In Conversation with Lesley Visser
In more than four decades of covering sports, Lesley Visser has almost always been the "first." The first woman enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the first woman to win the Lifetime Achievement Sports Emmy, the first woman on Monday Night Football, the first woman on the Network broadcasts of the Final Four, the NBA Finals, the World Series and the Super Bowl - and she's the only woman to have presented the Lombardi Trophy to the winning Super Bowl team. Along the way, Lesley's made many friends and acquaintances, from the wide world of sports, music, business and Hollywood. She's excited to bring her mirth and merriment, along with some serious interviews, to this new venture.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 36
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2022
Jessica Mendoza
Jessica Mendoza is one of those people who make you want to, as Vin Scully says, "pull up a chair." Throw out a topic, and she's there. Olympic softball? Mendoza won a Gold medal in 2004 in Athens…
00:29:51 |
Thu 23 Jun 2022
Val Ackerman
As an attorney, Val Ackerman can usually see both sides. But not on this topic. With bona fides that include an early Title IX basketball scholarship to Virginia, a law degree from UCLA, being tapp…
00:39:23 |
Thu 16 Jun 2022
Julie Foudy
There was a time that the USWNT won a World Cup and no one really knew about it. Iconic former midfielder Julie Foudy said she came home from the US win in China in 1991 and her professor at Stanfor…
00:27:34 |
Thu 09 Jun 2022
Dominique Dawes
Dominique Dawes once felt so controlled by her coach, Kelli Hill, that she said Hill terrified her into silence by threatening to send Dominique to "the Karolyi Ranch," the highly-regarded but fierce…
00:45:09 |
Thu 02 Jun 2022
Cheryl Miller
She might be the greatest women’s basketball player of all time. Yes. If you’ve ever wondered how dominant Cheryl Miller was, consider this - she still holds six records at USC, the school that gave…
00:34:38 |
Thu 19 May 2022
Sarah Talalay
Sports diplomacy is nothing new - back in 776 BC in ancient Greece, there was an "Olympic Truce" to ensure there'd be no battles or conflicts during the games. In the 2800 years since, we've seen al…
00:42:38 |
Thu 12 May 2022
Eric Stonestreet
The only person two-time Emmy award-winning, beloved actor Eric Stonestreet never got to meet was the late John Madden. They would have been great friends. In fact, Kansas City coach Andy Reid, a g…
00:27:43 |
Thu 05 May 2022
Molly Bloom
Yes, she had a Italian mobster put a gun to her head. Yes, the buy-in for her underground high-stakes poker game, where regulars included Ben Afleck and Toby Maguire, was originally $10,000 and even…
00:43:06 |
Thu 28 Apr 2022
Kevin Willard
He said of course he's going to take recruits to the Willard Hotel. No, Kevin Willard, the new coach at the University of Maryland, has no connection to the 150-year old Washington landmark that sit…
00:29:47 |
Thu 21 Apr 2022
Keith Hernandez
By all accounts, Buck Showalter made all the right moves this year, including inviting Mets icon Keith Hernandez to hang around the batting cage in spring training. What, you say, Hernandez wasn't al…
00:43:31 |
Thu 14 Apr 2022
Cal Ripken Jr
He was the everyday player’s Everyday Player. And on September 6, 1995, with President Clinton and now President Biden watching in Camden Yards, Cal Ripken, Jr. broke Lou Gehrig’s consecutive-games s…
00:42:36 |
Thu 07 Apr 2022
Bruce Pearl
Bruce Pearl’s first interview with Auburn was a calamity. He’d been out of coaching for three years, the result of an NCAA investigation that deemed him ultimately responsible for transgressions at T…
00:28:08 |
Thu 31 Mar 2022
Bill Walton - Part 2
Bill Walton and Lesley still disagree. After watching him play in college and covering him in the NBA, Lesley got to work with him for about five years when Bill, Dick Enberg and her did March Madne…
00:32:35 |
Thu 24 Mar 2022
Bill Walton - Part 1
Bill Walton said the Celtics saved his life. He was a kid from La Mesa, California, who didn't have a TV at home, but would catch Celtics games wherever he could. It was his dream to play on the pa…
00:35:53 |
Thu 17 Mar 2022
Jason Clarke
It might seem a stretch to think that actor Jason Clarke, the son of a sheep-shearer in the Australian outback, could play the iconic legend Jerry West, but Clarke got a round of applause from an acc…
00:29:54 |
Thu 10 Mar 2022
Jim Larrañaga
At 72-years old, Jim Larranaga is a kid coach in the ACC. Jim Boeheim is 77, Mike Krzyzewski is 75, even Leonard Hamilton is 73. But there's an excellent chance that Larranaga and his Miami Hurrica…
00:41:27 |
Thu 03 Mar 2022
Gary Williams
Twenty years ago, when Maryland beat Indiana for the National Championship, it was one of the happiest scenes in the history of college basketball. Maryland fans had been through a lot, including sa…
00:35:07 |
Thu 24 Feb 2022
Robert Parrish
If you followed the epic battles between the Lakers and the Celtics in the 1980's, didn't you always wonder if Robert Parish (the "Chief") ever talked to Laker fan Jack Nicholson about the "Chief" in…
00:42:07 |
Thu 17 Feb 2022
Amy Trask
About six years ago, Lesley wrote a column for CBS saying that it was time to put Amy Trask in the Hall of Fame. As we head into Super Bowl LVI, she feels even more strongly. Amy would never talk ab…
00:45:44 |
Thu 10 Feb 2022
Tara Lipinski
She was born in Philadelphia, lived in New Jersey and Sugar Land, Texas. At the age of 14, Tara Lipinski won the World Figure Skating Championships, beating her fierce rival, Michelle Kwan. The next …
00:26:28 |
Thu 03 Feb 2022
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