July 29, 2024 • 11 mins
What non-mainstream Olympic sport would Craig Way want to broadcast at the summer games in Paris? Hear his answer as Hour 2 of the program begins!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
As we get into the second hour of the program,
will keep you updated on the US women's basketball team
their Olympic tournament opener. They're pretty much having their way
right now with Japan. They're up fifty six to thirty
nine in the third quarter, early third quarter, and it's
the two big post players are having a big part
(00:20):
in this for the Americans. Asia Wilson and Brianna Stewart.
They're both playing very very well. But we'll keep you
updated on that here as well. Here's a different Olympics
where I've watched this and was watching it this morning
(00:40):
and I was like, wow, this is pretty cool. Do
you watch any the men's beach volleyball this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Have you've seen it this morning? No?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Well, the Americans won their first match in Pool f
They beat the French team and they did it straight sets,
twenty one to fourteen, twenty one eleven. I think they
ended up scoring like the last eight points of the
match or whatever to win that second set to win him.
(01:14):
They said, okay, well that's nice. Yeah, yeah, it's good.
Here's the interesting wrinkle the team. The two guys one
is Miles Evans. It's a veteran volleyballer. The other one
is Chase Butdinger. Remember him, Yeah, I remember him playing
in the NBA. He played seven seasons in the NBA,
(01:36):
played with the Rockets.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
He was from Arizona, wasn't he? Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Uh huh he was. Get this the co MVP of
the McDonald's All American High School All Star Basketball Game
with Kevin Durant back in two thousand and six. Played
from Minnesota, played for I think Utah as well Houston.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
As I mentioned he'd play with so.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Pretty interesting too, sport guy, and he actually looked like
the best player on the sand.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
There are the four who was out there. He clearly
looked like the best one.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
So too, sport guy and a chance to medal as
a volleyballer there.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
So, how much have you been able to watch of
the Olympics here and there? You know, I'll watch the basketball.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I am excited for the golf competition that will begin
later on this week. So I've definitely watched more of
these Olympics, and I have the last couple of ones.
And of course the big difference is the time difference.
Instead of that happening the night over in Asia, you know,
it's in Paris, so you can still kind of watch
it in the morning. I mean there's still events being
(02:51):
played right now three pm, as opposed to in Asia
where everything was getting started in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, and even the events that happened in the morning,
quite all of in the NBC family of networks is
is recapping, the reshowing some other things in the evening, so.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
They are doing that as well.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
And you know, I sometimes I find myself watching things
in the Olympics that I will never watch during the
rest of the year, and I think a lot of
people feel that way, whether maybe it's gymnastics or you know,
water polo or whatever. Last night, after Lynd and I
(03:34):
got back from the weekend, turned it on and at
first I was kind of like, Eh, I'm not gonna
watch this. Sit down and watch skateboarding followed by surfing,
and I was completely mesmerized watching the surfing. Now, first
of all, the surfing doesn't take place off the coast
(03:54):
of France. There's just not good surfing waves. The surfing
competition to play in ta and just watching those guys
going through those tubes, and they were talking about when
they were touching the way to slow their slow their
pace and make sure they were escaping the foam. You know,
(04:17):
not all of these surfing terms and stuff, but see
those guys doing it was pretty impressive stuff. But I
would imagine this is the case with a lot of
Olympics Olympic sports. If you don't watch a certain Olympic
sport regularly, when you see it, there might be even
more of a wild factor. When you see what these
guys and ladies, what these men and women do, it's
(04:39):
probably it's probably pretty impressive to see what a.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Lot of them do.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, I haven't watched handball. I don't think ever in
my life in sea handball. Until the Olympics. That happened
I think yesterday. Now I have a question for you. Yeah,
obviously there's no football or baseball in these Olympics. There
is basketball, but they used to have baseball. For the
sake of this argument, you could call any Olympic sport
not including basketball, baseball in football. What would Craig Way
(05:07):
want to call.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
If I were to call an Olympic sport other than
the major ones? Well, all right, First of all, I
would say golf if I could. But if golf was
included in the main stream if you're saying in the
mainstream sports, sure, summer games.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Summer games. I think I would be.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Interested in swimming, Okay, winter games lose your bob slid
like that, or the downhill and skiing like those as well.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
What about table tennis. You know, it's funny to bring
that up, because.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
They used to have this thing in the United States
for many years called the US Olympic Festival, and it happened.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
On the off years of the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Now, this was in the days when both the Winter
and Summer Games were in the same year, remember, and
they changed that starting in nineteen ninety four. They had
some Winter Olympic Games in ninety two, but in ninety
four to get it off the same year as the
Summer Games, they wanted them separated. They went to Lillehammer
in Norway in ninety four and that was the first time.
