Book Stew host Eileen MacDougall is joined by author Roger Celestin to discuss his newest book The Delicate Beast.

Book Stew host Eileen MacDougall is joined by author Roger Celestin to discuss his newest book The Delicate Beast.

At 13, Basketball was life for Chris Cole, and he was good. How good? Cole was one of the best point guards on the planet in his age group. Then Cole's dad - a drill Sargent in the Army, the man responsible for Cole's morals and work ethic, and above all, Cole's best friend - died of cancer, and everything came crashing down. A highly touted point guard with a spot on the roster at one of the top prep school's in the country, Cole struggled for years to pick up the pieces after his dad's death. Filled with a quiet anger inside, Cole quit the game for a year and gained 100 pounds, before finally falling back in love with it. After losing the weight, Cole earned a Division I college scholarship, only to have his career end prematurely due to a life threatening illness. After a long recovery, Cole found himself homeless without a degree. Amazingly, he picked up the pieces, earned a degree, and reconnect with hoops as a trainer and then coach. Now the associate head coach at Bryant University, Cole sat down with the LIT crew to talk about life, loss, picking up the pieces again, and the game of basketball. This is his amazing story.

In the latest episode of the Wilmington Spotlight, host Austin Styffe sits down with Mike Capistran to talk his gym business, the importance of good coaching, and motivation.

People often say "Ball is Life," but for Dawan Robinson, such a statement is more than a figure of expression: Basketball literally saved his life. In episode 47 Robinson sat down with Bobby and Sam to talk about his journey. Born and raised in inner city Philadelphia, Robinson saw things no kid should growing up, including witnessing his cousin being shot to death right in front of him as a high schooler. Robinson says it was his parents, and the game of basketball, that saved him from the same fate. Ball took Robinson to a prep school in rural Maine, then on to the University of Rhode Island, around the world as a pro, and even a cup of coffee in the NBA. Now he's giving back as a coach and trainer. Listen to his story, it is as powerful as it gets.

The Cretaceous Chronicles Episode 2 - Special Jurassic World Rebirth Breakdown by WCTV

The Cretaceous Chronicles Episode 1 by WCTV

Bobby and Sam hit the road and headed to The Woo - Worcester, Mass. - a City Sam knows well; one where diners, trains and colorful characters abound, to sit down and chop it up with Holy Cross men's basketball head coach Dave Paulsen. Paulsen talked about his journey through hoops, the core philosophies to any program he runs, how experiencing "every coach's worst day" made him grow into a better man, and how his wife truly is his better half.

In a special episode, Book Stew hits the road as Eileen MacDougall, Book Stew host, has author Lauren Francis-Sharma on the show a second time. This time by recording a discussion Lauren had with podcaster and fellow author, Mark Cecil, discussing her nationally acclaimed novel, Casualties of Truth, on location at the Harvard Book Store of Cambridge, MA.

In the second episode of the Cretaceous Chronicles, host Domenic Guisti and guests Sam Perkins and Maria Aliberti meet to discuss and recap the first three episodes of Jurassic Park Camp Cretaceous.