Press Box Access: A Sports History Podcast

Sports & Recreation Podcasts

Sit down with host Todd Jones and other sportswriters who knew the greatest athletes and coaches, and experienced first-hand some of the biggest sports moments in the past 50 years. They’ll share stories behind the stories -- some they’ve only told to...

Episodes

Paul Hoynes part 2: “Those Teams Probably Saved Baseball in Cleveland.”

Paul Hoynes part 1: “I'm Sweating Bullets, Shaking, Trying to Calm Myself Down.”

Writers Bear Witness to Memorable Moments from March Madness

Jerry Tipton: “You could just walk into the Kentucky coach’s office.”

Helene Elliott: “Gretzky was like no one we had seen before.”

Dave Molinari: “Lemieux Taxed the Limits of my Ability to Describe What I Saw.”

Mike Vaccaro: “Isiah Thomas is on the Back Page in a Full Clown Suit.”

"The Greatest: Media Share Memories of Muhammad Ali in and out of The Ring"

Jayson Stark: “The Baseball Breaks a Window Across the Street from Wrigley Field.”

Mike DeCourcy: “It Was Like Being Given a Ticket to Heaven.”

Art Thiel: “It was a Grand Experiment in Mayhem.”

Diane Pucin: “It Was All Tonya, Tonya, Tonya, Nancy, Nancy, Nancy.”

Charles Pierce part 2: “Tiger Woods Tells These Jokes and then it Becomes a Thing.”

Charles Pierce part 1: “They Rolled the Champagne out of the Red Sox’s Locker Room.”

Terence Moore: “I Literally Ran into Woody Hayes.”

Sheldon Ocker: “Manny used to use other people's bats, pants, and shirts.”

Filip Bondy: “It Became an Anterior-Posterior Investigation.”

Geoff Calkins: “It Turned into a Prince Concert in the Press Conference.”

John McGrath: “It Was a Front-Row Seat to the Greatest Sports Events.”

Peter King: “It Was the Golden Age of Covering the NFL.”