Howard Bryant

2 months ago | ctpublic.org | Scott Simon |Howard Bryant

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2 months ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Scott Simon |Howard Bryant

NPR's Scott Simon and Meadowlark Media's Howard Bryant discuss the NCAA Final Four and the formerly unbreakable NHL record that's now tied about to be broken.

Feb 1, 2025 | espn.in | Howard Bryant |Jeff Passan |Bradford Doolittle |Tim Kurkjian

OAKLAND, Calif. -- When Ken Griffey Jr.'s baseball-star father struggled to get through to the talented teen, Rickey Henderson somehow could. The younger Griffey, who considers himself fortunate to have roamed the New York Yankees clubhouse and hit on their field alongside so many all-time greats, made sure to listen and learn. "I was 15 years old when I met Rickey, and he accepted me in the locker room along with Dave [Winfield] and a couple other guys," Griffey said.

Jan 31, 2025 | espn.in | Tim Kurkjian |Buster Olney |Bradford Doolittle |Howard Bryant

Late in Rickey Henderson's career, his Seattle Mariners teammate Mike Cameron would reach for the bus microphone as the team lumbered from airports to hotels, and he read aloud some of the recent achievements of his fellow players from the media relations notes. Maybe someone was about to hit a round number -- 400 career RBIs, 500 strikeouts. In comparison, though, Henderson's numbers were otherworldly, Cameron recalled.

Dec 22, 2024 | espn.com | Howard Bryant

Before he was a somebody, Rickey Henderson was already a constituency of one. Professional athletes are a different species, world-class talents whose sense of self and possibility do not often fit within the confines of the doubts and fears natural to the rest of us.