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John Anderson

John Anderson

Retired ESPN SportsCenter anchor (1999–2024) and Inside Wisconsin podcast co-host, now a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism.

Sep 20, 2026

5:16
If I'm not oversharing, I believe you celebrated a lovely couple last night.
5:20
Yeah, lovely.
5:21
Yeah, somebody people should know athletically, the great Grant Holloway, the Olympic champion in the hurdles, got married last night.
5:29
So very exciting about that.
5:31
So my vibes are totally fine.
5:33
I have not run off to a foreign country after the performance in Minnesota.
5:36
Like, that's it.

42 MINS LATER

47:16
What were your impressions?
5:16
If I'm not oversharing, I believe you celebrated a lovely couple last night.
5:20
Yeah, lovely.
5:21
Yeah, somebody people should know athletically, the great Grant Holloway, the Olympic champion in the hurdles, got married last night.
5:29
So very exciting about that.
5:31
So my vibes are totally fine.
5:33
I have not run off to a foreign country after the performance in Minnesota.
5:36
Like, that's it.

42 MINS LATER

47:16
What were your impressions?
13:25
I thought.
13:26
Yeah.
13:26
I think the, the, the baseball culture in Delano is like, is top tier.
13:31
You just can't get much better than that.
13:33
And, you know, the, their move to the CRVL.
13:37
And it was obviously something that as the North star league member, we were obviously bummed to see, to, to, to see Delano go, but, uh, they were having success.
13:46
They're being challenged by some really good teams and you can see, you know, playing Plato, the eventual state champion on their CRVL team.

8 MINS LATER

22:20
They're his kilowatts.
2:19
How you doing? How's the semester going?
2:22
good we're early in haven't lost any of them yet so that's good all the all the bodies have been accounted for um three weeks in everybody still has a wide eye they're pretty sure they that you know what you're talking about which is good the idea is to hope in week 13 they still look like that or at least they're still coming to class um and the fact that i don't have class at four o'clock on a friday has made a big difference in the in the attendance um I don't know.
2:50
I'm sure you guys were all in, which is great that you were, you know, your academic progress was really important to you.
2:57
But man, Friday at four o'clock, even the best of students were like, I think I can still get that A without showing up to that bad boy.
3:06
So that's made life much better.
7:55
That's going to be maybe Tucker's.
7:58
The Woodchucks of the Northwoods League have trouble.
8:01
Here comes the pack.
7:05
Okay.
7:05
No matter what he does.
7:07
And I think that's the whole thing for him.
7:10
Um, and you could...
7:12
It's not to me, um...
7:15
Again, I like to...
7:16
I'm maybe not am 30,000 feet like you say, but I also don't think I'm at, at sea level when I look at this because of my Green Bay background.
8:48
Right.
11:55
Right
11:55
...
11:55
they just get up and down for that mental mistake.
11:57
This one I think is so monumentally sort of a dumb move that you're just like, I think we can all agree that maybe that's not the best thing.
12:05
You know? [laughs] Let's think about how many games you've missed, you know? And while you stuck the landing, congratulations, um, I don't know that we wanna go ahead and risk that again, you know? You go ahead and maybe in February if you wanna score in that game, we'll allow you to do it.
12:21
But for the most part, um, that, that to me seems to be unnecessary.
12:26
Um, and I don't think that's taking fun out of the game.

5 MINS LATER

17:30
Mm-hmm
AdamHOST
21:33
What's the biggest mistake people make when kind of evaluating what's going on at training
21:37
camp? It's really hard to figure out how good a team is when in seven-on-seven passing drills – And the defensive linemen have to go up against turned over trash cans.
21:54
they always look great with that swim move going around a you know a hefty trash can um and the quarterback he slings it around you know at 70 because uh they didn't again i i don't mean to harken back but they didn't detail things like as a kid when i watched like they do now and you'll read the the summary in the paper and they're like jordan love was 18 of 21 in the two-minute drill And you're like, but he wasn't, there were no people with bad intentions on the other side.
22:25
There were people in shorts.
22:27
So I think that's part of it is just to try to really gauge how good the team is.
22:33
And it used to be that they practiced twice.
22:37
And they beat the crap out of each other, hitting each other.
NeilHOST
24:12
There you
AdamHOST
20:24
Is there any week in the year in the city of Green Bay that generates more buzz than when we know the shareholders are coming back, when we know the bikes are gonna start going out again?
20:33
Yep.
20:35
No, it is, uh, j- training camp in general, right? Uh, everybody, everybody's going to the Super Bowl at that point.
20:41
Every draft pick is obviously the right guy.
20:44
Uh, every hole that is f- filled, that we're like, "I don't know if that's, if that's, if they've got the depth of that posit-," everybody on, nope, day one, those guys are all perfect.
20:54
So, um, it is...
20:57
This week has more optimism than ever.
AdamHOST
21:33
What's the biggest mistake people make when kind of evaluating what's going on at training camp?
speaker_3HOST
2:45
What's the biggest mistake people make when kind of evaluating what's going on at training
2:49
camp? It's really hard to figure out how good a team is when in seven-on-seven passing drills – And the defensive linemen have to go up against turned over trash cans.
3:07
they always look great with that swim move going around a you know a hefty trash can um and the quarterback he slings it around you know at 70 because uh they didn't again i i don't mean to harken back but they didn't detail things like as a kid when i watched like they do now and you'll read the the summary in the paper and they're like jordan love was 18 of 21 in the two-minute drill And you're like, but he wasn't, there were no people with bad intentions on the other side.
3:37
There were people in shorts.
3:40
So I think that's part of it is just to try to really gauge how good the team is.
3:46
And it used to be that they practiced twice.
3:50
And they beat the crap out of each other, hitting each other.
5:24
So you're
2:45
What's the biggest mistake people make when kind of evaluating what's going on at training
2:49
camp? It's really hard to figure out how good a team is when in seven-on-seven passing drills – And the defensive linemen have to go up against turned over trash cans.
3:07
they always look great with that swim move going around a you know a hefty trash can um and the quarterback he slings it around you know at 70 because uh they didn't again i i don't mean to harken back but they didn't detail things like as a kid when i watched like they do now and you'll read the the summary in the paper and they're like jordan love was 18 of 21 in the two-minute drill And you're like, but he wasn't, there were no people with bad intentions on the other side.
3:37
There were people in shorts.
3:40
So I think that's part of it is just to try to really gauge how good the team is.
3:46
And it used to be that they practiced twice.
3:50
And they beat the crap out of each other, hitting each other.
5:24
So you're
HomerHOST
25:35
Take it away, Professor John Anderson.
25:39
He is the second best player in the history of the franchise.
25:46
But maybe.
25:47
I'm going to say this.
25:52
What do I tell you? He might be the best player in franchise history.
25:55
And Alcindor was the most important.
25:57
Kareem was the most important player in franchise history because it was year three when he came in and, you know, what he, or winning the title in year three.
HomerHOST
29:14
Well,

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