The Score (Commentary)
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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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- Location: Santa Monica, CA
- Language: English
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Olympic Pride
Thu, Aug 7
Those who have been privy to the dress rehearsals for the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games, to get under way for real tomorrow, say the pomp and pageantry driven by leviathan national Chinese pride is beyond what we in the West could possibly understand, much less generate...
Too Young for Games
Thu, Jul 31
Swimming and Track Field are the marquee sports of every summer Olympic Games but gymnastics is known as the jewel of the whole spectacle--notably women's gymnastics. The television schedule purposefully orchestrates women's gymnastics into the heart of prime-time viewing. And if you think back over the years, you'll remember several women gymnasts as the key protagonists of many different Games...
A Drug-Free Beijing?
Thu, Jul 24
I've often wondered how former Olympic athletes feel right about this time, on the eve of yet another Olympic Games. Do they wallow in nostalgia, national anthems taking them back to distant memories of zeal and triumph? What about the ones who underperformed? Do they anguish every four years, reliving what could have, should have, would have been when their one and only time was upon them?
Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?
Thu, Jul 17
One of sport's hallowed temples, one of America's cultural cathedrals, showcased gloriously at this week's All-Star classic, is closing down at the end of the season. I'm not a die-hard Yankee fan. Not like my friend Arlene who will suffer through every at-bat, every double play, from this time of the season forward, literally unable to leave the house if her Bronx Bombers have a crucial loss. I'm just one of millions who revere the history and the magical moments, Lou Gehrig's farewell and...
World Class over 40
Thu, Jul 10
The heartbreak of world-class sports is that an athlete retires while she's still young, oftentimes never to excel or find such passion again. And yet a 41-year old promises to be the darling of the Beijing Games...
Babashoff et al
Thu, Jul 3
Watching the Swimming Olympic Trials this week is on one hand inspiring, seeing world records fall, anticipating the excitement of following these athletes through to their dreams in China---understanding the many hours and days and years of discipline these athletes have put in. Just to make the final eight in any given Trials event takes special talent, extraordinary sacrifice. But it unnerves me when the gun goes off, knowing that after a mere minute or two of supreme physical and mental...
Trials Pressure
Thu, Jun 26
The Olympics are a mere six weeks away and athletes all over the world are in their final training stages, heading toward the tricky taper period so they can time their peak just right...
Kobe No Michael Jordan
Thu, Jun 19
Going into the Final Championship series against the Celtics, Kobe Bryant was compared often to Michael Jordan. Kobe, the NBA's regular season MVP, the greatest athlete since the great MJ. Now that the Celtics have whooped the Lakers for those NBA Championship rings, it is abundantly apparent that Kobe is in fact no Jordan...
Future US Open Champ
Thu, Jun 12
Lakers-Celtics, Take 3
Thu, Jun 5
It never makes sense to me when analysis of an upcoming game or series includes the records of the teams from bygone eras. If the Colts and the Packers face off, for instance, analysts go back decades and talk about how the Baltimore Colts fared against Green Bay so long ago that today's Indianapolis Colts find the conversation irrelevant...
MLB Instant Replay
Thu, May 29
Major League Baseball is considering instant replay. Commissioner Bud Selig says he's open to the concept. He has put it "under advisement." Why "under advisement?" Why not hammer it down and make it official…as of tomorrow?..
Danica, the Real Deal
Thu, May 22
It's been 31 years since the first woman driver started the most famous of all car races, the Indianapolis 500. It was an historic and also poetic moment. I remember it well. Memorial Day weekend, 1977. The starter's usual "Gentlemen, start your engines" was changed for Janet Guthrie, who sat behind her wheel in the line-up in the grid. "In the company of the first lady to race the Indianapolis 500, gentlemen, start your engines!" Guthrie had three Indy starts, in the end, and wound up with a...
Annika
Thu, May 15
One of the great athletes of our time announced her retirement this week. Swedish born, now Florida resident Annika Sorenstam, will play out the rest of this season and then step away from the game she has dominated for more than a decade. Well, she'll actually still be in the thick of the game with her businesses of designing courses, branding clothing, and running academies, but she's hanging up her competitive cleats...
Eight Belles: Tragic Lesson
Thu, May 8
I've often wondered if the thoroughbred left to Nature, left to run like the wind across the hills of Big Sky Montana with wild Mustang cousins, is as fragile as the thoroughbreds lined up at the nation's starting gates. It's an absurd question in that thoroughbreds don't run wild in Nature. They are genetically-engineered marvels, bred for two centuries for speed….and for our wagering pleasure...
Pistorius Not Able
Thu, May 1
Research and Development divisions throughout the world of sports are pushing the technology envelope to make athletes more aerodynamic, to lessen impact on tumbling floors, to increase power in racquets. With 100 days to go before the Beijing Olympics, the biggest story to date has been the new ultra-streamlined swimsuits that have helped swimmers break an uncommon number of world records over the first few months of this year. It is the ultimate irony, then, that one athlete has been banned...
