Between 1972 and 1997 the Southeastern Conference in basketball grew in stature from just being a premier football conference.

During that time of conference growth of both prominence and popularity, the team most emblematic of that growth in national prestige was located in -- of all places-- Baton Rouge Louisiana. And the leader of this team from the sidelines hailed from the hinterlands of North Dakota.

In his episode of the Historically Speaking Sports Podcast, Co-hosts Dana Auguster and Charles Combs highlight the era of LSU Tigers basketball under the direction of Head Coach Dale Brown.

During his tenure with the Tigers, Brown didn't just coach basketball at LSU, he made it matter in a football crazed state and made it a national brand.

He took a program that had flashes of relevance and turned into a powerhouse that would go toe-to-toe with anyone in the country.

This was the era of superstars such as Chris Jackson who would later become Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, whose scoring brilliance electrified the country and garnered comparisons to Pete Maravich. It was also the era of the unstoppable force of Shaquille O'Neal, a once in a generation talent who turned LSU into must see TV.

And before them there was Rudy Macklin leading the Tigers to the final four, for the first time since the early 1950s

But the Dale Brown era wasn't just about wins and NBA draft picks .

It was about personality, passion and conviction.

Brown was outspoken, emotional, sometimes controversial -- a coach who wore his heart on his sleeve and fought fiercely for his players. He believed LSU could compete with the blue bloods of college basketball and for stretches from the late 1970s to the mid 1990s ... it absolutely did.

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The United States Hockey team just won its first gold medal in Men's Olympic Hockey in 46 years.

Almost to the day that team USA pulled off one of the greatest upsets in history, beating the Soviets in the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid New York.

In this short podcast bulletin, Historically Speaking Sports Podcast co-host Dana Auguster talks about the other two instances that team USA had won the gold in Olympic Hockey.

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Like any other pro sports league, the NBA is made up of players of different personalities, different perspectives and hale from different backgrounds.

They all come from different areas of the country and now the world as the NBA has now become truly a global game.

But in this episode, we will sharpen our focus to feature a special group of players and Hall of Famers that all have this one thing in common.

In this special Black History Month episode Dana Auguster and Charles Combs are celebrating Black History Month and will highlight star players and Hall of Famers that came from Historically Black Colleges and Universities that helped grow the NBA to its current standing on the sports landscape.

Those they will highlight include the greatest player in Chicago Bulls history......before Michael Jordan.

Also a diminutive point guard that led the San Antonio Spurs to their first NBA championship. Charles and Dana will talk about a member of the Boston Celtics who won 10 NBA championships. Also a man who was part of the Warriors organization in different capacities for over 60 years.

Also a player who was one of the most devastating scorers in NBA history during the 1970s who had a various amount of different nicknames and another player who authored not only one of the greatest moments of New York Knicks history, but the greatest sports moment in the history of Madison Square garden.

Later in the show we will send a shout out to a coach who we consider the Eddie Robinson of college basketball.

His coaching career spans nearly a half century at this Historically black college in North Carolina who compiled over 800 victories in his long career.

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In January of 1967, it was just a game between the champions of both the American and National Football Leagues. Now here in 2026, it has become America's unofficial national holiday where a certain number of people tune in to see the halftime show to see who is the most popular music entertainer of the year. While still others view the game just to see various entertaining commercials where you may quickly forget the product they are endorsing but don't forget the laugh it may induce or just maybe the cinematography.

However a good number of people including the football fans that are featured in this podcast episode, it is the game that still matters.

In this episode co-hosts Charles Combs and Dana Auguster along with a couple of their friends join the show to talk about their Super Bowl memories.

They will discuss their favorite memories, their picks of the best and worst Super Bowls and describe the times their favorite teams reached the big game and for some of them to who was lucky enough to see their teams win the Super Bowl.

Please stay tuned to the end as we will reveal our picks to win this years Super Bowl. We have that and so much more right here on the Historically Speaking Sports Podcast, the Podcast that bring you sports from back in the Day right here on the Sports History Network.

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It is the NFL's version of an all-star game.

The Pro Bowl, played every year the weekend before the Super Bowl, has become a glorified flag football game.

But for decades the NFC and AFC would come together and play in a game that was sometimes as hard hitting as a postseason game with nothing more than just bragging rights on the line.

Using the format of a Pro Bowl game, podcast hosts Dana Auguster and Charles Combs select players they view as the best players by position during their lifetimes. Dana Auguster will pick the best players from the AFC while Charles Combs select his favorite stars from the NFC.

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If you are a football fan, this weekend is one of the most important weekends of the year.

Along with the College Football semifinals taking place, there is also the Wildcard matchups in the NFL postseason.

Unlike in previous seasons, there is no clear cut favorite to reach Santa Clara for Super Bowl LX.

Yet what's really cool about this weekend in the NFL, the Playoff games are rematches of past postseason matchups. Some determined who reached the Super Bowl. We had one that was talked about for a week, not for this teams performance, but the peculiar absence of a certain star quarterback.

There is one matchup this weekend that is a rematch of one of the few postseason games in NFL history that went to double overtime. There is also a rematch of a championship game from the American Football League and a game between two football rabid fanbases whose team's matchup in the late 1970s brought about instant replay.

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We are in the mist of College Bowl season and this is the time of year where legends are born, where underdogs rise, dynasties show signs of cracking and one play could live forever.

In this episode, Dana Auguster and Charles Combs are counting down their five most memorable bowl games that they have seen in our lifetimes.

Along with the games, Dana and Charles will add personal antidotes about each game they are describing from personal remembrances to people who watched the game with them.

Their list includes a miracle finish that placed a little known west coast college bowl game and an even lesser known football program on the map. Also on the list a couple of ties that includes one in which one of the coaches turned the tie into a charity event. And also we have a couple of wild finishes in perhaps the most prestigious of all the bowl games, authored by the same player in back to back years.

Also Dana and Charles send a shout out to a sportscaster who was the lead broadcaster of some of these games that we're talking about who is considered the Voice of College football .

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Before the dynasties, before the banners, before Brady, before Belichick, even before Bledsoe, there was the 1985 New England Patriots.

A team built on grit, not glamour.

History often remembers the champions, yet the 1985 New England Patriots didn't win a championship. Yet in this case, they are remembered for the journey, a journey that was one of the most memorable in NFL History.

In this episode of the Historically Speaking Sports Podcast, the place where we give you sports from back in the day, Co hosts Charles Combs and Dana Auguster will bring you back to the mid 1980s.

In this edition will will talk about Patriots' first AFC Championship team that posted three, count them, three postseason upsets that included ending a losing streak that dated back to the Lyndon Johnson administration.

This was a team that was devoid of big names and huge stars. But was comprised of several solid individuals that was the personification of blue collar teamwork.

Leading this group was a head coach who had made his own way into Canton as a Hall of Fame receiver, but his quiet understated style was the trademark of this great team.

Later in the show we will send a shout out to a former Patriot great, whose clutch performance that season made him a New England legend plus a discussion on who was actually the worse Super Bowl participant.

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