Bizarre with Mick Molloy and Titus O’Reily

Before organised sport, there was mob football, where entire villages played against each other for days, with no rules, and the kings of England banning it, then legalising it and then banning it aga...

6 Aug 202359min

In part two, Tex Rickard moves to Argentina to raise cattle. Instead, he ends up in the middle of a war between Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil, with Argentina asking him to lead their army. ...

30 Jul 202338min

By his mid-twenties, Tex Rickard had been a cowboy, a Marshal, was friends with Wyatt Earp and had followed the gold rushes to Alaska. In Alaska he became friends with people with names like Swiftwate...

23 Jul 202342min

Carlos Kaiser had one of the longest careers in Brazilian football, joining all the big four clubs Botafogo, Fluminense, Flamengo, and Vasco da Gama, plus stints in Mexico, Argentina and France. Howev...

16 Jul 20231h 1min

Last week we left off with the two Dassler brothers splitting apart their shoe company after a vicious falling out. With the Second World War now over, the two brothers start building their new compan...

9 Jul 202336min

In 1923, two brothers formed a new shoe company, Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik, or Geda. The company grew quickly against the backdrop of the rising Nazi party, and by the 1936 Berlin Olympics, top ath...

2 Jul 202355min

In part two of our look at the LIV Golf-PGA Tour merger, Greg Norman is now CEO of LIV Golf, unleashing a civil war in the sport. Money is thrown around like a loose bucks night, as golfers make hundr...

27 Jun 202336min

We have a treat, two episodes this week, on the LIV Golf-PGA Tour merger. The second episode will be out Wednesday unless you’re a Bizarre Plus member, then you’ll have both today. In this episode, we...

25 Jun 202342min