The Downstroke

Sonics Rising Managing Editor Kevin Nesgoda interviews Mike McCann on a number of subjects sports and Seattle related.  

Mike McCann writes and provides legal analysis for Sports Illustrated, serves as the Director of Sports & Entertainment Law Institute & Professor of Law for the University of New Hampshire, and is a practicing Massachusetts Attorney.  You can follow him on Twitter at @McCannSportsLaw

Give it a listen and chime in with your thoughts and comments.  They talk some NBA, officiating, sports law, Donald Sterling, Clippers, Milwaukee Bucks, arena talk, expansion, TV Contracts, and more!

Produced by Steve Stearns.

The seventh episode of The Downstroke comes to you a week after some extreme technical difficulties and the original interview with Chris Daniels didn't get recorded all the way through.

This time Daniels sits down with host, Kevin Nesgoda to talk about the potential for NBA expansion in the Emerald City and also if there is potential for a team to still be relocated to Seattle.  Chris and Kevin then dive into the aspects of what it would take to get an NHL team into Seattle and how serious is Ray Bartoszek about doing the needful to get it done.

The guys also discuss Chris' visit to Sochi for the Olympics this year and if there is a chance that he will be heading down to Brazil for the 2014 World Cup.

Lots of great stuff here, don't miss this one!

In this special edition of The Downstroke Podcast, Kevin Nesgoda chats with the voice of the Sonics, Kevin Calabro.  They discuss what KC is up to these days, what he thinks about the NBA returning to Seattle, what he would do if the Sonics returned, and his Finals predictions.  It's a great interview.

The Bench then joins Kevin (Nesgoda) to talk about the NBA's coaching carousel, the worst players in the league, the Playoffs and more.  So have a listen.  I think you'll enjoy it.

The Downstroke Podcast is back with its fifth ever episode.  Host Kevin Nesgoda is joined by the bench this week of Chris Meirose, Taylor Bartle and Mitch Northam.  The guys talk about the Milwaukee Bucks getting new ownership, the start of the NBA Playoffs, NBA season awards, talk some history of the Seattle Supersonics and a whole heck of a lot more.

Join the guys as they navigate this crazy world that is called the NBA.  Be sure to either subscribe to the guys on iTunes or whatever your favorite podcast player is

Once again some technical issues marred the beginning of the show.  Eventually Kevin was allowed to join in and host.  Tonight the guys talked about the NCAA tournament, whose draft stock improved and whose dropped, the 2014 NBA draft as a whole, the John Calipari to the Lakers rumor, the Milwaukee Bucks situation and how it makes the SonicsRising staff a bit uneasy to talk about.

The guys then ended the show talking about what players they would like to have a beer with, which eventually ended up into the Hangover 4 script being written and Kevin probably being murdered.

Host: Kevin Nesgoda

Personalities: Chris Meirose, Mitch Northam, Dontae Delgado and Taylor Bartle

Not Invited: Paul Rogers

Executive Producer: Steve Stearns

Sonics Rising staff brings you Episode 3 of The Downstroke!  We'll be talking NFL, NCAA's, might sneak some baseball in, and some April Fools to round things out!

Listen in or join us on the call in hotline!

We will also post the link to the audio once the show has wrapped, and you can subscribe to our feed via RSS or iTunes too.

Tonight we (the Sonics Rising staff) will be once again hosting a call in radio show we've called The Downstroke.  We'd love to have you join us by calling in.

We'll talk NBA, NCAA and some NFL for sure.  And we'll see where the night leads and what time allows for from there.

Show goes on the air at 9:00PM Pacific.  We'll post the call in info in this post as we get closer to going live this evening.

If you don't want to talk live, you're able to listen live - and we'll post that link in a bit too.

The number to call in at is (347) 324-5180!

Host Kevin Nesgoda was joined by Chris Meirose, Dontae Delgado and Taylor Bartle from SonicsRising.com to talk about the NCAA Tournament, Phil Jackson with the Knicks, the Lakers troubles and hockey first being a no go in SODO.