Dashing Dan’s Sporting Adventures

This Week's Guest for Kiss Professional Solutions is Charlie King . He has been an ABC Broadcaster in Darwin for almost 30 years and attended multiple Olympic and Commonwealth Games as a broadcaster.  He also is well known for his commitment to social justice in setting up the no more campaign to stop family violence amongst Indigenous communities. He was awarded an order of Australia for his work...

Tom Morris is a successful AFL Journalist and cricket broadcaster. He is the chief footy reporter for channel nine, hosts the furnace footy show on channel Nine and is part of the part of the Tuesday night Footy Classified Program hosted by Eddie McGuire.   He also commentates Cricket for SEN and is a very good cricketer having played Grade cricket for St Kilda.   Tom has had his challenges in thi...

***NOTE: This episode was recorded before the community round, and the injuries of some of the players mentioned in this podcast as a result of community round.*** Join Dan Lonergan, Darren Parkin and Damian Watson on Dashing Dan's Sporting adventures for part 4 of our AFL Season preview.   This week it's Darren Parkin's Saints. Can they rise from a middle-of-the-road team and kick more goals?   S...

On this week's Dashing Dan Sporting Adventures Podcast, join me and esteemed sports broadcasters, Damian Watson and Darren Parkin as we continue our preview of the AFL season for KISS Professional Solutions .   This week we assess Melbourne and whether they can bounce back into the finals after a poor 2024, Will North Melbourne improve? What of Port Adelaide in Ken Hinkley's last year as Coach ? a...

This week on Dashing Dan's sporting Podcasts it's part 2 of the AFL Preview for 2025.   Walking sporting encyclopedias and esteemed broadcasters, Darren Parkin and Damian Watson join me thanks to Kiss Professional Solutions to talk about the prospects of Fremantle, Perennial Finalists, Geelong, whether Gold Coast can finally make the 8, Can GWS put their finals fade out behind them and can the Haw...

AFL Season is just over a month away and hope springs eternal for every club that this year might be the year or a vast improvement on the previous season.   Dashing Dan's Sporting Adventures Podcasts is previewing every club's chances in the lead-up to the season with myself, Dan Lonergan, and leading commentators and walking sporting encyclopedias, Darren Parkin and Damian Watson for Kiss Profes...

On Dashing Dan's sporting adventures this week, we preview the NFL Super Bowl next week between Philidelphia and the Kansas City Chiefs searching for three Super Bowls.   They last met two years ago when the Chiefs won narrowly, NFL expert Josh Wye gives his view on the game, the season and the coaching upheaval that has again affected many teams thanks to Kiss Professional Solutions.

The Australian Open has been run and won for another year with Maddison Keys a very popular winner of the women's comp and in some ways, a surprising Victor, who was world number one, Jannick Sinna steamrolled through to win the men's.   To discuss those performances and many other issues from the Australian Open, It was great to catch up with Tennis Commentator and long-time Tournament Director,...

Today is part 2 of Dashing Dan”s adventures  on Dashing Dan’s sporting Adventures for Kiss Professional solutions. Damian Watson delves ito Dan’s career in Perth and return to the ABC in Melbourne,  his three Olympics and other spurting highlights and how hard it was when he was told his dream job was over. Enjoy. Thanks to our sponsor Kiss Professional Solutions 1300 KISS PS (5477 77) www.kissps....

Thanks to Kiss Professional Solutions our sponsor for this episode -  "Whatever your office technology needs may be, we are here to provide sound advice, competitive pricing, and unparalleled customer support."  http://www.kissps.com.au 1300 KISS PS (5477 77) After hosting his podcast and being the interviewer, Dan Lonergan reluctantly agreed to be the interviewee for Dashing Dan's Olympic Adventu...

Thanks to Kiss Professional Solutions our sponsor for this episode -  "Whatever your office technology needs may be, we are here to provide sound advice, competitive pricing, and unparalleled customer support."  http://www.kissps.com.au 1300 KISS PS (5477 77) Damian Watson is a respected sports broadcaster who began his career with EON Sports Digital Radio in 2016. He has gained experience comment...

My guest today on Dashing Dan's Sporting Adventures played League Footy in the 1980s.   That was when recruiting was vastly different.   After being recruited from Gippsland, Alister Ford played his first game as a 17-year-old.   It was the days when you as the player and your family may not have known a club was after you or you were in their zone.   This is his story of what some might say parti...

