It Seemed Smart

SB Nation

Liars, cheaters, burglars, oh my! Enter the amusing, diabolical, and entertaining world of sports trickery and mayhem. Spencer Hall shares the absurd stories of stolen bats, pirated play calls, renegade cross-country road racers, and promising footballers who, it turns out, were never really footballers at all. A storytelling experience by SB Nation and the Vox Media Podcast Network.

7 Episoder

Tour de France is the pinnacle of cheating — Part 2
27.11.2018
31:44
Tour de France Part 2 looks at doping, and what happened when it all finally went too far — even for the Tour de France.
Tour de France is the pinnacle of cheating in sports — Part 1
20.11.2018
26:27
There is cheating, and then there is the Tour de France.
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Wakeyleaks (a college football espionage story)
13.11.2018
29:05
Wake Forest suspected that someone was stealing its playbook. What they didn’t know was that it was an inside job.
The Shady Rise and Spectacular Fall of Daily Fantasy Sports
6.11.2018
33:20
The online fantasy boom made a lot of people rich: the fantasy sports companies that raked in millions on barely legal bets; and some of their employees who used insider info to cash in.
How to Plan to Break the Law in 20 States at Once
30.10.2018
30:41
The Cannonball Run, a 28-hour car sprint across the United States, involves a thousand small challenges, and two huge ones: how to fool the cops, and how to not leave any evidence.
The Great Albert Belle Bat Caper
23.10.2018
30:28
In 1994, the Cleveland Indians crawled through a ceiling, stole a bat out of an umpire’s dressing room, and set off a chain of events that eventually involved a former FBI agent.
Introducing It Seemed Smart
25.9.2018
1:42
True stories of people who broke the rules of the game, just to win. Hosted by Spencer Hall.

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It Seemed Smart

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7 Episoder

Tour de France is the pinnacle of cheating — Part 2

Tour de France is the pinnacle of cheating in sports — Part 1

Wakeyleaks (a college football espionage story)

The Shady Rise and Spectacular Fall of Daily Fantasy Sports

How to Plan to Break the Law in 20 States at Once

The Great Albert Belle Bat Caper

Introducing It Seemed Smart