dispatch listeners to Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer. Check out the first few episodes of OMSW on this page. We thank you for your feedback and support. You can find out more about Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer here.By Darin Hayes
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Orville Mulligan, Sports Writer: Harvey and Mabel
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9:14One hundred years or so ago, the sporting pages of the local newspaper were simultaneously novel and essential for any sports fan in America. In this teaser trailer for the fiction podcast Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer, meet Harvey and Mabel Taylor of Pittsburgh, loyal subscribers to the Pittsburgh Guardian, and at least one a big fan of a certai…
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Christmas Eve at the Guardian (Presented by Row One Sports)
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6:21Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. NETWORK SPONSOR Row One - the vintage shop for sports history fans! Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer A Different way to hear sports history. I am Orville Mulligan and yes the career journey I took was as a Sports Writer. My story will fill…
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Marla Recalls A Football Game (Presented by Row One Sports)
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6:08Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. NETWORK SPONSOR Row One - the vintage shop for sports history fans! Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer A Different way to hear sports history. I am Orville Mulligan and yes the career journey I took was as a Sports Writer. My story will fill…
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Orville Impresses Marla (Presented by Row One Sports)
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5:32Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer is part of the Sports History Network - The Headquarters For Sports Yesteryear. NETWORK SPONSOR Row One - the vintage shop for sports history fans! Orville Mulligan: Sports Writer A Different way to hear sports history. I am Orville Mulligan and yes the career journey I took was as a Sports Writer. My story will fill…
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An introduction to the story of Orville Sullivan, intrepid traveling sportswriter for the Pittsburgh Guardian. How did this wordsmith of yesteryear, this contemporary of Grantland Rice, go from a wet-behind-the-ears graduate of Penn to lead man on the Guardian sports beat? The man himself tells the tale - with a fair amount of assistance from super…
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Sounds from the 17th Annual Alexander County Salute of Veterans, May 30, 2021.
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With apologies to Robert Frost for the title, we bring you an interview with Dale Clary and Paula Cline. Dale, 68, and his wife, Gale, 62, are planning to run the Disney Marathon in January 2020 as a fundraiser for Alexander County Partnership for Children, which supports children age birth to five years in the area. Dale, a Partnership Board membe…
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The Times Audiorama asks folks around downtown Taylorsville, "What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving?"
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Times Audiorama Episode 3: Alexander County Veterans Day 2019
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1:01:54Sounds from the Alexander County Veterans Day 2019 Ceremony at Alexander Central Auditorium in Taylorsville, NC, USA. A special salute to World War II veterans, including Honored Guest, Devon James, who fought in the Battle of the Bulge.
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In this Audiorama, managing editor Micah Henry interviews Jacavian Voss, a 2019 graduate of Alexander Central High School. Jacavian was accepted to several prestigious colleges and has chosen to attend Harvard University beginning in the Fall of 2019. He explains how going to Harvard has been a dream of his for a very long time.…
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The Taylorsville Times' Audiorama host Micah Henry speaks with 89-year-old Gerald Harrington, last surviving member of the Dixie Ramblers bluegrass band, which played in the region around Taylorsville, North Carolina, USA, in the 1950s. His son, Dennis, also takes part in the conversation.
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