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Mexican filmmaker Louisa Merino is an open water, long distance swimmer who met the subject of her documentary, “Jerry’s Last Mission”, while training in the pool. The beautiful, deeply moving film is about the fighter pilot who flew the last combat mission over Japan in World War II and was confronted by his enemy decades after the war when his youngest son moved to Japan and married the daughter of a Kamikaze pilot.

“Jerry’s Last...

Golf lifer Doug Smith was the first Black player at the University of Louisville and recently worked on an all minority broadcast team covering a tournament for the Golf Channel – a first for a sport still struggling to connect with and promote diverse players and industry professionals. After finally giving up his dream of playing on the PGA Tour, it was the business of golf that pulled Doug into his adult life where he hosts two ...

Longtime sports radio host Doug Franz took his wife to Cooperstown on their honeymoon and then bounced around from market to market as he built his career before a cold tryout with a new partner in Phoenix led to one of the Valleys most successful, longest running morning shows. With “The Doug and Wolf Show” gone, and his wife unwilling to move again, Doug now hosts a podcast, “Doug Franz Unplugged”. He was kind enough to let me bo...

Legendary sportswriter E.M. Swift spent over thirty years writing for Sports Illustrated with a specialty in covering the Olympics. It was his coverage of the 1980 gold medal winning USA Olympic hockey team that cemented them and their against-all-odds victory as one of the greatest miracles in sports history. We talk about his background as a college hockey player, how he got started at S.I. and the one article – a retrospective o...

Award winning artist John Costacos helped cement sports stars as pop culture icons with inventive, stylized posters of players like Charles Barkley, Mark McGuire, Bo Jackson and Troy Aikman. Leaning into the aesthetics and mass-media sensibilities of the ‘80s and ‘90s, John and his brother’s company – the Costacos Brothers – were so good at what they did that they went from chasing deals to having stars call them asking for a poste...

Three time Emmy winning director Greg Whiteley joins the show to discuss the smash hit Netflix series “Cheer”, and how season two was nearly derailed by the pandemic and then rocked by news that a star from season one was accused and charged with multiple crimes, including sexual exploitation of children. Whiteley and his team, the ones behind “Last Chance U” also on Netflix, pressed on and have created a new season set in the worl...

ESPN’s trailblazing broadcaster Beth Mowins – the first ever woman to call play by play for an NFL and NBA game – grew up an athlete in a sports-loving family when she realized that very few woman were working to call games. Rather than seeing closed doors, she saw an opportunity. Now one of the best and most active game callers in the business, the former college point guard – who still leads her school in assists – is a master at...

Ex-Raider and current Raider broadcaster Lincoln Kennedy was my teammate at the University of Washington and went on to an All-Pro NFL career on the field while becoming an entrepreneur and broadcaster off it. Learn about his rough start in the pros, his love of Raider Nation, his close relationship with Al Davis and how he transitioned into media and business.

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Long time college and NFL coach Keith Gilbertson discusses his work at the University of Washington during a golden era for the Huskies under legendary coach Don James. As a mentor and friend, Gilbertson brought fun and the opportunity to excel at a time when it was desperately needed by me and the entire football program, ultimately leading to a national championship.

“Fear No Man: Don James, the ’91 Huskies, and the Seven-Year Qu...

Emmy winner Jack Arute discusses his long, fascinating broadcast career where he nearly won the Baja 1000 as a reporter/navigator, survived a plane crash while covering the Iditarod, witnessed the immense respect of college football coaches for Hall of Fame broadcaster Keith Jackson and overcoming his fear of heights to learn how to hang glide for a story. And how it all started at his families’ race track, when he gave up his job ...

Canadian filmmaker David Bitton began filming a sport called Chessboxing – a professionalized mix of boxing and speed chess – over a decade ago and still finds the subculture fascinating and inspiring. With the release of his documentary, "By Rook or Left Hook: The Story of Chessboxing", we look back on the connections and similarities to "The King of Kong", discuss a sport and its participants that are surprisi...

NFL Hall of Fame reporter Sam Farmer  of the L.A. Times and Emmy winner Jeff Chadiha of the NFL Network talk about their long careers as beat writers covering the sport, how modern and social media have changed their jobs, and their reasons for picking a story and the responsibilities that come with that choice.

The chat begins with how Sam and Jeff met while covering the Oakland Raiders, and Sam shares how Jeff was relentless abou...

Legendary radio personality Jaime “Spike” O’Neill was a sports reporter, impressionist, writer, singer and key cast member of “Bob Rivers Twisted Radio” -  the number one rock radio show in Seattle from the height of grunge through the collapse of web 1.0. Two east coasters, who arrived in Seattle about the same time and met when Spike offered Ed his first broadcasting gig, reminisce about how O’Neill had backstage passes to a gold...

Broadcasting and ESPN legend Mike Patrick spent over thirty years at the World Wide Leader and helped usher in the era of non-traditional NFL game times while serving as the first host of Sunday Night Football. He discusses growing up in West Virginia and how he stumbled into broadcasting, his life’s work, while in college. Get to know one of the best ever play by play announcers in his own words, including his open heart surgery t...

The NY Times bestselling author, Yahoo! Sports columnist, screenwriter, producer and podcaster Dan Wetzel has just about seen it all and gladly shared his take, but nothing has him leaning into the laptop more than the financial schemes and inequities baked into the NCAA’s handling of the athletes who make up their work force. We discuss how the amateur sports we watch on all the big networks are not contractually legal, how the gr...

AP Sports Writer of the Year Janie McCauley discusses how Ichiro Suzuki and the 2001 Seattle Mariners helped her grow as a sports writer, why Dusty Baker was the perfect manager for the scandal-plagued Houston Astros and how collecting and handing out foul balls during the 2020 MLB season helped fans, unable to attend games in person, stay connected to the sport.

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A clip from an interview with Ex-Raider and current Raider radio broadcaster Lincoln Kennedy who played for Jon Gruden and shares how betrayed, hurt and confused he was by the horrible, hateful emails Gruden sent while a broadcaster at ESPN that led to the coach’s resignation. When we spoke, Lincoln was still raw, processing what happened and how to feel about Gruden, and importantly, how to share how he feels with his teenage sons...