(06:22):
And then so they started going four years ninety four
to ninety eight, two six ten, you know, kind of
like on the same rotation as the World Cup, whereas
the Summer Games stayed on the regular rotation of ninety six,
two thousand, two thousand and four and so on. Somewhere,
And I know they had to push the twy the
twenty twenty Games back a year because of the pandemic,
but they pretty much stayed on that. On that same thing. Well, uh,
(06:45):
that's when the end of the US Olympic Festival came about.
But they used to have it. It's called the US
Olympic Festival, and they did a lot of the events
that you would see in the Olympics, and they had
it in different cities. In nineteen eighty six, when I
was young, just twenty five years old, had just started
(07:08):
a full time been full time about a year working
in sports at KRLD. Bradsham, i boss, the voice of
the Cowboys, sent me to Houston to cover two things.
The Baseball All Star Game, which was pretty cool. First
time I ever went to an All Star Game. It
was in the Astronome. Got to see Roger Clemens pitch
for the American League for an end of Anezuela pitch
(07:30):
for the National League, and that was cool. And I
stayed down there, and I was down there like a
total of two weeks between the All Star Game stuff
and the Olympic Festival. So at the Olympic Festival you
went around the different the different things. I went to see,
and it combined some winter games and summer games.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I saw some.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Figure skating that was in the old Summit now the
Joel Osting Church.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
They had that in there.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I went to see boxing and what was called the
old Astro Arena or Astro Hall was out there in
the parking lot thing. I went to cover track and
field at old Robertson Stadium on the campus of University
of Houston, which got knocked down when they when they
built TDECU Stadium. Carl Field, Carl Fields, Carl Fields was
(08:18):
friend of mine from years Houston. Carl Lewis had just
won all that goal two years prior in La at
the Olympics, he was there. I think he only ran
in one event. But like Florence Griffin, Joiner was there,
Jackie Joyner Curse, he was there. They had some huge
track names that were that were in that. And I
saw basketball and in basketball saw you may remember some
(08:39):
names well, first of J. R.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Reid who played in North Carolina and all that.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And these were basketball players who were either going into
college basketball or were like a year or two they
were not pro Jerome Evans for Pittsburgh Send it in Jerome,
that guy Rameil Robinson, who had played point guard in
Michigan on their eighty nine national championship team. So I
got to see a lot of different things. You brought
up team handball and it's the first time I'd ever
(09:06):
seen that.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Was that was pretty cool. But one of the.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Things that I did reported and I did all these
features and send them back to the radio station was
the deal. I had to send multiple features. I'll work
my butt off. I had to send multiple features back
every day on different sports. Just go to different ones, Bradson,
I don't care which ones you go to. Just go
to different ones and send, but don't make them all mainstream.
So I did go to baseball, but I also went
(09:33):
to gymnastics, and I went to team handball, and I
went to boxing, and I went to table tennis. So
I saw a table ten it was. It was mesmerizing
to watch that. It was a lot of fun. So
I got a chance to cover that at the US
Olympic Festival, which was a pretty cool deal back in
the day when they had that. US is up seventeen
(09:54):
now late third quarter in their matchup with Japan and
their Olympic Open seventy three to fifty six down about a.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Minute ago in the third quarter.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
All right up next, we're going to hear from Jerry
Jones and from Mike McCarthy as the Cowboys continue training
camp in Oxnard, California. And a reminder, if you want
to win a copy at Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine,
all you have to do is leave us a message
on the talkback feature. Download the iHeartRadio app if you
(10:27):
haven't done so already. If you listen to us already
on the app, you're more than halfway there. All you
have to do is hit the little red button with
the white microphone on it, leave us a voice message
about fifteen twenty seconds or so, and tell us what
it is you look forward to in the reading about
in the magazine is at the small college section where
they have FCS Division two, Division three NAI Junior College
(10:48):
is of the high school section, it takes up almost
half the magazine is the big college section. The cover
story which is Texas and Texas A and M Rivalry
Redborn with the two quarterbacks quin you Weres at Texas, who,
by the way, today was named to the Maxwell Award
watch List, and Connor Wigman of Texas A and m
they're both on the cover. Whatever it is you like
(11:09):
reading and anticipate reading and like best about the magazine,
let us know on the talkback feature and you'll win
a copy of the magazine while we have them to
give away today, giving away eight today on the program.
