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Around the Horn
"around" Discussed on Around the Horn
"Expects the punishing physician. It's the spanish inquisition. It's a speed around ten questions that everybody gets number one. Your current career. All of them are cancelled. What job do you do instead. I'm a photographer. Ooh i love taking pictures I just bought my first like official canaan I've experimented some over the years by I think i have not nice a number two. What's most scared you've ever been most scared i've ever been was probably Tough question i would say When i was in college i had a medical issue that could have prevented me from ever playing again and had to get a lot of procedures done with through. Just it was. It was a it was a nightmare of an experience for a nineteen year. Old girl And i thought i was not going to be able to play basketball so that was probably i was fearful all the procedures that the game was that have been taken away from me. Number three could be the best in the world at one thing for one day. What is it staying in the world at one thing for one day. Ooh i want to be the best chefs in. Mike bake a basic food. That people never forget. Oh awesome. I've never gotten that one a number four. What current celebrity from music politics. Tv sports would you most like to be your best friend. Beyond saying i just wanna know what perfection feels like. I'll never get there just being a sense or to it. i just want to be close to someone. Imperfect number five. What your biggest. Most meaningless pet peeve biggest those meals pet peeve is when people touch me. I just don't want people. Sometimes come up to you with their hand on their hand on your shoulder or you know like touchy with some weird way. I mean you know high fives fists pumps all that. Kind of stuff hugs. I love that but would you unexpectedly. Just walk on for your on me like might be in trouble number six. What's the most embarrassed you've ever been on my god So the most embarrassed. I've ever been was. I played in a tournament. When i was sixteen and i was still terrible at basketball. And my team was playing in this game. One we could go to nationals. Which was a big deal. Because that's where you get. Seen by all the college coaches and in the waning moments of that game it was a tie ball game and i was going. Were rebound and i accidentally put the ball into the basket now. And it was heartbreaking. Like i in my team had been together since they were like five years old. I was the new addition to the teams and then looking at me like we want her gone now. It was tough brutal number seven. What's the thing about yourself. You'd most like to improve prioritizing. I don't do a good job of prioritizing. I mean my time is divided ways that at the end of the day. I even tell you how we got here so You know. I would like to spend more time with more of the people doing more of the things that are most important to me and that even is not just even your time. That's what you think about. It's you talk about is when you do. I just wish. I could push more of those things towards the things that toward what means to me. Yeah i find. It's really hard because work is very easy to schedule. Because they come looking for you. And there's always something that needs to be done. And this sort of vagaries of family or friends or social life They're easier to move around because of that. They ended up just getting deleted entirely sometimes on certain days That's why i have to schedule like giant parties and massive events. Because then it's like i forced myself to like clear out that whole day to do something fun to like. I'm not good at relaxing. It's either like go hard over here or like a hard over there relaxing as the thing that gets immediately deleted from schedule. Number eight any musician or band alive or dead can play at your next party. Who is it jay z. I've been obsessed with demand. Since i was fourteen years old called radio station just to say hi to him stopped him after the concert. After ice my favorite love it number nine. What would you consider your biggest failure. Biggest failure was that. I did not take my basketball career more seriously as i mentioned earlier on the podcast You know i was just buried into. I've always been interested in a number of things. And i just feel like i was never fully committed to being the best player that i could have been. Sh so yeah. There's definitely some regret there. Because as you know by job in the seed i sit in Would be easier. If i had gone the extra mile it may be gone to the wnba or play. The next level even onto the tournament would have been nice I didn't do any of those things player. And so i wish i had been more serious about basketball less serious about my social life in college. Yeah and finally. What three individual words would you most hoped that people would use to describe you. I would say inspirational Intentional and insistent good ones. I like those final bonus question. Who should i have on this. Podcast doesn't have to be from. Sports can be anyone in the world that i would find interesting. Had had natasha. I have not latasha line out to have all right. That's the thank goodness. China is so great to get more. Also i am. I'm still fascinated by the sixteen kids and everybody got to practice as i could barely handle myself three dogs. So we'll a lot you know. It was a lot to juggle. No thank you so much for all that you do. Sarah the way you've jumped two feet in with with wnba has been a game changer. so thank you for all your support and all she do just being who you are thank you. That's what she said. Oh yeah one more thing. This is a place for ranson raves. I'll complain also something's awesome. I'll tell you to.
The Dan Bongino Show
Fresh "Around" from The Dan Bongino Show
"Auto Workers strike set to expand here at eleven o 'clock and Melissa Conyers -Irving is finally responding to some allegations. News is Next the first of WLS weather channel forecast. The rain to the southwest continues to be heavy but tapering off for just about everybody afternoon this a few showers elsewhere so the further southwest you travel actually west or south in those directions A better chance of rain but tapering off later into the afternoon and then ending as we head on through tonight mid some maybe upper seventies around today cooler in the rain and closer to the lake tonight will drop in the low sixties fifties becoming suburbs partly cloudy great start to fall tomorrow plenty of sunshine mid maybe some upper cooler partly sunny low seventies for the Weather Channel I'm meteorologist Ray Stajic WLS a me ninety another update in thirty minutes minutes and currently at a hair seventy one degrees seventy at midway and seventy along chicago's lakefront by Macy's backstage what
Around the Rim
"around" Discussed on Around the Rim
"Expects punishing. It's the spanish inquisition. It's a speed around ten questions that everybody gets number one. Your current career. All of them are cancelled. What job do you do instead. I'm a photographer. i love taking pictures. i just bought my first like official canaan I've experimented some over the years by I think. I have not nice a number two. What's the most scared you've ever been a most scared i've ever been was probably God that's tough question. I would say When i was in college i had a medical issue that could have prevented me from ever playing again and had to get a lot of procedures done with through. Just it was. It was a it was a nightmare of an experience for a nineteen year. Old girl And i thought i was not going to be able to play basketball so that was probably i was fearful all the procedures that the game was that have been taken away from me number three in the world at one thing for one day. What is it staying in world at one thing for one day. I want to be the best chefs in my bake a food that people never forget. Oh awesome. I've never gotten that one a number four. What current celebrity from music politics. Tv sports would you most like to be your best friend. Beyond saying i just wanna know what perfection feels like. I'll never get there just being a sense or two it just want to be close to someone. Imperfect number five. What's your biggest most. Meaningless pet peeve biggest those meals pet peeve is when people touch me. i just don't want people. Sometimes come up to you with their hand on their hand on your shoulder or you know like touchy with some weird way. I mean you know high fives fists pumps all that. Kind of stuff hugs. I love that. But would you unexpectedly. Just walk up on me for your hanami. Me like might be in trouble number six. What's the most embarrassed you've ever been god So the most embarrassed. I've ever been was. I played in a tournament. When i was sixteen and i was still terrible at basketball. And my team was playing in this game. Want we could go to nationals. Which was a big deal. Because that's where you get. Seen by all the college coaches and in the waning moments of that game it was a tie ballgame. And i was going. Were rebound and i accidentally put the ball into the basket now. And it was heartbreaking. Like i in my team had been together since they were like five years old. I was the new addition to the teams and then looking at me like we want her gone now. It was tough brutal number seven. What's the thing about yourself. You'd most like to improve prioritizing. I don't do a good job of prioritizing. I mean my time is divided ways that at the end of the day. I can't even tell you how we got here so You know. I would like to spend more time with more of the people doing more of the things that are most important to me and that even is just even your time. That's what you think about. It's you talk about is when you do. I just wish. I could push more of those things towards the things that toward what means to me. Yeah i find. It's really hard because work is very easy to schedule. Because they come looking for you. And there's always something that needs to be done. And this sort of vagaries of family or friends or social life They're easier to move around because of that. They ended up just getting deleted entirely sometimes on certain days That's why i have to schedule like giant parties and massive events. Because then it's like i forced myself to like clear out that whole day to do something fun or to like. I'm not good at relaxing. It's either like go hard over here or like a hard over there relaxing as the thing that gets immediately deleted from schedule. Number eight any musician or band alive or dead can play at your next party. Who is it jay z. I've been obsessed with demand. Since i was fourteen years old called radio station just to say hi to him stopped him after the concert. After ice my favorite love it number nine. What would you consider your biggest failure. Failure was that. I did not take my basketball career more seriously as i mentioned earlier on the podcast You know i was just buried into. I've always been interested in a number of things. And i just feel like i was never fully committed to being the best player that i could have been. Sh so yeah. There's definitely some regret there. Because as you know by job in the seed i sit in Would be easier. If i had gone the extra mile it may be gone to the. Wb or play the next level even onto the tournament would have been nice I didn't do any of those things player. And so i wish i had been more serious about basketball less serious about my social life in college. Yeah and finally. What three individual words would you most hoped that people would use to describe you. I would say inspirational Intentional and insistent. I like those final bonus question. Who should i have on this. Podcast doesn't have to be from. Sports can be anyone in the world that i would find interesting. Had had natasha. I have not latasha out to have all right. That's the thank goodness. China is so great to get more. Also i am. I'm still fascinated by the sixteen kids and everybody got to actresses. I barely handle myself three dogs so a lot. You know it was a lot to juggle. No thank you so much for all that you do. Sarah the way you've jumped two feet in with with wnba has been a game changer So thank you for all your support and all she do just being who you are thank you. That's what she said. Oh yeah one more thing. This is a place for ranson raves. I'll complain also something's awesome. I'll tell you to.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Around" from WTOP 24 Hour News
