Behind the Stats Radio
with Matt Fulks and Dave O'Hara
www.BehindTheStatsRadio.com
On Deck -- Updated 05/14/09
Join Matt Fulks each week for a broadcast of a "new" kind of radio show, featuring in-depth, personal interviews with sports legends.
"Behind the Stats" is still going through some major tweaks -- some exciting, some maddening, some saddening, but all, we think, will make the show better. While we go through this transition, for the first time since we began the show in May 2007, we'll be taking a short break from recording on-site. At this time, there is not a set date to start recording again. It could be as early as June 2, but please stay tuned.
When we're ready to announce the changes, we'll post them here as well as on our blog, which you can access by clicking on the microphone logo at the top left.
We appreciate your patience and understanding. We also thank each of you who has signed up as "Fan" on Facebook!!
If you have any thoughts on the show -- things you'd like to hear more of, less of, see on the website, etc. -- please feel free to contact us.
If there's a question you'd like Matt to consider asking during the show (and give you credit for it, of course), click here and send it to us.
As always, cordial audience participation -- including questions that we might air -- is encouraged.
For immediate notification of any additions or changes to the show's lineup, sign up to receive the show's blog via e-mail. If you can't join Matt in person, you can go to that same blog page to listen to podcasts of each week's show on your iPod, mp3 player or computer, plus watch video segments with the guests.
Join Matt Fulks each week for a broadcast of a "new" kind of radio show, featuring in-depth, personal interviews with sports legends.
"Behind the Stats" is still going through some major tweaks -- some exciting, some maddening, some saddening, but all, we think, will make the show better. While we go through this transition, for the first time since we began the show in May 2007, we'll be taking a short break from recording on-site. At this time, there is not a set date to start recording again. It could be as early as June 2, but please stay tuned.
When we're ready to announce the changes, we'll post them here as well as on our blog, which you can access by clicking on the microphone logo at the top left.
We appreciate your patience and understanding. We also thank each of you who has signed up as "Fan" on Facebook!!
If you have any thoughts on the show -- things you'd like to hear more of, less of, see on the website, etc. -- please feel free to contact us.
If there's a question you'd like Matt to consider asking during the show (and give you credit for it, of course), click here and send it to us.
As always, cordial audience participation -- including questions that we might air -- is encouraged.
For immediate notification of any additions or changes to the show's lineup, sign up to receive the show's blog via e-mail. If you can't join Matt in person, you can go to that same blog page to listen to podcasts of each week's show on your iPod, mp3 player or computer, plus watch video segments with the guests.
Guests You Might've Missed:
Oct. 9 ...Norm Stewart (basketball)
Oct. 16 ... Mark Vlasic, (football)
Oct. 23 ... Mike Boddicker (baseball)
Oct. 30 ... Joe Carter (baseball)
Nov. 4 ... Dennis Leonard (baseball)
Nov. 6 ... Merle Harmon (radio/TV)
Nov. 13...Kevin Seitzer (baseball)
Nov. 20...Kolby Smith and Anthony Davis (football)
Nov. 27...Nolan Richardson (basketball)
Dec. 4...Corby Jones and Curtis McClinton (football)
Dec. 11...Jack Steadman (football)
Dec. 18...Lynn Dickey (football)
Dec. 25...Ed & Brad Budde (football)
Jan. 1...Kimble Anders (football)
Jan. 8...John Mayberry (baseball)
Veteran's Day Tribute Excerpts
In honor of Veteran's Day, the following are two excerpts from Matt's latest book, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Pittsburgh Steelers. The excerpts are on two of the Steelers' military heroes, "Bullet" Bill Dudley and Rocky Bleier.
Dudley: Pittsburgh's First Hero
Bill Dudley was football’s anomaly. He was slow and not particularly big at 5'10" and 182 pounds. But somehow he could play on both sides of the ball.
“He doesn’t seem to be able to do anything real well, but he’s a helluva football player,” said fellow Hall of Famer Sammy Baugh. “I’d say Bill was a real specialist....(click to read more)
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Bleier: Getting a Second Chance
Throughout each person’s life we encounter at least one individual—whether it’s as basic as a casual acquaintance or as personal as a friendship—who teaches us about living and makes us realize that we can do better. It’s these people whose lives can intimidate writers, or at least give writers a mental hurdle while trying to relay the story in a perfect way.
Rocky Bleier, who is best known as a running back with the great Steelers teams of the 1970s...(click to read more)
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Royals Hall of Fame second baseman Frank White,
flanked by Matt (l), Jim Chappell and Dave
To comment on a recent show, or to
suggest a future guest for "Behind the
Stats" show, let Matt and Dave know
by clicking here.
In honor of Veteran's Day, the following are two excerpts from Matt's latest book, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Pittsburgh Steelers. The excerpts are on two of the Steelers' military heroes, "Bullet" Bill Dudley and Rocky Bleier.
Dudley: Pittsburgh's First Hero
Bill Dudley was football’s anomaly. He was slow and not particularly big at 5'10" and 182 pounds. But somehow he could play on both sides of the ball.
“He doesn’t seem to be able to do anything real well, but he’s a helluva football player,” said fellow Hall of Famer Sammy Baugh. “I’d say Bill was a real specialist....(click to read more)
********************************************
Bleier: Getting a Second Chance
Throughout each person’s life we encounter at least one individual—whether it’s as basic as a casual acquaintance or as personal as a friendship—who teaches us about living and makes us realize that we can do better. It’s these people whose lives can intimidate writers, or at least give writers a mental hurdle while trying to relay the story in a perfect way.
