Podcasts about associated press sports editors

Darian Jenkins, McCall Zerboni, and Jess McDonald preview Week 7 in the NWSL. Then it's a round of stock up sock down in regard to players at the quarter-mark of the season, their pre-season expectations vs their overall performance after 6 weeks. And finally, the group welcome in Sandra Herrera to discuss all that went down at the Associated Press Sports Editors commissioner meetings this past Monday. Watch USWNT and NWSL games on P+" with a link to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.paramountplus.com/home/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Attacking Third is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Follow the Attacking Third team on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@AttackingThird⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@LisaCarlin32⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@SandHerrera_⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@Darian_Jenks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@CCupo⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Visit the Attacking Third YouTube channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/attackingthird⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ You can listen to Attacking Third on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Attacking Third podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Attacking Third podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jon Wilner has been covering college sports for decades and is an AP top-25 football and basketball voter, as well as a Heisman Trophy voter. In addition to being a writer for the Mercury News, he hosts a podcast called Canzano and Wilner with Jonh Canzano. He also appears on various radio stations across the country, specifically KJR Radio in Seattle. He was named Beat Writer of the Year in 2013 by the Football Writers Association of America for his coverage of the Pac-12, won first place for feature writing in 2016 in the Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest, and is a five-time APSE honoree. In this episode, Wilner recaps the recent debut season of the 12-team College Football Playoff. He also talked about the revamped Big 10 and SEC and how they dominate the college landscape with strong media deals. He also speaks in detail about the rebuilding of the Pac-12, with Washington State and Oregon State as centerpieces. He discusses the move of Standford and California Universities to the ACC and debates the possibility of the ACC growing or shrinking significantly. Finally, he discusses a potential “super league” involving college football elite programs and the domino effect it would have on all of college athletics. Find Jon's written work and his podcast at www.wilnerhotline.com.

Winning is a big deal to kids – whether it's on the soccer field or racing their sibling to the car door. And with big competition comes big emotions. So how best to navigate when your child loses – or wins for that matter? Sam Weinman, author of “Win at Losing: How Our Biggest Setbacks Can Lead to Our Greatest Gains” joins Lynn and Justin with practical, healthy strategies for parents to help their little ones deal with competition. Tools that we can all use from the toddler years into adulthood. In our Parenting Story of the Day, we hear how Kelsey Demers, a mom of seven, uses family game night to teach her children bigger life lessons–resilience, critical thinking, and the value of spending real “facetime” around the family table.  You can also watch this podcast on YouTube and reach us at podcast@munchkin.com.  Sam Weinman / IG / FB / LinkedIn Author Sam Weinman was inspired to pen “Win at Losing: How Our Biggest Setbacks Can Lead to Our Greatest Gains,” because his two sons both struggled with losing. Wanting to show them that losing has real benefits, he started on a journey to talk to people—famous and otherwise—about how they handled a notable loss, and what they learned from it.  Weinman is the digital editorial director at Golf Digest and also covered golf and the NHL for The Journal News in Westchester, N.Y. He wrote for numerous publications including USA Today, Golf World, Yahoo! Sports, ESPN the Magazine, and Sports Illustrated. He has been honored with multiple awards in the Associated Press Sports Editors and Golf Writers Association of America writing contests.  Kelsey Demers / IG / TikTok Kelsey and Adam and their seven kids love to play board games! So much so they created the website TheTableTopFamily.com to help everyone find the perfect game to inspire their family to spend more quality time together. They believe that there is nothing more fun than spending an evening together laughing and connecting over the shared experience of playing a game.    StrollerCoaster: A Parenting Podcast is created by Munchkin Inc., the most loved baby lifestyle brand in the world.  You can find all your favorite Munchkin products – including the Spring 2-in-1 Bouncer – at Munchkin.com. Use the code STROLLERCOASTER15 for 15% off regular-price items!  Follow Munchkin on Instagram / Facebook / Pinterest   Trees For the Future  

Ben Volin, is the Senior NFL Writer for the Boston Globe and has covered the NFL since 2007. He joined the Globe newsroom in 2013 from the Palm Beach Post, where he spent four years covering the Miami Dolphins and two years covering the Florida Gators during the Tim Tebow/Urban Meyer era. Since arriving at the Globe, Volin has covered every Patriots game, writes the Globe's “Sunday NFL Notes” column, has covered every Super Bowl since 2011, and has become one of 50 voters selected by the Associated Press to vote for MVP and other NFL awards. Since arriving in 2013, Volin has been in the center of all the major Patriots stories, including four Patriots Super Bowl runs, Aaron Hernandez, Deflategate, the final years and breakup with Tom Brady, and the decline under Bill Belichick. As the NFL columnist, Volin has covered many of the league's top stories, including the COVID-19 pandemic, incidents with Ray Rice, Dan Snyder and Jon Gruden, the concussion crisis, and international expansion. Volin has been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors in its annual writing contest, and is a 2004 graduate of Emory University with an MBA from the University of Florida in 2010. #benvolin #bostonglobe #nflwriter #newenglandpatriots #chrispomay #livewithcdp #barrycullenchevrolet #wellingtonbrewery Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https://streamyard.com/pal/d/54200596... https://beacons.ai/chrisdpomay

In OUT OF THE DARKNESS: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers (Mariner Books), four-time New York Times bestselling author Ian O'Connor delivers the first definitive biography of the NFL's most captivating and polarizing figure, Aaron Rodgers. From his controversial stances and spiritual awakenings to personal struggles and professional triumphs, Rodgers' story is as compelling as it is complex. Drawing on 250 exclusive interviews (including one with Rodgers himself specifically for this book), O'Connor pulls back the curtain on this enigmatic superstar at the perfect time, as Rodgers begins his 20th NFL season and launches his comeback from the devastating Achilles injury that ended his 2023 season just four plays into his New York Jets career. With incredible access to Rodgers' professional and personal world—including his family, from whom he has famously been estranged for many years—O'Connor reveals an intimate, in-depth, never-before-seen-view of Rodgers, both on and off the field. Ian O'Connor is the author of five previous books, including four straight New York Times bestsellers—Coach K, Belichick, The Captain, and Arnie & Jack. He has finished in first place twenty times in national writing contests, including those conducted by the Pro Football Writers of America, Golf Writers Association of America, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Associated Press Sports Editors, who named him the No. 1 columnist in the country in his circulation category three times. O'Connor has been a columnist at ESPN, The New York Post, USA Today, and The New York Daily News. #nyjets #nypost #aaronrodgers #nfl

Chad Finn is a sports and sports media columnist for the Boston Globe. He is the editor of “The Boston Globe Story of the Red Sox” and the recently released “The Boston Globe Story of the Celtics.'' Finn joined the Globe from the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire in 2003 as a sports copy editor and page designer before moving to the writing side and taking over the sports media beat in 2009. He has won multiple Associated Press Sports Editors awards, including for a multimedia project in 2018 on LeBron James's time in the NBA summer league in Boston. In this episode, Finn discusses the process of gathering archival coverage of the Celtics and putting together the recent book. He also talks about the emergence of former Patriots greats Tom Brady and Bill Belichick on television. He also discusses the state of sports radio, specifically in Boston, and the future of Major League Baseball on television with upheaval surrounding the regional sports network and an upcoming negotiation with ESPN. Order The Boston Globe Story of the Celtics here: https://a.co/d/flWtNwW

Notes and Links to Mirin Fader's Work      For Episode 257, Pete welcomes Mirin Fader for her second Chills at Will visit, and the two discuss, among other topics, her love of contemporary fiction, how her second book's release is different than that of her first, seeds for her latest book-Dream, about the great Hakeem Olajuwon-coming from her previous blockbuster about Giannis Antetokounmpo, her finding stories within stories while researching the book, and the wonders and legends of Hakeem Olajuwon, from his start in handball and soccer to the ignorant and racist ways he was often viewed, to the role that discipline, creativity, and his faith play in his daily life.       Mirin Fader is a senior staff writer for The Ringer. Her first book, Giannis: The Improbable Rise of an NBA Champion, was a New York Times Bestseller, Los Angeles Times Bestseller, Wall Street Journal Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller, Publishers Weekly Bestseller. She has profiled some of the NBA's biggest stars, including Giannis Antetokounmpo, Ja Morant, DeMar DeRozan, and LaMelo Ball, telling the backstories that have shaped some of our most complex, most dominant, heroes. Fader wrote for Bleacher Report from 2017 to 2020 and the Orange County Register from 2013 to 2017. Her work has been featured in the “Best American Sports Writing” series and honored by the Pro Basketball Writers Association, the Associated Press Sports Editors, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association, the Football Writers Association of America, and the Los Angeles Press Club.    Buy Dream   Mirin Fader's Website   See Mirin on Tour!   At about 2:50, Mirin discusses her love of fiction and beloved contemporary texts, including Tommy Orange's latest, and Sudanese writer, Rania Mamoun's latest At about 4:40, Mirin responds to Pete's question about any sort of competitiveness within writers in Mirin's cohort, and Pete and Mirin stan Wright Thompson  At about 6:30, Pete highlights Demar Derozan's recent book and Mirin's profile of him for The Ringer At about 9:45, Mirin gives background on her profile of Bronny James and what “lane” she focused on for the piece At about 12:30, Some all-time NBA rankings! At about 14:45, Pete cites the book about Giannis and its lasting greatness At about 15:05, Pete asks Mirin about the run-up to her second book and feedback At about 16:10, Mirin mentions the nostalgia associated with Hakeem Olajuwon At about 17:30, Mirin talks about the “unheralded” nature of Hakeem, as well as the emergence of international basketball players, particularly with African players, for which he was a “prequel” At about 19:25, Mirin gives background on Ben Okri's quote for her epigraph and its connection to Hakeem and devotion and creativity At about 20:10, The two discuss the book's Prologue and LeBron James famous trip to train with Hakeem in 2011 At about 22:40, Henri Yranndo and his importance to Hakeem and his spiritual resurgence is referenced At about 24:00, Mirin discusses her wonderful experiences in going to Hakeem's mosque in Houston At about 25:00, Pete asks Mirin to expand on Hakeem as a “hidden one,” and connections to a hadith quoted from the Koran At about 26:30, The two discuss the book's beginning, and Mirin talks about the bustling city of Lagos, Hakeem's childhood (and later American media racism in describing his youth), and how his father taught him to be proud of his size At about 29:10, Mirin talks about Hakeem's early athletic feats outside of basketball, and how he was “recruited” to finally give in and play basketball At about 31:20, Pete and Mirin reflect on the sad fact that so many interviewees for the book have died recently and how this affects her urgency to get stories on paper At about 32:35, Mirin responds to Pete's wondering about how Hakeem's 1980 Nigerian National Team appearance affected his growth At about 34:10, The “Dream Shake” and Yomi Sangodeyi's greatness and tutoring are explored At about 35:00, Christopher Pond and the supposed origin story of Hakeem's Univ. of Houston landing, as well as problematic parts of the story are probed At about 38:50, Mirin talks about Hakeem's time in Houston and the city's growing Nigerian population  At about 40:10, Mirin expands upon the ignorant and racist ways in which Hakeem was written about, especially in his earlier years, and she shares the story of how him “changing his name” Was emblematic of his humble nature At about 42:55, Mirin highlights how Hakeem was never seen as a draft mistake, even though he was drafted over Michael Jordan, and Pete cites Frank Guidry's book on Houston and how the Forde Center helped Hakeem improve greatly as a Rocket At about 44:15, Pete cites Hakeem's moving letter referenced in the book, and how Mirin charts his rediscovering his faith through some amazing and makes it clear that he never “converted” to Islam At about 46:45, The two reflect on and express the amazement and respect for Hakeem's Ramadan fasting during his playing days At about 47:45, Pete and Mirin stan Hakeem's unforgettable series against David Robinson  At about 48:45, Mirin talks about how Hakeem's faith calls for him to not display iconography and show humility and how the book's cover satisfied the requirements of being respectful  At about 50:45, Mirin shouts out Brazos Bookstore and Skylight Books as good places to buy her book, and shouts out her first tour        You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch this and other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.       I am very excited to have one or two podcast episodes per month featured on the website of Chicago Review of Books. The audio will be posted, along with a written interview culled from the audio. A big thanks to Rachel León and Michael Welch at Chicago Review.     Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl      Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. 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I am a huge sports fan, and both the college football season and the NFL season are in full swing. Sports-wise, this is one of my favorite times of the year, and our guest today Joe Posnanski has written a book for all lovers of the game called Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments that you definitely won't want to miss. Joe chose 100 moments because of the 100 yards in a football field, and talks to us today about how on earth he chose just 100 moments out of the hundreds and even thousands he could have chosen. He talks about what anecdote was most fun to write about, a player and a play that epitomizes football to him, why football matters to society and culture, and yes, even Taylor Swift. We also brought up some of my childhood memories with the Kansas City Chiefs, and it left me feeling very nostalgic. The book is out September 17, and follows Joe's books The Baseball 100 and also Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments. Joe talks about simultaneously loving both college and pro football, and how you can also love multiple sports, just like he loves football and baseball, which he writes in the book is like living a double life. Joe is a former senior columnist for Sports Illustrated and columnist for The Kansas City Star and currently writes for his personal blog JoeBlogs. He's one of the most well-respected sportswriters in the game and has written a number of other books in addition to the three already mentioned. In both 2002 and 2005, Joe was named the best sports columnist in America by the Associated Press Sports Editors, and has won numerous other awards for his work, including Sports Emmy Awards in both 2014 and 2016 as part of NBC's Olympics coverage. He hosts his own weekly podcast, “The PosCast,” and he's just a great guy. Trust me—if you weren't already excited about football season being back, you certainly will be after this chat and this book. Take a listen.   Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments by Joe Posnanski

Send us a textFrom July 2014 through 2022, Keith covered Rutgers athletics for NJ Advance Media, the content company for NJ.com and The Star-Ledger. The dean of the Rutgers football beat, Keith covered thousands of games and big-picture topics surrounding the state university's athletics program since 2000.Keith recently garnered two national awards from the Associated Press Sports Editors for his investigative reporting. Two years ago, the National Sports Media Association named Keith New Jersey's best sportswriter. He was named NJ Advance Media Reporter of the Year in 2018.Keith transitioned in 2022 from sports to news, where as an investigative report he focuses on government, public accountability, education, environmental issues and other topics for NJ Advance Media while still keeping an eye on Rutgers athletics.Keith has family roots in several Middlesex County towns and graduated from Cedar Ridge High School in Old Bridge, making him and Jerry crosstown rivals.Keith is involved in several community service initiatives in his Monmouth County community, including events involving recreation, the environment, and school volunteer programs.Find Keith X@KSargeantNJFind The Suffering PodcastThe Suffering Podcast InstagramKevin Donaldson InstagramMike Failace InstagramApple PodcastSpotifyYouTubeThe Suffering Podcast FamilySherri AllsupToyota of HackensackPoPl Discount code TSP20Cubita CafeSupport the showThe Suffering Podcast Instagram Kevin Donaldson Instagram TikTok YouTube