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Around the Rim
"around" Discussed on Around the Rim
"That doesn't get the marketing dollars. That's not getting the publicity that's not getting coverage like twitter is splayed space where you can go and say. Hey this is what's happening over at university. We've got a game here. Are things can connect with us this space because there's gonna be a billboard in there's not going to be a commercial there's going to be you know all of the marketing that you see with with major sports and so Twitter in particular has given women's basketball. Wnba place where you will feel like. You're not the only fan because you can feel like that. Sometimes because of the lack of its inches the sport gets well and i think also the gatekeepers are removed right predominantly white cisco. Men have been in charge of every sports page and every radio department and every television network and if those people aren't willing to see that the future is in women's sports and how much money can be made in how much can be built with it. They're going to keep no and so in these spaces that are democratized. You end up finding out what people wanna hear about. And they're what they're drawn to. And all the sudden you see this groundswell of people that are demanding more access more coverage more time and that venture moves those gatekeepers into action in ways. That are you know kind of not possible before all that really been really cool to save. You had an amazing twenty twenty one so far. You won the mel greenberg media award by the women's basketball coaches association. You ended up in tokyo covering the olympics. You've got this new podcast. Huge fan on serious Tell me quickly. Like one of the biggest takeaways from from getting to go to tokyo god One of the biggest takeaways of going to tokyo with that There's a silver lining to everything that we've been going through in our world for the last couple of years if you look for it right For me that silver lining was that i because there were no fans and no one was invited to the olympics. I was literally covering the biggest sporting event that in our world sitting front row. At everything. I mean i was in front of the beam. When simone biles morm- i was watching katie. the decky with no one in these arenas now yes as sad as that is. There's nothing we can do about. What's happening in our world with kobe. But for me it was a game. Changer i mean i. I just still can't even believe that. I that i got to go to tokyo but i got to watch the best athletes in the world. You know it was. It was really incredible in and we worked with a great crew. Nbc was awesome at ripon. Who was my co host day. Twitter tokyo was. Oh my god. He's he's the best human being ever But we also learned a lot. A lot of lessons to tokyo botching simone biles just so many things that are happening so that were happening at that time but i. I definitely just still pinch myself. When i think about the fact that i i got that opportunity. Let's talk about huge fan. My makeup artist around the horn listens to serious when we're getting ready. She picks like music channel and we always get ads for huge fan while we're getting ready And so. I was reading up on some of the episodes coming up and you've got quite an array of different celebrities talking about their favorite sports sports team. Monica drew carey. Bet nicole brown from one of my favorite shows all time community Mel c from the spice. Girl's death. Cab for cutie's ben gabbard michelle williams. I didn't even know she was the chicago. Bulls fan The one that. I freaked out about as adam durrance because i'm obsessed with counting crows and he's on to talk about his warriors Tell me about how this concept came up and this is your first full season right. Yeah my first full season. So last year we did eight episodes. I just got a random email. Sarah this was sedan god It was right after cohen. started in. Got this random email and someone at serious who was like. Hey your name kind of came by us. We're looking for a host shadow. This is what we're doing. And of course like you know the reading it to me. And i'm like first of all. What makes you think. I'm qualified to interview celebrities in men basketball analyst like what if their favorite sport football or hockey. Which we've had those right with qiuping about this podcast is. I'm have to be the expert. These celebrities are the experts era You know tim mcgraw. Does everything about lsu basketball like football. Excuse me. He knows everything. Snazzy coaches big moments crazy losses like. i don't have to be the expert. It is literally the funnest thing i've ever done because i just sit back and i can just be inquisitive about these teams. And how these celebrities families became apart other became a part of family tradition with their fandom and they are huge fans. Like michel blais has an ice rink in his basement for his connects is crazy. So i think the concept is brilliant. I can't take credit for it was serious Their team which is it's it's amazing. How many celebrities are like. I absolutely want to talk about my favorite team and It's been a lot of fun. Awesome very cool. We got to let you go but you do have to do the one thing that everybody does and nobody expects carter spanish inquisition. The spanish inquisition is part of espn nation. Brought to you by dr pepper. College football is back and so are. The fans returned to glory with fans bill by dr pepper. The one fans deserve expects punishing. It's the spanish inquisition. It's a speed around.
WTOP 24 Hour News
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Around the Horn
"around" Discussed on Around the Horn
"Doesn't get the marketing dollars. That's not getting the publicity that's not getting coverage like twitter is splayed space where you can go and say. Hey this is what's happening over at university. We've got a game here. Are things can connect with us this space because there's gonna be a billboard in there's not going to be a commercial there's going to be you know all of the marketing that you see with with major sports and so Twitter in particular has given women's basketball. Wnba place where you will feel like. You're not the only fan because you can feel like that. Sometimes because of the lack of its inches the sport gets well and i think also the gatekeepers are removed right predominantly white cisco. Men have been in charge of every sports page and every radio department and every television network and if those people aren't willing to see that the future is in women's sports and how much money can be made in how much can be built with it. They're going to keep no and so in these spaces that are democratized. You end up finding out what people wanna hear about. And they're what they're drawn to. And all the sudden you see this groundswell of people that are demanding more access more coverage more time and that venture moves those gatekeepers into action in ways. That are you know kind of not possible before all that really been really cool to save. You had an amazing twenty twenty one so far. You won the mel greenberg media award by the women's basketball coaches association. You ended up in tokyo covering the olympics. You've got this new podcast. Huge fan on serious Tell me quickly. Like one of the biggest takeaways from from getting to go to tokyo god One of the biggest takeaways of going to tokyo with that There's a silver lining to everything that we've been going through in our world for the last couple of years if you look for it right For me that silver lining was that i because there were no fans and no one was invited to the olympics. I was literally covering the biggest sporting event that in our world sitting front row. At everything. I mean i was in front of the beam. When simone biles morm- i was watching katie. the decky with no one in these arenas now yes as sad as that is. There's nothing we can do about. What's happening in our world with kobe. But for me it was a game. Changer i mean i. I just still can't even believe that. I that i got to go to tokyo that i got to watch the best athletes in the world. It was it was really incredible in and we worked with a great crew. Nbc was awesome at ripon who was my co host day. Twitter tokyo was. Oh my god. He's he's a human being ever But we also learned a lot of lessons to tokyo botching. Simone biles just so many things that are happening so that were happening at that time but i. I definitely just still pinch myself. When i think about the fact that i i i got that opportunity. Let's talk about huge fan out my makeup artist around the horn listens to serious. When we're getting ready. She picks like music channel and we always get ads for huge fan while we're getting ready And so. I was reading up on some of the episodes coming up and you've got quite an array of different celebrities talking about their favorite sports sports team. Monica drew carey. Bet nicole brown from one of my favorite shows all time community Mel c from the spice. Girl's death. Cab for cutie's ben gabbard michelle williams. I didn't even know she was the chicago. Bulls fan The one that. I freaked out about as adam durrance because i'm obsessed with counting crows and he's on to talk about his warriors Tell me about how this concept came up and this is your first full season right. Yeah my first full season. So last year we did eight episodes. I just got a random email. Sarah this was sedan god It was right after cohen. started in. Got this random email and someone at serious who was like. Hey your name kind of came by us. We're looking for a host shadow. This is what we're doing. And of course like you know the reading it to me. And i'm like first of all. What makes you think. I'm qualified to interview celebrities in men basketball analyst like what if their favorite sport football or hockey which. We've had those right with qiuping about this broadcast is. I'm have to be the expert. These celebrities are the experts era. you know tim mcgraw. Does everything about lsu basketball like football. Excuse me he knows everything. Snazzy coaches big moments crazy losses like. i don't have to be the expert. It is literally the funnest thing i've ever done because i just sit back and i can just be inquisitive about these teams. And how these celebrities families became apart other became a part of family tradition with their fandom and they are huge fans. Like michel blais has an ice rink in his basement for his connects is crazy. So i think the concept is brilliant. I can't take credit for it was serious Their team which is it's it's amazing. How many celebrities are like. I absolutely want to talk about my favorite team and It's been a lot of fun. Awesome very cool. We got to let you go but you do have to do the one thing that everybody does and nobody expects carter spanish inquisition. The spanish inquisition is part of espn nation. Brought to you by dr pepper. College football is back and so are. The fans returned to glory with fans bill by dr pepper. The one fans deserve expects the punishing physician. It's the spanish inquisition. It's a speed around.
