Sports With Friends

Longtime College Basketball Insider Jon Rothstein has been with CBS Sports since 2010. Since 2021, he’s been a part of the CBS/TNT coverage of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.

For the 400th episode of Sports with Friends, 2-time Super Bowl Champion Eli Manning returns to the podcast for his 6th appearance. This appearance ties Manning with LaTroy Hawkins for the most appearances in the history of this show.

During the 2022-2023 NHL Regular Season, all 30 Teams held a Pride Night, during which players wear jerseys celebrating the LGBTQ+ community either during warmups or games — or both. This season, various players & a few teams objected to the activity and refused to participate.

Since joining the Boston Red Sox in 1983, Joe Castiglione has been the lead play-by-play announcer for over 40 years. In 2023, Castiglione announced that he was scaling back and would only do 81 scheduled games. At 76, he has been part of the fabric of Red Sox baseball.

Kurt Bodenhausen is a reporter for Sportico and has been covering this story for that website. In this episode, he explains why Sinclair/Diamond bought the RSNs in the first place.

In his new book Playing Through the Pain, writer Dan Good seeks to make sense of MLB MVP Ken Caminiti’s fascinating, troubled life. Good began researching Caminiti in 2012 and conducted his first interviews for his biography in 2013.

At the time of this episode’s release, Jake Dennis is in 2nd place, challenging for Formula E’s Season 9 Championship. Dennis has been a Formula-E since 2020. He currently races for the Avalanche Andretti team, which is based in the United States.

This podcast continues a series of episodes commemorating Women’s History Month. Alex Allred’s new book “When Women Stood: The Untold History of Females Who Changed Sports and the World.” In the book, Allred discusses the various challenges women have faced in sports.

This episode is released on International Women’s Day and is dedicated to women both in and out of sports, all over the world. Freestyle Skier Devin Logan is a 3-time Olympian.