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#458 - Busted, Disgusted & Can't Be Trusted - Evel Knievel - Part 10

Release Date: 04/22/2025

Crime in Sports

This week, we catch up to a triumphant Billy, as he basks in the glow of World Series victory. This, of course, leads him to brutally pummel a reporter, who dared ask a question about a recent Yankee trade. He is forced to resign, only to be rehired, within 2 months. He fights with players, reporters, and one, very angry team owner. He also finds love, with a young lady, who many people believe is only 16 years old! Beat a reporter into a bloody heap, over minor infractions, be forced to resign, the year after you won the World Series, and continue to cause a scene, and drink heavily,...

The Bronx Is Burning - Billy Martin - Part 7

Crime in Sports

This week, we find Billy Martin at the brink of a triumphant season, that would cement his managerial legacy. The problem is, there's going to be much drama, in the process. From fighting, in the dugout, on national televison, with his star player, to fighting with the team owner, at 2 am, after everyone has had a few cocktails, to causing a scene, by fighting with his wife, during a celebration... Billy is starting to unravel! All of this while NYC expeciences a huge blackout, and The Son of Sam runs rampant!! Fight your star player, in front of the world, challenge someone who says...

Did He, Or Didn't He? - The Shohei Ohtani Gambling Scandal

Crime in Sports

This week, we take a break from our Billy Martin series, to bring you a bonus episode, that is more relevant than ever, right now. Mixing otherwordly talent, with the black cloud of gambling allegations, hanging over head, makes this as crazy a story as we've talked about. Did the greatest talent, in the game of baseball, the modern day face of game, actually commit acts that should have him banned for life, while everyone is happy to blame a lowly interpreter, for everything??? We look into the scandal that surrounded Shohei Ohtani!! This episode was recorded in April of 2024, and put...

Trouble Is My Middle Name - Billy Martin - Part 6

Crime in Sports

This week, we catch up with Billy, as he is again fired, despite being the league's Manager of the Year. He fights, more & more, with his celebrity getting him out of multiple arrests. But his celebrity doesn't help his attempted cocaine mule of a daughter. He lands his dream gig, as manager of the New York Yankees, only to almost be fired for talking back to the owner. Billy will never learn! Get fired, even though you're the AL Manager of the Year, call Frank Sinatra & Henry Kissenger to try to get your daughter out of trouble, and start fighting with your new team's owner...

The Angry Wanderer - Billy Martin - Part 5

Crime in Sports

This week, we follow Billy's exploits, as his teams perform wonderfully, on the field, but it's still not enough to keep him from getting repeatedly fired. Why? Because he fights with team owners, opposing players/managers/fans & umpires. He even beats one of his own players, so badly, that they have to be hospitalized for 20 stitches to their face! Then, he gets arrested for actually doing something admirable! Wild as always! Take a team from nearly last place, to winning their division... and get fired, lead another team back from the dead... and get fired, then quickly get...

Loyalty, Lawsuits & Left Hooks - Billy Martin - Part 4

Crime in Sports

This week, Billy starts out on another new team, but that doesn't last long. He bounces around the league, while fighting, and even getting sued by another player, who ended up with a broken orbital bone. As he tries to live down his fighter reputation, he get into even more fights. He even fights a team official, in a hotel lobby. With his playing career over, he also enters the managerial stage of his career.. but he's still ready to punch!! Spend your last few years in the league, bouncing around with different teams, punch the team's traveling secratary, for a minor provocation, and...

A Troublemaking Bad Influence - Billy Martin - Part 3

Crime in Sports

This week, we catch up with Billy, as he is forced back into the Army, missing an entire season of Yankee baseball. He is also labeled as a "troublemaker", and a "bad influence" on teammates like Mickey Mantle, just because they go out drinking, every night, and a major brawl happened to beak out at the Copacabana, at Billy's birthday party! He fights, he scraps, and he gets traded, all over the league! Watch the Yankees play a whole season, while you're in the Army, fight with your team'sa general manager, and be a bad influence on all of your friends with Billy Martin - Part 3!!...

Cow Killing Street Fighter - Billy Martin - Part 2

Crime in Sports

This week, we start out with Billy, being a big part of the NY Yankees, and making lifelong friends with Micky Mantle. After a few World Series wins, and a quick marriage, Billy settles into the serious business of partying, and NY night life. This includes many fist fights, both on & off the baseball field, and a carzy time, at a ranch, where shots are fired, and things end up dead! Marry your gr\irlfriend, because her friend just got married, punch anyone who slides in, with their spikes a little high, and commit a slaughter, at a ranch with Billy Martin - Part 2!! ...

Brothels, Brawling & Baseball - Billy Martin - Part 1

Crime in Sports

This week, we start a series on one of the most colorful characters in sports history. A hard drinking brawler, who knew nothing but success in baseball. We start this tale, with Billy's dad, taking off, while he was a baby. We delve into his upbringing, just hanging around his aunt's brothel, or getting into constant fights, but at the same time, discovering baseball as a way to get out of his rough neighborhood, dead jobs that awaited him. Did we mention fighting? Because he fights a LOT! Have your mom tell you how great her butt is, hang around at your aunt's brothel, and fight...

A Most Monstrous Murderer - Cierre Wood

Crime in Sports

This week, a man who never quite made the impact he wanted to, in the NFL, despite his Notre Dame pedigree. Whenever his talent would get him to a good spot, he'd screw it up, with his actions. He was out of the NFL, by age 25, and ready to start being an even worse person. The prison sentence he's currently serving, is for a crime that was so horrific, the judge wished he could sentence him to even more time. A true monster! Start football late, but have your natural abilty take you to the highest levels, screw up every oppurtunity that you have, and get convicted of a crime that would...

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This week, we finish up our epic Evel Knievel series with the IRS breathing down Evel's neck. He decides that he's an artist, painting pictures, but that's not exactly the truth. He tries to rule his son's career "with an iron fist". He also owes someone $100 million dollars, and he needs a new liver. He also has a new, VERY young wife, and a string of arrests, for everything from domestic battery, to gun violations. Finally, the death on an icon!!

Find yourself a wife who is less than half your age, pretend to paint, as some sort of new career, and get a new liver from someone who died in the most ironic way possible with Evel Knievel - Part 10!!

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