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Host: Diana Nyad
Twenty-four hours a day in every city in America, you can hear shock jock radio types screaming their outrage at the latest sports scandal. The din has become so loud and so steady that I, for one, am thirsting for the poetry, the sociology, the philosophy of sports. On The Score, I hope to tell poignantly inspirational stories, cover the broad spectrum of characters who play parts in the sports world and lift listeners to feel a passion for sports, as I do.
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Genres: Sports Talk, Politics
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Language: English
Networks: KCRW

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Tiger Blues

Thu, Dec 3 Listen

The shock waves emanating from this week's Tiger Woods fiasco are loud indeed...and growing. Tiger tried to retreat to silence so that only theoretical conjectures have swirled since he crashed his car last week, evidently after some sort of marital dispute with his wife. But when Tiger was backed into a fox hole yesterday, by the release of a voicemail message from a third woman he has been connected to sexually, he may not have issued a detailed confession to extramarital affairs, but on...

Pacquaio Gold

Thu, Nov 19 Listen

Boxing used to be a passion of mine. But it's been twenty years since I was constantly immersed in the fight game, since the glory days of Hagler, Hearns, Roberto Duran, Sugar Ray Leonard. I've missed traveling or tuning in to the big bouts that drew worldwide interest beyond boxing purists. And I'm not the only one. And now I'm not the only one to be drawn back to the ring and the draw is a terribly exciting, magnetic, highly skilled Filipino named Manny Pacquiao...

Agassi Confesses

Thu, Nov 12 Listen

Rivera a Wonder

Thu, Nov 5 Listen

As of last night, on a clear, chilly fall night in the Bronx, the Yankees became World Series champs for the 27th time in their storied history. How grand it was to see Mr. November, Derek Jeter, win his fifth ring. To stop worrying about Alex Rodriguez as he smashed his past of fading post-season. To admire the entirely likeable Andy Pettitte who commands the mound like a dependable, quiet giant. Matsui, Posada, Texeira, Damon. They're bursting with talent, brimming with heart, driven with...

New York City Marathon for the Masses

Thu, Oct 29 Listen

New Yorkers are abuzz with their Yankees back in the thick of the World Series here at the end of October. The annual first of November New York City Marathon is also running its 40th edition on Sunday and New York is as crazy for the event as it was in its early frenzy days of the 1970's. For the second year, more than 100,000 applied and 40,000 will step up to the starting line at the Verazzano Narrows Bridge...

Baseball Replay

Thu, Oct 22 Listen

I'm joining the chorus that has long been begging for instant replay in baseball. There are examples of blown calls at crucial moments that made the difference in a team's winning or losing. For me, it was Tuesday night's Yankees/Angels American League Championship Series game that pushed me over the edge...a game that nobody could claim should have gone the other way...

Billie Jean's Night

Thu, Oct 15 Listen

There are dozens upon dozens of black-tie fundraiser dinners throughout each year, usually backing worthwhile causes while offering special guests and entertainment. Tuesday night was the annual night for Billie Jean King's Women's Sports Foundation and it has been reported consistently throughout the 30 years of this dinner that it is the lively night that stands out among all the others. Veteran newswoman Cokie Roberts began her remarks on Tuesday by recounting just how many dreadfully...

Ironman Memory

Thu, Oct 8 Listen

Football a Danger Work Zone

Thu, Oct 1 Listen

Mothers across America are either mandating or pleading that their sons don't play football, and if you read the weekly gridiron injury reports, moms' fears are well-founded. The NFL season is a mere three weeks old, yet the list of players already lost for the whole year is long...

Cowboys Stadium a Wonder

Thu, Sep 24 Listen

Architects, journalists, and fans have toured various sports stadia to compare and comment on their myriad cozy charms and spectacular vistas. One of my favorites is Camden Yards, technically called Oriole Park, home of the Baltimore Orioles. Fairly new, finished in 1992, its intimacy, nestled within its urban surroundings, its eye-pleasing asymmetrical field pay homage to the magnificent urban ballparks built in the early 1900's...

Serena, Classless

Thu, Sep 17 Listen

Serena Williams' outburst of angry obscenities has been cause for comment and debate all week, but I feel one major point has been missing from the discussion...

Jeter, Center of New York

Thu, Sep 10 Listen

The U.S. Open Tennis Championships are nearing the end of their two-week run in New York at the moment and, off-hand, I can?t think of another sporting event whereby the gravitas of the event is so huge in so many measurable ways and yet the television audience is so minimal. Thanks to the 17-year-old Cinderella story out of Marietta, Georgia, the irrepressible fighter Melanie Oudin, the ratings this year have actually been elevated over recent, post-Andre Agassi years...

Home Run Stats

Thu, Sep 3 Listen

Any sport played outdoors presents variables. Snow on a football field, strong wind on a golf course, late afternoon shadows creeping across a tennis court. Weather and varying conditions are usually equal for two opponents on any given day, but there are athletes whose entire careers can fall under the influence of home field conditions. You'll hear football players make the point that they played, for instance, their entire careers in Green Bay, or Buffalo, and thus their rushing average...

Semenya, Girl or Boy?

Thu, Aug 27 Listen

Usain Bolt may be the most electric athlete on the planet today. His two new world records at the just-finished World Track Championships in Berlin blow the mind. The 100 meters in 9.58 seconds, the 200 meters in 19.19 seconds?.even his closest rivals admit they struggle to fathom the talent of this 6?5? Jamaican who makes sprinting like the wind look like a jog in the breeze...

