Peoria Rivermen captain Dan Bremner joins beat writer Dave Eminian for this week's Sportswriters podcast. Dan is a lifelong hockey player, a well-rounded athlete and a proven leader both on and off the ice. He shares some insights into the ups and downs of being a pro hockey player, including losing his mother to cancer at the very beginning of his career.

A trio of local baseball figures — Peoria Chiefs president Rocky Vonachen, Bradley baseball coach Elvis Dominguez and former major leaguer Mike Dunne— meet with the Journal Star's Dave Reynolds to talk about who should and who shouldn't be included among the best of the best in Baseball's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown.

Journal Star executive editor Dennis Anderson is Steve Tarter's guest on Tarter Source this week. Anderson, a newspaper veteran with 31 years of experience on papers in Illinois, New York, Connecticut and Kansas, talks about the industry and why he considers working on a newspaper as the greatest job in the world. Anderson also weighs in on the growing threat of fake news in our society.

Brad Keefauver is all about Sherlock Holmes. The system analyst at OSF Healthcare and prolific blogger is the Peoria area's foremost expert on all things Sherlock, from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original concept to the most recent interpretations of the peculiar detective and his deductive prowess.

After that great Ohio State-Michigan game, we needed to visit a real expert. Herb Gould, longtime Chicago sportswriter, writes "The Gould Standard" column for a smart college sports website, TMGcollegesports.com. He talks with us about The Game, Jim Harbaugh, the College Football Playoff system — and a little golf, a little travel, a little beer ...

Peoria High School coach Tim Thornton and Dee-Mack High School coach Job Linboom join Journal Star beat writers Aaron Ferguson and Stan Morris for this week's podcast. Thornton and the Lions face Vernon Hills in the Class 5A state football championship at 10 a.m. on Nov. 26, while Linboom and the Chiefs battle Maroa-Forsyth for the 2A title at 1 p.m. on Nov. 25 at Memorial Stadium in Champaign.

The Peoria Rivermen and Susan G. Komen are joining forces in the fight against breast cancer. The corporate partners have some exciting new promotions in store this season. New Rivermen director of business development Andrew Cohen and Peoria Memorial Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure public relations/marketing director Katie Parker join Journal Star hockey writer Dave Eminian to chat about their new initiatives, while Cohen shares some of his experiences as a former equipment manager.

Local writer, former legislator and political expert Jim Nowlan shares his thoughts on the 2016 presidential election, the state's problems in Springfield and the upcoming Illinois bicentennial.

Philip Lockwood, longtime director of the Steamboat Classic, joins sports editor Kirk Wessler, and the old running geeks talk about the IHSA State Cross-Country Championships set for Saturday morning at Detweiller Park in Peoria. From Craig Virgin to Lukas Verzbicus, from Joe Newton and Elmhurst York to changes on the iconic race course, and a lot more.

Michael Brooks, superintendent of the Peoria County Veterans Assistance Commission, provides information on what he does to help area veterans on this week's "Tarter Source" with the Journal Star's Steve Tarter. Boosting the budget for the commission is one of the referendum questions on next week's Peoria County ballot.