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Jim Boeheim’s radio show is on Thursdays from 7-8 or 9PM on ESPN Radio in Syracuse, which is AM1200 or FM 97.7 on the dial. The show is at Carrabba's Italian Grill at 550 Towne Drive, Fayetteville, NY. The first hour, hosted by Matt Park, the Voice of the Orange, is on their general network. The second hour, which usually begins with the conference season, is hosted by Gomez, a local radio personality.
Their schedule: The AmeriCU Jim Boeheim Show Begins Tonight! - Syracuse University Athletics
You can call into the show locally at 315-424-8599 or nationally at 1-888-746-2873. For Gomez’s portion, use 315-424-8599. Or you can submit questions from this page:
Submit a Question! - Syracuse University Athletics
Or on Twitter at mattpark1 or “askBoeheim”.
The show can be heard in Syracuse on FM 99.5. It’s sometime simulcast on AM 1200 or FM 97.7. You can also get it on: TuneIn | Free Internet Radio | Live News, Sports, Music, and Podcasts
There’s now a third segment where Jim and Gomez can be seen on camera at:
The early shows tend to be in a one-hour format. I'll post a summary of them the same night. When they do two hour shows. I will do two posts: the Matt Park segment the night of the show and the Gomez segments the next day.
MY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS
1st Segment Question:
“Coach, in your press conference after the Virginia Tech game you said “We isolate a lot because that’s the best way for us to score.” We have a team full of jump shooters. The referees can’t be relied upon to put is on the line. Why is isolation the best way for us to score, rather than passing the ball?“
2nd Segment Question:
“Coach, I’ve recently re-read Marty Glickman’s book “The Fastest kid on the Block”. In it he describes broadcasting basketball games in the late 40’s an early 50’s in a section called “The Dumpers”:
“Before the game and during the halftime…bookmakers would go along the sidelines in front of the stands and call out the odds-on bets. During the half they’d pay out bets on points scored, shooting percentage, whatever. They would pass the dollars up along the rows of stands, the way you might pass a soda or a hot dog…There was booing and catcalling that had little to do with the winning and losing, but a lot to do with the point spread…There was plenty of suspicion that college games were being fixed but I refused to believe it…like many others, I have the capacity not to believe things I don’t want to believe….When the stories of fixing games broke…I put the blame…on the bookmakers because bookies provided the machinery whereby players could dump games…But the evil traced as well to every sports fan in America who bet on games; every individual who bet with a bookmaker or in those college football pools or competed in contests on radio to pick winners. We were all at fault because we were making it possible, through gambling, for these things to happen.”
There was a huge ‘dumping’ scandal in 1951, another ten years later, one involving Boston College in the late 70’s and one involving Tulane in the 80’s. Now the floodgates have been opened up and we are bombarded with adds for sportsbooks in all media. Sports talk show hosts spend segments of their shows talking about the bets they made. I feel like we’re back in that arena Marty described.
My question is: do the things the universities now do for athletes, the NIL opportunities and the big money that can now be made playing pro ball here and abroad insulate modern players from the corruption that ruined the lives of players in Marty’s era?”
Twitch: I’ll improvise a question after listening to the rest of the show.
Their schedule: The AmeriCU Jim Boeheim Show Begins Tonight! - Syracuse University Athletics
You can call into the show locally at 315-424-8599 or nationally at 1-888-746-2873. For Gomez’s portion, use 315-424-8599. Or you can submit questions from this page:
Submit a Question! - Syracuse University Athletics
Or on Twitter at mattpark1 or “askBoeheim”.
The show can be heard in Syracuse on FM 99.5. It’s sometime simulcast on AM 1200 or FM 97.7. You can also get it on: TuneIn | Free Internet Radio | Live News, Sports, Music, and Podcasts
There’s now a third segment where Jim and Gomez can be seen on camera at:
The early shows tend to be in a one-hour format. I'll post a summary of them the same night. When they do two hour shows. I will do two posts: the Matt Park segment the night of the show and the Gomez segments the next day.
MY QUESTIONS/COMMENTS
1st Segment Question:
“Coach, in your press conference after the Virginia Tech game you said “We isolate a lot because that’s the best way for us to score.” We have a team full of jump shooters. The referees can’t be relied upon to put is on the line. Why is isolation the best way for us to score, rather than passing the ball?“
2nd Segment Question:
“Coach, I’ve recently re-read Marty Glickman’s book “The Fastest kid on the Block”. In it he describes broadcasting basketball games in the late 40’s an early 50’s in a section called “The Dumpers”:
“Before the game and during the halftime…bookmakers would go along the sidelines in front of the stands and call out the odds-on bets. During the half they’d pay out bets on points scored, shooting percentage, whatever. They would pass the dollars up along the rows of stands, the way you might pass a soda or a hot dog…There was booing and catcalling that had little to do with the winning and losing, but a lot to do with the point spread…There was plenty of suspicion that college games were being fixed but I refused to believe it…like many others, I have the capacity not to believe things I don’t want to believe….When the stories of fixing games broke…I put the blame…on the bookmakers because bookies provided the machinery whereby players could dump games…But the evil traced as well to every sports fan in America who bet on games; every individual who bet with a bookmaker or in those college football pools or competed in contests on radio to pick winners. We were all at fault because we were making it possible, through gambling, for these things to happen.”
There was a huge ‘dumping’ scandal in 1951, another ten years later, one involving Boston College in the late 70’s and one involving Tulane in the 80’s. Now the floodgates have been opened up and we are bombarded with adds for sportsbooks in all media. Sports talk show hosts spend segments of their shows talking about the bets they made. I feel like we’re back in that arena Marty described.
My question is: do the things the universities now do for athletes, the NIL opportunities and the big money that can now be made playing pro ball here and abroad insulate modern players from the corruption that ruined the lives of players in Marty’s era?”
Twitch: I’ll improvise a question after listening to the rest of the show.
