Dwight Stones’ talk show: ‘The Mouth That Soars’
Before broadcasting, coaching and other ventures began cutting into his time, Dwight Stones was an active masters high jumper. His duel with Jim Barrineau at the 1995 Buffalo worlds is the stuff of legend. (He lost.) Now he’s found another way to avoid high jumping — his own radio show. Little known fact about him (and me): In the mid-1980s, shortly after he jumped in the Los Angeles Olympics, I wrote him a letter offering to ghostwrite his track memoirs. He was hot, articulate and had plenty of dirty laundry to air. He also had an ego THIS big. He replied to my note: “Thanks, but I plan to write my own memoirs.” So far, zip. Oh well. We tried.
Here’s how his show is described:
The Mouth That Soars” airs Wednesdays at 11 AM/PST, 2 PM/EST on the VoiceAmerica Sports Channel with discussions ranging from performance-enhancing drugs to the emerging professionalism of athletes in Olympic sports. Dwight will host a variety of guests who will shed light the process that athletes go through to rise above the ordinary and become extraordinary athletes – and hear how these qualities help them transition into a life after sports. Tune in to “The Mouth That Soars” with Olympian Dwight Stones, every Wednesday at 11 AM/PST on the VoiceAmerica Network’s premier Sports Channel.
The Track & Field News message board has a thread on Dwight’s new gig.
