The Moonlight Graham Show

It seems like every four years our eyes turn to the Olympics and America falls in love with a new gymnastics icon. Iowa has been fortunate to have close ties to names like Liang Chow, Gabby Douglas, and Shawn Johnson. The leaps, flips, and twists are like a non-stop highlight reel.  Gymnastics takes center stage at the Olympics each cycle and then sort of slides into the background. This week, we...

This week the Moonlight Graham Show goes all the way from A to Z. Matt Adams and Andrew Zellmer that is. These former athletes and sports fans sit down with Tim on a Friday afternoon to talk a little about sports and a lot about Iowa. Matt and Andrew are two of the top dogs for Peoples Company out of Clive. This podcast is an opportunity for buddies to catch up and drain the batteries on the micro...

This week's Moonlighter is one of the best ballplayers to come out of Iowa. Larry Biittner had a heck of a career and spent quite a bit of time in a true Moonlighter role; pinch hitter. Though he is an all-timer as a pinch hitter, Bittner is the first to say that he didn't like doing it, but it was what the team needed. Tim sits down with Larry to talk about a career spent in the big leagues with...

As the baseball postseason heats up, so does the Moonlight Graham Studio. This week Tim sits down with a trio of Dowling Maroon baseball's recent legends. These guys are ready to talk about all things baseball, from the new announcements about Minor League Baseball to the current postseason. Jason McMurray, Spencer Navin, and Zach Coppola had successful careers in the CIML before heading off to Di...

This week's guest might be one of the easiest voices to identify that has ever come across the Moonlight airwaves. Gary Rima joins Tim to talk about a career spent in sports as he prepares for his final ride as the voice of UNI basketball. Rima has deep roots in Iowa sports that reach nearly every corner of the state and beyond. In almost 30 years on the microphone and many adventures in Iowa spor...

This week's guest on the podcast has had a pretty incredible journey in sports. Conrad Ray went from dreaming of playing football to making a career out of college golf. After pursuing his goal of playing center or nose tackle at Notre Dame, Ray found out that his success as a high school football player in Minnesota just wasn't quite good enough to play in front of Touchdown Jesus. Plan B turned...

Most Moonlighters are proud to look back on their career as reaching their alma mater's hall of fame as a sign of some of their top achievements. This week though, our guest was really just getting started at the age of 36. Klaye Rowe, and his teammates on 3Ball Omaha, took home the top prize in the country earlier this year when they won the 3x3 National Championship at the Naismith Basketball Ha...

How many episodes does it take to land (arguably) the most talented Flattery brother on the podcast? 221 was the magic number to bring in the big lefty, Joe Flattery. Brother Joe stands out from his brothers for a few reasons. He is the tallest, calmest, quietest, and the only lefty of the group. This week, all of the Flattery boys sit down in the family home to share stories about Joe and his car...

This week, Moonlight Graham's favorite NFL quarterback returns to the podcast to share stories about his year as a pro. Reid Sinnett joined us fresh off of his preseason week 3 breakout performance that took the NFL and social media by storm. He brought us up to speed on life as a Miami Dolphin and his foray into the world of movie reviewing. CLAIM=27d64b9ffe6521fe07b76e325f5544a633229578=CLAIM

This week's Moonlighter is a Cyclone legend. Larry Corrigan did just about everything for the Cyclones. His career in Cardinal and Gold spanned the early 1970s as a player and then as a coach in the 1980s. Corrigan was an All-American pitcher and catcher, set the Cyclone record for batting average, and then set the record for wins in a season as a coach. Now the Cyclone Hall of Famer sits down to...

As Iowa prepares for America to turn her eyes back to the heartland on Saturday morning, we welcome in two of the greatest athletes to ever come out of the Livermore-Twin River Valley-Bode portion of Humboldt county. Greg Lempke and Dallas Clark have been connected almost as long as Dallas has been alive, but the Cyclone and Hawkeye farm-boys-at-heart share many Moonlight characteristics as well.

This week's Moonlighter continued his basketball career in one of the most underdog roles any athlete could possibly play in - as a member of the Washington Generals. Father Mark McGreary finished up his college playing days and was given the opportunity to fill a spot in the lineup for the losing-est basketball team in history. Father McGeary played for the Generals in the late 1980s and was able...

