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.

The Third Annual Mike Nichols Charity Hockey Game this Friday, April 21st at Prudential Center will benefit spinal cord research and quality of life initiatives. Proceeds from the game featuring many former and current NHL stars will go to the Nichols Family Trust to provide for Mike's medical needs, as well as the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, which is dedicated to curing spinal cord injuries by funding innovative research and improving the quality of life for individuals living with

Author, former Associated Press reporter and New York resident Sally Cook returns to SportsJam with Doug Doyle to talk about her latest book, How to Speak Soccer : From Assist to Woodwork - An Illustrated Guide to Pitch-Perfect Jargon. Soccer, the world's most popular sport, has a growing fan base with millions of enthusiasts. Whether you're a newcomer to this exciting sport or a longtime fan, in How to Speak Soccer author Sally Cook and illustrator Ross MacDonald share the definitions to over

Author, former Associated Press reporter and New York resident Sally Cook returns to SportsJam with Doug Doyle to talk about her latest book, How to Speak Soccer : From Assist to Woodwork - An Illustrated Guide to Pitch-Perfect Jargon. Soccer, the world's most popular sport, has a growing fan base with millions of enthusiasts. Whether you're a newcomer to this exciting sport or a longtime fan, in How to Speak Soccer author Sally Cook and illustrator Ross MacDonald share the definitions to over

Jazz drummer Jeff "Tain" Watts is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow in the field of music composition. Tain has performed with Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Betty Carter, Michael Brecker, Alice Coltrane, Ravi Coltrane and many others. During this Jazz Appreciation Month, SportsJam with Doug Doyle is dipping into the archives to provide you with an opportunity to find out more about your favorite musicians and their connection to the sports world. Jeff "Tain" Watts was born in Pittsburgh,

Word came this week that St. Anthony’s High School in Jersey City, NJ was closing at the end of the academic year. That decision puts an end to one of the country's most successful and revered high school basketball programs led by Hall of Fame coach Bob Hurley Sr. The Archdiocese of Newark has determined fundraising efforts would not be able to keep the doors open for another year. Bob Hurley's team won 28 state championships and several national championships. He was one of the first guests on