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The Owner's Box
by Mark Farinella
The podcast of former NFL writer Mark Farinella. He talks sports, news, food, fun, and just about anything within the human condition. And not always by himself.
Episodes
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 62
It's a treasure trove of topics for host Mark Farinella, who discusses the Patriots Hall of Fame nominees, the Artemus II spaceflight, a former homestead lost to the wrecking ball and a Lightning Round that includes his least favorite commercials.
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 61,2
Host Mark Farinella solves the mystery of the missing Episode 60. Also stopping by virtually from Florida is his fellow announcer on local sports TV telecasts, Alex Salachi, to chat about the recently ended high school basketball season and the proposed Donald Trump Presidential Library. Plus…
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 61
Host Mark Farinella returns with commentaries about his long-awaited knee replacement, the Patriots Hall of Fame Committee meeting, and what was so important over the past eight months, it caused him to neglect these podcasts. And yes, there's a reason why there's no Episode 60 -- coming soon.
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 59
Host Mark Farinella ends another seven-month sabbatical by bringing his equipment outside of the studio and sharing his thoughts with the planes, trains, automobiles and animals that invade his space on a beautiful summer day. Among the topics discussed are summer basketball, Patriots training...
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 58
For the first time since 2019, host Mark Farinella welcomes long-time friend, mentor and international shipping and delivery magnate Cristoforo Cringlione to the podcast. The CEO of KringCo Overnight Delivery shares opinions about international commerce, consumer trends, Donald Trump, Greenland,...
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 57
Host Mark Farinella returns from a four-month hiatus to update listeners about an outstanding high school football season in his area, and look ahead at the coming basketball season with the help of unofficial co-host Lisa Downs, coach of the Foxboro (Mass.) girls' basketball team. And for the...
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 56
Host Mark Farinella welcomes Amy Dolores, the coach of the state Division 1 champion girls' basketball team from Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro, Mass., for her first visit to The Owner's Box. They talk about the Shamrocks' path to a state title, what it means to Dolores to be a part of…
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The Owner's Box. Ep. 55
Host Mark Farinella welcomes special guest co-host Alex Salachi for another "Mansfield Memories" episode, in which both 70-year-old gents try to recall important and interesting aspects of how their hometown of Mansfield, Mass., has changed over their lifetimes. Alex talks about the butcher shops...
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 54
Host Mark Farinella sounds off on the latest controversy surrounding WNBA star Caitlin Clark, and the upcoming, star-studded Patriots Hall of Fame induction ceremony for Tom Brady, as well as offering some coming attractions.
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 53
Host Mark Farinella chats about hie recent eye injury and recovery status, a terrific and just-concluded high school basketball season for his local teams, and much more in his first podcast of 2024. Special guest appearance by Foxboro (Mass.) High School girls' basketball coach Lisa Downs, whose...
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 52
Host Mark Farinella presents his preview of the high school basketball teams for which he'll be doing play-by-play this year, and his guests are the five coaches of those teams -- Mansfield (Mass.) High boys' coach Michael Vaughan and girls' coach Heather McPherson, Foxboro (Mass.) girls' coach...
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 51
Host Mark Farinella is joined by college hockey play-by-play announcer John Leahy, a native of Stoughton, Mass., who went back to his roots on Thanksgiving to broadcast a high school football rivalry game. He and Mark chat about the current state of high school football in Massachusetts, and then...
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 50
To celebrate the 50th episode of "The Owner's Box." host Mark Farinella and guest Alex Salachi take a stroll down the Memory Lane of Mansfield, Mass., their long-time hometown. Each looks back to the Mansfield of the 1960s, Alex recalling the town's abundance of barbershops and Mark taking a…
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 49
Kristen McDonnell, the coach of the Norwood (Mass.) High School girls' basketball team, joins host Mark Farinella for the fourth time to discuss her transition back to coaching girls from a successful stint with the boys' team. She also explains her innovative summer program of "pickup…
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 48
Host Mark Farinella calls an audible and goes solo after a planned guest had to postpone. Topics include a controversial plan to install a video scoreboard at a local high school football field, hurricanes and earthquakes in California, the failed bid for the Pro Football Hall of Fame by Patriots...
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 47
Host Mark Farinella takes on a bevy of topics, including his fall schedule of King Philip Regional High School sports telecasts on North TV, the controversial Big Blue A that now stands in front of the new Attleboro High School, and whether Patriots fans have Malik Mania or Cunningham Colic after...
