ROS Presents: NFL Great Larry Fitzgerald on In the Moment with David Greene (and an announcement...)

ROS Presents: NFL Great Larry Fitzgerald on In the Moment with David Greene (and an announcement...)

Author: Religion of Sports | PRX February 9, 2023 Duration: 34:42
Larry Fitzgerald is considered one of the best wide receivers of all time, and is expected to be a first ballot NFL Hall of Famer. He’s also executive chair for the Arizona Super Bowl LVII Host Committee. In his 17 seasons with the Arizona Cardinals, he made it to the Super Bowl just once. In 2009, the Cardinals were the underdogs against the Pittsburgh Steelers. They were behind Pittsburgh most of the game until the last few minutes of the fourth quarter. That’s when Arizona quarterback Kurt Warner connected with Fitzgerald, who avoided two safeties to make a 64-yard touchdown. With 2:37 left in the game, Fitzgerald thought the Cardinals were on their way to victory. Then came the play that still haunts Fitzgerald: Ben Roethlisberger hits Santonio Holmes for the final touchdown ending the game with a Steelers win. You can still hear the pain in Fitzgerald’s voice more than ten years later. “Uhhh man, it's just like pure heartbreak,” Fitzgerald told In the Moment’s David Greene. “It's a feeling of despair [and] hurt that’s really hard to even express.” Fitzgerald last played in 2020. He says he’s now focused on supporting his community as executive chair of the Arizona Super Bowl Host committee. He’s also a minority owner of the Phoenix Suns and in 2005 launched The Larry Fitzgerald Foundation in honor of his mother, who passed away as a result of breast cancer in 2003. The ROS audio team also has an exciting announcement about what’s coming up next. Stay tuned..

From the team at Religion of Sports and PRX, ROS Presents: Counterattack is a season-long audio documentary that digs into a pivotal, personal story within the wider world of sports. This season focuses on the life of professional soccer player Sinead Farrelly, tracing her path from a celebrated young talent to a central figure in a movement that changed the game. The podcast chronicles her complex journey, detailing her rise as a hometown star, the difficult decision to become a whistleblower regarding conditions in her league, and her subsequent path toward an unlikely return to the field. It’s a narrative about resilience and the personal cost of speaking truth to power, set against the backdrop of a revolution in professional women’s soccer. Through intimate storytelling and layered sound design, this series explores how individual courage can collide with systemic issues, creating ripples that transform an entire sport. Listeners will hear a nuanced portrait of an athlete’s struggle and triumph, framed within the larger societal conversations about accountability, justice, and the true meaning of a comeback. This is ambitious audio journalism that treats sports as the deeply human endeavor it is, offering more than just game highlights-it provides a front-row seat to a story that reshaped a league.
Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 37

ROS Presents: Counterattack
Podcast Episodes
ROUGHHOUSING Part 5: The Good Fight [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 33:52
When a violent hazing occurs, the natural impulse is to search for ways to make sure it doesn’t happen again. This effort to stop hazing has been going on in the U.S. for decades. But how effective has it been? And is it…
ROUGHHOUSING Part 4: The Snitch [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:15
We’ve all heard that ‘snitches get stitches.' It’s a rule on the streets but also on many sports teams. So what happens when kids speak out about being hazed in high school?
ROUGHHOUSING Part 3: The Coach [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 32:12
What role do coaches and other school leaders have in a hazing incident? And how much oversight can parents expect when their kids participate in school sports? We look at Rodney’s coach, his background, and ask what, if…
ROUGHHOUSING Part 2: The Line [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 31:41
What if the person being hazed is kinda having fun? Is all hazing a bad thing? A lot of guys on Rodney’s team say the locker room “tussling” just went too far in Rodney’s case. In this episode, host Iggy Monda looks at t…
ROUGHHOUSING Part 1: Hell Week [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 34:51
What does hazing look like in high school sports today? Our series begins in Mobile, Alabama, where Rodney Kim, Jr. was a freshman with dreams of making the varsity football team. But a brutal locker room initiation chan…
ROUGHHOUSING: Trailer [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:56
Roughhousing is a new narrative series examining hazing culture in high school sports today. Host Iggy Monda takes listeners inside locker rooms to hear deeply personal stories from kids who have been hazed, parents who…
CRUSHED Bonus Episode: The New Steroid Problem [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 27:50
Joan Niesen, the host of Crushed, is back with a bonus episode exploring baseball’s latest steroid controversy. Find the entire seven-part series in season one of this feed. Today, on the rare occasion that a pro basebal…
FALSE IDOL Part 7: Culpability [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 33:46
Would Pistorius be convicted of murder? Finally, Judge Thokozile Masipa delivered her verdict, and it drew a visceral reaction from across South Africa. Afterward, how would the Steenkamp family, the prosecution team, an…
FALSE IDOL Part 6: Swart Gevaar [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 35:04
During his murder trial, Pistorius claimed he’d mistaken Reeva for an intruder, when he shot her in his home. He listed instances where he’d been the victim of crime. But for many South Africans, there was a coded messag…