Sitemap - 2020 - Throwbacks: A Newsletter About Sports History and Culture

The Longest Year (December 2020)

The Granddaddy of Them All (January 1, 1919)

The worst manager in history (August 1980)

It'd be a lot cooler if you did (July, 1976)

Searching for Bobby Fischer (July 1972)

Upon further review (December 1998)

"The political relevance of irrelevant events" (November 2016)

"I felt something greater than pride" (October 26, 1970)

"Because I kicked their f---ing ass" (July 1977)

The Nine Lives of Mike Leach (November 2008)

Jocks vs. Nerds (Summer, 1984)

The Deadly Donora Smog (October 1948)

It's Not Dark Yet (September 2005)

Portland Is(n't) Burning (October, 2019)

"Seven is a Lucky Number" (Fall, 1905)

The End of College Football As We Know It (September 1980)

"This is Not Basketball" (July, 1959)

"Football Players Were Quintessential Jocks"(October 1964)

Okrent's Deadly Toy (Summer 1980)

A Fall Without College Football

The (Merciful) End of the Mascot Wars? (1915-2020)

All We Got on This Team Are a Buncha...(April, 1976)

Howard Cosell: Speaking of Sports (Summer, 1970)

The Johnny Bright Incident (Oct. 20, 1951)

"On This Day, It Seemed Like the Past Won" (December 29, 1962)

Randall Cunningham and the Journey of the Black Quarterback (October 10, 1988)

The Battle of the Century (July 4, 1910)

The One Historians Are Going to Remember (1970)

"You Have To Pay the Price" (1918, 1952, 1968, 2020)

"You've Never Won Anything" (1998, 2014, 2020)

Fans Disguised As Empty Seats (November 1955 and October 1987)

We're Finally On Our Own (May 1970)

The Last Gasp of the Longball (April 2000)

The Hippest NFL Draft of All Time (April 1980)

Michael Jordan and the birth of a new era

How to Exist When History Stops

Sports History, Culture, Politics, and Other Assorted Minutiae