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

Baseball Month continues on  SPORTS  WILL  SAVE   US   ALL ! Movie director Jeff Celentano is on the show this week talking  all about the challenges, triumphs, and pure joy of finally bringing his new film, THE HILL, to the big screen. THE HILL tells the true story of baseball phenom Rickey Hill, who overcame huge physical challenges to make his dreams come true.  THE HILL will be in theaters eve...

Colin Ford stars as Rickey Hill, alongside Dennis Quaid, in the new movie THE HILL (in theaters August 25). Colin talks with Sasha about the experience of making the short film Cactus Boy right here in Arizona, what it took to play a baseball phenom, and why he filled his cleats with rocks to run around the bases.  THE HILL will be in theaters everywhere on August 25th. Visit  Chris-Brake.com  to...

Coach Charlie Williamson is a presenter and spokesperson for the Positive Coaching Alliance, the host of the soon to debut podcast,  Talking With Coaches , and a former professional baseball player with the Diamondbacks organization. You can find Coach Charlie's podcast,  Talking With Coaches , wherever you get your shows.

Anthony Phillips is originally from Belleville, South Africa and has been a member of the Seattle Mariners, Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and Colorado Rockies organizations. In 2018 Anthony became a coach for the minor league affiliate of the Oakland A's and is now one of the owners of the Arizona Badminton Center here in Mesa, Arizona where he has also started training and...

Rakshith Srinivasan is a promising young athlete, author, and founder of a nonprofit called Enable Unlimited Potential. In this week's episode we talk about his book, Overcoming Obstacles, why he started his own non-profit (while still in high school!) and his plans for the future.  You can find Overcoming Obstacles on Amazon and  Rakshith 's non-profit, Enable Unlimited Potential is online at  En...

Arizona is home to Arizona Airspeed, the current World Champion four-way skydiving team in both indoor and outdoor.  On this week's show two of their athletes, Mikhail Markine and Niklas Hemlin stop by the studio to talk about living the dream. These professional athletes make hundreds of jumps each year and travel the world in their ongoing quest to perfect a series of formations thousands of fee...

This week's guest, Brian Howie, is the host of The Great Love Debate, the number one dating & relationship podcast in the world. This week Brian and Sasha take turns guesting on each other's shows and hilarity ensues. Join them as they debate whether water skiing makes you a good swimmer, discuss Brian's ambitious plan to walk across the United States Forrest Gump style, and question whether it's...

Jamie played four years of D1 volleyball, 2 of them here in Arizona at Grand Canyon University where she graduated in 2019 after an incredibly successful season. Jamie is now the operations manager at Grayhawk Beach Volleyball and the head Beach Volleyball Coach at Notre Dame Prep where she was recently honored as Coach of the Year for two years in a row. In addition to all of her accomplishments...

Dr. Jessica Giardino earned her Bachelor's degree in Athletic Training from Millikin University in 2011 where she also played four-years of college soccer. She completed her professional training at A.T. Still University earning her Doctorate Degree in Physical Therapy in 2018. Jess's career was inspired by her own severe injury in high school that left her despondent, hurting, and hopeless. Throu...

Danny Jensen grew up playing all the sports, including in the foyer, where he and his siblings put countless holes in their parents' drywall. As he entered high school Danny stepped away from a promising baseball career, focusing instead on soccer. He went on to an astounding four-year college soccer career as a forward at Ohio State University until a severe concussion on the field left him side-...

Since 1993 Mixed Martial Arts and the UFC have absolutely exploded in popularity. In this week's episode, Jake Meeker walks Sasha through the origins, rules, and major players of MMA including local standout, Henry Cejudo, while doing his best to help her understand why he loves watching Mixed Martial Arts fights so very much.

Sarah Held is an athlete, the host of Switching Teams podcast, an avid golfer, and the owner of Elite Golf Experience. On this week's episode Sarah explains how to break into golf, describes the joy of playing with women, and tries to help Sasha understand why people love golf so very much.  You can find Sarah on Instagram @SarahHeldGolfTravel & @SwitchingTeamsPodcast, and online at www. EliteGolf...

