Steve Jones Show

Wednesday 8/7/19 Hour 1: Topics: Chatting about Penn State football camp.  Guest:  Matt Leon talks Philadelphia Eagles ahead of tomorrow night’s preseason opener.

Hour 2: Topics: Where the Phillies stand in the NL Wild Card Race. Guest: Cam Mellor of Pro Football Focus.

Tuesday 8/6/19 Hour 1 – Bob Buehner joins the show, as we talk more about the beginning of Penn State football and high school football camps, Phillies big win, the Mets winning streak, and more.

Hour 2 – Topics: Penn State players in the NFL, where the Phillies stand in the NL Wild Card hunt, what TV has done to youth and HS sports.

Monday 8/5/19 Hour 1 – Topics: Bob Buehner joins the show, as we talk the start of Penn State football camp and high school football camps, and the guys discuss Southern Columbia’s upcoming trip to South Carolina to take on Hammond High School in the ESPN High School Showcase.  Plus, the guys discuss Phillies and Pirates struggles, and CFB and scheduling and recruiting.

Hour 2 – Guest: Frank Bodani, York Daily Record. Topic: Penn State football position previews.

Friday 8/2/19 Hour 1 – Topics: Penn State football camp begins, Steven Jackson retirement fiasco, evaluating Bryce Harper’s numbers. Guest: Tony DeFazio, Pittsburgh Sports Report, on what he’s seen at Steelers Training Camp so far, the thought of an 18-game schedule, and more.

Steve continues to break down the moves as the MLB trade deadline passes, including a seismic shift in the American League!

Lots of baseball talk in the final hour before the MLB trade deadline, including Corey Dickerson moving from the Pirates to the Phillies.

It’s the Snyder power hour! Guests: MLB writer Matt Snyder (CBSSports.com) joins us to discuss buyers and sellers, teams that should go for it or unload players, as the trade deadline approaches. Then, a Penn State Football Lasch Bash weekend recap with recruiting analyst Ryan Snyder (BlueWhiteIllustrated.com).

Topics: Phillies obtain left handed pitcher Jason Vargas in a trade with the New York Mets, Penn State football practice set to begin, and we have a little fun with names of stadiums as Kraft Heinz (Heinz Field) may not re-up their sponsorship with the Steelers. Speaking of the Pittsburgh, Neal Coolong (Senior Editor, SteelersWire.com) looks into the opening days of training camp at Latrobe and which players need to improve.

Guest: Philadelphia Phillies prospect and current Williamsport Crosscutter Bryson Stott. Topics: Miami Dolphins, Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Topics: Cleveland Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer throws a baseball from the pitchers mound over the center field fence, which team will buy or sell at the MLB trade deadline, Pirates and Milwaukee wheel and deal, pace of play in MLB, ESPN Sunday Night Baseball.

Topics: NFL training camps are open and breaking news from the New York Giants. Then, we close out the week with Steve’s brother Kevin Jones!

Topics: Braves/Phillies open big weekend series in Philadelphia, NFL training camps open and UConn will leave the AAC to return to the Big East Conference. Guest: Penn State Football Writer Greg Pickel (PennLive.com) calls in to talk about what the Nittany Lions can accomplish during Lasch Bash weekend.

Guests: Former Penn State football great Blair Thomas looks back fondly on his Nittany Lions career and returns to Happy Valley for his State College Spikes bobble head night! Then, Penn State football writer Ben Jones (StateCollege.com) recaps Big Ten Football Media Days.

Topic: What moves will the Phillies make, or not make, by the trade deadline? Guest: Senior Editor Kurt Badenhausen (Forbes) returns to the show to discuss the most valuable sports franchises currently in the world.

Guest: Mitch Rupert (Sports Writer, Williamsport Sun-Gazette) was in Cooperstown over the weekend for the 2019 National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and shared his reflections on Montoursville’s Mike Mussina reaching baseball immortality!

Topics: football is getting closer! Guest: Steelers Beat Writer Joe Rutter (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) joins Steve before heading to Saint Vincent College for training camp!

We playback James Franklin’s press conference from B1G Football Media Days in Chicago. Then, Philadelphia Eagles Beat Writer Ed Kracz (The Sports Xchange and www.footballmaven.io/Eagles talks about Darren Sproles re-upping with the Eagles as training camp begins later this week!