This year marks a quarter-century since Pete Rose was kicked out of baseball for gambling on games while playing and managing the Reds. Two years later, Rose was classified “permanently ineligible” for the baseball hall of fame despite being the all-time leader in hits, games played, at-bats, singles, and outs — not to mention 3 […]
James Risen is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who has uncovered many things our government has done in the name of Homeland Security that stretched (ok, broke) the limits of the law, including his revelations about warrantless wire-tapping by the NSA. For that, the Obama administration has been trying for years to force him […]
Here’s my conversation with veteran journalist Lynn Sherr about her biography of Sally Ride who, in 1983, became the first American woman to go into space. I started by asking why it took so long (the Russians put Valentina Tershkova up there 20 years earlier) and how Ride was treated inside NASA and by the […]
Al Clark was a Major League Baseball umpire for a quarter-century, and writes about his career in “Called Out But Safe.” When he joined me on KTRS, we talked about some of his memorable games, including the earthquake during the 1989 World Series, Cal Ripken breaking Lou Gehrig’s iron man streak, and dealing with loudmouth […]
A dozen years ago, James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales published the definitive book about “Saturday Night Live,” entitled “Live From New York.” It was an oral history of the show, as told by its performers, producers, and writers. Now, as “SNL” is about to embark on its 40th season, Miller has revised and updated […]
Leonard Maltin has been publishing movie guides for more than four decades, but the one that comes out next week will be his last. He’ll still write movie reviews, but they won’t appear in print any longer. On my KTRS show, I asked him to explain why he’s making this business decision, how he got […]