Chris looks back at the career of 3x Super Bowl Champion WR Julian Edelman and how Julian went from QB... more

Chris reviews the career of Hall of Fame RB Eric Dickerson and discusses Eric's upbringing in the small of town... more

Chris highlights the career of Hall of Fame LT Tony Boselli with discussion about the pressure of being a high... more

Chris looks at the career of 2x Super Bowl champion DE Osi Umenyiora as he reviews Osi's journey from London... more

Chris reflects on the career of former NFL QB Ryan Fitzpatrick and Ryan's time at Harvard University, his stints with... more

Chris breaks down the career of Hall of Fame WR Terrell Owens & highlights TO playing with his idol, Jerry... more

Chris highlights the career of Super Bowl champion and former teammate RT Lane Johnson as he discusses growing up in... more

For the first episode, Chris Long breaks down Super Bowl Champion & All-Pro DT Aaron Donald's football journey; from the... more

What does it mean to be great? Greatness might indicate a Hall of Fame career. But it can also be exemplified... more

Host Amira Rose Davis and story editor Jessica Luther recap their highlights from the American Prodigies series, talk about the... more

Brown Girls Do Gymnastics was born in 2015 with a mission to serve underrepresented and marginalized athletes in gymnastics and... more

**Content note** This episode contains graphic accounts of sexual abuse and child neglect. There are also accounts of physical and... more

This episode looks at how Black gymnasts came to create spaces of joy for themselves and how college programs benefited... more

Amira has a conversation with Dr. Samantha Sheppard and Dr. Courtney Cox answering, “Whatever happened to Gabby Douglas?” The trio... more

When you ask people of a certain age to remember the first Black gymnast, odds are they’ll remember Dominique Dawes.... more

Betty Okino started gymnastics “late” — at age 9 — and begged her mother to let her train with Bela... more

Dianne Durham could have represented the United States at the 1984 Olympics in LA, but she was injured during trials.... more

Jordan Chiles tells Amira about losing her love for gymnastics and how she discovered who she wanted to become –... more

This season of American Prodigies is the story of how Black girls moved from the margins of gymnastics to the... more

Amira talks with her Burn It All Down cohost, Jessica Luther, about what to expect from this season of American... more

In June of 2010, hours before the Mariners hosted the Twins, a 40-year-old Ken Griffey Jr. got into his car... more

If Ken Griffey Jr. was the charismatic new face of MLB who brought tons of new fans to the sport,... more

In 1999, Griffey was in the prime of his career with the Mariners. Yet, instead of playing out his last... more

After the strike, Griffey became a superstar on and off the field. From cameos on “The Simpsons” and “Fresh Prince,”... more

He's remembered as one of the biggest stars in America and a 90's cultural icon, yet somehow, it seems like Griffey's... more

What ever happened to Ken Griffey Jr., our love for him, and our love for baseball? Seattle musician and friend... more

Grant Wahl is back to introduce Season 2 of American Prodigy. Grant talks to Xola Malik and producer Alex Ward... more

Grant sits down with producer Harry Swartout and goes behind the scenes of the making of American Prodigy: Freddy Adu.... more

While this podcast was being made, 31-year-old Freddy signed with Swedish third-division club Österlen, his first pro club in two... more

It’s been two years since Freddy played competitive soccer, but at age 31 he’s still trying to make a comeback,... more

After a championship-winning rookie season, anything seemed possible for Freddy. Yet over the next 14 years, Freddy would play for... more

Freddy Adu had a million dollar smile. He flashed it on the field when he beat defenders twice his age.... more

Not even Freddy was ready for the passionate response to him from Black Americans, many of whom had rarely engaged... more

Freddy stepped off the stage of his introductory MLS press conference and right onto The Late Show with David Letterman.... more

In the streets of Ghana, Freddy played with boys twice his age. In the D.C. suburbs, Freddy went from playing... more

When Nike signed thirteen-year-old Freddy Adu to a million dollar contract, they thought he could be bigger than Michael Jordan,... more