Engel Angle

Mac is joined by Adam Alexander and Jake Query for the first of two episodes. Adam is currently the most prominent TV play-by-play voice in NASCAR. Jake hosts his own radio sports talk show in Indianapolis. The connection? Mac, Jake and Adam graduated from Indianapolis North Central high school in 1991, and were in the radio/tv/film classes at the J Everett Light Career center as juniors and senio...

Rather than take time off in the summer, Mac returns to try something else in his bid to fight the waistline. Mac believes in the power of exercise, and setting attainable goals while you go. On this episode, he tries former LSU gymnast Livvy Dunne's ab routine. Will he live or die? (FYI: This episode works MUCH better with the video).

At Big 12 Media Days, Mac chats with Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark to discuss the state of major college football, the future of the college football playoff, and the best advice he ever received.

Award-winning and best selling author Mark Kriegel joins Mac to discuss his new book, "Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson."

With the NBA Finals starting, Mac jumps into a topic that has changed over the last two decades: Cheering in the press box. He grew up a Pacers fan, and he's not afraid to say he has "Pacer Pride." This sort of thing has been taboo in sports journalism, but we need to stop kidding ourselves.

Mac was recently a card dealer at a faux Choctaw casino inside a party tent at the Charles Schwab Challenge PGA Tour event in Fort Worth last week. It did not go without incident. Mac has enjoyed a lot of odd experiences just like this, mostly because he doesn't know how to say "No," isn't afraid of looking stupid, and because he might get a good story out of it.

Ron Thulin has been in sports broadcasting for more than 60 years. He has called Olympics, baseball games in Cuba, major college football but he's most known for calling the NBA on TNT. When media mogul Ted Turner created TNT in the late '80s, Thulin was hired as a play by play voice. Ron talked to Mac about his career, and the relationship between TNT and the NBA, which ends soon. The NBA will no...

Mac watched an advance screener for the 2025 summer blockbuster movie, "Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning." And while his experience in the theater was a mess, thanks to the person sitting next to him, he enjoyed the movie. What he doesn't like is one particular part about Tom Cruise. And it's not what you think.

After attending the AC/DC concert in Arlington, Texas with his 16-year-old daughter, Mac got to thinking about what it means to be "washed up." There are ages and stages to this moving target that all of us can't avoid.

Now that Rory McIlroy has won the biggest golf tournament on the planet, The Masters, Mac is compelled to share a funny story about his "time" with the golf great. This "run in" happened during the PGA Tour event amid the fun that was the time of COVID, in June of 2020, when things were just a bit different.

ESPN NBA reporter Tim MacMahon has his new book on NBA All Star Luka Doncic done and finished. It was printed, and then he received a phone call that the Dallas Mavericks traded Luka to the L.A. Lakers. A new chapter was added, and now Tim has the timeliest book of the year on shelves, "Luka Doncic and the Curse of Greatness." Tim joined Mac to talk about the book, and why the Mavericks made the b...

Mike Kopelman is the CFO of one of the growing sensation that is "Meow Wolf" and he talks to Mac about this odd phenomena. What started out as a unique tourist destination in Santa Fe, New Mexico is blossoming into an interactive entertainment option with spots in Denver, Las Vegas, Houston, Grapevine, Texas and soon to be Los Angeles. Plus, Mac explains the torture of having a name that no one ca...

If you are planning a trip, here are the sporting events that you need to attend, and you don't need to be a fan of either team to enjoy the experience. Mac lists his favorite "bucket list" sporting event destinations.

Kim Alexander was married to, and had two kids with, former NFL player, Elijah Alexander. She had "the fairytale" life. And then reality hit her family when Elijah was diagnosed with a rare blood cancer that took his life, in 2010. She talked to Mac about the realities of being married to an NFL player, and going through the hell of caring for, and ultimately, losing her husband to cancer.

On this episode of The Engel Angle, Mac recounts an especially brutal Valentine's Day from his youth, when he looked like THIS.

With the Dallas Open this week in Frisco, retired American tennis pro John Isner talked to Mac about his long, fascinating career that may never have happened had he pursued what people his height normally do - play basketball.

LPGA Tour veteran Angela Stanford retired from the game last year, and she joins The Engel Angle to talk about her more than 20 year career. A graduate of TCU, she has the distinction of having been in a sorority in college, something that likely would never happen today with a top tier NCAA Division I athlete. She has thoughts about the state of the sport, as well as her desire to potentially pla...

In the latest edition of The Engel Angle, Mac does a throughline of the Dallas Cowboys head coaching job, which is now open after Mike McCarthy and team owner Jerry Jones could not come to an agreement about much of anything. Former Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman said on ESPN that he does not believe the Cowboys head coaching job is "coveted," for the obvious reason: Jerry Jones. Aikman has a poi...

For this latest episode of The Engel Angle, Mac discusses the reality of having a concussion. It's not fun. Because it's Christmas season, he lists his favorite Christmas movies.

The SMU alum and Dallas resident unknowingly became one of the key figures in the return of the Mustangs' football program to national relevance. In 2010, Matula directed the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary, "Pony Excess," the story of the SMU football team's infamous Death Penalty. SMU is currently the surprise of the entire college football season having been invited to the 2024 college football play...

Dana Benbow had never written a book before but was handpicked by Jeanette Lee, "The Black Widow" to write her memoir. The long time sports journalist at the Indianapolis Star worked on the book with Lee, while she was in the hospital receiving chemo treatments. The book is out now, and Benbow talked to Mac about this unique process as well as her career covering sports in the Midwest. She shares...

On the latest episode of The Engel Angle, Mac weighs in on a topic that is the rage of college football: Deion Sanders. Props to the second year coach at the University of Colorado for making that once dead program thrive. Also, let's not kid ourselves about Deion. Nearly every single big time college coach is a liar and a hypocrite, but what Deion did to Jackson State was just so wrong.

Pickleball is a thing, and it's thriving. The Professional Pickleball Association (PPA) comes to Dallas for its world championships this week, and the little game created in 1965 is pushing tennis off the court. Literally. Former Cal tennis player Anna Bright gave up the sport after college, and now she is one of the best pickleball players in the world. She talked to Mac about her career, making...

She will never get the credit but Jeanette Lee was before her time. Known all over as The Black Widow, Lee became a sensation in sports before Instagram, TikTok or any social media app. The woman who became one of the top pool players in the world has a story you may not believe. Lee appeared on The Engel Angle to talk about her new memoir, her life growing up in New York and the journey to becomi...

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