Podcast appearances and mentions of Jerry Colangelo

Bickley and Marotta talk Cardinals, Bickley Blasts on the Suns, and we're joined by UA football coach Brent Brennan and Jerry Colangelo.

Bickley and Marotta talk Suns, are joined by Jerry COlangelo and Matt Money for Newsmakers Week, and the Sports Kabob with Jarrett Carlen.

Colangelo gives his thoughts on the Suns, Diamondbacks, Coyotes, and more.

0:00 ... Ross Geiger hello and welcome .... introduces co-hosts Bruce Bernstein and Michael "World B" Freer and teases our guest Peter Vecsey.  This week's show (#142) is dedicated to former Mavs player Maxi Kleber, who will now be a Los Angeles Laker. 0:59 ... Ross live commercial read for BetOnline. 1:39 ... Bruce introduces Peter Vecsey and mentions some of his memorable nicknames. 2:45 ... Peter discusses his best nicknames and shares a great story about Joe Barry Carroll, whom he dubbed "Joe Barely Cares."  Peter famously dubbed Larry Bird "Larry Legend." 4:35 ... Ross asks for Peter's reaction to the Luka Doncic/Anthony Davis trade and how none of the newsbreakers who cover the league had any clue it was happening. 10:32 ... Considering the principals in the deal, Peter shares his thoughts on some of the other deals that were historic but he feels than none were ever bigger than this one. 12:54 ... Peter tells why Dallas MAY have traded Luka and tells a story about how former Mavs coach Rick Carlisle left the Mavs because he did not like coaching Luka. 16:13 ... Why did the Mavericks want the often injured Anthony Davis? 17:15 ... The Lakers needed a big man, so naturally they traded their Hall of Fame big man. 20:12 ... Peter reacts to DeAaron Fox going to San Antonio and why he liked Fox prior to this season but has soured on him this year. 24:15 ... Bruce makes a joke about how the players for Archbishop Molloy H.S. in Queens (Peter's alma mater) were big time ballers and he joked how he was ahead of his time as a high school player. 24:53 ... Bruce takes a shot at Zach LaVine, who was traded from the Bulls to the Kings and how Sacramento's GM seems clueless.  Peter goes on to discuss Billy Donovan, his first NBA interview that was done for SportsChannel at Hofstra University where Bruce also worked. 27:26 ... On being inducted into the Hoop Hall of Fame in 2009.  Surprisingly Peter has little regard for the Hoop hall and Jerry Colangelo who is the boss. 31:23 ... Peter is annoyed that K.C. Jones is not in the Hall as a coach when he was voted one of the top 15 coaches of all time.  He relays a great story Larry Bird told him about how K.C. got through to Dennis Johnson when other coaches could not. 36:22 ... Bruce asks about Michael Jordan and John Stockton and their 2009 Hall of Fame speeches.  Peter tells a great story about how he took a big gamble during an interview with Stockton that he did for NBC where Stockton was tight lipped but how Peter eventually got him to open up. 39:21 ... World B initiates a discussion of the top players of all time ... Peter takes exception to the suggestion that MJ and LeBron are the two best ever.  Peter ticks off many others who are up there. 41:42 ... Kobe is also right up there and Peter shares some moments from their discussions over the years.  Their relationship was very close and he tells the story of how Kobe got his unusual first name. 44:44 ... Ross asks about the 65 game rule for postseason awards and Peter is in favor of it.  Peter is NOT in favor of Adam Silver's idea for 10 minute quarters. 46:47 ... Bruce asks about the new All-Star game format and how the event has become unwatchable.  Peter thinks the new tournament format may help make it more appealing.  He is not impressed with the new women's 3 on 3 league but transitions into a story about how K.C. Jones allowed him to work out with the Celtics teams of the 1980s and play full-court 4 on 4. 50:12 ... World B asks Peter who his favorite interview subject was ... and it was Larry Bird.  Of course, there's a couple of good Bird stories there!  And there's a great story about how Bird signed a photo for Peter's son as a birthday gift.  Peter truly misses being around Larry. 53:17 ... Peter shares some Bill Walton stories and how he helped Bill get into TV at NBC.  We exchanged some Walton stories. 55:10 ... Bruce asks about the MVP race and how Nikola Jokic probably won't win it this year due to voter fatigue but that Shai Gilgeous Alexander is deserving.  Peter feels OKC's record this year helps SGA.  Peter goes onto discuss Lu Dort, whom he watched at Arizona State and is a key reason for OKC's success. 58:48 ... Peter predicts OKC will win it all this year ... he praises Isaiah Hartenstein of the Thunder and can't believe how good he has become. 1:00:06 ... Ross thanks peter and says goodbye TRT 1:00:51        

The Sixers are 1-6, now Maxey is hurt, Embiid's not back till Tuesday. We don't think this is the end, but it's not great. We give some reasons for hope (??) and talk it all through. We also laugh at JJ Redick's emotional press conference, and look at the amazing new Jerry Colangelo statue. Win tickets to Live Carl Landry Record Club 2 here: https://www.rightstorickysanchez.com/p/win-tickets-to-live-carl-landry-record Fly The Process is going to Atlanta in March! For all the details and to reserve your spot go to https://www.rightstorickysanchez.com/fly The Rights To Ricky Sanchez is presented by Draft Kings Sportsbook Kornblau and Kornblau is the official lawfirm of the Process. Adam Ksebe is the official realtor of the process at http://www.processrealtor.com Stateside Vodka is the official sponsor of the Corner Three Newsletter with Zo. Gambling problem? Call one eight hundred Gambler. In New York, call eight seven seven eight HOPENY or text HOPENY (four six seven three six nine). In Connecticut, Help is available for problem gambling. Call eight eight eight seven eight nine seven seven seven seven or visit ccpg dot org. Please play responsibly. On behalf of Boot Hill Casino & Resort (Kansas). Twenty-one plus age and eligibility varies by jurisdiction. Void in Ontario. Bonus bets expire one hundred sixty eight hours after issuance. For additional terms and responsible gaming resources, see D K N G dot C O slash B BALL

Jerry Colangelo and Greg Ostro join Mike to talk about the upcoming Integrity Summit.

Jerry Colangelo discusses the impact playing for Team USA can have on a player, if he thinks this year's men's team is the strongest team in 20 years and if he is interested in owning an NHL team.  

Jerry Colangelo is the founder and former owner of the Phoenix Suns and Arizona Diamondbacks, as well as Managing Director of USA Basketball. He is a 4x NBA Executive of the Year, former NBA GM & Head Coach, Chairman of the Basketball Hall of Fame, founder of multiple sports franchises, and also started with Dick Klein to found the Chicago Bulls. The accolades are endless, but he additionally won a world championship with the Diamondbacks and returned the once-tarnished U.S. Olympic men's basketball team to glory. As Chairman of USA Basketball, Colangelo created a team that brought home the Gold medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, another in the 2012 London Olympics, again in the 2016 Olympic games in Rio, and most recently in 2021 in Tokyo. Having served as Chairman and CEO, general manager, and head coach of the Phoenix Suns, Colangelo boasts the second longest tenure with one franchise in the NBA.On the show he shares his story of growing up, starting the Bulls, moving to Phoenix to start the Suns, winning a world series with the Diamondbacks, confidence, the power of relationships, preparation, failure, listening, excellence, his faith, and much more.Currently, he continues his business in real estate as a principle in JDM Partners, LLC. He is also the special assistant to the president of Grand Canyon University.For more on Jerry check out www.jcolangelo.com as well as his book How You Play The Game which is one of my favorites all time. Enjoy the show! 

Former owner of the Vancouver Canucks/Grizzlies and GM Place Arthur Griffiths talks about his family ties to Dr Ballard's dog food empire, how his Mom convinced his Dad to purchase the Canucks, his reverence for the late great Pat Quinn, that incredible 1994 Canucks' playoff run, getting involved with the concrete pour at GM Place, negotiating Bryan Adams as the first event at the new building, how a meeting to discuss acquiring an arena football team with Jerry Colangelo planted the seeds for instead seeking an NBA team, how close Earvin Magic Johnson came to joining the Grizzlies' ownership group, how he has a new perspective on 1999 2nd overall pick Steve Francis' refusal to play in Vancouver, feeling crushed when the Grizzlies fled to Memphis, and reliving Sidney Crosby's 2010 Vancouver Olympics Golden Goal being scored at HIS arena!      For everything Arthur Griffiths, please visit https://www.arthurgriffiths.com/ TORONTO LEGENDS is hosted by Andrew Applebaum at andrew.applebaum@gmail.com All episodes available at https://www.torontolegends.ca/episodes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

00:00 Welcome 12:08 Monti Ossenfort Ahead Of The 2024 Combine & Draft 28:25 Jerry Colangelo & Josh Bartelstein --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigskysportstalk/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bigskysportstalk/support

Colangelo talks Suns, USA basketball, GCU, and the state of Valey sports.

Bickley and Marotta are joined by Jerry Colangelo and Joshn Bartelstein for Newsmakers Week and Bickley Blasts on the Suns.

Valley Oop vous propose Mémoire de Cactus. Une série de podcasts qui narrent des moments historiques des Phoenix Suns. Ce troisième épisode raconte, en une courte pastille temporelle, la draft qui changeait déjà tout pour la toute jeune franchise des Phoenix Suns, en 1969. Au coin flip, face à Milwaukee, les Suns du jeune Jerry Colangelo voent s'envoler l'espoir de drafter celui qui deviendra Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. écrit et raconté par ⁠⁠Rodolphe Desseauve

Jerry Colangelo discusses the passing of Suns great Walter Davis and the Phoenix Suns reimaging of the Ring of Honor. 

Bickley and Marotta chat with MLB writer Jayson Stark, the Godfather of valley sports Jerry Colangelo stops by to honor Walter Davis and Bick's Picks! 

After a half decade of missed opportunities, political wrangling, financial issues and eventually watching Denver and Miami, recieve new baseball franchises; the NBA Suns owner, Jerry Colangelo, becomes the face of a group, trying to bring a team to the Phoenix metropolitan area, in the next round of expansions, set to begin in 1998. This responsibility requires him to not only bring an MLB team to the Valley, but he also needs to garner support from the tax paying citizens of Maricopa County, for his $250M fundraising drive and public financing. This is the story of how the National League Champion, Arizona Diamondbacks, found their baseball roots in the desert, and the tecnologically advanced stadium, that was built almost 30 years ago, to house the new ballclub. #ArizonaDiamondbacks #Phoenix #BillVeek #ArizonaStateUniversity #CactusLeague #ArizonaFallLeague #MaricopaCounty #JerryColangelo #JoeGaragiolaJr #BankOneBallpark #ChaseField #MartinStone #BillBidwell #RandyJohnson #CurtSchilling #TonyWomack #LuisGonzalez

After a half decade of missed opportunities, political wrangling, financial issues and eventually watching Denver and Miami, recieve new baseball franchises; the NBA Suns owner, Jerry Colangelo, becomes the face of a group, trying to bring a team to the Phoenix metropolitan area, in the next round of expansions, set to begin in 1998. This responsibility requires him to not only bring an MLB team to the Valley, but he also needs to garner support from the tax paying citizens of Maricopa County, for his $250M fundraising drive and public financing. This is the story of how the National League Champion, Arizona Diamondbacks, found their baseball roots in the desert, and the tecnologically advanced stadium, that was built almost 30 years ago, to house the new ballclub. #ArizonaDiamondbacks #Phoenix #BillVeek #ArizonaStateUniversity #CactusLeague #ArizonaFallLeague #MaricopaCounty #JerryColangelo #JoeGaragiolaJr #BankOneBallpark #ChaseField #MartinStone #BillBidwell #RandyJohnson #CurtSchilling #TonyWomack #LuisGonzalez

Phoenix is a major sports hub, but the man behind of lot of its creation isn't getting enough credit for his work. Jeff Munn discusses the recognition Jerry Colangelo deserves as he fills in for Jim Sharpe. 

