Christopher Gabriel Program

Nick Schager makes his weekly visit reviewing House of the Dragon (HBO), Beast (theaters) and Orphan: First Kill (Paramount+). Nick, the longtime CGP regular, is the entertainment critic for The Daily Beast. 

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Brooklyn native Nelson Hernandez is the new assistant coach for Fresno State men's basketball. He'll be the recruiting coordinator for head coach Justin Hutson. To say Hernandez has had a remarkable journey - literally! - from Brooklyn to Fresno as both a coach and an award-winning documentary filmmaker would be a major understatement. He may be the most fascinating coach I've spoken to over the last 17 years.

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More with Coach Hernandez as he shares the importance of being immersed in the community, how former Bulldogs assistant coach (now at New Mexico) Tarvish Felton helped him get his start and the kind of player he looks for when he's out on the recruiting trail. 

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Ben Ross, a CGP regular, returned to talk Major League Baseball. On the menu: the Padres, Dodgers, Yankees, Giants and the AL Central. Ben does play-by-play for the Pac-12, Mountain West and West Coast Conference, is a weekend sports anchor for CBS 13 in Sacramento and contributes to the AP.

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Making his weekly visit, Nick brings us two docuseries and a theater opening: I Just Killed My Dad (three-part docuseries, Netflix), Fall (theaters) and Children of the Underground (five-part docuseries, FX).

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Nusrat Qadir joined me from New York City in April, 2020 at the beginning of Covid when the pandemic was in its earliest stages and no one really knew where it was going or how the nation (and world) would handle it. Now, two years later, what's changed - if anything - about Nusrat, her hospital (New York Presbyterian) and New York City.

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Derek X is an outstanding boxing analyst and a longtime regular on The CGP. He returned to explain why Jose Ramirez/Jose Zepeda was cancelled and, moving forward, who may emerge in the 140 lbs. division between former champions Ramirez and Regis Prograis, current champion Josh Taylor and Zepeda.

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Mark Standriff is the Director of Beautify Fresno. However, in his spare time he enjoys going back to his roots: acting on the stage. Mark will open in A Man for All Seasons (Good Company Players) on August 19th in the role of Sir Thomas More. He stopped by to discuss the production and, more broadly, theatre in Fresno. 

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Nick makes his weekly visit with three review offerings: Bullet Train (theaters), Prey (Hulu) and The Sandman (Netflix). 

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Weather Channel Meteorologist Todd Borek returns to explain the unprecedented heat in Paris, London and the rest of Europe. They've seen historic high temperatures over the past few weeks. Similarly, he'll break down the same overwhelming heat that has stretched from coast to coast in the United States. 

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