Episodes

  • Get Ready for BYUradio's Big Stories

    Get Ready for BYUradio's Big Stories
    Aug 24 2023
    Big Stories is a show dedicated to the incredible tales surrounding the opponents of the BYU Cougars. You'll hear from people associated with Sam Houston, Arkansas, and the Big 12 teams BYU will play this season. Big stories is hosted by Cleon Wall.
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    1 min
  • Big Stories Returns on Jan. 6th

    Big Stories Returns on Jan. 6th
    Dec 2 2024
    Big Stories will have more great tales from the Big 12 coming up on January 6th. We will chronicle the Arizona State women's volleyball coach who left the high world of finance to coach his favorite game, the University of Arizona basketball coach who became the first African-American coach at a major university, the former Kansas basketball player who quit professional basketball to bring people to God, and so many more great tales.
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    2 mins
  • Get Ready for More Big Stories

    Get Ready for More Big Stories
    Dec 7 2023
    We hope you've enjoyed the Big Stories podcast. We will have more great stories featuring some of BYU's Big 12 basketball foes in January 2024. They will include tales from UCF, Kansas, Texas Tech, Texas, and Iowa State.
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    2 mins
  • UCF: Andrew Cherico - Storytelling with a Smile

    UCF: Andrew Cherico - Storytelling with a Smile
    Feb 26 2026
    Andrew Cherico grew up in Washington Heights, New York, living with Spinal Muscular Atrophy—a condition that left him in a wheelchair by age nine. While he wasn’t able to play, his passion for sports never stopped growing. When his oldest brother, Roman, died by suicide in 2019, Andrew made a promise: to carry his brother’s name as loudly and proudly as he could. That promise led him to UCF, where he pursued sports journalism despite the challenges. In September 2024, Andrew got his big break—asking Colorado's Coach Deion Sanders a question at a post-game press conference. In this podcast episode, find out what happened next and how it has changed Andrew's life. Guests: Andrew Cherico - UCF Student and Sons of UCF Reporter Trace Trylko - Host and Executive Producer of the Sons of UCF live show If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call, text, or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741.
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    17 mins
  • Catching Up with TCU and Iowa State

    Catching Up with TCU and Iowa State
    Feb 24 2026
    Big Stories host Cleon Wall is joined by Seth Dowdle from the Bleav in TCU podcast and Tyler Carter from the Bleav in Iowa State podcast to break down two of the Big 12’s most intriguing teams. They dive into TCU’s roller‑coaster season, Iowa State’s resilience after tough losses, and what it all means heading into the postseason. Cleon also takes a closer look at the NCAA Tournament bubble picture and which squads are best positioned to snag the No. 1 seed in the Big 12 Tournament. All that and more on this week’s episode of Big Stories.
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    22 mins
  • Feed Drop: Voiceover

    Feed Drop: Voiceover
    Feb 19 2026
    Host Cleon Wall will be back next week with more inspiring and uplifting tales from around the Big 12 conference. But this week, we are featuring one of BYUradio's other great podcasts. It's called Voiceover: Movies That Move Us. In this episode, host Heather Bigley is joined by Rob Taber to discuss the movie Remember the Titans with Denzel Washington and Will Patton. Rob Taber is an associate professor of history at Fayetteville State University. His research areas include Latin America and the Caribbean, the Black Atlantic (1400-1900), Slavery, Revolutions, and African-American History.
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    53 mins
  • What's up with the Knights and Buffs?

    What's up with the Knights and Buffs?
    Feb 17 2026
    A new podcast format is here—bigger conversations, deeper insights. This week, Jeff Sharon of the Knight Shift podcast helps us navigate UCF’s struggles, while Voice of the Buffs Mark Johnson sheds light on why Colorado's young guys might be on the cusp of something big, just maybe not this year. But host Cleon Wall doesn’t shy away from the biggest storylines: the fallout of Jerome Tang’s firing, tough injury news for BYU’s Richie Saunders, and a new name pushing into the Big 12 Player of the Year race.
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    27 mins
  • More Than a Mascot: TCU's Fight for the Horned Frog

    More Than a Mascot: TCU's Fight for the Horned Frog
    Feb 12 2026
    Texas horned lizards, the spiky, blood-squirting reptiles that inspired TCU's mascot, once filled backyards across the Lone Star State. But since the 1960s, these iconic creatures have been vanishing from their native habitat. TCU is assisting Texas Parks and Wildlife and local zoos in an ambitious conservation effort to bring them back: raising baby horned lizards in captivity, studying their survival, and releasing them into the wild. In this episode, you’ll follow the surprising, hands-on work behind horned lizard conservation—tracking tiny reptiles with radio tags, using hot dogs to target invasive fire ants, and studying the hidden places these little creatures choose to survive. Guests: Dean Williams - Professor of Biology at TCU Kira Gangbin- TCU PhD Candidate
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    13 mins