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Jessica Mendoza
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - June 23, 2022 04:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsJessica Mendoza is one of those people who make you want to, as Vin Scully says, "pull up a chair." Throw out a topic, and she's there. Olympic softball? Mendoza won a Gold medal in 2004 in Athens, then watched while the sport was jerked in and out of the Games for more than a decade. Softbal...
Val Ackerman
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - June 16, 2022 04:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsAs an attorney, Val Ackerman can usually see both sides. But not on this topic. With bona fides that include an early Title IX basketball scholarship to Virginia, a law degree from UCLA, being tapped by David Stern in 1996 to help design the WNBA, sitting with Pres. George Bush at the Beijing O...
Julie Foudy
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - June 09, 2022 12:06 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThere was a time that the USWNT won a World Cup and no one really knew about it. Iconic former midfielder Julie Foudy said she came home from the US win in China in 1991 and her professor at Stanford wanted to know why she’d missed class! Eight years later, the sport exploded when Foudy and Co....
Dominique Dawes
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - June 02, 2022 04:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsDominique Dawes once felt so controlled by her coach, Kelli Hill, that she said Hill terrified her into silence by threatening to send Dominique to "the Karolyi Ranch," the highly-regarded but fiercely intimidating program run by icons Martha and Bela Karolyi. It's a culture Dawes wants to chang...
Cheryl Miller
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - May 19, 2022 04:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsShe might be the greatest women’s basketball player of all time. Yes. If you’ve ever wondered how dominant Cheryl Miller was, consider this - she still holds six records at USC, the school that gave us giants like Cynthia Cooper and Lisa Leslie - and Miller left 36 years ago. Before a knee injur...
Sarah Talalay
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - May 12, 2022 04:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsSports diplomacy is nothing new - back in 776 BC in ancient Greece, there was an "Olympic Truce" to ensure there'd be no battles or conflicts during the games. In the 2800 years since, we've seen all kinds of scenarios where sports and societies mix, often for a greater good. Sarah Talalay, a ...
Eric Stonestreet
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - May 05, 2022 04:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsThe only person two-time Emmy award-winning, beloved actor Eric Stonestreet never got to meet was the late John Madden. They would have been great friends. In fact, Kansas City coach Andy Reid, a genuinely close friend of John's, told Stonestreet the same thing. They're the same kind of guys -...
Molly Bloom
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - April 28, 2022 04:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsYes, she had a Italian mobster put a gun to her head. Yes, the buy-in for her underground high-stakes poker game, where regulars included Ben Afleck and Toby Maguire, was originally $10,000 and eventually grew to $250,000. Starting as a waitress at the games, Molly Bloom eventually became the ba...
Kevin Willard
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - April 21, 2022 04:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHe said of course he's going to take recruits to the Willard Hotel. No, Kevin Willard, the new coach at the University of Maryland, has no connection to the 150-year old Washington landmark that sits across from the White House. But he does want recruits to know that playing near the nation's ca...
Keith Hernandez
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - April 14, 2022 04:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsBy all accounts, Buck Showalter made all the right moves this year, including inviting Mets icon Keith Hernandez to hang around the batting cage in spring training. What, you say, Hernandez wasn't allowed to mingle with the players? YES (or in this case, SNY,) it's true. As a result of Keith call...
Cal Ripken Jr
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - April 07, 2022 04:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHe was the everyday player’s Everyday Player. And on September 6, 1995, with President Clinton and now President Biden watching in Camden Yards, Cal Ripken, Jr. broke Lou Gehrig’s consecutive-games streak (1925-39), a streak that officially started for Ripken on May 30, 1982 and ended with a 22-m...
Bruce Pearl
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - March 31, 2022 04:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsBruce Pearl’s first interview with Auburn was a calamity. He’d been out of coaching for three years, the result of an NCAA investigation that deemed him ultimately responsible for transgressions at Tennessee. He’d taken a job in business, working for a grocery distributor in Knoxville. When Aubur...
Bill Walton - Part 2
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - March 24, 2022 04:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsBill Walton and Lesley still disagree. After watching him play in college and covering him in the NBA, Lesley got to work with him for about five years when Bill, Dick Enberg and her did March Madness together for CBS. One night, on their way to an NCAA Regional semifinal, Bill started talking ...
Bill Walton - Part 1
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - March 17, 2022 04:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsBill Walton said the Celtics saved his life. He was a kid from La Mesa, California, who didn't have a TV at home, but would catch Celtics games wherever he could. It was his dream to play on the parquet floor, and when it finally happened in 1985, Walton thought he was so terrible "a disgrace t...
Jason Clarke
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - March 10, 2022 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIt might seem a stretch to think that actor Jason Clarke, the son of a sheep-shearer in the Australian outback, could play the iconic legend Jerry West, but Clarke got a round of applause from an acclaimed writer central to the project. Jeff Pearlman, author of "Showtime," on which the HBO series...
