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Titus O’Reily and Mick Molloy are on the hunt for the most bizarre stories to ever occur in the world of sport. Sports Bizarre delves into the history of sport to find the stories that you wouldn’t believe if they hadn’t happened. No sport is off-limits, athletics, swimming, rugby, American Football, cricket, baseball, badminton, motorsports, tennis and even that sport on the ice with brooms Sports Bizarre is available wherever you get your podcasts and on YouTube.
- 36 - The Dangerous World of Speed Gluing
In the final of our series on Table Tennis, we look at the use of glue to cheat in table tennis.
When Hungarian player Tibor Klampár discovered volatile glues gave the rubber on bats 30 per cent more spin and speed, it led to an arms race for the most toxic glues.
Titus O'Reily and Mick Molloy look at the dangerous trick that led to players passing out and police raiding table tennis shops.
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Sun, 26 Mar 2023 - 35 - Mao and Nixon play Ping Pong
In the early 1970s, with China and the United States locked in a Cold War struggle, it took Ping Pong to save the world.
With diplomatic ties severed between Richard Nixon and Chairman Mao, the US Table Tennis team were sent to China to mend relations. Things got off to a rough start when one member of the US team converted to Communism and two others played an imaginary game of table tennis in the street, almost starting a riot.
Titus O’Reily and Mick Molloy examine the rise of Table Tennis in China and how the US Table Tennis Championships were once kicked out of a venue by El Mongol, a not-so-famous wrestler.
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Sun, 19 Mar 2023 - 34 - Stalin, Hitchcock and table tennis
The sport of table tennis or ping pong, or as it was once known, Whiff Waff, has arguably had a more significant impact on world history than any other sport.
In this episode, we look at the life of Ivor Montagu, the man who built table tennis into an international sport while also making films with Alfred Hitchcock, hanging out with Charlie Chaplin and spying for the Soviets during the War.
Mick Molloy and Titus O'Reily examine a sport that connects Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Chairman Mao, King Charles, HG Wells, George Bernard Shaw and General Douglas MacArthur.
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Mon, 13 Mar 2023 - 32 - Jimmy "The Whirlwind" White
By the time Jimmy White was 13, he was skipping school and travelling around England in a black cab to play snooker and hustle adults out of their money. Turning professional, Jimmy quickly became the most beloved snooker player in the world while...
Sun, 05 Mar 2023 - 31 - The very odd Marquis of Queensbury
Completing our look at the early days of boxing, we pick up where the sport moves from having no rules whatsoever to having at least three of them. It's the nanny state gone mad. We meet the man who lends his name to these new rules, the 9th Marquess...
Sun, 26 Feb 2023 - 30 - The unruly early days of boxing
In the seventeenth century in England, the earliest form of modern boxing emerged, a wild free for all style of fighting that included eye gouging, hair pulling, spitting, head-butting, shin-kicking, stomping and kicking downed opponents. Out of...
Sun, 19 Feb 2023 - 29 - Chaos Agent John Daly- Part Two
If you thought Part One was crazy, Part Two is looser than a night out with John Daly. We pick up just after Daly had signed a sponsorship contract with a 'no alcohol or gambling' clause. What follows is an awful lot of drinking and gambling. Titus...
Sun, 12 Feb 2023 - 28 - Chaos Agent John Daly- Part One
Golfer John Daly may be one of the most relatable sportspeople ever, having once said, “I don’t think I’ve ever stepped in the gym – they won’t let me smoke there.” Daly took the golfing world by storm, winning the 1991 PGA Tournament with...
Sun, 05 Feb 2023 - 27 - Somewhat important announcement
Despite a valiant effort to stay on holiday forever, Mick and Titus will return in 2023, with the first episode going out on the 6th of February. Titus gives a brief overview of the year ahead and reveals the focus of episode one. Follow Sports...
Thu, 26 Jan 2023 - 26 - The dodgy road to the Qatar World Cup: Part Six
It’s the final episode in our dodgy road to the Qatar World Cup series and our final show of 2022. Don’t worry, we’re back early in the new year. This episode looks at the fall of Sepp Blatter, features more arrests than an episode of The Wire...
Sun, 11 Dec 2022 - 25 - The dodgy road to the Qatar World Cup: Part Five
It's part of five of our look at the beautiful corruption that is FIFA; we pick up with Sepp Blatter still ascendant, but the cracks are starting to appear. Facing challenges for the FIFA presidency and numerous legal problems, Sepp tries to...
Sun, 04 Dec 2022 - 24 - The dodgy road to the Qatar World Cup: Part Four
It’s part four of our look at the history of FIFA, which means it's time to introduce two new fun characters to our story, Chuck Blazer and Fred Warner, two men so corrupt even other FIFA delegates were shocked by them, which is saying something. We...
Sun, 27 Nov 2022 - 23 - The dodgy road to the Qatar World Cup: Part Three
It’s part three of our look at the history of FIFA, and in this episode, we introduce a young man with a sparkle in his eye, Sepp Blatter. Part Bond villain, part, well actually, all Bond villain; under Blatter, FIFA made the final step towards...
Sun, 20 Nov 2022 - 22 - The dodgy road to the Qatar World Cup Part 2
It’s part two of our look at the history of FIFA, and its somewhat eccentric accounting practices. In this episode, we look at João Havelange, President of FIFA from 1974 to 1998, who brought in the money and bought the votes to be President. Titus...
Tue, 15 Nov 2022 - 21 - The dodgy road to the Qatar World Cup Part 1
With the FIFA World Cup in Qatar fast approaching, we begin a multi-episode dive into the corruption that led to FIFA thinking a country the size of the Falkland Islands, with no infrastructure and temperatures hovering around the 'too hot to play...
