Adam Cheek's Sports Week

I caught up with Sam Hunt, who runs the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series team Sam Hunt Racing, for the latest episode. Sam is a VCU graduate who raced in the K&N East Series before starting SHR in 2019, and the team has blossomed into a contender for wins and now fields two cars in NOAPS competition. Sam breaks down his early interest in racing, how the VCU School of Business helped prep...

Alex Soderstrom returns to the podcast for another sports movie episode, and this time we take on one of our favorite baseball movies with 1989's Major League  since it's MLB All-Star Game month. We dive into the well-rounded cast, ranging from Charlie Sheen and Wesley Snipes to Tom Berenger and the standout, James Gammon, as well as how the casting made a group of ragtag baseball player...

VCU baseball legend Tyler Locklear is back on the podcast! I got to sit down with the now-MLB veteran to talk about the trade that sent him to the Arizona Diamondbacks from the Seattle Mariners last summer, what that process was like and playing with guys like Corbin Carroll, Zac Gallen and Ketel Marte in the desert. Tyler suffered an injury late last season that he's been rehabbing in Reno t...

WVCW Sports' Ben Rekosh returns to the podcast to talk VCU baseball on the heels of the Rams' incredible 2026 postseason run, winning the Atlantic 10 Tournament and making an NCAA Regional appearance while beating #23 Tennessee in a headline-making upset. We talk about the prowess of head coach Sean Thompson in just his second year, along with sophomore catcher Jacob Lee's record-ty...

My friend Ed Coombs joins me for a World Cup-themed episode of the Sports Movie Showcase as we tackle Kicking & Screaming , the 2005 Will Ferrell soccer comedy. This is kind of the forgotten Ferrell sports film in a run that spanned Talladega Nights, Blades of Glory and Semi-Pro, but we check out how it's held up. I'd never seen it and had a great time with it, so we discuss how it&a...

In a reversal of the usual podcast format, my friend Alex Soderstrom interviews *me* -- I designed, wrote and planned out a NASCAR exhibit at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture that debuted on First Fridays in early June. The exhibit is a celebration of Richmond Raceway's 80th anniversary, chronicling the track's history in Virginia, memorable moments, local drivers, ties to the...

Richard Linklater's 2016 film "Everybody Wants Some!!" is one of my favorite sports movies and comedies. I embarked on a project to create a sort of oral history of the film, its creation behind the scenes and its lasting legacy by talking with those involved -- the actors, crew and more. In this first installment, I interview actor Will Brittain, who portrayed Billy Autrey (dubbed...

While Monaco is no longer on the docket for Memorial Day Weekend's Greatest Day in Motorsports, we still have the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 to look forward to. Two of my Frontstretch compatriots, Alex Gintz and Michael Massie, join to discuss both marquee events. Alex, on the way home from Indy 500 qualifying weekend, breaks down the front row of Alex Palou, Alexander Rossi and D...

On the heels (hoofs?) of the Kentucky Derby, Jason Boleman returns to the podcast for the first time since last fall to talk about Secretariat , spotlighting the Virginia horse that won the Triple Crown in 1973. We get sidetracked a lot, but we do talk about when Virginia is mentioned in the movie, how the horse-racing scenes are put together, the performances by stars like John Malkovich and Dian...

Got to head out to CarMax Park for Banana Ball to kick off May! Got to chat with four players this time around, starting with Richmond's own Jackie Bradley Jr., the everyday outfielder for the Boston Red Sox through much of the 2010s (plus a 2016 All-Star and a Gold Glove winner, World Series champion and ALCS MVP in 2018). He became the first full-time former MLB player in Banana Ball when t...

Justin Fensterman returns to the podcast to talk all things NBA playoffs at the start of Round 2! We break down the first round first, starting with the absolute barnburner of a series the Timberwolves and Nuggets put on. We touch on the three Game 7s, two blown 3-1 leads by the Magic and Celtics, the Thunder sweeping and LeBron still doing it with the Lakers. Then, we take a look at the conferenc...

On the latest Sports Movie Showcase, I'm joined by my friend Meghan Baker to talk about one of our favorites, Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!! from 2016. It was released in a stacked year and flew under the radar, but it's an incredibly fun hangout movie centered around college baseball and never gets old. It was one of the early roles for cast members Zoey Deutch, Glen Po...