The Suns need to honor Jerry COlangelo with a statue.

Former NBA All-Star Cedric Ceballos, Suns super fan Mr. ORNG (aka Dr. Patrick Battillo), and azcentral Suns beat writer Dana Scott Review on Ayton's verbal shots fired at Suns during Media Day after the team traded the Phoenix native to Portland. Takeaways from former Suns owner Jerry Colangelo's 12th annual Basketball Hall of Fame Golf Classic  

Football Done Right, History of the NFL with Ex GM Mike Lombardi + Rick Horrow on Stadiums - AZ TRT S04 EP38 (201) 9-24-2023   What We Learned This Week ·         You don't work in the NFL. You live in the NFL. – Al Davis, Raiders Owner White Oaks of Football – 5 Coaches who revolutionized how the game is played Paul Brown's Operating System – responsible for so many of the ways football teams are run, from headsets, to play calling & playbooks, to scouting systems  West Coast Bill Walsh – created an offensive philosophy by passing early to get the lead, and running late to keep the lead Pete Rozelle (former NFL Commissioner) propelled football into the #1 sport thru Television, starting with Monday Night Football in 1970 Scouting for players is about elimination, never about finding. Need a Profile to know what you are looking for.       Guest: Michael Lombardi is a former general manager and three-time Super Bowl-winning executive, having spent thirty-five years working for the New England Patriots, San Francisco 49ers, the Oakland Raiders, and the Cleveland Browns, and has the distinction of the being the only person to make it to the Super Bowl with legends Bill Walsh, Al Davis, and Bill Belichick in a single career. He is the best-selling author of Gridiron Genius and appears on the top-ten sports podcast GM Shuffle in addition to hosting the daily show The Lombardi Line on the VSIN podcast network. He has appeared as a draft analyst and on-air talent for CBS Sports, Showtime, and the NFL Network, among others. He has written extensively for numerous print and digital media platforms, including NFL.com and Sports Illustrated.      ABOUT THE BOOK Title: FOOTBALL DONE RIGHT: Setting the Record Straight on the Coaches, Players, and History of the NFL  By Michael Lombardi “A master class in the history, philosophy, and art of football from a man who has seen it all.” —Bill Belichick, Head Coach of the New England Patriots   From “Monday Night Football” to Super Bowl Sunday, the NFL is a dominating force in the lives of millions of fans who tune in and passionately cheer for their favorite teams. And when the games are over, the conversation is just getting started. Who's the greatest player of all time? Which coaches truly shaped the game we know and love today? What was the most unforgettable game? Why is professional football such an undeniable part of our culture?    In FOOTBALL DONE RIGHT: Setting the Record Straight on the Coaches, Players, and History of the NFL (Running Press, September 5, 2023) former NFL general manager and three-time Super Bowl winner Michael Lombardi sets the record straight on these questions and more, taking readers on the ultimate journey through the NFL's history to present his calls on the greatest players and coaches the sport has ever seen. Lombardi has done it all—from scout to executive to coach—and with FOOTBALL DONE RIGHT, he tackles all aspects of the sport, channeling his 35+ years of experience with the NFL into an all-encompassing celebration of the game.    Through his incisive analysis, first-person experience, and hard stats, Lombardi makes a definitive case for the most influential coaches and best players, while also honoring the many change makers, trade negotiators, and sportscasters who played an essential role in popularizing the game that we recognize today. Both a full history of the sport and a comprehensive re-imagining of the Football Hall of Fame to honor every deserving athlete and coach, FOOTBALL DONE RIGHT will change the way you watch, discuss, and debate the gridiron.    “The stories in Football Done Right reveal who made the NFL into the greatest league on Earth. Michael Lombardi has had success at every level of the league and this love letter to the game is a must read.”  —Pat McAfee, Host of The Pat McAfee Show on ESPN and Former NFL Player   “For the past 40 years, Michael Lombardi has had a front row seat to football history, working for and advising legendary men such as Bill Walsh, Al Davis and Bill Belichick. Now he has packaged all the greatness he observed into this gift of a book.” —Adam Schefter, ESPN Senior NFL Insider       Notes:   Seg 2   ‘You don't work in the NFL. You live in the NFL.' – Al Davis, Raiders Owner   ‘You can't connect the dots looking forwards…but backwards.' – Steve Jobs, Apple   ‘There is winning, and there is misery.' – Coach Bill Parcells   Canton, Ohio – the NFL is formed in 1920 with 11 teams     Mike Lombardi worked in the NFL 20+ years. He worked with some of the NFL grades like Bill Walsh, Al Davis and Bill Belichick. He agrees with Al Davis that you definitely live in the NFL. It is dark when you go to work and it is dark when you get home.   NFL started in 1920, but it wasn't until the late 1950s that it was on TV and started to become a very popular national game. From the 1920s to the 1950s college was more popular than the NFL. People knew their college teams and football was more of a regional sport.   The Five White Oaks of the NFL These are 5 coaches that Mike has identified that helped to modernize the game. The white oak phrase comes from the movie The Shawshank Redemption. The tree is a symbol of redemption with the deepest branches, like a coaching tree in the NFL.   Red Blaik and the Lonely End Coach Red Blaik coached at Dartmouth in the Ivy League and then Army. He is known for the lonely end, or spreading out the wide receivers and using the whole field to play. He coached in the 1940s in the 1950s.   He had 2 very famous assistants at Army - Tom Landry coaching the Defense and Vince Lombardi coaching the offense. Landry went on to coach the Cowboys and Lombardi went on to coach the Green Bay Packers. Both won Super Bowls and are in the Hall of Fame.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Blaik   https://goldenrankings.com/footballshortstoryLonelyEnd.htm   Clark Shaughnessy and the T Formation He coached in the 1940s through the 1960s and is known for modernizing the single wing formation and how players lineup in formations. He created the first real modern passing formations with an emphasis on the quarterback, not the running back being the most important player.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Shaughnessy https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-12-25-sp-7207-story.html   Paul Brown's Operating System Paul Brown of the Cleveland Browns, and later the Cincinnati Bengals He created the operating system and really turned coaching into a profession with specialties. He taught a culture of leadership and instruction.   His most famous assistant was Bill Walsh who will go on to the Hall of Fame as the coach of the 49ers and creator of the West Coast offense which was started under Brown with the Bengals   So many of the modern things we see with football were created by Paul Brown - like the headset for the coaches to call in the play to the quarterback, how play-calling was done and the playbook. He also organized the system for scouting, how you pick players, 40 yard dash and how to profile players.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Brown https://operations.nfl.com/gameday/technology/technology-and-the-game/   https://www.daytondailynews.com/sports/ohio-state-tcu-one-hall-fame-coach-left-mark-buckeyes-horned-frogs/oXTclNvnXMkadYBk4zSdWJ/       Seg 3 Coaches continued   Sid Gilman and the Long Ball Sid Gilman was an assistant with Red Blaik   Worked with Fanatical Francis Schmidt of Ohio State wanted to pass all the time, but not accepted in Ohio   Developed numerical passing game, passing and play design   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Gillman   https://www.footballxos.com/sid-gillman-need-know-man-throw-forward-pass/     West Coast Bill Walsh West coast offense was a philosophy based on ball control offense Pass the ball early to score, run the ball later to keep the lead Y motion passing game, QB footwork, and timing of routes Script plays to start game Horizontal passing game, the nickel and dime pass with high percentage throws to get the ball to the receiver in space, so then they can run after the catch   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Walsh_(American_football_coach)   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_offense https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1087386-football-101-breaking-down-the-west-coast-offense       TV & the Power of the Brand of the NFL TV in the 1970s, there were 3 channels. The NFL Commissioner, Pete wanted to get one national game airing weekly. He contacted all three networks and eventually struck a deal with ABC for Monday night football. Howard Cosell was the fire brand polarizing host.   At the time bowling was the Monday night event, and football ended that. Miller Brewing was a regional brand who advertised on Monday Night Football and become a major national beer brand.   Scouting Scouting is all about elimination, never about finding. You have to create a set of criteria for players, a profile of the player you want. Just like the FBI creates profiles for criminals. You look for those traits on your profile list.   You know what you're looking for and have a system for finding that player. You eliminate the players who don't fit the profile to whittle it down and find the right player. It's not random or chaotic but an organized system of picking players.   What are you looking for in a QB? Per Mike, the QB has to have instincts and can play the position. Also needs to be a leader and have a work ethic. The QB must be the hardest worker on the team. With those instincts the quarterback has to see what others don't see on the field. Good quarterbacks are born with these instincts.         Seg 4 – Interview Replay from early 2023 Clip from - BRT Entertainment – Sports Business w/ Rick Horrow, Aliens & X Files w/ Nick Pope, + Hollywood w/ Corbin Bernsen  - BRT S04 EP09 (171) 2-26-2023   ABOUT RICK HORROW Rick Horrow, one of the pioneers who has shaped the sports industry since 1972, has brought together over 100 industry leaders with insights on the history and future of the industry in his new book, The Sport Business Handbook: Insights from 100+ Leaders Who Shaped 50 Years of the Industry, published by Human Kinetics and now available at Amazon.com and other bookstores. As CEO of Horrow Sports Ventures, Horrow has been the architect of more than 100 deals worth more than $20 billion in sports, performing arts, and other urban infrastructure projects. Horrow pioneered the public/private partnership and infrastructure branding concepts that, to date, has enticed more than $4 billion in corporate funding to cities and development projects. Horrow's clients have included the NFL, NHL, Major/Minor League Baseball, U.S. Polo, PGA Tour, NASCAR, Great White Shark Enterprises (Greg Norman), Ladies PGA, Professional Golf Association, Major League Soccer, plus multiple pro sports teams in Baseball and Basketball He has been a key player in stadium, arena, and speedway deals in NYC, LA, Chicago, Miami, Orlando, Boston, Denver, Seattle, San Fran, Phili, Detroit, Cleveland, and many other cities. Horrow has also brought sports and entertainment ventures into Brazil, Argentina and Trinidad & Tobago, among others.   ARTICLE FROM MORNINGCONSULT.COM ON PREDICTIONS, STORYLINES & EVERYTHING ELSE THE SPORTS INDUSTRY IS WATCHING IN 2023 https://morningconsult.com/2022/12/21/2023-lookahead-predictions-for-the-sports-industry/   ARTICLE FROM SPORTSPROMEDIA.COM ON MLB REJECTING SPORTS BALLY SPORTS' STREAMING PROPOSAL https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/mlb-diamond-bally-sports-rsns-streaming-tv-rights-bankrupt/?zephr_sso_ott=3tmk9Z     Notes – Rick Horrow sports professor, book sports business handbook Major cities want to have sports franchises from the big four. They want to attract big sporting events like golf tournaments, business conventions, the Super Bowl, college bowl games, or an Amazon shipping site. This has a huge economic impact for a city, plus it gives it constant media and PR when events are located at that city. For example Phoenix is hosting the Super Bowl, and phoenix gets mentioned hundreds of times in a week on TV or thousands, and millions on the Internet and blogs. It is very difficult to buy the type of PR that you get from media coverage on the big events. This is why cities like Miami, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Fran, Vegas and Phoenix are always being talked about is destinations. There is a lot of coordination involved along with public investment to get these major events at a city. The governor is involved, county people, and the mayor who usually takes the lead. Cities have departments of economic development specifically for these tasks. It requires often a vote from the public, as well as public investment. What is going to be the ROI on having an event. What type of tax revenue do you get from travel, visitors, and hotels. On top of that there is community pride, so then people want to move to that city. Rick is the editor of the sports handbook, and had numerous sports figures write a chapter, and also Coach K wrote the forward. He worked with Jerry Colangelo, Paul Tagliabue former NFL commissioner, Ryan Anderson of ASU fame, and Derek called of the baseball Diamondbacks. Sports, sporting events and even events around sports have become a CTV. An example of this is the NFL draft or the NFL combine. Sports transcends TV, and becomes a worldwide global event. Radio city music Hall in New York used to host the NFL draft every year. They let that deal lapse and now the NFL draft is a traveling tour every year. NBA free agency, NFL free agency, has made these sports year-long events. People talk about the trades and the draft often in the off-season. In 2010 it was a major TV event on ESPN called the decision when the LeBron chose the Miami Heat in free agency.   Full Show: HERE           Seg. 1 – Pete Rozelle and the History of TV & the NFL   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Rozelle Alvin Ray "Pete" Rozelle (/roʊˈzɛl/; March 1, 1926 – December 6, 1996) was an American businessman and executive. Rozelle served as the commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) for nearly thirty years, from January 1960 until his retirement in November 1989. He became the youngest commissioner in NFL history at just the age of 33. He is credited with making the NFL into one of the most successful sports leagues in the world.[1][2] During his tenure, Rozelle saw the NFL grow from 12 teams to 28, oversaw the creation of large television-rights deals and the creation of Monday Night Football in 1970, oversaw the 1970 AFL–NFL merger and the creation of the Super Bowl, and helped the NFL move from a twelve-game schedule to a sixteen-game schedule. By the time of his retirement, many people considered him the most powerful commissioner in sports.[3] He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985.       History of the NFL on TV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_National_Football_League_on_television     Later in 1955, NBC became the televised home of the NFL Championship Game, paying $100,000 to the league. The 1958 NFL Championship Game played at Yankee Stadium between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants went into sudden death overtime. This game, since dubbed the "Greatest Game Ever Played," was watched widely throughout the country and is credited with increasing the popularity of professional football in the late 1950s and early 1960s. CBS began to televise selected NFL regular season games in 1956. By 1959, big-market teams such as the Bears and Giants had all their games televised, but small-market ones like the Packers and 49ers still did not. Upon becoming NFL commissioner, Pete Rozelle worked to ensure that every team got all its games on TV.   