We'll continue here on sports Radio AM thirteen under the
zone of the iHeartRadio app.
As we get into the second hour of the program,
will keep you updated on the US women's basketball team
their Olympic tournament opener. They're pretty much having their way
right now with Japan. They're up fifty six to thirty
nine in the third quarter, early third quarter, and it's
the two big post players are having a big part
(00:20):
in this for the Americans. Asia Wilson and Brianna Stewart.
They're both playing very very well. But we'll keep you
updated on that here as well. Here's a different Olympics
where I've watched this and was watching it this morning
(00:40):
and I was like, wow, this is pretty cool. Do
you watch any the men's beach volleyball this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Have you've seen it this morning? No?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Well, the Americans won their first match in Pool f
They beat the French team and they did it straight sets,
twenty one to fourteen, twenty one eleven. I think they
ended up scoring like the last eight points of the
match or whatever to win that second set to win him.
(01:14):
They said, okay, well that's nice. Yeah, yeah, it's good.
Here's the interesting wrinkle the team. The two guys one
is Miles Evans. It's a veteran volleyballer. The other one
is Chase Butdinger. Remember him, Yeah, I remember him playing
in the NBA. He played seven seasons in the NBA,
(01:36):
played with the Rockets.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
He was from Arizona, wasn't he? Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Uh huh he was. Get this the co MVP of
the McDonald's All American High School All Star Basketball Game
with Kevin Durant back in two thousand and six. Played
from Minnesota, played for I think Utah as well Houston.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
As I mentioned he'd play with so.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Pretty interesting too, sport guy, and he actually looked like
the best player on the sand.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
There are the four who was out there. He clearly
looked like the best one.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
So too, sport guy and a chance to medal as
a volleyballer there.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
So, how much have you been able to watch of
the Olympics here and there? You know, I'll watch the basketball.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I am excited for the golf competition that will begin
later on this week. So I've definitely watched more of
these Olympics, and I have the last couple of ones.
And of course the big difference is the time difference.
Instead of that happening the night over in Asia, you know,
it's in Paris, so you can still kind of watch
it in the morning. I mean there's still events being
(02:51):
played right now three pm, as opposed to in Asia
where everything was getting started in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, and even the events that happened in the morning,
quite all of in the NBC family of networks is
is recapping, the reshowing some other things in the evening, so.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
They are doing that as well.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
And you know, I sometimes I find myself watching things
in the Olympics that I will never watch during the
rest of the year, and I think a lot of
people feel that way, whether maybe it's gymnastics or you know,
water polo or whatever. Last night, after Lynd and I
(03:34):
got back from the weekend, turned it on and at
first I was kind of like, Eh, I'm not gonna
watch this. Sit down and watch skateboarding followed by surfing,
and I was completely mesmerized watching the surfing. Now, first
of all, the surfing doesn't take place off the coast
(03:54):
of France. There's just not good surfing waves. The surfing
competition to play in ta and just watching those guys
going through those tubes, and they were talking about when
they were touching the way to slow their slow their
pace and make sure they were escaping the foam. You know,
(04:17):
not all of these surfing terms and stuff, but see
those guys doing it was pretty impressive stuff. But I
would imagine this is the case with a lot of
Olympics Olympic sports. If you don't watch a certain Olympic
sport regularly, when you see it, there might be even
more of a wild factor. When you see what these
guys and ladies, what these men and women do, it's
(04:39):
probably it's probably pretty impressive to see what a.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Lot of them do.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, I haven't watched handball. I don't think ever in
my life in sea handball. Until the Olympics. That happened
I think yesterday. Now I have a question for you. Yeah,
obviously there's no football or baseball in these Olympics. There
is basketball, but they used to have baseball. For the
sake of this argument, you could call any Olympic sport
not including basketball, baseball in football. What would Craig Way
(05:07):
want to call.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
If I were to call an Olympic sport other than
the major ones? Well, all right, First of all, I
would say golf if I could. But if golf was
included in the main stream if you're saying in the
mainstream sports, sure, summer games.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Summer games. I think I would be.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Interested in swimming, Okay, winter games lose your bob slid
like that, or the downhill and skiing like those as well.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
What about table tennis. You know, it's funny to bring
that up, because.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
They used to have this thing in the United States
for many years called the US Olympic Festival, and it happened.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
On the off years of the Olympics.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Now, this was in the days when both the Winter
and Summer Games were in the same year, remember, and
they changed that starting in nineteen ninety four. They had
some Winter Olympic Games in ninety two, but in ninety
four to get it off the same year as the
Summer Games, they wanted them separated. They went to Lillehammer
in Norway in ninety four and that was the first time.
