Podcast appearances and mentions of chuck korr

Chuck Korr joins the show.

Chuck Korr joins the show.

Chuck Korr joins the show.

Segment 2 with Chuck Korr.

Segment 2 with Chuck Korr.

The 8th Anniversary Show. Guest include George Vescey, Chuck Korr, and Bill McDermott.

The 8th Anniversary Show. Guest include George Vescey, Chuck Korr, and Bill McDermott.

It’s the Czar’s birthday. Helping him celebrate the special occasion are the legendary Chuck Korr and Asim “The Dream.” The guys discuss bocce ball and a special anniversary coming up for Czar Schwarz.The post July 1, 2017 – STL United (THE EDMUNDO SHOW) – Segment 1 appeared first on insidestl.com.

It’s the Czar’s birthday. Helping him celebrate the special occasion are the legendary Chuck Korr and Asim “The Dream.” The guys discuss bocce ball and a special anniversary coming up for Czar Schwarz.The post July 1, 2017 – STL United (THE EDMUNDO SHOW) – Segment 1 appeared first on insidestl.com.

Chuck Korr shares stories of the late, great Don Rickles.The post April 8, 2017 – STL United – Segment 5 appeared first on insidestl.com.

Chuck Korr shares stories of the late, great Don Rickles.The post April 8, 2017 – STL United – Segment 5 appeared first on insidestl.com.

  It’s a cast of thousands on the STL United Soccer Saturday Show. Czar Schwarz, Super Ted, Edmundo, Professor Blyth, Asim the Dream and Chuck Korr are in-studio. In the first segment, the guys discuss athletes having opinions on political issues.  The post Feb. 25, 2017 – STL United Soccer Saturday – Segment 1 appeared first on insidestl.com.

  It’s a cast of thousands on the STL United Soccer Saturday Show. Czar Schwarz, Super Ted, Edmundo, Professor Blyth, Asim the Dream and Chuck Korr are in-studio. In the first segment, the guys discuss athletes having opinions on political issues.  The post Feb. 25, 2017 – STL United Soccer Saturday – Segment 1 appeared first on insidestl.com.

Chuck Korr gives a history lesson about King Charles I of EnglandThe post Nov. 19, 2016 – STL United Soccer Saturday – Segment 6 appeared first on insidestl.com.

Chuck Korr gives a history lesson about King Charles I of EnglandThe post Nov. 19, 2016 – STL United Soccer Saturday – Segment 6 appeared first on insidestl.com.

Chances are, if you were one of the 700 million people who watched the 2010 World Cup, you likely heard mention of the soccer games that prisoners on Robben Island played during the decades of apartheid rule. The stories of these soccer matches on the barren island, played by political prisoners sentenced to years of hard labor, were cast as evidence of the sport’s power to lift the human spirit, to bring inspiration in the midst of oppression. But the matches on Robben Island were much more than a diversion from the tedium and harshness of prison life. Hundreds of inmates participated in creating a fully organized league, the Makana Football Association, with multiple divisions, clubs governed by constitutions and officers, fixtures and tables, and league administrators. The workings of the association produced hundreds of pages of documents that ended up in 1993, by chance, in the hands of American sports historian Chuck Korr. Drawing from these boxes of materials and from interviews with the men who played on Robben Island, Korr produced a complete and moving account of soccer in apartheid’s most notorious prison.  This book, which he co-wrote with British writer Marvin Close, is More Than Just a Game–Soccer vs. Apartheid: The Greatest Soccer Story Ever Told (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2010). Korr brings to this story the perspective of an experienced historian of sports. And as he explains in the interview, never has he encountered such dedication to the ideals of sports as he discovered in researching the book. It is a story based on a sport, he explains, but it is also about the struggle for dignity and the conveying of values. The book reflects the conviction, as one of Korr’s subjects explained it, that “sports is much too important to be just fun.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chances are, if you were one of the 700 million people who watched the 2010 World Cup, you likely heard mention of the soccer games that prisoners on Robben Island played during the decades of apartheid rule. The stories of these soccer matches on the barren island, played by political prisoners sentenced to years of hard labor, were cast as evidence of the sport’s power to lift the human spirit, to bring inspiration in the midst of oppression. But the matches on Robben Island were much more than a diversion from the tedium and harshness of prison life. Hundreds of inmates participated in creating a fully organized league, the Makana Football Association, with multiple divisions, clubs governed by constitutions and officers, fixtures and tables, and league administrators. The workings of the association produced hundreds of pages of documents that ended up in 1993, by chance, in the hands of American sports historian Chuck Korr. Drawing from these boxes of materials and from interviews with the men who played on Robben Island, Korr produced a complete and moving account of soccer in apartheid’s most notorious prison.  This book, which he co-wrote with British writer Marvin Close, is More Than Just a Game–Soccer vs. Apartheid: The Greatest Soccer Story Ever Told (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2010). Korr brings to this story the perspective of an experienced historian of sports. And as he explains in the interview, never has he encountered such dedication to the ideals of sports as he discovered in researching the book. It is a story based on a sport, he explains, but it is also about the struggle for dignity and the conveying of values. The book reflects the conviction, as one of Korr’s subjects explained it, that “sports is much too important to be just fun.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices