Chicago Sports Talk with The Sportscaster and Her Son

A mini episode wrapping up the first seven episodes and Jason's famous predictions segment - how many did he get right? How often was he wrong? An ego check? Maybe! Also Summer is almost over and before his Senior year of High School begins, Jason and Peggy catch up on his college applications and the strange questions asked!

In the Centennial season for the Chicago Bears, family matriarch Virginia McCaskey remembers what she learned from her father George Halas, his optimism and his disdain for the Green Bay Packers. McCaskey remembers her mother and her own college goals yet has a surprising answer when asked about the future roles women will play in the NFL's next 100 years. Hall of Fame football writer Don Pierson talks about the "Top 100 Bears" in this living anthology of an historic franchise.

Each year the greatest athletes are inducted into their sports Halls of Fame. But not every speech is the same. Chicago Bulls star Michael Jordan's was jaw dropping, Chicago Cub's Ryne Sandberg admonished selfish baseball players and the Chicago Bears' Walter Payton broke down crying. His son Jarrett Payton joins us to reminisce about that day in Canton Ohio when he introduced his father and tells some stories you may have never heard.

Before Tim Tebow and Kyler Murray there were other two sport stars, most notably In 1994 Michael Jordan who was the Greatest Basketball player of all time, hung up his Air Jordans for baseball cleats and set his sights on fulfilling a dream he shared with his father. Steve Gilbert writes for Major League Baseball and as a young White Sox intern was assigned to help MJ through his transition to baseball and shares stories on MJ riding minor league buses, loaning money to him, his work ethic and playing pickup basketball games with the GOAT.

A difficult topic to discuss but one teachers, administrators. coaches, athletes, parents and fans can learn from. In 2019 Major League Baseball suspended Chicago White Sox player Tim Anderson for using the N-word but his teammates and players across baseball thought it was silly because of the common use of the word today. Dr. Neal Lester who has taught college courses at ASU on the N-word, disagrees. What ensues is a frank discussion about the history of the word, it's use by millennials and in hip hop, and why it's not like any other curse word. George Carlin's "7 Words you'll never hear on television" is used as a background to the discussion of words and their meaning.

Chicago Cubs broadcaster and former Major League Baseball Player, Ron Coomer joins Peggy and Jason to talk about baseball, the Cubs, and the sport he loved the most growing up.

Former NBA star Antoine Walker joins Peggy & Jason as they discuss the transition of going from High School in Chicago to college in Kentucky and then turning Pro. Walker talks about what Duke's Zion Williamson has ahead of him and the ballers who fell short.

12 time Emmy Award winning Sportscaster Peggy Kusinski and her 16 year old son Jason Kinander bridge the gap between generations talking sports. In this episode Jason meets his role model, former Chicago White Sox baseball announcer Ken "Hawk" Harrelson.