Tim and Tom have the hottest takes on 2021 in the season finale of the Moonlight Graham Show.
Read MoreThis week’s Moonlighter suited up for over 1,600 points and 3 NCAA tournaments between 1993 and 1999. Jess Settles was a big part of a lot of our childhoods because of just how long he spent on the roster for Tom Davis and that long stretch of winning Iowa basketball.
Read MoreThis week’s guest is a fan and pod favorite; Olympic gold medalist John Shuster. John Shuster led the American curling team to an improbable gold medal in the 2018 Olympics. This year will be his 5th Olympic games. Shuster is arguably the greatest American curler of all time even though his trip to the top of the medal stand started out as a true underdog.
Read MoreThis week the Moonlight Graham Show puts our own spin on the GOAT conversation. Tim welcomes Moonlighters Jack Brownlee and Sean O’Hare to the studio to combine their wealth of Iowa boys' high school knowledge to create an 8 team bracket of the greatest teams from all classes and across time periods.
Read MoreWith the modern game so focused on scoring, a pass-first point guard almost seems like a relic. This week Tim sits down with one of the all-time great point guards in Iowa State history who just happens to be one of Tim’s childhood heroes - Jacy Holloway.
Read More26.2. That number represents a lot of things to a lot of people. To some, it is a foolish challenge that takes a lot of time and causes a lot of pain. For others it is something of a symbolic achievement; a goal to push oneself to great limits. This week it is just Tom Griffin and Tim Flattery sitting in the Moonlight Studios to share their marathon experiences.
Read MoreFormer Iowa QB Randy Reiners joins the show!
Read MoreIt seems like every four years our eyes turn to the Olympics and America falls in love with a new gymnastics icon. Iowa has been fortunate to have close ties to names like Liang Chow, Gabby Douglas, and Shawn Johnson. The leaps, flips, and twists are like a non-stop highlight reel. Gymnastics takes center stage at the Olympics each cycle and then sort of slides into the background. This week, we get an inside look from former junior Olympian and Big 12 gymnast Brooklyn (Doggette) McMurray.
Read MoreThis week the Moonlight Graham Show goes all the way from A to Z. Matt Adams and Andrew Zellmer that is. These former athletes and sports fans sit down with Tim on a Friday afternoon to talk a little about sports and a lot about Iowa. Matt and Andrew are two of the top dogs for Peoples Company out of Clive. This podcast is an opportunity for buddies to catch up and drain the batteries on the microphones.
Read MoreThis week’s Moonlighter is one of the best ballplayers to come out of Iowa. Larry Biittner had a heck of a career and spent quite a bit of time in a true Moonlighter role; pinch hitter. Though he is an all-timer as a pinch hitter, Bittner is the first to say that he didn’t like doing it, but it was what the team needed. Tim sits down with Larry to talk about a career spent in the big leagues with names like Nolan Ryan and Ted Williams.
Read MoreThis week Tim sits down with a trio of Dowling Maroon baseball’s recent legends. These guys are ready to talk about all things baseball, from the new announcements about Minor League Baseball to the current postseason.
Read MoreThis week’s guest might be one of the easiest voices to identify that has ever come across the Moonlight airwaves. Gary Rima joins Tim to talk about a career spent in sports as he prepares for his final ride as the voice of UNI basketball.
Read MoreRay’s career has been full of All-Conference and Coach of the Year awards. As he approaches 50 years old, Ray has spent almost half of his life as a part of Stanford golf. Near and dear to the Moonlight Graham Show, Ray attributes his success to following the example of hard work set by his dad.
Read MoreMost Moonlighters are proud to look back on their career as reaching their alma mater’s hall of fame as a sign of some of their top achievements. This week though, our guest was really just getting started when he finished his amateur career. Klay Rowe followed up an All-American caliber career at Iowa Central and Bellevue University by becoming a national champion.
Read MoreHow many episodes does it take to land (arguably) the most talented Flattery brother on the podcast? 221 was the magic number to bring in the big lefty, Joe Flattery. Brother Joe stands out from his brothers for a few reasons. He is the tallest, calmest, quietest, and the only lefty of the group. This week, all of the Flattery boys sit down in the family home to share stories about Joe and his career in sports.
Read MoreThis week, Moonlight Graham’s favorite NFL quarterback returns to the podcast to share stories about his year as a pro. Reid Sinnett joined us fresh off of his preseason week 3 breakout performance that took the NFL and social media by storm. He brought us up to speed on life as a Miami Dolphin and his foray into the world of movie reviewing.
Read MoreThis week’s Moonlighter is a Cyclone legend. Larry Corrigan did just about everything for the Cyclones. His career in Cardinal and Gold spanned the early 1970s as a player and then as a coach in the 1980s. Corrigan was an All-American pitcher and catcher, set the Cyclone record for batting average, and then set the record for wins in a season as a coach. Now the Cyclone Hall of Famer sits down to talk about life in baseball and seeing the game from just about every angle.
Read MoreAs Iowa prepares for America to turn her eyes back to the heartland on Saturday morning, we welcome in two of the greatest athletes to ever come out of the Livermore-Twin River Valley-Bode portion of Humboldt county. Greg Lempke and Dallas Clark have been connected almost as long as Dallas has been alive, but the Cyclone and Hawkeye farm-boys-at-heart share many Moonlight characteristics as well.
Read MoreThis week’s Moonlighter continued his basketball career in one of the most underdog roles any athlete could possibly play in - as a member of the Washington Generals. Father Mark McGreary finished up his college playing days and was given the opportunity to fill a spot in the lineup for the losing-est basketball team in history. He played for the Generals in the late 1980s and was able to travel around the world and lose to the Globetrotters before finishing his professional career in Europe.
Read MoreIn his 60+ years as a high school football coach, Dick Tighe has seen just about everything. And he remembers just about all of it. This week Tim and Tom get to sit down with their former coach to hear about one of the winningest high school football coaching careers in history.
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