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The Sage Steele Show

Sage Steele Productions

The Sage Steele Show is a weekly podcast hosted by former ESPN anchor Sage Steele. Each week, Sage sits down with entertainers, athletes, business people, and politicians to have deep dive personal one on one conversations that enlightens, entertains, and engages. There's a whole big world out there that's not just sports, and Sage wants to talk about all of it.

137 - My Husband and My Father Served. This Is What It Means To Them
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  • 137 - My Husband and My Father Served. This Is What It Means To Them

    Col. Gary Steele served 23 years in the United States Army and retired a full colonel in 1993. Before that he was a West Point cadet in the class of 1970, Army's first African American football letterman, and a man who turned down Joe Paterno and Penn State to go to the Academy instead. His father was a Buffalo Soldier. On this Veterans Day, Sage Steele sits down with her father and with her husband, Dave Barbuto, an Army brat who went to Creighton on ROTC, chose the infantry, and was at Fort Campbell on September 11, 2001.

    What follows is the conversation Sage says she has wondered about her whole life: what serving actually meant to the two most important men in her family. Col. Steele explains why Operation Desert Storm was the hardest moment of his career for a reason his daughter did not understand until now, what his commanding officer told him when he asked to be sent, and what happened years later at midnight on Bourbon Street. Dave describes the chow hall at Fort Campbell the morning the second plane hit, why there was excitement in his unit and why that is not what civilians think it is, and the men he lost on his unit's first offensive mission in Iraq whose names he still wears. Both men talk about what the flag meant on a post where everything stopped for ninety seconds at five o'clock, what they make of the country now, and what they would say to a veteran who is struggling.

    New episodes of The Sage Steele Show every week.

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    The Sage Steele Show is a weekly podcast hosted by former ESPN anchor Sage Steele. Each week, Sage sits down with entertainers, athletes, business people, and politicians to have deep dive personal one on one discussions that enlighten, entertain, and engage. There's a whole big world out there that's not just sports, and Sage wants to talk about all of it.

    #sagesteelepodcast #sagesteele #podcast

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    Wed, 11 Nov 2026 - 1h 09min
  • 136 - Chris Harrison on Why Modern Dating Is Failing & How The Vow Could Change Everything

    Chris Harrison is back! After more than five years away from television, the former host of *The Bachelor* joins Sage Steele to discuss his return with The Vow, a new faith-centered dating series on FOX Nation. Chris shares why he believes modern dating needs a reset, the importance of faith and traditional values in relationships, and why this next chapter means so much to him.

    Patreon:

    http://bit.ly/4nLmOSk

    The Sage Steele Show is a weekly podcast hosted by former ESPN anchor Sage Steele. Each week, Sage sits down with entertainers, athletes, business people, and politicians to have deep dive personal one on one discussions that enlighten, entertain, and engage. There's a whole big world out there that's not just sports, and Sage wants to talk about all of it.

    #sagesteelepodcast #sagesteele #podcast

    Subscribe to the Channel for more Podcasts like this!

    Listen to the Show on all Podcast Apps "The Sage Steele Show" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sage-steele-show/id1737682826

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    Fri, 06 Nov 2026 - 28min
  • 135 - Gov. Ron DeSantis Reacts to Midterm Election Results | Sage Steele Show EP 130

    Ron DeSantis joined Sage Steele hours after the 2026 midterms to give the assessment no one in Washington was willing to give on camera. The Florida governor, who had already called the result close to an extinction level event for Republicans in much of the country, walks through what the midterms actually cost his party: the Senate confirmation math that he says leaves Donald Trump unable to seat a Supreme Court justice or a Defense Secretary his own voters would accept, the down ballot losses in state legislatures that he argues will outlast everyone currently in office, and the reason Florida was the only one of the ten most populous states to hold. He is blunt about the causes, from grocery prices and the Iran conflict to congressional stock trading, and blunter about his own party's communication failures. Asked directly when he will announce a 2028 run, his answer is not the one the prediction markets expected. He also explains the compounding math behind why prices never came back down, why screaming socialism stopped working as an argument, and what he learned about bouncing back from a 17 to nothing loss as a Yale outfielder in March of 2000. Figures cited were still provisional at the time of recording. New episodes of The Sage Steele Show every week.

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    18+ only. Restrictions and eligibility requirements apply. Event contract trading involves significant risk and is not appropriate for everyone. Please carefully consider if it is appropriate for you in light of your personal financial circumstances. Kalshi products are not available in all jurisdictions. See kalshi.com/regulatory for more information.

    Get 25% Off Cowboy Colostrum with code SAGE at https://www.cowboycolostrum.com/SAGE.

    Visit https://GoodRanchers.com/SAGE to claim your $120 OFF free meat with every order.