In his 60+ years as a high school football coach, Dick Tighe has seen just about everything. And he remembers just about all of it. This week Tim and Tom get to sit down with their former coach to hear about one of the winningest high school football coaching careers in history.

We are still riding high from the Field of Dreams game. This week, Tim sits down with NBC Chicago's Alyssa Bergamini who covers the Chicago White Sox to get an insider's look at how the players felt about the field, Iowa, and the amazing finish to the game itself. Also in this episode is an update on the Quest for Costner and the upcoming Field of Dreams streaming TV series.

This week the dream comes true. As the White Sox and Yankees pack up and head for home, Tim and Neil get to reflect on one of the most amazing sporting events to ever take place in Iowa. The Field of Dreams movie site went through a roughly 2-year transformation to become the home of a major league-caliber baseball field. Tim and Neil spent the day with 8,000 of their new best friends taking in th...

It is Field of Dreams week here in Iowa. Major League Baseball is following in the footsteps of the ghost players and will be walking out onto a diamond carved out of a cornfield in eastern Iowa. Before the Yankees and White Sox take the field, the Moonlight Graham Show sits down with Moonlighter Tommy Birch and talks about the long road to bring the big league to Dyersville and the Barstool Barn...

Our Moonlighter this week went from a small town to the Big Sky. Randy Rahe is a four-time Big Sky Conference coach of the year at Weber State University. He has 5 conference titles and has won 63% of his games. While he is one of the top mid-major coaches in the country right now, he graduated from tiny, and now closed, Bancroft St. John's.

This week Tim sits down with a modern Hawkeye legend; Ricky Stanzi. Though he didn't grow up in Iowa, he certainly became a favorite son in his time in black and gold. Stanzi led the Hawkeyes to 3 bowl wins and a 3-0 record against the Cyclones in his 3 seasons as a starter. Tim also gets the chance to ask Stanzi about his career off of the football field which is a direct result of his not profes...

Season 11 might just be the best season of the Moonlight Graham Show yet. It starts out with an absolute splash of a guest in JJ Redick. The 15 year NBA vet has made a career as a sharpshooting role player on playoff-caliber teams. In addition to being one of the best shooters in NBA history, Redick has built a brand in the podcast world. What better way to kick off Season 11 than with the best of...

For the most part, golf is an individual sport. However, when it comes to something like the US Open qualifier, the caddy is like the role player of the sport. For the most part, you don't know their names and their contributions don't really stand out on a scorecard but if a caddy can do the little things right, it might give the player an edge here or there. In this case, our favorite golfer Sam...

They say good things come in small packages. Well, this week's Moonlighter is a case of good things coming out of a small package. A product of a tiny private school in Storm Lake, IA, Ben McCollum has made a living out of finding success at small schools. This week Tim sits down with one of the absolute best college basketball coaches in basketball in the country

The movie Tin Cup is a near-perfect Moonlight story. Even non-golfers can relate to the washed-up underdog going for it one more time. Heck, we've all played a round of golf that left us wondering how much money we lost in balls alone until we hit that one shot that makes us think maybe we do have 'it' after all. This week's Moonlighter is far from washed up, but just like Tin Cup he is chasing a...

This week's Moonlighter is the voice of the Iowa Hawkeyes, Gary Dolphin. Dolph is an Iowa sports guy to the core. Baseball is just part of the way he was raised growing up in eastern Iowa. And like most of us when Field of Dreams came out, a game of catch and has just a little bit more of a special meaning. Dolph sat down with Tim to talk about a little bit of everything in the world of Iowa sport...

Here at the Moonlight Graham Show, we have a pretty good track record of knowing when to hold 'em, when to fold' em, and when to walk away. In fact, part of being an Underdog is knowing your limitations but being willing to go for broke sometimes. This week we welcome a pro gambler named, well, let's just call him Tom Hagen.

From Little League to the bigs, baseball is in full swing. And few guys can swing it like our Moonlighters this week. Winterset's James Peterson and Marshalltown's Jeff Clement were national newsmakers in the summer of 2002 as they chased the national high school home run record. Peterson and Clement could absolutely rake in high school. Neither ever hit lower than about .450 and they were hitting...