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Former NFL player and current Fox Sports 1 broadcaster, Ephraim Salaam.  JOIN THE CONVERSATION! On Social Media use #AskHWTPSports Email us at feedback@hwtpsportstalk.com Call us at 1 347 989 0227

Tonight's guest is Kate Fagan an author and ESPN reporter; she's the author of an important book for teen athletes and students -- a must read!  "What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen."   An emotional and poignant interview! HWTP's boxing analyst Mo Parke breaks down the Mayweather/McGregor fight.  

Join David tonight at 9:00 pm EDT.  Al Clark weighs in on Umpire abuse by MLB players; and Diana Moskovitz discusses the NFL, Roger Goodell and Ezekiel Elliott and much more. Join the Conversation! On Social Media use #AskHWTPSports Email us at feedback@hwtpsportstalk.com Call us at 1 347 989 0227 Or simply post your questions/comments below.  Subscribe to the free listener account!

David is joined by reporters A.J. Perez and Michelle Kaufman to discuss Ezekiel Elliot and all the lastes news in and around sports.

David is joined by Miami Herald reporter Susan Degnan for a night of hot topics.   On Social Media use #AskHWTPSports Email us at feedback@hwtpsportstalk.com Call us at 1 347 989 0227

David is join by former Chicago Bulls player and author Craig Hodges and Washington Post sports reporter Cindy Boren.  Colin Kaepernick -- is it his skills or protest is what's keeping him from being picked up by teams? Both Hodges and Boren engage in a passionate discussion about Kaepernick. “There is an unfair price to be paid for social activism by athletes,” Cindy Boren told HWTP Sports Talk during a phone interview.  Craig Hodges added, "… give that man his opportunity to come to somebody’s training camp and throw the football – cut out all the garbage, cut out all the mechanism to effectively blackball him until the season starts and now he’s a memory...that’s how the game is played and that’s how it was done to me…”

ENCORE Iview w/ Craig Hodges -- still relevant today.  As a member of the 1992 world-champion Chicago Bulls, a dashiki-clad Hodges delivered a handwritten letter to President George H. W. Bush demanding that he do more to address racism and economic inequality. Hodges was also a vocal union activist, initiated a boycott against Nike, and spoke out forcefully against police brutality in the wake of the Rodney King beating. But his outspokenness cost him dearly. In the prime of his career, after ten NBA seasons, Hodges was blackballed from the NBA for using his platform as a professional athlete to stand up for justice. In this powerful, passionate, and captivating memoir, Hodges shares the stories—including encounters with Nelson Mandela, Coretta Scott King, Jim Brown, R. Kelly, Michael Jordan, and others—from his lifelong fight for equality for African Americans.

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David talked with director Gaspar Gonzalez about his new documentary "A Long Way from Home: The Untold Story of Baseball’s Desegregation." Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color line in 1947, but it took another generation of Black and Latino players to make the sport truly open to all. Playing in remote minor-league towns, these were the men who, before they could live their big-league dreams, first had to beat Jim Crow.  Featuring James “Mudcat” Grant, Orlando Cepeda, Tony Pérez, Jimmy Wynn, Grover “Deacon” Jones, J.R. Richard, Enos Cabell, Octavio “Cookie” Rojas, Orlando Peña, and Bobby Tolan. Live in the studio will be Washington Post reporter Nick Eilerson -- we discuss his article "Verbal abuse from parents, coaches is causing a referee shortage in youth sports." JOIN THE CONVERSATION:  On Social Media use #AskHWTPSports Call us at 1 347 989 0227; post your comments below.  We'd love to hear from you!

David was joined by Forbes reporter Kelly Phillips Erb (aka The Tax Girl), Yahoo Sports reporter Eric Adelson and Outsports writer Cyd Zeigler.

Ever wonder why umpires gets so upset when dust get on their home plate?  Why players and coaches kick dirt on it?  Legendary MLB umpire will joined us Live -- he discussed this and more -- extremely entertaining.  

Joining David tonight is John Routh, executive director of the Hall of Fame and former Sebastian the Ibis for the University of Miami.  Topic will be on Mr. Met giving a fan the bird and what mascots really go through every game -- home and away. Article: http://www.themiamihurricane.com/2015/03/05/sebastian-profile/

TROPHY SON | A Novel by New York Times bestseller Douglas Brunt | On-Sale May 30, 2017  | Fun fact: Mr. Brunt is married to TheHill show host Megyn Kelly “I chose Tennis because it’s a sport less often written about – there are lots of baseball books and football books and things like that,” Douglas Brunt said on HWTP Sports Talk. “I know a bit about tennis and I happen to really love the sport, and I just think that there are a lot of hidden themes in there…it’s one of the most isolating of the sports, and it’s probably one of the toughest grind of all these sports.”

The Football Health Study at Harvard University authors join us tonight: Christopher R. Deubert, I. Glenn Cohen and Holly Fernandez Lynch The Football Health Study at Harvard University, " Protecting and Promoting the Health of NFL Players:  Legal and Ethical Analysis and Recommendations." https://footballplayershealth.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/01_Full_Report.pdf   On Social Media use #AskHWTPSports Email us at feedback@hwtpsportstalk.com Call us at 1 347 989 0227

Football and Manliness | An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL Tackling the problem of how the NFL measures men Women, African Americans, and gays have recently upended US culture with demands for inclusion and respect, while economic changes have transformed work and daily life for millions of Americans. The national obsession with the National Football League provides a window on this dynamic period of change, reshaping ideas about manliness to respond to new urgencies on and beyond the gridiron. Thomas P. Oates uses feminist theory to break down the dynamic cultural politics shaping, and shaped by, today's NFL. As he shows, the league's wildly popular product provides an arena for media producers to work out and recalibrate the anxieties, contradictions, and challenges that characterize contemporary masculinity. Oates draws from a range of pop culture narratives to map the complex set of theories about gender and race and to reveal a league and fan base in flux. Though longing for a past dominated

David was joined by guests professor and author Dennis Deninger and Outsports co-founder Jim Buzinski.  Great discussion on the ESPN layoffs and what it means for sports journalism and the way we view sports? Will other networks follow?  We'd love to hear from you! On Social Media use #AskHWTPSports Email us at feedback@hwtpsportstalk.com Call us at 1 347 989 0227

Excerpts from Sheriff Hodgson's interview regarding Aaron Hernandez: "...he really didn’t get along well with most of the players there – he’s not a guy that could go out to dinner with a Tom Brady or someone else." "In his case there were no real indicators that he needed any special care and in spite of that because he was going from a 7000 square foot home to a 70 square foot cell, wearing a different uniform, with having being revered as a Patriot by not only fans here, but all around the country as a great star – he wasn’t getting revered too much inside of prison in his uniform – that was a big slide for him, a big transition so I told my staff for three weeks we are going to keep him in the medical unit so let’s watch and see how he transitions from where he was to where he is now."

Discussing all the breaking news including the suicide of Aaron Hernandez. David Weinsteind tweeted out this morning, "In a strange twist for #AaronHernandez because he died before his appeal was completed, under Mass law his conviction will be vacated.

Guest: Attorney and Sports Agent Tallen Todorovich

Guests Mark Burns, senior writer for SportTechie, and New York Times Sports columnist Michael Powell.