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    Your $17.76 3-week QuickStart is ready for you! Visit https://www.relieffactor.com/ or call 800-4-RELIEF.

    Patreon:

    http://bit.ly/4nLmOSk

    The Sage Steele Show is a weekly podcast hosted by former ESPN anchor Sage Steele. Each week, Sage sits down with entertainers, athletes, business people, and politicians to have deep dive personal one on one discussions that enlighten, entertain, and engage. There's a whole big world out there that's not just sports, and Sage wants to talk about all of it.

    #sagesteelepodcast #sagesteele #podcast

    Subscribe to the Channel for more Podcasts like this!

    Listen to the Show on all Podcast Apps "The Sage Steele Show" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sage-steele-show/id1737682826

    Follow Sage:

    https://www.sagesteele.com

    https://x.com/sagesteele

    https://www.instagram.com/sagesteele

    https://www.tiktok.com/@officialsagesteele

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    Wed, 04 Nov 2026 - 1h 16min
  • 134 - Linda Cohn: Loyalty Doesn't Pay | Sage Steele Show

    Linda Cohn spent 34 years at ESPN, longer than almost anyone, and she left this summer on her own terms with a YouTube show already built. She joins Sage Steele for 76 minutes on what those last years actually looked like: the 2017 suspension after an innocent radio interview, the phone call she describes as bullying, the tweet a boss ordered her to delete, and the 80 percent pay cut she accepted after ESPN closed the Los Angeles studio so that nobody else got to decide how her run ended.

    She also explains exactly where she believes the old SportsCenter died, why she was cast aside from NHL coverage after keeping the sport alive on the show for years, and why she never got an answer about any of it. Then the two of them get into what the industry looks like now: why so few women in sports media will speak up on women's sports, why executives who have never sat in the chair keep making the calls, and whether ESPN can ever win back an audience that has already left for YouTube.

    Linda Cohn, ESPN, SportsCenter, and life after the worldwide leader. New episodes of The Sage Steele Show every week.

    Sponsors:

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    Your $17.76 3-week QuickStart is ready for you! Visit https://www.relieffactor.com/ or call 800-4-RELIEF.

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    Download the Kalshi app and use code SAGE to get $25 when you trade $25 or go to https://kalshi.com/r/Sage

    18+ only. Restrictions and eligibility requirements apply. Event contract trading involves significant risk and is not appropriate for everyone. Please carefully consider if it is appropriate for you in light of your personal financial circumstances. Kalshi products are not available in all jurisdictions. See kalshi.com/regulatory for more information.

    Chapters:

    00:00 - Intro

    00:46 - Linda Cohn Reflects on 34 Years at ESPN

    04:50 - The Real Linda Cohn & Finally Speaking Freely

    10:35 - When ESPN Started to Change

    16:07 - Linda's Suspension & Her Experience With John Skipper

    22:52 - Politics, Double Standards & Why ESPN Lost Its Way

    26:49 - Linda's Emotional ESPN Sendoff & Her Lasting Impact

    31:14 - Advice for Young Women Entering Sports Media Today

    34:55 - Women in Leadership & How Talent Gets Chosen

    42:18 - Sophie Cunningham & Why Women in Sports Stay Silent

    48:18 - Billie Jean King, Title IX & Protecting Women's Sports

    52:17 - ESPNW, Hypocrisy & When the Culture Changed

    55:52 - The Painful Side of Linda's 34-Year ESPN Career

    01:01:08 - NHL Coverage, Being Cast Aside & an 80% Pay Cut

    01:08:13 - Linda Almost Gets Into a Fight at SoFi Stadium

    01:12:14 - Being Called MAGA for Supporting Caitlin Clark

    01:17:42 - Can ESPN Ever Win Back Its Audience?

    01:22:35 - Final Thoughts & Outro

    Patreon:

    http://bit.ly/4nLmOSk

    The Sage Steele Show is a weekly podcast hosted by former ESPN anchor Sage Steele. Each week, Sage sits down with entertainers, athletes, business people, and politicians to have deep dive personal one on one discussions that enlighten, entertain, and engage. There's a whole big world out there that's not just sports, and Sage wants to talk about all of it.

    #sagesteelepodcast #sagesteele #podcast

    Subscribe to the Channel for more Podcasts like this!

    Listen to the Show on all Podcast Apps "The Sage Steele Show" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sage-steele-show/id1737682826

    Follow Sage:

    https://www.sagesteele.com

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    Wed, 28 Oct 2026 - 1h 23min
  • 133 - Enes Kanter Freedom on the WNBA Rejection, Getting Blackballed by the NBA, and 14 Years in Exile

    On October 16, the WNBA told Congress that Enes Kanter Freedom is ineligible to play because he is a man. We recorded this before that letter existed, and he had already called it.

