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Sports In America with David Greene

Sports in America explores stories that shape athletes and fans alike. Each week, David Greene hosts in-depth conversations with people across the world of sports – from the star who hits the game winner to the millions of us whose lives are touched by the game.From WHYY and PRX.

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39:25

Pedro Martínez: “Who’s Your Daddy?” Red Sox vs....

Sports In America with David Greene ·

2022/10/25

In the 2004 American League Championship Series, the Boston Red Sox came back from three games to none, eventually forcing the New York Yankees to Game 7. During the do-or-die situation at Yankee Stadium, famed Red Sox pitcher Pedro Martínez was unexpectedly called to the mound in the seventh inning while the Sox were up 8-1. “I had no business being in that game,” Martínez told In The Moment’s David Greene. “I had a day’s rest.” Martínez had just pitched in Game 6 and was not supposed to

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32:55

Denver Nuggets Bones Hyland: “The...

Sports In America with David Greene ·

2022/10/18

Bones Hyland of the Denver Nuggets lit up the court during game 4 of the 2022 NBA playoffs against the Golden State Warriors. Denver was down three games to none, and needed to shift the momentum. Hyland helped the Nuggets do just that when he hit a trio of three-pointers in just over a minute. “The back-to-back-to-back threes – that was one of the biggest moments in playoff basketball,” Hyland said. The Nuggets won 126 - 121. Even though Denver would go on to lose the series, that

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39:34

Steelers Cam Heyward: “This is the opportunity,...

Sports In America with David Greene ·

2022/10/11

It was one of the worst defeats in Pittsburgh Steelers history. In week 3 of the 2016 season, the Philadelphia Eagles drubbed the Steelers storied defense 34-3. The next week, the stakes were even higher, as the Steelers faced off against the Kansas City Chiefs in primetime Sunday Night Football. That kind of pressure would be hard to shake off. But Pittsburgh defensive tackle Cam Heyward went on to have one of the best games of his career. “One thing I’ve learned in my career is if you

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38:50

UFC’s Francis Ngannou: “Becoming a heavyweight...

Sports In America with David Greene ·

2022/10/04

When MMA fighter, Francis Ngannou, stepped into the octagon to take on then-UFC heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic, he wasn’t just trying to win the title. Ngannou was on a mission to prove himself to the world. “Life threw me a lot of punches,” Ngannou told In the Moment’s David Greene. “Life put me down and made people doubt me.” Ngannou spent years of his life trying to put that doubt behind him. He grew up in the mountains of western Cameroon and started working in the sand mines when

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35:06

WNBA MVP Elena Delle Donne: “I’ve come this far… I...

Sports In America with David Greene ·

2022/09/27

Two-time MVP Elena Delle Donne is considered one of the best to ever play in the WNBA. In 2019, she led the Washington Mystics to their first WNBA championship in franchise history. Playing through three herniated discs, a broken nose and a knee injury, Delle Donne managed to dominate in the winner-takes-all Game 5 putting up 21 points, 10 rebounds and five assists. “I was given all the warnings. I was told, like, this isn't the greatest way to go about this,” Delle Donne told In the

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33:15

NFL Great Larry Fitzgerald: “That was my moment… only...

Sports In America with David Greene ·

2022/09/20

Larry Fitzgerald is considered one of the best wide receivers of all time, and is expected to be a first ballot NFL Hall of Famer. But in his 17 seasons with the Arizona Cardinals, he made it to the Super Bowl just once. In 2009, the Cardinals were the underdogs against the Pittsburgh Steelers. They were behind Pittsburgh most of the game until the last few minutes of the fourth quarter. That’s when Arizona quarterback Kurt Warner connected with Fitzgerald, who avoided two safeties to make

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29:13

Raiders TE Darren Waller: “I’m Meant to Be Here… It’s...

Sports In America with David Greene ·

2022/09/13

Raiders tight end Darren Waller is now considered one of the best tight ends in the NFL. But just a few years ago, he wondered if he would ever get back to the game. After being suspended for a year from the Ravens for a positive drug test, he was working in a local grocery store and going through rehab. “When I took that job, I had no desire to play football,” Waller told In the Moment’s David Greene. “I was just trying to regain structure in my life.” But Waller did come back to the

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33:55

Bucs WR Chris Godwin: “It was an out of body...

Sports In America with David Greene ·

2022/09/06

Tampa Bay’s Chris Godwin is one of the NFL’s best wide receivers. But the career-defining moment that sticks with him: when Tom Brady handed off the ball to him for a five yard run in the 2020 NFC championship game. Godwin says time slowed down. “I'm watching what's happening as I'm doing it,” he tells In the Moment’s David Greene. “It's like an out of body experience.” Now, after sitting out part of last season due to an ACL tear, everyone wants to know if the fantasy football favorite

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03:20

Introducing: In the Moment with David Greene

Sports In America with David Greene ·

2022/08/30

From the people who brought you Man in The Arena comes a new podcast that takes you inside the mind of an athlete during one of the most important moments of their career. Each week, In The Moment host David Greene sits down with the biggest names in sports to dive into career-defining moments from their point of view, second-by-second. This podcast transports listeners to in-game moments: from Super Bowl touchdowns to heavyweight title fights and everything in between. Hear athletes like

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36:49

MAN IN THE ARENA (Bonus Episode): Tom Brady Retires

Sports In America with David Greene ·

2022/02/03

It's finally time to talk about Tom Brady's legacy. Gotham Chopra is the director of the ESPN Plus docuseries “Man In The Arena” and host of this podcast. He’s also spent a lot of time working closely with Tom as a collaborator and friend. In this bonus episode, Gotham shares his unique perspective and reaction to Tom Brady's retirement. He'll also take you behind the scenes of "Man in the Arena." Journalist and former NPR host David Greene guest hosts. Guest: Gotham Chopra

