The Original Sports Podcast with Mark Maradei

Hey everyone!!! What's going on OSP peeps? Today we are doing our show live from  Nymeo Field at Harry Grove Stadium in the metropolis of Frederick County Maryland. Nymeo Field is the home of the Frederick Keys Draft League team and the new Independent Professional League team the Frederick, ah, um, I don't know what the nickname is gonna be but it will be fun and sell a lot of merch nonetheless....

On this episode of the OSP with Mark Maradei and the BSC we wrap up the NCAA men's and women's basketball season and talk about the ratings, controversy and the impacts of college "free agency".  We hit it pretty hard with NFL news and notes and how the impact of the draft is affected by flaws and selfish mentality. We look at the early results of the MLB season and how "our" favorite teams have f...

This episode of the OSP with Mark Maradei and the Barbershop Crew is breaking ground. We have gone on location at Frederick Social in Downtown Frederick Maryland. A cool location with a beer wall, great eats and lots of atmosphere with live music and events regularly. You gotta check it out whether you live near Frederick or just traveling through. Mike and Audi are sure to greet you and you'll lo...

Think you have what it takes. I doubt it. These cats at the combine have been training their entire life to leave a lasting impression regardless of what Troy Vincent may think. We look at studs, duds and eye popping numbers. Who helped themself and who, well, who dropped from millions to the 3rd round or worse out fo the draft talk.  This episode sets up the free agency talk and all the tags that...

On this episode of the OSP the BS Crew and MM have Dallas podcaster JC Cowboys Network on to talk football but the focus is America's Team. We go around the league with News and Notes, final thoughts on the Super Bowl and then dive right into viewpoints of the Cowboys, Steelers and Chargers. With the coaching carousel making its debut earlier this year we talk who will have the biggest impact on t...

Yeah we know Stupor Bowl! Well the NFL is going to crap. We look at how these two teams, Eagles and Chiefs manage to make the "big game" and just what the expected outcome might be. We make our predictions game, score and MVP and talk about our own favorite memories of Super Bowls of yesteryear. Can't forget we debate the Quarterback Carousel that is about to take place and Share our own version o...

As the Barbershop Crew assembles for another drop we get into the NFL Divisional Round and just why the winners won and the losers.... lost. Is Damar Hamlin dead? Who You got in the final 2? We look at the possible Super Bowl match up and make our contestant choices. Why on this Green earth did the Steelers bring back Matt Canada? We have thoughts that support and definitely go against the trust o...

On this episode of the Original Sports Podcast with Mark Maradei the Barbershop Crew reunite and invite along for the ride former Pittsburgh Steeler and Chicago Bear Running Back Tim Worley. We talk about the Steelers finale against the Browns. Who returns and who doesn't for the Black and Gold in 2023. Worley shares stories about Craig "Ironhead" Heyward, his time with the Chicago Bears and sifti...

What does Sasquatch, Yeti, Skunk Ape, Yowie and Almas have in common? You'll find out on this episode of the Original Sports Podcast with Mark Maradei as we talk to Bigfoot enthusiast Mike Familant. Familant, a 33-year-old EMT, firefighter and graphic designer, is a full time bigfoot researcher, producer and lead investigator from NorthWest New Jersey.  He first got into bigfooting in 2011 on an e...

This week on the Original Sports Podcast with Mark Maradei is author Marshall Jon Fisher. Fisher, who hails from  Ithaca, New York, grew up in Miami, and graduated from Brandeis University. He worked as a sportswriter in Miami and a tennis pro in Munich before moving to New York City then onto Boston.  From 1995 to 2001 he wrote on a variety of topics for The Atlantic Monthly, ranging from wooden...

Our guest this week on the Original Sports podcast with Mark Maradei takes us a little bit out of the sports world and into, shall we say, another dimension with Ghost Hunter and Author Eleanor Wagner. Wagner writes children's, supernatural, and romance literature. She spent years as Pennywhistle the Party Clown, named after Pennywise the Dancing Clown from one of her favorite Stephen King novels,...

On this episode of the Original Sports Podcast with Mark Maradei we talk with Joe Rockey. Rockey has been a podcaster since 2017 when he started his first podcast - Father and Joe. In 2022 saw the dawn of his second podcast Local Football Flavor, which is a video based show. Local Football Flavor interviews fans of the NFL to provide unique fan incites about each team that are not easily accessibl...

The National Football League always casts a slippery slope with bending the rules. Our guest this week on the Original Sports Podcast with Mark Maradei is Kevin Bryant. Bryant has done in depth research and wrote about his discoveries in his book titled " Spies on the Sidelines". Kevin Bryant is an Army veteran with over twenty years of experience safeguarding and gathering information for the Dep...

