{"id":2867,"date":"2013-08-09T09:03:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T13:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2015-04-08T11:26:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T15:26:29","slug":"inside-athletics-august-9-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2013\/08\/09\/inside-athletics-august-9-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Athletics: August 9, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week Dave&#8217;s guest is head baseball coach, Ben Spotts who provides detailed information about the renovation work to be done on the baseball infield. The current infield will be stripped, re-graded and sodded with Bermuda grass. Ben describes the advantages of Bermuda grass, how it plays, and the maintenance. In the second part of the podcast, Dave reflects on the current stories from sports that are flooding the airwaves, PED scandal in baseball and Johnny Manziel in college football. Dave and Ben share their perspectives on the use of performance enhancing drugs, steroids, etc at the DIII level.<\/p>\n<audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/08.09.13--InsideAthletics.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio>\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">Inside Athletics is a weekly podcast hosted by Director of Athletics, Dave King. The podcast offers a synopsis of what is happening in EMU athletics, but also delves deeper into how athletics at EMU shapes lives and enhances college educations by positively impacting an athlete\u2019s understanding of self, others, and God. Sports Information Director James De Boer is a regular guest with EMU coaches and athletes making appearances as well.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"emu-podcast-embed\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/08.09.13--InsideAthletics.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/div><p>This week Dave&#8217;s guest is head baseball coach, Ben Spotts who provides detailed information about the renovation work to be done on the baseball infield. The current infield will be stripped, re-graded and sodded with Bermuda grass. Ben describes the advantages of Bermuda grass, how it plays, and the maintenance. In the second part of....<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3976],"tags":[4599,4131],"class_list":["post-2867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facultystaff-speakers","category-inside-athletics","tag-ben-spotts","tag-dave-king","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2869,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}