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The Sports Gal Pal The Sports Gal Pal
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5.0 • 34 Ratings
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Ramona Rice was a very casual fan of football, basketball, and baseball growing up. Her father watched sports, and her hometown of Hampton Roads is known for its high school football - but she didn't fall in love with sports until she fell in love with a guy, James, who loved to watch sports - any sport.
When they became engaged Ramona decided to learn more about his favorite sport, football, and checked out Football For Dummies by Howie Long. She also started to listen to sports radio, watching ESPN and games. Especially Ramona asked James tons of questions, and he was great. He explained all the points in the game, and he seemed excited that she was interested.
After getting married and having two tiny humans, Ramona decided to finish her college degree at her dream school, the University of Virginia. She graduated in 2012, with a degree and a passion for Hoos athletics. (She even wrote her senior thesis about college athletics!) Her husband joined in the madness, and together they spent a ton of time watching sports, and more importantly a ton of time together bonding, and strengthening their marriage.
In February 2016, James passed away suddenly at the age of 37 from a stroke. Ramona took a break from the podcast and sports as both were tied directly to her beloved husband. Now she's coming off of the sidelines, and back in the game - bringing out fresh content and she has a bold new goal - discovering her love of sports on her terms.
The Sports Gal Pal is now not only a place where anyone can learn to fall in love with sports - but a project to help Ramona remember and honor the place sports had in her life with James.
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Chicago Cubs Superfan Corey Fineran from Ivy Envy
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Corey Fineran from the Ivy Envy Podcast comes back to talk about the incredible win for the Cubs and also how to move past any curse (hint he doesn't believe in them) and how the organization as whole moves from loveable loser to World Series Champs.
Here are some of the links we mention in the show
http://ivyenvy.com/
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20161025/wrigleyville/cubs-world-series-champions-t-shirt
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/18049072/cubs-embrace-their-true-identity-baseball-superpower -
John Bukenas and his first fantasy football season
John is a pretty typical sports fan - he loves his Philly sports and is pleased with the direction of the Eagles this season. Now he answers why he decided to make this his first fantasy football season.
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Doc Kennedy| Fantasy Football and Movies
Doc Kennedy is an independent filmmaker and a football nut - he even openly cheers for the Bills and Seahawks.
He's my opponent this week in the Podcast Movement Fantasy Football League and a great guest.
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Jonathan Oakes from Trivial Warfare Does the Sports Gal Pal Hat Trick
Jonathan Oakes from Trivial Warfare is performing a hat trick by being one of the few guests who has survived the Sports Gal Pal experience three times. He is the host of the popular podcast Trivial Warfare and he is also a member of the Podcast Movement Fantasy Football League.
During this episode Ramona and Jonathan discuss how he has recovered from his unrealistic expectations of the Jags football season, he questions her decision to bench a specific running back in their match up, and all other fun things.
You can hear Ramona's latest appearance on Jonathan's podcast by visiting TrivialWarfare.com.
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Sean Garmer from W2M Network on being a Sports Fan
Sean Garmer has been an online journalist for over 15 years in things ranging from Soccer and Football to Pro-Wrestling and Video Games. He started podcasting only four years ago when he and his best friend started the "Wrestling 2 the MAX" podcast. Since then, podcasting has truly become a passion for Sean. Currently, he hosts three podcasts that all do multiple shows a week, produces several others, runs an entire podcast network called the W2M Network and they just started a website for said network, which also includes writing as well, called W2Mnet.com When Sean isn't watching some kind of sports, he's playing video games or spending time with his wife and daughter.
Customer Reviews
So good!
Ramona is a phenomenal talent. She is articulate, intelligent and so much fun to listen to!
Re-thinking my manhood...
It’s obvious the host Ramona knows way more about sports than I do…and her delivery is delightful and entertaining. Great show all around!
SPG Rocks!
Fantastic sports show! Enjoyable and fun talk about all aspects of sports. Living in Denver, I especially enjoyed the recent Broncos episode!
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