Jimmy Dykes - ESPN College Basketball Analyst
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5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Episode 477
Jimmy Dykes covers college basketball as an analyst for ESPN. A 1985 graduate of the University of Arkansas, Dykes played college basketball under head coach Eddie Sutton before joining the coaching ranks as an assistant at places like Kentucky and Oklahoma State.
After scouting in the NBA for a few years, Dykes joined the broadcasting ranks and began his 19-year career with ESPN in 1995. Then from 2014 to 2017, he served as the women’s head basketball coach at his alma mater of Arkansas. Upon his departure from coaching, he returned to broadcasting at ESPN.
In March of 2020, he released his new book "The Film Doesn't Lie: Evaluating Your Life One Play at a Time"
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Jimmy about the cancellation of March Madness, how the pandemic has helped him reflect on his relationship with God, why he wrote his new book and the "non-negotiables" in his life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:19.9 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to Sports Spectrums podcast. I am Jason Romano. Hey everyone, welcome to Sports Spectrums podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | I am Jason Romano, so glad you're joining us on the show today. |
| 0:26.6 | Jimmy Dykes is our guest today. |
| 0:28.6 | He's ESPN's college basketball analyst. |
| 0:31.6 | Before we get to our conversation with Jimmy, I want to thank our sponsors and presenters here |
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| 1:26.4 | Excited to welcome Jimmy Dykes here to Sports Spectrum. Excited to welcome Jimmy Dykes here to Sports Spectrum. |
| 1:29.7 | Excited to welcome Jimmy Dykes back to Sports Spectrum. |
| 1:32.1 | He was on last fall telling his story of sports and faith and getting ready for the college |
| 1:38.5 | basketball season. |
| 1:40.0 | And here we are now, April 6th, 2020, and we're supposed to be crowning college basketball's |
| 1:46.4 | national champion tonight, and that's not happening now because college basketball, like |
| 1:51.7 | every other sport, has been put on hold and canceled because of the coronavirus outbreak. |
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