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Fresh update on "around" discussed on Bloomberg Markets
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Around the Horn
"around" Discussed on Around the Horn
"Just. I'm just thankful in honor to be in the space and to have the opportunity that i have to give back to this game but it was just. We made a joint decision that we just felt like you know what was on. The table was to offer that we had to refuse. Yeah but then. New ownership comes in our girl. Ray montgomery's in charge well at least partly in charge and this season ends up being a return. Not just for you but The whole look of it was all black women on the call right. Yes what was that man Well first of all to get the call to come back to. The dream was awesome right like it was a moment where i was like. Okay baby someone does understand how hard we worked over the years in how much this means to us and to me To get that call from rene I think probably came close to dropping tear. But it was very obvious early on that. Rene larry suzanne. We're going to do things differently for the right You know what happened with kelly leffler and there were a lot of changes made in those last few years of the team where the organization just did not reflect the culture of atlanta and that was an important aspect of what this new ownership group wanted to bring back like this team. This organization should look like the city. You should reflect the diversity of the wnba in the league. Right exactly Obviously they believe in women black women ownership. They wanna see black women broadcasters in all these different spaces not just on the court so You know to do it with with three young women that i've just watched grow throughout their career was also really just it. It was. it was a great moment. so yeah. I mean i think it is sent a message that prefers some changes here in You know that the value of black women will will be seen in all aspects. A what they're doing. Let's talk about around the rim this podcast and like first of all when you were doing all your gigs as a studio host as an analyst as a working for the dream was there part of you. That felt like oh. They're still something. i'm. I'm not having the time to talk about or things. I want to say that in office space for what. What inspired you to add. A women's basketball podcast. Yes so. I'm sitting in studio at nba tv with today. Grew mckay and we were covering this was was i believe with the still had broadcasting rights to some of the wbz playoff. So i started there in twenty ten as well working in studio as a primary analyst and so we were sitting in there one day. We were like we need a show. By first of all we cannot have felt like wnba had a younger audience that was somewhat captivated but couldn't connect to some of the coverage that we had the board so we needed some energy. We need some diversity but we also need a space to just have station like sarah. You know this we have the games in then what else. Ri- you're not waking up in the morning and people on your television talking about arcus thirty point game there. That's the biggest issue. It's a highlight. It's a championship win. It's passing a statistical landmark. It's not a lot of debate. It's not a lot of real history or depth to it which is one of the reasons that advance can't attached to it and then argue about it over beer and we want to do that and so you know i had this idea. Maybe we'll start on youtube. Let's figure it out. So i actually flew to new york to meet with origin chilly because i felt like espn w was my best opportunity to do. This was like let's leave. Espn w will back. This winter meet with. Laura was like hey today an hour and a half this show we really think when fastball deed sent you know the the number of black women have covered our sport over the years especially when i got into. It was like depressing. There just weren't you know black women covering majority black were so we thought we just had this unique angle in laurel site. Let me see if i can do and to her credit. You know she went back and push much she could and she came back with welcoming you show. But i'll give you casts so today and i into foster brassy as you know. We all started together. Williams now this is six. Wnba sees sarah wife so wild. So yeah i mean. I'm really proud of around the room. Because we have given fans space to hear from their favorite players to have conversations with coaches. When something major happens women's basketball we tried to to get on top of it and it's incredible to see over the last years. We kind of we didn't start the wave. There was a podcast before us called. Shoot around the debbie which which laid the foundation but now. There's nobody more spaces that you can go to to get that debate. The discussion Growing the coverage drawing But we just you know we still feel like there's so much work to do in one hundred percent sport. Gotta keep gotta keep pushing. I do think that there are some pretty great social media outlets and an accounts that are doing some of the best kind of work. It's not s- necessarily as deep but it's exactly the kind that catches the eye of of new viewers or gets people to really find an affinity toward a specific player or team. Learn the story on the stakes of what's happening and then wanna go watch because of that. I think that's a model. That espn w in espn needs to keep building on. Because that's such a big part of it and and you know there's that great fan project research. And i had angela jerrell on this podcast talking about it. The idea that there's this fluid fan and they're less likely to just simply attached to the teams in their own city as much as they are to be drawn to a specific player. Were background or story and have that be their entry way into really becoming more of a of a passionate viewer and feel that's like the entry for so many women sports And female athletes. And that's why those accounts that just kind of highlight who they are and when they're wearing acute fit and when they're going and doing something cool and making their life's look aspirational instead of just like role models like making them pherson. Cool is such a huge part of it. and again just the coverage being deeper and more interesting so that people can can really learn. Know about what they're watching. Wanna watch more we. I mean that's been principal sports from the beginning if you understand what you're watching you're much more compelled by even if it's nascar or for people who get into hockey you learn the rules and then you know what you're watching all the sudden. It's so much more interesting to you. What is your present. And i always say that if it wasn't for social media like we see all the metrics right now we're when it's basketball is growing growing if i if it wasn't for social media i believe this would be happening because it was. It's been free marketing right even for your your local college team. That doesn't get the marketing dollars. That's not getting the publicity that's not getting coverage like twitter is splayed space where you can go and say..
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"Just. I'm just thankful in honor to be in the space and to have the opportunity that i have to give back to this game but it was just. We made a joint decision that we just felt like you know what was on. The table was to offer that we had to refuse. Yeah but then. New ownership comes in our girl. Ray montgomery's and charge well at least partly in charge and this season ends up being a return. Not just for you but The whole look of it was all black women on the call right. Yes what was that man First of all to get the call to come back to the dream was awesome right like it was a moment where i was like. Okay baby someone does understand how hard we worked over the years in how much this means to us and to me To get that call from rene I think probably came close to dropping tear. But it was very obvious early on that. Rene larry suzanne. We're going to do things differently for the right You know what happened with kelly leffler and there were a lot of changes made in those last few years of the team where the organization just did not reflect the culture of atlanta and that was an important aspect of what this new ownership group wanted to bring back like this team. This organization should look like the city. You should reflect the diversity of the wnba in the league. Right exactly Obviously they believe in women black women ownership. They wanna see black women broadcasters in all these different spaces not just on the court so You know to do it with with three young women that i've just watched grow throughout their career was also really just it. It was. it was a great moment. so yeah. I mean i think it is sent a message that prefers some changes here in That the value of black women will will be seen in all aspects. A what they're doing. Let's talk about around the rim this podcast and like first of all when you were doing all your gigs as a studio host as an analyst as a working for the dream was there part of you. That felt like oh. They're still something. i'm. I'm not having the time to talk about or things. I want to say that in office space for what. What inspired you to add. A women's basketball podcast. Yes so. I'm sitting in studio at nba tv with today. Grew mckay and we were covering this was was i believe with the still had broadcasting rights to some of the wbz playoff. So i started there in twenty ten as well working in studio as a primary analyst and so we were sitting in there one day we will show by first of all we cannot have felt like wnba had a younger audience that was somewhat captivated but couldn't connect to some of the coverage that we had the board so we needed some energy need some diversity but we also need a space to just have station like sarah. You know this we have the games in then what else. Ri- you're not waking up in the morning and people on your television talking about arcus thirty point game there. That's the biggest issue. It's a highlight. It's a championship win. It's passing a statistical landmark. It's not a lot of debate. It's not a lot of real history or depth to it which is one of the reasons that fans can't attached to it and then argue about it over beer and we want to do that and so you know i had this idea. Maybe we'll start on youtube. Let's figure it out. So i actually flew to new york to meet with origin chilly because i felt like espn w was my best opportunity to do. This was like let's leave. Espn w will back this winter with laura. Hey today an hour and a half this show we really think when fastball deed sent you know the the number of black women have covered our sport over the years especially when i got into. It was like depressing there. Just weren't you know black women covering majority black were so we thought we just had this unique angle in laurel site. Let me see if i can do and to her credit. You know she went back and you know pushed as much as she could and she came back with welcoming you show. But i'll give you black casts so today and i into foster brassy as you know. We all started together williams now. This is six. Wnba sees sarah wife so wild. So yeah i mean. I'm really proud of around the room. Because we have given fans a space to hear from their favorite players to have conversations with coaches. When something major happens women's basketball tried to to get on top of it and it's incredible to see over the last years we kind of we didn't start the wave. There was a podcast before us called. Shoot around with the debbie which which laid the foundation but now. There's nobody more spaces that you can go to to get that debate the discussion but gave us growing the coverage drawing But we just you know we still feel like there's so much work to do in one hundred percent. Gotta keep gotta keep pushing. I do think that there are some pretty great social media outlets and an accounts that are doing some of the best kind of work. It's not s- necessarily as deep but it's exactly the kind that catches the eye of of new viewers or gets people to really find an affinity toward a specific player or team. Learn the story on the stakes of what's happening and then wanna go watch because of that. I think that's a model. That espn w in espn needs to keep building on. Because that's such a big part of it and and you know there's that great fan project research. And i had angela jerrell on this podcast talking about it. The idea that there's this fluid fan and they're less likely to just simply attached to the teams in their own city as much as they are to be drawn to a specific player. Were background or story and have that be their entry way into really becoming more of a of a passionate viewer and feel that's like the entry for so many women sports And female athletes. And that's why those accounts that just kind of highlight who they are and when they're wearing acute fit and when they're going and doing something cool and making their life's look aspirational instead of just like role models like making them pherson. Cool is such a huge part of it. and again just the coverage being deeper and more interesting so that people can can really learn. Know about what they're watching. Wanna watch more we. I mean that's been a principal sports from the beginning. Understand what you're watching. You're much more compelled by even if it's nascar or for people who get into hockey you learn the rules and then you know what you're watching all the sudden it's so much more interesting to you. What is your present. And i always say that if it wasn't for social media like we see all the metrics right now we're when it's basketball is growing growing if i if it wasn't for social media i'll believe this would be happening because it was. It's been free marketing right even for your your local college team. That doesn't get the marketing dollars. That's not getting the publicity that's not getting coverage like twitter is splayed space where you can go and say..
