Marc Appleman
Executive senior level experience in new and traditional sports media—web, mobile, TV, radio, magazine, and newspaper. Has successfully worked with the major sports leagues and media companies. In recent years Marc has served as Senior Coordinating Editor for ESPN New Media and Director of SportsNation and as President of Content and Programming for Nobok Sports. His prior experience includes executive posts with AOL Sports Channel, FoxSports.com, Active.com and Sports Illustrated for Kids. Marc was a sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times and is the author of two books--SI For Kids bio on Joe Montana and "Dad, Are You Pumped? A Father-Son Baseball Odyssey."
"Dad, Are You Pumped? A Father-Son Baseball Odyssey"
Marc and his 12-year-old son Michael hit the highway on an awesome baseball road trip! Over two weeks, two countries, eight states, and 3,000 miles, the father-son team goes to eight games in six stadiums and visits the baseball, hockey and pro football halls of fame. But their trip is about a lot more than baseball. It is hot dogs, pizzas, laughs, talks, adventures, and misadventures--the stuff that memories are made of. "Dad, Are You Pumped" is about three generations connected by baseball, and how a special game becomes intertwined with family, friendships, and a career.
Kevin O'Neill (USC men's basketball)
Kevin O’Neill, 52, was named the new USC men’s basketball head coach on June 20, 2009, replacing Tim Floyd who resigned on June 9, 2009 after four strong seasons of leading the Trojans. O’Neill brings 13 years of collegiate and NBA head coaching experience and has worked in the coaching ranks for 30 years. Last year, he served as an assistant coach and special assistant to the general manager of the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies. He has extensive knowledge of the Pac-10 and West Coast basketball as he served as an assistant at Arizona from 1987-89 when the Wildcats compiled an 82-19 record and went to three straight NCAA Tournaments, reached one Final Four and posted two first-place and one second-place finish in the Pac-10. He then served as the Arizona interim head coach for the 2007-08 season when Lute Olson took a leave of absence. O’Neill guided Arizona to a 19-15 record and into the NCAA Tournament despite directing a team with four of its top five players being freshmen or sophomores.
O’Neill began his NCAA Division I collegiate head coaching career at Marquette, where he went 86-62 (.581) in five seasons (1990-94) and had three postseason appearances. His initial team in 1990 went 15-14 and played in the NIT, the school’s fi rst winning season and postseason trip since 1987. His 1993 squad was 20-8 (Marquette’s first 20-win season since 1985) and captured the school’s first NCAA berth since 1983. That season, he was named the Great Midwest Conference Co-Coach of the Year, Basketball Weekly Midwest Coach of the Year and National Association of Basketball Coaches District 11 Coach of the Year and he has a finalist for Associated Press National Coach of the Year. Marquette then went 24-9 in 1994 to earn its first-ever league title and he guided the Warriors to their first NCAA Sweet Sixteen berth since 1979. O’Neill was selected as the 1994 Great Midwest Coach of the Year and the NABC District 11 Co-Coach of the Year. His final two Marquette teams led the nation in defensive field goal percentage. While at Marquette, he was featured in the 1994 Oscar-nominated documentary, “Hoop Dreams.”
He then became Tennessee’s head coach for three seasons (1995-97), inheriting a team that had won just five games in 1994 and getting the Volunteers into the NIT by his second season. O’Neill then served as the head coach at Northwestern for three seasons (1998-2000), where he went 30-56. The 1999 Wildcats team was 15-14 (its first winning season since 1994) and played in the NIT, just the third postseason appearance in school history. He then moved on to the NBA as an assistant coach, spending the 2001 season with the playoff-bound New York Knick and then two seasons (2002-03) with the Detroit Pistons. The Pistons won 50 games, were the Central Division champs and appeared in the playoffs both seasons (advancing to the Eastern Conference Finals in 2003) and were regarded among the NBA’s premier defensive teams.
O’Neill served as the Toronto Raptors’ head coach in 2004. His team started out 25-25 and was in position to make the NBA playoffs, but then injuries struck and the team finished with a 33-49 record, just missing a playoff spot. He spent the next three years (2005-07) with the Indiana Pacers, the first two as an assistant as the club made the NBA playoffs both seasons and the third as a consultant.
O’Neill began his coaching career as the head coach at Central High in Hammon, N.Y. in 1980, then spent the next two years (1981-82) as the head coach at North Country Coummunity College in Saranac Lake, N.Y. Within two seasons the program earned a berth in the Region III junior college playoffs. In 1983 he served as the head coach at theNAIA’s Marycrest College in Davenport, Ia. He then became an assistant coach at Delaware for two seasons (1984-85), Tulsa in 1986 and Arizona (1987-89) before landing the head coaching job at Marquette. The Tulsa team went 23-9, won the 1986 Missouri Valley Conference tournament and made the NCAA Tournament.
O’Neill was a three-year basketball letterman at McGill University in Montreal (1976-79), helping the Redmen to a 52-35 (.598) mark in his career. In his 1978 junior season, McGill posted a school-record 28 wins and advanced to the Canadian Interuniversity Sport national championship tournament. He received his bachelor’s degree in education from McGill in 1979 and his master’s degree in secondary education from Marycrest in 1983. O’Neill was born on Jan. 24, 1957, in Malone, N.Y. His wife’s name is Roberta. He has a son, Sean.
Jon Rish (Sox Booth)
Jon has served as the pre and post-game host on the Red Sox Radio Network since 2006. Rish will join Joe Castiglione in the broadcast booth as he will occasionally fill in for Dave O’Brien on the play-by-play duties. He also hosts “Sox Talk” which airs on the Sox Radio Network during rain delays.
Rish joined WEEI Radio in July 2005 after six years with ESPN Radio in Bristol, CT. During that time he served as a Radio SportsCenter anchor and hosted studio programming for Major League Baseball, NBA, and Bowl Championship Series coverage.
Rish has also been a play-by-play announcer for Boston College men’s hockey and women’s basketball.
Rish, a 1994 graduate of Boston College, lives in Natick, MA with his wife Christina and three children Matthew, Abigail & Rebecca.
Dimitri Bowden (Football.com)
D-Man has established himself as a Leader when it comes to Online Sports Talk Shows. He has interviewed Hall Of Fame players such as Michael Irvin and Son of Walter Payton… Jarrett Payton.. Add to the list newly elected Hall Of Fame Cornerback out of Purdue and former Steelers Great Rod Woodson.
Football.com is where you can find all of D-Man’s exciting Interviews and his Highly Ranked show “In My Opinion”. D-Man has Teamed up with Chino to also bring you Live Broadcast directly from Football.com, they’ll be breaking down the entire 2009 NFL Season. Look for “The D-Man & Chino Show” . Look for Righteous Talk or The Chop Shop, on Football.com.. So nice we had to name them twice.
“In My Opinion” D-Man is re-setting the Standard for Sports Talk Radio, his Passion and Knowledge is only Surpassed by his Big Mouth and Personality. Always looking to launch new shows on Football.com, shoot me an e-mail… Dman@football.com
