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The newest ESPN Films documentary looks back at the sluggers’ battle for the home run record
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We’re back early this week with a bonus podcast: It’s an interview with the director of Long Gone Summer, the newest ESPN Films documentary on Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa’s battle for the single-season home run record in the summer of 1998. We ask director AJ Schnack what made him want to make a film about this moment, the most difficult part of recounting this story, and why these two figures made that home run chase so compelling.
Rosenberg and SGG also take a deep dive into NXT, talk Andy Kaufman’s career, and look ahead to ‘WrestleMania’
Ryen also talks Kings-Timberwolves, the 8-seed New Orleans Pelicans, and the Houston Rockets in Tales From the Couch
The East Coast Bias boys also preview the March Madness Final Four and share their best bets of the night
If you believe Lamar Jackson’s tweets, his time with the Ravens is over. If you listen to John Harbaugh, Jackson will be back in Baltimore. As their stalemate continues, which side actually has leverage?
James Allcott and Joe Thomlinson sit down to discuss Cesc Fàbregas’s 2020 prediction that no. 10s in football are at the end of their time and why diminutive, creative players are being phased out of modern football
Flo Lloyd-Hughes and Musa Okwonga join to chat about Antonio Conte’s departure, the importance of Jude Bellingham and Bukayo Saka, and the Barclays WSL title race
