Adam Cheek's Sports Week

After a quick Seahawks-themed introduction, I sit down with VCU freshman guard Nyk Lewis to talk about his 2025-26 season and joining Phil Martelli Jr.'s squad to begin his college career (listen for us cracking up when some of his teammates stopped to offer him food during the interview). He also talked about his thoughts on the Siegel Center's iconic atmosphere, starting a majority of...

SB Nation's Mark Schofield is back! We vowed that if my Seahawks and his Patriots won their respective conference title games, we'd do another podcast previewing them facing off in the Super Bowl. We break down offense and defense for both Seattle and New England. For the Seahawks, we talk about if Sam Darnold can avoid seeing ghosts; how receiving weapons like Jaxon Smith-Njigba and Coo...

My friend Brandon Shillingford is back on the podcast for the Sports Movie Showcase's third straight Safdie spotlight! This time, we look at Josh Safdie's solo directorial venture from 2025  Marty Supreme , which scored nine Oscar nominations. We talk about Timothée Chalamet's lead performance and if it can land him the Oscar, Safdie's trademark anxiety-inducing direction, the...

One of my favorite and most recurring guests is SB Nation's Mark Schofield, who is back on the podcast ahead of conference championship weekend in the NFL! As he's a Patriots fan and I'm a Seahawks fan, we give our predictions for how our teams will do this weekend, and look ahead to Super Bowl LX. We talk about whether the Seahawks can keep their best-team-in-the-NFL status and the...

I sat down with my friend Christina von Claparede-Crola -- aka Christina Louise in the Richmond music scene -- to talk about her upcoming single, "Half-Smoked Cigarettes," her Jan. 19 release show at Révéler in Carytown and being a part of the Richmond music scene since 2018. This is in collaboration with Richmond Magazine; I wrote about Christina's new song and show for the magazin...

Join me as I ramble about 100 episodes of Adam Cheek's Sports Week! I talked to some friends about how they've seen me change over the past couple years that I've been doing this podcast -- as a person, professionally, everything -- and that kind of serves as the basis for this episode. I talk about finding the balance between work and then doing this podcast in my free time while s...

My buddy Alex Soderstrom is back on the podcast and back for another College Football Playoff preview for the second straight year! This time, Indiana unseated Ohio State for the top seed heading into the postseason, and we've got some fun underdog teams like JMU and Tulane in the mix. Alex and I break down the first-round matchups and the teams with byes the winners will face heading into th...

In a somewhat non-sports edition of the podcast, my buddy and Richmond musician Justin Paciocco sits down with me to talk about his new EP, X, and the two singles he's released from the record so far. He also talks about his career in the RVA music scene, some of his favorite venues and his upcoming release show at Révéler in early January. Justin is also a Rams fan, and since I'm a Seah...

Continuing the Safdie trend on the Sports Movie Showcase lately, Brandon Shillingford returns to the podcast to talk about Uncut Gems -- what he considers one of the great American films of the 21st century. One of our favorite films from a stacked 2019 that included efforts from Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese, along with other stellar movies like Parasite, Marriage Story, Ad Astra and Kniv...

After realizing I never posted my interviews from the postgame of Banana Ball's visit to Norfolk, here are my conversations with Andy Cosgrove, Ben Dum and Bradford Webb on the field and in the dugouts at Harbor Park! Andy ended up being named Banana Ball Rookie of the Year for his season with the Party Animals, and he was also on Love Island Australia prior to joining up with one of the spor...

Ben Dum is back on the podcast, this time after his stellar 2025 Banana Ball season and Pitcher of the Year Award. The VCU alum played in the Twins' and Braves' systems for several years before joining Banana Ball, pitching for the Firefighters at MLB and minor-league stadiums across the country this past year. Ben toed the rubber in 10 of the 30 major league stadiums in 2025 and talks a...

Initially recorded as one cohesive episode -- but due to some technical difficulties, lost to time -- my friends Brandon Shillingford and Adam Harrell join for two segments of the latest Sports Movie Showcase. We talk about  The Smashing Machine , starring Dwayne Johnson as Mark Kerr and directed by Benny Safdie. We discuss The Rock's performance, Safdie's first directorial effort away f...

VCU basketball senior Christian Fermin joins me for this episode ahead of VCU basketball's 2025-26 campaign. Fermin is playing for his third coach in four years, having been recruited by Mike Rhoades his freshman year, played under Ryan Odom his sophomore/junior seasons and now working with incoming coach Phil Martelli Jr. Ferm and I talk about how his role on the team has evolved, chasing a...

