Sports With Friends

Longtime popular New York Knicks trainer Mike Saunders is this episode's featured guest. Mike was the Athletic Trainer for the Knicks for 27 years (1978-2005). From Bernard King to Trent Tucker to Bill Cartwright to Patrick Ewing to Charles Oakley, Saunders has stories about all of them. He is also the author of a new book, “Life Sentence: A Collection of Quotes and Stories to Inspire, Motivate, E...

This week's guest, Marshall Faulk, played in the National Football League for 13 seasons with the Indianapolis Colts and St. Louis Rams. He played college football at San Diego State, where he was a two-time consensus All-American. He appeared in two Super Bowls and won Super Bowl 34. In 2000, Faulk was named the Most Valuable Player of the NFL. Faulk is one of only three NFL players to reach at l...

The 2022 baseball season is the first since 1995 that Seth Everett has not covered the sport in a major league capacity. This is also the first baseball-centric episode of the podcast in 2022. Joining the show is former MLB 2nd basemen Jeff Frye. Frye played in Major League Baseball with the Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox, Colorado Rockies, and Toronto Blue Jays for all or part of eight seasons bet...

The 2022 Masters was won by Scottie Scheffler, yet the story was the return of Tiger Woods. Woods competed and made the cut in his first major tournament back only 14 months after suffering serious injuries in a car crash. This week's episode features SI.com golf writer Bob Harig, a longtime writer formerly of ESPN and the Tampa Bay Times. He recapped the main storylines of the Masters, having cov...

André Lotterer heads into his third season with TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team racing alongside compatriot Pascal Wehrlein as they battle for the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. He joined the podcast as he prepared for the April 9-10, 2022 F-E races in Rome, Italy. Lotterer joined Formula-E in 2018 with DS Techeetah alongside Jean-Eric Vergne. Together they won the Teams' Championship that...

In March 2022, the St. Peter's Peacocks became just the third team in NCAA tournament history to defeat a 2-seed when they upset Kentucky. After then defeating Murray State to advance to the Sweet 16, the notoriety grew exponentially. Suddenly, news reports talked about the amazing story of St. Peters and all the benefits of them winning on a national stage. This episode asks the question of how a...

On March 18, 2022, longtime NFL Insider John Clayton died after a brief illness at the age of 67. This podcast pays tribute to the longtime columnist, radio host, TV analyst and friend to so many. 7 different guests joined this show to pay tribute to their fallen friend from different aspects of sports media. They are Mike Sando, Senior NFL writer, The Atheltic (7:09) Dave Grosby “The Groz,” Seatt...

In March 2022 a new scripted series about the Los Angeles Lakers 1980's championship run entitled “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” starring John C. Reilly, Quincy Isaiah, Sally Field, Adrian Brody, as part of an incredible cast. The show is based on Jeff Pearlman's 2014 book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s, and Jeff joins the podcast fo...

Hockey Hall of Fame Broadcaster Jiggs McDonald joins the show this week to discuss his iconic career. The longtime voice of the New York Islanders has also called games for the Los Angeles Kings, Atlanta Flames, Florida Panthers, Toronto Maple Leafs, and nationally on FOX Sports television. He has done NHL games for more than 50 years and this past season, rejoined the Islanders booth to fill in o...

The recently completed 2022 Winter Olympics marked the second straight Games to take place under the influence of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the third straight Games to take place in Asia. Alan Abrahamson is an award-winning sportswriter, best-selling author, and in-demand television analyst. In 2010 he launched his own website, 3 Wire Sports (www.3wiresports.com). He has covered 13 straight Olymp...

This episode covers various topics involving the 2022-23 National Hockey League season. Dan Rosen, a senior writer at NHL.Com, covered the gamut of storylines. Topics include the impact of Covid-19 on the league while other leagues were impacted less, the Olympic break and status of international tournaments, ESPN/TNT new television deal and the impact of streaming on the growth of the sport, and...

Warren Moon was scheduled to come on Super Bowl week, but due to the passing of Seth's father, the podcast was delayed. Moon agreed to come on after Super Bowl 56. The former Washington Husky joined the show from Seattle, where they broke down the Rams' victory over the Bengals, 23-20. Moon also addressed the recent headlines and lawsuit involving former Dolphins coach Brian Flores. Moon speaks ex...

Remember those posters in the '80s and '90s of Brian Bosworth, Shawn Kemp, Troy Aikman and so many more? Renowned sports poster artist John Costacos joined the podcast. Costacos and his brother Tock created a historic brand that sold all over the world. Now, Costacos along with CEO Justin Moorad and Digital Art Lead Mike Campau, the Costacos Collection is partnering with legendary athletes to sell...