My guest this week on the Original Sports Podcast with Mark Maradei has worn Black and red, black and gold and later black, white and orange. Tim Worley  is a former running back who played for the Georgia Bulldogs  in college, and the Pittsburgh Steelers and Chicago Bears of the  (NFL). Worley was a Parade All-American who also was a champion sprinter in high school in the 100 and 200 meter.  Aft...

Our guest this week on the Original Sports Podcast with Mark Maradei is sports writer Ian Kennedy. Kennedy is a resident of Erie Beach, Ontario, a fellow educator and journalist with a passion for storytelling. The founder of the Chatham-Kent Sports Network, Ian is currently a writer for The Hockey News and does analysis for Yahoo Sports. His stories have also appeared in the Globe and Mail, Chath...

Our guest this week on the Original Sports Podcast with Mark Maradei is Lynn Wallington. Wallington is the host of Rebellious Ufology podcast.  She has studied the UFO phenomena and worked with experiencers for the past 10 years.  As a lifelong contactee and experiencer of the paranormal, she has come to understand how these experiences have helped to shape her into the person she has become.  Her...

NFL Season Preview 2022 Top Stories: What a great story the LLWS. Hawaii won by 10 run rule over Curaco.  The travesty we call Josh Gordon's career See insert history of suspensions  John Wall suicide comtemplation injury and family issues NHL camps open September 12th with first preseason games slated for 9/14 NFL Kickoff on 9/11: Comers (Jalen Hurts, Tua Tagavaloia, Elijah Moore, Trevor Lawerenc...

Our guest this week on the Original Sports podcast with Mark Maradei is Dan Futrell. Futrell, a 2011 Tillman Scholar, brings more than 15 years of cross-sector experience to the Pat Tillman Foundation. Upon graduating from Gonzaga University's ROTC program, Dan served five years as a Ranger-qualified Infantry Officer as a platoon leader, company commander, and aide-de-camp. His most notable deploy...

College Football Preview show Of note:  the weight of preseason football Bumbling baseball Soto and Nationals, Tatia, 42 yr old Pujols v. Pirates, The Angels wooos, the resurgent Orioles WNBA v NBA, Griner's beef continues The effects of NIL (coaches complaining, tops 5-star recruit for the class of 2023 inked a deal that will pay him 8 million by the end of his junior year, Shedeur Sanders no $ d...

Tired of the current rules of engagement, this soldier has gone rogue. He's a Mercenary on a mission of expansion and takeover. This week's guest on the Original Sports Podcast with Mark Maradei is professional wrestler Garrisaon Creed. Once enlisted in the U.S. army and with multiple combat deployments under his belt, Creed is all too familiar with getting his hands dirty to accomplish his missio...

Our guest this week on the Original Sports Podcast with Mark Maradei is Brandon Leibowitz. Leibowitz takes us outside of the sports realm and throws us into helping small and medium-sized companies get ranked at the top of Google by using search engine optimization tactics and bringing in traffic via social media, paid ads, etc. Although it may not be our normal show, it will be intriguing and inf...

Our Guest this week on the Original Sports Podcast with Mark Maradei is Alex Beaury. Beaury is a NFLPA Certified Contract advisor and the founder of Impact Sports Management, an athlete representation firm. They currently represent some of the players who were drafted in the 2022 NFL Draft. As a contract advisor, he is an expert in the NFL's Collective Bargaining Agreement and inner workings of th...

Our guest this week on the Original Sports Podcast with Mark Maradei is Matthew Semelsberger.  A 3 Sport guy in high school competing in football, lacrosse, and wrestling. Excelling particularly in football and leading his high school to a state championship he earned a FBS scholarship to Marist where he was majoring in criminology before taking a life turn and beginning his MMA career. After one...

On Guard…..This week's guest on the Original Sports Podcast with Mark Maradei is Laurence Halsted. Halsted is a two-time Olympic fencer who competed for Team GB in the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics. After retiring from competitive sport Laurence became the Performance Director for the Danish Fencing Federation and joined The True Athlete Project in 2016 where he is currently the Director of Me...

Open show talking about NHL draft, NFL season creeping in, Deshawn Watson (bullshit he's compared to owners), UFC fight July 30th Semelsberger fighting, NBA free agency and Lebron, Brittney Griner, heading towards the trading deadline and Baseball all star break First base :Rod Carew Mark McGwire Second base: Roberto Alomar Ryne Sandberg Third-base: Mike Schmidt, Bill Madlock Shortstop:Dave Concep...