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Steve Young Talks QBs and ESPN - The Big Lead

Q: Sticking to QBs … taking age into account, who are the top five QBs right now that you would build a franchise around? Young: Peyton and Tom are the two guys that you&rs...

A Whole New Jay Cutler - Susanna Negovan, Michigan Avenue Magazine

But in fact, quarterback Jay Cutler is not so different from any other 26-year-old single guy"”barring the six-year, $47 million contract he signed in 2006 and his massive ri...

Matt Schaub on Andre Johnson, Steve Slaton, and Vick - Shutdown Corner

Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:00 am EDTBy MJDI had the opportunity to talk to Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub(notes) yesterday. We discussed the beast that is Andre Johnson(notes), St...

The Quad Q&A: Tim Tebow - Pete Thamel, The Quad

Of all the folks who have sat down on The Quad’s hot seat over the past three years, no one has been a more frequent visitor than Florida quarterback Tim Tebow. Over the year...

Madden Still Touring on the Bus - Richard Sandomir, The Fifth Down

Q. What are you doing with yourself? A. I’m doing the same things, which makes me worry what I’ll do with it. I was back to Canton for 10 days for the Hall of Fame, so ...

TV Is King - Michelle Beadle, RealClearSports

RealClearSports recently talked with Michelle Beadle, co-host of ESPN's newest show, SportsNation, airing on ESPN2 aily at 4pm EST. Previously, Beadle served as the New York Sports...

EA Designer Talks About Vick in Madden - First Cuts

After hearing about Michael Vick's quick inclusion in Madden NFL 10 following his signing with the Eagles, I fired off a few questions to EA Tiburon designer Donny Moore, the man i...

Why I Hate Doing Radio - Joe Posnanski, RealClearSports

RealClearSports recently talked with Joe Posnanski, sports columnist at the Kansas City Star, and as of recently, Senior Writer at Sports Illustrated. "Joe Po's" newest book, The M...

Exclusive Interview with Michael Tunison - Oh No Romo!

An exclusive interview with Michael Tunison for his new book, "The Football Fan's Manifesto." You might know Michael better as Christmas Ape at Kissing Suzy Kolber's....

Clay Travis, Did You Save Yourself for Marriage? - RealClearSports

RealClearSports recently talked with Clay Travis, writer at AOL's FanHouse, and author of a new book chronicling the 2008 University of Tennessee football team, On Rocky Top: A Fro...

Tom Brady on Fatherhood, Football and Marriage - J. Miles, Details

Doubters. Tabloid Headlines. Fatherhood. There's something familiar about Tom Brady's recent life under the microscope. Oh, and now he's playing football again, too...

Chris Paul Counting on Hornets to Play with Urgency - Paul Forrester, SI

Life for Chris Paul is never slow. The summer is filled with basketball camps, strenuous workouts and a trip to China to promote his affiliation with Brand Jordan shoes and sportsw...

Women Playing, Watching and Covering Sports - Christine Brennan, RCS

RealClearSports recently interviewed Christine Brennan, an award-winning sports columnist for USA Today and best-selling author. ...

Q&A With Michael Tunison on 'Football Fan's Manife - Fifth Down

Tunison’s book is an attempt to set some ground rules for being a fan. It is an instruction manual from the moment you decide to follow the N.F.L. until the day you die and ever...

Maurice Jones-Drew Talks Video Games and Vick - Shutdown Corner

Jones-Drew some interesting things to say about his new preferred nickname, Call of Duty, prevention of heat-related illnesses, poetry, and a new look he's working on for the 2009 ...

Colangelo: Coach K is not Coaching an NBA Team - Tas Melas, Sports Radio Interviews

Colangelo deserves much of the credit for turning around Team USA....

Five Quick Questions with Bill Simmons - Colby Hall, Mediaite

Bill Simmons is our inaugural participant in a new recurring feature we call 5QQ – Five Quick Questions. Simmons is a columnist and podcaster for Page2 on ESPN.com and ...

Interviewing ESPN's New Ombudsman - Richard Deitsch, Sports Illustrated

"I think they do a terrific job but my whole life I've always thought: No matter how terrific something is it can always be better."...

10 Questions with 106.7 the Fan Host Mike Wise - Mr. Irrelevant

As you may know, D.C. talk radio station WJFK relaunches as 106.7 the Fan with the Mike Wise Show airing middays. This is part one....

Kevin Durant talks Nicknames, Expectations - Ball Don't Lie

Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant jumped on the phone to answer a few lighthearted questions about his nickname, team expectations, Twitter, traveling and more....

Stafford on Never Losing & Rivalry with His WR - Shutdown Corner

"I don’t think I’ve ever been on a losing team."...

Villanueva Talks Twitter Addiction and LeBron Tape - Jimmy Traina, SI

Over the past several days, the Pistons' Charlie Villanueva and the Raptors' Chris Bosh battled to see which player could be the first to get 50,000 followers on Twitter. Before Bo...

Scottie Pippen Talks NBA, MJ, and Old Commercials - Ball Don't Lie

On Monday evening, as a way to pay tribute to Michael Jordan's impending induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame, Gatorade put together an impressive street art exhibit featurin...

Lincecum Talks 'toons, Ice Cream, & Skull Caps - David Brown, BLS

DB: Reading about a recent pregame meal of yours — from a start against the A's — it was a Choco Taco. Why not a Drumstick?...

Interview with Sports Nation host Michelle Beadle - Awful Announcing

I was hesitant to put this interview up for a few reasons, but the main one being, I didn't want to promote anything involving Colin Cowherd. However, there isn't much going on tod...

