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Sports Will Save Us All

A weekly podcast where sports are just the beginning. Join host Sasha Graham as she sits down with icons, athletes, and every day folks to uncover incredible stories about drive, inspiration, triumph and heartbreak. Listen in on tales of the highest highs and the lowest lows, and find joy in all of the profound ways that sports connect us in a way that nothing else does. Sports will save us all, no athletic ability required. ABOUT Sports Will Save Us All is the wildly popular human interest

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Ep. 69 - Does the world really need a Pickleball...

Sports Will Save Us All ·

2024/01/23

Ace Rodrigues discovered Pickleball during Covid and within minutes had declared it the “greatest sport ever”. He soon drew up plans for what would eventually become Pickleball Kingdom and is now launching a pickleball reality show called PICKLEBALL PADDLE BATTLE hosted by former Bachelor, Clayton Echard. You can find Pickleball Kingdom online at pickleballkingdom.com. If you want to learn more about Pickleball Paddle Battle and read all about their very impressive contestants visit

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Ep. 68 - Sports on Screen: AIR

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2024/01/16

Steve & Sasha are back for another episode of Sports Will Save Us All’s SPORTS ON SCREEN with AIR, directed by Ben Affleck and starring Matt Damon, Viola Davis, Jason Bateman, and, of course, Ben Affleck as Nike head, Phil Knight. Decked out in what Sasha calls “a rainbow of beige,” Nike Executive Sonny Vaccaro (Matt Damon) relentlessly pursues an up-and-coming Michael Jordan (whose face we never see) to become the face of Nike’s fledgling basketball division. Really. That’s basically the whole

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Ep. 67 - Want to ‘run a mile, with your nose plugged,...

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2024/01/09

Christine McMaster-Shah is an absolute expert in the sport of artistic swimming (formerly known as synchronized swimming). In addition to winning a National Championship herself with the Arizona Aqua Stars, she has been a coach since 2004, is a nationally rated judge in the sport and currently serves as the Officials Chair for the Arizona Artistic Swimming Association. Christine also helped found the Arizona Desert Dolphins back in 2006 where she works with athletes from the novice level all the way

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Ep. 66 - Want to be a millionaire? Start by making...

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2024/01/02

Happy New Year, Sports Fam! Finally, some New Year’s Resolutions you’ll WANT to keep! Every December, brimming with optimism and determination, people around the world set their New Year’s Resolutions, so why are a whopping 43% of New Year’s Resolutions abandoned by the end of January?! In today’s special episode Sasha breaks down some of the most common New Year’s resolutions, explains why they’re destined to fail, and offers suggestions that might just make this year the one where you finally

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Ep. 65 - Ever dream of your kid going pro?

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2023/12/26

On September 13, 2023 at just 16 years old, Stuart Hawkins signed a professional soccer contract with Seattle Sounders FC, arguably Major League Soccer’s most successful team. In a press conference following the announcement Stu explained that he had recently gotten his driver’s license, but that his parents didn’t trust him to drive himself to practice just yet. In this week’s episode Sasha chats with former college basketball player Michelle Hawkins, who also happens to be Stu’s mom, about their

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Ep. 64 - Coach Prime, life coaching, and leadership...

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2023/12/19

After serving 23 years in the Navy as a helicopter pilot, Walt Morgan now teaches a Leadership and Sports class at the University of Colorado and owns a company called Translational Lift Coaching where he strives to deliver what he calls, “Outcome-based coaching with sustainable results.” If you’d like to learn more about Walt and his coaching services, you can find him online at tliftcoaching.com and you can read his Coach Prime Leadership Series by heading over to LinkedIn and searching for Walt

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Ep. 63 - Do women belong in sports reporting? (And is...

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2023/12/12

Paola Boivin was a sports reporter with the Arizona Republic for 22 years and now works as a professor at Arizona State's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism where she is also the director of the Cronkite News Phoenix Sports Bureau. She has been a frequent guest on ESPN and she has covered multiple Olympics, Final Fours, Super Bowls and everything in between. Paola was the first female sports reporter inducted into the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame and only the second woman to ever sit on the

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Ep. 62 - Ovals upon ovals upon ovals…Jeff Seckendorf...

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2023/12/05

Jeff Seckendorf doesn’t seem to have met a lot of sports where he didn’t excel. His experiences range from land (ice climbing) to sea (scuba diving) to air (aerobatic flying) and have culminated in his current passion, the velodrome, where he rides his fixed gear, brake-less bike really, really fast. Jeff currently holds the hour record at the San Diego Velodrome and is now training for an attempt at breaking the national hour record in the 70-74 age group in 2025. In this episode he explains the

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Ep. 61 - The incredible Christine D’Ercole on coming...

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2023/11/28

In this follow-up to their 2022 interview, Christine shares how she has found her way back to the track after a devastating crash left her with multiple, serious injuries. She credits a gutsy combination of determination and detachment for her success and describes the ways that she is now shedding the detachment piece of it to bring the “blood & fire” on the Velodrome. Also, have you ever wondered why Christine hugs everyone after teaching her Peloton classes? It’s even more wonderful than you

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Ep. 60 - Trainer Ryan Lockard is changing lives, one...