Super Bowl 1 The first AFL-NFL World Championship Game was played on January 15, 1967 between the NFL champion Packers and the AFL champion Chiefs. As CBS held the rights to nationally televise NFL games and NBC had the rights to broadcast AFL matches, it was decided that both would cover that first game. The next three AFL-NFL World Championship Games, the initial Super Bowls, were then divided by the two networks: CBS broadcast Super Bowls II and IV while NBC covered III.   Monday Night Football ABC also agreed to televise one regular season game per week on Monday night. ABC aired its first edition of Monday Night Football on September 21, 1970. MNF pushed the limits of football coverage with its halftime highlights segment, occasional banter from Howard Cosell and Don Meredith, and celebrity guests such as John Lennon, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bill Clinton. During its 36-year run on ABC, Monday Night Football consistently ranked among the most popular prime time broadcasts each week during the season.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Game The Heidi Game or Heidi Bowl is the name given to a 1968 American Football League (AFL) game between the Oakland Raiders and the visiting New York Jets. The contest, held on November 17, 1968, was notable for its exciting finish, in which Oakland scored two touchdowns in the final minute to win the game 43–32. However, a decision by NBC, the game's television broadcaster, to break away from its coverage on the East Coast to broadcast the television film Heidi caused many viewers to miss the Raiders' comeback.     https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/how-much-broadcast-networks-depend-sports-1235143456/ How Much Sports Matter (or Don't) to Network Viewership Fox and NBC got more than a quarter of their primetime audience this season from live sports, while ABC and CBS are less dependent. 5/2022 Fox is on pace to finish third in total viewers among the broadcast networks this season, with an average primetime audience of about 4.7 million viewers. The network can thank its various sports rights packages — the NFL and Major League Baseball chief among them — for that position. Stripping out sports from Fox's primetime ratings for the season would put the network at under 3 million nightly viewers — 2.96 million, to be precise. Fox is something of an outlier among its fellow broadcasters, Nielsen data from the last two seasons show. NBC also owes a sizable portion of their viewership to sports, while ABC likes to tout its viewership independent of it. CBS occupies something of a middle ground. Nonetheless, the outsized effect sports can have on network audiences speaks to why rights to such programming have skyrocketed in recent years. With live sports consistently the most reliable way to get people to watch linear TV (and the commercials that come with it), networks pay hefty premiums to secure those rights and the audiences that tend to follow.   https://www.americangaming.org/resources/how-much-does-the-nfl-stand-to-gain-from-legal-sports-betting/ The NFL's annual revenue may increase by $2.3 billion a year due to widely available, legal, regulated sports betting, according to new AGA research. The study analyzes the revenue streams that legal sports betting could generate for the NFL: revenue as a result of spending from betting operators on advertising, data and sponsorship, and revenue generated as a result of increased consumption of the league's media and purchasing of products. https://www.sportsmanagementdegreehub.com/fantasy-football-industry/ Fantasy football is an $18.6 billion market.That's $6 billion more than the current estimated NFL revenue, and 4.5 times the current value of the NFL's top flight team, the Dallas Cowboys. In other words, fantasy football might be more valuable than the real thing.   https://www.statista.com/statistics/193457/total-league-revenue-of-the-nfl-since-2005/   Total revenue of the NFL 2001-2022 In 2022, the 32 teams of the National Football League (NFL) generated a total revenue of approximately 18.6 billion U.S. dollars, which was an increase of over one billion U.S. dollars from the previous year.Sep 5, 2023   https://www.statista.com/statistics/615678/nfl-national-television-broadcast-deals/ Annual value of NFL national TV broadcast deals in the U.S. 2023 Published by Christina Gough  Aug 31, 2023  As of August 2023, ESPN/ABC's deal for exclusive rights to broadcast Monday Night Football was worth an average of approximately 2.7 billion U.S. dollars annually. This deal, which could last until 2032, was the largest among NFL broadcasting packages in the United States. 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This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, Chuck is out of the studio but Sam is joined by friend of the show, former Arizona State Legislator Michelle Ugenti-Rita. Sam and Michelle speak to Ann Atkinson who organized a Health, Wealth, and Happiness program at Arizona State University which featured prominent conservative speakers and was met with intense opposition from the left. Later in the show, Christina Eichelkraut returns to offer a unique perspective on the impact of artificial intelligence. -Ann Atkinson is the former Executive Director of the T.W. Lewis Center for Personal Development at Barrett, the Honors College. Ann is a Barrett alumna, entrepreneur, former public company executive, frequent public speaker, healthcare real estate expert, wife, mother, and triathlete. She has regularly volunteered for the Lewis Center, which has helped fulfill her passion to better prepare students for the challenges and opportunities of life.  Ann earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance from ASU, where she graduated from Barrett, the Honors College and with honors from the W.P. Carey School of Business.  She was introduced to commercial real estate through her Barrett honors internship, which led to a distinguished 17-year career in healthcare real estate. She most recently founded and led a privately-held national healthcare real estate investment firm. Previously, she was an executive officer for a healthcare real estate investment trust listed on the New York Stock Exchange, where she led acquisitions and dispositions on behalf of the company. Formerly, she worked for Jerry Colangelo, David Eaton, and Mel Shultz of JDM Partners, specializing in commercial real estate investments. Ann started her career with a national commercial real estate brokerage firm, specializing in office and medical office investment sales. -Connect with us:www.breakingbattlegrounds.voteTwitter: www.twitter.com/Breaking_BattleFacebook: www.facebook.com/breakingbattlegroundsInstagram: www.instagram.com/breakingbattlegroundsLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/breakingbattlegroundsTranscription: Sam Stone: [00:00:10] Welcome to another episode of Breaking Battlegrounds with your host, Chuck Warren. I'm Sam Stone. First up today, we're very excited to have returning guests, Martin Di Caro. Martin is a broadcast journalist for The Washington Times and host of The History As It Happens podcast, which I know Chuck is a huge fan of. I've tuned into a number of times, highly recommend that folks and Chuck take it away.Chuck Warren: [00:00:32] So folks, we'll post this on our social media. Martin had a great episode this past Thursday called Our Radical Declaration, talking about the Declaration of Independence since July 4th is here coming up. And Martin, thanks for visiting us today.Martin Di Caro: [00:00:49] Chuck and Sam, I'm delighted to be here. Happy Independence Day in advance.Chuck Warren: [00:00:54] Thank you very much. Are you as well? So the podcast is history as it happens. And Martin, I want to I want to start off with this question. So we all have origin stories. We were talking before the show, Apple, they did a garage. I mean, it seems like all tech companies start in a garage for some reason, but nonetheless, it's a garage, right? But these origin stories define who we are. Right? And I was thinking the other day on a flight where I hit four cities in five days and the Delta flight attendant came up and hand me a thank you letter for flying three. 3 million miles, Right. Like, I don't know what they expect me to do with the letter, but nonetheless, it was nice of her. And and I thought about all the times I have taken red eyes home to go see kids games, be there for events. And I asked my kids, what do they remember? And they said, I just remember you sacrifice for the family. So that's an origin story for our family, right? What is the origin story for our country, specifically July 4th? And does that origin story still stand?Martin Di Caro: [00:01:55] I would say yes. We're still living in the political world of the founders. Lots of changes. Of course, lots of stuff has happened, had a civil war and what is often called our second founding with the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. And of course, World War Two made the United States a global power right. Uncontested global power in the Cold War victory in late 1980s. But to get back to your question, yes, our origins are still very important. They're still contested. But, you know, we're a nation built upon ideas, and ideas are never static. They're dynamic. And, you know, what does it mean to be an American? That question was trenchant in the late 18th century, and we're still contesting it today. And that's kind of the nature of democracy, right? It's permanent origin. It's permanent argument. Just look at the Supreme Court decisions that have come down the past week. Right. They deal with fundamental rights, sometimes competing rights. You know, as David M Kennedy, a great historian has said, who gets a seat at the table of the great American barbecue. So our origins, you know, in retrospect, were rather puny when you think about what the revolutionaries accomplished, right? But that egalitarian rhetoric, those egalitarian ideals are still very much with us. We're still contesting them. Our history is a history of political conflict.Sam Stone: [00:03:20] Martin I actually don't like the idea of a second founding as much as realistically after the Civil War was the I don't want to say culmination because we've seen with these Supreme Court cases even this week the continuation. But that was really the first major step in fulfilling all the promises that the founders laid out. And part of the genius to me of of both the declaration and the Constitution is that they understood that they were imperfect and that they would not achieve right away all the ideals they laid down on paper, but they left a path for us to do it.Martin Di Caro: [00:03:56] Absolutely. And I like how you linked both the Declaration and the Constitution together. Obviously, the Constitution created our government or our second government because the Articles of Confederation didn't work out. But that was very Lincolnian of you. I mean, he saw both of them as being connected. Yeah, I mean the revolution. And I'm going to I'm going to cite Gordon Wood's work here, by the way, in my first podcast of this three part series I'm doing, my guests were Sean Wilentz and Jim Oakes. They are fantastic. I hope everyone takes a listen to that. But I'll cite Gordon Wood here. He says the revolution did more than legally create the United States. It transformed our society. The changes were radical and they were extensive, he says. You know, instead of focusing on what the revolution did not accomplish, to your point about it being incomplete, we should focus instead on why these ideas were so powerful and continue to animate our politics to this day. Our revolution eliminated monarchy. It created a large republic. It reconstituted again, citing Gordon Wood. What Americans meant by public or state power brought an entirely new kind of politics and a new kind of democratic. Office holder onto the world stage. And I do think the revolutionaries of the late 18th century knew that they were you know, I don't want to say that they knew they would be talking for the ages, you know, for all time. But they got the sense that they were on history's stage as well. I mean, it was a revolution. It did reorder society.Chuck Warren: [00:05:26] Wherewith Martin Di Caro. He is a broadcast journalist for The Washington Times and host a great podcast history As it happens. If you want to be smart, listen to that podcast. Let me ask you this question. I think there's one thing people don't understand about the Revolutionary War and the Declaration of Independence, and hopefully you can talk a little bit about it. A third of the country supported it. A third probably was ambivalent. And the other third was, you know, the British fanboys. Right. I mean, is that fair to say?Martin Di Caro: [00:05:53] Yeah, that's what John Adams said. You know, it's hard to say exactly what public opinion was at any given time. You know, there was no polling. Of course, even polls today aren't altogether accurate. But yeah, that's roughly how how historians see it. You know, you had that middle ground of people who were indifferent. I mean, revolutions and wars are scary things. And we know that ordinary people get swept up in are damaged by, you know, the the vicissitudes of war. How do you like that word? Love it more so than you know, others. So, yeah, you did have people who were ardent revolutionaries who wanted to break with Great Britain. He had other revolutionaries who were more moderate, looking to reconcile even well into 1776. And then, of course, you did have loyalists, but, you know, loyalist the number of loyalists and their strength was always overestimated by I mean, that was one of the problems of the way parliament and the king handled all this. They thought that Loyalism was was stronger than it actually, it was. It was actually. And as the war goes on, it becomes weaker and weaker.Sam Stone: [00:06:56] Well, and when you talk about that ambivalence, one of the things if I if you go back and think about it was a historical in many ways, but the movie The Patriot with Mel Gibson one of the one of the depictions that I did like in that was that they showed the war happening in people's front yards. Right. Which was the truth, right? I mean, this was not being fought in some remote battlefield that nobody had any connection to. This was this was a civil war, a revolution fought in people's backyards and people's front yards. And so you can understand the ambivalence of a lot of folks who didn't want to see that for any number of reasons, merely the protection of their family.Martin Di Caro: [00:07:36] Yeah, Revolutionary War was in many ways a civil war. Loyalists had their lost their property. They were outcasts from society for a while after the war ended. And we can celebrate the revolution because it turned out the way, you know, we think it should have turned out. But at the time, of course, there was no unity about any of this. Right? Right. We tend to look back at the revolution as a source of, well, something that all of us can celebrate. But don't use the word unity. As I mentioned at the top of the show, we're still contesting its meaning. We're still arguing over the meaning of freedom and civil liberties and rights. I mean, that's something that comes up in this series. I'm doing Jack Rakove, another great historian, will be my guest in part two of this series. He talks about, you know, the revolutionaries who were gathered at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. They were not concerned with, you know, what we now consider to be statements of individual equality. You know, their purpose and this makes sense, of course, was, you know, in the in the maelstrom of a war, to declare that the colonists as a people had the same rights to self-government as other nations. But, of course, they use universal language. I mean, Jefferson wrote it a certain way for certain reasons, and that language became aspirational for anybody. I mean, even during the war enslaved black people, they start to cite the Declaration of Independence. These ideas about egalitarianism are percolating at a level audible to normal people, and they're citing the declaration to sue for freedom. And they're collaborating with whites to end slavery in the northern colonies than the northern states, which as we know does happen mostly in a gradual sense. But there was an anti-slavery aspect to the revolution.Chuck Warren: [00:09:22] Well, didn't Martin Luther King call the Declaration of Independence a promissory note? He did at.Martin Di Caro: [00:09:27] The March on Washington. 