My friend Ryan Quigley joins the podcast for the first time to preview the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs! Ryan's a Flyers fan, so we start off by talking about how Philadelphia turned things around this season, their first-round matchup with the Penguins and if they can make a run. On the Eastern Conference side, we also discuss whether the Hurricanes can finally get over the hump and make the St...

Got to sit down again with VCU basketball head coach Phil Martelli Jr. a few weeks after the Rams played in the NCAA tournament! Martelli is coming off a 28-8 debut season with the Black and Gold, leading the Rams to an A-10 Tournament championship and Round of 32 appearance in March Madness. Coach and I look back at his first season -- from the way the team came together and the run VCU made in t...

VCU's Jacob Lee, ranked the preseason No. 7 catcher in Division I baseball, sat down with me in late February to talk about his second season on the Rams. The backstop batted .288 with 59 hits, 17 homers and 65 RBI last season, along with 333 putouts behind the plate. We discussed what brought him to VCU in the first place, working with head coach Sean Thompson -- they both began their respec...

I sat down with Reese Ahalt, who was a member of the VCU Gold Rush dance team before joining the ROAR of the Jacksonville Jaguars on the NFL sidelines. We caught up just ahead of the team's Alumni Weekend performance at VCU's homecoming game against Fordham. Reese talks about some of the similarities and differences between dancing for VCU and cheerleading for the Jaguars, along with wha...

I sit down with WVCW Sports' Ben Rekosh to talk about VCU's trip to the NCAA Tournament, huge upset win over North Carolina in Greenville, Phil Martelli Jr.'s extension and the offseason ahead for the Rams. As a VCU and WVCW alum myself, it was awesome to see Ben and company spotlighted by Martelli in his postgame presser, and we talk about what it meant to the radio crew. We cover...

GalaxyCon Richmond is back! I covered the event for the fourth year straight and caught up with some recurring podcast guests, along with a couple celebrities at the ribbon-cutting to open the weekend. First, Brian O'Halloran talked about his love for the Richmond restaurant scene and how he caught VCU-UNC at Penny Lane Pub on Thursday, along with appearing with fellow View Askewniverse-ers K...

VCU is headed to March Madness! After running the table in the A-10 tournament, the Rams are on their way to a first-round matchup with North Carolina as an 11 seed in the NCAA Tournament. I sit down once again with Ben Rekosh, co-sports director at WVCW at VCU, to talk about his time in Pittsburgh watching VCU get crowned conference champions and what he expects from the Rams in Greenville. We ta...

My buddy Alex Soderstrom is back on the podcast for his fourth Sports Movie Showcase -- this time his first non-football movie with Hoosiers . The film turns 40 this year, but we thought we'd tackle it with March Madness just around the corner -- though this is my first time watching it. We talk about Gene Hackman's leading role as head coach Norman Dale and Dennis Hopper's Oscar-no...

Ben Rekosh, the current co-sports director of WVCW Radio at VCU, jumps back on the podcast to talk about the Rams' men's basketball season at length and preview the Atlantic 10 Tournament. We talk about what head coach Phil Martelli Jr. said in his press conference just before Ben and I recorded at the Siegel Center, as well as our takeaways from his first season at the helm of the team....

I caught up with Sean Thompson a few games into the VCU Rams' 2026 baseball season. The former VCU pitcher, who spent some time in the White Sox organization, was named as the Rams' head baseball coach last season. We talk about the roster turnover in the offseason and what Sean learned the most from his first year at the helm of the Black and Gold. Thompson also discusses what he and th...

I sat down with Michael Belle, one of the longest-tenured VCU Rams men's basketball members, ahead of the team's final two home games of the 2025-26 season. The junior guard/forward is in his third season with the team and has found success from beyond the arc, making twice as many threes this year as his first two seasons combined. Mike talked about the differences between Coach Odom an...

I sat down with VCU Gold Rush dance team captain Ryane Jones and lieutenant Zeariah Reeves to talk about their roles with the team -- from being leaders on the sidelines during the game to being the team's senior leadership outside the game. We talk about what goes into their on-court performance -- auditions, practices, gameday prep -- and how they balance the dance team with classes. I also...

My buddy Jackson Hardy joins the podcast this week to talk about  Hustle , the 2022 basketball movie starring Adam Sandler! This completes a sort of Sandler / Safdies arc on the podcast, which started with  The Smashing Machine , then went to  Uncut Gems  and  Marty Supreme, and concluded with the (other) Sandler basketball film. Jackson and I talk about how well-crafted the movie is and how it ha...