Author, Andy McCullough Discusses His Book on Clayton Kershaw and Ryan Higgins Carries On His Family's Business, J & R Manufacturing's Legacy Andy McCullough is a senior writer at The Athletic. He has previously covered Major League Baseball for the Los Angeles Times, the Kansas City Star, and The Star-Ledger.  His work has been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors on seven occasions for beat writing, explanatory reporting, and feature writing.  He joins us to discuss his new book, The Last of His Kind: Clayton Kershaw and the Burden of Greatness.  The book is per various websites, "The definitive biography of Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, examining the genesis of his brilliance, his epic quest to win the World Series, and his singular place within the evolving baseball landscape—based on exclusive interviews with Kershaw and more than 200 others.​" Ryan Higgins is the president of J & R Manufacturing and is the third generation to run his family business which for the last 50 years has been an industry leader in manufacturing commercial smokers. J & R Manufacturing was launched in 1974 with their famed wood-fired Oyler Pit rotisserie smoker.  Built with heavy duty stainless steel, top tier components, and hand-crafted workmanship in Mesquite, Texas.  J&R also designs and manufactures world-renowned commercial grills and rotisseries, including custom-combo models used by James Beard Award-winning chefs all around the world.  Go to https://jrmanufacturing.com/ for more information. We conclude the show with the song, Baseball Always Brings You Home from the musician, Dave Dresser and the poet, Shel Krakofsky. We recommend you go to Baseball BBQ, https://baseballbbq.com for special grilling tools and accessories, Magnechef https://magnechef.com/ for excellent and unique barbecue gloves, Cutting Edge Firewood High Quality Kiln Dried Firewood - Cutting Edge Firewood in Atlanta for high quality firewood and cooking wood, Mantis BBQ, https://mantisbbq.com/ to purchase their outstanding sauces with a portion of the proceeds being donated to the Kidney Project, and for exceptional sauces, Elda's Kitchen https://eldaskitchen.com/ We truly appreciate our listeners and hope that all of you are staying safe.   If you would like to contact the show, we would love to hear from you. Call the show:  (516) 855-8214 Email:  baseballandbbq@gmail.com Twitter:  @baseballandbbq Instagram:  baseballandbarbecue YouTube:  baseball and bbq Website:  https//baseballandbbq.weebly.com Facebook:  baseball and bbq  

John Canzano joins Jason "Puck" Puckett  every Tuesday to discuss the very latest in college sports. In addition their conversation weaves to different topics in sports and life. John is a 14-time Associated Press Sports Editors award winner. Named the No. 1 sports columnist in 2008. After 20 years at The Oregonian, John left to start his own website, JohnCanzano.com. You can also listen to his radio show, "The Bald-Faced Truth" in Portland on 750-AM from 3pm-6pm. Follow John on social media @JohnCanzanoBFT. His weekly appearance brought to you by Zeeks Pizza. Visit ZeeksPizza.com. John and Puck opened up talking about the NCAA vs. House case and how the changes in the NIL could impact the future of college athletics, especially WSU and OSU. *When will the CW TV deal with OSU/WSU be announced *How will Oregon and UW fair in the Big10? John goes through each schedule and it may surprise you what he predicted. *Why did Damian Martinez choose Miami?*Thoughts on Bo Nix in Denver and Michael Penix in Atlanta * 43 players from the Pac-12 drafted, second most behind the SEC...Just more painful that the conference is extinct. *John just had knee surgery and he asked his wife to bring him his guilty pleasure dinner....Hungry Man TV dinners! 

In the tradition of Blood in the Garden and Three Ring Circus, Kingdom on Fire presents a bold narrative history of the iconic UCLA Bruins championship teams led by legendary coach John Wooden. This incredible true story about the messy, never-easy pursuit of perfection led by Wooden is not your typical sports book: Kingdom on Fire is the story of a team and a time, placing an unprecedented seven title winning streak against a fractured America of the 1960s and 70s. Los Angeles native and longtime sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times, Scott Howard Cooper draws on more than 100 interviews and access to many of the principal figures--Bill Walton, Wooden's family, and Jerry West among other key sources—to deliver a rich narrative that reveals the turmoil at the heart of this storied college basketball program. Scott Howard-Cooper has covered professional and college sports since the 1980s for some of the most prominent outlets in the country, including the Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, and more. His work has earned multiple national awards from the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Professional Basketball Writers Association for projects, game coverage, features, and columns. He graduated from USC with a degree in political science and lives in northern California. For more info on the book click HERE

John Canzano joins Puck every Tuesday to discuss the very latest in college sports. In addition their conversation weaves to different topics in sports and life. John is a 14-time Associated Press Sports Editors award winner. Named the No. 1 sports columnist in 2008. After 20 years at The Oregonian, John left to start his own website, JohnCanzano.com. You can also listen to his radio show, "The Bald-Faced Truth" in Portland on 750-AM from 3pm-6pm. Follow John on social media @JohnCanzanoBFT. His weekly appearance brought to you by Zeeks Pizza. Visit ZeeksPizza.com. On today's show, John and Puck talk about watching their kids play sports and whether or not the "mercy rule" is a good idea for youth sports. The transfer portal is open and it's crazy times in college athletics and especially at Oregon State.  John weighs in on the situation at UW with Tybo Rogers and says that Kalen DeBoer needs to be held accountable. TakeawaysParenting can be challenging, especially when it comes to managing schedules and communication.Youth sports can be intense for both parents and athletes, with high expectations and pressure to perform.The trajectory of gymnastics often involves athletes pivoting to other sports or activities.The concept of the mercy rule in youth sports is debated, with some seeing it as disrespectful and others as a necessary measure.The transfer portal in college athletics has led to increased player movement and changes in team dynamics. Damian Martinez's decision to leave Oregon State University and play for a different team sparked controversy and criticism.The women's basketball team at Oregon State faced more pointed criticism compared to the football players, highlighting a double standard.Accountability and responsibility are crucial in college athletics, especially when handling players accused of serious offenses.The University of Washington's handling of a player accused of a serious offense raised questions about their decision-making and priorities.Brandon Hellervik, an everyday person, had a positive impact on those around him and serves as a reminder to appreciate and make the most of life.Rundown00:00 Puck and John talk about watching their kids play sports. 07:05 The Debate Over the "Mercy Rule" in youth sports...Is that a good thing?16:35 Controversial Decision: Damian Martinez's Departure from Oregon State35:13 Tribute to Brandon Hellervik: Appreciating Life and Making a Positive Impact...terrific piece written by John at JohnCanzano.com 

John Canzano joins Puck every Tuesday to discuss the very latest in college sports. In addition their conversation weaves to different topics in sports and life. John is a 14-time Associated Press Sports Editors award winner. Named the No. 1 sports columnist in 2008. After 20 years at The Oregonian, John left to start his own website, JohnCanzano.com. You can also listen to his radio show, "The Bald-Faced Truth" in Portland on 750-AM from 3pm-6pm. Follow John on social media @JohnCanzanoBFT. His weekly appearance brought to you by Zeeks Pizza. Visit ZeeksPizza.com On this weeks show, John and Puck talk about fatherhood. Women's basketball. Caitlin Clark's impact. College football Super League. New transfer window. Lastly, the TrailBlazers don't take care of their fans. Outline: 00:00Fatherhood and being a girl dad10:58The Increase in Viewership for Women's Basketball15:38Jealousy and Frustration in the WNBA28:23Growing Frustration Among Portland Trail Blazers Fans33:14Lip Balm as a Gift: The Disconnect Between Ownership and Fans

(00:00-21:10) Today on Kincade & Salciunas, the show opens with Andrew and John debating what is the true reason we watch sports. Then, they react to Haason Reddick's Jets press conference. (21:10-34:50) It is clear Haason Reddick would have played without a new deal – so why did the Eagles trade him? (34:50-42:15) Joel Embiid is back. (42:15-1:02:40) Why do we watch sports? Plus, should we trust the Eagles as an organization with every move they make? (1:02:40-1:17:18) Jeff McLane, the Associated Press Sports Editors best beat writer, joins the show to discuss the Eagles' offseason less than a month from the NFL Draft. (1:17:18-1:24:14) With Joel Embiid back, the Sixers have a chance. Plus, they react to something Jeff McLane said about Philadelphia. (1:24:14-1:45:51) Adam Schefter joins the show to highlight the Eagles offseason. (1:45:51-1:57:50) The guys react to Adam Schefter's comments. (1:57:50-2:06:09) Sports betting issue arises from Joel Embiid's last-minute change. (2:06:09-2:26:47) Can you enjoy a playoff run where you know your team doesn't have a shot to win it all? Plus, they reset all of today's topics. (2:26:47-2:39:48) John has issue with people being mad at John Tortorella. (2:39:48-2:50:40) The show wraps up with the Key 3 and a Bob Cooney crossover.

Jeff McLane, the Associated Press Sports Editors best beat writer, joins the show to discuss the Eagles' offseason less than a month from the NFL Draft.

(00:00-21:10) Today on Kincade & Salciunas, the show opens with Andrew and John debating what is the true reason we watch sports. Then, they react to Haason Reddick's Jets press conference. (21:10-31:47) Jeff McLane, the Associated Press Sports Editors best beat writer, joins the show to discuss the Eagles' offseason less than a month from the NFL Draft. (31:47-45:32) Adam Schefter joins the show to highlight the Eagles offseason.

John Canzano joins Puck every Tuesday to discuss all things college sports, life and wherever else our conversation goes. John is a 14-time Associated Press Sports Editors award winner and was named the number one sports columnist in the country in 2008.  His weekly appearance is brought to you by Zeeks Pizza.  Visit ZeeksPizza.com.  The Northwest's number 1 pizza! Local ingredients and local craft beer! On today's show, Puck and John talk about their inspiration to go out on their own and what led to their decisions to work for themselves.  The conversation then turns toward the Iowa and LSU game and both marvel at the athleticism, physicality and speed of the game and whether or not Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese can make like a "Magic/Bird" transition to the WNBA. John talks about the three-point line fiasco in Portland where the court had two different three-point lines and how the mistake happened, who is to blame and who the person was that tipped of the NCAA about the issue. Spoiler...it was a fan sitting in the 300 level who noticed the discrepancy . Puck then turns his anger toward Pat Chun leaving WSU for UW and John tries to walk him off the ledge, but Puck is having none of it.  Puck calls him a "Benedict Arnold!"   John also reveals that Washington President Ana Marie Cauce will likely soon leave as president and that an announcement could happen in the next 5-6 months.  Multiple insiders and athletic directors are aware of the move, but not sure of the reason.  John ultimately thinks this will be a good thing for the Huskies, because Cauce has stumbled as president in regards to athletics. They then turn their attention to Kyle Smith and his decision to leave Pullman and head to Stanford. Also, the Montana State hoops coach turns WSU down.  How big of a problem is that for WSU? John thinks it's not an issue, but they need to find the right coach soon. Finally, what's the future ownership of both the Blazers and Seahawks?  Jody Allen is the head of the trust and she must sell off all of her brothers assets. So, why has she not done so yet?  John gives his answer....money. 

Mike Mulligan and David Haugh were joined by Tribune reporter Dan Wiederer, who was recently named one of the best beat writers in the country in the top division of the annual Associated Press Sports Editors contest. He shared his takeaways from Bears general manager Ryan Poles' media session at the NFL Combine on Tuesday and detailed what he learned from others in Indianapolis.

We're paying a special salute to Helene Elliott by once again publishing my conversation with her in an episode from February 2022. She recently accepted a buyout and ended her stellar 34-plus years at the Los Angeles Times, where she was a sports columnist for the last half of her tenure. Elliott became the first female journalist to be honored by the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport in North America when the Hockey Hall of Fame recognized her in 2005 as winner of the esteemed Elmer Ferguson award. Helene earned widespread respect from her peers and those she covered while also helping to pave the way for other women in sports media during her 47-year career.   In this episode, Elliott recounts how Wayne Gretzky set 61 NHL records and triggered a hockey boom in Southern California as an ambassador for that sport. She also has a funny tale about the Great One's fear of flying. Elliott tells us why the Stanley Cup is the most difficult trophy to win in sports, how great players rise to the occasion like Mark Messier did for the '94 Rangers, and what it was like to cover the “Miracle on Ice” at the 1980 Olympics. And we hear how Helene overcame barriers faced by female sportswriters to become a Hall of Famer. Oh, and she has a story about Lenny and Squiggy from the old “Laverne & Shirley” TV show.   Elliott began writing for Los Angeles Times in 1989. She was a beat reporter for the Lakers and Angels, then spent many years covering hockey and Olympic sports before becoming a columnist in 2006. Helene has covered 17 Olympics, the Super Bowl, World Series, NBA Finals, Wimbledon, men's and women's World Cup soccer tournaments, and nearly every Stanley Cup Finals since 1980. She won the Best Breaking News Story award from the Associated Press Sports Editors for her story on the labor agreement that ended the NHL lockout in 2005. Her career began at the Chicago Sun-Times in 1977. She moved to New York City in 1979 and wrote for Newsday for the next 10 years before going to the West Coast. A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Elliott is a 1977 graduate of the Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, which inducted her into the Medill Hall of Achievement in 2020. Follow Elliott on Twitter: @helenenothelen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We travel to the Big Apple and beyond as New York Post sports columnist Mike Vaccaro shares tales from 35 years of living his childhood dream job. Isiah Thomas depicted in a tabloid clown suit. John Calipari's colorful language in a full rant. A postseason run by the Yankees in the wake of 9/11. Badminton (yes, badminton) at the Olympics. Fifty-nine hockey columns in 61 days. Six newspapers on the daily beat of Arkansas sports. That time he was fired. Vac recounts all this and more. He also discusses returning to work since his left leg needed to be amputated below the knee in 2022 because of health issues. Welcome back Vac. Vaccaro has been the lead sports columnist for the New York Post since 2002, and he has been named New York Sportswriter of the Year four times by the National Sports Media Association. He has covered the Olympics, World Cup soccer, Super Bowl, NBA Finals, World Series, Stanley Cup playoffs, Final Four and college football championship games numerous times. Vac not only writes about local, national, and international sports, he also writes a Sunday column called “Open Mike.”   The Associated Press Sports Editors, the New York State Publishers Association, the New York Press Club, and the Poynter Institute are among those that have awarded Vaccaro more than 100 journalism honors during his career, which began in 1989 at the Olean (N.Y) Times Herald. He became the sports editor of the Northwest Arkansas Times in 1991, then wrote sports columns for the Middletown (NY) Times Herald-Record, Kansas City Star, and Newark Star-Ledger before joining the New York Post in November 2002.   Vaccaro is the author of three books: “Emperors and Idiots” (about the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry); “1941 – The Greatest Year in Sports”; and “The First Fall Classic” (about the 1912 World Series).   A native of West Hempstead, N.Y., Vaccaro graduated in 1989 from St. Bonaventure University, where his name was added to the Jandoli School Wall of Distinguished Graduates in 2022.   You can read Vaccaro's columns for the New York Post at this link: https://nypost.com/author/mike-vaccaro/  Here is Vac's column about how past personal struggles helped make 2023 a glorious year: https://nypost.com/2023/12/23/sports/past-personal-struggles-helped-make-2023-a-glorious-year/  @MikeVacc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our show's 75th episode has a special guest in Jayson Stark, one of the most well-respected, well-liked baseball writers for more than 40 years. His passion for the game and craft shines through as he discusses growing up as Stan Hochman's pen pal, studying Peter Gammons early in his career, and mentoring other young reporters. Jayson has some wild tales – including a near punch by Dickie Noles, and Dallas Green's special gift – from being a beat writer covering the early '80s Philadelphia Phillies. Hear how Jayson developed his weekly baseball column, renowned since 1983 for humor, oddball stats and offbeat facts. He tells us about a World Series game that he considers the best in history. And there's even a story connecting a Sammy Sosa homer and a certain Frenchman. The Baseball Writers' Association of America named Stark the 2019 winner of its Career Excellence Award, which he received at the Hall of Fame induction weekend in Cooperstown, New York. Jayson worked 21 years at his hometown Philadelphia Inquirer, first serving as the Phillies' beat reporter (1979-82) and then becoming the paper's national baseball writer and columnist in '83. His Baseball Week in Review column proved so popular in syndication that it continued after he was hired by ESPN in 2000. For the next 17 years, Stark served as a senior baseball writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine while making regular appearances on the cable network's TV shows “Baseball Tonight,” “SportsCenter” and “Outside the Lines,” as well as regular ESPN Radio guest spots on “Mike and Mike” and as co-host of a weekly radio show during the baseball season on ESPN Radio's affiliate in Philadelphia. His TV work includes appearances on Major League Baseball Productions, NFL Films and Philadelphia's Comcast SportsNet. He is also a former baseball analyst for the Sports Fan radio network and a commentator on the Phillies' pregame radio show. Despite his popularity and proficiency, Stark was laid off by ESPN in April 2017. He has been covering baseball at The Athletic and MLB Network since 2018. Jayson also served as a columnist for Baseball America for 16 years and has written for Sports Illustrated, Sport, Inside Sports, Sporting News, Men's Fitness and Athlon. His first job in journalism was at the Providence Journal (1975-78). Stark has won an Emmy for his work on "Baseball Tonight," has been inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame and is a two-time winner of the Pennsylvania Sportswriter of the Year award given by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. He was a finalist for that group's National Sportswriter of the Year award in 2017. Stark was honored by Penn State's Foster Conference for Distinguished Writers in 2010. He has won several awards from the Associated Press Sports Editors, and he was inducted into the Philadelphia Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2017. That year, Topps issued a Jayson Stark baseball card. Jayson is the author of three books: “Wild Pitches: Rumblings, Grumblings, and Reflections on the Game I Love” (2014) “Worth The Wait: Tales of the 2008 Phillies” (2011) “The Stark Truth: The Most Overrated and Underrated Players in Baseball History” (2007) Stark earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Syracuse University in 1973. He was born in Philadelphia and grew up in the city's Northeast section. His mother, June Herder Stark, wrote for the Philadelphia Record and worked alongside legendary sportswriter Red Smith. She later edited the Philadelphia edition of Where Magazine. You can follow Stark on X: @jaysonst Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we are joined by the sports journalist David Steele, who has written for the Sporting News, AOL, the Baltimore Sun and the San Francisco Chronicle, and won awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, the Association of Black Media Workers, the Associated Press Sports Editors, and the Society of Professional Journalists. He is also the author of It Was Always a Choice: Picking up the Baton of Athlete Activism (Temple UP, 2022). In our conversation, we discuss the beginnings of black athlete activism in the 20th century, the different approaches pursued by black and white athletes across the century, and whether or not athletes should use their privileged position to promote positive change in the world. In It Was Always A Choice, Steele explores two interconnected histories: the longer durée story of black athlete activism in the 20th and 21st centuries, beginning with Jack Johnson in the 1910s, and the history of the Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protests and how contemporary athlete activists have engaged with the broader Black Lives Matter movement. The book moves both chronologically and thematically, alternating between past and contemporary activist moments to tie them together. His chapters centre on specific questions: “Your Presence Is an Act of Protest: Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, and Jackie Robinson” looks at American sports idols and illustrates the significant challenges that they faced to competition but also the limits of their protest. In their case, their presence was often the only kind of protest available to them. In some instances – for example Jesse Owen's case – they later stood up against the more radical protests of the 1960s. Steele was influenced by Kaepernick's protest and the Black Lives Matter movement to write the book, and that alone would have been an interesting story, but the real strength of the work is how he finds the echoes of these movements in earlier radical efforts by male and female black athletes to change American society. He makes references in many chapters to Tommie Smith and John Carlos, whose work with the Olympic Project for Human Rights and raised fist protest acted as a spiritual predecessor to Colin Kaepernick's protest. He also notes early flag protests such as Eroseanna “Rose” Robinson's refusal to stand for the US National Anthem during the 1959 Pan America Games. His work also points out the ways that athlete activists have succeeded and failed to change the broader culture. Although black athletes have won significantly inside of sporting organizations, Colin Kaepernick's protests have highlighted how far American society still must go. The WNBA might be the most progressive league: the Atlanta Dream's players forced out an owner that they opposed and then successfully campaigned against her running for the US Senate. It Was Always A Choice raises interesting questions about the nature of athlete protests. Steele's chapter “Peter Norman, Chris Long, and Gregg Popovich: White Allies” shows the ways that white athletes can support their black teammates and players; some members of the public and sporting leagues seem more receptive to the Black Lives Matter message from white athletes. Steele offers a strong but nuanced criticism of Micheal Jordan, OJ Simpson and Tiger Woods who “dropped the baton” and privileged their own financial success over their politics. White House visits both offer opportunities for the government to promote the popularity of the president but also a chance for athletes to protest against them. Steele's work demands that athletes (and readers) make a choice. It is a must read for people interested in the history of athlete protest and as a whole or in individual chapters it would be useful for teaching the history of sport. Keith Rathbone is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He researches twentieth-century French social and cultural history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