60th anniversary of that is coming up this year. Elizabeth Cady Stanton at Seneca Falls in 1858. She cites the the Declaration of Independence in her Declaration of Sentiments. And that, of course, is part of political struggle. It takes another 70 years for women to get the right to vote in the federal constitution and amendment, of course, even. Ho Chi Minh, a communist. He cited the Declaration of Independence verbatim in 1945 when he tried to announce Vietnamese independence after World War Two.Sam Stone: [00:10:00] You know what I always found interesting about the founding and the writing of the declaration, the Constitution, This was not the first time that any of. These ideas had been put on paper, but it was the first time they were brought together as the foundation of a new government. In other words, these ideas had been percolating.Chuck Warren: [00:10:16] It wasn't a talk, the talk. It was a walk. The walk.Sam Stone: [00:10:18] Right? Yeah. Which made it very different.Martin Di Caro: [00:10:22] And they had no way of knowing it would even succeed. I mean, as a matter of fact, the Revolutionary War did not go well, right? For a lot of reasons. I mean, they barely could keep an army in the field. I mean, this frustrated George Washington to no end. The state governments didn't want to pay, you know, their fair share to keep an army supplied. And it was very difficult to raise taxes at all under the Articles of Confederation to pay for things. Inflation was rampant. As I mentioned, war is miserable. And there was also a smallpox outbreak. Yeah.Chuck Warren: [00:10:55] So. Martin, that is a great point here. I think people seem to forget that America has always been somewhat messy because we're allowed to speak our mind, right? And and with a minute 30 here for our next segment, what have you, as you've studied and interviewed all these great historians, what do you view as the top three or 2 or 3 qualities that American president has to have unite people to for a common good, A common cause?Martin Di Caro: [00:11:21] You said an American president? Yeah. Oh, I think vision is important. I think it's important to invoke our origins to. But not an idealized kind of silly or patriotic way. But, you know, I think also for any president, right. Any politician to understand the importance of politics, I think a lot of people today kind of throw their hands up in the air. Yes. And I noticed this a lot on the especially among younger people on the left. Politics is slow and ineffective. And, you know, our all that egalitarian rhetoric was a lie when they said it back in the 18th century. I do not agree with that position. So, you know, you get this pessimistic, despondent type of attitude when, you know, our history is a history of political conflict. It's about, you know, stating a vision. I think any successful politician can state a vision, but also be good at the politics.Sam Stone: [00:12:14] Fantastic. Martin We're going to be coming back, folks, with more in just a moment from Martin DeCaro of The Washington Times and host of History As It Happens podcast. Be sure you're tuning in and downloading. Go to breaking battlegrounds vote. You can get the links to all of our Substack, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, all the good stuff there. Make sure you're signing up to get our latest episodes right in your email box. We really appreciate it. And hang on because we have more with Martin Di Caro coming right up.Sam Stone: [00:00:05] Welcome back to Breaking battlegrounds with your host, Chuck Warren. I'm Sam Stone. On the line with us is Martin Di Caro, broadcast journalist for The Washington Times and host of History As It Happens podcast. But folks, are you concerned with stock market volatility? If you're not, you should be. Market's been going up and down like a rocket. Any returns you're getting out there, it's very hard to count on them. That's why we at Breaking Battlegrounds have endorsed investing with Y Refy. If you invest with Y Refy, you can earn up to a 10.25% rate of return. That's a fixed rate of return at 10.25%. It's the best deal out there right now. Log on to invest Y Refy.com that's invest the letter y, then Refy.com or call them at 888. Y refy 24 and tell them Chuck and Sam sent you. You won't regret it. Chuck We're continuing on right now with Martin Di Caro. Fantastic conversation so far as we're heading into the July 4th super long weekend. This time.Chuck Warren: [00:01:05] Martin Talk to our audience a little bit, expand further on our last question about how political conflict works in America. And it's sometimes it's just a messy pot of stew. Yeah.Marti Di Caro: [00:01:16] Yeah. No one's going to hire me to be a political consultant, by the way. But I mean, being good at politics is hard. I mean, there's not just one actor either. So you have a, you know, a brilliant political manipulator like Lyndon Johnson. But, you know, he wasn't the only actor in all of that as well. He needed help from other people. But I guess my point is, you know, I'm more interested in I've been doing these shows now about the American Revolution and just trying to understand why things happen the way they did, rather than saying, Oh, I wish this had happened sooner than it actually did. You know, why did it take 20 years to finally get rid of the slave trade through federal legislation in 1807 1808, following the compromise that was made at the Constitutional Convention? Why did it take Abraham Lincoln all of 18 months? As if 18 months is a really long amount of time to do a full emancipation proclamation out of after the start of the Civil War. You know, why did it take 70 years after Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the Seneca Falls meetings in 1858? 70 years to finally get, you know, women's suffrage? Well, instead of saying, you know, complaining that things didn't happen on the schedule, we think it should have, we need to think more historically and really understand why things happen the way they did. How is an American Revolution even possible to begin with? Why were people ready to hear those egalitarian words and act on them when they did? I think we get a better understanding of our origins when we do that.Sam Stone: [00:02:41] Because in many ways, Martin, a lot of those ideas were not to the benefit of the the most powerful people who had guided our society and every other society prior to the implementation of these ideals, right? I mean, they they benefited from the system that was previously in place.Marti Di Caro: [00:02:59] Absolutely. I mean, you can make the point about Thomas Jefferson himself, right? He penned the document with some help from Adams and Franklin and others. He was a lifelong slaveholder and he certainly did not want to see slavery. Well, you know, Jefferson's views on slavery do change over time. Early in his career, he took some aggressive moves to try to end slavery. But later on, he didn't, partly because it was an unpopular thing to do in Virginia, which was a very large, you know, slave holding colony, then slaveholding state. But certainly, yeah, you know, this is a very corrosive idea, egalitarianism. It challenges the status quo. Other people are free to interpret those words any way they want in a democratic society and say, you know what, I want a seat at the table as well. So, yeah, you're right.Chuck Warren: [00:03:48] Of the 56 delegates at the Second Continental Congress, we call them our founding fathers, who was one besides the obvious? Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, who's who's somebody that stands out that people don't pay enough attention to.Marti Di Caro: [00:04:00] I think somebody like John Dickinson, who was a patriot and a revolutionary, but he was rather moderate. I think it's interesting to look at the way and I can recommend a book about this. Please do. Please do. Yeah. Well, and I think this book is still in print. I was able to find a copy of it. Wouldn't that be great if I recommend a book that no one can actually find?Chuck Warren: [00:04:18] Yeah. Yeah.Marti Di Caro: [00:04:19] The Beginnings of National Politics by Jack Rakove. I use this book to frame our conversation in part two of my series. Dickinson was very, very interesting as to why he was trying to still reconcile with the Crown. You know, people like James Otis, George Mason, they articulated many of these ideas and ideals, but we don't often think of them. They don't come to mind right away. We rather think of Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, George Washington.Chuck Warren: [00:04:47] Will Gallup this week released a poll and the headline Extreme Pride Americans remains Near Record Low, which was funny about it, is 67% of Americans are extremely or very proud of the United States. That's a pretty high number. Right. And then which.Sam Stone: [00:05:03] Throws a lot of the modern.Chuck Warren: [00:05:04] Narrative. Yeah. Yeah. It did. Another 22% of us adults are moderately proud. I mean, so basically you're over you're close mid 80s on this. Right. But why do you think to our audience, why do you think we should be proud to be Americans?Marti Di Caro: [00:05:18] Well, you know, I'm also not happy with a lot of things these days. And, you know, I guess depending on your politics, maybe the Supreme Court has you pulling your hair out. Maybe you think, hey, this is how our founders intended it to be. Right? Right. You know, your question again, why, why or why should people be proud of their country? I think because, you know, we have a premise for a politics, a progressive politics, if you want to use that word, to make positive change. Now, maybe some people aren't happy with that use of my choice of words there. So guess what? I guess what I'm trying.Sam Stone: [00:05:52] I'm all for stealing progressive back.Marti Di Caro: [00:05:55] You know, if people are going to sneer at our country, right. And our founding and these ideals and the egalitarian, egalitarian rhetoric and say, well, it was a lie then and we've never been able to fulfill it as if anyone actually argues it was a reflection of reality in the late 18th century. Right. Well, if they're going to sneer at that, as James Oakes said on my show, then what's their premise for change? What are you going to base your politics on? Right. I think I like our system, right. I like the idea of fundamental human equality as the guiding principle for our nation.Sam Stone: [00:06:30] I think that's a great point, because with all the tear the system down rhetoric you hear today in the news and on social media, the one thing that's missing is what? What follows? What are what are you trying to replace these current systems with other than some vague notion of.Chuck Warren: [00:06:49] Yo have a my way or the highway mentality is what you.Marti Di Caro: [00:06:51] Have. That's people who give up on politics. Then, you know, abolish the Senate, abolish the Supreme Court. I mean, that's not serious stuff.Chuck Warren: [00:06:58] But, you know, but in fairness to you, you're also a patient man. I mean, for example, you're a Jets fan, right? So this is taught you this is taught you amazing patience over the years, right?Marti Di Caro: [00:07:08] Yes. And I will never give up on them because I know the moment I finally, you know, throw in the towel, they'll win.Chuck Warren: [00:07:14] I remember I remember for the Giants became this this great power years when I grew up in the Northern California, the old next door neighbor who loved the giants said, look, I've just learned to say there's always next year, you know? And I think that's for the Jets fans, too. You know?Sam Stone: [00:07:28] You know what? You know what I want for the Jets season? I want a great like six games from Aaron Rodgers, who goes down with a tragic injury. And we see we see we see Zach Wilson come back with the all time great comeback. Yeah, great comeback. Rebirth of his career.Marti Di Caro: [00:07:45] Well, you know, everyone needs a soap opera. Some people watch real soap operas. I watch the Jets.Sam Stone: [00:07:51] Well, I get I get The New York Post in my news every morning, and they're panic over. That would be.Chuck Warren: [00:07:56] Fantastic. It'd be amazing.Marti Di Caro: [00:07:58] Great sports section in that paper.Chuck Warren: [00:08:01] Martin. Martin, what else with our limited time here, what else do you think people should pay more attention to regarding the July 4th? We have one minute.Marti Di Caro: [00:08:10] You know what? Go and read the Declaration of Independence. Everyone can cite those, you know, 55 most famous words. Read the grievances, especially the final grievance. You know, we didn't get to this, but that's okay. This whole idea of a slavery revolution, that's a nonsensical idea that's been put out there by the 1619 project. Yeah. Read those grievances and then go and understand, you know, what was the purpose behind them? Why was Jefferson and his compatriots, why did they, you know, go after King George the third the way they did after, you know, going after parliament through most of.Sam Stone: [00:08:42] The the antidote to ahistorical nonsense is actual history. Thank you so much, Martin De Caro, broadcast journalist for Washington Times and History as It Happens podcast. We love having you on the program and look forward to having you again, folks. Breaking battlegrounds. Back with more in just a moment.Chuck Warren: [00:00:09] Welcome to Breaking Battlegrounds. I'm your host, Chuck Warren, with my co-host, Sam Stone. Today, we are lucky to have with us on these two segments, Congressman Blake Moore. Congressman Moore represents Utah's first Congressional District. He is also the first ever Republican from Utah who sits on the House Ways and Means Committee, which discusses issues we talk about all the time. Sam, health care, Social Security work and welfare subcommittees.Sam Stone: [00:00:32] Pretty much all the most important stuff in the country goes through ways and means.Chuck Warren: [00:00:35] Exactly. He is married to Jane Boyer, who the former Jane Boyer. And she is a very candid wife. And so we want to know how she's candid with you, Blake. And he's also the father of four active boys and he's also a little league coach. How are you as a Little League coach, Congressman?Congressman Moore: [00:00:54] You know, I've had a ref pull me aside the other day. He said, wait, you're the congressman, aren't you? And I go, Oh, boy. And he said, he goes, You were on our case today, but I like it. I'd vote for you because you're fiery. I like that you got passion. So I figured it could very well work in the opposite for me as well, too. So I do have to be careful.Chuck Warren: [00:01:18] So what are the what are the age range for your boys?Congressman Moore: [00:01:21] Ten, seven, seven and about 18 months.Chuck Warren: [00:01:24] So which one do you coach, the ten year old or seven year old?Congressman Moore: [00:01:26] Mostly to this point. The ten year old. The seven year old started playing a lot of sports kind of right when I was first running for office. And that was that was tough. So I did a lot with the seven year old. And now I'm picking it back up now that I'm, you know, in my second term, a little bit of a groove scheduling wise that I can, you know, try to try to get engaged a little bit more. So mostly. Mostly, yes. Football, basketball and baseball. You get me outside those three sports, I don't know what I'm doing.Chuck Warren: [00:01:53] Or does your wife feel outnumbered in the house or everybody knows who's really in charge there?Congressman Moore: [00:01:58] They know who's in charge. But she. I actually wanted the girl more. Uh, ironically enough, I think if we were to have had a girl, it would have been she. She would have definitely said that was the best thing. But