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Speaker 1 (00:00):
To have a little bit of fun. Joining me on
the phone line today is David Lloyd. He's a Sports
Center anchor and he's a guy who is going to
get to know Nebraska and awful lot here this week. David,
thank you so much, first of all for being on
our show today.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah, having nice to meet. Can we get that severe
weather to blow through before I'm blow into town tomorrow night?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yeah, yeah, I'm going to work on that.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
It actually looks awesome for like Friday night into Saturday,
I think so hopefully by Saturday things are looking good.
But the reason you say this is you're about to
come to Nebraska Lincoln, especially as we do for Sports
Center fifty states in fifty days, and this is so
such a fun idea for you guys to do this
during the summer as while it's a little quieter on
(00:40):
the sports front of things. Take me through kind of
the genesis of the idea and how you guys decided
this is something that you wanted to do this summer.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Okay, so you may not know this or remember this,
but twenty years ago ESPN did a similar initiative where
basically you got it right. The summer is a little
bit slower. The NBA season's over, NFL training camps haven't
opened up yet, and so we decided to go, you know,
(01:06):
through every single state in the country with our anchors
are usually in the studio and just to explore and
learn and try to illuminate some of the great unique
sports sites or events that go on in every state.
And it was a big success twenty years ago, and
(01:27):
so they decided to kind of re imagine it this
time around, but pretty similar structure, and so all the anchors,
the sports and their anchors, I said, we're thrilled to
get out of the studio every once in a while.
And we were presented with certain options of different states
we could go to, and I thought, so, I'm going
(01:50):
to be doing both Nebraska and New Hampshire. And I
had not heard about the Cornhusker state games before this,
but I haven't been any time in Nebraska. I drove
ones cross country. I'm talking about severe weather and I
drove through some sort of a tornado warning or alert
or whatever, and you know, the radio station was saying
you get get undercover or whatever. I was on the
(02:12):
highway and I just figured I better just blow right
through this. So that was my one experience, you know,
I was in Nebasket for a few hours driving through,
But so anyway, I jumped at it, looking forward to
doing it. We get into towns more night. We're going
to spend the entire weekend down in Lincoln at several
area high schools. We're going to be at the Mall,
We're going to be at the Big ten Sports Bar,
(02:34):
just sort of sampling some of the events for the games.
I may take part in a few where it's you know,
it's a very fluid situation everybody to get down there,
but really just looking forward to it. We've had such
a great experience with Scott ash who was one of
the big guys at the Nebraska Sports Council and all
of his crew there. They've been so helpful and accommodating
(02:57):
and anything we asked for snaps and singers and to happen.
So it's been a great spread so far. We haven't
even gotten now, Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Super cool. We're speaking with Sports Center anchor David Lloyd.
ESPN's Sports Center. Are going to be in Omaha or
sorry in Lincoln in Nebraska here over the weekend and
kind of talking in fifty days, fifty states, I watched
yesterday Kentucky was being celebrated. Kentucky quite unique for it.
It's got great basketball and things of that nature also,
but the thoroughbred horse racing scene kind of sets it apart.
(03:26):
It's like, wow, you know, when you go to Lexington
you see all these, you know, thoroughbred farms. It really
makes you feel like you're in a very unique place.
And I like to think Nebraska's got a bit of
that too. As you're doing your prep not just on
the Cornhusker state games, but also in kind of the
lore of the Cornhusker football program. Also maybe even a
bit of a College World Series, because you know, Omaha
is synonymous with that event every year. You know what
(03:48):
has been kind of some of the things that has
stuck out to you because so many people, I'm not
saying ESPN or Sports Center anchors specifically, but people who
spend most of their time on the coasts just see
Nebraska as this flyover state with not much in it.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
So I would agree with you about Nebraska football, and
I would agree with you about College World Series in Omaha.
But what jumps out to me is how incredibly popular
volleyball is in your state. That just jumped off the
page to me. We're gonna hopefully talk to Jordan Larson,
(04:23):
who's kind of a volleyball legend there on Sunday get
her sense of you know, like, what's your theory. Why
is volleyball so big in Nebraska? You know, it started
in Massachusetts, it was popularized on the beaches of southern
California in the nineteen thirties, and yet somehow it struckt
burtle ground in the middle of the country in Nebraska.
You guys have been dominant in volleyball a lot of ways.
(04:45):
So that's one thing. The other thing that I just
love just talking to Nebraska folks. I mean, we've been
having like weekly zoom meetings with them. It's just the
passion and the sort of the buy in they all
have for these games and for competition and for sports.
And that just comes out over and over again when
(05:09):
we talk to the crew out there about how much
they're into it and how much they're going to show up,
And you know, sometimes that's half the battle, that's half
the recipe for a great sporting event. These people who
care about it and who really get excited about it.
