Today’s Podcast Picks examines TGL’s new school that is attempting to shake up traditionally conservative golf and give it a technological makeover with indoor simulated shots and access to players like never before previously to try to attract. younger, hipper fans. We then look at another example of ‘what’s old is new again’ as cricket returns to the Olympics at the 2028 Los Angeles Games with a history lesson on the sport, as well as a basic tutorial on the how the game works for an American audience. . Finally, we’re going really old school with a look at the Negro Leagues and how, for decades, the many great players who competed there were excluded from the Baseball HOF.
The impending launch of TGL was discussed on “No Laying Up” with co-host DJ Piehowski saying he’s “strangely obsessed with this and really cares about what’s going on” because it’s a “big deal” for all the big names involved in the company. Piehowski: “There aren’t many big changes like this, and this is going to replace a big change in another area.” Piehowski said he felt like “instead of tackling” the problems facing the PGA Tour, including “trying to fix” the schedule, broadcasting and “creating more stars” , the Tour “does that and I don’t think they “I necessarily do anything to help the bottom of the funnel. They’re just trying to pull more people into this giant funnel.
LEARN A NEW SPORT: With cricket, join the Olympics at LA28, Cricket Europe writer Andrew Nixon spoke with “Keep the Flame Alive” to explain the sport to an American audience and its long and often painful colonial history. Nixon said the sport’s return to the Olympics “has been a long time coming”, but the response from the cricketing world has been “mixed”. Nixon: “Part of the reason is that it doesn’t necessarily have much impact on the countries at the top of the game… (and) they don’t really need the Olympics per se .” But for “those countries at the bottom of the ladder,” participation in the Olympics could have a “transformative impact.”
CANNOT BE NEGLECTED: The “30 for 30” podcast aired an episode on the legendary Negro Leagues and the stars who participated in them, with host Vanessa Lierre Rose wondering, “Can baseball really be the greatest game of all if it doesn’t recognize all of its best players?” Negro League players were initially excluded from the Baseball HOF “when segregation was the norm and the Gentleman’s Agreement still ruled the game,” but beginning in the 1960s, “America began to change and the Temple of fame had some catching up to do. »
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