The Rational Hour

Todd Marinovich joins me on today's show to discuss his life and career. Todd became the first freshman to start at the high school football powerhouse, Mater Dei. He went on to USC, and as a freshman at USC, Marinovich guided the Trojans to a 9-2-1 record and a PAC-10 Conference championship. Marinovich was named College Freshman of the Year in 1989. the Raiders selected Marinovich in the first round; he was the 24th pick overall and the second quarterback taken. We discuss the road from the OC to USC to life in the NFL

Rajai Davis joins me to discuss the latest news in MLB one month into the baseball season. Davis a 15-year vet in MLB hit one of the most incredible home runs in major league history in the 2016 World Series. Davis hit a game-tying, two-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning off of Cubs closer Aroldis Chapman Davis also lead MLB in stolen bases in 2016

Im Joined by Fred McGriff! McGriff played 19 major league seasons with the Blue Jays, Padres, Braves, Devil Rays, Cubs, and Dodgers. From Tampa, Fla. he attended Thomas Jefferson High where he was cut from his high school baseball team as a sophomore – and became so determined to improve he rode his bike 20 miles to the gym to train. All that hard work paid off with a plaque in Cooperstown as he is inducted into the class of the 2023 Hall of Fame. McGriff finished his career just seven homers short of the 500 home run club, tied with Lou Gehrig for 26th all-time. He had a career .284 batting average, 2,490 hits, 441 doubles, and 1,550 RBI. He and Gary Sheffield are the only players to hit 30 home runs for five different major league teams. In 10 postseason series, he batted .303 with 10 home runs, 37 RBI, and 100 total bases. He was named to five All-Star Games, finished in the top 10 in MVP voting six times, and ranked 47th all-time in RBI with 1,550. We discuss his road to Cooperstown

Rational Hour MLB coverage with David Vassegh, David Vassegh is a Dodgers Reporter for MLB Network and the host of "Dodgers Talk" on AM 570. We discuss spring training and the upcoming 2023 season for the Dodgers and the NL west and a little baseball talk

Jamal Anderson joins me to discuss the NFL conference championship weekend outcomes and the upcoming Super Bowl LVII matchup between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs. We also discuss Jamal's life and career 

I'm Joined by former NFL QB Jake Plummer who was a first-team All-American QB at Arizona St University and was drafted as the 42nd overall pick in the 1997 draft he went on to have a ten-year run starting at QB for the Arizona Cardinals and the Denver Broncos who discuss his life and career plus top 5 QBs of all time. We also discuss his teammate at Arizona State and the Arizona Cardinals Pat Tilman, the two became close friends, while Plummer was still with the Cardinals, Tillman joined the US Army in response to 9/11 we discuss it all 

On this episode, Terry Porter joins me, Porter grew up in the Milwaukee area where he later attended the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point her would go on to become the 24th pick in the 1985 draft During his NBA career, he played 10 seasons with the Portland Trail Blazers, 3 seasons with the Minnesota Timberwolves and 1 season with the Miami Heat, and 3 seasons with the San Antonio Spurs. Porter played in the NBA All-Star Game in 1991 and 1993 and received the J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award in 1993. As of 2010, Porter was the Trail Blazers' all-time assists leader, with 5,319. We discuss his journey to the NBA and current NBA news

I'm joined by Marcellus Wiley A second-round pick of the Buffalo Bills in the 1997 NFL Draft, Wiley went on to have a nine-year NFL career and was one of the NFL’s top defensive players during the prime of his career. In 2001, Wiley led the Chargers with a career-high 13 sacks and five forced fumbles.  He was voted a starter for the AFC in the Pro Bowl and named Pro Football Weekly’s All-AFC Team. The previous season he led the Bills with 10.5 sacks. Wiley was named one of the Top 50 players in the NFL at any position twice by Pro Football Weekly. He was also nominated for the Walter Payton Man of the Year three times after retiring from the NFL Wiley became a media member recently with FoxSports as co-host of the FS1 original program Speak for Yourself along with several outlets "SportsNation" on ESPN and the radio show "Afternoons with Marcellus & Travis" on ESPNLA 710am. Wiley previously served as an NFL analyst for ESPN, making regular appearances on "NFL Live," "SportsCenter," and ESPNEWS, while also contributing to ESPN’s Super Bowl coverage. He was also a host of "Winners Bracket" on ABC. Wiley joined ESPN in 2007, primarily as a studio analyst on ESPN2’s" First Take." We discuss it all from his life growing up to his time at the University of Columbia Playing with Junior Seau Clippers and much more! 