And it seems like I haven't been there yet, you know,
like I said, I'm not going to get there till
tomorrow night, but it seems like that is prevalent there
(05:33):
in your state. So those are the things that I've
also heard a lot about Nebraska. Nice and I so far,
so good. I mean, everyone's been really kind and really
helpful and friendly and anyway makes me excited and looking
forward to getting out there.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, how cool is that?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
David Lloyd to sports at her anchor joining us here
on eleven tin kfab I look at, you know, kind
of the volleyball thing is a great observation. I moved
from Iowa to Omaha and the Omaha area here in
the last couple of years, and even just from moving
from central Iowa to Omaha just a couple hours away,
the volleyball thing took me by surprise about how popular
(06:11):
it is. There are beach volleyball spots to play that
are just in the middle of nowhere, all over the place.
People there are gigantic, you know, sand volleyball leagues and
indoor volleyball leagues across the entire Omaha area and certainly
over there in Lincoln. So as you look at this,
and we do have some legendary collegiate programs right now.
The volleyball program is that for the women, but also
(06:34):
the big red the football team, which has been you know,
as a sports center anchor, you get to talk about Alabama,
you get to talk about Clemson, you get to talk
about Georgia and all these big teams that have really
taken the mantle over the last decade or so as
the dominant programs in college football. Yet Nebraska fans still
feel like there should be a place at the table
with the blue bloods for their program to be at.
(06:56):
How do you tell, you know, how do you talk
about you know, Nebraska football and kind of the weird
spot it's in trying to be rebuilt into that dominant
program while having one of the most storied histories of
any program in America.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, for me personally, I root for programs like Nebraska
because as a kid growing up, they were such a
force and I remember, you know, the Tom Osborne tings
and all of that, and I know it's been a
it's kind of a checkered decade or two for Husker football,
you know. I was just read about Scott Frost the
other day and how he said he just wasn't really
(07:30):
happy there in his return as a coach. The guy
you got there now, Matt Ruhle. I mean, his his
whole track record is a guy who turns around programs.
And I know the first year there he was I
think he's like six and seven, and this past year
he had turned it into a winning record. So I
would say that you seem to have the right coach
(07:51):
in place to turn this thing around. It's so competitive
that now Emory end, with players being paid, it's very
hard to get a sense of who's going to be
able to stay on top, who's going to be able
to re emerge as a as a kidpaign in the game.
I don't know. It's hard for me to say how
(08:12):
Nebraska can get back and become one of the elite
programs again, just because the entire landscape has changed. We
had Sanders talking yesterday that the Texas and Big Club
media days about he thinks they need a salary cap
now because it's such it's just the wild West out there,
and players are changing teams and there's crazy money going
(08:32):
and it's very hard to figure out and project the
next five, three, two years in culture it's going.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, it's a great point in observation, and we'll see
how Nebraska at least they're in a conference that seems
like they're willing to, you know, have the arms race
and be in good position, unlike some of the other
conferences in America.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
But we will see David Lloyd.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
At ESPN Sports Center anchor just real quick, what times
can people expect to see Nebraska being celebrated this weekend?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
So you won't really see much this weekend because this
weekend is basically we're going to be all over Lincoln
at several high schools in the mall and all that,
gathering our video, doing our interviews, doing all of that,
and then we send it all back to Bristol, Connecticut,
and they put it all together and it's going to
(09:22):
air all day on Tuesday. So anytime we turn on
ESPN and are watching a sports center, you'll see the piece.
You'll see different clips from Nebraska. What we've been doing
to sort of buttress every state is we'll do our piece,
and then we'll also do top athletes that hail from
(09:43):
that particular state, top moments from Nebraska sports history, things
like that, which is kind of fun. So if you're
from Nebraska. We hope you're going to tune in next
Tuesday because will the shows will be pretty much dedicated
to you and your state, and I think think you'll
have a little fun watching.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I cannot wait.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Sports Center on Tuesday will be where you can see
the packages with David Lloyd, SportsCenter Anchor. And of course
if you're around Lincoln, you're on the Cornhusker state games,
you maybe get a chance to see some of those
ESPN cameras and see David out there. That'll be a
lot of fun. David, I really appreciate you giving us
some time today. You always do great work. I love
watching what you guys do on SportsCenter. He takes me
back to my childhood and watching sports highlights every single day.
(10:25):
Thank you so much for picking Nebraska is one of
the states you get to visit and can't wait to
see what it looks like on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah, looking forward to getting there, Emily, and I really
appreciate your time as a pleasure talking to you.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah, absolutely, you as well.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
David Lloyd, ESPN Sports Center anchor, and you'll certainly recognize
his face and his voice when you see him out
there and about in Lincoln.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
This weekend it is three point fifty.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
We'll give you more updates on the current weather situation
as we move forward here on news Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Emri Sung on news Radio eleven ten kfab
To have a little bit of fun. Joining me on
the phone line today is David Lloyd. He's a Sports
Center anchor and he's a guy who is going to
get to know Nebraska and awful lot here this week. David,
thank you so much, first of all for being on
our show today.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah, having nice to meet. Can we get that severe
weather to blow through before I'm blow into town tomorrow night?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yeah, yeah, I'm going to work on that.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
It actually looks awesome for like Friday night into Saturday,
I think so hopefully by Saturday things are looking good.
