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INFO & STATS: American Sportswriter and Commentator / Jungle Guest Host / Author: “Living on the Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember”
TOPICS: Why this book and why the two guys he covered; Mike Mussina and Tom Glavine? / “Living on the Black”; the process of pitching / Mike Mussina on the “physical part of pitching” and the “mental part wearing on guys” / Mussina’s pitching incident and shouting match with the ump / Mussina’s take on A-Rod / Mussina the only one pulling for “Rod”? / Tom Glavine’s pursuit for 300; being able to talk to Glavine about anything during his pursuit / Glavine on the “Dance” incident / Glavine’s loss to the Marlins the day after the “Dance” incident; refusing to call it a “devastating loss” / Glavine’s return to Atlanta; “putting his foot in mouth” in New York / John’s next book project. |
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INFO & STATS: Author of the book: “Arnie & Jack: Palmer, Nicklaus, and Golf’s Greatest Rivalry” / Writer for FOXSports.com.
TOPICS: Reason for writing the book / When Arnie and Jack first met on the course / Arnie’s perfect timing into the Golf scene and television coverage of the sport / Fans hatred of Jack Nicklaus / Jack understanding or wanting to be like Arnie? / Fierce competition between the two; all business / Civil relationship Arnie and Jack now in the later years / Tiger Woods needing this sort of fierce competition in his career? / Tiger’s slip at the Major; losing to smaller names / Jack beating Tiger? / Tiger coming off surgery ready to roll at the U.S. Open? / Anthony Kim’s win at Wachovia; the next big thing? / Sergio Garcia not “the guy” to win it through the years. |
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INTERVIEWED BY JUNGLE GUEST HOST: Andrew Siciliano
INFO & STATS: Author: “Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions” / Writer of the movie: “21”.
TOPICS: Story behind the book and meeting the MIT students / Movie to inspire gamblers in Las Vegas; pros and cons / The counting system / Vegas casinos pre-caution measures; security cameras / Just how good the Vegas casino security is / Being given access to the security rooms / Kate Bosworth’s love scene in “21” / Being on set during the filming of the movie / MIT kids moved on or still looking for the “itch”; now instructing college kids / Math genius mind needed or just being able to do adding and subtraction while being distracted / The new scams and systems revealed / Next Hollywood projects lined-up. |
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INFO & STATS: Sportswriter, Commentator & Best Selling Author / Fill-in Jungle Host.
TOPICS: Reaction to Bob Knight’s departure from coaching College Basketball at Texas Tech / Bob Knight preaching of toughness countered by departure? / Building for years towards the announcement of Knight’s departure / Knight wanted to break record mark, reach 900 wins / Knight seeking redemption / Knight in retirement, Final Four appearances with CBS or ESPN / Genius vs. madness with Bob Knight / Writing the book: “A Season on the Brink”, experiences around Bob Knight and the temper / Bob Knight and Coach K / The type of guy Pat Knight is / Type of career Patrick Knight might have / Regrets that Bob Knight might have and want to take back in life / John Feinstein’s next book project. |
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INFO & STATS: Author of new book “Rigged”
TOPICS: Talked about his new book “Rigged” / Discussed the kid he wrote about in the book / Touched on how the trading floor was to be more computerized, but the traders did not want that / The book is a true story and talked about hanging out with the kids in the book / Feels Dubai is the Vegas of the future / Dubai has an underwater hotel, an indoor ski-slope, a manmade island that can be seen from space in the shape of a palm tree / No gambling in Dubai, but the country has the best parties / Discussed a proposed partnership for oil presented to the main character / His main character fought his way to respect within the exchange / Discussed buying big on oil based on what is going on in the world / Talked about his friendships with people in his other books / Talked about pitched ideas given by fans / Talked about a call from Kevin Spacey about making his books into movies / ‘21’ comes out in March, and feels the movie is close to the book / Caller talked about Dubai rebuilding an exact copy of Vancouver within the country / Talked about people who lose on the exchange floor / He had many sources on his books, but some people he talked to, he just had to take at their word / Writes his books more for non-literary types and how fun “The Sun Also Rises” is to read for him / Tried to copy the book and drink across Paris, and lasted 2 days / Talked about the dark side of Dubai / Has to immerse himself somewhat into what he is researching / Talked about the “Jim Rome” book idea and why one would be a good idea / Feels Iran is trying to create an oil exchange program. |
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INFO & STATS: Sportswriter, Commentator and Best Selling Author
TOPICS: Fed up with drugs in sports / Plot line behind new book / Bill Belichick caught cheating / Breaking “The Code” featured in the new book / Bruce Pearl and the recruiting scandal / Roger Federer vs. Tiger Woods in dominance in their respective sports / Donovan McNabb under heat as a African American QB / Opinion of television people in the new book.
