Legendary Notre Dame football coach Ara Parseghian, died on Wednesday at age 94. When Parseghian took over at Notre Dame, the Irish were coming off a 2-7 record. In his first season, they finished 9-1 with their only loss to Southern Cal. The program would go on to win two national championships in his 11-year tenure. One of his more well-known players was Rocky Bleier who was a part of the 1966 National Champion team at Notre Dame. "Notre Dame was a wonderful experience. It was one of those

The sports broadcasting world lost one of its finest this past weekend. Bob Wolff, the only sportscaster to call play-by-play of championships in all four major North American professional team sports, has died at the age of 96. Wolff died peacefully in his South Nyack home Saturday night. The Yankees said in a team statement, "Bob Wolff's inconic, Hall-of Fame broadcasting career was matched by his class and character." Bob was a guest on SportsJam with Doug Doyl e in 2014. Wolff broadcast the

Francis "Spike" Doyle, Jr. is the reason that this host became a sports fan and played high school sports in Western Pennsylvania. My dad turns 88 today and still plays nine holes of golf almost every week. While the knees aren't like they used to be during his days as a top catcher in the area, Spike can still play a solid round of golf, using woods more than irons. In 2014, I decided to sit down and find out some information that most of our family wasn't even aware of. This edition of

About 300 items from the legendary baseball star Roberto Clemente's personal collection were auctioned during All-Star week in Miami, Florida. The total sales came in more than $3 million. In December of 2014, baseball journalist and Clemente enthusiast Danny Torres and former Major League Baseball executive Luis Rodriguez-Mayoral join SportsJam host Doug Doyle to talk about Clemente's impact on baseball and beyond. Danny Torres is a native of the Bronx. Torres is an educator and free-lance

The Director of the U.S. Open Women's Championship next month at Trump National Bedminister has quite a story to tell. Shannon Rouillard didn't start playing golf until she was 15. She was a gymnast before that, but her father told her she needed to pursue a sport that could lead to a scholarship in college. Golf was the choice. Shannon was driven to succeed at golf. She was a walk-on star at the University of Oregon and eventually became the head coach at Oregon for eight seasons. “To be honest

AZ Jackson, who is training with the Toulouse football club in France, is a rising soccer star. AZ, 15, is the son of jazz drummer and composer Ali Jackson, Jr. Dad spends plenty of time as the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra drummer, but he has also found time to go to France and support AZ's dream of becoming a pro soccer player. The Jacksons, father and son, came into WBGO for a special edition of the award-winning podcast SportsJam with Doug Doyle .

AZ Jackson, who is training with the Toulouse football club in France, is a rising soccer star. AZ, 15, is the son of jazz drummer and composer Ali Jackson, Jr. Dad spends plenty of time as the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra drummer, but he has also found time to go to France and support AZ's dream of becoming a pro soccer player. The Jacksons, father and son, came into WBGO for a special edition of the award-winning podcast SportsJam with Doug Doyle .

Singer-Songwriter and legendary football star Mike Reid is always looking to what's next in his life. One of the musicals he's written is running at Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ from June 3rd through June 25th. Reid wrote the music for The Ballad of Little Jo in 1997, but he thinks this performance of the show will be the best yet. The book by Reid, Sarah Schlesinger and John Dias was based on the film The Ballad of Little Joe by Maggie Greenwald. "I've worked in the world of opera, chamber

The 2017 U.S. Women's Open will be the third USGA championship conducted at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. It will take place July 10th through the 16th. Matt Sawicki, Director, U.S. Women's and Senior Women's Open Championships, is the latest guest on the podcast SportsJam with Doug Doyle . Sawicki is thrilled the championship is headed back to New Jersey for the first time since 1987. “This course is very special. Whenever you look at a course that is going to host a USGA

The boxing movie, Chuck , is being released this Friday. Boxing legend Chuck Wepner, known as the "Bayonne Bleeder" and his wife Linda joined SportsJam with Doug Doyle in April of 2016 when the movie was to be titled The Bleeder . Wepner was the man who inspired Sylvester Stallone to write Rocky after Chuck's famous bout with Muhammad Ali in 1975. Liev Schreiber and his wife Naomi Watts play the Wepners in Chuck . Wepner also scored notable heavyweight wins over Randy Neumann and Ernie Terrell.