The Open Run With Will Strickland

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 165 – Level Setting When the world is on its ass, how do we get it back in balance? For many, the task seems impossible. For some, if only for a little while, escaping to enjoy This Thing Of Ours can serve as a temporary solution to aid all that ails. With #MarchMadness, the NBA playoffs, as well as the start of the WNBA season in front of us, may some degr...

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 164 – Touch Earth One wild March Madness Weekend down, 2 more to go and ankles cracked as they as the younglings say “Bro! I made you touch earth!” You’ll get all of that and more from both the women’s and men’s NCAA national championship tourneys, plus the college coaching carousel, Geno hitting the Big7-0, Kim Mulkey going Kim Mulkey, the death of the G L...

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 163 – Genetic Lottery It’s time to dance. Conference tournament upsets are a bettor’s dream for men’s #MarchMadness with no clear cut favourite and for upset-minded gamblers watching the women’s quest for the title! Wall $t. and his Rice Owls squad never made the dance as their Cinderella shoes didn’t fit… But, in this week’s ep, Wall $t. builds with two gu...

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 162 – Racially Ambiguous Spring is in the air and so is #MarchMadness as the NCAA barrels toward one of the best parts of college basketball. That fresh NBA playoff scent is in the air seemingly a bit earlier than in years past as potential play-in tournament matchups are looking as enticing and lucrative for the league, its performers and the fans alike. A...

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 161 – Nasty Work When you do something well for an extended period of time, it seems that, sometimes, people can love you then hate you then loveyou again… that Familiarity doesn’t always bring Gratitude, but more often than not, it brings Contempt. Wall $t. sorts out the blah blah blah blah, knowing full well that some people can’t even dream a whole dream...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 160 – Culturally Problematic Diversity. Equity. Inclusion. That people, corporations and institution have to implement written guidelines on how to be more empathetic, sensitive and aware of those who don’t look like them but not only acknowledgement but action is but one of the many sad realities we face as people. The National Basketball Association, of...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 159 – The Heat Of A Thousand Suns When the sun shines brightest, can you handle the glare? Life can come at you fast sometimes... Some of us are built to deal the burden of leadership… of kicking in doors, knocking down walls, all in order to erect the new “normal”, whatever that may be.' And in the age of social media, with this build will come intens...

