:20 Jacob Schrantz and Skylee Nelson with a personal podcast/radio show featuring interviews, discussion and personal observations about recruiting. Interviews in this program include Kelly Mosier of Hudl, Mike Sautter of Hurrdat Sports covering high school sports, and Lincoln Southwest High School athletic director Andrew Sherman. 41:10 Camden Cohn talks about his love for cross country, including conversations with former Lincoln East High School teammates Chase Kavanaugh and Ella Lessig ....
Dec 29, 2023•1 hr
:50 SARAH PERSON [19:04] a personal view of her love affair with the Nebraska volleyball team. 19:30 CAMDEN COHN [10:12] a professional profile of Milwaukee Brewers announcer and former Huskers announcer Lane Grindle . 29:40 SKYLEE NELSON [20:11] a personal journey of discovery in sports and in sports media, that will take her next to Bristol, CT. 49:50 ALEX NEILL [9:59] a professional profile of D-Wayne Taylor , a vocal entrepreneur who works in local radio and is the stadium voice of Huskers a...
Dec 29, 2023•1 hr
GEOFF EXSTROM is a Broadcasting and Sports Media and Communication alum of UNL’s CoJMC. He is now the Director of Communications and Media Relations for the Omaha Supernovas , one of the seven founding members of the Pro Volleyball Federation. In this interview recorded December 16, 2023 he talks about the new team, his new job, the value of volleyball in the state of Nebraska. We also talk about the Huskers and Texas NCAA title match before it was played on December 17....
Dec 16, 2023•1 hr
MIKE WATTS is one of America’s up-and-coming soccer announcers. He broadcasts USL and NWSL among the more than 200 events he does in a year, mostly on TV but he also does radio for Westwood One. He is the pre-season voice of the Cincinnati Bengals. Mike is an Ohio native who went to college at Fordham, where many national voices were educated, from Vin Scully to Mike Breen.
Nov 22, 2023•39 min
DAVID BERRI is professor of economics at Southern Utah University. He researches, writes and teaches sports and economics. Here we talk about the College Sports Industry, the incredible amounts of money in college athletics and some context about where they fit into a university budget, NIL and more. [We almost certainly will talk about paying a football coach $78 million to no longer coach for your university, which may be Texas A&M.] You can find David on social at @wagesofwins....
Nov 18, 2023•25 min
NICK BADDERS is going into his second year in 2024 as the voice of the Kansas City Royals Triple-A team in Omaha. His father is an Omaha native, his grandfather was a fan of the Kansas City Athletics. Nick is a Northern California native who graduated from the Cronkite School at Arizona State.
Nov 12, 2023•56 min
JAKE ZIVIN has been a Major League Soccer announcer for more than a decade, first as the voice of the Portland Timbers, and now one of the lead announcers for the Apple TV+ presentation of MLS. He’s a native of Evanston, Illinois, who worked local TV in Missoula, Montana and Eugene, Oregon. He’s one of the new generation - maybe the first generation - of soccer announcers, men and women who can make a full-time career of doing games on radio and TV in the U.S. and abroad....
Nov 03, 2023•57 min
LIZ MERRILL has been with ESPN for nearly 16 years. She is a senior writer, specializing in long form, investigative and takeout stories. In this interview she talks about her career, how it got started and talks about of her big stories, including Chiefsaholic and former basketball great who is now cloistered nun. She also talks about Nebraska’s Volleyball Day in the summer of 2023, for which she wrote a preview piece on ESPN. Liz is a Nebraska native and a graduate of the University of Nebrask...
Oct 16, 2023•1 hr
ALEXI LALAS is the top soccer analyst for Fox Sports. He works in the studio for many of their soccer productions, including the Men’s and Women’s World Cups. They were in Qatar in November 2022 and Australia/New Zealand in July 2023. He is the lightning rod of their broadcasts. He is outspoken, confident and sometimes controversial. He’s a Hall of Fame player who has forged a nice career in front of the camera. He is also a musician and a podcaster....
Oct 07, 2023•1 hr
LAUREN MICHELSON has been the sports director of KLKN-TV Channel 8 in Lincoln since May 2022. She is the weeknight sports anchor who shoots, produces, writes and delivers sports at least five days a week. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri journalism school. We talk about getting a career started, being a woman in a male-dominated business, the absolute joy she has in the work, and much more. SHOW NOTES: :00 Introduction –examples of her work - greetings and welcome 2:40 How did you...