Longtime New York sportscaster Don La Greca is a co-host of the Michael Kay Show on ESPN New York 98.7FM. That show is simulcast daily on the YES Network. Don has been with ESPN NY since 2001 and was the first-ever voice for that station on September 3rd, 2001. Don is the pre/post-game host for the New York Rangers on radio and fills in on play-by-play for Kenny Albert (Episode 249). He was also p...

"Show Me the Money!" Longtime super-agent Leigh Steinberg joined the show to discuss his illustrious career as well as his thoughts on issues facing the NFL. Steinberg has represented many of the most successful athletes and coaches in football, basketball, baseball, hockey, boxing, golf, etc., including the number one overall pick in the NFL draft for an unprecedented eight times in conjunction w...

After more than four decades in the business, former FOX Sports Vice Chairman Ed Goren joined the show to talk about his illustrious Hall of Fame career. Goren is a 47-time Emmy Award winner and Executive Producer of FOX Sports since its inception in 1994. This episode started as a tribute to another icon, the late John Madden. The conversation evolved into incredible stories about working for FOX...

The first podcast episode of 2022 is the first of two tributes to the late NFL icon John Madden. Madden died at the age of 85 on December 28, 2021. He was a Hall of Fame coach of the Oakland Raiders, an iconic broadcaster for four different networks, and the namesake and co-creator of the equally iconic Madden Football video game by EA Sports. Award-winning reporter Tom Rinaldi of FOX Sports was a...

This episode continues a 4-year tradition where long-time radio host Scott Seidenberg, now with VSIN, joins the show. Back in 2018, the show was supposed to be posted on Christmas Day, and there was no episode ready to go. Enter Scott, as he and Seth and many other people who do not celebrate Christmas usually spend it eating Chinese food and watching sports and cartoons. That year, they got toget...

This episode is once again focusing on sports business. Adam White is the Founder and CEO of Front Office Sports. A University of Miami Alum, Adam has worked for opendorse, the Fiesta Bowl, and the University of Miami Athletic Department. In December '21, Front Office Sports announced the Best Employers in Sports, recognizing the top 30 organizations across the sports industry that are setting new...

This special episode centers around the 122nd matchup between Army and Navy. The game took place on December 11, 2021, at Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Former player and longtime CBS analyst Gary Danielson worked his 13th Army-Navy game while Ross Tucker called the game for Westwood One Radio. This episode's focus is not on the game, which Navy won 17-13. Instead, the focus was o...

Jay Feely played 13 years in the NFL as a placekicker for 7 different teams. He is now an NFL analyst for CBS Sports. Feely played for the Atlanta Falcons, New York Giants, Miami Dolphins, Kansas City Chiefs, New York Jets, Arizona Cardinals, and Chicago Bears. He made the Pro Bowl in 2005 and won the National Championship of College Football with Michigan in 1997. When Feely was with the Jets in...

16-year NBA veteran Chris Dudley played 886 games across 16 seasons in the NBA for the Cleveland Cavaliers, New Jersey Nets, Portland Trail Blazers twice, New York Knicks, and Phoenix Suns. He's also the first NBA player with Type 1 Diabetes and the founder of the Chris Dudley Foundation. Dudley came on to talk about his career and the current NBA but also wanted to promote a new venture in his wo...

Ethan Zohn was a professional soccer player who won the third season of the reality TV show, “Survivor.” After winning, he created Grassroot, an adolescent health organization that leverages the power of soccer to educate, inspire, and mobilize at-risk youth in developing countries to overcome their greatest health challenges including HIV/AIDS, and live healthier, more productive lives, and be ag...

Jay Busbee has been a columnist for Yahoo Sports for 13 years. He started out covering NASCAR and then migrated to the NFL, where he currently covers the league. He also covered the 2021 World Series as he is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. Jay also goes on a weekly podcast called “The Ralph Report” with host Ralph Garman, who joined this show on episode 322. In this episode, Busbee discusses issues...

Recent New York Sports Emmy Winner John Chandler joined this week's episode. Chandler is NBC 4 New York's weekend sports anchor, seen regularly on Fridays and Saturdays at 6 PM and 11 PM. He is a weekday sports and general assignment reporter. He has won multiple Emmy Awards. During the episode, Chandler speaks about his approach to a nightly sportscast in a market like New York, which has 11 prof...