My guest today on Dashing Dan Sporting Adventures Podcast is an elite sports person in a number of sports.   He was an outstanding junior middle-distance runner at school, winning the 800 and 1500 metres at the Prestigious APS Sports at Xavier College in Melbourne.   Injuries then curtailed his running career and to help heal he hopped on a bike and then concentrated on road cycling and became a p...

Our guest on Dashing Dan's Sporting Adventures is one of the greatest race callers this country has produced.   Greg Miles called 36 Melbourne Cups and numerous other major races after starting as a 22-year-old with the ABC in 1981, replacing long-time legend Joe Brown.

Here is Part 2 of Dan's chat with Sports Commentator Matt Hill    Matt Hill is fast becoming one of this country's best-ever sports broadcasters.   He started as a race caller, eventually replacing the incomparable Greg Miles in Melbourne. He has now called nine Melbourne Cups with superb accuracy and brilliance.   He is also a senior AFL Commentator with Fox Footy and SEN and has covered and comm...

Matt Hill is fast becoming one of this country's best-ever sports broadcasters.   He started as a race caller, eventually replacing the incomparable Greg Miles in Melbourne. He has now called nine Melbourne Cups with superb accuracy and brilliance.   He is also a senior AFL Commentator with Fox Footy and SEN and has covered and commented on only seven Summer and Winter Olympic events, including th...

Today’s guest is simulcast on both Aussie Home Loans Inclusion Talks and Dashing Dan’s Olympic Adventures podcasts. Amanda Shalala is an esteemed sports broadcaster, journalist, and producer for ABC TV Sport. She has covered four Paralympics including the Winter Games in Sochi and the Olympic Games in London and Paris this year. She will also cover the Paris Paras about to start and here is her Jo...

Before the Olympics, I caught up with broadcasting great, Gerard Whateley, who had the wonderful job of calling the athletics for Channel Nine, Gerard did a fabulous job and on our latest episode on Dashing Dan’s Olympic adventures I spoke to him just days after returning from the Games about his experiences and the highlights of which there were many from a world and Australian perspective and it...

Today’s guest on Dashing Dan’s Olympic Adventures is a current Olympian who has represented Australia at these Olympics in Paris. She is at her 4th Olympics and is a diver who in Paris finished fifth in the 3-metre synchro swimming with Maddison Keeney, who at the time of recording was in the final of the individual synchro. Annabelle won bronze in 2016 and was fifth in Tokyo and has also won a go...

One of our first podcasts was with Olympic Gold medalist in Cycling in the Madison in Sydney, Scott McGrory. His partner in that event, Brett Aitken was at his third Games, having won medals in the previous two in the 4000-metre team pursuit.   Brett Like Scott endured some family tragedy in the lead-up to these games. Here is his inspirational story brought to you by Aussie Home Loans ...   Learn...

My guest today is a former colleague and a great swimming commentator, Gerry Collins, who broadcast the swimming at six Olympic Games from 1988 until 2008 for the ABC. He saw some of the greatest swimmers ever and races in Olympic History. Here is his story on Dashing Dan’s Olympic Adventures Podcast for Aussie Home Loans .                                                                     

We are halfway in the Olympic Games and there have been so many highlights, especially from an Australian perspective with 12 gold medals. As you would expect from an Olympics, there has also been plenty of controversy. On Dashing Dan's Olympic Adventures Podcast for Aussie Home Loans I catch up with Broadcasting legend Glenn Mitchell to get his take on the first week and what lies ahead for the s...

Kris McCarthy was an 800-metre runner, who was just 20 when he was chosen to run for Australia at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. It was a dream come true early in his career to be part of a home Olympics.   There were plenty of obstacles put in Kris' way as he explains in his Olympic adventure....   Aussie Home Loans - www.aussie.com.au

Kim Crow, now Brennan, is a three-time Rowing Olympian including winning Gold at the 2016 in the Single Sculls and 2012 a silver in the Double Sculls and Bronze in the Single Sculls.   She was a champion former Junior Hurdler before a bad injury ended her aspirations in that sport and she was spotted by a Talent ID program and the rest is history.   Thank you to Aussie Home Loans  

Chris Anstey had an outstanding Basketball Career. He was drafted to The NBA and played with Dallas and Chicago.   He also represented Australia at the 2000 Olympics where the Boomers finished 4th and in 2008 where they were seventh, but missed out on Athens due to Injury.   He had a spectacular NBL career and was a star in Russia as well. Here is his Olympic Journey for Aussie Home Loans.   This...