Podcast: August 13th Bob Long Sports Radio Show
In this week’s Bob Long Sports Radio Show, we broadcasted live from Briarwood Running Camp in Furlong, PA. We discussed the PGA Championship and the victory by Rory McIlroy in historic 8-stroke fashion. We analyzed the future for McIlroy as well as Tiger Woods, who has competed well in every Major this year and has […]
Team USA Basketball Wins Gold
Relief. That was the first emotion that I felt after the USA Men’s Basketball won gold this past Sunday. And if I felt relief, just imagine how much weight was lifted off the players’ shoulders at that moment. Unlike in other Olympic sports, Americans don’t really cheer for the basketball teams because we are expected […]
Significant Digits: Your daily preview on what to look for in Olympic Track and Field
270 is the final significant digit for our last segment of “Significant Digits” and our Olympic Athletics previews. This number is representative of the approximate number of Kenyans who hit the IAAF standard to compete in the Olympic marathon. Despite this staggering number of qualifiers, Kenya is still only able to send 3 competitors to […]
Significant Digits: Your daily preview on what to look for in Olympic Track and Field
The number 2 stands for British distance king Mo Farah going for his 2nd Gold medal of this Olympics, American distance star Galen Rupp going for his 2nd medal of this Olympics, the number of Olympics that the United States has ever earned a medal in the 5,000 meter race, the number of women from […]
Significant Digits: Your daily preview on what to look for in Olympic Track and Field
Zero is the number of medals that the United States has ever won in the Women’s 1500 meter run. No American woman has ever cracked the top 3 in the event. Shannon Rowbury was the closest when she finished 7th in the final in Beijing, and she returns to the final this year as the last […]
Significant Digits: Your daily preview on what to look for in Olympic Track and Field
No man has ever completed the 800 meter run in 100 seconds or less. David Rudisha of Kenya, the reigning World Champ and World Record holder with a time of 1:41.01, will attempt to be the first man to break that barrier tonight when he competes in the final of the 800. Having run under […]
Significant Digits: Your daily preview on what to look for in Olympic Track and Field
Only two men have ever scored over 9,000 points in the Decathlon, Roman Sebrle of the Czech Republic and Olympic favorite Ashton Eaton of the United States. Olympic Silver Medalist from Sydney and Gold Medalist from Athens, Roman Sebrle was the first man to break the 9,000 point barrier when he did it in 2001 […]
Podcast: August 6th Bob Long Sports Radio Show
In this week’s Bob Long Sports Radio Show, Bob Long and Kevin McClernand discussed Penn State football, including the transfer of Justin Brown to Oklahoma, some of the other notable transfers, began to preview the season with the first day of practice on Monday, and rehashed the discussion of the penalties levied on Penn State […]
Significant Digits: Your daily preview on what to look for in Olympic Track and Field
It has been 10 Olympics since the United States had a man medal in the 1500 meter run. The American drought in the event has lasted since Jim Ryun won the Silver medal in 1968, and for the first time in years, Americans have good reason to believe that the drought will end. Veteran two-time […]
Gold for Murray
It may not be a Major, but that doesn’t make this victory mean any less to Andy Murray and Great Britain. Andy Murray has finally won a big tournament and it comes at the Olympic Games. Less than a month after Great Britain watched Murray lose to Roger Federer in the Wimbledon Final, they watched […]