Chicago Sports Talk with The Sportscaster and Her Son

Prior to the NFL Draft 2021 athletes go through the NFL Combine. One of the myriad of tests performed is the Athletes Intelligence Quotient, AIQ which measures an athletes intelligence: the ability to acquire, process and apply information." It's not a predictor of their success in the NFL, but it can be a contributing factor. So, you may ask, "how smart is my QB"? In part One of our interview, Dr. Scott Goldman delves into the how's and why's of this test and what has been said about the Off the Chart scoring my new Chicago Bears QB Justin Fields.

The Chicago Bears trade up for the second time in four years for a Quarterback in the 2021 NFL Draft. But, can Justin Fields of Ohio State be what Mitch Trubisky was not -- a franchise quarterback? Or God forbid will Bears fans wait half another half century to find a signal caller to take them to the promised land! In Part 2 of "Answer me this... What draft pick were you completely wrong about?" NFL writers, former players and analysts give us their Draft Busts. Former Chicago Bear Alex Brown, ESPN's Jeff Dickerson, Dan Pompei & Adam Jahns from the Athletic and John Buffone of the Bears Barroom Network all chime in. While Bears fans hope Justin Fields is NEVER on this list.

The NFL Draft is when team's hedge their bets and money on who will become great football players on Sundays. But it's a crapshoot with often most top picks being busts. So who are the draft picks you were completely wrong about? We asked Brad Biggs, NFL Writer for the Chicago Tribune, former NFL player John "Jurko" Jurkovic of ESPN Radio and Greg Gabriel a former front office executive with the Chicago Bears. Listen in to this mini episode for their "draft busts"!

Ring Lardner award winner in 2020 for sports broadcasting is Chicago Sportscaster Dan Roan of WGN-TV. Thirty seven years covering Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Bears, Chicago Blackhawks, Notre Dame football and more. Roan tells great stories from the worst athletes in Chicago sports to the best. And how PGA golfer D.A. Weibring helped Roan's career while roommates at Illinois State University.

In this mini-episode we ask the age old debate that comes up every spring in Chicago: Who will win more games the Cubs or the White Sox? From the north side to the south side it's sure to get heated as hope springs eternal in Chicago baseball! This episode's guests giving their predictions are Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune; Jon Greenberg, The Athletic; WGN-TV's Dan Roan; Mark Potash and Richard Roeper from the Chicago Sun-Times.

Ring Lardner Award winner Toni Ginnetti talks about her career as a sportswriter in Chicago. A female trailblazer in print journalism, Ginnetti shares how her instinct led to human interest stories in baseball about former Chicago Cub Rick Sutcliffe's dog "Rookie" and the Chicago White Sox Adam Dunn. Great stories from a woman who is a Baseball Hall of Fame voter and has covered DePaul basketball, Olympics and Politics in Chicago.

Who was the best athlete you ever saw perform in high school? We all have those studs that were amazing, or maybe it was the unknown who went on to professional greatness? An Olympian? We put this question to David Kaplan of ESPN Radio 1000, Bruce Levine of 670 The Score Sports Radio in Chicago, and ESPN senior write Scoop Jackson to find out theirs on this mini-episode of the podcast.

The Illini Basketball team is making noise, but how good are they? The 2005 Illinois Basketball team was ranked #1 all season and lost in the NCAA Finals to North Carolina. Roger Powell Jr., "The Rev" was a member of the Illini starting four and now is an assistant coach for the #1 ranked Gonzaga Bulldogs. A look back at 2005 and ahead to 2021 NCAA Tournament to see who will be the last team standing.

Another short but sweet episode with Peggy & Jason talking about their favorite sports team slogans in Chicago history. This time they get input from Brooks Boyer of the Chicago White Sox front office, ESPN1000's Jonathan Hood, 670 The Score's David Haugh & Dan Bernstein, Rick Morrissey of the Chicago Sun-Times and sports talker Mike North from The Barroom Network, ESPN Radio and North to North! It may surprise listeners but no two answers are alike! What's yours?

What a crazy year it has been. Jason went from a pandemic his Senior Year of HS to freshman year at UT Austin and survives a snowstorm that knocked power and water out of his college campus. How do we make him smile? Talk White Sox baseball! And so we do with the hosts of White Sox Talk Podcast Chuck Garfien and Ryan McGuffey. You can hear the smiles through your air pods as they preview the 2021 Baseball season on the south side of Chicago.

We all watched Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl, so what's going on in Chicago. Will they ever find a franchise quarterback in our lifetime? We asked our friends who cover the Bears what they think in this mini -episode.

On the eve of Super Bowl LV everyone's talking about THE GOAT. Tom Brady, the Greatest QB of all Time against "the Kid" Patrick Mahomes. But what did it take for Brady to become great, and was he always destined for that road to greatness? Former University of Michigan Assistant Coach and Recruiting Coordinator Bobby Morrison takes us back to the High School QB from California who ALMOST didn't go to Michigan. The Wolverines had their sights set on the #1 recruit in the country Bobby Sablehaus before he decided to go to Florida. Michigan then pivoted to recruit Brady. Morrison tells us the ups & downs of Brady's college career and what separates him from the others. What makes greatness? We try to find out.

Nothing but a little ribbing here as Jason is graded on his predictions from the end of 2019 to the first half of 2020. Some outrageous, some spot on! A fun guest free episode of Chicago sports talk

Another busted season that ends in mediocrity and Bears fans are upset. The front office decides to keep GM Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy as head coach despite back to back .500 seasons. Former Bears head coach and current Fox Sports NFL Kickoff Analyst Dave Wannstedt joins the show to take us into the team's front office and ownership minds as well as discuss the future of the NFL's founding franchise.

A special year end edition of the podcast featuring a sports panel hosted by Girls in the Game. Cubs owner Tom Ricketts, Blackhawks interim President Danny Wirtz, Chicago Bears Director of Sports Science Jenn Gibson, Terry Savarise of the Chicago White Sox and the United Center join WNBA Chicago Sky owner Michael Alter in discussing how their teams managed to play in 2020 amidst a pandemic. Some interesting behind the scenes stories and a glimpse into how difficult and trying it was and what to expect in 2021.