Today we are joined by the sports journalist David Steele, who has written for the Sporting News, AOL, the Baltimore Sun and the San Francisco Chronicle, and won awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, the Association of Black Media Workers, the Associated Press Sports Editors, and the Society of Professional Journalists. He is also the author of It Was Always a Choice: Picking up the Baton of Athlete Activism (Temple UP, 2022). In our conversation, we discuss the beginnings of black athlete activism in the 20th century, the different approaches pursued by black and white athletes across the century, and whether or not athletes should use their privileged position to promote positive change in the world. In It Was Always A Choice, Steele explores two interconnected histories: the longer durée story of black athlete activism in the 20th and 21st centuries, beginning with Jack Johnson in the 1910s, and the history of the Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protests and how contemporary athlete activists have engaged with the broader Black Lives Matter movement. The book moves both chronologically and thematically, alternating between past and contemporary activist moments to tie them together. His chapters centre on specific questions: “Your Presence Is an Act of Protest: Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, and Jackie Robinson” looks at American sports idols and illustrates the significant challenges that they faced to competition but also the limits of their protest. In their case, their presence was often the only kind of protest available to them. In some instances – for example Jesse Owen's case – they later stood up against the more radical protests of the 1960s. Steele was influenced by Kaepernick's protest and the Black Lives Matter movement to write the book, and that alone would have been an interesting story, but the real strength of the work is how he finds the echoes of these movements in earlier radical efforts by male and female black athletes to change American society. He makes references in many chapters to Tommie Smith and John Carlos, whose work with the Olympic Project for Human Rights and raised fist protest acted as a spiritual predecessor to Colin Kaepernick's protest. He also notes early flag protests such as Eroseanna “Rose” Robinson's refusal to stand for the US National Anthem during the 1959 Pan America Games. His work also points out the ways that athlete activists have succeeded and failed to change the broader culture. Although black athletes have won significantly inside of sporting organizations, Colin Kaepernick's protests have highlighted how far American society still must go. The WNBA might be the most progressive league: the Atlanta Dream's players forced out an owner that they opposed and then successfully campaigned against her running for the US Senate. It Was Always A Choice raises interesting questions about the nature of athlete protests. Steele's chapter “Peter Norman, Chris Long, and Gregg Popovich: White Allies” shows the ways that white athletes can support their black teammates and players; some members of the public and sporting leagues seem more receptive to the Black Lives Matter message from white athletes. Steele offers a strong but nuanced criticism of Micheal Jordan, OJ Simpson and Tiger Woods who “dropped the baton” and privileged their own financial success over their politics. White House visits both offer opportunities for the government to promote the popularity of the president but also a chance for athletes to protest against them. Steele's work demands that athletes (and readers) make a choice. It is a must read for people interested in the history of athlete protest and as a whole or in individual chapters it would be useful for teaching the history of sport. Keith Rathbone is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He researches twentieth-century French social and cultural history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Based on her 27 years as a journalist in Maine, Deirdre Stires (you might recognize her from her byline, Deirdre Fleming) shares what she was always looking for as a journalist and how PR people can be helpful. Deirdre talks about her recent transition to creating content for Bates College and why it is important to be a good writer when it comes to creating content. Deirdre also lists some of the content she enjoys consuming and some resources she has found helpful as a writer. 3:16 – Deirdre describes how her career began by studying journalism in college and moving to Maine to cover hockey. 10:53 – Deirdre shares the best ways to help a journalist, including delivering on what you say you will deliver. 21:08 – Deirdre talks about content creation and how she is always looking for something quirky or unusual. 28:58 – Deirdre gives a glimpse into the types of content she consumes. 33:28 – Deirdre explains why it is important to be a good writer when it comes to content creation. 35:28 – Deirdre shares some resources that have been helpful to her.   Quote “I always wanted to get an unusual story, something different, something quirky, weird, bizarre and ideally, it's something new. It's breaking news. Then, you're the first person to get it on your website or on the front of your newspaper, but even if it's not something new, oftentimes within a story, there's something unusual or unique.” – Deirdre Stires, senior writer at Bates College       Links: Maine's outdoor tourism industry seeks solutions for workforce housing: https://www.pressherald.com/2023/04/23/maines-outdoor-tourism-industry-seeks-solutions-for-workforce-housing/ Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife: https://www.maine.gov/IFW/ Maine Audubon: https://maineaudubon.org/ The Nature Conservancy in Maine: https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/maine/ Bates College: https://www.bates.edu/ Bates Trashion Show 2023: https://www.bates.edu/news/2023/11/16/bates-trashion-show-2023/ Portland Press Herald: https://www.pressherald.com/ “Becoming” by Michelle Obama: https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Michelle-Obama/dp/1524763136 Word Counter: https://wordcounter.net/ “Born to Run” by Bruce Springsteen: https://www.amazon.com/Born-Run-Bruce-Springsteen/dp/1501141511 “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson: https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1451648537     About the guest:     Deirdre Stires worked for 27 years as a journalist in Maine, first at the Bangor Daily News and then at the Portland Press Herald, where she covered the outdoors for 20 years. Many newspaper readers in Maine know her from her byline — Deirdre Fleming — and her stories that anchored the Maine Sunday Telegram Outdoors section virtually every week. But Deirdre also covered outdoor and environmental breaking news and wrote in-depth, front-page Sunday stories on Maine's myriad outdoor activities, wildlife populations, conservation efforts and trends in outdoor recreation. In two decades, she wrote about — and experienced while reporting —virtually every outdoor activity in Maine.   She's won several writing awards in Maine and nationally. In 2013, she was selected as a national finalist in the beat-writing category by the Associated Press Sports Editors, which means as an outdoor writer she beat out sports journalists around the country covering traditional sports like football, basketball and baseball.   Her first book, which will be published by Islandport Press this spring, will be one of the nation's few hiking guides on accessible trails and will highlight the current movement to build more universal-access trails across the country.   Looking to connect: Email: Deirdre.fleming30@gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deirdre-fleming-stires-383910132/ X: @DeirdreStires

Today we are joined by the sports journalist David Steele, who has written for the Sporting News, AOL, the Baltimore Sun and the San Francisco Chronicle, and won awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, the Association of Black Media Workers, the Associated Press Sports Editors, and the Society of Professional Journalists. He is also the author of It Was Always a Choice: Picking up the Baton of Athlete Activism (Temple UP, 2022). In our conversation, we discuss the beginnings of black athlete activism in the 20th century, the different approaches pursued by black and white athletes across the century, and whether or not athletes should use their privileged position to promote positive change in the world. In It Was Always A Choice, Steele explores two interconnected histories: the longer durée story of black athlete activism in the 20th and 21st centuries, beginning with Jack Johnson in the 1910s, and the history of the Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protests and how contemporary athlete activists have engaged with the broader Black Lives Matter movement. The book moves both chronologically and thematically, alternating between past and contemporary activist moments to tie them together. His chapters centre on specific questions: “Your Presence Is an Act of Protest: Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, and Jackie Robinson” looks at American sports idols and illustrates the significant challenges that they faced to competition but also the limits of their protest. In their case, their presence was often the only kind of protest available to them. In some instances – for example Jesse Owen's case – they later stood up against the more radical protests of the 1960s. Steele was influenced by Kaepernick's protest and the Black Lives Matter movement to write the book, and that alone would have been an interesting story, but the real strength of the work is how he finds the echoes of these movements in earlier radical efforts by male and female black athletes to change American society. He makes references in many chapters to Tommie Smith and John Carlos, whose work with the Olympic Project for Human Rights and raised fist protest acted as a spiritual predecessor to Colin Kaepernick's protest. He also notes early flag protests such as Eroseanna “Rose” Robinson's refusal to stand for the US National Anthem during the 1959 Pan America Games. His work also points out the ways that athlete activists have succeeded and failed to change the broader culture. Although black athletes have won significantly inside of sporting organizations, Colin Kaepernick's protests have highlighted how far American society still must go. The WNBA might be the most progressive league: the Atlanta Dream's players forced out an owner that they opposed and then successfully campaigned against her running for the US Senate. It Was Always A Choice raises interesting questions about the nature of athlete protests. Steele's chapter “Peter Norman, Chris Long, and Gregg Popovich: White Allies” shows the ways that white athletes can support their black teammates and players; some members of the public and sporting leagues seem more receptive to the Black Lives Matter message from white athletes. Steele offers a strong but nuanced criticism of Micheal Jordan, OJ Simpson and Tiger Woods who “dropped the baton” and privileged their own financial success over their politics. White House visits both offer opportunities for the government to promote the popularity of the president but also a chance for athletes to protest against them. Steele's work demands that athletes (and readers) make a choice. It is a must read for people interested in the history of athlete protest and as a whole or in individual chapters it would be useful for teaching the history of sport. Keith Rathbone is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He researches twentieth-century French social and cultural history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Today we are joined by the sports journalist David Steele, who has written for the Sporting News, AOL, the Baltimore Sun and the San Francisco Chronicle, and won awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, the Association of Black Media Workers, the Associated Press Sports Editors, and the Society of Professional Journalists. He is also the author of It Was Always a Choice: Picking up the Baton of Athlete Activism (Temple UP, 2022). In our conversation, we discuss the beginnings of black athlete activism in the 20th century, the different approaches pursued by black and white athletes across the century, and whether or not athletes should use their privileged position to promote positive change in the world. In It Was Always A Choice, Steele explores two interconnected histories: the longer durée story of black athlete activism in the 20th and 21st centuries, beginning with Jack Johnson in the 1910s, and the history of the Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protests and how contemporary athlete activists have engaged with the broader Black Lives Matter movement. The book moves both chronologically and thematically, alternating between past and contemporary activist moments to tie them together. His chapters centre on specific questions: “Your Presence Is an Act of Protest: Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, and Jackie Robinson” looks at American sports idols and illustrates the significant challenges that they faced to competition but also the limits of their protest. In their case, their presence was often the only kind of protest available to them. In some instances – for example Jesse Owen's case – they later stood up against the more radical protests of the 1960s. Steele was influenced by Kaepernick's protest and the Black Lives Matter movement to write the book, and that alone would have been an interesting story, but the real strength of the work is how he finds the echoes of these movements in earlier radical efforts by male and female black athletes to change American society. He makes references in many chapters to Tommie Smith and John Carlos, whose work with the Olympic Project for Human Rights and raised fist protest acted as a spiritual predecessor to Colin Kaepernick's protest. He also notes early flag protests such as Eroseanna “Rose” Robinson's refusal to stand for the US National Anthem during the 1959 Pan America Games. His work also points out the ways that athlete activists have succeeded and failed to change the broader culture. Although black athletes have won significantly inside of sporting organizations, Colin Kaepernick's protests have highlighted how far American society still must go. The WNBA might be the most progressive league: the Atlanta Dream's players forced out an owner that they opposed and then successfully campaigned against her running for the US Senate. It Was Always A Choice raises interesting questions about the nature of athlete protests. Steele's chapter “Peter Norman, Chris Long, and Gregg Popovich: White Allies” shows the ways that white athletes can support their black teammates and players; some members of the public and sporting leagues seem more receptive to the Black Lives Matter message from white athletes. Steele offers a strong but nuanced criticism of Micheal Jordan, OJ Simpson and Tiger Woods who “dropped the baton” and privileged their own financial success over their politics. White House visits both offer opportunities for the government to promote the popularity of the president but also a chance for athletes to protest against them. Steele's work demands that athletes (and readers) make a choice. It is a must read for people interested in the history of athlete protest and as a whole or in individual chapters it would be useful for teaching the history of sport. Keith Rathbone is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He researches twentieth-century French social and cultural history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sports