After Pam Grier in part 1, this episode features my other three interviews from Animate! x Nightmare Weekend Richmond 2025, with Fred Williamson, Astravoid Cosplay and Brian O'Halloran. Huge thanks to all three for chatting with me! Fred was gracious enough to spend some time talking about his football career with the Steelers, Raiders and Chiefs, where he won the 1966 AFL championship, and t...

I got the opportunity to cover Animate! x Nightmare Weekend Richmond for the third straight year, and the legendary Pam Grier -- star of Jackie Brown , Coffy , Foxy Brown and so much more -- was gracious enough to sit down with me for an extended interview. We talked about her career and she told some stories, including how she landed her role in Escape from L.A. We laughed a lot, she talked about...

I always love having guests from my radio days on the podcast, and it was great to catch up this episode with Natalie Kalibat -- former ABC 8 sports anchor here in Richmond and current ESPN+ broadcaster, as well as the host of the "Diving in Deep" podcast. Natalie and I talked about her time in Richmond, including some of her favorite moments -- from covering NASCAR at Richmond Raceway t...

Marc "Cheats" Cheatham -- founder of The Black Baseball Mixtape podcast -- is back for a third straight year to talk Major League Baseball postseason action. Amid the ALDS and NLDS going on, we talk about how flat the Yankees have looked, the Blue Jays coming out swinging, the tough battle between the Mariners and Tigers and how fun the Seattle lineup is. Cheats and I also look at the NL...

Alex Soderstrom is back on the podcast to kick off October as we give our thoughts after seeing the football horror movie HIM , released in mid-September 2025 and starring Tyriq Withers, Marlon Wayans and Julia Fox (and produced by Jordan Peele, as if the movie's ad blitz didn't make that clear). Minor spoilers as we talk about a movie that tries to tackle (ha) a lot of things -- footbal...

In a generally non-sports edition of the podcast, I'm joined by Billy Bacci -- who has played music with some of my friends in Richmond, works on solo projects and has been in the scene for more than a decade -- to talk about a bunch of topics. We discuss his band Paint On It's new album "Sunshine Trash," as well as the interconnectedness of the RVA music scene, all the project...

I sat down with Richmond Flying Squirrels manager Dennis Pelfrey -- who was on the first-ever episode of the podcast -- in the dugout of the Diamond to talk about the team's 2025 season. Pelf and I talked about the team's 2025 campaign, including his becoming the Squirrels' all-time winningest manager earlier in the year and how he approached the team's rebound in the second ha...

Alex Soderstrom returns to the podcast -- and the Sports Movie Showcase -- for another film (after Remember the Titans ), choosing The Blind Side this time around. It'd been ages since I'd seen it, so it was interesting to see how (mostly badly) it's aged over the past decade and a half, especially given Michael Oher disputing a lot of what was portrayed in the film. We discuss how...

In this special, extended episode, former VCU, Red Sox, Padres and Orioles pitcher Cla Meredith sat down with me for nearly two hours to talk about his career in Major League Baseball -- the good, the bad, the ugly and plenty of incredible stories from his time in the pros. I've talked with Cla before in various capacities, but this was the most in-depth chat with him yet. From being drafted...

James Taubl -- you know him as Jimmy Strings from Banana Ball's Texas Tailgaters -- sat down with me a few weeks after his team played in a showcase at the Diamond. We talked about his time playing college ball at Sacred Heart and his subsequent time working for MLB Network, and also discuss what led him to Banana Ball. He plays the fiddle and pitches for the Tailgaters, so he breaks down how...

When Banana Ball returned to Virginia in Norfolk, I sat down with VCU alum, former Texas Rangers MiLB pitcher & current Firefighters pitcher Bradford Webb to break down his career. We also realized that I broadcasted one of his starts for VCU's WVCW Radio during the A-10 Championship in 2021. He talked about what brought him to Richmond to pitch for the Rams during his graduate year; gett...

During our Sunday (Aug. 3) drive home from MLB's Speedway Classic at Bristol Motor Speedway, myself and my friends Adam, Jason and Alex (all past podcast guests) talk about our experience at the unique Braves-Reds matchup at NASCAR's iconic short track. Was it truly the baseball version of "Fyre Fest" like some were saying? Definitely not, but we do give our takes on how it cou...