Elmo Wright was an entertainer at heart. He didn’t play football until his junior year in high school, after a football accident took him away from the band and to the football field. Wait, what? Wright earned all-state twice in his last two years of high school, and later all-American as a collegian when the entertainer surfaced again with the creation of the end-zone dance. He talks about how the dance is just a way to express the joy that came with achieving his goals.

When Christian Okoye wasn’t selected for the Nigerian Olympic track team in 1984, he decided to try American Football. With Olympic-caliber speed and the frame of a linebacker, Okoye became a nightmare for defenders to stop, first while at Azusa Pacific and later with the Kansas City Chiefs. Okoye tells how he learned to like football and hate the Raiders.

Joe Lunardi turned a lifelong passion for college basketball into a science that became a national obsession. Originally designed to help him and his fellow editors at Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook narrow the number of teams to prepare for with their tournament preview issue, Bracketology has become the go-to source of who gets in and where they’re likely to play and against whom. Listen as Lunardi shares about the past, present and future of Bracketology.

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