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"Why are you here so I got all the knows it. This isn't gonna work. You know how it happens like you just continue to send out all your little. Dvd's in one day somebody gets sick back in the day we used to me. Dvd's by dvd burner and then burn copies and then snail. Mail them to people. Sarah's get a youtube channel an iphone your set. Yeah these kids had no idea. I still have a lila's dvd's it even getting your radio broadcast who was seen dot source for days so they they thought i was crazy and then somebody gets sick in there like okay. We do have this one spot because we don't have anyone else so come on. Let's just go on a regional networks. Css asked which is not no longer existence. Until i finally had myself on television and send that out. But what we're gotta break was one year i went to napa. Which at the time was women leaders now but national association collegiate women's athletic administrators and they were holding an oxygen. And i'm just sitting there. You know i'm broken. There's no active for anything in this auction. But i'm just listening. I did have one intention is at word Coming to this event that was to be curious so like okay. I see that this woman has espn by her a. I need to meet her. At least show her ryan. I i was very good at that networking i had. No experience in broadcast did note. I was doing. But i was very good at connecting people connecting the dots. So i make staff like yes. That's great get into this auction. Did they had his auction items who visit. Espn during selection monday. And i was like. Oh my god if i could get. Espn holy smokes. The auctions going prices going up up all right. I'm out of this. So suddenly they get a bid from a woman named mary mcelroy. Who was a mentor. She actually hired me to come to georgia tech and outside. Oh mary's bidding on this. Finally my wheels returning id to. I need her to win. This running winning the bid. I dr to the back of the room is a mary. I have to have this opportunity. I will pay you. Installments fifty bucks a month being like seven hundred dollars. Something like that. i pay you. Installments displease so she agreed. Why yeah i know crazy. 'cause she she was doing it for the 'cause like she wasn't really like i'm gonna go to espn. She just wanted to to to help out so she gives it to me. I go to. Espn selection monday. I mean sage steele. I mean you know. Obviously carol stiff. That introduced me to tina. Th or in who at the time was running women's basketball tina thornton happened to be wake forest graduate. the we clicked right away on that And in the next year. I actually was on. Espn so this was maybe three years. After my first radio broadcast may have been less than that sarah But my first game. I have to tell you this really quick. My first game that i got hired for. Espn was the maggie dixon classic at madison square garden. It was passed summit. Lady balls against. Vivian stringer's rutgers scarlet knights. It was a double header. The other teams were boston college. Baylor for british grinded freshman. I did both games. I said this has to be an act of god because there is no way here and this is to be what i'm supposed to do because this is just no one could have i mean is start at msg. I've still never been to msg for any reason. Isn't that ridiculous. what's i know. I know it's spain. I know it has to happen. I gotta i gotta make it out there so your first full season of being an analyst for espn and at the time box. Sports south was twenty ten When did you get in and start working with the atlanta dream. The dream eight so that actually happened a little earlier. I was and they started on radio so the first year. They didn't actually do a broadcast so it would have been radio. The two thousand nine. They started television in two thousand nine was when i had that maggie dixon classic december was the last month of nine with the spn but long story short. Yeah so zohreh. The dream Was just coming to atlanta. I was actually part of the group that brought the team to atlanta in a way know literally well. I'm an administrative assistant. So i'm setting up meetings and meeting people. I'm not making any decisions you know. I'm on the administration side. But george attacked was obviously involves stacey. Abrams kathy betty. It'll group of women who were branly orders for bringing the team so i was kind of a part of that makes i knew conversations for happening and as soon as they were like. We're having a team. I was at every event. Like i need to be on the broadcast. However that happens you know. I need to be a part of this so yeah it was a two thousand eight at That that i'll start it and you ended up doing the first eleven straight seasons of atlanta dream hoops in existence as as a broadcaster analyst and then they had to make a switch and from what i read it was it was budgetary But what what was it like on your end to be a part of that team from the start and then to be to be. I don't know what the best word is. not fired. not laid off site So it was devastating. Bob and i are still good friends to this day. We just so enjoyed calling those games together watching this team grow. We had kind of became an integral part of this. Women's basketball space in the city of atlanta is putting team. They had been to three wnba finals which was unheard of relief for a team. That was this young I would say underestimated in a way like they. I mean there was no waiting whenever said. Oh atlanta's going to go to three finals now. People were pissed when he landed showed up at three files out. But you know. I just i just feel like what they offered bob knight to to stay with the dream at the time. And don't get me wrong. I mean. I miss humble pie as they get You know i understand that. I'm.
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"Doing here. Why why are you here so I got all the knows it. This isn't gonna work. You know how it happens like you just continue to send out all your little. Dvd's in one day somebody gets sick back in the day we used to me. Dvd's by dvd burner and then burn copies and then snail. Mail them to people. Sarah's get a youtube channel an iphone your set. Yeah these kids had no idea. I still have a lila's dvd's it even getting your radio broadcast who was seen dot source for days so they they thought i was crazy and then somebody gets sick in there like okay. We do have this one spot because we don't have anyone else so come on. Let's just go on a regional networks. Css asked which is not no longer existence. Until i finally had myself on television and send that out. But what we're gotta break was one year i went to napa. Which at the time was women leaders now but you know. National association collegiate women's athletic administrators and they were holding an oxygen. And i'm just sitting there you know i'm broken know. There's no active for anything in this auction. But i'm just listening. I did have one intention is at word Coming to this event that was to be curious so like okay. I see that this woman has espn by her. A i need to meet her at least show her ryan. I i was very good at that networking i had. No experience in broadcast did note. I was doing. But i was very good at connecting people connecting the dots. So i make staff like yes. That's great get into this auction. Did they had his auction items who visit. Espn during selection monday. And i was like. Oh my god if i could get. Espn holy smokes. The auctions going prices going up all right. I'm out of this. So suddenly they get a bid from a woman named mary mcelroy. Who was a mentor. She actually hired me to come to georgia tech and outside. Oh mary's bidding on this. Finally my wheels returning id to. I need her to win. This running winning the bid. I dr to the back of the room is a mary. I have to have this opportunity. I will pay you. Installments fifty bucks a month. You know being like seven hundred dollars something like that. I pay you. Installments displease. so she agreed. Why yeah i know crazy. 'cause she she was doing it for the 'cause like she wasn't really like i'm gonna go to espn. She just wanted to to to help out so she gives it to me. I go to. Espn selection monday. I mean sage steele. I mean you know. Obviously carol stiff. That introduced me to tina. Th or in who at the time was running women's basketball tina thornton happened to be wake forest graduate. the we clicked right away on that And in the next year. I actually was on. Espn so this was maybe three years. After my first radio broadcast may have been less than that sarah But my first game. I have to tell you this really quick. My first game that i got hired for. Espn was the maggie dixon classic at madison square garden. It was passed summit. Lady balls against. Vivian stringer's rutgers scarlet knights. It was a double header. The other teams were boston college. Baylor for british grinded freshman. I did both games. I said this has to be an act of god because there is no way here and this is to be what i'm supposed to do because this is just no one could have i mean is start at msg. I've still never been to msg for any reason. Isn't that ridiculous. what's i know. I know it's spain. I know it has to happen. I never got. I gotta make it out there so your first full season of being an analyst for espn and at the time box. Sports south was twenty ten When did you get in and start working with the atlanta dream. The dream eight so that actually happened a little earlier. I was and they started on radio so the first year. They didn't actually do a broadcast so it would have been radio. The two thousand nine. They started television in two thousand nine was when i had that maggie dixon classic December was the last month of nine with the spn but long story short. Yeah so zohreh. The dream Was just coming to atlanta. I was actually part of the group that brought the team to atlanta in a way know literally well. I'm an administrative assistant. So i'm setting up meetings and meeting people. I'm not making any decisions you know. I'm on the administration side. But george attacked was obviously involves stacey. Abrams kathy betty. It'll group of women who were branly orders for bringing the team so i was kind of a part of that makes i knew conversations for happening and as soon as they were like. We're having a team. I was at every event. Like i need to be on the broadcast. That happens. you know. I need to be a part of this. So yeah it was a two thousand eight at That that i'll start it and you ended up doing the first eleven straight seasons of atlanta dream hoops in existence as as a broadcaster analyst And then they had to make a switch and from what i read it was it was budgetary But what what was it like on your end to be a part of that team from the start and then to be to be. I don't know what the best word is. not fired. not laid off site So it was devastating. Bob and i are still good friends to this day. We just so -joyed calling those games together watching this team grow you know. We had kind of became an integral part of this. Women's basketball space in the city of atlanta is putting team. They had been to three wnba finals which was unheard of relief for a team. That was this young In i would say underestimated in a way like they. I mean there was no waiting whenever said. Oh atlanta's going to go to three finals now. People were pissed when he landed showed up at three files out. But you know. I just i just feel like what they offered bob knight to to stay with the dream at the time. And don't get me wrong. I mean. I miss humble pie as they get You know i understand that. I'm.
