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Sports Byline: Andre Ward

Sports Byline: Andre Ward

In this Sports Byline Classic interview from 2016, Andre Ward talks about the mental aspect of boxing and his career highlights, including bringing home a gold medal in 2004 and subsequent WBA Super and WBC Super Middleweight title accolades. Author -...

Sports Byline: Andrea Kramer

Sports Byline: Andrea Kramer

Andrea Kramer talks about her HBO’s Real Sports piece on the state of legalization of sports gambling. Legal sports betting is an estimated 5 billion dollar industry, while illegal sports betting in the rest of the country has an estimated 150 billion...

Sports Byline: Apolo Ohno

Sports Byline: Apolo Ohno

Apolo Ohno is an eight-time medalist in the Winter Olympics and the 2017 champion of the hit TV show Dancing With The Stars. As the face of short-track skating, he became the youngest U.S. national champion at 14 and was the reigning champion 12...

Sports Byline: Ben Braun

Sports Byline: Ben Braun

Ben Braun, 37 year college basketball coach of the University of California, Rice, and Eastern Michigan, talks in depth about the recent outbreaks of college basketball scandals being investigated by the FBI involving corruption and bribery.Braun...

Sports Byline: Bill Walton

Sports Byline: Bill Walton

NBA Hall of Fame center Bill Walton, one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history, looks back on his incredible career in this 2016 Sports Byline Classic interview. He talks about his New York Times best-seller, Back from the Dead, and how he was...

Sports Byline: Brittney Griner

Sports Byline: Brittney Griner

WNBA Center Brittney Griner has had an impressive career, including being only the second NCAA basketball player to score 2,000 points and block 500 shots. She played on the USA Women's Olympic Team and the McDonald's All-American Team. She discusses...

Sports Byline: Buz McKim

Sports Byline: Buz McKim

Buz McKim, NASCAR Hall of Fame historian, NASCAR sign painter, and author talks about growing up in racing culture and how he ended up designing the paint jobs of two Daytona 500 winners.McKim explains the process of finding interesting pieces for the...

Sports Byline: Cam Perron

Sports Byline: Cam Perron

In this Sports Byline interview, Ron Barr talks to Cam Perron, who developed an interest in the Negro League baseball players when he was just 12 years old. Perron has since been chronicling his research on the players and the league, and was featured...

Sports Byline: Charley Rosen

Sports Byline: Charley Rosen

Charley Rosen talks about his book, The Chosen Game: A Jewish Basketball History, in which he discusses the impact the Jewish community had in the early days of basketball starting in lower east side Jewish immigrant neighborhoods of New York...

Sports Byline: Dave Kaval

Sports Byline: Dave Kaval

Dave Kaval, president of the Oakland A’s and founder of the independent Golden Baseball League, talks about his mission to get a new stadium built in Oakland, as well as how he took inspiration from Steve Jobs to start the Golden Baseball League.Kaval...

Sports Byline: David Vobora

Sports Byline: David Vobora

David Vobora, a former NFL linebacker who played 4 seasons with the Rams & Seahawks, talks about drawing motivation from being the last pick of the 2008 draft and forming the Adaptive Training Foundation for physically impaired athletes and...

Sports Byline: David West

Sports Byline: David West

David West—a power forward who played 15 years in the NBA with the Warriors, Spurs, Pacers and the Hornets/Pelicans, and won an NBA Championship with the Golden State Warriors—talks about his influential coach, playing college ball for Xavier, and the...

Sports Byline: Erica Westly

Sports Byline: Erica Westly

Author Erica Westly’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Slate, the New Republic and many more. She wrote Fastpitch: The Untold History of Softball and Women Who Made the Game, which was a finalist for the 2017 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary...

Sports Byline: Erik Malinowski

Sports Byline: Erik Malinowski

Erik Malinowski, author of the insightful book about how the Golden State Warriors utilize technology and analytics in basketball, Betaball: How Silicon Valley and Science Built One of the Greatest Basketball Teams in History, talks about what it...

Sports Byline: Gilbert Black

Sports Byline: Gilbert Black

One of the last living Negro American League players, Gilbert Black of the Indianapolis Clowns talks about growing up in NYC and sneaking into the Polo Grounds to watch baseball games as a child.Black recalls the segregation and discrimination he and...

Sports Byline: Jerome Williams

Sports Byline: Jerome Williams

Jerome Williams, former NBA forward who played for Detroit, Toronto, Chicago and the New York Knicks talks about the importance of academics for kids in sports, and the weight that was placed on basketball as a kid growing up in the Washington D.C....

Sports Byline: Jon Kingdon

Sports Byline: Jon Kingdon

Jon Kingdon started as an intern for controversial Raiders coach and owner Al Davis, and eventually became one of Davis’s confidants.Kingdon recalls memories from working closely with Davis including his run ins with various players, his stretching of...

Sports Byline: Morten Anderson

Sports Byline: Morten Anderson

Morten Andersen, a Pro Football Hall of Fame place kicker, played for 25 seasons with the Saints, Falcons, Giants, Chiefs and Vikings. He talks about what it takes to be a great athlete over a long period of time.Andersen—who was born in Denmark—tells...

Sports Byline: Otis Wilson

Sports Byline: Otis Wilson

All-Pro linebacker Otis Wilson of the Chicago Bears talks about his 9 NFL seasons, 8 with the Chicago Bears, and the successes—and pranks—of the famous 1985 Super Bowl winning Bears team, including the filming of the "Super Bowl Shuffle". Wilson is...

Sports Byline: Paul Beston

Sports Byline: Paul Beston

Paul Beston, author of The Boxing Kings: When American Heavyweights Ruled the Ring talks about his book and the history of America’s fascination with heavyweight champs.His book focuses on the history of boxing in America through the careers of John...

Sports Byline: Pierre Turgeon

Sports Byline: Pierre Turgeon

In this interview, Ron Barr talks to Pierre Turgeon, 19 season NHL center and the 34th player in NHL history to score 500 goals.Turgeon reminisces about growing up 7 hours north of Montreal, learning English, and Canada’s 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey...

Sports Byline: Sam Smith

Sports Byline: Sam Smith

Sam Smith, author of theNew York Times best-seller The Jordan Rules talks about his book, Hard Labor: The Battle that Birthed the Billion-Dollar NBA, which details exactly how and why the NBA, and NBA players, make so much money.Smith explains the...

Sports Byline: Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton

Sports Byline: Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton

In this episode of Sports Byline, Ron Barr talks to the directors of the film Battle of the Sexes, a film based on the historic tennis match of 1973 between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, starring Steve Carell and Emma Stone.Directors Valerie Faris...