On the thirty-sixth episode of the fifth season of The Sports-Casters, hosts Steve Bennett and Don Russ welcome Adam Lazarus (Author), and Ed Sherman (Sherman Report, Chicago Tribune). Starting the show with 3Things, Steve and Don discuss injuries to Andrew Luck and Ben Roethlisberger, the NCAA investigating Leonard Fournette, and the NHL Hall of Fame class of 2015. The book club is back with this year's edition of The Best American Sports Writing Series and a new book by the Puck Daddy Grey Wyshynski. The show ends with the Steve talking about the injury to Seth Rollins.
-Adam Lazarus has appeared as a guest and a host (00:32:03) on the podcast. Aaron stops by today to promote his new book, "Hail to the Redskins: Gibbs, the Disel, the Hogs, and the Glory Days of D.C.'s Football Dynasty." Adam and Steve also talk about the first half of the NFL season. Adam explains why he thinks the Patriots are the best, what he thinks when he watches Peyton Manning, and why he thinks the Giants are the NFL's sleeping beast. Lazarus also picks a midseason MVP, insults Cam Newton (that might have been me), and picks the teams he thinks will be in Super Bowl 50.
-Ed Sherman is making his seventh appearance (01:09:57) on the podcast. Sherman joins us to talk about Chicago's love affair with the Cubs, their reaction to the Pat Kane rape accusations, and the end of Grantland. Ed also talks about his book, "Babe Ruth's Called Shot: The Myth and Mystery of Baseball's Greatest Home Run." The book has recently been released on paperback and Ed shares with us the thrill of promoting the book at the Hall of Fame and dining out with the Babe's daughter.
