Sports With Friends

In March 2023, Damon Bruce had the #1 sports radio show in the San Francisco market. He was unceremoniously laid off as his show was eliminated from Audacy’s lineup. Damon took his massive radio and social media following and created “Damon Bruce Plus,” a daily YouTube show.

Matt Loughlin has been with the New Jersey Devils organization for 27 years. The last 17 have been as the radio/audio broadcaster. First, on WFAN Radio, and now on the Devils Hockey Network.

Jack Curry is an award-winning sports journalist. He spent 20 years covering baseball for the New York Times before shifting to television to work for the YES Network, where he has worked since 2010. He authored a new book on the 25th anniversary of the 1998 Yankees.

Mitch Evans has been a Formula-E driver for Jaguar TCS Racing since 2016, which happened to be Jaguar’s initial season in the circuit. Evans is originally from New Zealand, and at the time of this episode, is currently 4th in the championship standings through 9 races out of 16.

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.