Play Ball! Sportspiracies

Conspiracy Clearinghouse

EPISODE 83 | Play Ball! Sportspiracies

Guest: Mark Fitzhenry, EFL teacher in Prague, co-founder of the Imperfectionists improv group

Sport seems to almost lend itself to rumor, innuendo and conspiracy thinking with accusations of wrongdoing, curses that plague a team for years and even the occasional crossover of the geopolitical and athletic worlds.

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SECTIONS

1. 03:12 - BASEBALL - The Curse of the Bambino
2. 07:01 - The Black Sox Curse, the Curse of the Billy Goat, the Reds throw a key game
3. 13:36 - The Curse of the Colonel with the Hanshin Tigers in Osaka, Japan
4. 15:23 - AMERICAN FOOTBALL - The Patriots, Spygate and Deflategate
5. 24:46 - FOOTBALL (SOCCER) - Barcelona goal is code to Syrian rebels, 1966 World Cup - England & West Germany vs. South America
6. 34:29 - 1978 World Cup in Argentina
7. 38:09 - BASKETBALL - The 1985 draft lottery and the frozen envelope

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

More Info:

• The Imperfectionists FB page
• The Imperfectionists Instagram page
• The 'Curse of the Bambino,' explained
• The Black Sox Scandal
• Forget What You Know About the Black Sox Scandal
• The Billy Goat Curse - The Curse Is Broken!
• The Curse of Colonel Sanders
• An End To Japan Team's 'Curse Of Col. Sanders'?
• The Spygate scandal's impact on the New England Patriots and the NFL
• What really happened during Deflategate? Five years later, the NFL's 'scandal' aged poorly
• A timeline of Patriots scandals: Spygate, Deflategate and other controversial incidents under Bill Belichick
• Football's Most Bizarre: Barcelona Sending Coded Signals to Syrian Rebels?
• Why not everyone remembers the 1966 World Cup as fondly as England
• Remembering Argentina 1978: The Dirtiest World Cup Of All Time
• The dark story of the murderous dictatorship behind Argentina's 1978 World Cup win
• The Ewing Conspiracy
• The 1985 Patrick Ewing, Knicks, David Stern ‘Frozen Envelope’ Conspiracy… Proved!
• Knicks have a dubious NBA Lottery history
• What If the Knicks Never Won the 1985 Draft Lottery?
• Rigging the NBA Draft

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