Listen Now: Sports Explains the World
American Innovations
Wondery
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Sports Explains the World unveils some of the wildest and most surprising sports stories you’ve never heard - And they’re all true. From the teenager who wrote a Wikipedia page that got a young athlete signed to a million-dollar deal - to the Ugandan National basketball coach who was really an undercover agent for the CIA, these stories will amaze and move you at every turn. Reported by award-winning journalists across the globe, Sports Explains the World reveals the human side of athletics in provocative and unexpected ways. You’ll never view sports the same way again.
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| 0:00.0 | When we think of sports stories, we tend to think of tales of epic on-the-feel glory, |
| 0:05.1 | or incredible against all odds' comebacks. |
| 0:07.8 | But on the new podcast, Sports Explains the World, you'll hear some of the wildest and |
| 0:12.2 | most surprising sports stories you've never heard, mostly because they've never made |
| 0:16.6 | the front page, like how a grateful, dead-style t-shirt became a powerful symbol of one country's |
| 0:22.3 | independence. |
| 0:23.5 | When Lithuania broke off from the Soviet Union, they wanted revenge. |
| 0:27.6 | Their basketball team had led the USSR to gold medal glory, and now, ahead of the 1992 |
| 0:33.4 | Olympics in Barcelona, they finally had the chance to win for their own country. |
| 0:38.0 | This is a story of a long, strange trip around the world, and how a tied-eye t-shirt and |
| 0:43.0 | psychedelic superstars the grateful dead had a hand in empowering the Lithuanian basketball |
| 0:48.1 | team to stand up for their country's independence from the Soviet Union on the world stage. |
| 0:53.3 | From award-winning journalists across the globe, Sports Explains the World goes beyond |
| 0:57.6 | leagues and stats to share stories like this one and many more, all that will redefine |
| 1:02.7 | your understanding of sports and their impact on the world. |
| 1:05.9 | You're about to hear a clip from Sports Explains the World. |
| 1:09.1 | To hear this and other incredible stories from the wide world of sports, listen to Sports |
| 1:13.5 | Explains the World on the Wonder App, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:17.5 | You can listen to Sports Explains the World early and add free on Wonder e Plus, join Wonder |
| 1:22.1 | e Plus in the Wonder App or on Apple Podcasts today. |
| 1:31.9 | In a brief news item from 2018, Esquire Magazine published a photograph of the actor Jonah |
| 1:37.9 | Hill walking in New York City. |
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