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"And i mean when you have sixteen siblings. You're like that. Sounds like some stuff. I need to be learning about. Family dynamics getting up well no. I've always been intrigued by people in how they connected society. You know what shapes them what makes them. They are Just some of those things so it was more that i wanted to enjoy the classes. I was taking in undergrad. I say a lot on this podcast. If i went back i would take so. Many classes in steph like sociology human ecology like the study of people and how we communicate. behavioral psychology all. That stuff like that's the stuff i find so interesting. Now as you move through the world and meet all different kinds people and all that stuff Yeah so you you have this great connection with a bunch of your coaches growing up high school college Was there a part of you that ever thought. I want to stick around and be a coach absolutely not might spheres as a student. Athlete watching my coaches in what they had to put up with with me in my teammates in our parents in the boosters in the athletic department i mean those it was just too much. It was more time than i ever wanted to spend a lot more stress than i thought i could handle. I also really just felt like. I was not cut out for the heartbreak of recruiting like spending all of that time investing and i knew that was going to be a big part of what i would do or what the expectation would be and so i mean god just hearing no over and over again after you've invested so much time in these young people who just decide. Oh i'm gonna go to this school because they have better screens in the lock right. Like i'm not i'm not out at so i knew very early on that Yeah coaching coaching was not going to be my thing. What i don't understand is how super competitive people become coaches because you do have an impact on what happens but only to a certain extent. You can't actually be on the court. i can't do it. I if i want something done. I'm just doing it myself. I don't really trust. Very many people to get shit as well as i think i could get should dung all right. Follow the game plan. What do you do you. yes exactly. Yeah well and that's so much being successful coach setting people don't realize after working at georgia tech for seven years. I worked very closely with the head coach at the time michelle. Joseph and coaching is like ten percent. Coaching it's ninety percent. People management is staff parents fundraising. It's i mean you know all of those other. How do you motivate different people and yeah just mean is one of the hardest jobs. I just yeah. I was like i'm good. So yeah let's talk about that. You were at the ac administration offices for one season right after school. And then you end up at georgia tech like you said for seven years so You did a bunch of stuff administrative assistant of recruiting director baseball basketball operations special assistant to the head coach again. Was this just. I love basketball so much. Now that i want to be near it but i'm not really sure what i wanna do. That was exactly what it was sarah like. I had zero plan coming out of college. I had a small window where i could have gone overseas to go pro But i had an injury my senior year that they have to sit out after i graduated for the tire year And so. I was by the time i did that. I got shave and that was never one of those kids out. Shooting into the lights went out. Like i love basketball and You know again. I was competitive. But i wanted to get my nails done. I wanted to go to movies. I wanna do a lot of other things right But i wanted to stay close to the game. That was one thing i did though and i was so inspired by watching pat summitt. I remember one thing vividly in my mind. It was my senior year. I went to the final four in greensboro very close to winston salem and i watched It might have been regional. I watched pat summitt coach. And i was like just in all of the impact that she was having on these women and thinking about how. The game I wanna close the game. I don't know where. I got an internship at the acc office which was great. Because i got a taste of a championship operation so we ran all the majors or championships for the acc I've got to visit all the different campuses in the league and see what their administrators do like. Okay maybe i'll be an athletic director. So that was kind of in the back of my mind when i went to georgia tech staying close to the game but eventually being an athletic director and that was not the plan after a while they ended up hiring you to do radio broadcasts. What was the impetus for that. Where you just chatting up a storm in the offices and they thought they'd redirected to something right. Gee somewhere i hit this. I hate this. I call it a midlife crisis but my twenty six years. Old okay typing. John mayer called it. Quarter life crisis. There you go. Yes that's where. I was Where i just spank my really going to become an athletic director where i have to lights in an office and you know just it just did not not allergic shirts with like unto too young for this jetting. I need to be close to the game. So i this crisis without having to do in my life And i randomly so part of my responsibilities at georgia tech or iran game operation. so even. i wasn't coaching. I had to be at every game. Make sure the ball kids were in order. Make sure boosters were taken care of marketing had their fliers all that stuff and one day they were life. Hey would you be interested in filling in on the radio broadcasts Sure what's the game started. I didn't have a ton to do. I just had to make sure everything was ready for the game like sure. I'll sit in so you know i've got my khakis on by georgia tech colo and i'm bringing my point over there mike. Okay sure. what do you guys want me to do now like you know. Just just talk the game. So i put the headset on and it was life changing. Sarah i mean you know how it is when you finally figure out what it is you love to do It just clicked right away. I was like wow. This is did not feel i worked. I could wake up and do this every day. And i'm not going to work and that's basically what happened to a ever since that's awesome. So how long. After that did you get spotted by espn and were you on television broadcasts from that point or i mean radio but like the public broadcast from that point on where you always part of the georgia tech games. Well yes so. I was was. I loved radio if i could go back now. In like 'cause you have to wear with what you look like and all those things like radio is a great place to learn. So i did that for a couple years while i was doing that. I was checking into opportunities to actually get on television. Like can i do this at the next level all of a sudden my aspirations my dreams were just growing But people were looking at me. Like i was crazy. They were like you are not broadcast organizations major. You have never been on television before you have zero experience like motor you doing here..