Rocky Bleier, who is best known as a running back with the great Steelers teams of the 1970s...(click to read more)
____________________________
Royals Hall of Fame second baseman Frank White,
flanked by Matt (l), Jim Chappell and Dave
To comment on a recent show, or to
suggest a future guest for "Behind the
Stats" show, let Matt and Dave know
by clicking here.
Click here to listen to the May 14th release of "Behind the Stats" with long-time major-league catcher Don Slaught.
Click here for other podcasts or to read the show's blog.
To find past shows to hear from your computer or favorite mp3 player, including iPod through iTunes, or to read our blog, and/or to sign up to receive RSS feeds, just click on our logo above.
Or, to buy CDs of past shows, click here.
"After Show" with Don Meyer Congratulations to Northern State University's Don Meyer, on becoming the NCAA's winningest basketball coach. You can read Matt Fulks' column on Meyer for Metro Sports here, or you can listen to this segment of The After Show to hear the interview between Matt and Don Meyer.
Now On Metro Sports!
Well, "Behind the Stats" is more or less on Metro Sports, Kansas City's sports television leader. Their website, at least.
Each week, be sure to visit Metro's site at www.kcmetrosports.com for the video segments with that week's
guest(s).
Pictured above, Dave O'Hara, golfer Tom Watson and Matt Fulks recording the video on June 5, 2008.
BtSr On YouTube
YouTube, which has to be one of the
greatest websites around, especially for a couple of video-philes like us, actually is allowing our videos on their site. Who
woulda thunk it? So, for older videos which cannot be accessed through Metro Sports anymore, go to our page on YouTube, by clicking here. We'll be adding early videos in the upcoming weeks.
CD Special
As you travel to various basketball and hockey tournaments this winter, are you looking for the perfect CD to get you through the trip? We don't have the perfect CD, but to help you equal out the cost of gas,
Matt and Dave are offering CDs of past shows, including ones that haven't been podcasted yet, for a special price of $10 (that's $5 off the normal price!), which includes shipping and handling.
Just contact us with the info of
which show you'd like and we'll get back with you as soon as possible.
MattFulks.com
If you're looking for information about Matt Fulks and his books or articles,
visit www.mattfulks.com. (It's the same guy pictured above, but you need to go to his site to find out about his books, signings and so on.)
Coaches vs. Cancer
During our show with former Missouri
basketball coach Norm Stewart, we spent
most of one segment on Stewart's battle with
cancer and his passion since that time to
help wipe out the dreadful disease through
Coaches vs. Cancer. (You can read more
about that in a "Behind the Stats" column
that Matt wrote for Metro Sports.) If you'd like
more information about Coaches vs. Cancer,
you can click here for their website or
call 1-800-227-2345.
The guy on the left is the "Behind the Stats" announcer,
Tom Lawrence. (For reasons we're still figuring out,
Matt's one of his old friends.) If you haven't listened to
any of the shows or podcasts yet, you haven't heard Tom.
So, click on the logo above, listen to a podcast and
you'll get a chance to hear Tom with the show open
and close.
Dave, Scott Wedman and Matt at Ugly Joe's
Now On Metro Sports!
Well, "Behind the Stats" is more or less on Metro Sports, Kansas City's sports television leader. Their website, at least.
Each week, be sure to visit Metro's site at www.kcmetrosports.com for the video segments with that week's
guest(s).
Pictured above, Dave O'Hara, golfer Tom Watson and Matt Fulks recording the video on June 5, 2008.
BtSr On YouTube
YouTube, which has to be one of the
greatest websites around, especially for a couple of video-philes like us, actually is allowing our videos on their site. Who
woulda thunk it? So, for older videos which cannot be accessed through Metro Sports anymore, go to our page on YouTube, by clicking here. We'll be adding early videos in the upcoming weeks.
CD Special
As you travel to various basketball and hockey tournaments this winter, are you looking for the perfect CD to get you through the trip? We don't have the perfect CD, but to help you equal out the cost of gas,
Matt and Dave are offering CDs of past shows, including ones that haven't been podcasted yet, for a special price of $10 (that's $5 off the normal price!), which includes shipping and handling.
Just contact us with the info of
which show you'd like and we'll get back with you as soon as possible.
MattFulks.com
If you're looking for information about Matt Fulks and his books or articles,
visit www.mattfulks.com. (It's the same guy pictured above, but you need to go to his site to find out about his books, signings and so on.)
Coaches vs. Cancer
During our show with former Missouri
basketball coach Norm Stewart, we spent
most of one segment on Stewart's battle with
cancer and his passion since that time to
help wipe out the dreadful disease through
Coaches vs. Cancer. (You can read more
about that in a "Behind the Stats" column
that Matt wrote for Metro Sports.) If you'd like
more information about Coaches vs. Cancer,
you can click here for their website or
call 1-800-227-2345.
The guy on the left is the "Behind the Stats" announcer,
Tom Lawrence. (For reasons we're still figuring out,
Matt's one of his old friends.) If you haven't listened to
any of the shows or podcasts yet, you haven't heard Tom.
So, click on the logo above, listen to a podcast and
you'll get a chance to hear Tom with the show open
and close.
Dave, Scott Wedman and Matt at Ugly Joe's
