Avry's Sports Show

All of us want to know in the sports world, with the news of the Cleveland Indians going to change their name in time for the 2022 MLB season what will that name be? The idea of Spiders has been thrown out but someone currently controls that name. Who? A Vancouver, Washington resident and Cleveland born man by the name of Arlen Love!I tracked down Arlen and chatted with him about filing a trademark for the name to create merchandise, future team branding, possible negotiating with MLB and Cleveland for the name, and more!Follow Arlen on Twitter: @arlenjloveArlen also hosts a fantasy football podcast called Its Just FantasyLink: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-…sy/id1480605588--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/avrys-sportsshow/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the latest episode of the pod, I welcomed pro soccer player, podcast host, and entrepreneur, Amobi Okugo to the show! We got into Amobi's soccer journey, getting into podcasting with 2 Cents FC as well as his platform to help athletes with financial literacy, A Frugal Athlete!Follow Amobi on Twitter: @amobisays2 Cents FC Link: open.spotify.com/show/1bSGfK3zehMEpXJnGF1S6aA Frugal Athlete Link:www.afrugalathlete.com/--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/avrys-sportsshow/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the latest Avry's Sports Show, Toronto Wolfpack Global Ambassador Sandy Shipley returned to the show! We got into the NRL Grand Final, Toronto Wolfpack content, traveling to watch Rugby League and more!Follow Sandy on Twitter: @SandyDShipley01(Audio converted from YouTube version)  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/avrys-sportsshow/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The National Rugby League's Grand Final is just a few hours! To get ready for the game, earlier this week NRL Fox reporter Darcie McDonald joined the show! We got into a look at both the Melbourne Storm and the Penrith Panthers, how the NRL got through the 2020 season in a pandemic, the future of more fans at games and so much more!Follow Darcie on Twitter: @DarcieMcDonald--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/avrys-sportsshow/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I'm back with another episode taped from deep in lockdown! In April, I welcomed to the show Boston based sports writer Marisa Ingemi to the show!We got into Marisa's start in sports media covering lacrosse as a teenager, being on the Boston Bruins beat, breaking women's hockey news and so much more!Follow Marisa on Twitter: @Marisa_Ingemi--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/avrys-sportsshow/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What's it like being the first hired broadcast voice of an NHL team? Well I had Everett Fitzhugh on Avry's Sports Show this summer to find out!Everett and myself got into the process of being hired by the Seattle Kraken, being a black man on an NHL broadcast team, diversity in the game in media, growing up as an Oilers fan in Detroit and so much more!Follow Everett on Twitter: @TheVoiceFitz--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/avrys-sportsshow/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

(Taped earlier this summer)On the latest episode of Avry's Sports Show, I welcomed SportsNet New York's Chris Williamson to the show! We got into the sports world returning, the WNBA and basketball's activism and more!We also chopped it up on Chris being one of the few black faces in New York sports media as well as our hopes for needing the media industry to become more diverse on and off-camera.Follow Chris on Twitter: @CWilliamson44--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/avrys-sportsshow/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Originally uploaded for YouTube on August 18th, 2020:The incredibly dumb unwritten rules of baseball strike again! This time in regards to San Diego Padres shortstop, Fernando Tatis Jr. swinging at a pitch and hitting a grand slam with a 3-0 count in a blowout!--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/avrys-sportsshow/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the latest episode, I had the pleasure of welcoming Kayla Grey to the show! In 2018, Kayla became the first black woman to host a flagship sports highlight show in Canada by hosting TSN's SportsCentre.Kayla and myself got into her journey in sports media, not toning down who you are on camera and the future in getting more black voices on TV in Canada in on air and behind the scene roles.Follow Kayla on Twitter: @Kayla_Grey--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/avrys-sportsshow/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the latest episode of Avry's Sports Show, I pulled out an interview that I taped from deep in the lockdown days back in May!I welcomed onto the show Chad Cooper, one of the media voices of California Rugby League and Jimmy Stagger aka @BereftOfTheDial on Twitter from The Friday Night Music Party on Mixcloud.com!We got into the growth of