Today we are joined by the sports journalist David Steele, who has written for the Sporting News, AOL, the Baltimore Sun and the San Francisco Chronicle, and won awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, the Association of Black Media Workers, the Associated Press Sports Editors, and the Society of Professional Journalists. He is also the author of It Was Always a Choice: Picking up the Baton of Athlete Activism (Temple UP, 2022). In our conversation, we discuss the beginnings of black athlete activism in the 20th century, the different approaches pursued by black and white athletes across the century, and whether or not athletes should use their privileged position to promote positive change in the world. In It Was Always A Choice, Steele explores two interconnected histories: the longer durée story of black athlete activism in the 20th and 21st centuries, beginning with Jack Johnson in the 1910s, and the history of the Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protests and how contemporary athlete activists have engaged with the broader Black Lives Matter movement. The book moves both chronologically and thematically, alternating between past and contemporary activist moments to tie them together. His chapters centre on specific questions: “Your Presence Is an Act of Protest: Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, and Jackie Robinson” looks at American sports idols and illustrates the significant challenges that they faced to competition but also the limits of their protest. In their case, their presence was often the only kind of protest available to them. In some instances – for example Jesse Owen's case – they later stood up against the more radical protests of the 1960s. Steele was influenced by Kaepernick's protest and the Black Lives Matter movement to write the book, and that alone would have been an interesting story, but the real strength of the work is how he finds the echoes of these movements in earlier radical efforts by male and female black athletes to change American society. He makes references in many chapters to Tommie Smith and John Carlos, whose work with the Olympic Project for Human Rights and raised fist protest acted as a spiritual predecessor to Colin Kaepernick's protest. He also notes early flag protests such as Eroseanna “Rose” Robinson's refusal to stand for the US National Anthem during the 1959 Pan America Games. His work also points out the ways that athlete activists have succeeded and failed to change the broader culture. Although black athletes have won significantly inside of sporting organizations, Colin Kaepernick's protests have highlighted how far American society still must go. The WNBA might be the most progressive league: the Atlanta Dream's players forced out an owner that they opposed and then successfully campaigned against her running for the US Senate. It Was Always A Choice raises interesting questions about the nature of athlete protests. Steele's chapter “Peter Norman, Chris Long, and Gregg Popovich: White Allies” shows the ways that white athletes can support their black teammates and players; some members of the public and sporting leagues seem more receptive to the Black Lives Matter message from white athletes. Steele offers a strong but nuanced criticism of Micheal Jordan, OJ Simpson and Tiger Woods who “dropped the baton” and privileged their own financial success over their politics. White House visits both offer opportunities for the government to promote the popularity of the president but also a chance for athletes to protest against them. Steele's work demands that athletes (and readers) make a choice. It is a must read for people interested in the history of athlete protest and as a whole or in individual chapters it would be useful for teaching the history of sport. Keith Rathbone is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He researches twentieth-century French social and cultural history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Today we are joined by the sports journalist David Steele, who has written for the Sporting News, AOL, the Baltimore Sun and the San Francisco Chronicle, and won awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, the Association of Black Media Workers, the Associated Press Sports Editors, and the Society of Professional Journalists. He is also the author of It Was Always a Choice: Picking up the Baton of Athlete Activism (Temple UP, 2022). In our conversation, we discuss the beginnings of black athlete activism in the 20th century, the different approaches pursued by black and white athletes across the century, and whether or not athletes should use their privileged position to promote positive change in the world. In It Was Always A Choice, Steele explores two interconnected histories: the longer durée story of black athlete activism in the 20th and 21st centuries, beginning with Jack Johnson in the 1910s, and the history of the Colin Kaepernick's kneeling protests and how contemporary athlete activists have engaged with the broader Black Lives Matter movement. The book moves both chronologically and thematically, alternating between past and contemporary activist moments to tie them together. His chapters centre on specific questions: “Your Presence Is an Act of Protest: Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, and Jackie Robinson” looks at American sports idols and illustrates the significant challenges that they faced to competition but also the limits of their protest. In their case, their presence was often the only kind of protest available to them. In some instances – for example Jesse Owen's case – they later stood up against the more radical protests of the 1960s. Steele was influenced by Kaepernick's protest and the Black Lives Matter movement to write the book, and that alone would have been an interesting story, but the real strength of the work is how he finds the echoes of these movements in earlier radical efforts by male and female black athletes to change American society. He makes references in many chapters to Tommie Smith and John Carlos, whose work with the Olympic Project for Human Rights and raised fist protest acted as a spiritual predecessor to Colin Kaepernick's protest. He also notes early flag protests such as Eroseanna “Rose” Robinson's refusal to stand for the US National Anthem during the 1959 Pan America Games. His work also points out the ways that athlete activists have succeeded and failed to change the broader culture. Although black athletes have won significantly inside of sporting organizations, Colin Kaepernick's protests have highlighted how far American society still must go. The WNBA might be the most progressive league: the Atlanta Dream's players forced out an owner that they opposed and then successfully campaigned against her running for the US Senate. It Was Always A Choice raises interesting questions about the nature of athlete protests. Steele's chapter “Peter Norman, Chris Long, and Gregg Popovich: White Allies” shows the ways that white athletes can support their black teammates and players; some members of the public and sporting leagues seem more receptive to the Black Lives Matter message from white athletes. Steele offers a strong but nuanced criticism of Micheal Jordan, OJ Simpson and Tiger Woods who “dropped the baton” and privileged their own financial success over their politics. White House visits both offer opportunities for the government to promote the popularity of the president but also a chance for athletes to protest against them. Steele's work demands that athletes (and readers) make a choice. It is a must read for people interested in the history of athlete protest and as a whole or in individual chapters it would be useful for teaching the history of sport. Keith Rathbone is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He researches twentieth-century French social and cultural history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of America's best sportswriters, Joe Posnanski, joins us for this episode. Posnanski has twice been named the best sports columnist in America by the Associated Press Sports Editors. He's also written for The Athletic and Sports Illustrated. In this episode, we chat about his new book, "Why We Love Baseball," as well as a couple of his other books and his new Substack newsletter called Joe Blogs. Topics covered include how baseball treats its fans, MLB's numerous rule changes this past season, whether or not a robo ump will soon be part of MLB games, is baseball losing popularity, and if so, how the sport can become more fan-friendly, the debacle that is the Oakland A's situation, the annoying number of ads on radio game broadcasts, and the greatness of Negro Leagues champion Buck O'Neil.

Diane Pucin recalls with pride and joy how the sports calendar served as the rhythm of her life for nearly 40 years. Bob Knight throwing a chair. Jimmy Connors sending the U.S. Open crowd into a frenzy. The distinct sound of Pete Sampras' racquet when he hit a tennis ball. An emotional Dan Jansen finally winning a gold medal. Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding going full soap opera. Pucin tells us what it was like to be at these moments and chronicle them. She also discusses breaking barriers for female sports journalists. Shame on Jim Fregosi. And Diane shares her 9/11 experience, including what nearly happened to her on that horrific morning. Pucin covered multiple Olympics, Super Bowls, Final Fours, World Series, all four major tennis tournaments, college football bowl games, and the Tour de France. She was a sports columnist, sports media critic, and an Olympic and tennis writer for the Los Angeles Times from 1998 to 2014. She had previously worked 12 years at the Philadelphia Inquirer, where from 1986 to '98, she covered Olympics, college basketball, tennis and became a columnist. That paper nominated her coverage of the Barcelona Olympics for the Pulitzer Prize. In Philly, she also won awards for column writing and a first-place award from the Associated Press Sports Editors for a game story. From 1978 to '86, Diane worked at the Louisville Courier-Journal, where she was a beat reporter on Indiana University football and basketball. She also was a sports reporter at the Cincinnati Post, as well as the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer. Pucin graduated from Marquette University in 1976.   Follow her on X: @DianePucin Fun fact: Diane's husband, Dan Weber, is a longtime sportswriter and was my first professional editor in 1987 at the Kentucky Post in Covington, Ky. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, and welcome back to the #BlackWomenKnowSports podcast! On today's episode, Jaydn James is joined by Kamryn Jackson who is the managing editor for the A&T Register, an ESPN Rhoden Fellow, and the president of the Associated Press Sports Editors for N.C. A&T! In this episode, Kamryn talks about how her love for sports began, her favorite experiences so far in the sports world, and what we can expect next from her in the future! Sit back, relax and enjoy! Feel free to share and leave a review! Follow Kamryn Jackson on all platforms: Instagram: @kamxjack Twitter: @kamxjack Follow #BlackWomenKnowSports on all platforms: Instagram: @BlackWomenKnowSports Twitter (X): @BWKnowSports Facebook: @BlackWomenKnowSports TikTok: @BlackWomenKnowSports Shop #BlackWomenKnowSports apparel: black-women-know-sports.creator-spring.com/apparel

Part 2 of my conversation with Charles Pierce continues with more discussion about basketball icon Larry Bird. Pierce, lead political writer for Esquire, also shares in this second of two episodes why covering the NBA in the 1980s was a highlight of his nearly 50 years of writing about sports. He provides anecdotes about Tom Brady and Bill Belichick that illuminate their grand NFL partnership. Pierce recalls the crazy and memorable days at The National Sports Daily. And he breaks down how he reported and wrote his famous GQ magazine profile of the young Tiger Woods. Make sure to check out part 1 with Pierce. In that first episode, we discussed bars, Bird, Bill Buckner's error, Ben Johnson's drug scandal, and 1980s Big East basketball: https://evergreenpodcasts.com/press-box-access/charles-pierce-part-1-they-rolled-the-champagne-out-of-the-red-soxs-locker-room#episodeContent Pierce has been the lead political writer for Esquire since September 2011. He worked nine years for the Boston Globe as a reporter, sports columnist and staff writer for that paper's Sunday magazine starting in 2002. He had previously been a sports columnist for the Boston Herald. Pierce left the Globe in 2011 to join Esquire fulltime after having been a contributing writer for that magazine since 1997. He was a feature writer and columnist for The National Sports Daily in 1990 and '91. His articles on sports and politics have also appeared in GQ, Sports Illustrated, the New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Nation, The Atlantic American Prospect, Slate, the Chicago Tribune, ESPN's Grantland, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, and the Media Matters blog Altercation. Pierce has made appearances on ESPN's “Around the Horn” and often co-hosted NESN's “Globe 10.0” with Bob Ryan. Pierce was a longtime regular panelist on the NPR quiz show “Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me!” and has made appearances on the NPR program “Only A Game.” The Massachusetts native began his journalism career in 1976 at his hometown Worcester Magazine before moving to Boston two years later to write for the alternative publication, The Phoenix. In 2018, the United States Basketball Writers Association inducted Pierce into its Hall of Fame. He won a National Headliners Aware in 2004 for his Boston Globe Magazine piece, “Deconstructing Ted.” He has been named a finalist for the Associated Press Sports Editors' award for best column writing on several occasions. Many of his stories have been featured in the annual compilation, “Best American Sportswriting.” Pierce was a 1996 National Magazine Award finalist for his piece on Alzheimer's disease, “In the Country of My Disease.” He was awarded third place in the Pro Basketball Writers Association's Dan S. Blumenthal Memorial Writing Contest. Pierce is the author of four books: · “Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue In The Land Of The Free” · “Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything” · “Sports Guy: In Search of Corkball, Warroad Hockey, Hooters Golf, Tiger Woods, and the Big, Big Game” · “Hard to Forget: An Alzheimer's Story” Pierce earned a degree in journalism from Marquette University in 1975. His alma mater honored him with a “2021 Alumni National Award – Byline Award,” to which Pierce responded: “I'd like to think that my getting this award might encourage students who don't feel like they fit in and show them that this profession still values ferocious eccentricity.” Here's a link to Pierce's political blog for Esquire: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/ You can follow him on X at: @CharlesPPierce Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charles Pierce takes time away from his job as lead political writer for Esquire to reflect on his nearly 50 years of experiences as a sportswriter. In this part 1 of a 2-part episode, Pierce recalls covering Bill Buckner's error, Ben Johnson's drug scandal at the Seoul Olympics, and the rollicking days of Big East basketball in the 1980s. He also provides insight into Larry Bird as a person and basketball icon. Oh, and we discuss bars, too. Sportswriters understand.   Part 2 of my conversation with Pierce will be published on Nov. 8 and include more stories about Bird and discussion about Tiger Woods, Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, the NBA of the 1980s and early '90s, the National Sports Daily, and other tales.   Pierce has been the lead political writer for Esquire since September 2011. He worked nine years for the Boston Globe as a reporter, sports columnist and staff writer for that paper's Sunday magazine starting in 2002. He had previously been a sports columnist for the Boston Herald. Pierce left the Globe in 2011 to join Esquire fulltime after having been a contributing writer for that magazine since 1997. He was a feature writer and columnist for The National Sports Daily in 1990 and '91. His articles on sports and politics have also appeared in GQ, Sports Illustrated, the New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Nation, The Atlantic American Prospect, Slate, the Chicago Tribune, ESPN's Grantland, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, and the Media Matters blog Altercation. Pierce has made appearances on ESPN's “Around the Horn” and often co-hosted NESN's “Globe 10.0” with Bob Ryan. Pierce was a longtime regular panelist on the NPR quiz show “Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me!” and has made appearances on the NPR program “Only A Game.” The Massachusetts native began his journalism career in 1976 at his hometown Worcester Magazine before moving to Boston two years later to write for the alternative publication, The Phoenix.   In 2018, the United States Basketball Writers Association inducted Pierce into its Hall of Fame. He won a National Headliners Aware in 2004 for his Boston Globe Magazine piece, “Deconstructing Ted.” He has been named a finalist for the Associated Press Sports Editors' award for best column writing on several occasions. Many of his stories have been featured in the annual compilation, “Best American Sportswriting.” Pierce was a 1996 National Magazine Award finalist for his piece on Alzheimer's disease, “In the Country of My Disease.” He was awarded third place in the Pro Basketball Writers Association's Dan S. Blumenthal Memorial Writing Contest.    Pierce is the author of four books:   · “Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue In The Land Of The Free” · “Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything” · “Sports Guy: In Search of Corkball, Warroad Hockey, Hooters Golf, Tiger Woods, and the Big, Big Game” · “Hard to Forget: An Alzheimer's Story”   Pierce earned a degree in journalism from Marquette University in 1975. His alma mater honored him with a “2021 Alumni National Award – Byline Award,” to which Pierce responded: “I'd like to think that my getting this award might encourage students who don't feel like they fit in and show them that this profession still values ferocious eccentricity.”   Here's a link to Pierce's political blog for Esquire: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/   You can follow him on X at: @CharlesPPierce Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Pulitzer-nominated sportswriter Sally Jenkins' experience, great leaders are less in the business of winning than the business of teaching.   Over a wide-ranging conversation, Maril and Sally explore the leadership lessons Sally has learned from a career interviewing and writing about the world's great athletes and coaches.  They discuss why discipline is something that leaders can't impose, but have to call up from within people; why it's less important to take a popular position than a good position; and why leadership is less like holding the steering wheel and more like conducing an orchestra.   Learn about:   3:18 The leadership factor with the most impact 6:21 Why winning isn't the only motivator for leaders 7:49 Why discipline is misunderstood and an interior construct 24:44 What leaders most need to let go of     —  Sally Jenkins began her second stint at The Washington Post in 2000 after spending the previous decade working as a book author and as a magazine writer. She was named the nation's top sports columnist in 2001, 2003, 2010 and 2011 by the Associated Press Sports Editors. In 2013, she won a first-place award from the AP for an investigative series co-written with Rick Maese on medical care in the NFL, titled “Do No Harm.” Jenkins is the author of 12 books, four of which were New York Times bestsellers, most recently the No.1 “Sum It Up” with legendary basketball coach Pat Summitt. She is also the author of “The Real All Americans,” the historical account of how the Carlisle Indian School took on the Ivy League powers in college football at the turn of the century and won. Her work has been featured in Smithsonian, GQ and Sports Illustrated. A native of Texas, Jenkins graduated from Stanford and lives in Sag Harbor, New York.   Honors and Awards: 2017 National Press Foundation Chairman's Citation; 2017 Best Sports Stories; 2013 First Place, Associated Press Sports Editors for Investigative Series; 2011 Sports Columnist of the Year, Society of Professional Journalists; 2011 First Place, Associated Press Sports Editors, Columns; 2010 First Place, Associated Press Sports Editors, Columns; 2008 Sports Columnist of the Year, Society of Professional Journalists; 2007 Best Sports Stories; 2005 Inducted National Sports Writers and Sportscasters Hall of Fame (first woman); 2003 First Place, Associated Press Sports Editors, Columns; 2001 First Place, Associated Press Sports Editors, Columns; 2001 Sports Columnist of the year, Society of Professional Journalists.   ABOUT LET GO & LEAD   Let Go & Lead is a leadership community created by Maril MacDonald, founder and CEO of Gagen MacDonald. Maril brings together provocateurs, pioneers, thought leaders and those leading the conversation around culture, transformation and change.  Over the course of the past 12 years, Let Go & Lead has existed in many forms, from video interviews to resource guides to its current iteration as a podcast. At its core, it remains a place where people can access a diversity of perspectives on interdisciplinary approaches to leadership. Maril is also working on a book incorporating these insights gathered over the past several years from global leaders and change makers.     Maril has interviewed over 120 leaders — from business to academia and nonprofits to the arts — through the years. In each conversation, from personal anecdotes to ground-breaking scientific analysis, she has probed the lessons learned in leadership. From these conversations, the Let Go & Lead framework has emerged. It is both a personal and organizational resource that aims to serve the individual leader or leadership at scale.    ABOUT GAGEN MACDONALD   At Gagen MacDonald, we are dedicated to helping organizations navigate the human struggle of change. We are a people-focused consulting firm and our passion is improving the employee experience — for everyone. For almost 25 years, we have been working with companies to create clarity from chaos by uniting employees across all levels around a single vision so they can achieve results and realize their future. We have been a pioneer in bringing humanity to strategy execution, leading in areas such as organizational communication, culture, leadership, and employee engagement. Our Vision is to lift all humanity by transforming the companies that transform the world.      Full episodes also available on:       Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/let-go-lead-with-maril-macdonald/id1454869525       Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Gaf7JXOckZMtkpsMtnjAj?si=WZjZkvfLTX2T4eaeB1PO2A       Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9sZXRnb2xlYWQubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M      —      Gagen MacDonald is a strategy execution consulting firm that specializes in employee engagement, culture change and leadership development. Learn more at http://www.gagenmacdonald.com. 

Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski https://amzn.to/46EEbM5 NEW YORK TIMES bestseller WALL STREET JOURNAL bestseller #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski is back with a masterful ode to the game: a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball's history, to make you fall in love with the sport all over again. Posnanski writes of major moments that created legends, and of forgotten moments almost lost to time. It's Willie Mays's catch, Babe Ruth's called shot, and Kirk Gibson's limping home run; the slickest steals; the biggest bombs; and the most triumphant no-hitters. But these are also moments raw with the humanity of the game, the unheralded heroes, the mesmerizing mistakes drenched in pine tar, and every story, from the immortal to the obscure, is told from a unique perspective. Whether of a real fan who witnessed it, or the pitcher who gave up the home run, the umpire, the coach, the opposing player—these are fresh takes on moments so powerful they almost feel like myth. Posnanski's previous book, The Baseball 100, portrayed the heroes and pioneers of the sport, and now, with his trademark wit, encyclopedic knowledge, and acute observations, he gets at the real heart of the game. From nineteenth-century pitchers' duels to breaking the sport's color line in the '40s, all the way to the greatest trick play of the last decade and the slide home that became a meme, Posnanski's illuminating take allows us to rediscover the sport we love—and thought we knew. Why We Love Baseball is an epic that ends too soon, a one-of-a-kind love letter to the sport that has us thrilled, torn, inspired, and always wanting more.About the author Joe Posnanski is the New York Times bestselling author of Paterno, The Machine, and The Secret of Golf. He is currently the founder and editor of Joe Blogs at JoePosnanski.com as well as co-host of "The PosCast" podcast with television producer Michael Schur. Joe served as Senior Writer for The Athletic, MLB, NBC Sports, and Sports Illustrated, and co-founder of Passions in America. He was named national Sportswriter of the Year by the Sports Media Hall of Fame and was twice named the best sports columnist in America by the Associated Press Sports Editors. He is a two-time Emmy winner as part of NBC Sports Olympic coverage, and his first book "The Soul of Baseball," won The Casey Award as best baseball book. He was recently honored with the Tony Kubek Award by the National Polish American Sports Hall of Fame, and he was given the Buck O'Neil Award by the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. He is the author of six books and has been anthologized widely. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife Margo, daughters Elizabeth and Katie, and standard poodle Westley.

Filip Bondy describes his four decades as a sportswriter as being “crazy, stupid, frustrating, wonderful and a wild ride.” This episode explains why. Fights between writers. Lou Piniella flipping the bird. The Pine Tar Game's connection to Rush Limbaugh. Billy Martin at his worst. John McEnroe relaying a message for Howard Cosell. Spying on Bernard King. Riding shotgun with Hubie Brown. Travel horror stories. The British press at Wimbledon. An infamous Olympic question. Nancy and Tonya. A mugging near Shea. Oh, and that rental car and . . . a portable toilet. The Associated Press Sports Editors named Bondy one of the top ten sports columnists in America during a career that took him to 48 states, 40 countries, six continents and regular assignments at the Olympics, World Cup and Wimbledon. He also covered the Super Bowl and World Series multiple times, as well as several NBA and Stanley Cup finals. Besides being a columnist, he was a beat writer on local Major League Baseball, NBA and NHL teams for four different newspapers in the New York City market. Bondy spent two stints at the New York Daily News, first from 1983 to '91, and then as a regular columnist from 1993 until 2015. In-between, he worked two years at the New York Times, primarily as an Olympic and hockey writer. His career began in 1973 as a City Hall reporter, theatre critic and basketball writer for the Paterson (N.J.) News. After leaving to earn his M.A. in Communications at the University of Pennsylvania '76, Bondy returned to the Paterson News in 1976 as a sportswriter. Four years later, he joined The Record of Hackensack, N.J., where he covered baseball and basketball until moving to the Daily News for the first time in 1983. Bondy is the author or co-author of eight books: “The Pine Tar Game: The Kansas City Royals, the New York Yankees, and Baseball's Most Absurd and Entertaining Controversy” “Tip-Off: How the 1984 NBA Draft Changed Basketball Forever” “The Selling of the Green: The Financial Rise and Moral Decline of the Boston Celtics” – co-author of Harvey Araton “Who's on Worst?: The Lousiest Players, Biggest Cheaters, Saddest Goats and Other Antiheroes in Baseball History” “Bleeding Pinstripes: A Season with the Bleacher Creatures at Yankee Stadium “Dreams of Gold” – co-author with Wayne Coffey “Chasing the Game: America and the Quest for the World Cup” “The World Cup: Players, Coaches, History and Excitement” You can follow Filip on X: @filipbondy. His son, Stefan Bondy, currently covers the New York Knicks for the New York Daily News. @SBondyNYDN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Geoff Calkins takes us to Memphis, where he has been a high-profile fixture in the sports media scene for 27 years. He tells us about the indefatigable Hubie Brown, a voicemail from the volatile Jerry West, and what the view was like from atop John Calipari's enemies list. Geoff explains the torture of writing on deadline at an overtime NCAA championship game. He recalls his struggles as a baseball beat reporter and what it was like to cover a Mike Tyson heavyweight championship fight. And he shares a tale involving exotic food at an Olympics. Oh my. Geoff also explains how his childhood leukemia led to writing, and why sports journalism lured him out of a career in law. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country four times by the Associated Press Sports Editors and is a member of the Scripps Howard Hall of Fame. He recently moved to general news columnist at The Daily Memphian, where he had been writing a sports column since 2018 after spending the previous 22 years as the sports columnist for the Commercial Appeal in Memphis. He still hosts “The Geoff Calkins Show,” his sports radio program since 2010, five days a week. His 2016 book, “After the Jump,” chronicles how the Memphis sports scene grew over two decades. Before moving to Memphis, Calkins covered the Florida Marlins for the Sun-Sentinel of South Florida from 1994-96, and he was a high school sports reporter at the Anniston Star in Alabama for two years. Geoff had previously been a clerk in the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, and a labor and employment attorney in Washington D.C. Switching from a law career to sports writing at age 31 eventually took Calkins to eight Olympics, multiple Super Bowls, World Series, and Masters golf tournaments. He has won various journalism awards, including a first-place honor in the 2022 APSE contest for a feature story looking back 20 years at Tyson's loss to Lennox Lewis in Memphis. Calkins graduated from Harvard in 1983 and from Harvard Law in '87. He served as editor-in-chief for the school's paper, The Harvard Independent, and worked summer internships for Time Life and the Miami Herald. He earned a master's degree from Columbia University's School of Journalism. Calkins grew up outside Buffalo, New York as the eighth of nine children. You can follow him on X: @geoff_calkins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CNN sports analyst Christine Brennan is an award-winning national sports columnist for USA Today, a commentator for ABC News, PBS NewsHour, and National Public Radio, a best-selling author, and a nationally known speaker. Twice named one of the country's top 10 sports columnists by the Associated Press Sports Editors, she has covered the last 20 Olympic Games, summer and winter, and has reported from more than 20 countries.Brennan was the first woman sportswriter at The Miami Herald in 1981 and the first woman to cover the National Football League. She was the first president of the Association for Women in Sports Media (AWSM) and started a scholarship-internship program that has supported more than 130 female students over the past two decades. Brennan is the author of seven books. Her 2006 sports memoir, Best Seat in the House, is the only father-daughter memoir written by a sports journalist. Her 1996 national best-seller, Inside Edge, was named one of the top 100 sports books of all-time by Sports Illustrated. Brave, talented and passionate, Brennan is also a leading voice on some of the most controversial and important issues in sports.Welcome to the Little Star Light PodcastIt is exciting to have you as a listener of Little Star Light, a podcast dedicated to sharing stories of courage and inspiration with our hosts and guests during uplifting, entertaining and intriguing conversations. Thank you for joining us. Each of us have a great story to live, you included. Hear and learn from, be inspired by and benefit from respected industry experts, brave pathfinders, curious adventurers, determined innovators, creative warriors, experienced leaders, and caring people who have joined together for you.Your hosts are Andrea Jaeger, Karen Vazquez and Adriana Solarova. In addition we have special co-hosts and guests from around the world, also doing their best to bring their own amazing light to you. Get ready! Here we go!www.littlestarlightpodcast.com For more information about the work Little Star Foundation does, please visit: https://www.littlestar.org/

Here we go!  New season, new guests.  Rested and renewed!  This week Brad Schlossman, longtime hockey writer for the Grand Forks Herald and now "Keeper of the Portal" talks with Lew and I about the changes with the Transfer Portal and the affect it is and will possibly have on college hockey.  Schlossman has covered college hockey for the Grand Forks Herald since 2005. He has been recognized by the Associated Press Sports Editors as the top beat writer for the Herald's circulation division four times and the North Dakota sportswriter of the year once. He resides in Grand Forks. Reach him at bschlossman@gfherald.com.You can follow Brad for all the great writing he offers. Brad SchlossmanTwitterXFacebookFollow Muther Puckers onTwitterXInstagramFacebookEmail at: julie@mutherpuckers.com#YouthHockey#HockeyMoms#HockeyParenting#KidsHockey#YouthSports #MomLife

Liz Clarke looks back on her “accidental career” as a sportswriter with the same thoughtfulness she always put into her stellar work. Much of our conversation focuses on NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt. Hear how she gained his trust in part by not being in awe of him, how his tough-guy exterior hid a soft heart, and how covering his death in the 2001 Daytona 500 shook Liz. She takes us along for “pinch-me moments” – such as the crowd's emotional response to seeing Nelson Mandela at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa – from years of traveling the globe for The Washington Post. And we talk about the stress, the challenges, and the special camaraderie shared in a job that captured her heart amid sport's wide range of emotions.   Clarke retired in April 2023 after 37 years as a reporter, the last 25 of them at The Washington Post, where she focused on enterprise stories, the Olympics, college sports, auto racing, and tennis. She also spent eight seasons covering Washington's NFL team and the scandals surrounding team owner Dan Snyder. Liz covered nine Summer and Winter Olympics, three World Cups, multiple Super Bowls, NCAA Tournament Final Fours, more than a dozen Daytona 500s, a half-dozen Indianapolis 500s, Wimbledon, the French Open, and thoroughbred racing's Preakness and Belmont Stakes.   Before joining The Washington Post in 1998, Liz worked as a sportswriter at USA Today, the Dallas Morning News and The Charlotte Observer. She covered NASCAR for those three newspapers, and she is the author of the 2008 book, "One Helluva Ride: How NASCAR Swept the Nation." Liz was twice named National Motorsports Writer of the Year, in 1996 an '98. Her other honors and awards include best sports feature in 2017 from the Society of Features Journalism, and best game story from the Associated Press Sports Editors in 2009.   Clarke began her career as a news reporter for the Raleigh (NC) News & Observer, covering higher education. She earned a BA in history at Barnard College, Columbia University; and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduate studies in journalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thom Loverro says boxing has the best stories, and he shares some favorites from many years inside the fight game. He takes us to Muhammad Ali's training camp, puts us ringside for Mike Tyson's ear chomp, and takes us behind the scenes on the day Riddick Bowe defends his heavyweight title. Hear about Las Vegas, George Foreman's power and preaching, and the wisdom of trainer Eddie Futch. Thom also shares moments from other sports he has covered, including memorable baseball highs and lows involving Cal Ripken Jr. and Roberto Alomar. In 2019, Loverro was honored with the Nat Fleischer Award for lifetime achievement in boxing journalism by the Boxing Writers Association of America. Three years earlier, he was inducted into the Washington, D.C. Boxing Hall of Fame. Thom has been featured on several HBO Legendary Nights programs and ESPN's Sports Classics about boxing. He has covered numerous world championship fights over the past three decades, as well as three Olympics, the World Series, the NFL, NBA, and NHL playoffs. In 2005, Thom was one of just three sportswriters to be invited to the Oval Office in The White House to interview President Bush about baseball. Loverro has won more than 40 national, regional, and local journalism awards, including an honor from the Associated Press Sports Editors association for his 2014 article in which he revealed, through the Freedom of Information Act, that the FBI believed the first Sonny Liston-Cassius Clay fight was fixed. Thom was voted Maryland Sportswriter of the Year in 2009 by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. His other honors include first place in the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and being named best sports columnist in the Virginia Press Association competition three times. Loverro's journalism career began in 1977. After working for a couple of small newspapers in Pennsylvania, he a joined the Baltimore Sun in 1984. There, he spent eight years as a news editor and reporter, covering crime, politics, and government. Thom moved to sports in 1992 when The Washington Times hired him to cover the then-Redskins. A year later, he switched to baseball and served three seasons as the paper's beat writer on the Baltimore Orioles. The Washington Examiner hired Thom as a sports columnist in 2009. Four years later, he returned to The Washington Times, where he remains the lead sports columnist. He is co-host of The Kevin Sheehan Show podcast. Check out past episodes of Loverro's “Cigars & Curveballs” podcast, which featured guests such as Ripken; Foreman, Larry Holmes, Sugar Ray Leonard, Joe Theismann, Dusty Baker, and the creator of “The Wire,” David Simon. Loverro is the author of 11 books: · Washington Redskins: The Authorized History (1996) · Home of the Game: The Story of Camden Yards (1999) · Cammi Granato: Hockey Pioneer (2000) · The Quotable Coach (2002) · The Encyclopedia of Negro League Baseball (2003) · The John Mackey Story, Blazing Trails: Coming of Age in Football's Golden Era (2003) · Oriole Magic: The O's of '83 (2004) · Hail Victory: An Oral History of the Washington Redskins (2006) · The Rise and Fall of Extreme Championship Wrestling (2006) · Eagles Essential (2006) · Orioles Essential (2007) Loverro received a Bachelor of Science degree in Liberal Studies from the University of Scranton and a master's degree in Journalism and Public Affairs from American University in Washington. He has taught journalism courses at Georgetown University, Towson State University, and American University. Follow him on Twitter: @thomloverro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grand Forks Herald and UND hockey reporter Brad Schlossman delivered a speech titled "Writing from Rinkside" for the first Hagerty Lecture since 2018 at UND's Memorial Union on Thursday. The lecture series is named in honor of the late Jack Hagerty — longtime editor at the Herald. Over the years, the lecture series has featured Pulitzer Prize winning journalists representing a wide range of topics. Schlossman, a Fargo native and 2004 UND graduate, has received several accolades for his work, including four first place finishes in beat writing from the Associated Press Sports Editors, and 2016 North Dakota Sports Writer of the Year. You can find all Herald audio content wherever you get your podcasts including Spotify, Google, and Apple Podcasts.

