Sports With Friends

In this time of quarantine, the sports world has stopped. What about the new media? What about the viewers? What happens when sports come back? With the viewing habits constantly changing, what will the halt in entertainment mean for the sports fan?

On March 12, 2020, after a player in the NBA tested positive for COVID-19, the league suspended operations. The Denver Nuggets were playing the Dallas Mavericks on ESPN that night and were live when the historical announcement was made, Ryan Ruocco called that game.

Investigative Reporter TJ Quinn joins the show to discuss the current state of sports in the coronavirus, and the late Darryl Hamilton. The diversion is both fun and sentimental as the tangent became the best part of the episode.

Jared Diamond of the Wall Street Journal discusses the suspended 2020 MLB Season & his new book “Swing Kings: The Inside Story of Baseball.”

2 days before he was the first NBA Player and Sports Rudy Gobert tested positive for the Novel Coronavirus, he was at a press conference where he playfully touched a bunch of reporters’ microphones. One of the people who was in that room, Ben Anderson, joins the show.

This episode of Sports with Friends with Zach Leonsis is about the innovative ways fans can consume sports, and how Washington DC sports fans benefit from it.

This week on Sports with Friends, Seth Everett is joined by acclaimed journalist Jane McManus — New York Daily News sports columnist and Director of Marist’s Center for Sports Communication, who has been covering the impact that the coronavirus has affected sports.

This week on Sports with Friends, Seth Everett is joined by Syracuse legend John Wallace soon after having his jersey retired at the Carrier Dome.