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Saddle up for an unforgettable journey into the world of horsemanship with host Scott Keogh as he sits down with legendary horsemen in the captivating podcast, ”Swapping Lies.” Join us for intimate conversations that delve into the lives, experiences, and profound insights of the individuals who have dedicated their lives to the art and craft of working with horses.
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SuchThatCast is dedicated to getting to know some of the most influential philosophers (broadly speaking) of today. It seeks to provide an alternative to most other philosophy podcasts (many of which are excellent), by taking the form of a face-to-face conversation (I will never do a phone/skype interview) where the guest is free (and encouraged) to share information about themselves that may not be appropriate in other forums: this includes stories about their unique and often unconventiona ...
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DAVID BERRI teaches economics at Southern UtahUniversity. He is the author, with Nefertitii Walker of UMass-Amherst, of the new book “Slaying the Trolls: Why the trolls are very, very wrong about women and sports.” This is aconversation about that book and its content, which looks at women in sports, including the biases, the challenges, the opport…
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When it comes to polocrosse Darryl Smith has done it all. The players player, with statements like "The greatest player I've ever played against without a doubt would be Darryl Smith from Quirindi." from Murray Sturgess. The greatest of all time debate may be over. Enjoy Scott’s in depth chat with one of, if not the greatest Australian Polocrosse c…
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MICHAEL BRUNTZ Senior Writer, Husker 247
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MICHAEL BRUNTZ has covered Huskers football for CBS Sports's Husker 247 since 2011. In 2024 he starts his 18th season reporting on the Huskers. He attended and wrote about the Big Ten Media days in Indianapolis in late July 2024. We talk about that, the coverage of the Huskers and the prospects for the team in Matt Rhule’s second season as head coa…
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NICK BADDERS Voice of the Omaha Storm Chasers
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NICK BADDERS is the Broadcast and Media Manager forthe Omaha Stormchasers, the Royals AAA team in the International League. He’s in his second season with the Chasers. We talk about his progress as an announcer, what he has learned in 18 months on the job in Omaha. The Bay Area native also has some thoughts about the Oakland Athletics moving as wel…
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CONNOR CLARK Voice of the Lincoln Saltdogs
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CONNOR CLARK is in his first year as the broadcasting and media relations manager of the American Association's Lincoln Saltdogs baseball team. He spent two summers in college working with the former PxP announcer Michael Dixon. Clark graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in May 2024. We chat here about the job, about getting started in…
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MOLLY ROBINSON, WJOX Radio Birmingham, Alabama
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MOLLY ROBINSON is co-host of the midday program “Three Man Front” on WJOX Radio in Birmingham, Alabama. She was on the scene when MLB celebrated Negro Leagues baseball and Willie Mays, with the Giants and Cubs playing at Rickwood Field. The Nebraskagraduate and Alabama native talks about her first full time radio job and the impact the game and fes…
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DOUG DUDA Sports Director ESPN Tri-Cities
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DOUG DUDA - the 2022 Nebraska Sportscaster of the year - is the Sports Director of ESPN Tri-Cities in Kearney, Nebraska where he has been for about 27 years. He's worked in Central Nebraska in 'local' radio for more than 35 years. We talk about what a guy does in the middle of the summer to keep it lively on his "Doug and Daddy" radio show.…
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AARON OBERHOLSER NBC Golf Channel Analyst and On-course reporter
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AARON OBERHOLSER has been an analyst and on-coursereporter for NBC’s Golf Channel since 2013. He’s a former PGA Tour player whose first win came at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am in 2006. As a junior at San Jose State in 1996 he won six college titles, matching the number of a Stanford sophomore named Tiger Woods. Aaron worked the US Open for NBC…
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JACQUI OATLEY, Soccer Play by Play Announcer
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JACQUI OATLEY has quickly become a fixture in American soccer broadcasting. On Fox Sports, she worked the Men's World Cup in Qatar in 2022 and the Women's World Cup in Australia/New Zealand in 2023. Oatley is doing the Euros 2024 this summer on Fox Sports. She is the lead voice on CBS Sports for the NWSL. The native of Wolverhampton continues to do…
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GEOFF EXSTROM, Omaha Supernovas, Director of Communications and Media Relations