But the reason you say this is you're about to
come to Nebraska Lincoln, especially as we do for Sports
Center fifty states in fifty days, and this is so
such a fun idea for you guys to do this
during the summer as while it's a little quieter on
(00:40):
the sports front of things. Take me through kind of
the genesis of the idea and how you guys decided
this is something that you wanted to do this summer.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Okay, so you may not know this or remember this,
but twenty years ago ESPN did a similar initiative where
basically you got it right. The summer is a little
bit slower. The NBA season's over, NFL training camps haven't
opened up yet, and so we decided to go, you know,
(01:06):
through every single state in the country with our anchors
are usually in the studio and just to explore and
learn and try to illuminate some of the great unique
sports sites or events that go on in every state.
And it was a big success twenty years ago, and
(01:27):
so they decided to kind of re imagine it this
time around, but pretty similar structure, and so all the anchors,
the sports and their anchors, I said, we're thrilled to
get out of the studio every once in a while.
And we were presented with certain options of different states
we could go to, and I thought, so, I'm going
(01:50):
to be doing both Nebraska and New Hampshire. And I
had not heard about the Cornhusker state games before this,
but I haven't been any time in Nebraska. I drove
ones cross country. I'm talking about severe weather and I
drove through some sort of a tornado warning or alert
or whatever, and you know, the radio station was saying
you get get undercover or whatever. I was on the
(02:12):
highway and I just figured I better just blow right
through this. So that was my one experience, you know,
I was in Nebasket for a few hours driving through,
But so anyway, I jumped at it, looking forward to
doing it. We get into towns more night. We're going
to spend the entire weekend down in Lincoln at several
area high schools. We're going to be at the Mall,
We're going to be at the Big ten Sports Bar,
(02:34):
just sort of sampling some of the events for the games.
I may take part in a few where it's you know,
it's a very fluid situation everybody to get down there,
but really just looking forward to it. We've had such
a great experience with Scott ash who was one of
the big guys at the Nebraska Sports Council and all
of his crew there. They've been so helpful and accommodating
(02:57):
and anything we asked for snaps and singers and to happen.
So it's been a great spread so far. We haven't
even gotten now, Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Super cool. We're speaking with Sports Center anchor David Lloyd.
ESPN's Sports Center. Are going to be in Omaha or
sorry in Lincoln in Nebraska here over the weekend and
kind of talking in fifty days, fifty states, I watched
yesterday Kentucky was being celebrated. Kentucky quite unique for it.
It's got great basketball and things of that nature also,
but the thoroughbred horse racing scene kind of sets it apart.
(03:26):
It's like, wow, you know, when you go to Lexington
you see all these, you know, thoroughbred farms. It really
makes you feel like you're in a very unique place.
And I like to think Nebraska's got a bit of
that too. As you're doing your prep not just on
the Cornhusker state games, but also in kind of the
lore of the Cornhusker football program. Also maybe even a
bit of a College World Series, because you know, Omaha
is synonymous with that event every year. You know what
(03:48):
has been kind of some of the things that has
stuck out to you because so many people, I'm not
saying ESPN or Sports Center anchors specifically, but people who
spend most of their time on the coasts just see
Nebraska as this flyover state with not much in it.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
So I would agree with you about Nebraska football, and
I would agree with you about College World Series in Omaha.
But what jumps out to me is how incredibly popular
volleyball is in your state. That just jumped off the
page to me. We're gonna hopefully talk to Jordan Larson,
(04:23):
who's kind of a volleyball legend there on Sunday get
her sense of you know, like, what's your theory. Why
is volleyball so big in Nebraska? You know, it started
in Massachusetts, it was popularized on the beaches of southern
California in the nineteen thirties, and yet somehow it struckt
burtle ground in the middle of the country in Nebraska.
You guys have been dominant in volleyball a lot of ways.
(04:45):
So that's one thing. The other thing that I just
love just talking to Nebraska folks. I mean, we've been
having like weekly zoom meetings with them. It's just the
passion and the sort of the buy in they all
have for these games and for competition and for sports.
And that just comes out over and over again when
(05:09):
we talk to the crew out there about how much
they're into it and how much they're going to show up,
And you know, sometimes that's half the battle, that's half
the recipe for a great sporting event. These people who
care about it and who really get excited about it.