    Enes has declared himself eligible for the 2027 WNBA draft. He walks me through what he found in Article 13 of the collective bargaining agreement, why he says the league asked for months just to decide what a woman is, the eight other men he says are ready to file if the rules do not change, the one word the league could add that would make him walk away for good, and why he insists this is a pro-women position rather than an anti-trans one.

    We also get into the career that ended first. Third overall pick, eleven seasons, more than one hundred million dollars in salary, and it was over at twenty nine because he wrote three words on a pair of Michael Jordan sneakers and would not stop talking about China. What his agent told him on the phone the day he understood it was finished. Why his own teammates asked for a separate bus. And why he has not spoken to his mother in almost fourteen years.

    New episodes of the Sage Steele Show every week. Subscribe so you do not miss one.

    Sponsors:

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    Your $17.76 3-week QuickStart is ready for you! Visit https://www.relieffactor.com/ or call 800-4-RELIEF.

    Save 20% Off Honeylove by going to https://honeylove.com/SAGE! #honeylovepod

    Download the Kalshi app and use code SAGE to get $25 when you trade $25 or go to https://kalshi.com/r/Sage

    18+ only. Restrictions and eligibility requirements apply. Event contract trading involves significant risk and is not appropriate for everyone. Please carefully consider if it is appropriate for you in light of your personal financial circumstances. Kalshi products are not available in all jurisdictions. See kalshi.com/regulatory for more information.

    Chapters:

    00:00 - Intro

    02:46 - Enes Freedom's Journey From the NBA to the 2027 WNBA Draft

    05:00 - Why Enes Says He's Eligible to Play in the WNBA

    08:42 - Why the WNBA Won't Define What a Woman Is

    11:04 - Death Threats, the FBI & Backlash for Defending Women's Sports

    16:14 - Why Enes Refuses to Give Up on Women's Sports

    19:40 - Locker Rooms, Showers & Following the WNBA's Own Rules

    21:42 - Adam Silver, WNBA Leadership & What Happens Next

    22:58 - Sophie Cunningham, Natasha Cloud & the Chicago Sky Incident

    29:07 - What NBA Players Really Say Behind Closed Doors

    33:10 - Kevin Durant, Money & Why Athletes Stay Silent

    37:04 - Enes' Lawsuit Against the Chicago Sky

    40:58 - How Speaking Out Against Nike & China Ended His NBA Career

    45:20 - Slave Labor, China & Why Enes Kept Speaking Out

    48:55 - Losing His Career, His Family & Feeling Completely Alone

    53:03 - Mental Health, Faith & Surviving the Lowest Point of His Life

    56:36 - How the U.S. Government Trained Enes to Deal With Dictatorships

    59:23 - LeBron James, Daryl Morey & the NBA's China Problem

    01:04:36 - Inside the NBA Bubble: COVID, Kneeling & League Politics

    01:09:49 - Marijuana, OnlyFans & What Really Happened in the Bubble

    01:12:01 - The Recordings Enes Says Could Expose the NBA

    01:15:52 - What Americans Don't Understand About Freedom

    01:19:58 - Why Enes Changed His Last Name to Freedom

    01:21:04 - Steven Adams, Jaylen Brown & Who Actually Supported Him

    01:24:47 - Growing Up Around Anti-Americanism After 9/11

    01:27:02 - How Speaking Out Put Enes' Family in Danger

    01:29:22 - Why He Hasn't Spoken to His Parents in Nearly 14 Years

    01:32:43 - Why Enes Is Single & Who He Turns to When He Has No One

    01:38:21 - The Legacy Enes Freedom Wants to Leave Behind

    01:40:30 - His Book, His Future & Final Thoughts

    Patreon:

    http://bit.ly/4nLmOSk

    The Sage Steele Show is a weekly podcast hosted by former ESPN anchor Sage Steele. Each week, Sage sits down with entertainers, athletes, business people, and politicians to have deep dive personal one on one discussions that enlighten, entertain, and engage. There's a whole big world out there that's not just sports, and Sage wants to talk about all of it.

    #sagesteelepodcast #sagesteele #podcast

    Subscribe to the Channel for more Podcasts like this!

    Listen to the Show on all Podcast Apps "The Sage Steele Show" https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sage-steele-show/id1737682826

    Follow Sage:

    https://www.sagesteele.com

    https://x.com/sagesteele

    https://www.instagram.com/sagesteele

    https://www.tiktok.com/@officialsagesteele

    https://rumble.com/c/SageSteeleProductions

    Wed, 21 Oct 2026 - 1h 41min
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