Sports Authors Showcase: Forty Minutes to Baton Rouge by A. Zach Williams
January 18, 2022
The subject of this week's podcast is intriguing. How many of you remember the name Bo Rein? There was a 30 for 30 episode on Bo entitled The Bo Nobody Knows. This Bo was a college football coach at NC State, then took over the LSU job for…
Talking Penn State and College Football History: Grant Teaff
January 18, 2022
This week we are very honored to have the winningest coach in Baylor football history. Coach Grant Teaff joins us to talk about his career and how he built Baylor into a Southwest Conference contender. Grant coached at Baylor (…
Talking Penn State and College Football History: Ross Browner
January 10, 2022
When you talk about the greatest college defensive players in history, Ross Browner has to come to mind. Ross played at Notre Dame (1973, 1975-1977) and also with the Cincinnati Bengals (1978-1986). Ross Browner was privileged to be a…
Wait, what just happened?
January 9, 2022
A funny thing happened while I was typing my Steelers end of year column.
The Steelers won an ugly —have there been any other kinds— game against the Ravens in overtime. Their playoff hopes still had a dim flame. I say dim because the Colts…
Talking Penn State and College Football History: Bruce Bannon
January 4, 2022
We call the "Heyday" of Penn State football the years spanning 1968-1975. Penn State played in 7 Major Bowl Games in 8 years. Our guest this week was part of that time period. Bruce Bannon joins us on the podcast as a Penn Stater from…
Talking Penn State and College Football History: Kelly Kirchbaum
December 28, 2021
We view the 1977 Kentucky football team as quite possibly their best team in history. Our guest this week is Linebacker Kelly Kirchbaum who played at Kentucky from 1975-1978. He also played Penn State in each of his four years in…
Sports Authors Showcase: Raye of Light by Tom Shanahan
December 27, 2021
Our guest this week is Tom Shanahan who wrote the book Raye of Light: Jimmy Raye, Duffy Daugherty, the Integration of College Football and the 1965-66 Michigan State Spartans. Michigan State was the first to integrate as they…
Talking Penn State and College Football History: Chuck Heater
December 21, 2021
We celebrate those great Michigan teams in the early 1970s this week. Our guest is Chuck Heater, running back (1972-1974). Those teams went 30-2-1 in those years and never appeared in a bowl game. Chuck talks about…
Talking Penn State and College Football History: Frank Pomarico
December 14, 2021
We are going back to the 1973 National Championship this week with our guest Frank Pomarico. Frank was an offensive lineman on that great Notre Dame Fighting Irish team. Notre Dame capped off that season with a…
College football in review and Steelers lack accountability
December 12, 2021
As the Army-Navy game came to a close Saturday evening, so to did the 2021 college football regular season.
Let’s look back at the good, the bad, and the ugly from the season gone by and look ahead to how I think the playoff will go down.…
