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KCRW's The Score Podcast by Diana Nyad

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pgmd2, February 17, 2006
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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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Annika

Author: Podcast:Talkpodmaster@kcrw.org (Diana Nyad)
Thu, May 15, 2008

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...

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...

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 from this summer's Olympic Games because his equipment is evidently too technologically evolved. The irony comes with the fact that this athlete is physically disabled…

The winningest Division I coach of any sport, with 42 national titles, 30 national coach of the year awards, 23 Olympians under his tutelage, is retiring at the end of the school year...

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 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...

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...

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…

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...

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...

This Author: Diana Nyad This Publisher: KCRW

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