Exclusive: Religion of Sports, the venture founded by Gotham Chopra, Michael Strahan, and Tom Brady, is exploring the story of Major League Baseball’s steroid era in a narrative podcast series.
The company has teamed up with public media organization Prx to launch Crushed, a seven-part podcast hosted by former Sports Illustrated staff writer Joan Niesen.
In 1998, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa raced to break the single-season home run record. However, it came to light that McGwire and numerous other players had been using anabolic steroids, crushing many sports fan’s love for the game. The series will revisit this pivotal period for baseball and delves into the fallout from that scandal, asking what happens when our heroes let us down?.
Crushed will feature interviews with former players, including Rick Honeycutt, Dan Naulty, Royce Clayton, Mike Trombley, and Jeremy Cummings. They’ll discuss the pressures they faced to stay competitive,...
The company has teamed up with public media organization Prx to launch Crushed, a seven-part podcast hosted by former Sports Illustrated staff writer Joan Niesen.
In 1998, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa raced to break the single-season home run record. However, it came to light that McGwire and numerous other players had been using anabolic steroids, crushing many sports fan’s love for the game. The series will revisit this pivotal period for baseball and delves into the fallout from that scandal, asking what happens when our heroes let us down?.
Crushed will feature interviews with former players, including Rick Honeycutt, Dan Naulty, Royce Clayton, Mike Trombley, and Jeremy Cummings. They’ll discuss the pressures they faced to stay competitive,...
- 3/25/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Manny Ramirez didn't sign his new minor league baseball deal for the cash -- it's because he "doesn't know what to do with himself without baseball" ... so says former Mlb star Royce Clayton. 41-year-old Manny just inked a deal with the Chicago Cubs to be a player/coach for its Triple-a affiliate in Iowa ... and Royce says it's just another example of "Manny being Manny."But that's not the best part of this clip --...
- 5/27/2014
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
The first trailer for one of my most anticipated films of the year, Moneyball, has been released thanks to Yahoo. This is Bennett Miller’s long awaited follow-up to his Oscar winning 2005 film Capote and it is based on Michael Lewis’ controversial bestseller of the same name. As many of you already know, I am a huge a baseball fan so this is obviously right up my ally. The book, which is terrific, follows unorthodox Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane, played in the film by Brad Pitt, as he attempts to build a winning baseball team for under $50 million. Beane built his team around players who got on base a lot and went after players who had high On Base Percentage’s, also known as Obp, who cost little to have. These players, like Scott Hatteberg, featured in the trailer via Chris Pratt, were middle of the road...
- 6/17/2011
- by Josh Youngerman
- SoundOnSight
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