Zane's Hot Takes and Home Plates episode 1

About this episode

In the inaugural episode, Zane Brookshire discusses the return of college football and the NFL, highlights a game-winning kick by Kansei Matsuzawa, and celebrates Cal Raleigh's historic 50th homer.

On this very first episode, your host Zane Brookshire talks about college football, and the NFL are back, and I give out the upcoming schedules for some of the big games for week one. Also, I talk about how a Japanese kicker, Kansei Matsuzawa, made a game-winning 38-yarder to win against Stanford, and learned how to kick a football off YouTube videos. Later on in this episode, I talk about Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh and his 50th homer, and how he's making history.

People in this episode

Host: Zane Brookshire

Topics covered

• college football
• NFL
• Japanese kicker
• Seattle Mariners
• Cal Raleigh
• game-winning kick
• sports history

Keywords

• college football
• NFL
• Kansei Matsuzawa
• Cal Raleigh
• Seattle Mariners
• game-winning kick
• sports news

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Stanford, Seattle Mariners

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