On The Record with Rick Horrow

The NFL preseason is officially underway and this week we sit down with a team President hoping his club turns a corner in 2022. Mark Lamping is in his 27th year in professional sports and has led the Jaguars since 2012. He talks about his career, and what the future looks like in the NFL on and off the field.

172 days after the Rams Super Bowl win, the NFL is back on the field this week at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium, adjacent to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Hall's former President, David Baker, talks all things football this week.

Dawn Aponte has gone from being told she wouldn't be a "cultural fit" in contract negotiations as a female team executive, to driving all football operations initiatives at the NFL. This week, we talk with one of the NFL's top female executives about her journey through the front office of the Jets and Browns, all the way to the league office.

Coming off an incredible weekend at St. Andrews, golf is on the docket again this week. Joe Steranak, the former CEO of PGA of America, joins Rick to address the impact of the pandemic on golf, gaming and the LIV Golf Series.

This week, host Rick Horrow is in Scotland for the 150th The Open at St. Andrews. We sit down with United States Golf Association CEO Mike Whan who talks about his journey from "bunker boy" to the top executive at the USGA. Whan provides some valuable insight on how he prioritized the sponsor relationship when he was commissioner of the LPGA, and how that continues to be a focus in his current position.

This week, we talk with a person generally regarded as the father of the sports business industry. Bob Kain started representing tennis players when he was in his mid-20's and eventually became a pillar in sports marketing, athlete representation and sports business. Kain talks tennis, golf, NIL and everything in between.

This week we talk about everything you can imagine related to golf and the hosting of a PGA Tour event. Valspar Championship Tournament Director Tracy West talks about sponsorship, Covid, charitable support and the current state of the sport of golf.

College sports has seen more change and correction over the last two years than in the previous three decades combined. One of the people at the forefront of this changing landscape is Ray Anderson, the Athletics Director at Arizona State. This week, we talk with Anderson about those changes and about his previous role as Executive VP of Football Operations at the NFL.

Over the last 48 years, Leigh Steinberg has established himself as the most iconic sports agent in history. In real life, he's represented over a thousand athletes across all sports, including a record eight overall number one NFL draft picks. In Hollywood, he served as the inspiration for the movie Jerry Maguire, and consulted on agent-based works Any Given Sunday, For Love of the Game and Arli$$. This week we speak to Steinberg about his legendary work as an agent and philanthropist.

While the variety of methods sports fans utilize to consume content continues to grow, the challenge for providers is trying to capture audiences that have a wide range of preferences for what they watch and how they watch it. This week we talk to someone on the forefront of this content revolution. Peter Scott is the head of emerging media and innovation for WarnerMedia, which includes sports media giants like TNT, TBS and Bleacher Report.