Kevin Love to be on Jim Rome Show 11 am PST

by waters96 on Jan 18, 2008 9:37 AM PST

The Kevin Love victory parade takes to the national airwaves today...

Kevin Love is going to be interviewed on the nationally syndicated Jim Rome Show, sometime during its third hour, which is between 11 am and 12 noon, PST. I'm going to be interested to hear what he has to say. I know Rome isn't universally loved (sorry about the pun), but he's always been a big Ben Howland guy (Coach BH was on the show a couple of days ago) and he's had nothing but good things to say about KL. In BH's interview, BH implied that he didn't expect KL to stay beyond this year, and I expect that Rome will ask Kevin about his future plans.

I think it's very cool that KL is already getting national run. I still predict by the end of the year that Kevin will be a strong candidate for Player of the Year.

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TV or radio

this going to be on just on Tv or on his Radio show? if so what station.

by uclaov1 on Jan 18, 2008 9:49 AM PST reply actions

AM570 KLAC - you can listen online

by going to the following:
AM 570 KLAC Live stream

go Bruins! dog.

by gdog009 on Jan 18, 2008 9:58 AM PST up reply actions

That's right, it's the radio show...

It's nationally syndicated so you can go to his website at jimrome.com to find out when and where it's on in our local market, or click on the link gdog009 graciously provided and listen on the internet.

by waters96 on Jan 18, 2008 10:00 AM PST reply actions

Rome is a UCSB guy

IIRC, thus the initial affinity for Howland since CBH was an assistant to Pimm for a while. Rome is a tool a lot of the time, but when he lays off the schtick he asks good questions and usually gets a pretty good interview.

by ucladj89 on Jan 18, 2008 10:23 AM PST reply actions

Agreed

I don't like Rome much, but he gets good guests and is a good interviewer. Besides that though, he's basically useless.

by Ryan Rosenblatt on Jan 18, 2008 10:25 AM PST up reply actions

Rome is an entertainer

so if you don't take the schtick too seriously, he's pretty funny. But he takes his interviews very seriously and they are usually very well done.

greg in denver

by gbruin on Jan 18, 2008 12:13 PM PST up reply actions

This is great

After KLove was done, Rome rambled on a 5 minute KLove + UCLA + BH lovefest.

by TheTJCummingsEra on Jan 18, 2008 11:19 AM PST reply actions

KL gets an A for the interview

Great interview. Rome is raving about KL. He points out that KL is the only high school senior to have ever been interviewed on the show.

I'm not going to try to transcribe the interview but here are a few of my highlights.

My favorite quote -- KL said "Coach Wooden is the best coach in history in any sport."

Rome concludes at the end of the interview, "congratulations on your life." "That's not like any 19 year old guy I've ever met in my life." "That is an amazing interview." "You know how much game he has, he can call Ben, 'Ben.' I've known Coach Howland before he was Coach Howland and I still can't call him Ben."

Conclusion - Rome says he thinks the current team is better than the previous two that went to the Final Four because they have an inside presence. And he loves KL.

by waters96 on Jan 18, 2008 11:22 AM PST reply actions