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GEOFF EXSTROM is the Director of Communications andMedia Relations for the Omaha Supernovas of the Professional Volleyball Federation. In his first season as the media relations director, in the first season of the league’s existence Omaha won the championship. We chattedbefore the season about his new gig. This is an update of a kind of what-did-y…
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MAX OLSON, The Athletic College Football Writer
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MAX OLSON is Senior Writer covering college footballfor The Athletic. He was one of the early hires there, following a stint with ESPN. Max is a Nebraska native, a graduate of the University of Nebraska journalismcollege. He spends his time covering the games, the portal, the off-field news including NIL and the new world of directly paying college…
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MICHAEL SERAZIO Author and Professor, Boston College
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Michael Serazio researches and writes in theareas of media and communication. He is professor of communications at Boston College. His latest book is "The Authenticity Industries." He's also the author of "The Power of Sports: Media and Spectacle in American Culture." He chats here with John about the condition of sports journalism, the sports medi…
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Elijah Herbel is the producer and co-host of "HailVarsiy Radio," from Hurrdat Media. It is flagshipped at KFOR Radio in Lincoln and heard around the state 4-6 p.m. weekdays. Elijah started with the show while he was in college at Nebraska and has been with host Chris Schmidt now for about five years. It is fundamentally a show about Huskers sports …
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RICKY LOPEZ ESPIN, Soccer Television Analyst
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RICKY LOPEZ ESPIN is a former soccer player at Creighton. He played professionally in Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, Miami and Fort Lauderdale. He is now a color analyst for a number of television outlets, including MLS, MLS Next Pro, and USL. He’s been broadcasting for about three years and already has aspirations of broadcasting World Cup games.…
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JOHN BAYLOR, Radio voice of Huskers Volleyball and now Supernovas on TV
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JOHN BAYLOR will enter his 31st season as the radio voice of the Huskers Volleyball team in Fall 2024. He has added some television work, calling games on News Channel Nebraska for the Omaha Supernovas of the Pro Volleyball Federation. We talk about the Huskers, the newvolleyball league and some of the distinctions between doing radio and televisio…
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CHRIS WITTYNGHAM, MLS and Serie A Announcer
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CHRIS WITTYNGHAM is a young American soccerannouncer. He does games for MLS Season Pass on Apple TV+ and Serie A games on Paramount Plus and CBS. He does other soccer announcing as well, including radio for Inter Miami of MLS. He represents the new generation of soccer announcers; he’s young, multilingual, multicultural and learned the business cal…
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Swapping Lies Episode 5 - Garry Mcphee
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JAVIER ORTIZ General Manager of California, Latino Media Network
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JAVIER ORTIZ is the general manager, California for the Latino Media Network. He manages radio stations in Fresno, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. He also manages the company’s relationship with the Los Angeles Dodgers Spanish-language broadcasts. Ortiz has worked in a number of roles in the radio and television business and has worked in marketing and …
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JOSH PETERSON, 1620 The Zone Omaha, Sports Talk Radio Host
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JOSH PETERSON co-hosts the "Unsportsmanlike Conduct" radio show with John Bishop, 2-6 p.m. weekdays at 1620 The Zone radio in Omaha. They've been together for nearly ten years. Sports talk radio in Omaha appears to be alive and well. Josh says Caitlin Clark is the 'biggest start in college basketball" - woman or man. We also talk about finding the …
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Swapping Lies Episode 4 - John Stanton
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Theres no introduction required for this master of horsemanship and bush craft. John Stanton from Macksville on the NSW North Coast competed for more than 50 years and stayed pretty much at the top of the pack for the past 28. Riding horses he trained and shod himself, John has won the Australian Bushmans Campdraft and Rodeo Association (ABCRA) Hor…
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John Shrader looks at the changing nature of American soccer broadcasting and the young people who dream of making this their long-term career. They would be the first generation of American announcers who started their careers working only in soccer.