I still am the one that wants the daughter wants the wedding one day to give away the all that stuff. A little bit of a traditionalist there. So I do feel like we never got that girl, but we definitely don't need five boys. So the risk of going for any more is going to be way, way out.Chuck Warren: [00:02:30] You're not you're not taking that to Vegas. Um, so how do you handle the travel with four young boys and take it? Your family lives in the district in Utah. How do you handle your travel back and forth?Congressman Moore: [00:02:40] Fortunately, I'm about 15 minutes from the airport, and we have direct flights from Salt Lake. So that is a uniquely special thing we can have direct to DC. So that cuts down. I have colleagues from North Dakota, Iowa, some places in Texas, they're an hour, hour and a half away from an airport. Then they're taking a layover. It can always be worse for you. And so my mindset is, one, it could always be worse. I have it pretty, pretty good. Um, think of what some of our military folks go through and the time they spend away from their family and, and, you know, the duty and honor that they do in their life and their service is more honorable, I think, than than what we do in Congress. But it is a fight in Congress. And and it is it is a sacred position. So, um, other folks have always sacrificed more. I think that's how I look at it. My wife deals with it. She she said to me when I first ran, Now listen, if you win, which I don't think you will, you when you win, you can't give me a hard time or make any of those snide comments you do. When we budget together, you can't be passive aggressive about babysitting costs. You just have to you just have to take it and you have to deal with it and not give me a hard time. And you let me own that.Sam Stone: [00:03:53] And Congressman, we could feel bad for you. But we've had the member from Guam on this show and there's nobody who's got a travel schedule as rough as that Poor guy.Congressman Moore: [00:04:02] Exactly.Chuck Warren: [00:04:03] Um, quickly here, tell us a little bit about your work with small business. Is there any bills you're sponsoring on it?Congressman Moore: [00:04:09] So in 2017, Republicans, you know, went at it alone. They used the budget reconciliation process, which allows you to pass a bill without, you know, by bypassing the filibuster when you have the White House, House and Senate, Republicans and Democrats both do this often. Sometimes that leads to big legislation that you wouldn't otherwise do or be able to do given the filibuster. But, um. They they they did the Tax Cut and Jobs Act. And in that tax cut, Jobs Act was a lot of things. And it is our job now and we're in a different political environment. So we're not going to be able to do that same thing over again and re-up everything that's in the Tax Cut and Jobs Act because it's not a political reality. Right. The things that expired, the Democrats aren't going to go on board with. But there are issues. There are there are provisions inside that bill that we have to be able to look back and say, what has worked, what has driven growth, and the Small Business Growth Act that we put together that was passed out of the committee just a few weeks ago, something we're really excited about. And basically it doubles your ability to take itemized deductions on capital improvements, farm equipment, office equipment and just things that you're investing in your own business. A major piece of manufacturing. If you can write all.Chuck Warren: [00:05:25] These all these things, that creates productivity and jobs, correct? Exactly. We're going to take a quick break here with Congressman Blake Moore. Utah's first Congressional District. He sits on the House Ways and Means Committee. This is breaking battlegrounds. You can find us at breaking battlegrounds. Vote. We'll be right back.Sam Stone: [00:00:11] Welcome back to Breaking battlegrounds with your host, Chuck Warren. I'm Sam Stone. Continuing on the line with us, Congressman Blake Moore from Utah's first Congressional District here in just a moment. But folks, are you struggling with stock market volatility right now, especially with Joe Biden in office? What if you could invest in a portfolio with a high fixed rate of return that's not correlated to the stock market? A portfolio where you know what each monthly statement will look like with no surprises, you can turn your monthly income on or off, compound it, whatever you choose. There's no loss of principle. 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Because I heard a little about it and then it seems to have disappeared.Congressman Moore: [00:01:47] It's absolutely yeah, I know about it. We passed it in the the economic package a few weeks ago. This is the this is an opportunity to that the chairman, Chairman Smith wanted us to go out into, you know, regular America, not just inside the Beltway and do some and do some public hearings. And this is one of the things that rang true and kind of highlighted to us. Well, we need to really be focused on this. This is like listening to, you know, everyday Americans running their businesses. This is what we learn from them. And we're like this. This was set years and years ago. And if you would have just adjust for inflation, it would go up. That's how you get with the regulatory body. It becomes archaic and you don't create opportunities to be dynamic within the system. So it's a no brainer in my opinion. It's an overly burdensome. And I think the best example is the Chairman Smith, who still runs a small family farm. If someone comes and bails hay for him, like every like high school senior that comes and bails hay for, you know, ten bucks an hour, they end up having to do a full 1099. That is not the intent. So up the threshold, still holding people accountable. This isn't where the all the tax evaders are doing a bunch of high school seniors. This is not where it is. And babysitters like.Sam Stone: [00:02:58] No smarter.Congressman Moore: [00:02:59] Than our economy.Sam Stone: [00:03:00] The tax evaders tend to be in much higher tax brackets than people who are filing a few thousand dollars in a 1099. Exactly right. One of the things that I think has been a good focus within this Congress and this touches on it, but is and it seems like we could at least find some more room with Democrats to agree on. This is going through some of these archaic rules and saying, hey, does this really still work or does it need to be adjusted or does it need to be replaced or gotten rid of it? Deregulating in a way that doesn't reduce oversight is very possible, isn't it?Congressman Moore: [00:03:35] Yeah, it's very possible. And we need to be adults back in Washington and find those simplistic things we can address on in the Ways and Means Committee. Right now, trade is largely bipartisan and we actually have really good collaborative work together. We do on that. Taxation has become so toxic that I feel that I fear people aren't looking at the big picture. And and if you take an individual piece, I think you got a lot of agreement, but it's how you move it forward. And that's the thing I don't think Americans necessarily understand well enough is, yeah, we agree on a lot of things, but then how you move the package forward, do you tie it to something else that's less popular and try to get more support? That's where we've got to get to more single issue voting that would make everything run more smoothly back there.Chuck Warren: [00:04:24] Well, that's absolutely right. We've often wondered and we talked to various members and they all say, yes, you're correct, Why don't you push more single issue? So, for example, here's one we had a former attorney here who worked on the border and she suggesting, for example, an immigration bill that says unless you come through a port of entry and there's about 327 of them, some of them in the United States, unless you come through a port of entry, you're immediately denied asylum. You need to come through the front door. Right? Right. There needs to be a process that seems like a pretty easy bill. If somebody just submitted that issue alone, one pager, it gets through.Sam Stone: [00:04:57] From an Arizona perspective. It separates the wolves from the sheep. Right. Because the wolves will keep going through.Chuck Warren: [00:05:02] So why don't so so, Congressman, more why don't they do that more?Congressman Moore: [00:05:08] I, i, i. It would make so many things better in our legislative experience. Um. I. Immigration particularly has become a wedge issue. I don't know how else to put it. For 40 years, we've had people that want to to build the right type of policy. You either have to do one of two things on immigration and I'll be brief. You either have to do what we're talking about, make it very simplistic, and tie it together or make it more comprehensive. And and I think people want to get like halfway comprehensive, like I'm supportive of of truly looking at DACA and a visa system that makes sense and is streamlined and gets more workers here. I want more workers here. My district desperately needs more good workforce here, and that can come from a more streamlined immigration. But if we do all if we do that before we tighten up the border process, then the cartels will just be the cartels will be empowered. So you have to build a more comprehensive approach. I do like what Maria Salazar is doing in that comprehensive piece. I just don't think we're we're not ready for it right now because as Republicans, we want to make sure that you see the first part done, and that is the good policy remain in Mexico policy and tighten up the border security. And then we'll get plenty of people on board for for for streamlining it. But it's it's a conundrum and it's a wedge issue. And that's that's and we're not living up to what the Americans need. Every single person back in Washington isn't isn't living up to what they need.Chuck Warren: [00:06:37] So, Congressman Moore, let's talk about a simpler issue. And I say that sarcastically. You're on the House Ways and Means Committee. What do we do about Social Security? I mean, it's a ticking time bomb. People are not being honest about the reform. I have not heard any Republican to say, yeah, we're going to cut benefits now. We've made promise to some people currently retired and those close to retirement that need to be upheld. But what do we need to do for a workforce in their 20s and 30s who are going to have 80 plus year, you know, longevity? What do we do?Congressman Moore: [00:07:06] We took the best first step, last, last session of Congress. The 117th passed the secure 2.0 bill. Secure 2.0 will allow for younger workers to have an extra five or so years saving for retirement. If you are paying down your student loan, say you've graduated from grad school, you're 25 years old and you start paying down your student loan, you you oftentimes have to choose between paying down your student loan or contributing to your 401. K. Your company can. Now, if you are if you're paying your student loan down and a big, big win in Scotus today about the student loan repayment, we can get into that but the company can now contribute on your behalf even if you're not putting in your own match. So we're going to start having people save for retirement much earlier. Um, and that that will.Sam Stone: [00:07:53] That's a great step, Congressman. And thank you. I mean, it's the.Congressman Moore: [00:07:57] Right it's the right step. It had over 400 votes in Congress in the House to pass. Very bipartisan. It's productive. We we have to create other incentives that you do probably have to means test Social Security going forward. We got people getting it that really have that don't really they don't really need it. And they could actually probably delay if they were to be willing to take it in case they lived longer just to offset that risk. So there's all sorts of productive ways we can be doing this without just saying we need to tax more because we have a worker to retirement work ratio issue and we've known it's been coming. I will say this retroactively, if we would have done what President Bush had tried to push, tried to do, we would have been putting money instead of just into a, you know, a government low yield bond like the trust fund. We would have been putting money into mutual funds. And and Dems Democrats will always say, oh, you're privatizing it. You just want to help your Wall Street buddies. That's fundamentally false. And they know it and it's dishonest. If we would have done that, we would have been able to grow the amount of money that we have to contribute to that. Over the last 20 years, would anybody not choose to put money into an S&P 520 years ago? Absolutely not. It was closing at 900 and today it's closing at 4000. Stock markets go up into the right generally over time. They always have. If we don't if we're not willing to trust that, then we're not going to be able to to to to do that. So there's all sorts of things out there that could be doing and we're stuck in stagnation. And if we don't do something in the next ten years to truly address this issue, then, you know, we are we are literally dooming people to having far fewer, you know, 75% of the benefit automatically kicks in. So we're doing them regardless.Sam Stone: [00:09:41] It's a it's a really dishonest talking point, Chuck, to say that the market is somehow robbing people because over any 1 or 2 or 3 or 5 year period, the market may go up or down. But over any ten year period in US history, over 20 years, 50 years, it always goes up. Well, it's even more.Congressman Moore: [00:09:58] Look at all these Ivy League schools with their endowments, right? They're out there. They're out there engaging in growth opportunities, in market opportunities. And and I don't hear any Democrats complaining about all these Ivy leagues that are that are, you know, using their endowments to to cover their expenses. And they're doing a they're doing a fabulous job. And they're also very profitable. And we could be doing that more with with the government. I think Senator Cassidy, I believe, has got some really good proposals that that way it's tougher now because we just don't the trust fund is in such a dire it's in a more dire situation than it was back in the early 2000 when when President George W Bush wanted to push this more. It's just disingenuous.Sam Stone: [00:10:39] And I'm really glad, Congressman, that you brought up means testing, because I've heard too many politicians be afraid of that. But I've never talked to anyone who was rich who cared. No, you know, I mean, honestly, if you're rich, the amount you're going to get from Social Security is so minimal that it takes an actual Scrooge to care about whether they're going to get that money at that point, that that's just the way it is.Congressman Moore: [00:11:02] And what wealthy people want to see is good money going after good. If they're good, money is going after complete government waste. And right now we have just too much government spending and people are like, well, geez, I would love to be contributing to paying down our debt. If I knew that it was going to actually make a difference. But if it's not making a difference, then they shouldn't. So so I kind of see it both ways. But you're right, you've been saying and I think you can offset the risk by saying, I don't need to engage in this for, you know, if I live past I'm 80 or, you know, at 78, I will defer that to that point. There's no real serious conversations going on. It's more so just a little bit of of the latter. And, you know, Republicans had a chance to do it in 2017 and they they deferred and they President Trump wanted to wait till he was in his second term. And it's so ironic right now. I'm a guy that can call it both ways to see President Trump criticize House Republicans, trying to say we're out there trying to get rid of Social Security. That is also disingenuous and it's all political and it's just kind of lobbying for older people's votes. And that's that's not what that's not being an adult back there as not good.Sam Stone: [00:12:08] Governance, that's.Chuck Warren: [00:12:09] For sure. Governance at all. We have two minutes left here. So we're coming up on the July 4th weekend. Tell our audience what this holiday means to you. And specifically, what is your hope and vision for America ten, 20 years down the road?Congressman Moore: [00:12:24] Oh, thank you. I love that question. I really appreciate you focusing on that. You know, it's not just a talking point or a feel good statement, but but God, country and family, they really do mean a lot. And they should be. What everybody what we root ourselves in for this holiday is is family. For me, I've always been able to find time to boat, to golf, to to to something outdoors. We're not great campers. We got young kids still. But like in Utah, like this holiday matters. And there's always time to to find opportunities to to be with family. And I love it. And Utah is a unique place because you have the 4th of July and then you have the 24th of July. And that's our sort of a holiday when the Pioneers came into to Utah. So we call it Pioneer Day. And so there's a lot of fireworks, a lot of God country and family in this place. And my my honest vision for America is to recognize that we have some we have policy differences. Um, but if we let those policy differences divide us continually and if we if that moves into constant personality and division, then China wins, Russia wins, our adversaries win. And we don't have the strength that we have and what we've led the world on over the over the last century. And my vision is to to be firm on where I'm at policy, defend it, try to persuade, and then look for opportunities to to unite our nation more so than than I feel like we are right now.Chuck Warren: [00:14:04] Congressman, we have 15 seconds with you. Where can people follow you on social media?Congressman Moore: [00:14:09] Electmoore.com Is my website or just go to rep Blakemore There's uh, I can't remember. So there's campaign and there's but rep Blakemore on all my socials. Uh, and we would love, would love to follow.Chuck Warren: [00:14:24] Congressman Moore, Utah's first Congressional District. Thanks for joining us. Have a great 4th of July. This is breaking battlegrounds. 