Locked On Presents: Slaying Goliath – How Appalachian State Conquered A Giant

Chapter 3: Everyone we talked to for this podcast from Lou Groza award winners to a Pro Football Hall of Famer agreed that the best pro and college kickers are athletes who played a lot of sports growing up. As University of Florida Gators kicking great Bobby Raymond put it, they learned to be competitors by playing everything rather than just kicking. The best kickers often are “jack of all trade...

Chapter 1: This is the story of how two different kickers used the same strategy to climb from rock bottom to become the best amateur kickers in the country. Lou Groza Award winners Alexis Serna (Oregon State Beavers) and Brad Craddock (University of Maryland Terrapins) came close to quitting for different reasons, but the way they overcame obstacles was the same. These two kickers explain the min...

(CONTENT/TRIGGER WARNING: Sexual Assault) In a special edition of Locked On Presents, Locked On NHL local hosts Erica Lindsay Ayala (Locked On Kraken), Ann Kimmel (Locked On Predators), Jay Forster (Locked On Blue Jackets) and Rachel Donner (Locked On Flyers) come together for a round table discussion on the fallout from the Chicago Blackhawks' sexual assault cover up, the NHL's handling of the si...

This week we continue a two-part conversation between a group of LGBTQ+ hosts from the Locked On NHL channel on being Queer in the world of hockey. Featuring Jay Forster (Blue Jackets), Sarah Avampato (Kings) Robby Leaño (Coyotes) and Rachel Donner (Flyers), this week's conversation picks up with some talk of how each of the panelists made their way into hockey media, before pivoting to a discussi...

On a special episode of Locked On Presents, a group of the Locked On NHL channel's LGBTQ+ hosts team up for a round table discussion on being queer in hockey, their personal entries into covering and following the sport, and the NHL's inconsistent approach to LGBTQ+ inclusion, from pride nights that miss the mark, to some of the league's disappointing choices to serve as Hockey Is For Everyone amb...

Locked On Presents: More Than the Game. returns with part four of our series of interviews, conversations, and roundtables covering opportunity, activism, protest, and Black history in sports. In this episode Christopher Carter of Locked On Steelers, Aaon Freeman of Locked On Falcons, and John Hickman of Locked On Texans discuss Black history in sports. How Black players and broadcasters have made...

Locked On Presents: More Than the Game. returns with part three of our series of interviews, conversations, and roundtables covering opportunity, activism, protest, and Black history in sports. In this episode Millard Thomas of Locked On Diamondbacks, Jay Stephens of Locked On Buckeyes, and Trey Matthews of Locked On Devils discuss protest in sports. How protests in the sporting world have helped...

Locked On Presents: More Than the Game. returns with part two of our series of interviews, conversations, and roundtables covering opportunity, activism, protest, and Black history in sports. In this episode Ross Jackson of Locked On Saints and Candace Cooper of Locked On Tar Heels discuss the duality around covering Blackness in the sports media space. How to balance having a platform to say what...

Welcome to Locked On Presents: More Than the Game. February is Black History Month and the Locked On Podcast Network is honoring the challenges and success of all Black people in sports. This is part one of a weekly series of interviews, conversations, and roundtables covering opportunity, activism, protest, and Black history in sports. Today, Erica Ayala (Locked On Women's Basketball) and Candace...

Growing up, Kyle Dugger used to watch football for hours. He grew up on gridiron gladiators like Adrian Peterson, Troy Polamalu, Ed Reed and Eric Berry. It was that passion for the game he loved that pushed Dugger to become the highest-drafted Division II prospect in the NFL Draft in two decades. Not only that, but Dugger was New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick’s first draft pick of the...