Sports Will Save Us All | A Sports Podcast Where Sports Are Just the Beginning

Ace Rodrigues discovered Pickleball during Covid and within minutes had declared it the "greatest sport ever". He soon drew up plans for what would eventually become Pickleball Kingdom and is now launching a pickleball reality show called PICKLEBALL PADDLE BATTLE hosted by former Bachelor, Clayton Echard. You can find Pickleball Kingdom online at pickleballkingdom.com. If you want to learn more ab...

Steve & Sasha are back for another episode of Sports Will Save Us All's SPORTS ON SCREEN with AIR, directed by Ben Affleck and starring Matt Damon, Viola Davis, Jason Bateman, and, of course, Ben Affleck as Nike head, Phil Knight. Decked out in what Sasha calls "a rainbow of beige," Nike Executive Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon) relentlessly pursues an up-and-coming Michael Jordan (whose face we never...

Christine McMaster-Shah is an absolute expert in the sport of artistic swimming (formerly known as synchronized swimming). In addition to winning a National Championship herself with the Arizona Aqua Stars, she has been a coach since 2004, is a nationally rated judge in the sport and currently serves as the Officials Chair for the Arizona Artistic Swimming Association. Christine also helped found...

Happy New Year, Sports Fam!  Finally, some New Year's Resolutions you'll WANT to keep!  Every December, brimming with optimism and determination, people around the world set their New Year's Resolutions, so why are a whopping 43% of New Year's Resolutions abandoned by the end of January?!  In today's special episode Sasha breaks down some of the most common New Year's resolutions, explains why the...

On September 13, 2023 at just 16 years old, Stuart Hawkins signed a professional soccer contract with Seattle Sounders FC, arguably Major League Soccer's most successful team. In a press conference following the announcement Stu explained that he had recently gotten his driver's license, but that his parents didn't trust him to drive himself to practice just yet.  In this week's episode Sasha chat...

After serving 23 years in the Navy as a helicopter pilot, Walt Morgan now teaches a Leadership and Sports class at the University of Colorado and owns a company called Translational Lift Coaching where he strives to deliver what he calls, "Outcome-based coaching with sustainable results."  If you'd like to learn more about Walt and his coaching services, you can find him online at tliftcoaching.co...

Paola Boivin was a sports reporter with the Arizona Republic for 22 years and now works as a professor at Arizona State's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism where she is also the director of the Cronkite News Phoenix Sports Bureau. She has been a frequent guest on ESPN and she has covered multiple Olympics, Final Fours, Super Bowls and everything in between.  Paola was the first female sports re...

Jeff Seckendorf doesn't seem to have met a lot of sports where he didn't excel. His experiences range from land (ice climbing) to sea (scuba diving) to air (aerobatic flying) and have culminated in his current passion,  the velodrome, where he rides his fixed gear, brake-less bike really, really fast. Jeff currently holds the hour record at the San Diego Velodrome and is now training for an attemp...

In this follow-up to their 2022 interview, Christine shares how she has found her way back to the track after a devastating crash left her with multiple, serious injuries. She credits a gutsy combination of determination and detachment for her success and describes the ways that she is now shedding the detachment piece of it to bring the "blood & fire" on the Velodrome. Also, have you ever wondere...

Ryan Lockard is the founder of Specialty Athletic Training, a company that trains clients with disabilities at several locations in the Pacific Northwest. In this week's episode Ryan and Sasha discuss the inspiration behind the company, the viral video of SAT client, DJ Pat, dancing his way through his workout, and the way his company is changing lives one workout at a time.  You can find Speciali...

In a follow-up to their recent review of Netflix's JOHNNY FOOTBALL, Steve & Sasha talk with Johnny Manziel's former best friend and the architect of his college autograph empire, Nate Fitch. Nothing is off the table in this surprisingly candid look at life during Nate and Johnny Manziel's time at Texas A&M. Nate saves the biggest surprise for the end, and it sort of made our day.  You can find JOH...

THE UNKNOWN SPORT OF WATERSKIING is a beautiful documentary that simultaneously introduces its audience to the sport of competitive waterskiing and some of the top athletes competing today. In this week's episode Sasha chats with filmmaker John Waldron about the challenges of making the movie, how he got such great interviews with the athletes, and his own background in film & sports.  You can wat...

Johnny Manziel took the college football world by storm as a freshman at Texas A&M in 2012, with a shocking victory over Alabama and soon after as the first freshman to ever win the prestigious Heisman Trophy. But all was not well, as the fame, money, and partying soon caught up to Johnny and his trajectory towards NFL superstardom flamed out in a maelstrom of money and drugs. Steve and Sasha find...

