The National Rugby League's Grand Final is just a few hours! To get ready for the game, earlier this week NRL Fox reporter Darcie McDonald joined the show! We got into a look at both the Melbourne Storm and the Penrith Panthers, how the NRL got through the 2020 season in a pandemic, the future of more fans at games and so much more!

Follow Darcie on Twitter: @DarcieMcDonald

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I'm back with another episode taped from deep in lockdown! In April, I welcomed to the show Boston based sports writer Marisa Ingemi to the show!

We got into Marisa's start in sports media covering lacrosse as a teenager, being on the Boston Bruins beat, breaking women's hockey news and so much more!

Follow Marisa on Twitter: @Marisa_Ingemi

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What's it like being the first hired broadcast voice of an NHL team? Well I had Everett Fitzhugh on Avry's Sports Show this summer to find out!

Everett and myself got into the process of being hired by the Seattle Kraken, being a black man on an NHL broadcast team, diversity in the game in media, growing up as an Oilers fan in Detroit and so much more!

Follow Everett on Twitter: @TheVoiceFitz

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(Taped earlier this summer)

On the latest episode of Avry's Sports Show, I welcomed SportsNet New York's Chris Williamson to the show! We got into the sports world returning, the WNBA and basketball's activism and more!

We also chopped it up on Chris being one of the few black faces in New York sports media as well as our hopes for needing the media industry to become more diverse on and off-camera.

Follow Chris on Twitter: @CWilliamson44

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Originally uploaded for YouTube on August 18th, 2020:

The incredibly dumb unwritten rules of baseball strike again! This time in regards to San Diego Padres shortstop, Fernando Tatis Jr. swinging at a pitch and hitting a grand slam with a 3-0 count in a blowout!

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On the latest episode, I had the pleasure of welcoming Kayla Grey to the show! In 2018, Kayla became the first black woman to host a flagship sports highlight show in Canada by hosting TSN's SportsCentre.

Kayla and myself got into her journey in sports media, not toning down who you are on camera and the future in getting more black voices on TV in Canada in on air and behind the scene roles.

Follow Kayla on Twitter: @Kayla_Grey

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On the latest episode of Avry's Sports Show, I pulled out an interview that I taped from deep in the lockdown days back in May!

I welcomed onto the show Chad Cooper, one of the media voices of California Rugby League and Jimmy Stagger aka @BereftOfTheDial on Twitter from The Friday Night Music Party on Mixcloud.com!

We got into the growth of Rugby League in California and the US and Canada as a whole as well as the status of the 2020 California Rugby League season.

Follow @CaliforniaRL on Twitter

Jimmy's Show Links: jimmystagger.caster.fm/

Mixcloud.com/FridayNightMusicParty

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Comedy, soccer and so much more!

I welcomed earlier this week the host of the soccer YouTube series and podcast The Shirtless Plantain Show, Tosin Makinde but you know him better as Nigerian Scamsss!

We get into the origins of his show, the restart of leagues worldwide, and if we'll see real change after the Black Lives Matter kits for black players and managers.

Follow Scamsss:
@NigerianScammms on Twitter

Shirtless Plantain Show links:
www.youtube.com/channel/UC9UFC0qzd70Iko8ppmQF1YA

@shirtless-plantain-show

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We know Rugby League is played in the UK and Australia but did you know about the game's growth in Chile or Greece?? My latest guest, Michael Carbone explores the world of Rugby League with his show, Chasing Kangaroos on Apple Podcasts!

We got into talking to people in Rugby League from non-traditional places, the NRL re-start, the 2021 World Cup and so much more!

Follow Michael on Twitter: @chasingroospod

Chasing Kangaroos Link: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/chas…odcast/id144188

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With Super League still on hiatus, The Toronto Wolfpack's first global ambassador Sandy Shipley and myself had a chat on the NRL (National Rugby League) as newcomers to Australian Rugby League!

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