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By Ryan FSN’s Emmy-winning Sport Science is making a comeback, debuting its 13-episode second season March 22 at 9pm (local time). Each week the best athletes in the world enter the Sport Science lab and run through a series of tests designed to question everything fans think they know about sports. Sport Science tests the limits of athletic performance and challenges the assumptions athletes have about their own bodies. Highlights this season include MMA fighter Houston Alexander getting injected with a dose of epinephrine to see how it affects his punching power. The goal is to determine if adrenaline really […]

Posted by Cubicle QB FSN has been on a roll lately with its original programs, with Sport Science and Amazing Sports Stories, and now the announcement of Baseball’s Golden Age premiering July 6 at 8pm (local time). Baseball’s Golden Age uses recently discovered color home movies from the 1920s-1960s to tell the stories of some of the game’s biggest legends — Ruth, Cobb, Williams, Mays, Aaron — and their incomparable feats on the field. Each 30-minute episode contains remarkable rare shots and never-before-seen footage from films shot by fans, players’ families and the players themselves. Each episode includes interviews with […]

Posted by Cubicle QB I give FSN lots of credit for upping the I.Q. on their original programming lately, with the recently returned Sport Science, and now the Emmy-nominated Amazing Sports Stories premiering April 13 at 8pm (all time zones) and airing Sundays. This new series, consisting of 13 half-hour episodes, is part movie and part documentary, using dramatic reenactments, archival footage and interviews to piece together unbelievable and rarely told stories of athletes or teams throughout history. The premiere episode, “Bert Shepard: The Dream That Wouldn’t Die,” tells the story of a pro pitching prospect who became a fighter […]

FSN is returning Sport Science for six new episodes beginning March 16. Here’s the rundown of the latest installments: March 16 — Field Warriors. Host John Brenkus and his team of scientists examine the most dramatic injuries ever suffered in a sporting event and get first-person accounts of the athletes who survived the injuries that force people to look away. Testing pain, empathy, blood flow and broken bones, this episode also showcases an analysis of the horrific injury suffered by goalie Clint Malarchuk, whose jugular vein was slashed by a skate. Special guests: Malarchuk, MMA star Bas Rutten, Dolphins LB […]