TimeStamped with Robert Barbieri

An indoor arena. An 80-yard field. An NFL championship on the line. In 1932, the Chicago Bears and Portsmouth Spartans needed one more game to settle a championship. But brutal winter weather forced the showdown inside...

Colin Cowherd has spent decades talking about the business of sports. Now he’s putting his own money into it. This week’s Wednesday Ticket explores Cowherd’s reported investment in Ipswich Town, the historic club’s...

In 1944, World War II had drained NFL rosters across the country. Pittsburgh and the Chicago Cardinals were hit so hard that the league approved something almost unthinkable: the two franchises combined into one team...

The NFL used to own Sunday. Now it wants a lot more. The 2026 season opens on a Wednesday with a Super Bowl rematch in Seattle. Less than 24 hours later, the league heads to Melbourne for its first regular-season game...

Stan Kroenke already has championship teams in football, basketball, hockey, soccer and lacrosse. Now he’s adding Major League Baseball to the portfolio. On this week’s Ticket, we look at the $4 billion sale of the Los...

Before Joe Louis ever fought Max Schmeling, another American had already beaten him. Steve Hamas was a former Penn State star, NFL player, and unlikely heavyweight contender who stunned Schmeling in 1934. One year...

The Ticket Is Punched ️ One unforgettable moment. One piece of sports history. One story worth revisiting. In this episode of TimeStamped with Robert Barbieri, we take a closer look at a defining sports moment and...

There is film of it. On August 4, 1936, in a stadium holding 110,000 people, a German long jumper named Luz Long lost the Olympic final to a Black American from Alabama — and got up, walked over, and embraced him. Then...

The first Canadian Championships were played at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club from July 18–24, 1881 — five and a half weeks before the first US National Championship at the Newport Casino, ten years before the French...

In 1908, a five-foot-two candy maker crossed the finish line first at the Olympic marathon in London — and then they took the gold medal away from him. This is the story of Dorando Pietri, the most famous loser in...

n 1912, the King of Sweden told Jim Thorpe he was the greatest athlete in the world. A year later, his own country erased him from the record books. This is the story of Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indians — the team...

In 1943, the University of Notre Dame was dying — not on the football field, but as an institution. World War II had emptied its classrooms and drained its budget, and the school was quietly asking whether it should...

Two things carry the name Jules Rimet: the most famous trophy in sports, and the man who dreamed up the World Cup. This is the story of how both of them vanished. The trophy survived a world war in a shoebox under a...

In the summer of 1950, the United States sent a team of part-timers to the World Cup: a mailman, a schoolteacher, a man who drove a hearse, and a dishwasher from Haiti named Joe Gaetjens. On a bumpy field in Belo...

He was the most feared heavyweight on earth. A champion the public was taught to hate before he threw a punch. Promoters, managers, and the men behind them all had a claim on Sonny Liston: when he fought, who he fought...