Bronson Arroyo

Thu, Aug 20 Listen

Suit Madness

Thu, Aug 6 Listen

One of Olympic swimming's all-time greats Janet Evans states that her beloved sport is in grave danger of becoming a mockery. Long-time U.S. head swim coach Mark Schubert fears the gravitas of the sport has been threatened to the point of losing its status as the cornerstone of the Olympic Games. Michael Phelps' coach cries out that the history of their sport has been tossed out like rotten garbage...

Lance More Likeable

Thu, Jul 30 Listen

I watched Lance win those historic seven Tours de France, 1998 to 2005, and each time, with the rest of the world, I shook my head that this almost miracle cancer survivor could dominate this, the most grueling of endurance events. Each time I found this Lance Armstrong awe-inspiring, especially in his rabbit-quick, relentless cadence up the steep climbs that are unfathomable to even the accomplished weekend cyclist. And each time, with I suspect the rest of the world, I found this guy cold,...

Tech Catch-22

Thu, Jul 23 Listen

Technology is changing our world in exponential ways and that certainly includes the world of sports. In some instances, I'm honestly not sure where I stand on the wizardrous advances. It's not like we can revert back to wooden tennis racquets when Teflon and boron are the materials du jour. As they say, you can't put the genie back in the bottle...

LPGA in Crisis

Thu, Jul 16 Listen

For women, golf was the fist successful professional sport in this country. Just on the heels of World War II, former track Olympian Babe Didrickson Zaharias, Patty Berg, and Louise Suggs may have had to organize their tournaments themselves, but they became household names and set the stage for the first accepted sport where women could make a living playing their passion...

T.O. Payback

Thu, Jul 9 Listen

Let's start with Lance Armstrong. The cycling giant is two tenths of a second off the lead in the Tour de France. And his strong suit, climbing, starts in the Pyrenees tomorrow. Back in February, when I said here on The Score that, whether you cringe at the Armstrong colossal ego or not, you have to admit he's earned every accolade heaped upon him as a cyclist. Yet I received a number of emails from listeners, lambasting Lance as a doping cheater and further lambasting me for giving him...

Lou Gehrig Farewell 70 Years Ago

Thu, Jul 2 Listen

Men's Tennis Heaven

Thu, Jun 25 Listen

If you're a tennis fan, then you're in virtual heaven. Especially on the men's side, there has never been an era replete with such rich talent and compelling personalities as we are witness to now. You can go back to the mastery of Bill Tilden, the complete player that was Rod Laver, the magnetic rivalry of McEnroe/Borg, the dominant Pete Sampras, the charismatic Andre Agassi. Yet never before have all the elements of the highest end of the sport come together as they do today...

Track and Field Blues

Thu, Jun 18 Listen

The U.S. Track and Field Championships will be run next week in Eugene, Oregon, and for those of us track fans it seems so very long ago that the sport basked in its golden era. Thats because it was so very long ago. Way back in the late 50s and early 60s, more than 60,000 fans would crowd into American stadiums for the duel meets against the Soviet Union. There was no thrill in sport greater than witnessing Wilma Rudolph turn on the burners in a blaze down the straightaway. And we could say...

NBA Youth

Thu, Jun 11 Listen

If any year was proof positive that high school players heading straight to the NBA was a good idea, it was this one. LeBron James was the League's MVP. Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard are the superstars of the two teams in the finals. And it was only a year ago that Kevin Garnett, 2004's MVP, led his Celtics to the Championship..

French Open '09

Thu, Jun 4 Listen

I'm just back from Paris and several days of dramatic tennis at the French Open. If you've never been, I can tell you that's it's quite a different experience from the other Grand Slams. The stadiums are much smaller which makes for an intimate feel, compared to the vastness of Arthur Ashe Stadium at the U.S. Open and Rod Laver Arena at the Australian Open. And compared to Wimbledon, where the fans are respectful to the point of reverent, the French are downright raucous, I'd go so far as to...

Michael Vick and Michael Phelps

Thu, May 28 Listen

Dancing Stars Legit

Thu, May 21 Listen

Jockey Jumps Ship

Thu, May 14 Listen

The second leg of thoroughbred racing's fabled Triple Crown goes off at Pimlico Race Track in Baltimore this Saturday and the Preakness is buzzing with jockey drama this week. The stirring 50-to-1 odds winner of the Kentucky Derby the first weekend of May, Mine That Bird, was deftly commandeered by jockey Calvin Borel. It sometimes happens, when a crowd of horses comes shoulder to shoulder to the wire and one shows the heart to find that fifth gear and nose out the rest, that we give all the...

NBA Long Season

Thu, May 7 Listen

It used to be that basketball was the indoor winter sport. Baseball was the summer game. And football was the game of crisp autumn weekends. Now, baseball extends into snow days of October, football stretches almost to Valentines Day, and basketball finishes up post-Memorial Day. Money is the obvious drive behind these long, overlapping seasons...

Derby Down

Thu, Apr 30 Listen

The Kentucky Derby runs this Saturday and it's no surprise that the economy foreshadows a toned-down day in blue-grass country. The Derby weekend traditionally pulls in some $120 million in revenue for the Louisville area but the highest predictions for this year's event are to perhaps hit $100 million...