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Michael Franzese, the former captain in the Columbo Crime Family is the Founder and Chairman of the Breaking Out Foundation and author of “Quitting the Mob” and "Blood Covenant” came into the studio to give his take about the NBA Referee Scandal and says that his immediate reaction is that the NBA needs to go into immediate “Damage Control”…but says that David Stern could have taken more responsibility. Michael talks about just how damaging a crooked referee in the sport can be and that it cuts into the heart of the game. Michael talks about how the NBA can get back the respect of the fans by taking responsibility for what has happened. Michael talks about Tim Donaghy being the first to be caught, but not the first to do it and says that he’s influenced “people” in the past in sports to do this. He says Tim was under pressure by the “no choice” situation to make bad calls or “get your legs broken” or put his family in danger. Michael talked about his surprise that the NBA took so long to figure it out and that Tim actually went to them instead to tell them about the investigation by the FBI. And why did the NBA not pull him out immediately after finding out? Michael says that Tim is the perfect profile of a guy who would get himself in debt and be looked for on the street by the Mob types out there. Michael gave his take if it’s ok or not for professionals in sports to “sometimes” gamble…saying that it’s generally a huge negative. |
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Interviewed by Jungle Guest Hosts: Jason and Randy Sklar / Executive Editor at ESPN Magazine / Sports Author / Gary talks about his book "23 Ways To Get To First Base" |
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Senior Writer / Sports Illustrated / Talks about the loss of Rod Beck and his memory of him and how Shooter loved to just talk baseball, and how teams trusted him with a 1-run lead. Continued discussing the quality of pitcher Rod Beck was, and how he wanted to be pitching in big situations. Gave insight on the White Sox and their struggles, and Ozzie Guillen’s future with them as manager and Kenny Williams aggressiveness to make the team better and his plans to move players. Talked about the clubhouse troubles with the Braves. As a writer who can vote for the Hall of Fame, talked about the chances of players being voted on for the Hall during the steroids era. Explained the pulse of the game and clubhouse talk, about Ken Griffey, Jr. and how his name has never been mentioned in any scandal, and thinks he is a very legit player, slam dunk Hall of Famer and talked about how Ken Griffey Jr., and other players avoided that kind of situation. Feels that players are wired in the ways they are when playing. Discussed his feelings about Barry Bonds homerun chase and how Hank Aaron will still be the “standard-bearer”. |
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Sports Illustrated / 11 Time Sports Writer of the Year / Author / New Book: “Hate Mail from Cheerleaders and Other Adventures from the Life of Reilly” / Rick talks Barry Bonds and if he will attend the moment Barry breaks the home run record saying that he¹ll most likely hide and not watch the TV as he believes he¹s a “cheater”. He talked about Sammy Sosa reaching #600 and his steroid testing. He touched base on Sammy reaching the Hall of Fame. He spoke on the differences between Barry Bonds allegations and being criticized and Lance Armstrong being well liked by fans despite both possibly taking performance enhancing drugs. He addressed cycling being a “dirty sport”. He went on to talk about Barry Bonds “anger”. And he talked about Tiger Woods losing at the U.S. Open to Angel Cabrera. |
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Sports columnist and reporter for The Boston Globe / Best selling author and television and radio sports personality / Dan comes on to talk about his new book “Senior Year: A Father, A Son, and High School Baseball” and his take on young children playing the sport and his facing the “Empty Nest” now at home with all his children grown up. Dan spoke on how he approached “College Recruiting” with his kids. |