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2023/11/21

Ryan Lockard is the founder of Specialty Athletic Training, a company that trains clients with disabilities at several locations in the Pacific Northwest. In this week’s episode Ryan and Sasha discuss the inspiration behind the company, the viral video of SAT client, DJ Pat, dancing his way through his workout, and the way his company is changing lives one workout at a time. You can find Speciality Athletic Training online at www.specialtyathletictraining.com and on Instagram

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Ep 59 - Sports on Screen: The money! The celebrities!...

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2023/11/14

In a follow-up to their recent review of Netflix’s JOHNNY FOOTBALL, Steve & Sasha talk with Johnny Manziel’s former best friend and the architect of his college autograph empire, Nate Fitch. Nothing is off the table in this surprisingly candid look at life during Nate and Johnny Manziel’s time at Texas A&M. Nate saves the biggest surprise for the end, and it sort of made our day. You can find JOHNNY FOOTBALL on Netflix and Nate Fitch is on Instagram @UncleNateFitch.

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Ep. 58 - Competitive waterskiing is WILD and...

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2023/11/07

THE UNKNOWN SPORT OF WATERSKIING is a beautiful documentary that simultaneously introduces its audience to the sport of competitive waterskiing and some of the top athletes competing today. In this week’s episode Sasha chats with filmmaker John Waldron about the challenges of making the movie, how he got such great interviews with the athletes, and his own background in film & sports. You can watch THE UNKNOWN SPORT OF WATERSKIING on YouTube now and you can follow John on Instagram

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Ep. 57 - Sports on Screen: JOHNNY FOOTBALL

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2023/11/01

Johnny Manziel took the college football world by storm as a freshman at Texas A&M in 2012, with a shocking victory over Alabama and soon after as the first freshman to ever win the prestigious Heisman Trophy. But all was not well, as the fame, money, and partying soon caught up to Johnny and his trajectory towards NFL superstardom flamed out in a maelstrom of money and drugs. Steve and Sasha find the funny in this irreverent episode about Netflix’s new documentary, JOHNNY FOOTBALL. Also, Nate? Call

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Ep. 56 - Parenting is harder than sports….

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2023/10/31

On a recent episode, Cal Football Hall of Fame player Jerrott Willard wisely remarked that, “parenting is harder than sports” and truer words have not been spoken. In this week’s episode Sasha chats with Tara Wells, a south Florida-based psychotherapist and mental performance coach about how we can support our kids, and ourselves, through sports and beyond. Tara is one of the hosts of the great podcast, LET’S BE REAL, and she is the founder of Finish Line Mindset, a counseling company dedicated to

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Ep. 55 - The star athletes were out at Camelot's...

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2023/10/24

Sports Will Save Us All is on location at Camelot Therapeutic Horsemanship’s Fall gala, Starry Knights! In this very special episode, Sasha talks with standout athletes from the NFL, MLB, professional softball, professional pickle ball, semi-pro soccer, wheelchair rugby, hockey, lacrosse, golf, diving, cycling, and of course, horseback riding. Camelot is a ranch in North Scottsdale that has been serving kids and adults with physical disabilities since 1983 and has never charged a dime for its

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Ep. 54 - Can one girl change the world? Filmmaker...

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2023/10/17

SuAnne Big Crow was a high school basketball star from the Pine Ridge, South Dakota reservation. SuAnne played in the 90s and by the time she was 14 she had become one of South Dakota’s best basketball players and led her high school to become the first ever Native American State Champions. But SuAnne wasn’t just an athlete, by age 17, her social activism had made her a household name across the Great Plains. SuAnne died in a car accident while still in high school but her pride continues to inspire

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Ep. 53 - Director Rachel Koteen on her new hockey...

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2023/10/10

Rachel Koteen went to college with Lin Manuel Miranda, plays on a hockey team called the Sharknadoes, and is a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. In this week’s episode Rachel chats with Sasha about her new documentary, TAKE THE ICE, which takes the viewer behind the scenes to the beginnings of the National Women’s Hockey League in 2015. TAKE THE ICE premiered at the Queens World Film Festival where it was nominated for Best Documentary Feature, and where Rachel won the Filmmaker of the Year

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Ep. 52 - Sports on Screen: I, TONYA

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2023/10/04

Steve is back in studio with Sasha for another installment of Sports on Screen, this time to discuss the critically acclaimed 2017 Margot Robbie movie, I, TONYA. Sasha & Steve have a lot of strong feelings about this one, Sasha gets a little feisty, Steve gets a little feminist, and ultimately, they disagree on whether or not I, TONYA Makes the Cut!

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Ep. 51 - Lumberjill Shea Warren and superfan Niah...

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2023/10/03

Sasha was delighted when Shea Warren, a logging sports enthusiast from Northern Arizona University, arrived at the studio with her own hype woman, Niah Deuel. Niah takes full credit for finding logging sports for Shea when they both arrived at NAU as freshman and is unabashed in her enthusiasm and support and its easy to see why. Listen in as Shea describes the excitement of running around the forest with a chainsaw and competing in speed axe events, along with the pleasure of wearing chainmail

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Ep. 50 - NHL Enforcer Billy Huard has been to hell...

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2023/09/26

This week’s guest is former National Hockey League player, Billy Huard. Billy had a professional career of over 600 games, including 7 years at the NHL level with the Boston Bruins, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Nordiques, Dallas Stars, Edmonton Oilers and Los Angeles Kings. He played during the height of the enforcer era and was known as one of the toughest enforcers on the ice. But Billy is one of those guys who embodies both brain AND brawn, and he has written a great book that is out now called A

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