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BRT Entertainment – Sports Business w/ Rick Horrow, Aliens & X Files w/ Nick Pope, + Hollywood w/ Corbin Bernsen  - BRT S04 EP09 (171) 2-26-2023   What We Learned This Week Corbin Bernsen of LA Law & Major League fame stars in a new docuseries Journey of Faith Rick Horrow aka Sports Professor - brokered multiple $ Billion deals with stadiums Nick Pope 'Real Fox Mulder' - Alien consultant, worked in Gov't, now works in TV       ABOUT RICK HORROW Rick Horrow, one of the pioneers who has shaped the sports industry since 1972, has brought together over 100 industry leaders with insights on the history and future of the industry in his new book, The Sport Business Handbook: Insights from 100+ Leaders Who Shaped 50 Years of the Industry, published by Human Kinetics and now available at Amazon.com and other bookstores. Horrow posits the beginnings of what we've come to know as the modern sports industry to 50 years ago, during the time of the 1972 Munich Olympics, the undefeated Miami Dolphins, and the passage of Title IX legislation, among other milestones covered in his wide-ranging book. Horrow, a life-long sports fan who started keeping scorebooks of every baseball and football game he ever watched at age 7. It was during one day at Harvard Law that convinced him that sports, and sports business, could be more than just a passion, but a career as well. Horrow took that passion, and that degree, and became one of the most influential behind-the-scenes people in the modern sports landscape. A popular speaker, writer and commentator on the business, law, and politics of sports, Horrow's nickname, "The Sports Professor," has its origin in his role as Visiting Expert on Sports Business at The Harvard Law School, where he received a law degree alongside Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts, his roommate. As CEO of Horrow Sports Ventures, Horrow has been the architect of more than 100 deals worth more than $20 billion in sports, performing arts, and other urban infrastructure projects. Horrow pioneered the public/private partnership and infrastructure branding concepts that, to date, has enticed more than $4 billion in corporate funding to cities and development projects. Besides developing stadia and arenas, Horrow's ability to put together multiple urban initiatives into one package for voter approval has resulted in the building of new performing arts and convention centers, schools, libraries, transit projects, and tourist destinations. Horrow's clients have included the NFL, NHL, Major/Minor League Baseball, U.S. Polo, PGA Tour, NASCAR, Great White Shark Enterprises (Greg Norman), Ladies Professional Golf Association, Major League Soccer, General Sports Venue/AstroTurf, Edelman Financial, EVERFI, Citrix, Cisco Systems, CA, Guggenheim/Group One Thousand One, Globecast, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Golden Bear International (Jack Nicklaus), Portland Trail Blazers, Indianapolis Colts, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, San Francisco Giants, New York Mets, and the State of West Virginia. He has been a key player in stadium, arena, and speedway deals in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Orlando, Oklahoma City, Indianapolis, Charlotte, Boston, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, Jacksonville, New Orleans, Houston, Green Bay, San Diego, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, and El Paso. Horrow has also brought sports and entertainment ventures into Brazil, Argentina and Trinidad & Tobago, among others.   ARTICLE FROM MORNINGCONSULT.COM ON PREDICTIONS, STORYLINES & EVERYTHING ELSE THE SPORTS INDUSTRY IS WATCHING IN 2023 https://morningconsult.com/2022/12/21/2023-lookahead-predictions-for-the-sports-industry/   ARTICLE FROM SPORTSPROMEDIA.COM ON MLB REJECTING SPORTS BALLY SPORTS' STREAMING PROPOSAL https://www.sportspromedia.com/news/mlb-diamond-bally-sports-rsns-streaming-tv-rights-bankrupt/?zephr_sso_ott=3tmk9Z     Notes – Rick Horrow sports professor, book sports business handbook Major cities want to have sports franchises from the big four. They want to attract big sporting events like golf tournaments, business conventions, the Super Bowl, college bowl games, or an Amazon shipping site. This has a huge economic impact for a city, plus it gives it constant media and PR when events are located at that city. For example Phoenix is hosting the Super Bowl, and phoenix gets mentioned hundreds of times in a week on TV or thousands, and millions on the Internet and blogs. It is very difficult to buy the type of PR that you get from media coverage on the big events. This is why cities like Miami, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Fran, Vegas and Phoenix are always being talked about is destinations. There is a lot of coordination involved along with public investment to get these major events at a city. The governor is involved, county people, and the mayor who usually takes the lead. Cities have departments of economic development specifically for these tasks. It requires often a vote from the public, as well as public investment. What is going to be the ROI on having an event. What type of tax revenue do you get from travel, visitors, and hotels. On top of that there is community pride, so then people want to move to that city. Rick is the editor of the sports handbook, and had numerous sports figures write a chapter, and also Coach K wrote the forward. He worked with Jerry Colangelo, Paul Tagliabue former NFL commissioner, Ryan Anderson of ASU fame, and Derek called of the baseball Diamondbacks. Sports, sporting events and even events around sports have become a CTV. An example of this is the NFL draft or the NFL combine. Sports transcends TV, and becomes a worldwide global event. Radio city music Hall in New York used to host the NFL draft every year. They let that deal lapse and now the NFL draft is a traveling tour every year. NBA free agency, NFL free agency, has made these sports year-long events. People talk about the trades and the draft often in the off-season. In 2010 it was a major TV event on ESPN called the decision when the LeBron chose the Miami Heat in free agency.   Clip from - Primetime on the Big Game, Making of Super Bowl Ads w/ Rich Singer - BRT S04 EP04 (166) 1-22-2023     Guest: Rich Singer  https://www.linkedin.com/in/richsinger/  Award-winning Creative Director/Copywriter with over a decade of experience. Brands include Nike, The NFL, ESPN, E*TRADE, Yahoo and GE. Portfolio: zackandrich.com   You know you have a successful Super Bowl ad when it's a crowd pleaser, people are entertained, and they are talking about it the next day. The goal of any great Super Bowl ad is to be memorable and entertaining. Again clients are spending a lot of money, $10 million for this process. $7 million with the NFL and Network to air the ad, and a $3 million production cost. You're hiring actors, production teams, possibly celebrities and athletes. Full Show: HERE   NICK POPE BIO Nick Pope ran the British Government's UFO project. From 1991 to 1994 he researched and investigated UFOs, alien abductions, crop circles and other strange phenomena, leading the media to call him the real Fox Mulder. His government background and his level-headed views have made him the media, film and TV industry's go-to guy when it comes to UFOs, the unexplained and conspiracy theories. Nick Pope has consulted on, and helped to promote a number of alien-themed movies, TV shows and video games, including Ancient Aliens. He has hosted, consulted on and contributed to numerous TV shows, has written six best-selling books, and lectures all around the world. Nick Pope lives in the United States, splitting his time between San Jose and Tucson. ALIENCON - A Live Event to Explore Unexplained Mysteries and Provocative Questions Through Exclusive Panel Discussion with Experts Across Fields, including Ancient Astronaut Theory, National Defense, Astrophysics, and Investigative Journalism AlienCon?, the world's first convention dedicated to seeking the truth about extraterrestrial existence throughout history and solving mysteries of the universe, today announced talent and programming updates for its March 4-5 (2023) live event in at the Pasadena (CA) Convention Center. Presented by A+E Networks? and Prometheus Entertainment, the live 2-day event will cover an expansive breadth of unexplained phenomena, from the ancient (Egypt, Mayans, Chariots of the Gods, ancient engineering) to present day (disclosure, encounters, UAPs) to explore what lies between science fact and science fiction. The event is inspired by The HISTORY? Channel's hit series Ancient Aliens, and will also feature fan favorites The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, The UnXplained and The Proof Is Out There and will be held for the first time since 2019. AlienCon website: https://www.thealiencon.com/   Notes: http://nickpope.net/wpte19/ AlienCon website: https://www.thealiencon.com/ Worked in Government for years, now does consulting with media, an author (of fiction and nonfiction books) & speaker. Misses the Government, being part of the action Consults on shows on the History Channel, like Ancient Aliens, Cable TV and the need for more content has allowed creators to come up with some popular alien shows  Likes being compared to the X Files character Fox Mulder Knows when something is in the sky that seems mysterious, whether a spy craft (that was shot down recently), military test vehicle, or a weather balloon – he will get a call So much visual evidence of aliens, Nick says there is something out there - Roswell, Alien abductions, Military secret vehicles – always something going on to attract the public's interest There are pros and cons of the PR the military gets with alien Qs or strange incidents, per Nick there are both skeptics and believers in Government    CORBIN BERNSEN BIO Corbin Bernsen comes from an entertainment family. His late mother Jeanne Cooper, had been on the long running soap The Young and Restless for 35 years. A graduate of UCLA where he earned a Bachelor's degree in Theater and a Master's degree in Playwriting, he most recently starred as Kyle Nevin on the FOX series The Resident. He was first catapulted to stardom during the 1980s by the hit NBC TV series, L.A. Law. Twice, he was nominated for both an Emmy® Award and a Golden Globe Award® for his performance as Arnie Becker on the show that virtually created the ensemble drama as we know today.   Along the way he hosted Saturday Night Live, and guest starred on Seinfeld and Star Trek and starred as Henry Spencer on USA Network's hit original series PSYCH. In the feature film arena, he starred in the comedy Hello Again, followed by other critically acclaimed roles in Disorganized Crime, Wolfgang Peterson's Shattered, The Great White Hype, and as the Cleveland Indians'  3rd baseman-turned- owner Roger Dorn in the extremely popular Major League series of films. Other film credits include Lay the Favorite with Bruce Willis and The Big Year with Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson. He also appeared with Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.   Bernsen moved to the other side of the camera, directing films Guy, Dead Air and Rust, which was distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment. With Rust, Bernsen shifted his focus to family friendly movies and formed Home Theater Films. 25 Hill, which he also wrote and directed, is the first title from his company in July 2012, and Journey of Faith (2022).   In addition to his acting, producing, writing and directing roles, Corbin has one of the largest snow globe collections in the world, in excess of over 8000, which he keeps displayed at his production company. He lives in New York with his wife, actress Amanda Pays (married since 1988), and their 4 sons.   ABOUT JOURNEY OF FAITH, NOW STREAMING ON PURE FLIX Watch Corbin Bernsen in action in the series "Journey of Faith" that follows him as he makes a movie! Inspired by the Red Paperclip trade, together, Corbin Bernsen, a film crew, and the town of Kipling, make a movie during a frigid winter, and little did they know the miracles that would transpire.   Trailer: https://app.pureflix.com/videos/499123750863/play?autoplay=true   * Corbin - give us a brief overview of this docu-series Journey of Faith that is streaming on Pure Flix.com? * There is a pivotal point after your father's death that you questioned the afterlife, humanity, and faith- did his passing affect you differently from your mother's passing? * Most remember you from L.A. Law and feature films and recently Magnum P.I. and The Resident -how have you been able to sustain such a long career in the industry?     Notes:   Journey of Faith, docu-series on PureFlix – TV show about the making of a movie   Corbin wrote the movie, and the series is behind the scenes edited footage, 400 hours worth   Movie is about dealing with the death of his father, and realization time has moved on   His mother started and encouraged his career, studied at UCLA   LA Law – big NBC TV show in the 1980s, created by pioneer Steven Bochco Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, Doogie Hooser MD   Ensemble show with lots of ‘first' on network TV   Most know nowadays for Psych – USA detective show       If you enjoyed this show, you may like:  BRT Sports:  HERE  BRT Hollywood: HERE BRT Marketing: HERE BRT Business: HERE  More - BRT Best of: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Best+Of     Thanks for Listening. 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Kevin Durant won't play for the Phoenix Suns until next week in Charlotte, setting back his debut and giving the Suns fewer games to adjust. Brendon Kleen is joined by Aaron Edwards to discuss Durant's timeline and how it affects the Suns, the war of words between Durant and Charles Barkley over NBA trade demands, and Robert Sarver leaking plans for to honor Jerry Colangelo and Shawn Marion at a new-look Suns Ring of Honor at Footprint Center.Follow & Subscribe on all Podcast platforms…

