DOG COMMENTARY: This vintage video provides four (4) different short films that include….the awesome highlights from the year 1975, a magic year in sports….then shifts to an NFL Films feature on O J Simpson as the best running back of the decade of the 1970s…..followed by a wonderful piece on the Lovable Losers The Pittsburgh Steelers…..and…
DetailsDOG ASIDE: On October 13, 1984 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, TX in front of a crowd of 37,794 Longhorn fans wearing burnt orange….along with 37,794 Sooner fans wearing red…..and for the first time since 1965….the Texas Longhorns (3-0) entered the Red River Rivalry game as the top-ranked team in the country. Under 8th-year…
DetailsDOG COMMENTARY: No matter how you cut the pie….for six (6) seasons from 1976 – 1982….Southwest Conference basketball experienced a rivalry for the ages between two (2) legendary coasches in college basketball…..Abe Lemons and Eddie Sutton,,,,for when these two men crossed paths in the old Southwest Conference while Sutton was at the helm of the Arkansas…
DetailsDOG ASIDE: What has become clearly evident to me after posting over 1700 vintage videos from my Bone Daddy’s incredible 2300 hours of vintage content….covering an era we call the golden age of sports from 1964 to 1995….as I’ve already written several stories supporting our belief of this incredible time in the evolution of sports….1st came…
DetailsDOG ASIDE: During the golden age of boxing from 1964 – 1995, HBO was one of the major players in promoting and programming live productions of major boxing events…..for this was the period in which MONEY really came into the sport of boxing….and this MONEY drove many of the really great athletes into the pugilistic…
DetailsDOG COMMENTARY: In the universe of sports, there are no greater rivalries than those that exist in college football….USC vs Notre Dame, Ohio State vs Michigan, Alabama vs Auburn, Texas vs Texas A & M, Yale vs Harvard, Florida vs Florida State and so on and on….but for our dollar at Ima Sportsphile, the…
DetailsDOG COMMENTARY: I have often heard great stories from Bone Daddy regarding the intense rivalry in basketball in the Southwest Conference during the late 1970’s and early 1980’s between Coach Abe Lemons and his Texas Longhorns verses Eddie Sutton and his Arkansas Razorbacks. In 1978 and 1979….it was the Razorbacks famous “triplet guards” combination of Ron Brewer, Marvin…
DetailsDOG COMMENTARY: In this lil ole chiweenie Sportsphile’s opinion….when it comes to Olympic broadcast coverage on television….the gold standard was set by ABC Sports….and the best job ever done by ABC Sports at the Olympics was at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. I means, just consider the broadcast crew on this featured Olympic video…
DetailsDOG ASIDE: Since posting hundreds of world championship title fights here at Ima Sportsphile, I have come to the conclusion that no television network during the golden age of boxing (1964 – 1995) covered a fight better that HBO….especially with the broadcast crew of Barry Tompkins, Sugar Ray Leonard and Larry Merchant….and this video herewith…
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