THIS WEEK ON SSDL, May 18-22: GET TUBED…SSDL MOVING TO YOUTUBE! - Take 2, VBC5, Beach VB Update, Wayne’s World #2 and Coming up Roses
THIS WEEK ON SSDL, May 18-25 - MOVE TO YOUTUBE!
SSDL5 Monday: Author Jean Hastings Ardell “TAKE 2!”
SSDL5 Tuesday: “Inside the VBC” host Kipp Lennon Produces VBC Show #5
SSDL5 Wednesday: AAU Beach VB’s Gino Grajeda and LA Times writer David Wharton
SSDL Video/Audio Podcast Thursday: LMU Athlete and Attorney Wayne Boehle, Part 2
SSDL5 Friday: Rose Bowl Parade host Mark Steines and correspondent Wade Benson
May 17, 2020
90045 - This week, Sports Stories with Denny Lennon (SSDL) will make the “Move to YouTube”! All “LIVE at 5” shows and, per usual, the SSDL weekly video podcast, can be viewed at YouTube.com - Sports Stories with Denny Lennon.
On May 18th, Jean Hastings Ardell, author of “Making My Pitch” leads off the line-up of SSDL5 shows with a long form interview about the story of Ila Jane Borders, the first woman awarded a college baseball scholarship, and then the first to pitch and record a win in college and in the pros. Jean’s last at-bat on May 4th was interrupted by a poor internet connection, so this time we will get to hear the entire story.
SSDL5 Tuesday is the home for the re-telling of the Venice Backyard Championships (VBC), a legendary volleyball tournament played in the backyards of Venice, CA from 1983-1995. Kipp Lennon, a VBC runner-up and the past host of the critically acclaimed “Inside the VBC” pre-tournament show, will take the reins as the producer of VBC #5.
SSDL5 Wednesday, which puts the focus on High School to Olympics athletes, coaches and administrators, will update an anxious community of young athletes as the commissioner of junior beach volleyball, Gino Grajeda of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), will come on with an update for the sport that is also dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic. The AAU Beach Volleyball program, the largest and most comprehensive in the country, annually hosts the National Championships and the West Coast AAU Junior Olympics in the Los Angeles area. Those national tournaments include over 500 teams each from over 40 states. David Wharton, a feature writer for the Los Angeles Times who serves as an Olympic Games correspondent, will also join SSDL5 Wednesday with an update.
On Thursday, May 21st, the SSDL flagship “Top Video Podcast in the Centinela Adobe Corridor”, will drop part 2 of 3 with the lead attorney for Loyola Marymount University in the Hank Gathers case, Wayne Boehle. Boehle, who was a star basketball and volleyball student-athlete at what was then Loyola University in the 1960’s, sat down for the interview at the beginning of March, days after the statue of Hank Gathers was dedicated on the LMU campus. Watch the episode on the SSDL YouTube channel or listen wherever you get your podcasts. Links are available on the SSDL website.
Finally, May 22nd at 5pm (PST) brings SSDL5 Friday, the “Happy Hour Show of Record”, and this week we will dive into the story of the Rose Bowl, “The Granddaddy of Them All”, with television personality Mark Steines. The former high school all-state running back and standout linebacker from the University of Northern Iowa, Steines has worked for years in television, including an eight year stint for Entertainment Tonight. Steines is now the host for the Rose Bowl Parade on KTLA 5 that precedes the most iconic of all college football bowl games. Included will be exclusive SSDL behind the scenes footage of the Rose Bowl Stadium from this past January. There will also be an introduction of a new SSDL correspondent, Wade Benson. The former head volleyball coach from Auburn University has been connected to the world of collegiate sports and will lend his unique perspective to the SSDL audience.
YouTube Live Shows at 5:00pm PST (SSDL5):
YouTube.com - Sports Stories with Denny Lennon
SSDL Video/Audio Podcast #33 drops May 21st:
Guest: Wayne Boehle, Attorney for Loyola Marymount University in the Hank Gathers case (Part 2).
SSDL Website: https://www.sportsstoriespodcast.com/
Denny Lennon is the Host of the Video Podcast, “Sports Stories with Denny Lennon”