Episode 2 - August 9, 2009

Greetings, and welcome to the blog spot for The Sunday Tailgate. Our show made it's debut last week on the Sports Journey Broadcast Network, and we are excited about this week's show, and all others moving forward.

Here is the rundown of guests that are scheduled to appear on the program this Sunday morning. Our featured guest this week is:


Jim Fox, television game analyst for the Los Angeles Kings. We'll be talking about the Kings' moves so far this off-season, and about his role in the upcoming LA Kings Hockey Fest '09, a fan festival being held here in Los Angeles from August 28-30.

Jim is about to begin his 20th season, paired with legendary play-by-play man Bob Miller, as the game analyst for the Kings, and he will joined during the Hockey Fest by Kelly Hrudey of Hockey Night in Canada and Ray Ferraro from NHL on TSN during a broadcasters panel, hosted by ESPN's John Buccigross.

We'll start the show with the latest from race tracks as Bradley Weber, Sunday Tailgate auto racing correspondent, makes his debut. Also making his debut this weekend is A.J. Smith our NBA correspondent.

Also, we begin a joint venture between our show and our companion show, Moncrief in the Morning, as we preview all 120 FBS college football teams. Today, we kick it off with these schools:

- Arkansas State, previewed by Kevin Turbeville of the Jonesboro Sun
- Florida International, previewed by Pete Pelegrin of the Miami Herald
- Temple, previewed by Todd Orodenker of Examiner.com

In addition, we'll also be talking about the pigskin with Christopher Kerr, our NFL correspondent, and with Chris Griffin, our new college football correspondent. Plus, Amanda Salas provides scoreboard updates every 20 minutes.

I hope you'll join this Sunday morning from 10AM-1PM Eastern, 7-10AM Pacific, live on the Sports Journey Broadcast Network.