On June 6th Tom Loegering will kick off an epic, 48-state motorcycle ride to raise funds for his non-profit, Golf Program in Schools. This epic, 15,000-mile motorcycle adventure is called the Double Insanity Iron Butt Tour and will take him to all 48 contiguous states and back again in just 20 days. Over the course of the nearly three-week endeavor, he will eat meals at gas stations and sleep at "...

Sports Will Save Us All host, Sasha Graham, reflects on the incredible first season of the podcast, answers all of your questions about podcasting, contemplates the benefits of being "basic", and gets hyped about Season Two!!  

Lauren Ammon began swimming at age five and found enormous success in the water over the next 17 years. In high school she was a Kentucky State Champion and a top 3 finisher in the Mid American Conference. Her extraordinary efforts earned her a full-ride swimming scholarship to Division 1 Eastern Michigan where she continued to thrive as both a student and an athlete.   Lauren is now the Head Coac...

George Catalano's fascination with flying goes all the way back to childhood when his dad sent him up in a $20, nausea-inducing thrill ride in a Cessna 150. He became a pilot in college where he soon founded a T-34 aerobatic team. He and the team began doing airshows and these airshows, along with teaching primary flight training, paid for college and his very own T-34. In this episode George talk...

Dori Maxon is the Founder and Director of a super cool Northern California aquatic program for special needs kids called SNAP. Dori is a physical therapist and has a Masters in Education and Human Development. She started SNAP in 1991  and  has been recognized with numerous awards including Aquatic Professional of the Year, the John Williams Adapted Aquatics Award from the International Swimming H...

Mike Pawlawski played college ball at UC Berkeley where he was named All Pac-10 Quarterback, Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year, and Citrus Bowl MVP. He generated the highest winning percentage among all modern Cal Quarterbacks, and not surprisingly, is in the Cal Athletics Hall of Fame. His football career continued for another 11 years following college including successful stints in the NFL, C...

Coach Malone was a three-sport college athlete, playing field hockey, softball and running track during her time at Ohio Wesleyan. She has a masters degree in exercise physiology and been a high school teacher for 34 years. Coach Malone just wrapped up a 38 year career coaching high school sports, including 30 years at Chagrin Falls High School coaching girls soccer where she compiled the incredib...

Jedidiah Snelson has been a professional CrossFit athlete since 2016, a sport he came to, incredibly, after a motocross accident in 2014 left him paralyzed from the waist down. Prior to competing in CrossFit, Jedidiah raced professionally in Motocross and worked as a professional strength and conditioning coach for MMA, Snowmobile, Motocross and X Games Athletes.   Jedidiah has achieved extraordin...

At just 35 years old, Coach Doug Nisenson seems to have a lot of perspective when it comes to high school sports, high school athletes, and what success really means. He believes football games are decided long before his players take the field, and that sports are a great training ground for competing in life. On this Special Episode of Sports Will Save Us All he explains what expects from his pl...

After a successful college dance career at University of Illinois, Dr. Chrissy Davis spent two seasons as a Luvabull dancer for the Chicago Bulls. You may feel like you can predict the rest of Chrissy's story, but I can almost guarantee you'd be wrong. For instance, would you predict that Chrissy came by dancing almost by accident? That she had a successful career in finance, and once worked as a...

In 2007 Teacher Trevor Woodford, an avid fencer and history enthusiast, was teaching his high schoolers about the Medieval period when they decided to roll up newspapers to use in mock sword battles. Little did any of them know that 16 years later those early sword battles would have evolved into a full-fledged ball and saber sport unlike anything any of us have ever seen before.   Students Diego...

Mother/Daughter duo Lateka Curtis and Cheyanne James founded Pretty Precise Step Team at the height of Covid and it's been full steam ahead ever since. With performances on Good Morning America and at the Super Bowl LVII Experience, their young dancers are gaining confidence and poise, while also learning the importance of not forgetting to pack their socks.   You can find the team online at www.p...

If you like being outside, you are going to want to listen up to this episode because Tom Seeley knows a thing or two about how to enjoy the outdoors in ways that may not have even occurred to you. In addition to volunteering as a Rock Instructor and Outing Leader for the Arizona Mountaineering Club, Tom has found a way to turn his passion into his full-time job, working as an instructor and guide...