{"id":3159,"date":"2014-02-21T15:48:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T19:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/?p=3159"},"modified":"2015-02-20T16:38:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T20:38:05","slug":"inside-athletics-february-22-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2014\/02\/21\/inside-athletics-february-22-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Athletics: February 22, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s special edition of the Inside Athletics Podcast features the ODAC basketball tournament preview.\u00a0 Dave&#8217;s guests are head men&#8217;s basketball coach, Kirby Dean and head women&#8217;s coach, Kevin Griffin.\u00a0 With the men currently holding the #5 spot with one game remaining, they will host a first round game against the #12 team on Tuesday night with the winner going on to Salem for the quarterfinals on Friday.\u00a0 Kirby talks about the gradual improvement of the Runnin&#8217; Royals and their approach to the tournament.\u00a0 He also gives his insights on the parity that exists among ODAC teams this year.\u00a0 The women clinched the #1 spot in the tournament with a win at Shenandoah this week and will begin play next Thursday at 1pm.\u00a0 Coach Griffin reflects on playing all season with &#8220;the bull&#8217;s eye&#8221; on their back and how the team has come together throughout the season, particularly after the loss of sharp-shooting Marla zumFelde.\u00a0 He also shares his perspective on the tournament and what it will take to win it all.<\/p>\n<audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/02.21.14--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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"emu-podcast-embed\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/02.21.14--InsideAthletics.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/div><p>This week&#8217;s special edition of the Inside Athletics Podcast features the ODAC basketball tournament preview.\u00a0 Dave&#8217;s guests are head men&#8217;s basketball coach, Kirby Dean and head women&#8217;s coach, Kevin Griffin.\u00a0 With the men currently holding the #5 spot with one game remaining, they will host a first round game against the #12 team on Tuesday....<\/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":[4131,4317],"class_list":["post-3159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facultystaff-speakers","category-inside-athletics","tag-dave-king","tag-james-de-boer","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159","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=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3160,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions\/3160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}