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Hollywood mover and shaker Wade Solomon calls in from Los Angeles to discuss the Atlanta Braves return to the World Series. Plus, plenty of NFL talk, the ManUSlaughter from the previous Premier League weekend, and more! 

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We're excited to announce the triumphant return of Sarah Spooner to the show! So much to cover with Sarah, including her favorite baseball team - the Boston Red Sox - in an ALCS showdown in which the rest of the sports world wonders who to root for. We'll also tackle the Washington Football Team, the NFL, and much more. It's all fair game with Sarah Spooner!

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October is always an insane sports time with baseball playoffs, the NFL and college football seasons in full swing, the start of the NHL season, and NBA starting soon! Also, we are in the midst of a terrific Premier League season. This week, we speak with Stephen Zerdelian about how he started following the Premier League (before it was even the Premier League), found his love for Liverpool FC, and the current state of Liverpool and the Premier League.

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This week's episode of Run That Back was recorded live at Malaprop's Bookstore in Asheville, NC on October 6, 2021. We were excited to talk with Ed Southern about his new book Fight Songs: Love & Sports in a Complicated South. 

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With the help of our Senior Carolina Sports Correspondent, Phillip Chester, we dive into the hot starts of the NFL season for the Carolina Panthers as well as a season preview for the Charlotte Hornets. We also dive into the NFL RedZone as well as the alternate ESPN “Monday Night Football” MegaCast featuring Peyton and Eli Manning. 

Also, Run That Back is the new name of this podcast! We've received a polite but firm request to change the name of this show. Don't be confused or alarmed if you see a new name and logo in this podcast subscription feed. It's still us bringing you the best in indie sports radio!

We are thrilled to welcome Nick Davis back to the show! Nick is the producer and director of Once Upon a Time in Queens, the latest installment of ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary series. The documentary tells the story of the 1986 New York Mets with breathtaking archival footage and contemporary interviews with Keith Hernandez, Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Lenny Dykstra, and more. 

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The NFL is back! To help us welcome it back into our lives, we turn to Captain Josh Batenhorst to discuss moral victories by certain teams, Aaron Rodgers as his owns sleeper agent, the inevitability of Patrick Mahomes as well as lots of US Open talk and our last Asheville Tourists game attendance of the year.

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We celebrate the return of college football by welcoming back Tim Jackson, our Senior College Football Correspondent, to discuss his beloved Alabama, the too-early reports of Clemson's demise, and the radical notions of the Presbyterian College football team. 

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Lots happening on this episode of Steve Sax Syndrome! Tom and Scott discuss Cristiano Ronaldo's transfer to Manchester United and Scott's instant Asheville High fandom. Then Jon Reid of Race to the Bottom joins us to talk about the New York Mets and the "thumbs down" trend as well as sports fandom in general. 

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"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? I AM!" Bowling is our focus this week, and we welcome Jason Collins as our new Senior Bowling Correspondent to talk about his bowling life as well as his first-hand eyewitness account of one of bowling's most infamous freakouts by legend Pete Weber. Other topics this week include baseball road trips, preseason football, the 2000 football film The Replacements, and much more. 

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