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26:35

MAN IN THE ARENA Part 10: Post Game

Sports In America with David Greene ·

2022/01/18

There’s an old saying that pro athletes die twice. First, when their career ends. Second, of course… when they actually die. The transition from pro sports to regular life is so extreme that it feels as terrifying as dying. And what’s especially scary about that transition is that you’re facing … the unknown. Tom Brady has figured out the formula to keep playing football for at least the foreseeable future. In some ways, you can look at his time in Tampa as a kind of second life. But even

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28:36

MAN IN THE ARENA Part 9: Football vs. Football

Sports In America with David Greene ·

2022/01/11

This episode looks at how the NFL and Tom Brady are viewed by the “other” football—AKA soccer. Can American football ever speak the language of international sport, become truly global, expand its appeal across the pond... and even beyond? Or is there something about the game that makes it... too American? And what can football tell us about who we are as a country? Guests: Harry Kane, Roger Bennett (Men In Blazers), Brendan Hunt (co-creator Ted Lasso)

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30:51

MAN IN THE ARENA Part 8: Real Talk

Sports In America with David Greene ·

2022/01/04

When Tom Brady won his first Super Bowl, social media barely existed. But now Brady is kind of a master of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, even Tik Tok. For Brady and other athletes, the key to success is making people think they're seeing the real you—something that is a lot harder than it sounds. And we’re now in a world where pretty much all of us can share something about our personal lives online. But is this online version of ourselves really true to life? And what do the

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27:12

MAN IN THE ARENA Part 7: Risky Business

Sports In America with David Greene ·

2021/12/28

At one point during Super Bowl 51, the Pats had a .02 percent chance of winning the game. But that game wasn’t the first time that Brady faced long odds. In fact, in a lot of his previous playoff games he’d had win probabilities in the low single digits: 7 percent, 4 percent. But Brady and the Pats kept winning, and in Super Bowl 51… they did it again. So is Brady magic? Or do we just have the idea of probability all wrong? This episode looks at how probability - and risk - influence how

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29:56

MAN IN THE ARENA Part 6: Time Out

Sports In America with David Greene ·

2021/12/21

Time just seems to move differently in football. There are 60 minutes on the game clock, but the games take three hours to play. For the players, time can seem to slow down at certain moments, during certain plays. But then... the whole season seems to go by quickly. And most careers are over in only a few years. And it's not just football. For all of us, time flies, it crawls, it stands still, and when we look back we think... Where did it go? This episode looks at what “football time”

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22:34

MAN IN THE ARENA Part 5: Fail Safe

Sports In America with David Greene ·

2021/12/14

When you’re taught that winning is everything, losing the Super Bowl can be a significant blow. And after a dynasty that saw three titles in four years, a decade-long championship drought can hit hard. But sometimes the biggest failures can ultimately lead to success. GUESTS: Rich Ohrnberger, Xiaodong Lin-Siegler from Columbia’s failure-studies research center Thanks to ESPN and The JFK Presidential Library for the clips used in this episode.

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31:38

MAN IN THE ARENA Part 4: Almost Perfect

Sports In America with David Greene ·

2021/12/07

Only one team in NFL history has had a perfect season, and it wasn’t Brady’s Patriots. In 20007 Tom Brady and the Patriots were on the cusp of perfection when they fell short against the Giants in the Super Bowl. But perfection is a spectrum, and how we define it depends on the metrics we use to measure it. Could that Giants team have been the one with a “perfect” season that year? Could even the 1972 Miami Dolphins’ perfect season have fallen short in some ways? GUESTS: Kevin Gilbride,

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27:32

MAN IN THE ARENA Part 3: Haters

Sports In America with David Greene ·

2021/11/30

America’s collective adoration of the underdog means that people love to hate Tom Brady. In the world of sports, hatred is inevitable, so why are haters always gonna hate? And in the context of sports, could hate be a positive thing? What might it take to change one fan’s mind? Featuring: 12-year-old viral Brady-hater Ace Davis, Asst. Prof. of Psychology at Univ. of Central Arkansas Marc Sestir, and Chad Neidt, the Broncos fan who wrote the “FU Tom Brady” song. Thanks to Chad Neidt,

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27:27

MAN IN THE ARENA Part 2: The Icon

Sports In America with David Greene ·

2021/11/23

In 2001, Tom Brady became the Patriots’ savior when he helped the franchise win their first Super Bowl. But why did the city embrace a guy that might not have fit the profile of a blue-collar Boston fan? How did Brady help redefine what it means to be a Boston sports fan? And how much do the players we think of as “ours” really belong to the community that roots for them? Guests: Boston sports fans the Varela family, Seth Wickersham, Playwright and Boston fan Tori Sampson, and a Pats fan

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28:40

MAN IN THE ARENA Part 1: Game of Chance

Sports In America with David Greene ·

2021/11/16

Here’s the Tom Brady Origin Story: Twenty years ago, a hit by Mo Lewis knocked Drew Bledsoe out of the game. Brady stepped onto the field and a dynasty was born. One play determined Tom Brady’s future and the future of a franchise. Or did it? Is this story more myth than fact? What if that hit hadn’t happened? One small moment can make a huge difference, but is there more to it than that? Featuring Herm Edwards, Rex Ryan, New York Times Science Writer Dennis Overbye, Boston Sports NBC

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