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"And i mean when you have sixteen siblings. You're like that. Sounds like some stuff. I need to be learning about. Family dynamics getting up well no. I've always been intrigued by people in how they connected society. You know what shapes them what makes them. They are Just some of those things so it was more that i wanted to enjoy the classes. I was taking in undergrad. I say a lot on this podcast. If i went back i would take so. Many classes in steph like sociology human ecology like the study of people and how we communicate. behavioral psychology all. That stuff like that's the stuff i find so interesting. Now as you move through the world and meet all different kinds people and all that stuff Yeah so you you have this great connection with a bunch of your coaches growing up high school college Was there a part of you that ever thought. I want to stick around and be a coach absolutely not might spheres as a student. Athlete watching my coaches in what they had to put up with with me in my teammates in our parents in the boosters in the athletic department i mean those it was just too much. It was more time than i ever wanted to spend a lot more stress than i thought i could handle. I also really just felt like. I was not cut out for the heartbreak of recruiting like spending all of that time investing and i knew that was going to be a big part of what i would do or what the expectation would be and so i mean god just hearing no over and over again after you've invested so much time in these young people who just decide. Oh i'm gonna go to this school because they have better screens in the locker right. Like i'm not i'm not out at so i knew very early on that Yeah coaching coaching was not going to be my thing. What i don't understand is how super competitive people become coaches because you do have an impact on what happens but only to a certain extent. You can't actually be on the court. i can't do it. I if i want something done. I'm just doing it myself. I don't really trust. Very many people to get shit as well as i think i could get should dung all right. Follow the game plan. What do you do you. yes exactly. Yeah well and that's so much being successful coach setting people don't realize after working at georgia tech for seven years. I worked very closely with the head coach at the time michelle. Joseph and coaching is like ten percent. Coaching it's ninety percent. People management is staff parents fundraising. It's i mean you know all of those other. How do you motivate different people and yeah just mean is one of the hardest jobs. I just yeah. I was like i'm good. So yeah let's talk about that. You were at the ac administration offices for one season right after school. And then you end up at georgia tech like you said for seven years so You did a bunch of stuff administrative assistant of recruiting director baseball basketball operations special assistant to the head coach again. Was this just. I love basketball so much. Now that i want to be near it but i'm not really sure what i wanna do. That was exactly what it was sarah like. I had zero plan coming out of college. I had a small window where i could have gone overseas to go pro But i had an injury my senior year that they have to sit out after i graduated for the tire year And so. I was by the time i did that. I got shave and that was never one of those kids out. Shooting into the lights went out. Like i love basketball and You know again. I was competitive. But i wanted to get my nails done. I wanted to go to movies. I wanna do a lot of other things right But i wanted to stay close to the game. That was one thing i did though and i was so inspired by watching pat summitt. I remember one thing vividly in my mind. It was my senior year. I went to the final four in greensboro very close to winston salem and i watched It might have been regional. I watched pat summitt coach. And i was like just in all of the impact that she was having on these women and thinking about how. The game I wanna close the game. I don't know where. I got an internship at the acc office which was great. Because i got a taste of a championship operation so we ran all the majors or championships for the acc You know. I've got to visit all the different campuses in the league and see what their administrators do like okay. Maybe i'll be an athletic director. So that was kind of in the back of my mind when i went to georgia tech staying close to the game but eventually being an athletic director and that was not the plan after a while they ended up hiring you to do radio broadcasts. What was the impetus for that. Where you just chatting up a storm in the offices and they thought they'd redirected to something right. Gee somewhere well. I hit this. I hit this crisis but my twenty six years. Old okay typing. John mayer called it. Quarter life crisis. There you go. Yes that's where. I was Where i just spanked my really going to become an athletic director where i have to lights sitting in office and you know just it just did not not allergic shirts with like unto too young for this jetting. I need to be close to the game. So i this crisis. I'm going to do in my life And i randomly so part of my responsibilities at georgia tech or iran game operation. so even. i wasn't coaching. I had to be at every game. Make sure the ball kids were in order. Make sure boosters were taken care of marketing had their fliers all that stuff and one day they were life. Hey would you be interested in filling in on the radio broadcasts Sure because what's the game started. I didn't have a ton to do. I just had to make sure everything was ready for the game like sure. I'll sit in so you know i've got my khakis on georgia tech colo. When i'm bringing my point over there to mike okay. Sure what do you guys want me to do now like you know. Just just talk the game. So i put the headset on and it was life changing. Sarah i mean you know how it is when you finally figure out what it is you love to do It just clicked right away. I was like wow. This is did not feel i worked. I could wake up and do this every day. Select i'm not going to work. And that's basically what happened to a ever since that's awesome. So how long. After that did you get spotted by espn and were you on television broadcasts from that point or i mean radio but like the public broadcast from that point on where you always part of the georgia tech games. Well yes so. I was i was i loved radio like if i could go back now in by 'cause you have to wear with what you look like and all those things like radio is a great place to learn so i did that for a couple years while i was doing that. I was checking into opportunities to actually get on television. Like can i do this at the next level. All of a sudden My dreams were just growing But people were looking at me. Like i was crazy. They were like you are not broadcast or communications major. You have never been on television before you have zero experience..
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"Up competitiveness and leadership and all the other stuff So despite saying that you weren't talented in that you were clumsy you still went to wake forest and you played for four years and you left the school third in school history with blocks and fifteen rebounds and all i think. Acc it fresh revered all that stuff so just talk about that experience at wake forest and I of the kids to go to college. Yeah yeah i of the kids of the sixteen siblings. Only two of us have graduated college by mother woods college. She was all about education so something that. She preached about but This whole college. Scholarship thing was new to our family. I mean i remember someone showing up ford official visit. We were totally unprepared. My mother was on that tonight because she's got a houseful kids. Where like it out there. They're pulling up. We're supposed to you know be entertaining some of you. Know one of the top coaches at the time in the acc But it was. It was interesting Wake forest was a place that i ended up for several reasons number one because i needed A small school you know. Four thousand undergrad. At the time maybe has grown a little bit. but that's a very saul power over. Four thousand undergrad. But i love. The individual attention from professors could play in the acc. But not really bad. Good so you. At the time. When i came in we read on bottomley. Acc so i do. I was going to get playing time. some of the other schools. That recruiting me. I was like okay. They're recruiting me to be the fourteen fifty player on the bench. I just wanna play. Because i knew that i had some time to make up. We're all these drills had been planned. They were like six or seven. What like i need to get on the court and see what might potential is But it will also has challenges. I would say Trying to integrate myself into a predominantly white school Being away from from home for the first time like many college students athletes are not have to face but it was incredible. Probably couldn't have made a better decision. As far as a place where i needed to be to work my way through some of those challenging dynamics i had a black woman as a head coach which was unheard of. I believe she was the first black head coach ever in in the acc for women's basketball. So that was important to my mom. And i but yeah. I mean it was the best four years of my life always so far and i had a great time. We'll get right back to the interview but i. What is your favorite word. My favorite word is intentional. You know it's been something that has been a a theme throughout my career in my life i used to be. I will say as a kid the one that always used to ride the wave right so whatever everyone else wants to do. I was in whatever was happening. Let's go for it. But i just found that adult that it worked out very well coming so i started to be more intentional about my brand. Why was the impact on wanted to have in the world. what. I stood for all of those things. So that's probably my favorite word. I i love that word. And i love that sentiment so good on you for understanding that the focus and intent that you needed to thrive and shine and then and then doing it so intentional done with intention designer purpose circa fifteen twenty s It's a great one. Speak great words you today. The word of the week is in honor of china's unique upbringing and many siblings. A new word to add to our vocabularies feel genitive circa eighteen seventeen meaning inclined to the production of offspring or fond of children. It's combination of feel meaning love or having affinity for and latin progenitor meaning bhagat or gotten so it can refer to the production of spring or loving of them and feel per genitive nece. The love of offspring instinctive of the young in general is from eighteen. Fifteen so both were first attested. In translations of johann spurs time. This was a german physician. Who is one of the chief. Proponents of the pseudoscience phonology. Which believed that. You could look at the bumps and shape of a cranium to decide someone's character and intelligence and stuff and for knowledge. Ists use this word feel per genitive to designate a specific bump or organ of the brain that they thought was the seat of apparent instinctual love for his or her children. It is a not off use word but it felt useful for us to learn so in a sentence la- china's fellow presentative father produce enough children to feel two basketball teams and they're competitive. Family gatherings helped make her hoops star. Now let's get back to the interview degree in sociology. What did you think you wanted to do. I mean you're not living unless you change your major lie. Tom so i came in saying i want to be a lawyer or slobs major History or something. Like that undergrad. You know find my way. And then i realized how much reading and writing i was going to have to do in like no fake snacks so then i decided i wanted to be a psychologist because i wanted to talk. People do their problems than commonly on my couch I've always been someone who who cares. So much about people what they're experiencing in life and i was like that'd be perfect and then that's the intro. Class almost failed more science than i could have ever imagined so i was like i'm out of here then. I literally sociology on sleep. Because i really did my homework on. The coursework and i took classes like social inequality loom sports sociology of sport Death and dying marriage and a family..