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 46
Foxborough (Mass.) High School girls' basketball coach Lisa Downs makes her sixth appearance on the podcast. She and host Mark Farinella talk about her team's third state championship, her approach to coaching and maintaining a strong rapport with her athletes, and her fundraising efforts to send...
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The Owner's Box. Ep. 45
Host Mark Farinella returns to regular podcasting with a solo episode, checking in on topics such as the Northwestern University football controversy, Patriots training camp, backyard bunnies, the US Women's National Soccer Team, and much more.
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 44
Host Mark Farinella returns with his first all-new episode since October 2021. Topics for the third-season debut include what in the heck he was doing all that time when he should have been podcasting, trash-talking in women's basketball and a new national holiday -- Indictment Day!
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 43
Host Mark Farinella dusts off what he calls "the lost episode" -- Episode 43, which was recorded on Nov. 1, 2021, and then promptly lost when his computers melted down. The topics are two years old, but it won't be too long before the content is fresh and new again.
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 42
Host Mark Farinella welcomes his broadcast partner on North TV high school sports telecasts, Glen Farley, to chat about the new season for Massachusetts high school football and the team they cover, the King Philip Regional High School Warriors of Wrentham, Mass. Recorded on Sept. 11, 2021…
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 41
Host Mark Farinella talks with Brian Lee, the two-time state-champion head coach of the King Philip Regional High School (Wrentham, Mass.) football team, as he prepares his Warriors without the oppressive COVID-related restrictions from the hybrid "Fall 2" season that ended in April. also, in his...
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 40
Lisa Downs, the two-time state champion coach of the Foxborough (Mass.) High School girls' basketball team, meets up with host Mark Farinella at a nearby year-round basketball facility to chat about the return of summer-league ball to post-pandemic Massachusetts. In her fifth appearance on the...
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 39
Host Mark Farinella chats with new Army women's basketball coach Missy Traversi, a native of Attleboro, Mass., about how she made the move to West Point from Division II Adelphi University, what she is learning about the tradition and culture of the U.S. Military Academy, how she believes her…
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 38
Mansfield (Mass.) High School boys' basketball coach Michael Vaughan visits The Owner's Box for the second time (after a 17-month hiatus) to chat about a myriad of topics with host Mark Farinella. Among those are what it took to go from pandemic panic to a basketball season this past January; how...
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 37
Host Mark Farinella flies solo to explain why it's been more than a month since his last podcast. It's been a rough patch around The Owner's Box lately as a result of a personal tragedy and some nagging health issues, but things are looking up. Farinella also talks about the end of his third…
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 36
Ray Martel, the executive producer of New York Mets baseball broadcasts on WCBS in New York City, visits host Mark Farinella to talk about the changes in sports broadcasting -- including announcing games from remote locations instead of the ballparks -- that were wrought by the year-long...
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 35
Host Mark Farinella and his North TV football broadcast partner Glen Farley exercise their lungs before a recent high school game by shouting over the pre-game music to discuss the state of school sports in Massachusetts after the "Fall II" season created as a response to COVID-19. There's also a...
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 34
Host Mark Farinella speaks with two football coaches in southeastern Massachusetts, North Attleboro High's Don Johnson and Attleboro High's Mike Strachan, about how the communities rallied to support their football teams following the cancellation of the 100th annual Thanksgiving game in…
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 33
Host Mark Farinella welcomes Norwood (Mass.) High School boys' basketball coach Kristen McDonnell on her third visit to The Owner's Box. McDonnell, a four-time state champion girls' basketball coach who took over Norwood's boys' team last year, talks about the progress the 9-2 Mustangs made in…
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 32
Host Mark Farinella gets a different perspective on the pandemic from Foxborough (Mass.) High School's Katelyn Mollica, one of the best basketball players in Massachusetts. Starting in March with the cancellation of a state championship game, the senior guard and her teammates were faced with the...
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 31
Host Mark Farinella welcomes former Xaverian Brothers (Westwood, Mass.) High School basketball coach Alex Salachi, his broadcast partner for King Philip Regional High basketball cablecasts om North TV and select Mansfield games on Mansfield Cable Access, to preview the upcoming season for the…
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 30
Host Mark Farinella chats with Adelphi University women's basketball coach (and Bishop Feehan High School alumna) Missy Traversi about her efforts to get a new season underway while still coping with the ongoing threat of the coronavirus pandemic -- the same one that called an abrupt halt to a…
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 29
Host Mark Farinella welcomes Foxborough (Mass.) High School girls' basketball coach Lisa Downs to The Owner's Box for the fourth time to talk about the uncertainty surrounding plans for a winter sports season in Massachusetts, and how that is impacting her athletes.
