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KCRW's The Score Podcast by Diana Nyad

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pgmd2, February 17, 2006
Reviewer: pgmd2

KCRW Santa Monica’s podcast “The Score” with host Diana Nyad is different than other podcasts that I have reviewed. It features the host giving a monologue on some sports-related topic from scandals such as players on steroids to lacrosse tournaments. The podcast is part editorial, part news report, and part descriptive story.

“The Score” podcast does hold your attention as the host speaks quite quickly without pauses or breaks. The audio quality is good and Nyad’s has a gift for descriptive storytelling. I have given it a 4 out of 5 stars and would recommend anyone interested in sports to listen to this podcast.

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Author: Podcast:Talkpodmaster@kcrw.org (Diana Nyad)
Thu, Oct 09, 2008

It's one of the magical monikers of sports. "Mr. October." It came about thirty-one years ago, during the sixth game of the World Series between the Yankees and the Dodgers. Yankee super-slugger Reggie Jackson clobbered three home runs and when his teammate Thurmon Munson was being interviewed after the game about the pressures of post-season play...

Since the Yankees aren't playing post season this year, I'm not avidly rooting for any one team but I must say that it would be sweet indeed to see Joe Torre go all the way with his Dodgers, especially after he was not even a mention in the Yankees' own goodbyes to their stadium. That Torre and Don Mattingly were treated with such disregard was shameful and it would be justice indeed if Torre reminded the Yankees what a superior manager he is, heading down that old familiar home stretch, this time out wearing Dodger Blue...

Let's start with the all-Sunday-long farewell to Yankee Stadium. From Paul Simon to Henry Kissinger to Babe Ruth's 92-year old daughter, fans and players of both today and yesterday, and cultural heavyweights spoke poetry about their lifelong memories of this special place. I admit I cried several times on Sunday as the televised tributes ran one after the other...

Let's check in with Michael Phelps, shall we? How's his life going nearly a month after winning his historic eight gold medals at the Beijing Games?...

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Now that the U.S. Open has ended, so should the professional tennis season. The last Grand Slam of the year culminated in swirling drama in New York. On the women's side, the two best tennis players of our era, despite rankings that erroneously indicate otherwise, sisters of a close-knit family, Venus and Serena once again met as they had at Wimbledon. That grass-court final was an epic display of sublime athletic gifts as well as a compelling showing of mutual affection and respect. Older sister Venus prevailed at the All England Lawn and Tennis Club so it was storybook touché at Arthur Ashe Stadium when this time around younger sister Serena won the slam and the attendant $1.5 million...

Murmurs had been growing louder over the past decade or so that the mystique of the Olympic Games had lost its luster. Widespread drug busts of such champions as Marion Jones had supposedly disillusioned us. Young people couldn't connect. They'd rather be watching the X-Games.  The average age of the Olympic viewer rose almost ten years, to the upper 40's, from the 1992 Barcelona Games to Athens four years ago. But three forces combined in Beijing to catapult the Games once again high into widespread public consciousness...

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...

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...

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?

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 all, of Yankee Stadium. I'm just one of millions who has her own small, personal story of Yankee Stadium to tell...

This Author: Diana Nyad This Publisher: KCRW

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