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Cowboys and Niners win Super Bowls, and I got to tell their stories to a nationwide radio audience.    In all, I've been to 17 Super Bowls, 11 as a network broadcaster and 6 as an ESPN executive.

Looking back, other than the rights holding Motor Racing Network, no other national outlet did more spot news and features from Daytona than Westwood One and CBS Radio featuring George McNeilly.

In 1998, after nearly two decades of disappointment, Dale Earnhardt. Sr. finally captured the biggest race of his career, The Daytona 500.   CBS Correspondent George McNeilly was trackside for the winning moment.

So back in 1998, NBC’s First Light was basically radio’s version of The Today Show.   Here’s flashback to my sports segment which featured among others the Payne Stewart leading round one of the 98th U.S. Open.The 1998 United States Open Championship was the 98th U.S. Open, held June 18–21 at the Lake Course of the Olympic Club in San Francisco, California. Lee Janzen won his second U.S. Open, one stroke ahead of Stewart who finished runner-up. 

Interview in advance of his match with Mike Tyson on Nov 9, 1996.

Today, an exclusive interview with legendary golf club designer Barney Adams and his Breakthrough Golf Technology line of Stability Tour putter shafts.    Learn more at https://breakthroughgolftech.com 

GolfLogix, the most downloaded app in golf history has introduced Green Books, the first easy to read green-reading guide designed and priced for the everyday golfer to “Play Smarter.” The rules-compliant Green Books combine detailed 3-D imagery, including yardages, with the sophisticated green-contour data that the majority of professional golfers use in competition. With the GolfLogix tour-level intel, golfers can reach into their back pockets and read every putt quickly and confidently to enable lower scores and speed up play. These durable and water-resistant Green Books are available for more than 14,000 courses at www.golflogix.com.Today our guest on Sports Business Update is GolfLogix President Pete Charleston who sat down with our host George McNeilly About GolfLogix The Number 1 App for Golf, over 4 million golfers have downloaded GolfLogix on the world's top-selling smartphones. Dedicated to offering consumers the most advanced green mapping and GPS solutions with the most useful features at accessible prices, GolfLogix helps improve individual performance.Founded in May 1999, GolfLogix was the first to introduce handheld GPS to the golf industry and holds a U.S. patent for its unique GPS and Internet-based club tracking application. Based in Scottsdale, AZ, the company has been professionally mapping courses for more than 19 years and owns the largest, most up-to-date golf course database in the world.In 2009, the rapid advance of smartphone technology led GolfLogix to develop and quickly capture the market with an easy-to-use application providing precise GPS distances. In addition, the software manages scorekeeping and stat tracking, then uploads them to an online clubhouse community where golfers can interact and compete with millions of other players worldwide.

I traveled to New Orleans in 1999 for Westwood One and introduced a national audience to professional fishing.

25 years ago this morning, Westwood One's America In the Morning with Jim Bohannon led their morning news magazine program with a segment George McNeilly broadcast the night before when Cal Ripken, Jr. broke Lou Gehrig's streak of 2,131 consecutive Major League Baseball games played.

In a year where it seemed that more news came from off the court, field and ice, we take listen to the sounds that made 1994 a most memorable year in sports.

A look back on 1995, The Year in Sports

A fast-paced half hour that looks back on the year that was.

A look back on all the excitement that was 1996, The Year in Sports.  Triumph, tragedy and our togetherness at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls win a 4th NBA Championship, Evander Holyfield joins Muhammad Ali as the other boxer to reclaim the Heavyweight title three different times, Joe Torre and the New York Yankees win the World Series, Dallas won the Super Bowl for the third time in four years and so much more.  

Am still searching for an interview we did with Tom Seaver upon his induction into Cooperstown and came across a sales demo we produced during my time with Westwood One. Here's some background for those who don’t follow media closely.  In the late 80’s, then a mostly music driven programming distributor, WW1 acquired the venerable Mutual Radio Network, longtime home of Notre Dame Football as well as radio talk shows hosted by Larry King and Jim Bohannon.   Soon after being signed by NBC to broadcast from my first Summer Olympics, WW1 would acquire the iconic NBC Radio Network, relocate it from New York to the suburbs of Washington, DC and in doing so create the world’s leading radio sports portfolio of platforms.  I really enjoyed starting my career there and thought I’d take you behind the scenes to hear how great it was.  If you listen closely, you will hear me doing some live coverage from the Olympics, Super Bowl and Daytona 500 among others before moving on to an executive role with ESPN.

Am still searching for an interview we did with Tom Seaver upon his induction into Cooperstown and came across a sales demo we produced during my time with Westwood One. Here's some background for those who don’t follow media closely.  In the late 80’s, then a mostly music driven programming distributor, WW1 acquired the venerable Mutual Radio Network, longtime home of Notre Dame Football as well as radio talk shows hosted by Larry King and Jim Bohannon.   Soon after being signed by NBC to broadcast from my first Summer Olympics, WW1 would acquire the iconic NBC Radio Network, relocate it from New York to the suburbs of Washington, DC and in doing so create the world’s leading radio sports portfolio of platforms.  I really enjoyed starting my career there and thought I’d take you behind the scenes to hear how great it was.  If you listen closely, you will hear me doing some live coverage from the Olympics, Super Bowl and Daytona 500 among others before moving on to an executive role with ESPN.

Relive the year in sports that was 1992 as the Dream Team strikes Basketball Gold, Magic Johnson wins the NBA All Star MVP in his comeback from an HIV Diagnosis, Toronto's Blue Jays are World Series Champions, Mike Tyson is convicted of rape, The Chicago Bulls and Duke University are the kings of men's basketball, Richard Petty retires as NASCAR's Winningest Driver and so much more.

Relive the year in sports that was 1992.

September 5th, 1995  (Baltimore, MD.) Cal Rikpen Jr. played in his 2,130th consecutive Major League Baseball game and helped the Baltimore Orioles defeat the California Angels, 8-0, in front of 46,804 at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.  Sports Business Update Host George McNeilly was there for NBC and shares some of the atmosphere from the night the ironman record of Yankees Legend Lou Gerhig was matched, and then broken the following night.

Today on Sports Business Update we discuss partnership activation in sports.  With so much emphasis on our new normal with the pandemic including no fans at events, teams and players working in a so-called bubble and revenues lost, we thought it would be interesting to speak to a leader in minor league baseball. Our guest is Sarah Leo, Director of Partnership Activation for the Macon Bacon on the Coastal Plain League.The following is taken directly from www.MaconBaconBaseball.com:When a star baseball player graduates from high school, they have two choices in pursuing their baseball career:1. Get drafted to play pro baseball.  If they’re drafted, and sign a minor league contract, they generally play in a Short-Season A-League team for a couple of years. Then they either advance to Single-A baseball or poof, they are sent home to start a different career.2. Play college baseball.  If a player commits to play college baseball, then he cannot be drafted until after his third college season.   If he is then drafted, he’ll play in Single-A or Double-A baseball.   Major League Baseball scouts typically recommended to CPL teams college players they want to see more of.In the Coastal Plain League’s 20 year history, more than 1400 players have been drafted by Major League Baseball teams. That’s about 70 players per year.  The quality of play is generally regarded at Single-A level.