The Sports Buffet Podcast

04/09/2025

Jamar Lovelace reviewed the E.C Glass win at Salem last Friday, and he looks ahead to Friday night’s contest when the Hilltoppers host Patrick Henry.

Week 1 of the High School Football season has come and gone. Week 2 is on Friday. It'll be the first home game for E.C. Glass, as they take on Patrick Henry. On Wednesday night, I had a chance to catch up with Jamar Lovelace to talk about the E.C. Glass Hilltoppers.

01/09/2025

John Feinstein wrote countless books, at least 36 (probably one of my favorite authors ever) well I’m reading “The Legends Club”, which is about Jim Valvano, Dean Smith and Mike Krzyzewski. It’s copyright is 2016. Two stories in the 1st chapter which may be known but I found funny, figured I’d share.

Valvano gets the NC State job, goes to a barber. Barber says I hope you do better than that Norm Sloan guy. Valvano says, hang on he won a national championship and went 57-1 in two years. The barber says yeah but can you imagine what Dean Smith would have done with that team.

The other funny thing that stuck out to me, Krzyzewski is recruiting a guy named Mark Acres (this is an early recruiting visit), Coach K turns to the mom (she had been quiet most of the night) and she said the only thing that matters is Mark goes to college some place where he can be close to God. Krzyzewski said “Well, if he comes to Duke, God will be coaching 10 miles down the road in Chapel Hill.”

I am not going to share after every chapter or anything but I thought these were 2 funny stories (I’m not a Carolina fan, but the Dean Smith fans will love the stories)

31/08/2025

New blog post

I have talked to lots of people and often I will ask, “do you listen to podcasts?” In today’s day and age, a lot of people don’t listen to things. They watch things. They’ll watch an interview/podc…

29/08/2025

Jefferson Forest volleyball rebounds after the earlier loss to New Covenant in 5 sets earlier in the week, with a victory 3-0 over Staunton River.

29/08/2025

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J.T Crews shared his thoughts before the season opener against Gretna.

Jefferson Forest will host Gretna on Friday. J.T Crews was kind enough to share with me some time after a Thursday practice.

28/08/2025

Amherst heads to Sherando tonight

28/08/2025

When you hear the word “media”, what comes to your mind? Good thoughts or bad thought? (Referring to sports media)

22/08/2025

I need to read more, so I had checked this book out from the library.

With all due respect to all the people who have played and coached in the city of Lynchburg, to me, this is one of the guys that put the city on the map.

22/08/2025

Saw this on the internet today. Funny I thought ESPN was supposed to be just as much about the games as it was the personalities.

I mean I’m not going to say “what shows are on the Mount Rushmore of ESPN” but I think about Sportscenter (the older ones), Outside the Lines and how about The Sports Reporters. No seeing who can yell the loudest, no subjective points, seemed like The Sports Reporters were more about sports.

Oh yea and silly me, GAMES.
Think about it a sports channel’s focus being the games.

Times they have changed

16/08/2025

The day I got clobbered at the scoring table, it was a Single A playoff basketball game with Altavista & West Point. The guy who accidentally covered me, well he was going to play tight end at Richmond.

I think I have been broadcasting since around 2001. I’ve broadcasted with lots of partners and done lots of games. I’ll be honest, I am not good at remembering dates. I don’t even remember all the …

15/08/2025

Podcasts, do we need more or less? Wing it or prepare it out? My thoughts and more.

So I was listening to my podcast interview with Chuck Vipperman. Chuck is the voice of the GW Danville Eagles football (you can follow GW Eagles Football on Facebook and you can follow Southside Ne…

15/08/2025

Anyone want to hear about old school baseball? The quality isn’t the best (but that’s on me, you can hear Chuck Vipperman with the phone quality, which is able to be heard as he talked about my rankings of 10 guys we may have forgotten that played for the Tigers from the mid 70’s to the mid 90’s

Chuck Vipperman, doesn't make his living talking baseball, but like me he enjoys diving into the 70's & 80's of the baseball world (specifically the Detroit Tigers), in this episode, I discuss some Tigers, that you may not remember being there from 1975-1994. Chuck was kind enough to engage for....