Kevin Durant won't play for the Phoenix Suns until next week in Charlotte, setting back his debut and giving the Suns fewer games to adjust. Brendon Kleen is joined by Aaron Edwards to discuss Durant's timeline and how it affects the Suns, the war of words between Durant and Charles Barkley over NBA trade demands, and Robert Sarver leaking plans for to honor Jerry Colangelo and Shawn Marion at a new-look Suns Ring of Honor at Footprint Center. Follow & Subscribe on all Podcast platforms…

Colangelo talks Kevin Durant, the current state of the Suns, college sports, his history with Pheonix teams, and more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 3 has Newsmakers Week visits from Michael Bidwill, Jerry Colangelo, and James Jones.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Kevin Ray joins Wolf and Luke for Suns Gameday with K-Ray as he discusses the Suns losing a winnable game to the Hawks and how new owner Mat Ishbia understands what Jerry Colangelo means to Phoenix.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In hour No. 1, Wolf and Luke react to the way Mikal Bridges found out he was traded for Kevin Durant and talk to the Godfather of Valley Sports, Jerry Colangelo.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jerry Colangelo discusses the Suns trading for Kevin Durant, how he is excited for the new Suns ownership group and being close to Durant.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In hour No. 4, Wolf and Luke preview Super Bowl 57 and react to Jerry Colangelo's comments on the Kevin Durant trade. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In hour No. 1, Wolf and Luke react to the way Mikal Bridges found out he was traded for Kevin Durant and talk to the Godfather of Valley Sports, Jerry Colangelo.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In hour No. 4, Wolf and Luke preview Super Bowl 57 and react to Jerry Colangelo's comments on the Kevin Durant trade. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's Legends Of Sport Friday, Arash sits down with Andy to talk about a special guest from the podcast's first season, legendary basketball coach and two-time Hall of Fame inductee Mike Krzyzewski! As Duke University's head coach from 1980 to 2022, Coach K led the Blue Devils to five national titles, 13 Final Fours, 15 ACC tournament championships, and 13 ACC regular season titles. Hear Andy and Coach K talk about his intimate recruiting process, creating a family atmosphere on all of his teams, the "one-and-done" rule, the brilliance of Coach Chuck Daly, the cultural impact of the Dream Team, his relationship with Michael Jordan, Kobe's leadership on the Redeem Team, how Jerry Colangelo created the culture around USA Basketball, his time coaching at West Point, Bruce Springsteen, and so much more! To hear the full episode, please visit iHeart, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And do not forget to follow or subscribe to The Arash Markazi Show on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, & I Heart Radio. Also check out his daily columns on themorningcolumn.com and The Sporting Tribune. Music Credit: Alright by Kendrick Lamar Humble by Kendrick Lamar I Get Around by 2Pac To Live and Die in L.A. by 2Pac Social Media: Instagram & Twitter: @thesportingtrib