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Welcome back to "Swapping Lies," the podcast where we dive into the tales of remarkable individuals in the equine industry. In Episode 3, we're joined by none other than Ivan Haggerty, widely acclaimed as the epitome of equestrian mastery in Western Australia. Scotty Keogh alongside Ivan, take listeners on an unforgettable journey into a differrent…
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A lifetime in the rugged desert country Geoff Schrader is a man amongst men and as good a campdrafter as we've seen. The Kidman station manager is the only man to pull of the Warwick Gold cup / Canning Downs double.By Scotty Keogh
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Join Scotty Keogh on his first podcast episode as he sits down and swaps lies with the legendary equestrian horseman, John Fahey. His journey in competitive riding began at the tender age of three, atop Goldie, a gentle yet towering pony. By four, he was already mustering cattle, and at twelve, he was leaping over obstacles at the prestigious Brisb…
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STEVEN CALDWELL, TSN Soccer Analyst
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STEVEN CALDWELL is a former professional soccer player – in Scotland, the English Premiere League, English Championship and Major League Soccer. He’s a Scotsman who now plies his trade in Toronto, where he runs an academy; his highest profile work is as a television analyst for TSN. We talk here about the role of the TV analyst, the emergence of so…
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MICHAEL DIXON Voice of Lincoln Saltdogs and Melbourne Aces
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MICHAEL DIXON is the Play by Play voice of the Lincoln Saltdogs of minor league baseball's American Association. This winter [summer Down Under] Michael has been announcing games for the Melbourne Aces of the Australian Baseball League. He talked with me from Melbourne about what the work he's doing, baseball's place in Australian life, and what th…
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DAVE JOHNSON, DC United and Washington Wizards announcer
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DAVE JOHNSON is the original voice of DC United of Major League Soccer, and has been for nearly 30 years the radio voice of the NBA’s Washington Wizards. Dave was for the first 27 years of its existence the TV voice of DC United, but that ended when Apple TV+ took over the nationaltelevision contract for MLS. He talks about not being one of the ann…
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Student Projects Part II, Fall 2023
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: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 Coh…
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Students Projects Part I, Fall 2023
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:50 SARAH PERSON [19:04] a personal view of her loveaffair with the Nebraska volleyball team. 19:30 CAMDEN COHN [10:12] a professional profile ofMilwaukee Brewers announcer and former Huskers announcer Lane Grindle. 29:40 SKYLEE NELSON [20:11] a personal journey of discoveryin sports and in sports media, that will take her next to Bristol, CT. 49:5…
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GEOFF EXSTROM, Director of Communications and Media Relations OMAHA SUPERNOVAS volleyball
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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 volleyb…
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MIKE WATTS, Soccer Announcer for USL, NWSL and more
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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…
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DAVID BERRI, Sports Economist, Professor at Southern Utah University
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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, theincredible 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 foo…
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NICK BADDERS Play by Play voice of the Omaha StormChasers
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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.
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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 generatio…
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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 V…
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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 …
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LAUREN MICHELSON, KLKN-TV Sports Director
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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 busi…
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TOM SHATEL, Sports Columnist, Omaha World Herald
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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 b…
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ANDY KENDEIGH, KETV Channel 7 Sports Director
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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 …
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SAM MCKEWON Sports Editor, Omaha World Herald
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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 centur…
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KARIM ZIDAN, Sports Investigative Journalist PART 2
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KARIM ZIDAN is an investigative journalist working atthe 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”) an…
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KARIM ZIDAN, Sports Investigative Journalist PART 1
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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 howsports fits into the wide world of business and politics. He talks about Saudi Arabia, LIV golf, FIFA and IOC (“they are big mafias”) an…
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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 sp…
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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 act…
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DAVID BERRI Economics Professor Southern Utah University
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DAVID BERRI isa 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 th…
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MIKE'L SEVERE New Executive Director of the Jet Awards Foundation
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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 footb…
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GARY SHARP, 1620 The Zone on Men's College World Series
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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.]
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JP DELLACAMERA has been a national soccer announcer since the mid-1980s. He has worked 16 World Cups, and will be in Australia andNew 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, th…
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JAY NEUHAUS, Vice President Event Planning, Premiere Partnerships
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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 an…
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DUSTYN STORTZUM, Fonner Park Track Announcer
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DUSTYN STORTZUM is in his first full year as track announcer at Fonner Park, the premiere horse racing venue in Nebraska. He grewup 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 proce…
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