Rugby League in California and the US and Canada as a whole as well as the status of the 2020 California Rugby League season.Follow @CaliforniaRL on TwitterJimmy's Show Links: jimmystagger.caster.fm/Mixcloud.com/FridayNightMusicParty--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/avrys-sportsshow/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Comedy, soccer and so much more!I welcomed earlier this week the host of the soccer YouTube series and podcast The Shirtless Plantain Show, Tosin Makinde but you know him better as Nigerian Scamsss!We get into the origins of his show, the restart of leagues worldwide, and if we'll see real change after the Black Lives Matter kits for black players and managers.Follow Scamsss:@NigerianScammms on TwitterShirtless Plantain Show links:www.youtube.com/channel/UC9UFC0qzd70Iko8ppmQF1YA@shirtless-plantain-show--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/avrys-sportsshow/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We know Rugby League is played in the UK and Australia but did you know about the game's growth in Chile or Greece?? My latest guest, Michael Carbone explores the world of Rugby League with his show, Chasing Kangaroos on Apple Podcasts!We got into talking to people in Rugby League from non-traditional places, the NRL re-start, the 2021 World Cup and so much more!Follow Michael on Twitter: @chasingroospodChasing Kangaroos Link: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/chas…odcast/id144188--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/avrys-sportsshow/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With Super League still on hiatus, The Toronto Wolfpack's first global ambassador Sandy Shipley and myself had a chat on the NRL (National Rugby League) as newcomers to Australian Rugby League!--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/avrys-sportsshow/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Back in April, Jashvina Shah from College Hockey News came back onto the podcast! We got into the K'Andre Miller Zoom call incident, how Black Girl Hockey Club is bringing black hockey voices together and so much more!Jashvina has also set up a website to help those in the hockey world to educate themselves and help to fight racism!Link: hockeyallies.wordpress.com/Follow Jashvina on Twitter: @icehockeystick--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/avrys-sportsshow/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TSN soccer analyst/reporter Kristian Jack returned to the podcast back in April to chat about the idea of MLS, the Premier League, and the rest of the soccer world playing again in 2020!Follow Kristian on Twitter: @KristianJack--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/avrys-sportsshow/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An NBA champion, a member of the Bad Boys, a vegan activist, and an actor! The one and only John Salley joined me on the latest episode of Avry's Sports Show!We got into The Last Dance, the Pistons/Bulls playoff battles, playing for the 1995 Raptors and so much more!Follow John on Twitter: @thejohnsalleyFollow John on Instagram: @johnsalley--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/avrys-sportsshow/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Before our sports world was shut down, I caught up with US soccer legend and the head coach of the USL Championship's Las Vegas Lights Eric Wynalda!At the time of this taping, Eric and the Lights were on their way to San Diego to take on the brand new San Diego Loyal led by another US soccer and MLS legend in the form of Landon Donovan.Eric and myself also got into the growth of MLS from his time as an original player in 1996 to what the league and soccer has grown to in 2020 in North America.Follow Eric on Twitter: @EricWynalda--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/avrys-sportsshow/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Long time friend of Avry's Sports Show Kwame Mason returned to the podcast!We got into Kwame's work with the NHL creating content for Black History Month, being the curator for Black Hockey History Truck Tour and so much more!Follow Kwame on Twitter: @kwamster007)--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/avrys-sportsshow/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Longtime friend of Avry's Sports Show Mike Wilson and myself before the Oilers-Golden Knights game in Las Vegas decided to do a little pre game show!We got into the Oilers and Vegas trade deadline day moves, playoff talk, the hockey culture in Nevada and so much more!Follow Mike on Twitter: @kid_atlantis--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/avrys-sportsshow/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Late last year, I welcomed hockey writer Jashvina Shah onto Avry's Sports Show! We got into the Bill Peters and Mike Babcock sagas, the need for more diversity in the game and so much more!Follow Jashvina on Twitter: @icehockeystick--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/avrys-sportsshow/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.