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"Up competitiveness and leadership and all the other stuff So despite saying that you weren't talented in that you were clumsy you still went to wake forest and you played for four years and you left the school third in school history with blocks and fifteen rebounds and all i think. Acc it fresh revered all that stuff so just talk about that experience at wake forest and I of the kids to go to college. Yeah yeah i of the kids of the sixteen siblings. Only two of us have graduated college by mother woods college. She was all about education so something that. She preached about but This whole college. Scholarship thing was new to our family. I mean i remember someone showing up ford official visit. We were totally unprepared. My mother was on that tonight because she's got a houseful kids. Where like it out there. They're pulling up. We're supposed to you know be entertaining some one of the top coaches at the time in the acc But it was. It was interesting Wake forest was a place that i ended up for several reasons number one because i needed a small school you know. Four thousand undergrad. At the time maybe has grown a little bit. but that's a very saul power over. Four thousand undergrad. But i love. The individual attention from professors could play in the acc. But not really bad. Good so you. At the time. When i came in we read on bottomley. Acc so i do. I was going to get playing time. some of the other schools. That recruiting me. I was like okay. They're recruiting me to be the fourteen fifty player on the bench. I just wanna play. Because i knew that i had some time to make up. We're all these drills had been planned. They were like six or seven else. Like i need to get on the court and see what might potential is But it will also has challenges. I would say Trying to integrate myself into a predominantly white school Being away from from home for the first time like many college students athletes are not have to face but it was incredible. Probably couldn't have made a better decision. As far as a place where i needed to be to work my way through some of those challenging dynamics i had a black woman as a head coach which was unheard of. I believe she was the first black head coach ever in in the acc for women's basketball. So that was important to my mom. And i but yeah. I mean it was the best four years of my life always so far and i had a great time. We'll get right back to the interview but i. What is your favorite word. My favorite word is intentional. You know it's been something that has been a a theme throughout my career in my life i used to be. I will say as a kid the one that always used to ride the wave right so whatever everyone else wants to do. I was in whatever was happening. Let's go for it. But i just found that adult that it worked out very well and so i started to be more intentional about my brand. Why was the impact on wanted to have in the world. what. I stood for all of those things. So that's probably my favorite word. I i love that word. And i love that sentiment so good on you for understanding that the focus and intent that you needed to thrive and shine and then and then doing it so intentional done with intention designer purpose circa the fifteen twenty s It's a great one. Speak great words you today. The word of the week is in honor of china's unique upbringing and many siblings. A new word to add to our vocabularies feel genitive circa eighteen seventeen meaning inclined to the production of offspring or fond of children. It's combination of feel meaning love or having affinity for and latin progenitor meaning bhagat or gotten so it can refer to the production of spring or loving of them and feel per genitive nece. The love of offspring instinctive of the young in general is from eighteen. Fifteen so both were first attested. In translations of johann spurs time. This was a german physician. Who is one of the chief. Proponents of the pseudoscience phonology. Which believed that. You could look at the bumps and shape of a cranium to decide someone's character and intelligence and stuff and for knowledge. Ists use this word feel per genitive to designate a specific bump or organ of the brain that they thought was the seat of apparent instinctual love for his or her children. It is a not off use word but it felt useful for us to learn so in a sentence la- china's fellow presentative father produce enough children to feel two basketball teams and they're competitive. Family gatherings helped make her hoops star. Now let's get back to the interview degree in sociology. What did you think you wanted to do. I mean you're not living unless you change your major lie. Tom so i came in saying i want to be a lawyer or slobs major History or something. Like that undergrad. You know find my way. And then i realized how much reading and writing i was going to have to do in like no fake snacks so then i decided i wanted to be a psychologist because i wanted to talk. People do their problems than commonly on my couch I've always been someone who who cares. So much about people what they're experiencing in life and i was like that'd be perfect and then that's the intro. Class almost failed more science than i could have ever imagined so i was like i'm out of here then. I literally sociology on sleep. Because i really did my homework on. The coursework and i took classes like social inequality loom sports sociology of sport Death and dying marriage and a family..
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"Your dad was an independent newspaper owner and publisher despite not finishing high school. So you see him. Make himself an into an entrepreneur. And also get into the world of media. How much of an impact do you think that had or was it. Not till later in life when you sort of came around and made that connection. Yeah my dad. Lives a very complicated life Him owning a newspaper was god Without getting into a two hour. Long podcast It was his most legit job throughout his his life right And i was not really aware of it at the time. My mother talked about it. I have copies of the newspaper like my aunt worked at the newspaper. You know it was just a kind of like a family thing at the time. But i wasn't really aware of it as a kid. But i do believe that. My dad has such a gift of communication of wanting to disseminate information wanted to help people. He's just been You know kind of that person. He's that guy who would eighty one of the community has the issue up on. They call him. And so that's always been inspired me to see how people adore him. How they rely on him and i do think it has impacted the person i am the media side of it not so sure but again because he has just been Someone that people can rely on. Someone is a public figure in the community. Like like that part of it. I i definitely Tried to take on as i was coming up. Okay so i read that. You were a cheerleader. And that's where you thought you belonged. And then you get up to six feet four somewhere near there early on in high school and realized that you should check out basketball. Why wasn't that the expectation earlier in life. I mean i just that seems wild to me that at no point growing up would it feel like. Hey she's gonna be pretty tall and let's give this a shot well first of all. My mother didn't even realize i was tall and so she tried to give me like a champ down rest for my sister now. My sister Is five six six four and so she tried to give me one of her dresses that she wore when she was four years old issues. Like this is not fitting in. I don't understand what's happening It gone to her on her. Obviously after a while. When i started out my sister she was like holy smokes. You growing like a weed. But i did try basketball in the sixth grade. I just hated it. I was lying. L. this is not fun because my dad was kinda like that That community basketball hero. Like all the project championships. And you know he was. He was demand and so we would go to his games. I knew he played there. Were no female athletes on my mom's side. That wasn't even insane. My mother was like listen. If you're going to be sweating your hair out. If people are going to be yuppie we will we won't be there So but as i got older my older sister started to play. Actually two of my older sisters started to play basketball. Which was like okay. But i still wanted to hang out with my friends so i was a cheerleader. I was like i'm going with my girls. Are i wanna wear this short skirt. Aluminum attention And it wasn't until a guy. My community just kept coming around name. Is michael j. He was like telling my mom. She needs to play basketball. Play basketball and at this point. I was probably in the eighth grade. And he's so tall you know and then he just mentioned to her that i could get a cost all shape and was this. She pretty much dropped me off at practice back to give me. How quickly did you learn to love it after not liking it early on right away because i was in such a difficult stretch as a teenage girl where i was taller than everyone myself. Sustain was really low. Puberty hit me way late So i was somewhat miserable. Couldn't figure out where in the world i fit in. I was like what am i supposed to be doing with this right. You go to basketball practice and finally like okay. So being tall has its advantages. I started making friends in no learning to communicate and all those things that teenage girls kinda start struggling with over time and so it just. I started to feel like there was a place for me in and to really grow in connect in a way that i could nowhere else. That's woodward started. And then i realized that i was just ultracompetitive. I wasn't talented at all. I don't think anyone ever say. I've been naturally talented. I'm very clumsy all the things that make for bad athletes like i have it but Yeah it it definitely started with opening the door of Friends in a safe space and then it was just that i. I am ultra competitive. I talked about that all the time. That i don't know if i hadn't been an athlete. I was an athlete from the beginning. Like as soon as i think my first word was ball. But if i hadn't done that how much tougher it would have been. And i was only six feet when i was twelve but that felt way too tall and awkward and puberty didn't hit me well and i was like if i didn't have this thing to feel good about of why i'm tall and strong and athletic. If i didn't use that it would just felt like such burden. Instead it became the store..
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"Your dad was an independent newspaper owner and publisher despite not finishing high school. So you see him. Make himself an into an entrepreneur. And also get into the world of media. How much of an impact do you think that had or was it. Not till later in life when you sort of came around and made that connection. Yeah my dad. Lives a very complicated life Him owning a newspaper was god Without getting into a two hour. Long podcast It was his most legit job throughout his his life right And i was not really aware of it at the time. My mother talked about it. I have copies of the newspaper like my aunt worked at the newspaper. You know it was just a kind of like a family thing at the time. But i wasn't really aware of it as a kid. But i do believe that. My dad has such a gift of communication of wanting to disseminate information wanted to help people. He's just been You know kind of that person. He's that guy who would eighty one of the community has the issue up on. They call him. And so that's always been inspired me to see how people adore him. How they rely on him and i do think it has impacted the person i am the media side of it not so sure but again because he has just been Someone that people can rely on. Someone is a public figure in the community. Like like that part of it. I i definitely Tried to take on as i was coming up. Okay so i read that. You were a cheerleader. And that's where you thought you belonged. And then you get up to six feet four somewhere near there early on in high school and realized that you should check out basketball. Why wasn't that the expectation earlier in life. I mean i just that seems wild to me that at no point growing up would it feel like. Hey she's gonna be pretty tall and let's give this a shot well first of all. My mother didn't even realize i was tall and so she tried to give me like a champ down rest for my sister now. My sister Is five six six four and so she tried to give me one of her dresses that she wore when she was four years old issues. Like this is not fitting in. I don't understand what's happening It gone to her on her. Obviously after a while. When i started out my sister she was like holy smokes. You growing like a weed. But i did try basketball in the sixth grade. I just hated it. I was lying. L. this is not fun because my dad was kinda like that that community basketball hero like all the project championships. And you know he was. He was demand and so we would go to his games. I knew he played there. Were no female athletes on my mom's side. That wasn't even insane. My mother was like listen. If you're going to be sweating your hair out if people are going to be your be we will. We won't be there So but as i got older my older sister started to play. Actually two of my older sisters started to play basketball. Which was like okay. But i still wanted to hang out with my friends so i was a cheerleader. I was like i'm going with my girls. Are i wanna wear this short skirt. Aluminum attention And it wasn't until a guy. My community just kept coming around name. Is michael j. He was like telling my mom. She needs to play basketball. Play basketball and at this point. I was probably in the eighth grade. And he's so tall you know. And then he just mentioned to her that i could get a cost all shape and that was this. She pretty much dropped me off at practice back to give me. How quickly did you learn to love it after not liking it early on right away because i was in such a i was in a difficult stretch as a teenage girl where i was taller than everyone myself. Sustain was really low puberty. hit me way late so i was somewhat miserable. Couldn't figure out where in the world i fit in. I was like what am i supposed to be doing with this right. You go to basketball practice and finally like okay. So being tall has its advantages. Started making friends in no learning to communicate and all those things that teenage girls kinda start struggling with over time and so it just. I started to feel like there was a place for me in and to really grow in connect in a way that i could nowhere else. That's woodward started. And then i realized that i was just ultracompetitive. I wasn't talented at all. I don't think anyone ever say. I've been naturally talented. I'm very clumsy all the things that make for bad athletes. i feel like i have it but Yeah it it definitely started with opening the door of Friends in a safe space and then it was just that i. I am ultra competitive. I talked about that all the time. That i don't know if i hadn't been an athlete. I was an athlete from the beginning. Like as soon as i think my first word was ball. But if i hadn't done that how much tougher it would have been. And i was only six feet when i was twelve but that felt way too tall and awkward and puberty didn't hit me well and i was like if i didn't have this thing to feel good about of why i'm tall and strong athletic. If i didn't use that it would just felt like such burden. Instead it became the store..
