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Memory Lane with Cory Giger: Bob Smizik on Pittsburgh sports media

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4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Cory Giger welcomes Pittsburgh sports media great, Bob Smizik to the show. Bob shares stories from his career covering Pittsburgh's sports teams, talks about other media giants from the city and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football.

0:07.0

What a fantastic night of football.

0:10.0

Including 10 Premier League games.

0:13.0

It doesn't get much better than that.

0:17.0

And Tuesday's UEFA Champions League must watch match.

0:22.3

The biggest live games from the biggest leagues all wrapped up.

0:28.0

It's on Prime.

0:33.4

You know, Hello and welcome to another edition of our Memory Lane podcast on the D.K. Pittsburgh Sports Podcasting Network.

0:56.3

And if you grew up loving sports in Pittsburgh in the 70s, 80s, 90s, or whenever,

1:02.2

you read Bob Smyzik, you heard Bob Smyzik, a legendary Pittsburgh sports figure.

1:07.6

He had seen it all for many, many decades.

1:10.0

I'm real pleased to have Bob on the

1:12.5

podcast to share some memories. How are you today, pal?

1:15.8

Corey, I'm doing good. How about yourself? I'm doing fantastic. And Bob, I am not from

1:22.8

Pittsburgh. I got here in 1999 to cover the Altoona Curve, but I was a big fan of yours from a sports journalism standpoint.

1:32.5

I'm just curious, you're retired now.

1:35.6

Usually we like to start the podcast, kind of give people an idea of what they're doing these days.

1:40.6

So what are you up to these days, Bob?

1:43.8

Just about nothing, Corey. You know, when I first retired, which was a print edition of the

1:51.0

Post-Cadet, which was the end of 2008, he almost immediately went into a blog on the internet.

1:59.0

And I did that for five years, and I really worked hard at that.

2:02.7

I really enjoyed that, had a good time doing that.

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