Sports With Friends

Longtime reporter and broadcaster Jon Wertheim has been with Sports Illustrated since 1996. He is also an analyst for Tennis Channel. Recently, he began doing non-sports reporting for the CBS Show 60 Minutes.

Hall of Fame wide receiver James Lofton is now in his ninth season calling games for the NFL on CBS. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wide receivers of all time, Lofton was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2003.

Former Rutgers football player turned broadcaster and entrepreneur Eric LeGrand joined the show. In October 2010, LeGrand suffered a life-threatening career-ending spinal cord injury in a game vs. Army. In the years since his catastrophic injury, LeGrand has improved.

Jeff Smulyan is known for creating the format of sports radio. In 1987, he created WFAN Radio, the 1st 24-hour sports radio station of its kind. That spawned hundreds of sports radio stations across the country. In 1989, Smulyan lead a group that purchased the Seattle Mariners.

Making his third appearance on the podcast (Episodes 76, 230), Andrew Catalon rejoins the show to talk about his recently completed 9th season calling NFL games for CBS. He also calls NCAA men’s basketball and golf.

In December 2022, the National Football League announced that its Sunday Ticket package, which had been on DirecTV for decades, had signed a 7-year agreement with Google to put the package on YouTube TV and YouTube Premium Channels.

After a tackle of receiver Tee Higgins during the 1st quarter, Bills Safety Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest and had to be administered CPR on the field. Hamlin was eventually revived and then taken in an ambulance to a local hospital.

As 2022 comes to a close, Scott rejoins the show to talk about a potpourri of sports topics, including the recent deal between the NFL and YouTube about the Sunday Ticket. They also discussed the early success of Seth’s hockey team, the New Jersey Devils and the 2022 World Cup.

For 14 seasons, Scott Hanson has hosted the NFL Red Zone, presented by NFL Network. A longtime TV sportscaster, Hanson joined NFL Network in 2006. In 2009, the NFL launched its own Red Zone channel, a counterpart of DirecTV’s version that comes with Sunday Ticket Package.