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 28
Host Mark Farinella flies solo to address the issues that formed his decision in the 2020 presidential election. Then he shifts gears and discusses the alarming possibility that the resurgence of the COVID-19 crisis may sidetrack plans for high school sports in Massachusetts' winter season.
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 27
Host Mark Farinella kicks off the second season of "The Owner's Box" with a discussion of the dumpster fire that is the 2020 Boston Red Sox with baseball reporter and author Maureen Mullen, a return guest. They talk baseball and the current state of journalism, and we get an update about…
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 26
Host Mark Farinella dusts off the archives and finds quotes from Foxboro High girls' basketball coach Lisa Downs, former Xaverian Brothers High coach Alex Salachi and Norwood High boys' coach Kristen McDonnell that hinted to a recent action by the state's governing board for high school sports to...
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 25
Athlete, coach and musician Paul Souza, a former resident of Mansfield, Mass., talks with host Mark Farinella about his recent battle with and recovery from the coronavirus. Souza, now living in Indianapolis, also talks about his plans to get back behind the microphone with a new band.
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 24
Author Christopher Price, a former beat writer covering the New England Patriots and current Boston Globe web editor, stops by The Owner's Box to chat with host Mark Farinella about his published works, including "The Blueprint" and "Drive for Five" about the Patriots, and a forthcoming work…
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 23
Foxborough (Mass.) High School girls' basketball coach Lisa Downs returns to the podcast to talk with host Mark Farinella about her team's state Division 2 championship, the effects of the coronavirus lockdown on her preparation for a new season, and her work with her community's food pantry…
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 22
Host Mark Farinella chats with Mike Redding, veteran head football coach and former head girls' basketball coach of Mansfield (Mass.) High School, about football, roundball and his new job as the school's athletic director. Plus, a special remembrance of a former MHS football coach, the late E.B....
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 21
Host Mark Farinella chats with a long-time friend, Ed Berliner, the former host of a trend-setting nightly show called "Sports Pulse" on Comcast-New England's CN8 channel. A veteran news and sports anchor in several cities, Berliner now runs a media consulting firm and is the host of the video...
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 20
Host Mark Farinella is visited by Holy Cross basketball standout Lauren Manis, the only player in school history regardless of gender to score 2,000 career points and grab 1,000 career rebounds. Manis talks about her dedication to self-improvement, her reasons for not transferring midway through...
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 19
Adelphi University women's basketball coach Missy Traversi joins host Mark Farinella to talk about the abrupt, coronavirus-related cancellation of the NCAA basketball tournaments, and also what changes are being made in recruiting plans and procedures during the ongoing crisis.
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 18
The television "voice" of the Boston Bruins, Jack Edwards, stops by The Owner's Box to talk with host Mark Farinella about the interruption in the National Hockey League season, what ramifications that could have for the Bruins and NHL going forward, and he offers Farinella some tips on doing...
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 17
Norwood (Mass.) High School boys' basketball coach Kristen McDonnell returns to The Owner's Box, chatting with host Mark Farinella about her first season at the Mustangs' helm, as well as touching on other big news from the recently concluded season.
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 16
NFL Network producer Lisa Edwards led one of just two reporting crews allowed inside Gillette Stadium on St. Patrick's Day when Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady announced he would not return to the team after 20 seasons. Edwards returns to the podcast to tell host Mark Farinella about the unique...
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 15
Host Mark Farinella welcomes Alex Salachi, former head coach of the Xaverian Brothers High School basketball team and current treasurer of the Massachusetts Basketball Coaches Association, to discuss the role of the coaches' group. They also chat about some of the sweeping changes coming to Mass....
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 14
Foxborough (Mass.) High School girls' basketball coach Lisa Downs pays her second visit to The Owner's Box, where she and host Mark Farinella talk about the upcoming state tournament, as well as several controversial proposals that would change how champions are crowned in Massachusetts.
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The Owner's Box, Ep. 13
NFL Network field producer Lisa Edwards is host Mark Farinella's guest, explaining what it takes to get the news of the league into your homes, as well as much, much more.
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The podcast of former NFL writer Mark Farinella. He talks sports, news, food, fun, and just about anything within the human condition. And not always by himself.
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The podcast of former NFL writer Mark Farinella. He talks sports, news, food, fun, and just about anything within the human condition. And not always by himself.
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