The Open Run With Will StricklandEpisode 158 – Adrenaline x Lies It’s been said that the best storytellers are those who can weave fact, fiction, fairy tale and fun into a rolling narrative that informs, cajoles, pokes, prods and pushes toward thought, emotion, debate and introspection. In the age of social media, it seems two prime facts, outside of the omnipresent clout chase via clicks, likes a...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 1 57 – Magnified Ambition The first episode of #BlackHistoryEryday puts a lens on wants, needs and desires. The great post-modern contemporary literary giant Tariq Luqmaan Trotter once exclaimed that he is a walking affirmation that imagination and focus and patience gets you closer to your aspirations. Wall $t connects the dots with Fieldhouse Files and P...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 156 – Kobe The late, great Kobe Bean Bryant passed away on January 26, 2020. A lifetime multitude of accolades and superlatives attached to his name, but being a #GirlDad seemed to be a big part of the joy and focus in the new chapters Kobe began writing post-retirement… Then he, his daughter Gigi and 7 others perished tragically. Bryant’s legacy lives in...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 155 – The Impermanence Of All Living Things Life Is Fleeting. What we do with whatever time we have on this planet largely depends upon us… our desire to achieve; to egotistically leave the world in a better place than it was before we washed up on these shores. In the meantime in between time, Wall $t. and special guest Dexter Henry, New York Post | SNY,...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 154 – The Man In The Arena What does it take to give your life in service of others? The late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a man who lived his purpose and Wall $t. celebrates his life and legacy, what it means to The Association with The Sporting News’ NBA Content Producer Gilbert McGregor. In addition, the guys run the give and go on everythin...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 1 53 – 1 Of 1 Embarking on a new chapter in a new year, Wall $t. takes a moment or two for reflection on what we left behind, what is and what lays ahead for basketball and Life, speaking on everything from the returns of Temetrius Jamel and Draymond Jamal, the phenomenon that is Caitlin Clark and the record-setting Detroit Pistons to hoops dominance in Co...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 152 – The Art Of Official Intelligence Will Machines ever replace Man? Seems highly unlikely, but… in the meantime, let Wall $t. help close out your 2023 by flexing his critical thinking muscles on the News, Views and Truths on the NBA and beyond with Alan Shane Lewis, comedian extraordinaire, co-host of CBC’s Great Canadian Baking Show and former co-pilot...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 151 – Fountain Or Drain The holiday season generally brings on good feelings, even in the midst of troubles domestically and internationally. But we won’t allow anyone or anything to steal our joy as Wall $t. spreads love with your favourite podcasters' favourite podcasters, Rod and Karen Morrow of The Black Guy Who Tips, to chat why winning the NBA’s...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 150 – Fanalytics “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 149 – The Beginnings Of Things “It’s Not How You Start… It’s How You Finish!” True, indeed… But how does it start… and why? Wall $t. explores what launches certain things, good and bad, whilst also running the check-in on the best college freshmen in the game, a hoops lifer in Philly, big trouble in LA, the Suns heating up, Chet being the best bet for NBA...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 148 – Intellectual Self-Defense Social media can have you out in these rough interweb streets mixing mitts, tweets, likes and digital shade with entities waaaaay below your weight class. How do you remedy this phenomenon and stay on task while still standing on your biness? Let’s us learn you! Wall $t. goes in on the sanctity of logic via the legend of Pay...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 147 – Passion x Purpose What is it that you truly love? Not necessary talking “default” or “conditioned” love, like for family; talking that thing in a lifespan that defines your existence. Did you choose it? Or did it choose you? Well… as we looking to grasp the meaning of it all, Wall $t. waxes poetic on empty calorie efforts, Adam Silver’s USA vs World...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode ⁠146 – Hip Hop Morals⁠ In continuing our year-long celebration of a half century of hop hop culture, Wall $t. checks the rhime on This Thing Of Ours called Basketball with Handsome Boy Modeling School graduate, SKIMS quality control agent and Raptors 905 color commentator Warren Ward! Ok, so no cap, two of those things Warren doesn’t rep… but maybe he shou...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 145 – Fear Of The Quiet It All Hallow’s Eve! Don’t get scurred! Wall St. unmasks the ’23-’24 campaign and wraps up Week 1 of the new season with milestones, notes one guy continues to cosplay a former NBA superstar, notices that a Flagg gets planted in Durham for at least a season, contemplates  the college basketball preseason All-America list as mix of G...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 144 – Lucky Me Rabbit’s feet, rosary beads, boxes of sugary cereal with green clovers and blue diamonds aside, luck is what we make it by being ready for the moment. And the moment reveals itself when Wall $t. enlists four-time Full Court 21 All World champion Jesse Washington, senior writer at ESPN’s Andscape and co-author of a New York Times Best Seller,...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 143 – Coles Notes The Saga Continues with Wall $t. and podcast veteran free agent and former TSN 1050 Radio's #1On1 With Will x Duane superproducer Ryan Antonio Henry trading bars on everything from The 3d Annual #DoWork Preseason Awards, why the WNBA Finals matchup this year is the greatest in league history, and a sterling breakdown of The NBA's...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 142 – Coles Notes Wall $t. enlists the homey, the compadre, the amigo, the comrade, podcast veteran free agent Ryan Antonio Henry to run the court and win all day with bars on The 3d Annual #DoWork Preseason Awards, WNBA Finals, GM Survey, ESPN’s Top 100 and the mental health of Temetrius Jamel Morant and Benjamin David Simmons, amongst other things. We’re...

The Open Run With Will Strickland Episode 141 – Expensive Backpack With the 78th campaign of the National Basketball Associationlaunching in two weeks, the excitement is only starting to build! We are blessed with arguably the greatest WNBA Finals matchup ever, plans for expansions in both leagues, generational talents who will make the future now, preseason tilts that feel like playoffs games, of...