In conversation with Mike Sielski A staff writer at The Atlantic, Jennifer Senior won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for ''Twenty Years Gone,'' an account of a family still reeling from the loss of a loved one on 9/11. Her critically acclaimed 2015 book All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood spent eight weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, and in 2014 she delivered a popular TED Talk on happiness and child rearing. A frequent guest on numerous news programs, Senior formerly worked as a book critic and columnist at The New York Times and was a staff writer at New York Magazine for 18 years. On Grief is an Atlantic Edition volume of her Pulitzer-winning essay. A sports columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer since 2013, Mike Sielski is the author of Fading Echoes, the true story of two Pennsylvania high school football rivals who later found brotherhood while in the U.S. military in in the battlefields of the Middle East, and is the co-author of How to Be Like Jackie Robinson, a collection of life lessons taken from the trailblazing baseball legend. In 2015 he was voted the best sports columnist in the U.S. by The Associated Press Sports Editors. His most recent book The Rise is about the life of Kobe Bryant and offers a thorough account of Bryant's identity as a sports and cultural figure and an assessment of his impact on our society. Bob Costas described the books as a ''story informed by meticulous research and rendered with clear-eyed insights.'' (recorded 4/10/2023)

Jeff Jacobs is a writer who bleeds on the keyboard, and his passion for the craft has never wavered during 46 years in the business. You'll hear it as Jeff recalls his first big career moment when he unexpectedly became part of the story at a minor league hockey fight. He puts us there in January1980 when the Philadelphia Flyers' record 35-game undefeated streak ended, and he provides other hockey stories that depict the sport's unique culture. Jeff brings the Hartford Whalers back to life with vivid anecdotes and a few bars of the defunct NHL team's fight song. And he shares details and tales of dustups from many years of covering Geno Auriemma and Jim Calhoun, two Hall of Fame basketball coaches at the University of Connecticut. Hear about heart attacks, hate mail, and a memorable phone call from a particularly cranky senior citizen.   Jacobs has been named Connecticut Sportswriter of the Year 11 times (including 2022) by the National Sports Media Association. He has been honored four times by the Associated Press Sports Editors as one of the top-10 columnists in the country. Jeff spent nearly 34 years at the Hartford Courant before becoming sports columnist for the Hearst Connecticut Media Group in January 2018. He was the Hartford Courant's sports columnist for 22 years after covering the Whalers and NHL as the paper's beat reporter. Jeff has covered all four of the UConn men's basketball national championships and 10 of the 11 NCAA titles won by Auriemma's women's program. He's also covered multiple Olympics, World Series, Super Bowls, and Stanley Cup Finals.   Jacobs was born in Kirkwood, Mo., grew up in Newport, R.I., and is a 1977 graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He began his career as a hockey writer at The Times Herald in Port Huron, Michigan, and then covered the Flyers for The Courier Post (New Jersey) before joining the Hartford Courant in 1984.   Jeff likes to say that his hobby is surviving heart attacks. He had a double bypass surgery after his second one in 2019. His first heart attack, in 2005, required a quadruple bypass. Here's to wishing Jeff great health and many more years of writing.   Follow Jeff on Twitter: @jeffjacobs123 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lenn Robbins is a go-go-go Big Apple guy, but the Brooklyn native pauses on this episode to appreciate the people and places that form a mosaic of memories from his sportswriting career. Emotions bubbling at the ancient Olympic stadium in Greece. Riding with abandon at the Great Wall of China. The pressure felt by his young self in covering the Jets' final game at Shea Stadium. Vince Dooley burning hot after a loss. A moment in a Montreal bar with Mark Messier. A foiled, shattering upset bid in the NCAA basketball tournament. Typing on deadline in the surprisingly chilled desert air. A marathon runner winning despite taking a wrong turn. And Lenn discusses how his battle with cancer in recent years has impacted his reflection on these and other moments from his four decades as a New York sportswriter.   Robbins spent 16 years of his career at the New York Post, beginning in 1997. He was that paper's national college writer, wrote columns, and covered the NFL, NBA and the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He appeared regularly on ESPN, FOX, NY1, SNY and YES. Prior to the Post, Lenn worked two stints at The Record in New Jersey (1985-90 and 1992-97), where he had several beats, including the New York Rangers, the NFL, and national college sports. He covered the NFC East and the NBA's Atlantic Division for The National Sports Daily from 1990-92. His journalism career started at Greenwich Time in Greenwich, Connecticut after his graduation from Stony Brook University.   In 2013, Robbins left the New York Post to work for BrooklynNets.com and Barclays.com, where for two years he covered the Nets, the New York Islanders, championship boxing and college basketball. He also contributed stories for the Nets' All-Access game programs, did weekly segments on Barclays Center Television, and made guest appearances on Nets' game broadcasts on YES Network and WFAN. Lenn then joined MSGNetworks.com as the in-house, multi-media reporter for the Brooklyn Nets until 2017. He's currently content director at BetBasics.com after previously serving as Editor-in-Chief of TheNYExtra.com.   Lenn is a former president of the Football Writers of America Association, and he's a two-time winner in the Associated Press Sports Editors awards. In 2011, he received the Metropolitan College Football Writers Association's Good Guy Award and the Jim Murray Outstanding Sportswriter Award.   In 2017, Lenn was diagnosed with Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH), a rare form of cancer in his head and neck, as he began studying for his Master's degree in journalism. Despite undergoing treatments and suffering three relapses, he went on to earn that degree from the Craig Newmark School of Journalism at City University of New York in 2019. His cancer is in remission thanks to targeted gene therapy. He teaches journalism at the Newmark J-School, as well as at other universities in the New York City area.   Lenn wrote about his battle with cancer in hopes that chronicling his experience might help others: https://lennrobbins.wixsite.com/facetocancer   Follow Lenn on Twitter: @LennRobbins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In conversation with Mike Sielski The star of ESPN's No. 1 morning talk show First Take, Stephen A. Smith is one of the U.S. sporting press's most popular and outspoken personalities. He is also the host of NBA in Stephen A's World on ESPN2 and ESPN+, the host and producer of the podcast K[no]w Mercy with Stephen A. Smith, and an NBA analyst on ABC's NBA Countdown and ESPN's Sportscenter. From his upbringing as the youngest son in an immigrant family in Queens, NY to the successes and challenges in his professional career, Smith is characteristically candid in Straight Shooter and offers hot takes on sports, politics, and his personal life.  A sports columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer since 2013, Mike Sielski is the author of The Rise, an account of Kobe Bryant's life and impact as a sports and cultural figure. He is also the author of Fading Echoes: A True Story of Rivalry and Brotherhood from the Football Field to the Fields of Honor and is the co-author of How to Be Like Jackie Robinson: Life Lessons from Baseball's Greatest Hero. In 2015 he was voted the best sports columnist in the U.S. by the Associated Press Sports Editors.  (recorded 1/19/2023)

Gary Shelton is someone you want to sit by in the press box or on a media bus. Laughter is sure to follow. Gary takes us back 45 years to when his career began in the long shadow cast by Bear Bryant. He tells us about Don Shula's brown chair, and how that NFL coaching icon made him a better journalist. Hear about the many personalities of Sam Wyche, how Bobby Bowden was your favorite uncle, what made Warren Sapp so entertaining to cover, and why Dan Marino was like a beer league softball player. Gary recalls serving as governor of Idiot Island in the press room, covering the Nancy & Tonya soap opera, and the worst deadline that he ever faced. And he shares poignant Olympic moments when the power of sports shone through all the silliness. Oh, and about that meal in Athens, Greece . . .   Shelton has twice been named the No. 1 sports columnist in the country by the Associated Press Sports Editors. He was ranked in the APSE Top 5 five times, and the Top 10 eight times. Gary has been writing about sports in Tampa Bay since 1990, including a tenure of nearly 25 years at the Tampa Bay Times when the area grew into a huge sports market. He has covered the Buccaneers winning the Super Bowl, the Lightning winning the Stanley Cup, and the Rays in the World Series. He has also covered college football national championships won by Florida, Florida State and Miami, as well as 29 Super Bowls, 10 Olympics, 11 Final Fours, and the Masters seven times.   Prior to moving to Tampa Bay, Gary covered the Dolphins, the NFL, and college football for the Miami Herald from 1984-90. He has been named best sportswriter in Florida six times by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association. He has also won several Green Eyeshade, Florida Sports Writers Association awards, and other honors. Shelton began his journalism career writing about sports – including Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, and Georgia Tech – for the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer in 1978. He likes to say that he graduated from Auburn University and the Don Shula School of Having My Face Yelled Into.   Shelton took a buyout from the Tampa Bay Times in 2014 and has since been writing for his own subscription website. You can read Gary's columns at: https://garysheltonsports.com/   Contact Gary at GarySheltonSports@gmail.com   Follow him on Twitter: @Gary_Shelton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We surf waves, climb mountains, and dive into odorous media mixed zones with Elliott Almond. He has earned a reputation as one of the top Olympic writers and sports investigative reporters during his adventurous career of nearly 50 years. Elliott explains how Edwin Moses led him to break a major story about steroids before the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games. He recalls the bunker mentality needed to report on the tragic death of Hank Gathers. Why did Marion Jones talk to Elliott after a failed relay despite despising him? Hear about the craziness of writing about figure skating on deadline, how surfing with quarterback Todd Marinovich led to Elliott taking the Wonderlic test, and how climber Alex Honnold paused to provide a unique perspective. And there's the time a Secret Service agent pointed a gun at Elliott when he was chasing Richard Nixon . . . For nearly 50 years, Almond has been a sports journalist on the West Coast, noted for his enterprise work and Olympic coverage at the Los Angeles Times (1974-1996), the Seattle Times (1996-98), and the San Jose Mercury News (1998-2021). He has been recognized by such organizations as the Associated Press Sports Editors, Best American Sports Writing, the California Newspaper Publishers Association, and the Society of Professional Journalists. Elliott has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize three times. He is currently an outdoor columnist for the Cascadia Daily News in the Pacific Northwest.   Elliott covered 14 Summer and Winter Olympics, as well as the 1999 and 2007 Pan American Games. His investigative work includes reporting on the BALCO drug scandal, steroids in international track and field, Gathers' death, Magic Johnson and the issue of HIV, and cheating in college sports at Washington, USC, UCLA, and UNLV. He wrote about such diverse subjects as the Tour de France, social issues in sports such as abuse in women's sports, crime in college and professional sports, and concussions and the consequences of traumatic brain injuries.   A life-long surfer, Almond spent much of his youth traveling the Southern California and Baja California coastlines. He is the author of the book “Surfing: Mastering Waves from Basic to Intermediate.”   From 2009-13, Elliott was an instructor for San Jose State University, where he served as an editor overseeing the production of a broadsheet newspaper by teenagers participating in a high school journalism workshop.   Elliott graduated from California State-Fullerton in 1975 with bachelor's degrees in communications and political science. He completed a master's program, except for the dissertation, at California State-Long Beach.   Follow him on Twitter: @ElliottAlmond Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gregg Doyel is a sportswriter for the Indianapolis Star, being named three times as the country's top columnist by the Associated Press Sports Editors. He talks about his career beginnings at the Miami Herald as beat writer for the Miami Marlins and working with former ESPN personality Dan Le Batard. He also opens up about the challenges of work-life balance in media, the ways in which writing can help people heal & much more! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jbkonair/support

Our 40th guest on Press Box Access is the esteemed Mark Whicker, one of my all-time favorite writers and people in the sports media business. He takes us on a winding road through his career of nearly five decades. We're in locker rooms with Julius Erving, Darryl Dawkins, Pete Rose and Tug McGraw. There are late nights with a baseball GM known as “The Pope,” fan fights at The Vet, and police horses on a World Series field. Mark puts in the Forum Club for the jammed press conference when Magic Johnson announced he had HIV. He recounts a special column about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the fans' roar that carried Cathy Freeman to a gold medal, and what it was like at the 2001 World Series in New York weeks after the 9/11 attacks. Hear why Mark thinks David Thompson was the most important basketball player in ACC history, what it was like to witness meltdowns by Jean van de Velde and Greg Norman, and how there was menace in the Miami air on the night Aaron Pryor fought Alexis Arguello. And much more.   Whicker spent the bulk of his 48 years as a sportswriter and award-winning columnist in southern California and Philadelphia. The Associated Press Sports Editors twice voted him a top 10 columnists in the nation, and he won three state Sportswriter of the Year awards. Mark received the 2014 Nat Fleischer Award, presented by the Boxing Writers Association of America for his distinguished coverage of many of the marquee fights since the late 1970s. In 2020, he was named to the U.S. Basketball Writers Hall of Fame. Mark graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1973. He lives in Long Beach, Ca., with his wife, Robyn Norwood – a former sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times (1986 to 2008) and son. Follow Mark at @MWhicker03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Melissa Isaacson takes us into old Chicago Stadium, where smoke rose to the ceiling while Michael Jordan soared into history. She recounts chronicling the 1990s dynasty of the Bulls, with its crazy circus, gracious characters, and poignant moments. Hear about her visit to Birmingham, Ala. when Jordan was playing minor league baseball and mourning his father's murder. Oh, and there was that time Phil Jackson walked in on a simulation of childbirth involving a basketball. Melissa also recalls sitting by Princess Diana at Wimbledon, visiting the athletes' Olympic village, and navigating the early days of her career when there were few women working in the sports media.   Isaacson was an award-winning sports journalist for 34 years, including 19 at the Chicago Tribune, where she was the paper's first female beat writer on the Bulls (1991-95) and Bears (1995-2001). She initially covered University of Illinois men's basketball (1990) and later became the Tribune's first female sports columnist and a feature writer before leaving that paper for ESPN in 2009.   Throughout her career, Isaacson received Associated Press Sports Editors awards for beat writing, investigative and feature reporting. She covered the Summer and Winter Olympics, more than a dozen Super Bowls, the NBA Finals, World Series, the Stanley Cup Playoffs, Final Fours, Wimbledon and U.S. Open tennis, the British Open, and college bowl games. Isaacson was a columnist for ESPNChicago.com from 2009-2012; for ESPNW.com on professional tennis, golf and general sports from 2013-15; and ESPN.com covering the Olympics, tennis, golf, Special Olympics and general sports from 2015-17. She also covered sports for the Orlando Sentinel (1986-90), USA Today (1985-86), and Florida Today (1983-85). Follow her on Twitter: @mkisaacson   You can visit Melissa's website: http://www.melissaisaacson.com/ Her bio at Northwestern: https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/directory/faculty/melissa-isaacson.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christine Brennan is an award-winning national sports columnist for https://www.usatoday.com/staff/2648182001/christine-brennan/ (USA Today), a commentator for CNN, ABC News, PBS NewsHour and NPR, a best-selling author and a nationally-known speaker. Named one of the country's top 10 sports columnists three times by the Associated Press Sports Editors, she has covered the last 18 Olympic Games, summer and winter. They discuss: :45 - Her proudest achievements as a sports journalist over the years 3:17 - Saudi Arabia: The sportswashing debate; Greg Norman's horrendous comments & potential players accepting blood money 7:44 - China: What about its horrible human rights record & how are leagues/organizations/journalists responding 11:10 - Women's Tennis Association: Leading the way by pulling out of China over Peng Shuai & the clear message that sent. 13:02 - More on Saudi: The Ladies European Tour (LET) is playing in Saudi Arabia and has six total Saudi sponsored events on the schedule. The LPGA has controlling interest in the LET. What does this mean for women's golf 19:37 - How different would the LPGA & WTA be if Billie Jean King had been a golfer & Nancy Lopez had been a tennis player 33:11 - Pay Equality: women's soccer, golf, ice skating, etc... and why is paying the men & women so important 42:57 - Brittney Griner: Is the story of her being held as a prisoner in Russia for 100+ days now getting enough attention 48:52 - Transgender Athletes: Where does she stand on the discussion and how does she see it playing out 56:37 - Learn More: Continue this discussion with Christine or reach out if you're an aspiring journalists and have questions @ https://christinebrennan.com/ (ChristineBrennan.com)

