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A Podcast on Sports with Prarthana Hazarika

Breaking Barriers is a series which sees personnel from refereeing and other areas of football share their personal stories of achieving success. Discussing sporting and wider societal matters, the inclusive platform provides an environment to pass on advice and guidance to aspiring referees and those with an interest in knowing more about the profession.

Breaking the Barrier follows the fitness and running journeys of Andrew & Zac... through Marathons, Ultramarathons, OCRs, and everything in between. The aim with the podcast is to inspire people to go above and beyond what they ever thought possible by sharing our experiences as well as interviewing people who have done just that and getting their perspectives. Self-improvement and reflection are also a big part of the show. Lastly, we delve into the world of running and fitness with regular news and trivia. We hope to see you there, going above and beyond what you ever thought possible!

The Kansas City Monarchs, the Chicago American Giants, the St. Louis Stars, the Birmingham Black Barons, the Homestead Grays, and the Indianapolis Clowns; for over 50 years, they were the Yankees, Cardinals, and Red Sox of black baseball in America. And for over a decade beginning in the late 1940s, umpire Bob Motley called balls and strikes for many of their games, working alongside such legends as Satchel Paige, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, and Willie Mays.

Barrier Breaking Women is a podcast hosted by A.J. Andrews, a Rawlings Gold Glove Award-winning professional softball player. AJ takes listeners on a journey by giving them access to the mind of barrier-breaking women in the sports world discussing the highs and lows of their career and personal lives. This podcast is center stage for every woman blessed with melanin or characteristics outside of the status quo in sports who have decided to uchange the “it is what it is” mindset into “it is what I make it.”

In Sometimes You Have to Cross When It Says 'Don't Walk,' Lesley Visser shares her historic journey through the world of sports broadcasting with innate wisdom and good humor. For sports fans who grew up with Lesley, her memoir reads like a walk down memory lane, full of behind-the-camera, VIP-access stories involving John Madden, Jerry Jones, Bill Belichick, Joe Torre, and many more famous sports figures. But even those hearing her story for the first time, no matter what their background, will be inspired to chase their dreams, blaze new trails, and pursue the life they want.

Johnny Quinn shares his “wild dream” of playing in the NFL, being crushed after getting cut three times, losing $2.6 million in contracts, and blowing out his knee. At age 30, when most professional athletes are considered “over the hill”, Johnny was competing for Team USA in the sport of bobsled at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. We all experience failure at some level; Quinn equips us to embrace change, accept risks, and learn to push through barriers, to live life on purpose.

A deeply moving and painfully honest memoir from the trailblazing World Cup-winning, Olympic gold medalist, and US Women’s soccer goalie Briana Scurry, My Greatest Save is a story of triumph, tragedy, and redemption from a woman who has broken through barriers her entire life.

Even today, it’s considered one of the most thrilling races in Olympic history. The hundred-meter sprint final at the 1924 Paris Games, featuring three of the world’s fastest swimmers—American legends Duke Kahanamoku and Johnny Weissmuller, and Japanese upstart Katsuo Takaishi—had the cultural impact of other milestone moments in Olympic history: Jesse Owens’s podiums in Berlin and John Carlos’s raised, black-gloved fist in Mexico City. Never before had an Olympic swimming final prominently featured athletes of different races, and never had it been broadcast live.