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"A very special appearance. Now they're very special because she's so famous and popular the terms of her Talent contract deems that she only can work about five days during spring and summer and they must be from a bar colleen whoa day and what a day thanks coming to my club all right set the scene for us then all right so here we are. We are in west hollywood california. At rocco's we ho- this is the heart the heart of how would you put it. Ricky how would you put this in the center of boys town which is west hollywood right next to a rainbow flag crosswalk and june is pride month. So we're excited to be debuting. Our pride episode of around the nfl in person and we also have another special you. Don't we do this. We have a lot of people here. By the way we have a bit of a celebration here for our road show And very excited colleen's dad is here. He's at a neighboring table. right now. Talk nickname is frenchie frenchie. Early pride episode was coming up on a plane. I'm gonna frenchie wolf out here Gonzo and connie's friend miles. His dad's here so there at one table. And that's sitting again as well on the show but really sitting in just to hang out with us. In fact she didn't even know the around the nfl. Podcasts was taping to fourteen minutes ago. She thought it was the broadcast which is a vanity project for erica lakisha jackson wesseling. So this is so nice. I mean it's so great to be here in this part of the city right in the middle and the heart of pride month. Erica our wonderful producer. Nfl's resident lesbian but also our friend and we thought it'd be nice thing and this is really ricky's brainchild to go on location. This is the first time we've been together doing a show since like when many moons. I mean i would say you have to go back to combine before twenty twenty combine pandemic potentially. I mean a show of this magnitude right. I think there might have been a thursday night. Football recap we did from a socially distance in a garage maybe late last year but this the first time we're altogether during the show and i don't mark you and i are on opposite ends of this. I'm so ready to get back together in a workplace. Do a podcast together. More human connection. And i know there's the the case for the other way but come on hold on hold on. It's like nice. We're looking up at the hollywood hills. It's about seventy five degrees We are surrounded by a flock of like eight nine ten roaming about i am totally happy. Here this is not what i'm talking about. This is summer no but i. I am an investigation about the twenty percent. We know who the one twenty percent erica. The other twenty percent greg. What do you have to say. Just maybe a little bit of all of us you know. Everyone's a little There is bark seems totally at ease. Dan is the one it's partly because he's the host that he's used to having things set up a certain way. That seems a little more uncomfortable. I mean that's maybe it's the surroundings. Yeah i would say it has nothing to do with where we are and why we're doing this episode but just there's a lot of moving parts and i'm also under a son that is determined to burn me alive by baking in the sun right now. All the rest of us are like nicely shaded. it's couched in wonderful shade. Dan claims because he's part austrian. He's finding under the sun. But i'm starting to see a little perspiration and our song is plane dan right. We don't have the copyright control over that so don't pay attention to that line the music playing or the truck for the dump trucks going on behind the zone so chris wesseling is with us as he always always and in fact. Connie you saw something else. Right down the street here on santa monica boulevard. Oh yeah when we were walking up there were all these big green eggs for sale right out front at like the hardware store right next door and they were just like out in front of us and my dad was like. Oh i love green eggs. It's like it's a sign so the quiches here big green eggs here. The reds are here. West is here. He is with us as always says mark pop quiz. Actually you know what. Because i didn't like the insinuation by greg greg. Why is pride month in june. I know you're uncomfortable of the stonewall. Riots okay gotcha gonna guess that's not something you guess for. I thought that was going to be part of like erica's time. Basically dana's set it up now and now we're going to hand the show over to erica for the next thirty five forty minutes and sees explain what pride means the her exactly ricky now and i wanna to say in preparation for today's show. I went and reread that. Awesome article you wrote on. Nfl dot com last year about your experiences as a gay woman sports media and at the nfl and it was just so well done. And really. i. I couldn't have yup more respect ricky. For what for what you do and how you express yourself in that article and so this is a nice thing for us all to be together celebrating all means a lot that you say that. Thank you and you guys were the first people that i told even publicly back. What three four. Years ago now.
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"Ahmad. Welcome to around the room. Thank you thank you for having me. So ahmad within about two weeks of the sierra annual meeting the world essentially shut down due to the coronavirus outbreak at the beginning of the pandemic what were the initial challenges facing the sierra. A great question because we've been been monitoring the situation right before they osama and trying to communicate with the members in advance just to make sure that would ready for whatever might hit us and we were so lucky that it just missed us. Few days i would say But the main challenges were surrounding the attention span and the changing needs of our members they were instantly from the traditional optimal care practice management to a different level of practice management. Tyrod virtual care. I do. I do advocate for you. Know billing and there's there's all sort of new problems that of surfaced. We've kind of had those problems before. But they were very minor on the scale and suddenly they were the top three parties. Now that we have to deal with so there was a bit of a that kind of moment where you have to think about. What do we do. Who do we tap into. Because there aren't many experts in that field absolutely and and i'm curious to get even deeper into that. How did you actually pivot the organization from whatever your annual plan was to suddenly all resources and all hands on deck had to be working on the covid aspects of rheumatology in canada. How did you actually functional is that we're so lucky to have such an engaged membership about a third of our members are involved somehow with the sierra More than just attending a conference. I would say and that kind of gives us sort of a concert finger on the pulse in terms of what we can't what we should do and Sort of leadership one on one in crisis. What leaders to do is communicate. Communicate communicate so what we started with is first right off. The bat is started with communication and open up those channels of communication so we created the president's update the weekly update and that seemed to have been more very well received and we started creating opportunities for dialogue. We when we kind of needs assessment. And i'm surprised. How while responded to those needs assessments. Were but that was the basis basically of all our action is is listen communicate. Listen and respond as quickly as possible so so those were kind of the the issues that you're facing as a leader of the sierra and wondering personally what were some of the biggest challenges you you personally faced adjusting the reality that the kids are going to be at home all day long. I mean we're virtual organization and we did not really have a lot of business. Continuity issues like mini associations had to struggle. We don't have a bricks and mortar. We don't have an office. Mike commute consists of walking. Down from my. You know bedroom to the basement. So that wasn't an issue per se that having to go to office for gold going to office but the the idea that you know the kids are home all day long. you know. It's me and my spouse both was had to deal with that situation and you know it's also making me. My kids are young. They had to understand that when daddy's in the room and rooms closed and you could hear some sort of a conversation going on you just don't barge in. That was at the beginning though after a while. I think people are now sort of immune to these things. We've seen people on cnn where people are just walking in the back and actually this is some of the positive side you know side effects of the pandemic that these conversations and at least the video chat become a bit more human mean. You don't have to be polished so yeah. I think those are
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"Turn it. Hand called his time inside. The ten inside the five touchdown seahawks back. It's up five. Doesn't matter alex collins is gonna punch it in for you anyway. Steve ray will. Kiro with the call outs. Columns ran for eight yards on a yard score. Russell wilson threw two fourth quarter. Touchdown passes the tyler lockett the seahawks rally twenty six twenty three win over the niners <hes>. They end twelve and four. The seahawks four game winning streak <hes>. But they are locked in at the number three seed. because of the saints packers winning the seahawks will host the rival rams in the wildcard round next week and mark. How good you feel about the seahawks. After today's game i would. I'm concerned about their offense. It's almost like a flip inverse relation to where they were earlier in the year. Where the offense was we watched it through the air. We had russell wilson pegged as a potential mvp because of how they were allowing him to play and how decay metcalf antilock. We're playing and the defense was all the concern. I mean lock it today. Set a seattle seahawks record for receptions in a season decay metcalf set a franchise record for yardage in a season but a lot of that has to do with the compiled numbers from earlier on this team. At one hundred and nine yards the start of the fourth quarter. They couldn't run the ball and it took a very typical seahawks. Finish the tyler lockett touchdowns and the alex collins dash for a score. I mean they came up late in a game where i would put this a little bit into divisional game against cal shanahan. Who robert sala. Who thought again. It's been weeks in a row. Coaching lights out. I'll made things real tough for seattle seattle things tough for the niners in the opposite way just sort of a typical nfc west beatdown and this niners team. They keep flashing to the box up in the sky where like star players not in the game. I mean they're doing with nobody and seattle. They work themselves out of a funk to some degree. do i trust them