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Both Louis-Schmeling fights are on ESPN Classic at 10:30 pm ET on Tuesday night, August 2.

Yes, Colonel Reb, I had a book in front of me for that post. Vaught gets little credit today, but he had a phenomenal record in the 50s and early 60s. In his first meeting with Neyland in 1947, he won 43-13, with Charley Conerly passing Tennessee dizzy. As I mentioned, the game, as Johnny Vaught...

Tennessee had a white DE named Will Overstreet who played 1998-2001. He had been the No.1 prospect in Mississippi, but came to Tennessee. He went to a private school and seemed to have an upper-middle classveneer. It's funny, but I hadn't really noticed before that most white athletes in the...

On another thread, Colonel Reb showed that he isn't an old-line SEC fan. There was a coach who had a winning record against both Bryant and Vaught. That is Tennessee's legendary coach of 1926-52, General Robert R. Neyland. Incidentally, he WAS a real army general. He was a Captain when he came...

Bart, yes I saw the footage you mention. It was one of those NFL Films features first shown about 20 years ago. It shows Jurgensen messing around in practice. He throw a pass behind his back. It must have gone 20 yards on a line and hit the receiver in the chest. You have to see it to believe...

I can remember hearing Tennessee-Ole Miss on the radio in 1960. Jake Gibbs was the Ole Miss QB. My Vols lost 24-3. Tennessee lost6 straight to the Rebs from 1959-64, very frustrating. During those years Tennessee couldn't even compete, partly due to an antiquated single wing offense and poor...

A QB who used to be on those lists, but isn't on them now, is Norm Van Brocklin. This is possibly because of Van Brocklin's coaching career. Van Brocklin was noted for being on two NFL champions, the 1951Rams and 1960 Eagles. He was an example of the QB who couldn't run at all, but was a...

Don's comment about Shula is right on the money. During Don Shula's seven years- 1963-69, as coach at Baltimore, five of those years, his leading rusher was white. His Super Bowl teams at Miami in the Seventies, had a white fullback (Larry Csonka) as his main runner. Shula even started a white...

Sorry, I'm late with this information. ESPN Classic is showing Rocky Marciano's Greatest Hits Vol. 1 at 6pm ET today July 26.

ESPN Classic seems to show "The Fights and Times Of Muhammad Ali" twice every month. However, they do give you a chance to see fights you have heard about but haven't been able to see. Next month, they will have Marciano-Walcott I (August 7) and Marciano-Moore (August 14). Plus, the ones I...

A few weeks ago, Colonel Reb posted that he wanted to see some Marciano and Dempsey fights. As it happened, many Rocky Marciano fights are on ESPN Classic this month. So, for Colonel Reb and others who are interested, I have been posting when these fight films are being shown. The two...

Yes, I watched the film last night and Carnera was better than the Sport article I mentioned portrayed him. He had a fair jab, which combined with his weight, made him respectable.

I don't watch baseball that much these days, but I saw a game Joe Morgan was doing on ESPN this Spring. I didn't catch any bias from Morgan. He seemed to discuss the players in a neutral manner. Any PC statement he might have made is no worse than what you would get from practically any white...

I don't know. There was a magazine article about Carnera many years ago in Sport magazine, which I read in an anthology. The writer (I forget his name) stated flatly that Sharkey took a dive. To his dying day, Sharkey insisted he was knocked out. It is hard to believe that any Heavyweight...

The 1934 Max Baer-Primo Carnera title fight is on ESPN Classic at 10:30pm ET tonight, July 21. Carnera's controversial win over Jack Sharkey is on at the same time Friday night July 22.

This thread has certainly gone in a direction I didn't intend. I just thought members would be interested in seeing the 1951 Marciano-Louis bout. I will make a comment on the Louis-Schmeling fights. The late sports editor of the Nashville Banner, Fred Russell, followed sports from the 1920s...

Sorry, I made a mistake. The fight is being shown on Wednesday night July 20 at 10:30 pm ET, not on Tuesday night as I mistakenly wrote in my original post.

The 1951 fight between Rocky Marciano and Rex Layne is being shown on ESPN Classic Tuesday night at 10:30 pm ET. Layne was a Mormon from Utah and a noted heavyweight contender of the time. Marciano had to win this fight to get the Joe louis bout later that year.

The 1951 bout between Rocky Marciano and Joe Louis is being shown on ESPN Classic Friday night at 10:30 pm ET. This was the last fight for Joe Louis and Marciano won the Heavyweight Title a year later.

Yes, this HBO show is better than the ESPN Sportcentury program on Mantle was. We didn't have multi-sports channels, but Mantle was actually a bigger star in the early 60's than any pro athlete is today. HBO is showing this program frequently the rest of the month. You can check the HBO site for...

Bush wants to appoint AG Gonzales to the Supreme Court. However, he wants him to replace Chief Justice Rehnquist. Bush wants his "legacy" to be a "Gonzales Court." This is from a Robert Novak column. Bush will probably appoint a woman to succeed O'Connor, who will probably turn out much the same.

There is a new HBO specialabout Mickey Mantle on at 9pm ET Wednesday night, July 13. As I mentioned in a post weeks ago, at his peak Mantle was the Number 1 athlete in pro sports.

I have never heard of that picture you mention. I don't think Dempsey would have gone along with it. There is a photo of Dempsey in uniform at Okinawa in Randy Roberts's 1979 Dempsey biography. Jack Dempsey was severely criticizedduring hisreign as Champion for not being in WWI, more than...

In Joe Louis's 1942 title defense against Buddy Baer, he gave his purse to the war effort. This act cemented his popularity and justifiably so.

I'm surprised that posters on this Forum are unaware that Jack Dempsey was with a Coast Guard unit that took part in the landing at Okinawa. Below is from pages 432-433 of Roger Kahn's 1999 Dempsey biography: One of Dempsey's units was assigned to move in with the landing parties storming...