In the 1980s, white athletes for some Americans came to represent white excellence in a sports world dominated by black athletes. Matt Andrews illustrates this through the stories of three white sports legends-NBA player Larry Bird, boxer Gerry Cooney...and fictional fighter Rocky Balboa.
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10/25/22 • 29 min
The Untold History of Sports in America - The Return of the Great White Hope
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Oh, lessons from the world's top professors anytime, any place, world history examined and science explained. This is one day university Welcome, and we're back on the untold history of sports in America. I'm your host, Mike Coscarelli. Today we revisit a classic and timeless sports mythology, the Great White Hope. It's been a few decades. It's about time we had another one. This time around. It's Larry Bird, the hic from French Lick. His NBA riv
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