Jim Larrañaga
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - March 03, 2022 05:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsAt 72-years old, Jim Larranaga is a kid coach in the ACC. Jim Boeheim is 77, Mike Krzyzewski is 75, even Leonard Hamilton is 73. But there's an excellent chance that Larranaga and his Miami Hurricanes will join some of the others in the joy of March Madness. Larranaga was, of course, the darl...
Gary Williams
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - February 24, 2022 05:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsTwenty years ago, when Maryland beat Indiana for the National Championship, it was one of the happiest scenes in the history of college basketball. Maryland fans had been through a lot, including sanctions after the departure of Bob Wade, which meant no TV, no national presence. For decades, Ma...
Robert Parrish
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - February 17, 2022 05:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIf you followed the epic battles between the Lakers and the Celtics in the 1980's, didn't you always wonder if Robert Parish (the "Chief") ever talked to Laker fan Jack Nicholson about the "Chief" in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? They did! Parish said Nicholson once came up to him in the layup...
Amy Trask
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - February 10, 2022 05:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsAbout six years ago, Lesley wrote a column for CBS saying that it was time to put Amy Trask in the Hall of Fame. As we head into Super Bowl LVI, she feels even more strongly. Amy would never talk about this, but there are things people should know about the first female CEO in NFL history. Raid...
Tara Lipinski
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - February 03, 2022 05:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsShe was born in Philadelphia, lived in New Jersey and Sugar Land, Texas. At the age of 14, Tara Lipinski won the World Figure Skating Championships, beating her fierce rival, Michelle Kwan. The next year, in 1998, she beat Kwan again to win the Olympic Gold, the youngest ever in skating history. ...
John Feinstein
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - December 16, 2021 05:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsLesley was with John Feinstein in 1986 for his promotional tour of “Season on the Brink.” It was the Tip Off Classic in Springfield, where 17th-ranked Navy, with David Robinson, was upset by NC State, led by Jim Valvano. She and John went to a bookstore in a mall and waited for people to stop by...
Dan Shaughnessy
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - December 09, 2021 05:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWhen Lesley first met Dan Shaughnessy in 1974, they were covering high school football for the Boston Globe and going to dive bars on Boston’s old waterfront. Dan went on to become one of the greatest writers of his generation, authoring “The Curse of the Bambino” and being elected to the prestig...
Doug Flutie
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - December 02, 2021 05:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsWhen Doug Flutie went to Boston College, he was so far down in the depth-chart as a quarterback that he was known as the back-up punter. But the day after Thanksgiving in 1984, his mythic last-second “Hail Mary” to Gerard Phalen against powerhouse Miami, with Brent Musburger on the call, cemented...
Ivan Maisel
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - November 18, 2021 05:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIn February of 2015, sportswriter Ivan Maisel got a call that brought the worst possible news. The abandoned car of his son Max had been found in a parking lot next to Lake Ontario, not far from where Max was in college. Two months later, the body washed up. Ivan and his family knew it was suic...
Rich Podolsky
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - November 11, 2021 05:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsNo one had ever seen a national NFL pre-game show until 1975, when CBS President Bob Wussler put together four of the most unlikely people to create the ground-breaking and enduring “NFL TODAY.” Brent Musburger, Jimmy “The Greek,” former Miss America Phyllis George and former player Irv Cross h...
Christian McBride
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - November 04, 2021 04:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsChristian McBride is considered the best Jazz bassist in the world, a composer and arranger who’s won 7 Grammys himself and played with everyone from Herbie Hancock to Sting, The Roots and Sir Paul McCartney. He was speechless the first time he met his idol, James Brown, at the Apollo Theater, bu...
Mark Ciardi
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - October 28, 2021 04:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsProducer Mark Ciardi should be the subject of his own much-beloved movies. He’s been a Major League pitcher, a European model and a go-to producer for all things sports. After spending years in the minor league, in places like Beloit, Wis., El Paso and Stockton, California, Mark was called up by ...
Dan Duquette
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - October 21, 2021 04:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsIn the midst of the baseball playoffs, who better to talk to than a three-time MLB General Manager? Dan Duquette oversaw the Montreal Expos, the Boston Red Sox and the Baltimore Orioles. And he has very strong opinions. The Astros, in his view, should not be considered the World Champions of 2017...
Drew Bledsoe
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - October 14, 2021 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsDrew Bledsoe never complained, even when he thought he deserved another chance. How was he so composed the entire year after being replaced by Tom Brady, following a devastating injury in 2001? “I’m the son of two teachers from Walla, Walla, Washington,” he said, “I wasn’t raised to complain.” I...
Shannon & Ray Allen
In Conversation with Lesley Visser - October 07, 2021 06:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsHe’s a father, a husband, a gentleman, a legend – but just an OK karaoke singer. It’s a tough crowd. Ray Allen’s wife, Shannon, is a former professional singer, and Ray said it’s hard to have confidence when you’ve heard your wife’s song on the radio. Every fan knows about Ray Allen’s heart-s...
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