Jack Senior

Congratulations Lando. Nice guys do sometimes finish first. Congrats to Max and Oscar for making it a hell of a season too. Might not have been the most exciting finale ever but was a satisfying end to a very good season.

Please be aware, this episode contains talk of Joe Root having never hit a Test Century in Australia which is now out of date. Our sincere apologies.

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We would put our usual message out saying NEW EPISODE, and telling you it's part 3 of our Ashes series where we pick our best Ashes XI of our lifetime, including debating Joe Root's merits... but we don't want to jinx anything right now, so we won't.

How is Enzo not offside here? Mosquera clears that without him being there.

About as close as I've come to putting my GCSE Drama to good use. Thank you Mrs Sanders.

"An outback bushwhack dream of a comeback."

While English cricket fans of almost any age have been here before, we also know we will stay watching, and keep dreaming.

Because 143 years of history means seeing the impossible made possible many times over.

Believe.

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Our second Ashes episode after our intro to cricket last week.

This week we cover origin stories through to the legend that is Richie Benaud, stopping for some WG Grace and Billy Midwinter, Bradman and Bodyline, and more besides in between.

Absolutely marvellous, this one.

It would be brilliant if everyone, and I mean everyone, boycotted the whole Trump/Gianni Infantino corruption infested comp.

Personally, I couldn't be arsed with it all.

We'll all switch off when we see they've sterilised the best part of the tournament (simultaneous final group games) by most third place teams going through, made the tournament mostly crap knockout matches, and glazed the whole thing in US pageantry and N. Korean style sycophantic dictator worship.

I, for one, am shocked.

It was never going to be boring, was it.

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At the Almanac we love to provide for people who, like us, love sport but only know a chosen few in depth.

With the Ashes starting tonight, today's episode looks to make that most complex of sports, cricket, more accessible.

Episode 33: How to Cricket (The Ashes Part 1), Out Now.

Never wished I was Scottish more than tonight. That is unreal.

A red card for violent conduct in a FIFA match is a three game ban. Portugal more than likely have one competitive match before the World Cup starts. So in theory, Ronaldo will miss the first two matches of the World Cup.

Any ideas for how FIFA are going to weasel out of this one people?

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Ahead of Canadian Football's showpiece this Sunday we tackle how the game developed, how to play it, and why it might have saved soccer fans the globe over from the unthinkable.

We also talk Russ Jackson, Warren Moon, cold weather, trophy headbutts and more.

If I had a nickel for every time our sports history podcast has discussed men headbutting inanimate objects this month, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Pretty interesting sprint race to start the weekend off, other than the face pretty much everything that happened seem to happen off camera. Not sure if there was some technical issues going on, but even replays were slow coming there. Oscar needs pole position badly this evening.

What is Felipe Massa's endgame in his Crashgate court case?

Does he actually have a chance of winning it?

Is it all worth gambling an exceptional public image on?

Seeing these maneuvers whilst remembering how he handled missing out in 2008 is hard for us to reconcile.

Part 1 here.

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The Brazilian Grand Prix - the best circuit on the calendar, fast, unpredictable and often wet. It's hosted incredible finales, heartbreak, headbutts and more.

We talk Senna, Carlos Pace, Barrichello and more - and of course, Felipe Massa and 2008, Crashgate and all.

Congratulations to Jamie Melham for becoming the second female jockey - after Michelle Payne in 2015 - to win the Melbourne Cup, on Half Yours. Same goes to the horse, his team, any Victorians who are still sober and all the Brits who set a 3.45am alarm to watch the race live!

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It's 6am in Melbourne where millions of people are NOT waking up to their normal work day, because today is Melbourne Cup Day, a public holiday, all for a legendary race.

Episode 30 is out now, on the Melbourne Cup - give it a listen for history, legends and why this day means so much to Australia.

NEW EPISODE: The Melbourne Cup - the Race That Stops the Nation.

They say when Australia was being built, every new town would before anything else get a church, a pub, and a racetrack. Horse racing is built into the fabric of the country, and the Melbourne Cup is arguably its biggest sporting day.

I thought this was quite a good spin for the logistical nightmare that has been getting an episode out this week!

It's a good one - Aussie sports are fast becoming favourites of ours. Horse racing in Australia is huge, so built into the fabric of the country, and the Melbourne Cup is its showpiece.

On November 7th 1861 the first Melbourne Cup ran at Flemington Racecourse - a Thursday, not yet the first Tuesday of November where the Cup has stood for the past 150 years.

Appropriately our podcast, normally out on a Tuesday will come out Thursday this week!

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With Episode 29 on the history of archery and the Archery World Cup out now, I'm celebrating at the NOMA Sculpture Garden with some very apt artwork.

Just about the nicest place in New Orleans so far this, and the beignet's around the corner were pretty great too.

A little late on the announcement as admin is currently slumming it in New Orleans, but EPISODE 29 OUT NOW!

Here at the Almanac we love when sport and history overlap, and there are few sports with a longer history or one so steeped in lore and myth than Archery.

Archery World Cup, Ep.29, out now!

Ep.28 out now, on the Super League Grand Final.

This is the episode intro - we dive into how the two codes of rugby split and, more importantly, why it had to happen.

It's a story of myths of 1823, competing ideology and of how soccer blazed a trail the men who ran rugby didn't want to follow.

Another clip from Episode 27, on the MLB postseason.

Jack tells the story of the Sultan of Swat, the Great Bambino himself, Babe Ruth. Here, the most retold story in all of baseball lore, the Babe calling his shot at Wrigley Field in 1932.

His full story is in the episode, on all good providers.