Ben: A Track Athlete
Thu, Apr 24
Ben: A Track Athlete
LeMond Hard Times
Thu, Apr 17
Before there was the hero Lance Armstrong, there was the hero Greg LeMond. LeMond, with his muscled style, his bon-vivant party-all-night, ride-the-Alps all-day fervor, with his three Tour de France victories back in the late ---80's, brought a passion for cycling to America and brought respect for an American cyclist to Europe. He was the first American to win the prestigious Tour. He was the first to win it on an American-made bicycle...
The Tiger Paradox
Thu, Apr 10
The fabled Masters golf tournament is under way as of today down in Augusta, Georgia. Tiger is of course the story. Tiger. The greatest crossover sports star since Mohammed Ali. Tiger. The paradox of today's sports world. He's both the greatest element of this era of golf, and he's what's wrong with this era of golf...
China, Wrong Choice.
Thu, Apr 3
Back in the summer of 2001, the International Olympic Committee was reeling under revelations that the members who traveled the globe to select Olympic host cities had been more expert at accepting bribes than discerning world-class sports venues and adequate public transportation...
Immaculata
Thu, Mar 27
A note about March Madness. The night of the men's final, April 7 in San Antonio, 2008's class of inductees to the Basketball Hall of Fame will be announced. Along with the legendary, tall likes of Patrick Ewing and Hakeem Olajuwon, a fairly short woman named Cathy Rush has been nominated, the lone woman for this year's class---
Beijing Baseball
Thu, Mar 20
Yesterday the Boston Red Sox boarded a plane in Florida, bound for Japan and their season-opening games against the Oakland A's. Last minute, confusion ensued as to what the Red Sox staff of coaches and trainers would be compensated for the trip. The players had earlier agreed to $40,000 each and they had in good faith believed that sum would be distributed to everybody in the organization. When it was learned yesterday that only the players would be paid, they decided to boycott the trip...
American Skiers Excel
Thu, Mar 13
The world's best alpine skiers started careening down the slopes of the world's winter wonderlands late October. This week they're culminating their season in Bormio, Italy, and the top man and woman are on the verge of entering American record books. It's been 25 years since Tamara McKinney and Phil Mahre were the last Americans to win the World Cup overall titles the same year...
Favre Farewell
Fri, Mar 7
Green Bay is a dedicated cheese-head town. Lambeau Field borders on a place of worship. Thousands of fans come out for practice sessions and those days are as special as game days in other towns. The players emerge from the locker room and ride old cruiser-type bicycles over to the practice field. Kids hop on the handle bars, skip along next to their favorite guys, get their autographs, get their pictures taken on their broad shoulders. When the players dismount their bikes at the field,...
I Miss Boxing
Fri, Feb 29
The Paralysis Project of America just hosted their annual fundraiser, an evening here in Los Angeles whereby legends of sport are feted and brave individuals coping with spinal cord injuries talk about the hope of one day standing out of their chairs. A woman named Julie Alban, shot point-blank in the back by her boyfriend, a crime that severed her spinal cord, eloquently expressed the daily summoning of courage to focus on what she has, not what she's lost. The famous athletes in the room...
Beijing Olympics
Fri, Feb 22
Beijing Olympics
Clemens Not the Point
Fri, Feb 15
It's been a dismal season for Knicks fans. That's grossly understating it. It's been an abysmal season. So how uplifting it was Tuesday night to see that standing-room-only crowd at Madison Square Garden roar their grand appreciation. And how ironic that they were standing and cheering not for the big men but for a little guy. Not a point guard but a hound named Uno...
Bobby Knight
Fri, Feb 8
So Bobby Knight called his Hall-of-Fame coaching career quits this week. If the win/loss record is the final measurement of Knight's success, then he's a genius. In fact, he's the winningest coach in college basketball history...
Tsonga Fever
Fri, Jan 25
It's hard to surprise a true fan of a sport. When you follow the characters year in, year out, you know the young hopefuls. You have a good sense of who has tremendous potential, even if they've suffered setbacks. That's a phrase that aptly describes a 22-year old French tennis player named Jo-Wilfried Tsonga...
Duty of a Commentator
Fri, Jan 18
It's been twenty years now that I've been delivering commentary on public radio. I take the job as if writing for the op-ed page of a newspaper. "Opinion" is the modus operandi of a commentator. The publisher or broadcaster makes it known that the views of the commentator are not necessarily those of the paper or station at large. Of course there are basic tenets of decency we all agree upon. Other than those, these four minutes each Thursday are mine. It's my time to play with words, to...
Clemens, Wrong or Wronged.
Fri, Jan 11
Except for perhaps Hillary Clinton, Roger Clemens is the newsmaker of the week. Since the pitcher better known as the best right-hander ever to throw from the mound boiled to an irate indignation on 60 Minutes Sunday night, the flap has ratcheted up to a roar. A Congressional hearing is slated in about a month, which will prompt depositions and perhaps even eventual proof positive that Clemens did in fact use steroids. Proving his contention, that he never used, is a trickier proposition...
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