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The Heart of Sports w Jason Springer & Jeff Cohen - 3/3/23 by The Heart of Sports w Jason Springer & Jeff Cohen

Heart of Sports w Jason Springer & Jeff Cohen w Catcher Garrett Stubbs & Broadcaster Pat McCarthy by The Heart of Sports w Jason Springer & Jeff Cohen

We talked about the Superbowl hangover, Sixers and the All Star Break, Flyers continued struggles and then got to baseball with spring training starting and our guest, reporter for the Athletic Evan Drellich talking spring training, rules changes and his new book “Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball’s brightest minds created sport's biggest mess.”

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We started the build for the Superbowl talking to two Eagles fans themselves, ESPN Sportscenter host Kevin Negandhi and Senior Golf Analyst Michael Collins. Then we got the feel of the team with Eagles Insider Dave Spadaro.

A jam packed show this week starting off talking with Rutgers Mens Basketball coach Steve Pikiell about building a winning culture and community around the basketball program, playing at Jersey Mike's Arena, and the success they have had. Then we talked with ESPN Investigative Reporter TJ Quinn about the life of Pedro Gomez, the continued legacy through the Pedro Gomez Foundation and then issues i...

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We open the show joined by Author John Bacon talking the college coaching carousel and the state of college football with NIL, the transfer portal and more. Then we had a great conversation with award winning authors James Patterson and Mike Lupica about their new murder mystery "The House of Wolves."

We talked the season, postseason, ballpark atmospheres, rules changes, giving back to the community and more with MLB Umpire Chris Conroy on the show

We revisit some of our favorite interviews from our Heart of Sports Book Club Series talking with Buzz Bissinger about his book "the Mosquito Bowl," David Maraniss about his book "A Path Lit By Lightning" and Dan Good about his book "Playing Through The Pain."

We were joined by the Ambassador of Fun

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We opened the show with Sixers broadcasting legend Marc Zumoff talking about his career and post career. Then NFL Hall of Famer Carl Eller talked his football journey and advocating for NFL Alumni and finally Army OLB Andre Carter joined to talk before the big Army/Navy game.

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We revist a few favorite interviews in this best of show looking back on our conversations with Jon Dorenbos and the Bacon Brothers.

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We talked Sixers early season struggles and what they can do to turn things around with Inquirer Sixers Writer Keith Pompey. Then we were joined by Eagles Insider Dave Spadaro to talk about the 8-0 Eagles, development of the players, relationship with Coach Sirianni and much more.

We talked the 8-0 Eagles, Union going for the MLS Cup, James Harden injury and the Kyrie Irving situation in baseball and then were joined by Phillies PA Announcer Dan Baker to talk postseason baseball.

We got ready for the World Series to start talking with Phillies World Series champ Greg Dobbs about the pressure, the atmosphere, the fun this team is having together and much more.

We talked the open of the Sixers season and what the team looks like with Keith Pompey. Then after some Eagles and Union talk, we turned to the Phillies playoffs and were joined by Tom Housenick of the Morning Call.

We talked Eagles/Dallas, how to protect players with the roughing the passer calls and supporting retired football players with Fmr. Eagles player Mike Golic. Then Soccer voice JP Dellacamera talked with us about his own journey, the growth of the Union through the years leading to this year, this year's team, the USMNT and USWNT and more.

With the Phillies starting the WildCard, we had Greg Dobbs on for some baseball talk. Then we broke down the Yates report and impact for women's soccer with Susie Petruccelli.

We had a powerful conversation with fmr Philadelphia Eagles player, magician, motivational speaker & author Jon Dorenbos talking his amazing journey before he returns to South Philly to perform at Live Casino & Hotel Philadelphia.

Along with the football, baseball and basketball talk, we were joined by Philadelphia Union Forward Julian Carranza.

Pulitzer Award Winning Author Buzz Bissinger joins the show to talk about his new book, The Mosquito Bowl: A Game Of Life And Death In World War II.