Sep 03, 2023•34 min
TOM SHATEL was hired on September 1, 1991 as the sports columnist of the Omaha World Herald. He has been there since. In this conversation he talks about what he does. Also, Scott Frost, Tom Osborne, Bo Pelini and the importance of facing the sources when you write something critical of them. He talks about what makes him unique, his enjoyment of being at games, with coaches and players, and his lifelong stuttering and how he came to terms with it in the last 20 years. SHOW NOTES 1:00 Describe w...
Aug 23, 2023•1 hr 4 min
ANDY KENDEIGH is the Sports Director at KETV, Channel 7 in Omaha. The station's Newswatch 7 news shows have been number one in the market for many years. He is a veteran of the high school coverage as well as the Huskers. We talk about those things as well as the process of the job and what the audience wants and expects. SHOW NOTES: :20 Hello and Welcome 1:15 Oregon and Washington join Big Ten (happened same day the interview was recorded) and what it means to the athletes and the conference an...
Aug 14, 2023•31 min
SAM MC KEWON is the sports editor of the Omaha World Herald. He also covers Huskers football. He is a rather non-traditional editor in that he writes and reports, including covering the highest-profile team in the state, Nebraska football. He talks about the paper’s relationship with the Lincoln Journal Star, delivery of the news in the 21st century, the Big Ten adding Washington and Oregon. Interview recorded August 4, 2023 SHOW NOTES: :20 introduction 1:45 what do you do? 4:00 does the printed...
Aug 05, 2023•31 min
KARIM ZIDAN is an investigative journalist working at the intersection of sports and politics. His newsletter at Substack is called Sports Politika. We talk here about sports washing and so much more, including how sports fits into the wide world of business and politics. He talks about Saudi Arabia, LIV golf, FIFA and IOC (“they are big mafias”) and the state of American sports journalism. INTERVIEW NOTES: 00:00 introduces Zidan 00:45 admiration for the New York Times and that newspaper’s decis...
Aug 04, 2023•39 min
KARIM ZIDAN is an investigative journalist working at the intersection of sports and politics. His newsletter at Substack is called Sports Politika. We talk here about sports washing and so much more, including how sports fits into the wide world of business and politics. He talks about Saudi Arabia, LIV golf, FIFA and IOC (“they are big mafias”) and the state of American sports journalism. INTERVIEW NOTES: Karim Zidan Part 1 00:00 previewing the conversation 2:45 introduction, sports and politi...
Aug 04, 2023•37 min
STEVE SIPPLE is columnist for Husker Online and the On3 Network. He joined Husker Online in the summer of 2022 after 33 years with the Lincoln Journal Star newspaper. This conversation is an update, a check-in on various matters related to sports journalism, coverage of sports in Nebraska, especially Huskers, and what’s going on generally in the sports media business. We talk about new football coach Matt Rhule and a bit about the former coach Scott Frost. [Interview conducted July 2023] TIMELIN...
Jul 14, 2023•28 min
SARATH GANJI Fellow, Center for a New American Security Director, Autocracy and Global Sports Initiative He researches and writes about a number of things related to global sports and security, and has become one of the world’s leading authorities and critics of what has become known as Sportswashing. That is the term used to describe how state actors, like Saudi Arabia and many others, use sports to mitigate criticism of their human rights abuses or other autocratic activity. Ganji talks here a...
Jul 08, 2023•50 min
DAVID BERRI is a professor of economics, a researcher and author of books on sports and economics and sports and gender. Here he talks at NIL (Name, Image and Likeness.) He also talks about the impact the new marketplace has on the college sports industry; about its sustainability, about where it’s been and where it’s going. [We do not talk about the IRS, which came down with some rules regarding collectives after this interview was recorded] SHOW NOTES: :40 What is the update on NIL? 6:50 Athle...
Jul 02, 2023•1 hr
MIKE'L SEVERE has worked in the television, radio and newspaper business in Omaha over the last 20 years. Most recently, he was a media producer for the city of Papillion, Nebraska, after leaving his job as co-host of the morning show at 1620 The Zone. He's now the Executive Director of the Jet Awards Foundation, which honors the best college football return, named for one of the great college players in history Johnny Rodgers. Here, Mike'l talks about the new job, the ambitions of the awards co...
Jun 25, 2023•41 min
Gary Sharp is the co-host of Sharp and Handley in the Morning on 1620 The Zone sports radio in Omaha. He was one of a handful of broadcasters who presented the MCWS games on the radio station. [This was recorded on Saturday morning before the final series between LSU and Florida got started.]
