In The Moment with David Greene

Two-time MVP Elena Delle Donne is considered one of the best to ever play in the WNBA. In 2019, she led the Washington Mystics to their first WNBA championship in franchise history. Playing through three herniated discs, a broken nose and a knee injury, Delle Donne managed to dominate in the winner-takes-all Game 5 putting up 21 points, 10 rebounds and five assists.  “I was given all the warnings....

Larry Fitzgerald is considered one of the best wide receivers of all time, and is expected to be a first ballot NFL Hall of Famer. But in his 17 seasons with the Arizona Cardinals, he made it to the Super Bowl just once. In 2009, the Cardinals were the underdogs against the Pittsburgh Steelers. They were behind Pittsburgh most of the game until the last few minutes of the fourth quarter. That’s wh...

Raiders tight end Darren Waller is now considered one of the best tight ends in the NFL. But just a few years ago, he wondered if he would ever get back to the game. After being suspended for a year from the Ravens for a positive drug test, he was working in a local grocery store and going through rehab. “When I took that job, I had no desire to play football,” Waller told In the Moment’s David Gr...

Tampa Bay’s Chris Godwin is one of the NFL’s best wide receivers. But the career-defining moment that sticks with him: when Tom Brady handed off the ball to him for a five yard run in the 2020 NFC championship game. Godwin says time slowed down. “I'm watching what's happening as I'm doing it,” he tells In the Moment’s David Greene . “It's like an out of body experience.” Now, after sitting out par...

From the people who brought you Man in The Arena comes a new podcast that takes you inside the mind of an athlete during one of the most important moments of their career. Each week, In The Moment host David Greene sits down with the biggest names in sports to dive into career-defining moments from their point of view, second-by-second. This podcast transports listeners to in-game moments: from Su...

It's finally time to talk about Tom Brady's legacy. Gotham Chopra is the director of the ESPN Plus docuseries “Man In The Arena” and host of this podcast. He’s also spent a lot of time working closely with Tom as a collaborator and friend. In this bonus episode, Gotham shares his unique perspective and reaction to Tom Brady's retirement. He'll also take you behind the scenes of "Man in the Arena."...

There’s an old saying that pro athletes die twice. First, when their career ends. Second, of course… when they actually die. The transition from pro sports to regular life is so extreme that it feels as terrifying as dying. And what’s especially scary about that transition is that you’re facing … the unknown. Tom Brady has figured out the formula to keep playing football for at least the foreseeab...

This episode looks at how the NFL and Tom Brady are viewed by the “other” football—AKA soccer. Can American football ever speak the language of international sport, become truly global, expand its appeal across the pond... and even beyond? Or is there something about the game that makes it... too American? And what can football tell us about who we are as a country?  Guests: Harry Kane, Roger Benn...

When Tom Brady won his first Super Bowl, social media barely existed. But now Brady is kind of a master of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, even Tik Tok. For Brady and other athletes, the key to success is making people think they're seeing the real you—something that is a lot harder than it sounds.  And we’re now in a world where pretty much all of us can share something about our personal lives onl...

At one point during Super Bowl 51, the Pats had a .02 percent chance of winning the game. But that game wasn’t the first time that Brady faced long odds. In fact, in a lot of his previous playoff games he’d had win probabilities in the low single digits: 7 percent, 4 percent. But Brady and the Pats kept winning, and in Super Bowl 51… they did it again. So is Brady magic? Or do we just have the ide...

Time just seems to move differently in football. There are 60 minutes on the game clock, but the games take three hours to play. For the players, time can seem to slow down at certain moments, during certain plays. But then... the whole season seems to go by quickly. And most careers are over in only a few years. And it's not just football. For all of us, time flies, it crawls, it stands still, an...

When you’re taught that winning is everything, losing the Super Bowl can be a significant blow. And after a dynasty that saw three titles in four years, a decade-long championship drought can hit hard. But sometimes the biggest failures can ultimately lead to success. GUESTS: Rich Ohrnberger, Xiaodong Lin-Siegler from Columbia’s failure-studies research center Thanks to ESPN and The JFK Presidenti...

Only one team in NFL history has had a perfect season, and it wasn’t Brady’s Patriots. In 20007 Tom Brady and the Patriots were on the cusp of perfection when they fell short against the Giants in the Super Bowl. But perfection is a spectrum, and how we define it depends on the metrics we use to measure it. Could that Giants team have been the one with a “perfect” season that year? Could even the...

America’s collective adoration of the underdog means that people love to hate Tom Brady. In the world of sports, hatred is inevitable, so why are haters always gonna hate? And in the context of sports, could hate be a positive thing? What might it take to change one fan’s mind? Featuring: 12-year-old viral Brady-hater Ace Davis, Asst. Prof. of Psychology at Univ. of Central Arkansas Marc Sestir, a...

In 2001, Tom Brady became the Patriots’ savior when he helped the franchise win their first Super Bowl. But why did the city embrace a guy that might not have fit the profile of a blue-collar Boston fan? How did Brady help redefine what it means to be a Boston sports fan? And how much do the players we think of as “ours” really belong to the community that roots for them? Guests: Boston sports fan...

Here’s the Tom Brady Origin Story: Twenty years ago, a hit by Mo Lewis knocked Drew Bledsoe out of the game. Brady stepped onto the field and a dynasty was born. One play determined Tom Brady’s future and the future of a franchise. Or did it? Is this story more myth than fact? What if that hit hadn’t happened? One small moment can make a huge difference, but is there more to it than that? Featurin...

Whether you love him or hate him or are somehow completely indifferent, you’ve probably spent the last 20 years thinking about Tom Brady. Brady has altered friendships, families and communities. He’s changed the trajectory of careers and reputations, enabled fairy tale dreams to be both realized and dashed. This 10-part series looks at those two decades of Brady through the eyes of the fans and th...