This week's LOS CLASSIC features legendary basketball coach - Mike Krzyzewski! Andy & Coach K talk about his intimate recruiting process, creating a family atmosphere on all of his teams, the "one-and-done" rule, the brilliance of Coach Chuck Daly, the cultural impact of the Dream Team, the notorious Dream Team scrimmage, his relationship with Michael Jordan, Kobe's leadership on the Redeem Team, how Jerry Colangelo created the culture around USA Basketball, why he told his players to play with ego, serving with the US Army, how he used his military experience in coaching, his time coaching at West Point, a Gladiator motivation story, Bruce Springsteen, and so much more!

Alex Jensen recaps the exciting game and speaks with Coach Mickey McConnell about how the Gaels took down a ranked SDSU team in Pheonix at the Jerry Colangelo classic.

This week on the pod, Eric is joined by Matt Harris to discuss the latest news from the Houston restaurant and bar scene including a new concept called Cali is heading to Northwest Houston this fall, Dallas based sports bar Boomerjack's Grill & Bar coming to Houston with 2 locations, and Hungry's has a 3rd location now in Tanglewood. In the Restaurants of the Week section Lagniappe Kitchen and Bar and Baso are featured. Then in the Guest of the Week Chris Bianco of Pizzeria Bianco joins Eric to discuss coming to Houston for the East Downtown Throwdown benefiting the Southern Smoke Foundation, his friendship with Chris Shepherd, what he'll be serving at the event, what Chris enjoys about the event, the experience of being featured in Netflix's Chef's Table Pizza series, what he thought about it looking back on that time, what it's like sharing your life with the camera's, the story of how Chris got started into the tomato business, what Chris' would do with the Phoenix Suns, how Jerry Colangelo introduced Chris to his loves for the Suns, whether he would ever bring a Pizzeria Bianco to Houston, and more!   Follow Eric on Instagram and Twitter, plus check out some of his latest articles at Culturemap.com: New Houston Restaurant from West Coast Pop-Up Favorite Delivers Pineapple Bowls, Mac and Cheese, and More Dallas-Based Sports Bar Rolls Out 2 Houston-Area Locales with Wall-to-Wall TV's, Fire Pits, and Gameday Eats Favorite Houston Mediterranean Restaurant Plans New Tanglewood Location with Dog-Friendly Patio and More Prominent Midtown Restaurant Plans Artful Move to Iconic Galleria-Area Eatery's Shuttered Space All the Grand-Slam Restaurant and Bar Specials Every Houston Astros Fan Should Catch for This Year's Playoff Run Top-Ranked Houston BBQ Joint Fires Up Dinner Service for Customers Who Can't Wait Out the Lunch Rush

The guys discuss the news that Robert Sarver is beginning the process to sell his teams, the Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury. In terms of who will buy the team(s), everyone in Phoenix loves Jerry Colangelo and the fans would love to see him return to Arizona in some capacity. The darkhorse may by Grant Hill. Hill, a former Sun who is familiar with the area, has a desire to be an owner. Discussion about Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards' fine of $40k for homophobic comments on social media.Chris Miller - Washington Wizards TV PxPChris is the new television play-by-play man for the Wizards. He and Jason discuss the rise of black broadcasters sliding from 'sideline' reporter, to being the lead pxp person on television or radio. Chris talks about how much this job means to him. Chris credits the other broadcasters for helping him get to this point. Chris understands the responsibility...his oldest son is a broadcaster in Denver that watched him growing up. Young broadcasters need to learn how to do the job the right first and put in the work. That means working for little money in small markets. That will eventually lead to big-money jobs, as long as you are willing to put in the work. Chris is surrounded by comfort. He has been around the organization for a long time. Chris talks about the Wizards and previews next season.  

Lockout et trêve hivernale, le baseball majeur semble loin, très loin nous en ce début d'année 2022. Du coup, pendant que les grandes personnes parlent d'argent et d'années de contrat, on a décidé de replonger dans les archives de la MLB et de reprendre là où on s'était arrêtés en 2021. Le but est toujours le même : vous raconter, franchise par franchise et ville par ville, les petites histoires qui font la grande histoire des Ligues Majeures. Et pour ce 16e épisode de notre série En Toute Franchise, rendez-vous dans le désert, du côté de Phoenix, Arizona : on vous emmène à la rencontre de la dernière-née des franchises majeures : les Diamondbacks. Au début des années 90, Phoenix, Arizona, est une ville en plein boom, démographiquement et sportivement. La ville possède, depuis deux décennies déjà, une équipe de basketball de qualité, une franchise de NFL depuis quelques années et se prépare à accueillir sa propre équipe de NHL. Ne manque plus qu'une franchise de baseball majeur : c'est chose faite en 1995, quand le « Monsieur Sports Majeurs » de Phoenix, Jerry Colangelo obtient la précieuse licence. Trois ans plus tard, les Diamondbacks sont nés, et ils n'ont pas l'intention de trainer en route... Dans ce premier épisode d'En Toute Franchise, Saison 2, Martin et Bastien vous racontent l'histoire des Diamondbacks et de leur improbable parcours initiatique : le triomphe d'abord, le douloureux apprentissage ensuite! N'hésitez pas à nous faire vos retours sur notre émission, en réagissant sur nos réseaux sociaux. On se fera un plaisir de vous lire et de vous répondre. Bonne écoute !!

Former Phoenix Suns' owner Jerry Colangelo received a surprise donation to his scholarship fund from current Suns' owner Robert Sarver earlier in October. The Valley sports icon reflects on what that meant to him and what's next for Phoenix sports.

After their run to the NBA Finals, the Phoenix Suns are gearing up for another season. Team owner Robert Sarver joins The Extra Point to discuss the season ahead, lofty expectations, teaming up with Jerry Colangelo, and more.

With the Phoenix Suns in the NBA Finals, we talk with Arizona sports icon Jerry Colangelo to get his thoughts on his former team's run, his time building the franchise, and more.

On Thu.'s ep. of No Dunks, the guys discuss Chris Paul leading his Suns to the 2021 NBA Finals, who now holds the distinction of "Best Basketball Player to Never Make the Finals," whether Patrick Beverley deserves to be suspended for pushing CP3 in the back, Paul George's incredible postseason run, and Steve Ballmer's thigh-squeezing celebration. That, plus Jerry Colangelo says LeBron James' Olympic career is likely over, Team Canada is in the driver's seat, JJ Redick's great tweet, Leigh's old car, what to watch for in tonight's Hawks-Bucks Game 5, and more.Subscribe to No Dunks on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/NoDunksInc Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There was a great deal of speculation around how the Lakers would go about filling Jason Kidd's spot on Frank Vogel's coaching staff. Would it be an offense-first mind? A former head coach? A F.O.L. (Friend of LeBron)? Well, LA got a little bit from each of those categories, hiring former Heat assistant/Grizzlies/Knicks head coach David Fizdale. What does it mean for the staff? Is he a good fit?Meanwhile, LeBron James is done with Olympic basketball, says USA Basketball director Jerry Colangelo. No real surprise there, given his age and mileage, but still kind of amazing it could even be a possibility. Lakers fans are probably happy about it (and that Anthony Davis is sitting Tokyo out, too). Do fans of contending teams even want their stars in the Olympics, anymore?Finally, the Blazers had a disastrous press conference this week to introduce new head coach Chauncey Billups. Why were people upset, and why did the Blazers seem so unprepared to meet the moment?HOSTS: Andy and Brian KamenetzkySEGMENT 1: The Lakers hire David Fizdale. What does he bring to the staff? How important is his connection to LeBron?SEGMENT 2: More Fiz. Is he the offensive mind the Lakers need? He's certainly not a dinosaur on that end. Plus, the Olympics. No LeBron, no AD... and as a Laker fan, would you even want your stars playing in that tournament?SEGMENT 3: How the hell did the Blazers screw up so badly, and why it matters.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15” and you'll get 15% off your next order.BetOnline AGThere is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus.Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When legendary NBA executive jerry Colangelo took over as head of USA Basketball in 2005, he knew the team needed a change of culture. So he convened a group of Olympic basketball veterans including Michael Jordan, Jerry West, and a certain head coach at the University of North Carolina. One of the main discussions concerned the hiring of a head coach for the 2008 Olympics and beyond. Jerry shares what happened in the meeting with Mike Wise in this week's Quick Hitter segment.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Join Dr. J., Coach K., and Hootie Hoot as we share space with Chris Moore, the CEO of the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA). PCA conducts live and online workshops nationwide for youth and high school sports leaders, coaches, parents and athletes. Workshop attendees have helped create a positive, character-building youth sports environment for nearly 20 million youth athletes. Goto: www.pcadevzone.org for the latest information. Some of the 145 people on the advisory board include Steve Young, Brad Stevens, Julie Foudy, Brandi Chastain, Nadia Comaneci, Jerry Colangelo, Doc Rivers, Dean Smith, Tara VanDerveer, Mike Brey, Tommy Amaker, Dusty Baker, Val Whiting, Dr. Richard Lapchick, Ronnie Lott, Lindsay Gottlieb, Curtis Granderson, and Jennifer Azzi. Chris shares his personal experiences growing up and how youth sports saved him and his little sister and why this in large part is why he continues to pay it forward to the youth of America for the last 25 years. He is an incredible father of two, just celebrated his 20 year wedding anniversary, and is very honest about the mistakes he's made in his personal life and how that's made him a better father, husband, and CEO. And finally, find out whether Chris chooses Jordan or LeBron, pancakes, waffles, or French toast, and which palindrome he'll choose as his favorite during the very famous, "This or That" segment of The Sports Deli. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-sports-deli/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-sports-deli/support