I'm joined by former All-Pro NFL running back Tony Richardson. Richardson played 17 seasons in the NFL with the Dallas Cowboys, Kansas City Chiefs, Minnesota Vikings, and New York Jets. He was a four-time AFC Pro Bowl Selection with the Kansas City Chiefs, a two-time All-Pro selection, and an NFC Pro Bowl Selection in 2008 with the Vikings. He received the Byron “Whizzer” White NFL Man of the Year Award in 2010 and was named to the NFL 2000s All-Decade Team. He served on the NFL Players Association Executive Committee. We discuss his life and career plus the latest NFL news and current events in the sports world 

In this episode, I'm joined by Hoops legend Kenny Anderson, one of the country's best prospects during his time at the prestigious Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens, New York. Before gracing the hardwood at Georgia Tech and later the NBA, Anderson could rack up honors that no other player since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar would do becoming a four-time Parade All-American. This feat had not been accomplished since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He was also named to the All-City team in all four years. he was named a McDonald’s All-American, Mr. Basketball for New York State, and Gatorade’s High School Basketball Player of the Year After being heavily recruited, Kenny Anderson would spend two seasons with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets earning 1990 AP All-America 1990/1991 First Team All-ACC,1990 ACC Rookie of the Year he would turn pro starting his career with the New Jersey Nets who drafted him drafted 2nd overall in the 1991 NBA draft, where he put up 19 points and ten assists per game during the 1994 season,  where Anderson was named to the NBA All-Star team. After the 1996 season, Anderson signed a deal with the Portland Trail Blazers. During his time with the Portland Trail Blazers, Anderson averaged about 18 points, seven assists, and four rebounds per game .he would go on to have a 15-year NBA career

Lynn Dickey joins me, Lynn Dickey, a native of Osawatomie, Kan., still holds numerous K-State passing records and ranks third on the Big Eight’s all-time list with 6,208 career passing yards. He is also second on K-State’s all-time total offense chart. He spent most of his NFL career with the Green Bay Packers but also played several seasons with the Houston Oilers. He threw for more than 21,000 yards with the Packers, including 4,458 yards in 1983 which ranked second in NFL history at the time. We discuss his life and career plus the top QBs of all-time and Defensive players of all-time 

On this week's show I'm joined by Reggie Ballard who is an iconic actor after graduating from Ball High School in Texas, he was an all-district linebacker, and he earned a full football scholarship to Southern Methodist University, where he was also a theatre major. Spurning overtures from pro football, Ballard headed to Hollywood to pursue his acting career. We discuss his life growing up in Galveston, Tx, and making his way to Hollywood starring in hit television shows like Bernie Mac and Martin 

Former QB Brad Johnson was a two-sport athlete from Black Mountain, NC. He earned four football and two basketball letters at Florida State University playing point guard as a freshman while also playing quarterback on the football team he started the first six games of the 1990 season throwing for 1746 yards and 14 touchdowns. He was drafted in the 9th round in the 1992 NFL draft  play for 17 years with the Vikings, Redskins, Buccaneers, and Cowboys leading the Tampa Bay Bucs to the Super Bowl Championship in 2003 and making the Pro Bowl in 2000 and 2003, We discuss the past present and the future with his life and career 

I'm joined by the Iconic Actor John Amos An imposing veteran actor of stage and screen, John Amos earned his greatest claim to fame as the hardworking but prideful James Evans, Sr. on the hit Norman Lear sitcom "Good Times" Born in Newark, NJ, he attended East Orange High School, where he graduated in 1958. Amos then enrolled at Long Beach City College, but graduated from Colorado State University, with a degree in sociology. John Amos' pre-acting life was an athletic one, he was a Golden Gloves boxing champion, and he played semi-professional football in the United States and Canada where he played for both the Canton Bulldogs and Joliet Explorers in the United Football League. He signed as a free agent with the Denver Broncos in 1964, as part of the American Football League. In 1965 and in 1966 he joined the Atlantic Coast Football League, playing for two teams. John Amos has the honor of having won more TV Land Awards than any other actor. These are for his appearances on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Good Times, and Roots. We discuss his life growing up in New Jersey and his career as an athlete and actor in great detail plus a bonus segment with KC Amos who discusses his life growing up with John Amos as his father at the peak of his career 

I'm joined by UTSA senior QB Frank Harris who is a Semifinalist for both the Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award and Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award, Dave Campbell's Texas Football Offensive Player of the Year, last season he was a second-team all-conference selection set UTSA single-season records for passing yards (3,177), completions (398), touchdowns (27), attempts (263), completion percentage (.661), giving efficiency (152.5), total offense (3,743) and touchdowns responsible for (33) In High School Frank earned all-state accolades and were the San Antonio Express-News All-Area Offensive Player of the Year as a junior was also named the District 25-6A Offensive Player of the Year we discuss his journey in life going into his final season at the University of Texas at San Antonio