Dave Kindred, award-winning sportswriter and author, joins the show to discuss his new book, My Home Team: A Sportswriter's Life and the Redemptive Power of Small-Town Girls Basketball. Kindred's professional resume is nothing short of incredible, having covered Muhammad Ali, Pete Rose, Michael Jordan, Martina Navratilova, Tiger Woods and many more athletes firsthand, as well as dozens of Super Bowls, the Olympics, and memorable events such as Game 6 of the 1975 World Series (aka the "Carlton Fisk home run game"). Kindred details parts of those sports endeavors in "Act 1" of his book, though Act 2--covering a local high school girls basketball team (the Lady Potters of Morton, IL) the past 13 years, and what that has meant to him through a number of personal challenges and tragedies--is a core part (perhaps even the focal point) of the book as well.

Mike Steib--CEO of Artsy (the largest online marketplace for buying & selling art)--checks in regarding his new podcast, Office Hours with Mike Steib. The podcast features key Chief Executives to answer questions about leadership, career and life. He incorporates listener phone call questions in addition to his own, picking the brains of (thus far) Tommy Hilfiger and Eric Adams (Mayor of NYC). Steib was formerly CEO of XO Group Inc (parent company of the wedding site The Knot), has worked for Google & NBC Universal, and is author of The Career Manifesto. He received a BA in Economics and a BA in International Relations from the University of Penn.

Sports Clip: Rob Thomson, Manager, Philadelphia Phillies - MLB.com

Music: Sad Today In the Dark - ApologetiX
Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight) - tobyMac

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