Ask Isaac Bruce about his storied career and the first thing he’ll tell you is pretty simple: He was successful only because others were great. Quarterback Kurt Warner, lineman Orlando Pace, running back Marshall Faulk. The list goes on, with no mention of himself, the receiver who starred in jersey No. 80. “From 1994 being… Read more »
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Mike Claiborne
He climbed the ladder the right way, with his college years spent broadcasting football and basketball games on the school’s WRFN station and working for the student paper before, at the onset of his professional career, writing for a hometown newspaper. Then came a subtle but notable break for Mike Claiborne. In the early 1980s,… Read more »
Frank Cusumano
After 25 years covering sports for KSDK TV, after tons of awards and numerous World Series and two Super Bowls – after everything – you would assume Frank Cusumano would put it on cruise control. Hardly. In October 2018, there he was on assignment at inner-city Roosevelt High School, reporting on a Public High League… Read more »
The Farmer Family
Mike Farmer loves telling this story. It’s about his dad, Elliott, the second baseman of the early 1930s Missouri Tigers baseball teams. “I remember being told by friends of his that he never went down swinging,” Mike says with a chuckle. “Hitting a baseball to him was (as easy) as catching a baseball.” In the… Read more »
Bernard Garfinkel
Born in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, Dr. Bernard Garfinkel was a team doctor for the St. Louis Football Cardinals and the St. Louis Rams. Garfinkel was a World War II veteran and a physician at Barnes Hospital, where he specialized in cardiology and geriatrics.
Rich Gould
For somebody who has been telling sports stories for years, the story that kick-started it all for his career is even hard to believe. We’ll let Rich Gould explain it. After all, that’s in the wheelhouse of a longtime television sports director. “In 1978, Tom Mast (MSHOF 2021) was working non-stop for about three to… Read more »
Trent Green
Originally drafted by the San Diego Chargers in 1993, Trent Green became a NFL starter in 1998 with the Washington Redskins. The following year he signed a four year contract with the St. Louis Rams. After a season ending injury in a pre-season game, he was traded to the Kansas City Chiefs. In 2003, Green… Read more »
William Greenblatt
Back in middle school, he took photos on a Polaroid camera and, during high school, would photograph football games while he stood on the sidelines in his marching band uniform. At age 16, William Greenblatt was working for a St. Louis camera store when Fred Sweets walked in one day. Sweets’ father was the publisher… Read more »
Mike Jones
Mike Jones played football at the University of Missouri as a running back. While at MU, he set the school record for most yards in a quarter, 104, and set the all-time mark for receptions for a running back in a season (41) and in a career (72). During his twelve-year NFL career he played… Read more »
Todd Lyght
Todd Lyght was an All-American for Lou Holtz at Notre Dame, and a national champion. In the NFL, Lyght was an All-Pro and Pro-Bowl selection over his 12 seasons. He helped lead the St. Louis Rams to a Super Bowl XXXIV championship. His football legacy is more than secure. But did we almost have Todd… Read more »
Mike Martz
In early 1999, with most of pro football assuming the St. Louis Rams wouldn’t be much of anything that fall, Mike Martz took a detour back to the Gateway Arch. “I was coaching at Washington in 1997 and 1998 and got a call from the Rams, who were offering the offensive coordinator job,” said Martz,… Read more »
Dr. Matthew Matava
You look at the resume and see all the years he has provided medical care for St. Louis’ premier NCAA Division III athletics department and the city’s National Hockey League and National Football League franchises and come to a conclusion. That is, that Dr. Matthew Matava planned this from the start. Not exactly. “I played… Read more »
Andy McCollum
At Toledo University, Andy McCollum played for both Nick Saban and Gary Pinkel and helped then helped the St. Louis Rams win 46 games in his first six seasons. He blocked for three NFL MVPs, three NFL Offensive Player of the Year winners and himself was a finalist for the Walter Payton Man of the… Read more »
Steve Savard
You look at the resume now and assume that this was the dream all along, that working as a TV sports director – and in one long stretch as the Voice of the St. Louis Rams – was carefully mapped out. No, that wasn’t the case for Steve Savard, who in 1987 had to say… Read more »
Rod Smith
In almost every community across America, a unique connection exists between sports fans and their local sports reporters. Nowhere is that more pronounced than in mid-Missouri. In 2008, at the height of the Great Recession and its layoffs, longtime KRCG-TV 13 Sports Director Rod Smith was among the casualties, for financial reasons like so many… Read more »
Dick Vermeil
One of the most distinguished coaching careers in National Football League history officially concluded when Dick Vermeil announced his retirement from professional football in 2006. Vermeil spent 15 seasons as an NFL head coach and was a member of the league’s coaching fraternity for 19 seasons. In addition, Vermeil has had a prestigious career as… Read more »