Maury Povich
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Podcast Appearances
You know, never liked reporters and everything.
Got yoga very late in life.
Right.
So...
One day I'm in the locker room and I see, and this is the 70s, okay?
And so in the 70s, there are a lot of stories about drugs that players were using, these illicit drugs in order to pump up and other stuff, have cocaine outside the game and all that.
And so there's this bottle of pills and it could have been salt pills.
I mean, I didn't know.
I mean, who knows?
So I said, coach, can you tell me what's in that bottle?
And he says, Mari, this is 1973.
He says, Mari, are you with us or against us?
And I said to myself, I got to get out of sports.
I just got to.
How did my father do it for 75 years?
I got to get out of sports.
If you have to have a loyalty test, I'm in big trouble.
And that's when I went to news.
them yes yes i asked jeff perlman okay who i had on my show another great sports writer and stuff sports illustrated yes and writes great books yes so i said to jeff i said does this still happen he said absolutely oh yeah i would say more than ever and by the way you see that of course in in news actually
She was there the other day when Trump goes on 60 Minutes.