The 'A Lot of Sports Talk' Podcast A Lot of Sports Talk, Adesina O. Koiki

College basketball television analyst Debbie Antonelli (ESPN, CBS Sports) joins us for a comprehensive breakdown of the 2021 D-1 women's college basketball season as we head toward the start of the NCAA Tournament. Most of the show focuses on the happenings on the court, but we also had the honor of having Debbie speak to us about playing for the legendary Kay Yow at NC State and helping to carry on her legacy today through Play4Kay and other initiatives. Finally, Deb gives us an update on her three sons five years after the publishing of a Washington Post article written by Sally Jenkins that highlighted Debbie's family dynamic and centered around one of her sons, Frankie, a current senior at Clemson University, who was born with Down Syndrome.

As the University at Buffalo continues to turn heads in the college football world in 2020, we speak with sports writer Rachel Lenzi (The Buffalo News) about being at the stadium in person on Nov. 28 as running back Jaret Patterson had his 409-yard, 8-TD performance that made the entire football world take notice of the Bulls. We also discuss the qualities that make head coach Lance Leipold such a success — and a target for coaching vacancies in college football — and how the UB athletic department has been able to significantly raise the profile of some of its successful teams, including men's and women's basketball.

Historian and author Randy W. Roberts (A Team For America: The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation) joins us on the podcast to talk about the history and legacy of the Army-Navy Football game both on the football field and on the battlefield, including the 1944 rivalry game that helped boost morale in America as the country was in the throes of World War II. Discussions on the show also included the greatness of the 1940s Army backfield known as Mr. Inside (Felix "Doc" Blanchard) and Mr. Outside (Glenn Davis), Navy legendary quarterback Roger Staubach and how so much of what surrounds the history of the rivalry continues to influence so many aspects of sports and life today.

Manhattan district attorney candidate Eliza Orlins is our latest guest on "The 'A Lot of Sports Talk' Podcast," as she thoroughly explains the elements in place in the criminal justice system that have created inequalities that have crippled Black and brown communities, an issue at the forefront in American life. Orlins, a public defender for over a decade in New York, also explains "defunding the police," a concept that has gained steam after the death of George Floyd and other recent, high-profile incidents of police brutality. In the interview, which took place back in June, she talks about the need to keep the momentum up for cash bail reform, the horrible conditions still found in jails that ended up being breeding grounds for COVID-19, and why she has decided to run for district attorney in Manhattan.

University of Arizona women's basketball head coach Adia Barnes, the school's all-time leading scorer, joins the show to explain how her Wildcats broke through in 2020 to become one of the top teams in the country's best conference, the Pac-12. She also discusses the evolution of All-America guard Aari McDonald, shares why she believes her team was overlooked nationally and explains what being named a Naismith Trophy Coach of the Year Finalist meant to her.

On the eve of the 2019 WNBA Finals, Connecticut Sun guard Courtney Williams stops by to talk about why her team feels it still does not get the national respect it deserves despite making it to the WNBA Finals, along with outlining the keys to defeating the Washington Mystics in the Finals and extolling the support of women's basketball in the state of Connecticut. Afterward, it is part two of our conversation with football coach John Tomlinson, creator of The Quarterback Equalizer phone app. In our discussion, Tomlinson goes in-depth about the different QBs he has coached over the years, his wife's role in the development and success of the app and the state of the sport.