Our Story –
Friends for more than 25 years who actually met playing in a Sunday morning pickup basketball game, Don and Wayne are certainly the “Odd Couple” among longtime Maryland media covering the Terps. The OddCast is not only a perfect title for their first off-court collaboration, but it also pays homage to Don’s boyhood role model – fictional sportswriter Oscar Madison.
Don has tried to keep his professional distance from the coaches and players he followed during three decades on the basketball beat and two shorter stints covering football in College Park for the Baltimore Sun, where he worked from 1985 until leaving the newspaper in February.
Wayne, on the other hand, has been a Terp fan since growing up in Hagerstown and later graduating from Maryland in 1988. Half-kiddingly called by Don “a booster with a press box” as the co-founder of TerpTalk.com, Wayne wears his emotions on his Under Armour sleeve and is trying very hard – albeit not all that successfully – from eliminating the word “we” from his on-air vocabulary.
We – in this case Don and Wayne – hope you follow our coverage of Maryland athletics on TerpReporter.com.
Rest of the Cast –
Mason Viener is the producer of the OddTerps podcast and a noted voice on the Terps. Mason is also the ESPN+ voice of the Jacksonville University Dolphins where he is a freshman.
Jordan Viener assists with podcast planning and digital strategy. He is an intern with the SID department at North Dakota State University where he is a senior.
April 2020