(06:22):
And then so they started going four years ninety four
to ninety eight, two six ten, you know, kind of
like on the same rotation as the World Cup, whereas
the Summer Games stayed on the regular rotation of ninety six,
two thousand, two thousand and four and so on. Somewhere,
And I know they had to push the twy the
twenty twenty Games back a year because of the pandemic,
but they pretty much stayed on that. On that same thing. Well, uh,
(06:45):
that's when the end of the US Olympic Festival came about.
But they used to have it. It's called the US
Olympic Festival, and they did a lot of the events
that you would see in the Olympics, and they had
it in different cities. In nineteen eighty six, when I
was young, just twenty five years old, had just started
(07:08):
a full time been full time about a year working
in sports at KRLD. Bradsham, i boss, the voice of
the Cowboys, sent me to Houston to cover two things.
The Baseball All Star Game, which was pretty cool. First
time I ever went to an All Star Game. It
was in the Astronome. Got to see Roger Clemens pitch
for the American League for an end of Anezuela pitch
(07:30):
for the National League, and that was cool. And I
stayed down there, and I was down there like a
total of two weeks between the All Star Game stuff
and the Olympic Festival. So at the Olympic Festival you
went around the different the different things. I went to see,
and it combined some winter games and summer games.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I saw some.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Figure skating that was in the old Summit now the
Joel Osting Church.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
They had that in there.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I went to see boxing and what was called the
old Astro Arena or Astro Hall was out there in
the parking lot thing. I went to cover track and
field at old Robertson Stadium on the campus of University
of Houston, which got knocked down when they when they
built TDECU Stadium. Carl Field, Carl Fields, Carl Fields was
(08:18):
friend of mine from years Houston. Carl Lewis had just
won all that goal two years prior in La at
the Olympics, he was there. I think he only ran
in one event. But like Florence Griffin, Joiner was there,
Jackie Joyner Curse, he was there. They had some huge
track names that were that were in that. And I
saw basketball and in basketball saw you may remember some
(08:39):
names well, first of J. R.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Reid who played in North Carolina and all that.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And these were basketball players who were either going into
college basketball or were like a year or two they
were not pro Jerome Evans for Pittsburgh Send it in Jerome,
that guy Rameil Robinson, who had played point guard in
Michigan on their eighty nine national championship team. So I
got to see a lot of different things. You brought
up team handball and it's the first time I'd ever
(09:06):
seen that.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Was that was pretty cool. But one of the.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Things that I did reported and I did all these
features and send them back to the radio station was
the deal. I had to send multiple features. I'll work
my butt off. I had to send multiple features back
every day on different sports. Just go to different ones, Bradson,
I don't care which ones you go to. Just go
to different ones and send, but don't make them all mainstream.
So I did go to baseball, but I also went
(09:33):
to gymnastics, and I went to team handball, and I
went to boxing, and I went to table tennis. So
I saw a table ten it was. It was mesmerizing
to watch that. It was a lot of fun. So
I got a chance to cover that at the US
Olympic Festival, which was a pretty cool deal back in
the day when they had that. US is up seventeen
(09:54):
now late third quarter in their matchup with Japan and
their Olympic Open seventy three to fifty six down about a.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Minute ago in the third quarter.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
All right up next, we're going to hear from Jerry
Jones and from Mike McCarthy as the Cowboys continue training
camp in Oxnard, California. And a reminder, if you want
to win a copy at Dave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine,
all you have to do is leave us a message
on the talkback feature. Download the iHeartRadio app if you
(10:27):
haven't done so already. If you listen to us already
on the app, you're more than halfway there. All you
have to do is hit the little red button with
the white microphone on it, leave us a voice message
about fifteen twenty seconds or so, and tell us what
it is you look forward to in the reading about
in the magazine is at the small college section where
they have FCS Division two, Division three NAI Junior College
(10:48):
is of the high school section, it takes up almost
half the magazine is the big college section. The cover
story which is Texas and Texas A and M Rivalry
Redborn with the two quarterbacks quin you Weres at Texas, who,
by the way, today was named to the Maxwell Award
watch List, and Connor Wigman of Texas A and m
they're both on the cover. Whatever it is you like
(11:09):
reading and anticipate reading and like best about the magazine,
let us know on the talkback feature and you'll win
a copy of the magazine while we have them to
give away today, giving away eight today on the program.
We'll continue here on sports Radio AM thirteen under the
zone of the iHeartRadio app.
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