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Sports Writer & Commentator / Feinstein talks the Final Four. Feinstein spoke on the feud between coaches Dean Smith and Mike Krzyzewski. He talked about his time with John Wooden while writing his new book the “Last Dance – Behind the Scenes at the Final Four”. He spoke on Tubby Smith leaving Kentucky to take over the head coaching job at Minnesota and a suitable replacement coach for Kentucky, “The Worst Job in America”, to get them back in the Final Four. |
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Best Selling Author / Show Contributor / This interview covers a lot of valuable territory - Golf, Duke Lacrosse, Bobby Knight & Duke Hoops / John talks about Tiger Woods’ 2007 season, what fatherhood will do for his golf game, how fatherhood changed Jack’s golf game, the strange life of Q School, what’s Bobby Knight’s biggest problem, thoughts on Michelle Wei, the turn of events in the Duke rape case, what’s coming for the district attorney and how the Duke Lacrosse Team was a problem for a long time. |
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GREAT INTERVIEW ON TOM BRADY & A CLASSIC JUNGLE MOMENT HAPPENS / Author of Moving the Chains: Tom Brady And the Pursuit of Everything / Pierce talks about Tom Brady’s intense curiously about how everything works, what Saturday Night Live’s Loren Michaels discovered about Brady, how Tom does very little that he hasn’t studied earlier, the reason Tom has the ability to invest himself in the people around him, how Brady has separated himself from Bill Belichick, why Brady was able break-out in the NFL, the story behind his success, why Tom took a walk with a bat on his draft day and the reason he can’t stand teammates who don’t try hard enough. Plus, hear an amazing Jungle comment. HINT: It’s about Steve Spurrier…classic! |
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Must Hear Interview / Best Selling Author / Latest Book Titled, 'Blind Side' / The story of Michael Oher / Lewis talks about this amazing story of how Michael Oher a young black boy walking the streets in Memphis who gets adopted by a white family. Find out how the family educated him, takes him in to their home and raises him into becoming a successful college football player. This is a must hear interview. |
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Author of Bringing Down the House / Busting Vegas, now in Paperback / Mezrich talks about his most popular books, why he never liked non-fiction books, how he stumbled into his own genre, why he loves living the Vegas lifestyle, what underground Japanese sex clubs are like, why in Japan sex is treated just a bodily function, why Americans aren’t allowed in these places, what to expect from his movie “21” coming soon, the reason some of the blackjack MIT kids aren’t allowed to play blackjack, but are still in Vegas every weekend and why he wouldn’t go with the MIT guys overseas. Plus, Ben explains why he wants to write the book about Jim Rome. |
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Latest Book - Vanishing Act / Best Selling Author / Feinstein explains why tennis will never be anything like it use to be, how the guys today are without the same kind of buzz the old stars had, his views on Connors disappearing, then returning to the game, how Jimmy is an in your face guy, honest guy and why the Europeans have a serious edge in the Ryder Cup. |
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GSN TV / Author of “Bringing Down The House” Ben Mezrich / Ben shares his inside experience on the world of gambling playing Blackjack and Poker, the ITT students who card counted millions of dollars out of Las Vegas casinos and his GSN TV special. |
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Author / Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero / Excellent Interview About A Great Man / Find out why Clemente went to hospitals in each of the Major League cities he visited, how racism kept him from being a part of his team celebrations, why the plane carrying him that last day was destine to crash and how some continue to pay homage to Clemente. |
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Author, Love Me, Hate Me / Long & Informative Interview / Pearlman explains why Barry is Barry, why it’s a fact that Barry used steroids, why Bonds doesn’t get along with his teammates, how growing up in the locker room warped Barry and a bunch of never before heard stories that will give you a peak into the life of Barry Bonds. |
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