This week’s podcast features Portland State Basketball Coaches Barret Peery (men) and Lynn Kennedy (women). Both coaches talk about their teams as they are preparing to start the 2020-21 season. Highlights: 1:00 - Barret Peery. 3:30 - Return to play protocol. 12:00 - The team: returning players. 14:00 - Newcomers. 23:00 - The Big Sky Conference. 25:35 - Lynn Kennedy. 27:00 - Continuity during all the time off. 30:00 - The team: returning players. 35:45 - the freshmen. 38:00 - style of play. 

With football season in wait mode, Media Relations Director Mike Lund brings in his peers in the Big Sky Conference, Dave Cook of Eastern Washington and Bill Lamberty of Montana State, to talk football and more. Highlights: 1:05 - Dave Cook introduction. 2:10 - Bill Lamberty introduction. 4:00 - What we do for a living. 5:20 - Coping with football withdrawal.  9:10 - What is happening at Eastern Washington and Montana State right now. 11:45 - 100+ years in college athletics. 16:15 - A sense of when college athletics might return to normal. 20:45 - How Bill and Dave got into the profession and to their schools. 27:00 - Dave Cook, runner and Portland favorites. 29:30 - Bill Lamberty loves Powells and downtown Portland. 31:45 - Thoughts on professional sports. 38:00 - Home schooling. 40:30 - Vinyl.  

Portland State Head Basketball Coach Barret Peery talks all things sports - the Vikings, the Big Sky, the NCAA, Viking Basketball, Social Issues, professional sports, summer vacation, and much more - with host Mike Lund. Highlights: 2:00 - the cancelation of fall sports in the Big Sky Conference. 5:30 - dealing with the absence of college football. 11:30 - Coach Peery asks how officials will travel around the country safely. 13:55 - How are student athletes are affected regarding scholarships, recruiting, etc… 18:30 - Portland State basketball right now. 20:20 - Mentoring student-athletes about social issues. 24:00 - Missing the comfort level of the day-to-day in Viking Athletics. 28:00 - The state of Barret Peery’s golf game. 28:45 - Coach Peery’s sense of when college athletics will return. 31:10 - Talking professional sports (NBA, PGA, MLB, NFL, the COVID saliva test). 34:15 - The Blazers and the playoffs. 39:00 - The US Amateur Golf Championship. 39:45 - MLB, the 60-game season, and Barret and Mike’s favorite teams. 45:30 - Vacation with the Peery family.

The guys from Talking Ship are back this week with a special guest: Ceil Dunleavy. A member of the PSU women’s track and field team, Ceil talks about high jumping, her Alaskan roots and how the diversity on the PSU track & field team has positively affected her. Hosts are Cody Jones, Sam Lingwall, and Kelly Shedd, all runners for Portland State cross country and track and field.