Introducing Tyler Dunne is a long time NFL (National Football League) features writer and author based in Boston, NY. He is the founder of GoLongTD.com a daily newsletter publication dedicated to long form pro football journalism. Skills & Background He has covered the NFL since 2007 for various outlets, including Bleacher Report, the Buffalo News and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Tyler's writing has been acknowledged by the Associated Press Sports Editors organization, as well as the Pro Football Writers of America organization. His story on the Green Bay Packers in 2019 drew the most reads for any story for Bleacher Report—a major online sports outlet. National Acclaim Furthermore, Tyler's work has been featured and covered in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Boston Herald and many other US and international outlets. His nearly 50,000 fans on Twitter could probably speak to the quality of his work too. Buffalo Bills & Green Bay Packers Not only that, he is often a go to source of coverage for fans of two iconic NFL franchises, the Buffalo Bills and Green Bay Packers in relation to his years on the beat for both clubs. Get the Scoop on Tylers upcoming book Plus don't miss their talk covering Tyler's upcoming book coming out this fall, ‘The Blood and Guts: How Tight Ends Saved Football. We get a sneak peek of the book, which was built off the back of his cross-country travels interviewing NFL tight end legends Mike Ditka, Dallas Clarke, Jimmy Graham, Jackie Smith and many others. (Pre-Order Here) Reasons to Listen First off, for anyone interested in pursuing the profession of sports journalism, Tyler offers up a blueprint about how to do it. That alone is worth the price of admission. We also discuss the trends and current state of sports journalism from several fascinating angles. Those conversations unto themselves offer compelling looks at not only the state of journalism but their linkage to present societal issues at large. Aaron Rodgers | Green Bay Packers Saga REVISITED Secondly, Tyler takes us behind the curtain relating to several topics. We dive into his infamous Bleacher Report story on Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers back in 2019 which blew up and spread beyond the walls of sports journalism. Sammy Watkins Story Listeners will also be treated to a rather enlightening and interesting story about a sit down interview and conversation he had with Super Bowl winning receiver Sammy Watkins a couple years back. Buffalo Bills Take on the 2022 Season The chat also meanders into some Bills talk about their upcoming 2022 season and Tyler's takes on the team including superstar QB Josh Allen, head coach Sean McDermott and of course the fans, Bills Mafia. The chat will surely be a treat for fans of Tyler's work. For those stumbling across it for the first, I am certain you'll enjoy all that is discussed and covered in this compelling talk. You won't want to miss this episode. To learn more about Tyler and his work, you can check him out here: Website Twitter LinkedIn FRIENDLY REMINDERS: If you'd like, you can WATCH the full conversation on YouTube. And hey! Why don't you subscribe on YouTube! As you'll see, our subscriber numbers are in need of a little boost! If you haven't done so already, help the program out by giving it some love. *Hit the subscribe button on YouTube PLEASE. :) I'd appreciate it!  -Christopher *You can follow LIFE AS A.. on your favourite social platforms via these links: Youtube Instagram:  Linkedin: Twitter: Facebook:  To learn more about the program, visit the website www.life-as-a.com or https://linktr.ee/life_as_a_podcast 

Johnette Howard has never been afraid to stand her ground while reporting and writing about sports for four decades. Hear what she told Bill Laimbeer and Kirby Puckett when they challenged her early in her career. Howard has also always followed her curiosity, which has led her to craft award-winning stories and best-selling books. She tells us about hockey goons, the Bad Boy Pistons, and dramatic Olympic moments that remain seared in her memory. She also takes us to Centre Court at Wimbledon, and through the years with Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova – a rivalry unparalleled in sports. We finish by going from tennis to beyond with Howard as she recounts how Billie Jean King impacted sports and life for women everywhere.   Howard worked as a columnist and on-air commentator for ESPN.com (2008-17), a general sports columnist for Newsday (1999-2009), and a columnist and enterprise writer for The Washington Post (1993-94). She was a senior writer for The National Sports Daily (1989-91) and Sports Illustrated (1994-98) after beginning her career at the Detroit Free Press (1982-89 and 1991-93) as an NBA and Olympics writer. Her long-form articles have been collected in nine anthologies, including “Best American Sports Writing of the 20th Century,” Sports Illustrated's “Great Football Writing,” and “A Kind of Grace: A Treasury of Sports Writing by Women.” Her newspaper columns for Newsday were nominated for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in general commentary. Besides ESPN, she has also frequently appeared on radio and television for NPR, CNN, HBO, FOX, BBC TV, and Spike TV. She has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Athletic, Slate, The Times of London, House & Garden, Architectural Digest, and Golf for Women.   Howard collaborated with Billie Jean King on King's autobiography, "All in", which was released in August 2021 and debuted at No. 5 on The New York Times Best-Seller List. The Christian Science Monitor called “All In” the best sports book of the year, and The Washington Post named it one of the 50 notable non-fiction books of 2021. She is also author of the book “The Rivals: Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, Their Epic Duels and Extraordinary Friendship,” which was published in 2005. Howard has won national and local recognition from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Best American Sports Writing (five times), the Women's Sports Foundation, the New York Headline Club, Long Island Press Association.   Howard's account on Twitter: @JohnetteHoward Her website: www.johnettehoward.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

**Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of suicide.** In this episode, Lindsay Gibbs and Amira Rose Davis are back at it with rundown of WNBA news leading up to the start of the 2022 season on May 6. But first, Amira tells Lindsay all about the latest in baseball tech inventions and does a lot of airhorn impressions. Then, they discuss the latest on Brittney Griner's detainment in Russia and how a prioritization clause in the CBA could impact how athletes play abroad as well as drastically change the WNBA in future seasons. They also talk about off-season player and coaching changes and who they are most excited to watch this season. Following this discussion, you'll hear a preview of Shireen Ahmed's interview with basketball player and social media sensation Jamad Fiin about the importance of empowering Muslim girls to play basketball. Next, they burn the worst of sports this week on the Burn Pile. Then, they celebrate those making sports better including Torchbearers of the Week, The Athletic reporters Meg Linehan, Katie Strang, Steph Yang and Pablo Mauer who won the Associated Press Sports Editors' award in the investigative category. They wrap up the show with What's Good in their in their lives and What We're Watching in sports this week. This episode was produced by Tressa Versteeg. Shelby Weldon is our social media and website specialist. Burn It All Down is part of the Blue Wire podcast network. For show notes, transcripts, and more info about BIAD, check out our website: www.burnitalldownpod.com To help support the Burn It All Down podcast, please consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/burnitalldown For BIAD merchandise: https://www.bonfire.com/store/burn-it-all-down/ Find us on Twitter: twitter.com/BurnItDownPod; Facebook: www.facebook.com/BurnItAllDownPod/; and Instagram: www.instagram.com/burnitalldownpod/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jarrett Bell has been writing about the NFL since 1981, including the past 29 years as a national columnist for USA Today. He learned long ago that you get the scoop by getting to know the people. Bell discusses some of the more memorable owners, coaches and players he has encountered in four decades. He takes us behind the scenes as two iconic franchises, the Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers, transitioned in the late 80s and early 90s. Hear tales of Tom Landry, Jimmy Johnson, Joe Montana and Steve Young. Go on a home visit with Jerry Jones. Be there when Eddie DeBartolo vows that heads will roll. And go to dinner with Bruce Smith on Bell's tab. More NFL stories, and to think they all came because Bell's first love was . . . hockey?   Bell has covered pro football for USA Today as an NFL columnist since 1993. He previously served as a contributor at ESPN for four years (2013-2017), primarily featured as a panelist on “NFL Insiders” and “SportsCenter.” Since 1997, Bell has been a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee while also serving on the media panel that selects the Super Bowl MVP. He participated on a blue-ribbon panel that selected the NFL's Centennial Team. Among hundreds of radio and TV interviews, he has appeared on programming for CBS (Face The Nation), NBC (Nightly News), ESPN, CNN, Fox Sports 1, NFL Films, The NFL Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Headline News, Comcast, ESPN Radio, NBC Sports Radio, ABC Radio, Rogers Sportsnet, Sirius Satellite Radio, Pro Football Talk and WUSA-TV.   In 2020, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) honored Bell with a Salute to Excellence Award. That same year, he won first-place honor for projects in Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest. Bell has won three writing awards from The Pro Football Writers of America: game analysis and breaking news in 2009, and breaking news in 2001. He's won dozens of in-house awards from Gannett, owner of USA Today. He also was cited for an Outstanding Book Award from NABJ for “Resilient by Nature,” on which he collaborated on the memoir for former NFL linebacker Reggie Williams. Bell was featured prominently in two documentaries, “The Forgotten Four” and “Minister of Defense: The Reggie White Story.” He had a cameo role in the feature film, “Invincible.” For nearly 20 years, he was a regular “NFL Insider” guest on the Baltimore Ravens pregame show (2001-2018) on WBAL Radio.   Prior to joining USA Today, Bell covered San Francisco 49ers as a beat reporter for the for The Marin (County) Independent Journal (1990-1992). He was editor of The Dallas Cowboys Weekly in 1989 after working four years in the team's publications department. Bell was sports director for Fort Worth-based KNOK-FM (1984-1985) and covered high school sports as a staff writer for The Dallas Times Herald (1981-1983) while also serving as a contributing writer for the Cowboys Weekly, which he joined shortly after graduating from Michigan State University in ‘81 with a bachelor's degree in Human Communication.   Bell serves on the Alumni Advisory Board for the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State. In college, he worked as a student assistant in the Michigan State University Sports Information Office, a news reporter for WVIC-AM and as a teaching assistant for the Department of Communication. He also studied abroad at The University of London during the summer of 1979, participating in The Guardian's Contemporary Mass Media program. The Detroit native's career in sports began as a teenager when he was equipment manager for the Detroit Jr. Wings and as an aide in the public relations department for the NHL's Detroit Red Wings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Malcolm Moran spent more than 30 years writing sports for Newsday, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and USA Today. Yet he feared his career had ended early while covering the New York Yankees of George, Billy and Reggie. Hear why. He shares stories about Lou Holtz, quipster extraordinaire as Notre Dame football coach. He takes us to the NCAA tournament as the event's popularity soared in the '80s. Find out what Jack Youngblood had in his pickup truck at a Super Bowl practice. And tag along with Malcolm and Bob Knight in 1981 when the Indiana basketball coach visited his player, Landon Turner, who had been paralyzed in an auto accident. During his distinguished career, Malcolm Moran has covered 40 NCAA Final Fours, 11 Super Bowls, 16 World Series, four Olympic Games, the 2002 World Basketball Championships, and more than 30 post-season college football games with national championship stakes. His journalism career began at Newsday in 1977, where he covered high school, college and professional sports. He moved to The New York Times in 1979, where he worked as a reporter and columnist for 19 years until joining the Chicago Tribune 1998. There, he was the Notre Dame football beat reporter while also writing commentaries and providing event and feature coverage on pro and college sports. Malcolm moved to USA Today in 2000 to cover college basketball and football, as well as write feature articles on pro and college sports. Moran has been the Director of the Sports Capital Journalism Program at IUPUE in Indianapolis since 2013. The center serves as a comprehensive institute for the study of sports journalism, and it is the official partner of the Associated Press Sports Editors and the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. He's also a professor of practice in journalism. He has directed IUPUE students in their coverage of the Bowl Championship Series, College Football Playoff, NCAA Final Four, World Baseball Classic, NFL Scouting Combine, Indianapolis 500 and the Olympic Games at Rio de Janeiro. Moran left newspaper work in 2006 to become the inaugural Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society in the College of Communications at Penn State. There, he directed the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism until 2013, when he left for IUPUE. He took Penn State students to the Final Four, the BCS National Championship game and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Moran, a 1975 graduate of Fordham University, speaks annually to the Sports Journalism Institute. He has hosted the Associated Press Sports Editors' Diversity Fellows program and continues to organize the USBWA's Full Court Press seminar at the Final Four. He has made presentations to the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics, the Faculty Athletics Representatives Association, the Associated Press Sports Editors, the Sports Management Institute, CoSIDA, and several major universities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony Saavedra is an investigative reporter specializing in legal affairs for the Orange County Register. His work has been recognized by the National Headliner Club, the Associated Press Sports Editors, the California Newspaper Publishers Association, the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association and the Orange County Press Club. His stories have led to the closure of a chain of badly-run group homes, the end of a state program that placed criminals in inappropriate public jobs and the creation of a civilian oversight office for the Orange County Sheriff's Department, among other things. Saavedra has covered the Los Angeles riots, the O.J. Simpson case, the downfall of Orange County Sheriff-turned felon Michael S. Carona and the use of unauthorized drugs by Olympian Carl Lewis. Saavedra has worked as a journalist since 1979 and has held positions at several Southern California newspapers before arriving at the Orange County Register in 1990. He graduated from California State University, Fullerton, in 1981 with a bachelor of arts in communication.