Jun 24, 2023•31 min
JP DELLACAMERA has been a national soccer announcer since the mid-1980s. He has worked 16 World Cups, and will be in Australia and New Zealand for the Women’s World Cup in July/August 2023. His first WC was in 1986. He has missed one – either men or women – since. He talks about soccer in this country, about the process of broadcasting the games, the American style of doing soccer, and much more. SHOW NOTES: 0:00 Opens with show introduction and overview 4:00 Hello from JP; talks about his caree...
May 14, 2023•1 hr
JAY NEUHAUS is the Vice-President for Event Planning for Premiere Partnerships (part of Play Fly Sports.) He has worked in Europe for FIFA and EUFA, and in South America for an IMG Endeavor company, FC Diez. He is a Nebraska native who is returning to the U.S. after five years in Asuncion, Paraguay. SHOW NOTES 3:00 Introduction, where’s Jay been and where’s he's going 7:30 The most lucrative, revenue-generating event ever, the 2026 World Cup? 10:45 You have been in the world football scene for 2...
Apr 21, 2023•36 min
DUSTYN STORTZUM is in his first full year as track announcer at Fonner Park, the premiere horse racing venue in Nebraska. He grew up around horse tracks, but it’s been a rather recent development that led him to his job in Grand Island. He talks about his mentor, the late Fonner announcer Steve Anderson, who helped teach him the job; also, the process of calling a race, the business and his family connections to horse racing. SHOW NOTES: 2:00 Learning the business from the late track announcer S...
Apr 04, 2023•1 hr
DAMON HACK covers golf as a studio host and on-course reporter for Golf Channel and NBC Sports. He has now spent more than a decade at Golf Channel after a newspaper and magazine career (New York Times, Newsday, Sacramento Bee, Sports Illustrated). Show Notes: :30 Introduction, New role at NBC Sports 5:45 Process of doing the on-course interviews 11:20 Journalism, human drama and entertainment 13:30 How golf is produced on television 16:25 Diversity in golf 19:00 Damon’s role in the conversation...
Mar 30, 2023•36 min
Mike Woitalla talks about the Reynas and Gregg Berhalter, at length and with deep knowledge. We also talk about news from FIFA and women's soccer and American investment. And we chat about Grant Wahl, the great American soccer reporter who passed away while covering the World Cup in Qatar. Show Notes 1:00 Gregg Berhalter and the Reynas, the drama that played out during and after the recent WC 12:00 World Cup news from FIFA, men in US, Mexico and Canada and 2023 Women’s WC 23:00 Grant Wahl, the l...
Mar 25, 2023•37 min
EVAN BLAND Covers Nebraska football and baseball for the Omaha World Herald. He is the 2022 Nebraska sports writer of the year, an honor he shares with fellow World Herald reporter Stu Pospisil. Evan talks about the process of covering sports in Nebraska, including five years of the Scott Frost Era, which started with a lot of promise and ended in the coach's firing. SHOW NOTES: 00:00 opening remarks about the award and his position and responsibilities 14:00 the challenges of journalism and its...
Mar 21, 2023•52 min
STU POSPISIL is the high school sports editor and golf editor for the Omaha World Herald, the largest newspaper in the state of Nebraska. He was named the 2022 Nebraska sports writer of the year by the National Sports Media Association, sharing that honor with his World Herald colleague Evan Bland. Pospisil has been covering high school sports in the state for nearly four decades. He says it's his niche, "You can always find somebody to cover college sports."
Feb 21, 2023•33 min
DOUG DUDA Program Director and Sports Director of ESPN Tri-Cities in Kearney, Nebraska. He is the Nebraska Sportscaster of the Year for 2022, as awarded by the National Sports Media Association; the first non-Omaha or Lincoln sportscaster to win the award since 1996. He has been in Kearney for more than 25 years, in the business for more than 35 years. He does more than 150 live sports events a year, covering a few dozen high school teams and college teams in Central Nebraska....
Feb 16, 2023•37 min
MIKE SCHAEFER is the Nebraska Recruiting Analyst for Husker 247 Sports. In this conversation we talk about his role covering the Huskers and at [25:50] we dig deeply into how the Scott Frost story was covered. Mike has some thoughts about how he might change that in the future. What we do in sports media, why and how with a man who reports, writes, does podcasting and radio.
Jan 14, 2023•1 hr
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN sports broadcasting students. Projects from the Fall 2022 semester Josh Lill Personal podcast [segment length: 19:50] Interview with musical group The Larks Connor Clark Profile of Cubs broadcasting great Pat Hughes [segment length: 10:00] Jackson Reddick Personal podcast [segment length: 19:40] Impact of the pandemic Jacob Janousek Profile of YouTuber and broadcaster Wade Plemons [segment length: 10:00]...
Jan 09, 2023•1 hr 1 min
