In this Sports Byline interview, Ron Barr talks to Cam Perron, who developed an interest in the Negro League baseball players when he was just 12 years old. Perron has since been chronicling his research on the players and the league, and was featured on HBO’s Real Sports.Perron shares stories from the Negro League players he’s become close with in his research and gives insight into this overlooked part of baseball history.

Erik Malinowski, author of the insightful book about how the Golden State Warriors utilize technology and analytics in basketball, Betaball: How Silicon Valley and Science Built One of the Greatest Basketball Teams in History, talks about what it takes to compete in the modern NBA.

Carli Lloyd is a 2-time Olympic gold medalist with the United States women’s national soccer team. She was awarded the 2015 and 2016 FIFA Player of the Year awards and played in 3 FIFA women’s World Cups for the United States. She discusses her start in soccer, her book, When Nobody was Watching: My Hard-fought Journey to the Top of the Soccer World, and her career.

All-Pro linebacker Otis Wilson of the Chicago Bears talks about his 9 NFL seasons, 8 with the Chicago Bears, and the successes—and pranks—of the famous 1985 Super Bowl winning Bears team, including the filming of the "Super Bowl Shuffle". Wilson is the author of the autobiography If These Walls Could Talk: Chicago Bears.

Mike Freeman is an NFL writer who has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe and many more. Freeman currently writes for Bleacher Report and has written multiple books, including biographies of Bobby Bowden and Jim Brown. In this Sports Byline interview, he discusses his book, Snake: The Legendary Life of Ken Stabler, and how the NFL has changed over the years.

Jerome Williams, former NBA forward who played for Detroit, Toronto, Chicago and the New York Knicks talks about the importance of academics for kids in sports, and the weight that was placed on basketball as a kid growing up in the Washington D.C. area.Williams talks about starting his college basketball career at Georgetown, what it was like to play at Madison Square Garden, and touches on the Chicago Bulls vs. Detroit Pistons rivalry.

Terry Porter played 17 years in the NBA including 10 years for the Portland Trailblazers. Porter earned two all-star selections and had his #30 retired by the Trailblazers. The former first round pick is now the head basketball coach at the University of Portland. Porter talks about growing up in Milwaukee, playing for Dick Bennett and his NBA career.

WNBA Center Brittney Griner has had an impressive career, including being only the second NCAA basketball player to score 2,000 points and block 500 shots. She played on the USA Women's Olympic Team and the McDonald's All-American Team. She discusses growing up in Houston, being bullied in her younger years and how basketball helped her to move past it.

Armen Keteyian is an 11-time Emmy Award winning journalist and is a correspondent on 60 Minutes. Keteyian worked for CBS Sports as a NFL sideline reporter, as a featured correspondent for HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel and with ABC News. Here, he discusses how he got his start in sports journalism, his transition from writing to TV and his book Money Players: Days and Nights Inside the New NBA.

Andy Zlotnick is a baseball fan who was struck in the eye by a foul ball at Yankee Stadium. During a rainy game, umbrellas limited visibility, and Zlotnick couldn’t see the ball. After sustaining a major eye injury, he met with a Yankees executive to discuss his medical bills and the umbrella policy at Yankees Stadium. He claims he was refuted. In this interview, Zlotnick tells his story and his fight for policy changes.

Author Erica Westly’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Slate, the New Republic and many more. She wrote Fastpitch: The Untold History of Softball and Women Who Made the Game, which was a finalist for the 2017 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports. She discusses the rise of women’s softball and the key figures that elevated the game.

2005 NFL MVP Shaun Alexander played 9 years in the NFL including 8 with the Seahawks. He set the single-season NFL rushing record with 27 touchdowns. He was named to the Pro Bowl three times in his career and was named to the 2000’s All-Decade Team. In this interview, he discusses his upbringing in Florence, Kentucky, his college career at Alabama and his pro career in Seattle.