My motto: Any time spent with Vahe Gregorian is time well spent. You'll enjoy this hour with the sports columnist for The Kansas City Star as he shares highlights from his 35-year career. He puts us courtside in historic Allen Fieldhouse for the rivalry between Kansas and Missouri. He takes us to the Dominican Republic for the funeral of Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura. Go with Vahe to the home of Chicago Bears Hall of Fame running back Gale Sayers, who was battling dementia before his death. Head to Australia where Vahe went behind the scenes of an agonizing Olympic loss. Spend time with Tom Watson and George Brett, icons of Kansas City. Hear how that city was galvanized in the past decade by the Royals and Chiefs winning championships. And we give a special nod to Vahe's late father, Vartan Gregorian.   Vahe Gregorian will be one of five journalists enshrined in the U.S. Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame this weekend at the Final Four in New Orleans. In 2017-18, he was president of the USBWA, which described him as “the ultimate teammate among his colleagues and a role model among his peers.” Gregorian has been sports columnist for The Kansas City Star since 2013 after spending 25 years covering a variety of sports for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He has covered 10 Olympics, three World Series, a Super Bowl, 22 Final Fours and multiple college football bowl games since the late 1980s.   In 2017, the Associated Press Sports Editors named Vahe the national winner for column writing for large market newspapers. He earned another top 10 columnist award from the APSE in 2016, and his work was also recognized as part of a reporting team that was named one of the top 10 projects for that year. He was a Pulitzer Prize nominee in 2000, won several Football Writers Association of America awards, and has been named Missouri Sports Writer of the Year multiple times. His work has been published in “The Best American Sports Writing.” He has published two books: one about former Northwestern football coach Gary Barnett, and the other about former Michigan State football coach George Perles.   Gregorian was born in Beirut, Lebanon and raised in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. He played varsity football at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1983 with a degree in English. He earned his master's degree in journalism at Missouri in ‘88. In 2004, he was chosen as a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where he focused on history and the demise of sportsmanship.   Follow Vahe Gregorian on Twitter: @vgregorian Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Ian O'Connor, the author of “Coach K: The Rise and Reign of Mike Krzyzewski”. New York Times bestselling author Ian O'Connor is a sports columnist at the New York Post. He is a former ESPN.com, USA Today, and New York Daily News columnist who has finished in 1st place in 18 national writing contests conducted by the Golf Writers Association of America, the Associated Press Sports Editors, the Pro Football Writers of America, the National Association of Black Journalists, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the United States Basketball Writers Association. Visit our website: https://lithub.com/story-type/keen-on/ Email Andrew: a.keen@me.com Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch the show live on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankeen/ Watch the show live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lithub Watch the show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LiteraryHub/videos Subscribe to Andrew's newsletter: https://andrew2ec.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Sielski is the author of “The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality.” Sielski, a sports columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, wanted to tell the basketball superstar's origin story after Bryant died in a helicopter crash on January 26, 2020. That's a story that takes place mostly in Philadelphia. Sielski interviewed more than 100 people for the book. He was also assisted by long-time friend Jeremy Treatman, who had been an assistant coach and confidant of Bryant's back in Kobe's high school days. At one point, Treatman and Bryant were working on a memoir focused on Kobe's rookie season in the NBA. As a result, Treatman recorded interviews with Bryant on microcassettes during his senior year. The book never happened, and then Treatman lost the cassettes. He found them just before Christmas in 2020, just three months before Sielski's book was due to his publisher. Hearing Kobe's voice as a teenager helped Sielski get more depth and details that he wouldn't have had otherwise, strengthening the narrative of the book. “The Rise” is Sielski's third book. In 2005, he co-wrote “How to Be Like Jackie Robinson” with Pat Williams. His second book, “Fading Echoes: A True Story of Rivalry and Brotherhood From the Football Field to Fields of Honor” was published in 2009. Sielski was voted Best Sports Columnist by the Associated Press Sports Editors in 2015. In 2010, his story “Dream Derailed” was included in “Best American Sports Writing.”

We're talking hockey and much more with Helene Elliott, columnist for the Los Angeles Times and one of the most respected writers in the business. She recounts how Wayne Gretzky set 61 NHL records and triggered a hockey boom in LA as an ambassador. She also has a funny tale about the Great One's fear of flying. Helene tells us why the Stanley Cup is the most difficult trophy to win in sports, how great players rise to the occasion like Messier for the ‘94 Rangers, and what it was like covering the Miracle on Ice at the 1980 Olympics. And hear how Helene overcame barriers faced by female sportswriters to become the first female journalist honored by the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport. Oh, and she has a story about Lenny and Squiggy.   Elliott has been writing for Los Angeles Times since 1989. She was a beat reporter for the Lakers and Angels, then spent many years covering hockey and Olympic sports before becoming a columnist in 2006. Helene has covered 17 Olympics, the Super Bowl, World Series, NBA Finals, Wimbledon, men's and women's World Cup soccer tournaments, and and nearly every Stanley Cup Finals since 1980. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport in 2005 as winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame's Elmer Ferguson Award, given to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” She won the Best Breaking News Story award from the Associated Press Sports Editors for her story on the labor agreement that ended the NHL lockout in 2005. Her career began at the Chicago Sun-Times in 1977. She moved to New York City in 1979 and wrote for Newsday for the next 10 years before going to the West Coast. A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Elliott is a 1977 graduate of the Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, which inducted her into the Medill Hall of Achievement in 2020.   Follow Elliott on Twitter: @helenenothelen  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In conversation with Michael Days A sports columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer since 2013, Mike Sielski is the author of Fading Echoes, the true story of two Pennsylvania high school football rivals who later found brotherhood while in the U.S. military in in the battlefields of the Middle East, and is the co-author of How to Be Like Jackie Robinson, a collection of life lessons taken from the trailblazing baseball legend. In 2015 he was voted the best sports columnist in the U.S. by The Associated Press Sports Editors. The Rise, referred to by Bob Costas as a ''story informed by meticulous research and rendered with clear-eyed insights,'' is about more than the tragedy that took Kobe Bryant's life and offers a thorough account of his identity as a sports and cultural figure and an assessment of his impact on our society. Formerly The Philadelphia Inquirer's managing editor, vice president for diversity and inclusion, and editor for reader engagement, Michael Days serves on the Board of Visitors at Temple University's Klein College of Media and Communication. (recorded 1/13/2022)

A deeply emotional memoir by a longtime ESPN writer about the suicide of his son Max and how their complicated relationship led him to see grief as love.  In February 2015, Ivan Maisel received a call that would alter his life forever: his son Max's car was found abandoned in a parking lot next to Lake Ontario. Two months and countless harrowing hours later, Max's body was found in the lake. There'd been no note or obvious indication that Max wanted to harm himself; he'd signed up for a year-long subscription to a dating service; he'd spent the day he disappeared doing photography work for school. And this uncertainty became part of his father's grief.Taking its title from Max's love of photography—and his tendency to only love the camera when he was behind it, looking away whenever his picture was taken—I KEEP TRYING TO CATCH HIS EYE tells the deeply human and empathetic story of a father's relationship with his son, of its complications, and of Max and Ivan's struggle—as is the case for so many parents and their children—to connect. And of how our tendency to overlook men's mental health can have devastating consequences, and how ultimately letting those who grieve do so openly and freely can lead to greater healing.The Two Jess(es) have the unique opportunity to talk with Ivan about grief, and  how, at its most stripped down state, it is really born out of love. Meet Ivan:Ivan Maisel is Vice President/Editorial and Senior Writer at on3.com. He has covered college football for nearly four decades, from 2002-2021 as a senior writer for ESPN, where he wrote for ESPN.com, appearing on television, ESPN Radio and on podcasts. He also served as Editor-at-Large for ESPN College Football 150. Prior to joining ESPN.com, Maisel covered national college football for Sports Illustrated, Newsday, and The Dallas Morning News. He has been honored eight times for Best Story by the Football Writers Association of America, and twice by The Associated Press Sports Editors, which in 2019 named him one of the 10 best sports columnists. Maisel earned a bachelor's degree in American Studies from Stanford University.Support the show (http://www.paypal.com)

Inner Voice – a Heartfelt Chat with Dr. Foojan on KMET 1490 AM / ABC News Radio.  In this segment- Moving Through Life with Grace - Dr. Foojan shares the Tip of the Week about being grateful toward life. Then Dr. Foojan brings you IVAN MAISEL is the Vice President/Editorial and Senior writer at on3.com. He has covered college football for nearly four decades, from 2002-2021 as a senior writer for ESPN, where he wrote for ESPN.com, appearing on television, ESPN Radio, and on podcasts. He also served as Editor-at-Large for ESPN College Football 150. Prior to joining ESPN.com, Maisel covered national college football for Sports Illustrated, Newsday, and The Dallas Morning News. He has been honored eight times for Best Story by the Football Writers Association of America and twice by The Associated Press Sports Editors, which in 2019 named him one of the 10 best sports columnists. He is the author of “I keep trying to catch his eye”. A memoir about his grief about the loss of his son. Dr. Foojan shares the path to relive emotional suffering in the Ask Me Segment.  Dr. Foojan chats Renee Marie Simpson is the author of I WANT TO GO HOME and is based in Sydney. Renee earned her degree at the Australian College of Applied Psychology.  Renee is a survivor and teaches her readers how to reclaim power after sexual assault. Renee has a professional background working as a school counselor for over five years and now works for local government in youth development building partnerships between education providers and support services to encourage help-seeking, build resilience and build safer communities for all.  www.reneemariesimpson.com   Check out my website: www.foojan.com   Remember to Subscribe, Listen, Review, Share! Find me on these sites:   *iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/i...)   *Google Play (https://play.google.com/music/m/Inpl5...)   *Stitcher (https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=185544...)   *YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/DrFoojanZeine )     Platforms to Like and Follow:   *Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/DrFoojanZeine/)   *Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/Dr.FoojanZe...)   *Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/DrZeine/)   *LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/DrFoojanZ...)       

In this episode with Hope College Men's Basketball Coach Greg Mitchell we touch on: Coaching Philosophy G.R.I.T. Trust Relationships Advice to hopeful college athletes Transition from high school to college coaching and more... Mitchell spent 25 years coaching varsity boys basketball at Laingsburg High School near Lansing, Michigan while teaching for Laingsburg and Okemos schools. Mitchell compiled a 362-201 career record at Laingsburg, including a state runner-up finish during the 2012-13 season. At Laingsburg, Mitchell coached Laingsburg to three Michigan High School Athletic Association regional championships, six district championships, and six conference championships. Mitchell was named Coach of the Year seven times: twice in Class C By the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan (2013 and 1997), once in Class C by the Associated Press Sports Editors of Michigan (2012), once in Class C by the Detroit News (2013) and three times by the Lansing State Journal (2013, 2012 and 1997). In seven seasons, Mitchell has led the Flying Dutchmen to a 118-60 record, three Michigan Intercollegiate regular-season championships and three NCAA Division III Championships tournament appearances. Twitter.com/Hope_Basketball Twitter.com/coachmitch44 Check the links below to connect with us! Website: www.coachsedge.coach Interested in our consulting services? contact@cramerbasketball.com Camps: www.Cramerbasketball.com Online Training: https://cramerbasketball.mypthub.net/3/p/133059 Twitter.com/coachsedge1 Twitter.com/steve21cramer Facebook.com/cramerbasketball Youtube.com/cramerbasketball Instagram.com/cramer_basketball --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coachsedge/support

There are two New Orleans: the glamorous party city that tourists see and the day-to-day reality of the heavily segregated Black neighborhoods outside the French Quarter. That more real New Orleans is defined by economic inequality, street violence, drugs, and institutional racism. For the young people born and raised there, it is the land of no opportunity—indeed, many struggle just to survive to adulthood. One of the few paths to success for teenage boys is football, which offers a way out with the promise of college scholarships and the possibility of a lucrative pro career. But it is too easy for even the most talented high school players to get off track when faced with the fraught daily reality of life. It takes a special person to guide these young men away from preordained failure and toward success—and even to keep them alive. In Algiers, on the West Bank of the Mississippi River, that person is Edna Karr High School coach Brice Brown. Award-winning sportswriter Kent Babb first told the inspiring story of Brice Brown in the Washington Post. Now, in ACROSS THE RIVER: Life, Death, and Football in an American City (HarperOne), Babb goes deeper, widening the narrative with intimate portraits of Brown's players, staff, and surroundings in an ever-tested community. Blending aspects of such disparate classics as Friday Night Lights, The Yellow House, and Ghettoside, Babb's accomplished multi-character narrative illuminates many lives and captures the pulse of New Orleans in all its turbulence, complexity, and defiance. About the Author Kent Babb covers sports for the Washington Post and is the author of Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson, which in 2016 was shortlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. Babb's journalism has received national praise; he has won more than a dozen awards from the Associated Press Sports Editors, and his work has been featured three times in the Best American Sportswriting series. He lives outside Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steve-richards/support

Dan is a senior sports columnist for the Boston Globe, covering the Boston Red Sox since 1981, and is the author of several sports books, including “The Curse of the Bambino,” “Francona: the Red Sox Years" and “Senior Year: A Father, a Son and High School Baseball”. Dan has been voted one of America's top sports columnists by the Associated Press Sports Editors and was honored in 2016 by the Baseball Hall of Fame in receiving the J.G. Taylor Spink Award. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today: Northwest Indiana "Times" prep sports reporter James Boyd is on "Regionally Speaking" to talk about his nomination for the Associated Press Sports Editors' contest for a long-form feature and a "Times" project last year. He goes into detail for us about his nominated stories. Final placements for the top 10 nominations will be announced soon. Carrie Napoleon with the "Post-Tribune" is also on this Reporters' Roundtable Thursday to talk about her recent stories in print and online. They include a feature on a northwest Indiana woman who survived COVID-19, but is still having problems. And "Off Mic" host Michael Puente talks with the lady who is behind the "Gary For Life" project.

About This Episode: John Eisenberg is one of the country's most acclaimed sportswriters. A native of Dallas, Texas and graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he started out covering the “Friday Night Lights” for the now-defunct Dallas Times Herald in 1979. After rising through the ranks to cover pro basketball, he joined the staff of the Baltimore Sun in 1984. For the next 23 years he wrote columns in the Sun about the hometown Orioles, Ravens and Maryland Terrapins, and also covered major events such as the World Series, Super Bowl and Olympics. His honors included several firsts in the prestigious Associated Press Sports Editors' contest. Since 2012 he has written columns on the Ravens' website. His latest venture is a popular Ravens podcast, What Happened to That Guy? The subject is former players and life after football. John has also authored 10 bestselling sports books, including The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken, Jr. and Baseball's Most Historic Record. Published in 2017, it was a finalist for the Casey Award, which honors the year's best baseball book, and was shortlisted for the PEN/ESPN Literary Sportswriting Award, which honors the year's best sports book. John's most recent title is The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire. John has also written for Sports Illustrated and Smithsonian Magazine. He lives in Baltimore with his wife of 36 years, Mary Wynne Eisenberg. They have two grown children and a grandson. Find out more about John at: Baltimoreravens.com - https://www.baltimoreravens.com/news/john-eisenberg Twitter - https://twitter.com/bmoreeisenberg Check out our YouTube Channel: Jeremyryanslatebiz Make Extraordinary a reality: jeremyryanslate.com/extraordinary See the Show Notes: jeremyryanslate.com/832 Sponsors:Gusto: This episode is sponsored by Gusto. Run your payroll the easy way, the same way we do at Command Your Brand. You'll get a. $100 Amazon Gift Card just for running your first payroll! http://www.jeremyryanslate.com/gusto Audible: Get a free 30 day free trial and 1 free audiobook from thousands of available books.  http://www.jeremyryanslate.com/book  

About This Episode: John Eisenberg is one of the country's most acclaimed sportswriters. A native of Dallas, Texas and graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he started out covering the “Friday Night Lights” for the now-defunct Dallas Times Herald in 1979. After rising through the ranks to cover pro basketball, he joined the staff of the Baltimore Sun in 1984. For the next 23 years he wrote columns in the Sun about the hometown Orioles, Ravens and Maryland Terrapins, and also covered major events such as the World Series, Super Bowl and Olympics. His honors included several firsts in the prestigious Associated Press Sports Editors' contest. Since 2012 he has written columns on the Ravens' website. His latest venture is a popular Ravens podcast, What Happened to That Guy? The subject is former players and life after football. John has also authored 10 bestselling sports books, including The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken, Jr. and Baseball's Most Historic Record. Published in 2017, it was a finalist for the Casey Award, which honors the year's best baseball book, and was shortlisted for the PEN/ESPN Literary Sportswriting Award, which honors the year's best sports book. John's most recent title is The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire. John has also written for Sports Illustrated and Smithsonian Magazine. He lives in Baltimore with his wife of 36 years, Mary Wynne Eisenberg. They have two grown children and a grandson. Find out more about John at: Baltimoreravens.com - https://www.baltimoreravens.com/news/john-eisenberg Twitter - https://twitter.com/bmoreeisenberg Check out our YouTube Channel: Jeremyryanslatebiz Make Extraordinary a reality: jeremyryanslate.com/extraordinary See the Show Notes: jeremyryanslate.com/832 Sponsors:Gusto: This episode is sponsored by Gusto. Run your payroll the easy way, the same way we do at Command Your Brand. You'll get a. $100 Amazon Gift Card just for running your first payroll! http://www.jeremyryanslate.com/gusto Audible: Get a free 30 day free trial and 1 free audiobook from thousands of available books.  http://www.jeremyryanslate.com/book