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Nashville Sports Report is a weekly podcast covering the teams, people, stories and culture that make up Nashville sports.
Each episode combines a look at the latest from the Tennessee Titans, Nashville Predators, Nashville SC, Vanderbilt Athletics and the rest of the local sports scene with in-depth conversations featuring athletes, broadcasters, journalists, photographers, executives, historians, fans and others who help shape sports in the Nashville sports community.
Hosted by Russell Ries, Nashville Sports Report goes beyond scores and headlines to explore how Nashville sports work, why they matter and what they reveal about the city itself.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
44 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
27 episodes
since May 2, 2026
episodic
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Rebecca King, Vice President of Community Relations for the Nashville Predators and Executive Director of the Nashville Predators Foundation, joins Nashville Sports Report to talk about the Foundation, the organization’s culture of community service, and how the Predators have grown alongside Nashv…
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Former Nashville Sounds broadcaster Bob Jamison joins Nashville Sports Report for a look back at the early years of professional baseball in Nashville, including stories involving Yogi Berra, Don Mattingly and some of the people who helped build the Sounds into a Nashville institution.
The timing c…
Matthew Sullivan returns to Nashville Sports Report to preview the 2026–27 NBA season using his statistical projections and basketball simulation software at 75teams.com.
Matt takes us inside the process of building a basketball simulator, explaining how statistical models predict everything from o…
This week on Nashville Sports Report, Russell Ries talks with Monica Fawknotson, President of the Metropolitan Nashville Sports Authority, about the people, venues and decisions behind Nashville’s growth as a sports city.
Monica explains what the Sports Authority actually does, how Nashville’s majo…
This week on Nashville Sports Report, Russell Ries sits down with Betty Wiseman, the founder of Belmont University women’s basketball and one of the pioneering figures in Nashville women’s sports.
Wiseman started Belmont’s women’s basketball program in 1968, at a time when opportunities for women i…
What does Nashville’s sports scene look like from the outside?
This week on Nashville Sports Report, Russell talks with Alden Reed about Nashville sports from an outsider’s perspective: what stands out about the city’s teams, fans and sports culture, and how Nashville compares with other sports cit…
Vanderbilt women’s soccer head coach Darren Ambrose joins Nashville Sports Report to talk about building the Commodores into one of the nation’s top programs, how Vanderbilt soccer has evolved during his tenure, the culture behind the program and what he has learned over more than a decade in Nashv…
What does it take to capture a Nashville SC match from the sideline? Sports photographer Christina Moore of SixOneFive Soccer joins Nashville Sports Report to talk about the craft of sports photography—from choosing where to position herself and anticipating action before it happens to recognizing …
How did Nashville transform from a city with no major professional sports teams into one of America’s major sports destinations? Jay Grider, COO and Special Advisor at the Nashville Sports Council and author of Last Call: From the Minor Leagues to Nashville’s Rise as a Major Sports Destination, joi…
Vanderbilt broadcaster Andrew Allegretta joins the Nashville Sports Report to talk about the craft of play-by-play, how he prepares differently for football, baseball and basketball, and the path that brought him from Tulane to the Vanderbilt Sports Network. Allegretta, Vanderbilt’s Director of Rad…
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