Carmichael says Armstrong is a 'Long Shot' - Peter Hymas, Cycling News

Armstrong's long-time coach talks about his Tour prep You and Lance Armstrong have always had meticulous planning culminating in peak fitness at the Tour de France for each of his ...

The BCS Has Not Always Been About Controversy - John Swofford, RCS

RealClearSports recently interviewed John Swofford, the Commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference. He is also currently serving a two-year term as the BCS Coordinator....

Marion Barry Talks Redskins and DC United - Hogs Haven

Hogs Haven talks with former DC mayor Marion Barry about the Redskins and DC United...

Q & A With Author, Blogger Jeff Pearlman - Around the Majors

Former ESPN Page 2 and current SI scribe Jeff Pearlman was kind enough to answer some questions for me in an email exchange. Pearlman, the author of three well-received sports book...

Hopefully, BCS Hearings within Weeks - Senator Orrin Hatch, RCS

RealClearSports recently interviewed Orrin Hatch, a Republican US Senator from Utah, a position he has held since 1977. Sen. Hatch has long been an outspoken critic of the Bowl Cha...

A Chat with Survivalist, Tennis Fan Bear Grylls - S. Hall, The Sporting Blog

You know Bear Grylls from Man vs. Wild, and while promoting his work with The Most Interesting Academy from Dos Equis he took a few minutes to speak with TSB's Spencer Hall....

A Q&A With ESPN’s Josh Elliott - TheBigLead

A fascinating guy who’s had quite a meteoric career rise in the last four years: writer at Sports Illustrated, hosting a show on ESPN, and now hosting the morning Sportscente...

On the Future of Sports Media - On the DL

A heated tete-a-tete between Dan Steinberg of the Washington Post’s DC Sports Bog and Greg Wyshynski from Yahoo’s Puck Daddy covering everything from the reason why blo...

Future Number 1 Blake Griffin on the Draft Process - The Baseline

Forget the stars of the NBA Finals: nobody linked with pro basketball enjoys a better life right now than former Oklahoma star Blake Griffin. He’s the surer-than-taxed first ...

Chris Berman: Detractors are 'Missing the Point' - Neil Best, Newsday

Thursday and Friday, he will call the first two rounds of the U.S. Open for the seventh year (with the blessing of the USGA). He has covered the event since Shinnecock in 1986, whe...

Rashad Mobley Goes One-on-One With Dan Steinberg - Hoops Addict

Dan talks about his new gig with The Sporting News, his favorite Washington Wizard interview, and his experience with the toughest interview in sports, the NBA Commissioner, David ...

Simmons: 'Best Book I'll Ever Write' - The New Yorker

Simmons talks about the N.B.A. Finals, how professional basketball has changed over the past forty years, and his post-book plans. ...

NFL Films' Steve Sabol - Vinnie Iyer, Sporting News

As the president of NFL Films, Steve Sabol is the league's ultimate historian, having documented its most memorable sights and sounds since co-founding the production company with ...

Are Washington Nationals Worst Franchise Ever? - Nate Penn, GQ

How will the Nats make themselves contenders, as the team’s president, Stan Kasten, has vowed to do? Will they draft Strasburg? And can they sign him? In a recent phone conversat...

Jon Miller on 300 Wins, Spanish Accents and FJM - D. Steinberg, The Sporting Blog

Chatting with Jon Miller about baseball milestones, proper pronunciation of Hispanic surnames and Internet critics....

DeJuan Blair on His Decision to Go Pro - The Baseline

After an All-American season at Pittsburgh, sophomore big man DeJuan Blair declared for the NBA draft and immediately hired an attorney, forgoing his remaining eligibility. It was ...

Joe Buck on his New HBO Show - The Big Lead

Joe Buck needs no introduction. He’s been FOX’s lead NFL announcer since 2002, and the network’s top MLB voice since 1996. Recently, HBO gave him a quarterly spor...

Author Michael Lewis: ‘We’re too Well Read’ - Dan Fleschner, MSNBC

In this Q & A with TODAY producer Dan Fleschner, Lewis talks about his other work, his thoughts on the state of journalism and what’s he working on next....

Curry Talks About His Upcoming Work Outs - Chris Littmann, The Baseline

Curry talks about his experience at the Combine, strange interview questions and workouts he has planned with teams coming up. ...

Teague Doesn't Want to Be Defined by Position - Sean Deveney, The Baseline

Wake Forest guard Jeff Teague is one of the more intriguing prospects in this year’s draft. He’s a very talented scorer and shooter, but convincing a team that he can r...

Henderson Set to Follow in Father's Footsteps - The Baseline

Former Duke swingman Gerald Henderson chatted with reporters, and touched on three key men in his life: a high school teammate, an NBA coach, and his father....

Thabeet: 'I Can Always Play Defense' - The Baseline

He readily admits that he has much to learn on the offensive end -- though, he explains, that’s only because he is more of a natural soccer player. Sporting News' Sean Devene...

BallHype Profile on "Hugging Harold Reynolds" - BallHype

So what do you think you’re going to get when you click on Hugging Harold Reynolds? Well for those in the know, it’s obvious the brains behind this blog have a good sen...

Erin Andrews on 'Dancing With the Stars'? - D. Steinberg, The Sporting Blog

As her fame has boomed, Erin Andrews has declined certain requests because they would detract from her standing as a working journalist. Dancing With the Stars, though, would not b...

Q&A with Ernie Johnson & Kenny Smith - Orlando Sentinel

Cellphone cameras instantly click at the sight of TNT's popular crew of NBA analysts Charles Barkley, Reggie Miller, Kenny Smith and the host of the Emmy Award-winning show, Ernie...

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