On a recent episode, Cal Football Hall of Fame player Jerrott Willard wisely remarked that, "parenting is harder than sports" and truer words have not been spoken. In this week's episode Sasha chats with Tara Wells, a south Florida-based psychotherapist and mental performance coach about how we can support our kids, and ourselves, through sports and beyond.  Tara is one of the hosts of the great p...

Sports Will Save Us All is on location at Camelot Therapeutic Horsemanship's Fall gala, Starry Knights! In this very special episode, Sasha talks with standout athletes from the NFL, MLB, professional softball, professional pickle ball, semi-pro soccer, wheelchair rugby, hockey, lacrosse, golf, diving, cycling, and of course, horseback riding. Camelot is a ranch in North Scottsdale that has been s...

SuAnne Big Crow was a high school basketball star from the Pine Ridge, South Dakota reservation. SuAnne played in the 90s and by the time she was 14 she had become one of South Dakota's best basketball players and led her high school to become the first ever Native American State Champions. But SuAnne wasn't just an athlete, by age 17, her social activism had made her a household name across the G...

Rachel Koteen went to college with Lin Manuel Miranda, plays on a hockey team called the Sharknadoes, and is a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.  In this week's episode Rachel chats with Sasha about her new documentary, TAKE THE ICE, which takes the viewer behind the scenes to the beginnings of the National Women's Hockey League in 2015. TAKE THE ICE premiered at the Queens World Film Festi...

Steve is back in studio with Sasha for another installment of Sports on Screen, this time to discuss the critically acclaimed 2017 Margot Robbie movie, I, TONYA.   Sasha & Steve have a lot of strong feelings about this one, Sasha gets a little feisty, Steve gets a little feminist, and ultimately, they disagree on whether or not I, TONYA Makes the Cut!  About Sports on Screen Sports on Screen is th...

Sasha was delighted when Shea Warren, a logging sports enthusiast from Northern Arizona University, arrived at the studio with her own hype woman, Niah Deuel. Niah takes full credit for finding logging sports for Shea when they both arrived at NAU as freshman and is unabashed in her enthusiasm and support and its easy to see why. Listen in as Shea describes the excitement of running around the for...

This week's guest is former National Hockey League player, Billy Huard. Billy had a professional career of over 600 games, including 7 years at the NHL level with the Boston Bruins, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Nordiques, Dallas Stars, Edmonton Oilers and Los Angeles Kings. He played during the height of the enforcer era and was known as one of the toughest enforcers on the ice.   But Billy is one of t...

This week's guest is waterski champ Abbi Grathwohl. Abbi was the 2016 PanAmerican Slalom, Jump and Overall Champion, the 2016 USA Under-21 PanAmerican Team Member Gold Medalist, and the 2017 USA Under-21 Worlds Team Member Silver Medalist.  She skied for 4 years on the D1 University of Alabama ski team, where she graduated with a degree in Biology in 2020 and come May we're going to be calling her...

Taylor Ovens started roller skating when she was just 3 years old and by the time she was 15 she was a multi-time National Champion. In 2011 at just 18 years old she represented the United States at the World Championships in Brazil. In this week's episode Taylor shares incredible stories from her own experiences, along with her plans for the future, inside and outside of the skating world. In add...

Sasha's great friend, Steve, joins her in-studio for a brand-new Sports Will Save Us all series called Sports on Screen. In this debut episode they talk all about Gran Turismo , the new movie based on the unbelievable true story of a teenage gamer who is tapped to become a professional race car driver as part of Nissan's GT Academy.   In this hilarious episode, find out why Orlando Bloom made Stev...

This week's guest, Russ Hustead, has so many incredible stories (Athlete! Physician! Pilot! Flight instructor!) that we nicknamed this week's episode "Stories With Russ". So sit back, grab yourself a beverage, and enjoy the ride while you hear about this guy's incredible adventures on land and in the sky!  You can find Russ on Instagram @skyking1066 and online at skykingsoaring.com. Big thanks go...

This week marks our final episode of Baseball Month and my guest is Ray Young. Ray was just 19 years old when his 98 mile an hour fast ball caught the attention of the LA Dodgers and he would spend the next 16 seasons playing here in the US and two years playing in Japan in the Japanese Major Leagues. His stories are about so much more than baseball though, you're going to love this episode. You c...