Sun, 13 Nov 2022 - 20 - Beer Plus Fans Equals Chaos
On 4 June 1974, the Cleveland Indians decided to host a ten-cent beer night to attract fans; beer at the stadium normally cost 65 cents, so ten cents was a real incentive. The Indians were in a 30-year slump at the time, as was the city, their...
Sun, 06 Nov 2022 - 19 - The man who invented the Melbourne Cup
Frederick Charles Standish left England in 1852 under a false name and fleeing moneylenders. Landing in Melbourne, he was forced to live on the goldfields and run a sly grog business. Yet, just six years later, he would be the colony's Chief...
Sun, 30 Oct 2022 - 18 - The Philadelphia Eagles wild man
Timothy John Rossovich was a star defensive end and linebacker at the University of Southern California and the Philadelphia Eagles, but it was off the field where his genius shone. Rossovich was famous for surreal pranks that included chewing glass,...
Sun, 23 Oct 2022 - 17 - Good Old Bob
Robert Standish Sievier was one of the most colourful personalities of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, a man who revolutionised bookmaking in Australia before returning to England, where his horse Sceptre won four of the five English classics....
Sun, 16 Oct 2022 - 16 - The Weirdest Contracts in Sport
Contracts in sports contain clauses so weird they are scarcely believable. There are clauses banning players from going to nightclubs, but there's also been a clause insisting a player got drunk after every game. Contracts have included clauses for...
Sun, 09 Oct 2022 - 15 - Dock Ellis, LSD and other adventures
In an All-Star career, Dock Ellis managed to win a World Series, pitch a no-hitter on LSD, hit every batter that came to the plate in a game and set a clubhouse on fire. But for every bit of craziness, Ellis was also ahead of his time as a...
Sun, 02 Oct 2022 - 14 - The 2000 Spanish Paralympic team
At the 2000 Paralympic games, a new category, Basketball for the Intellectually Disabled, was to be included in the games. It got the head of the Spanish Paralympics Fernando Martin Vicente thinking, what if you could get people who weren’t...
Sun, 25 Sep 2022 - 13 - The 1900 Paris Olympics
The 1900 Paris Olympics were a disaster of planning and execution, to the point many athletes never even knew they’d participated in an Olympics. So poorly organised were the games that the discus field was too narrow and throws went into the crowd,...
Sun, 18 Sep 2022 - 12 - The Monkey Testicle Doping Scandal
In the 1930s, several English football clubs experimented with a new treatment sweeping the globe, ingesting, injecting or transplanting testicular tissue from monkeys into people. So widespread was the practice that the 1939 FA Cup final...
Sun, 11 Sep 2022 - 11 - Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong-un
Former Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman has recently offered to go to Russia to talk to President Vladimir Putin about the imprisoned WNBA star Brittney Griner. While Rodman claims somewhat falsely that "I know Putin too well," there’s one dictator he...
Sun, 04 Sep 2022 - 10 - The Curse of Colonel Sanders
Sporting curses are always strange, but perhaps none is stranger than the Curse of Colonel Sanders, which has seen the Japanese baseball team, the Hanshin Tigers, suffer decades of poor performances after offending the spirit of the KFC founder....
Sun, 28 Aug 2022 - 9 - The Rise of John Wren
In 1893, John Wren, unemployed and from a poor family, set up the Collingwood Tote, an illegal betting shop that would achieve mythical status, depending on who you asked, as either a den of vice ruining the lives of many or as a symbol of the working...
Sun, 21 Aug 2022 - 8 - The Battle of Montevideo
The 1967 Intercontinental Cup saw Scottish club Celtic and Argentinian side Racing Club face off across three brutal matches. In one match, the Celtic goalkeeper was knocked unconscious by a bottle thrown from the crowd before the game; despite this,...
Mon, 15 Aug 2022 - 7 - Young Griffo
Albert Griffiths, or ‘Young Griffo’ began life in the slums of Sydney as the leader of a local street gang. This proved to be the perfect training for boxing, and before he was twenty, he was the World Featherweight Champion. Moving to the United...
Mon, 08 Aug 2022 - 6 - The Worst Event in Olympic History
The 1904 Olympics in St Louis, Missouri, were a disaster in every way possible. Held over six months alongside the World’s Fair, it had a human zoo and a ‘savage Olympics’ pitting various indigenous groups against each other. But the marathon...
Sun, 31 Jul 2022 - 5 - Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding
Days out from the 1994 US Figure Skating Championships, Nancy Kerrigan had just finished training at the Cobo Arena in Detroit when a man approached and hit her with a metal object just above her knee. Almost immediately, the FBI would identify four...
Sun, 24 Jul 2022 - 4 - Doping in the Tour De France
From the first Tour De France, riders were putting all kinds of things in their bodies, caffeine, strychnine, cocaine and alcohol. Drugs were so much part of the sport that the 1930 rulebook, given to all riders, reminded them that drugs would not be...
Sun, 17 Jul 2022 - 3 - Tour De France, the Early Years
The early years of the Tour De France were a hot mess, with a spiked bottle of lemonade, itching powder put in cyclists’ shorts, riders taking rides in cars and trains, attempted murder and pitched battles between cyclists and spectators. Beginning...
Wed, 13 Jul 2022 - 2 - The Strangest Trade in the History of Sport
On March 4, 1973, it was announced New York Yankees pitchers Mike Kekich and Fritz Peterson would be holding separate press conferences that day. Both men would be announcing a trade, nothing unusual in baseball where players move around more than...
Mon, 11 Jul 2022 - 1 - Sports Bizarre Coming Soon
Titus O’Reily and Mick Molloy are on the hunt for the most bizarre stories to ever occur in the world of sport. Sports Bizarre delves into the history of sport to find the stories that you wouldn’t believe if they hadn’t happened. No sport is...
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