And it seems like I haven't been there yet, you know,
like I said, I'm not going to get there till
tomorrow night, but it seems like that is prevalent there
(05:33):
in your state. So those are the things that I've
also heard a lot about Nebraska. Nice and I so far,
so good. I mean, everyone's been really kind and really
helpful and friendly and anyway makes me excited and looking
forward to getting out there.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, how cool is that?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
David Lloyd to sports at her anchor joining us here
on eleven tin kfab I look at, you know, kind
of the volleyball thing is a great observation. I moved
from Iowa to Omaha and the Omaha area here in
the last couple of years, and even just from moving
from central Iowa to Omaha just a couple hours away,
the volleyball thing took me by surprise about how popular
(06:11):
it is. There are beach volleyball spots to play that
are just in the middle of nowhere, all over the place.
People there are gigantic, you know, sand volleyball leagues and
indoor volleyball leagues across the entire Omaha area and certainly
over there in Lincoln. So as you look at this,
and we do have some legendary collegiate programs right now.
The volleyball program is that for the women, but also
(06:34):
the big red the football team, which has been you know,
as a sports center anchor, you get to talk about Alabama,
you get to talk about Clemson, you get to talk
about Georgia and all these big teams that have really
taken the mantle over the last decade or so as
the dominant programs in college football. Yet Nebraska fans still
feel like there should be a place at the table
with the blue bloods for their program to be at.
(06:56):
How do you tell, you know, how do you talk
about you know, Nebraska football and kind of the weird
spot it's in trying to be rebuilt into that dominant
program while having one of the most storied histories of
any program in America.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, for me personally, I root for programs like Nebraska
because as a kid growing up, they were such a
force and I remember, you know, the Tom Osborne tings
and all of that, and I know it's been a
it's kind of a checkered decade or two for Husker football,
you know. I was just read about Scott Frost the
other day and how he said he just wasn't really
(07:30):
happy there in his return as a coach. The guy
you got there now, Matt Ruhle. I mean, his his
whole track record is a guy who turns around programs.
And I know the first year there he was I
think he's like six and seven, and this past year
he had turned it into a winning record. So I
would say that you seem to have the right coach
(07:51):
in place to turn this thing around. It's so competitive
that now Emory end, with players being paid, it's very
hard to get a sense of who's going to be
able to stay on top, who's going to be able
to re emerge as a as a kidpaign in the game.
I don't know. It's hard for me to say how
(08:12):
Nebraska can get back and become one of the elite
programs again, just because the entire landscape has changed. We
had Sanders talking yesterday that the Texas and Big Club
media days about he thinks they need a salary cap
now because it's such it's just the wild West out there,
and players are changing teams and there's crazy money going
(08:32):
and it's very hard to figure out and project the
next five, three, two years in culture it's going.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, it's a great point in observation, and we'll see
how Nebraska at least they're in a conference that seems
like they're willing to, you know, have the arms race
and be in good position, unlike some of the other
conferences in America.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
But we will see David Lloyd.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
At ESPN Sports Center anchor just real quick, what times
can people expect to see Nebraska being celebrated this weekend?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
So you won't really see much this weekend because this
weekend is basically we're going to be all over Lincoln
at several high schools in the mall and all that,
gathering our video, doing our interviews, doing all of that,
and then we send it all back to Bristol, Connecticut,
and they put it all together and it's going to
(09:22):
air all day on Tuesday. So anytime we turn on
ESPN and are watching a sports center, you'll see the piece.
You'll see different clips from Nebraska. What we've been doing
to sort of buttress every state is we'll do our piece,
and then we'll also do top athletes that hail from
(09:43):
that particular state, top moments from Nebraska sports history, things
like that, which is kind of fun. So if you're
from Nebraska. We hope you're going to tune in next
Tuesday because will the shows will be pretty much dedicated
to you and your state, and I think think you'll
have a little fun watching.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I cannot wait.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Sports Center on Tuesday will be where you can see
the packages with David Lloyd, SportsCenter Anchor. And of course
if you're around Lincoln, you're on the Cornhusker state games,
you maybe get a chance to see some of those
ESPN cameras and see David out there. That'll be a
lot of fun. David, I really appreciate you giving us
some time today. You always do great work. I love
watching what you guys do on SportsCenter. He takes me
back to my childhood and watching sports highlights every single day.
(10:25):
Thank you so much for picking Nebraska is one of
the states you get to visit and can't wait to
see what it looks like on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Yeah, looking forward to getting there, Emily, and I really
appreciate your time as a pleasure talking to you.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah, absolutely, you as well.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
David Lloyd, ESPN Sports Center anchor, and you'll certainly recognize
his face and his voice when you see him out
there and about in Lincoln.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
This weekend it is three point fifty.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
We'll give you more updates on the current weather situation
as we move forward here on news Radio eleven ten kfab.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Emri Sung on news Radio eleven ten kfab
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