In the 1980s, Michael Bivins took the music world by storm with the formation of the popular boy band New Edition that also featured the troubled Bobby Brown. His music influence and legendary vision has discovered many of the biggest musical acts including Boyz II Men, besides managing their careers and producing them. But away from the music scene, he has found his own style and niche in the sports broadcasting world joining other celebrites like Alyssa Milano. Bivins provided features and player interviews through the entire NBA regular season and playoffs for TNT and TNT Overtime on NBA.com. 

Chris Yandek is here to talk about the new media project he expects big things from.

Extra co-host Jon Kelley joins Chris Yandek to talk about his hosting duties for the upcoming season of ABC’s The Mole.

Next week will be five years since wrestling legend Classy Freddie Blassie passed away at the age of 85. I was 17 at the time of our interview and it only feels like it happened yesterday. I had missed the opportunity to interview a few of the other greats that shaped the pro wrestling industry, but I wasn’t going to miss my shot at interviewing Freddie Blassie. So now I bring you our interview one month before he passed away. He was insightful, he laughed, and I was just grateful to be one of the last people he came across in his storied and celebrated life. It's amazing how someone can be there one moment and then gone the next. There isn't a June that goes by where I don't think about him.

Whether you agree with Jackie Warner’s way of doing things or not, she stands behind everything she does. The openly gay fitness guru and trainer of the stars has been very successful of late with a hit show on Bravo titled Work Out that profiles her life, her gym in Beverly Hills, and the people who work around her. Warner also has a new DVD out titled Workout: One-on-One training with Jackie that is just in time for you to get your summer body, but she also came by to speak about all the controversey around her show recently.

Medium James Van Praagh has brought ghosts to Hollywood. As the co-executive producer of the hit CBS show Ghost Whisperer, he has even made a believer in the show’s star Jennifer Love Hewitt. Van Praagh during this interview revealed to me that Heath Ledger’s ex Michelle Williams believes to have been woken up twice by Ledger’s ghost and that a reading to contact the dead actor is in the works. Whether you believe in ghosts, spirits, the afterlife, the best selling author is a success and has a huge following. His latest book Ghost Among Us is a look into the other side many are curious about.

For 12 years Daryn Kagan anchored at CNN covering everything from news to sports to entertainment. In 2006, Kagan left the news business to form her own project. It was inspirational stories that have given her the most passion and www.darynkagan.com was born and has led to a new book release titled What’s Possible. Through her battles to be taken seriously doing sports in an Arizona TV market to moving to CNN to now reinventing herself, she admits Dancing with The Stars is part of that big change she’s made and wants do the show more than anyone else.

I was informed today by one of my friends in the professional wrestling industry that the great Penny Banner had passed away last night at her daughter’s home in North Carolina. She was one of the founding pioneers of women’s wrestling, and the first ever AWA Women’s Champion. We did two interviews. The first one is the one below in text from June of 2001. The second one is from August of 2004 from my radio program. In 2004, she published her book Banner Days, which is the best look at the beginning of women’s wrestling. Penny Banner lived life to the fullest whether it was traveling the territories or dating Elvis Presley. She was a friend and an enthusiastic woman. I kept in contact with her over the years because I always loved her energy. She always appreciated all the support. Penny was 73 years old. 

There are certain people who are ready to give up on their dream, but they hold on to it long enough to make it happen. Josh Gad is one of the top breakout stars of this year. With a role on the hit Fox TV show Back To You playing a news director alongside Kelsey Grammar and Patricia Heaton and a part in the box office hit 21, Gad is on his way to becoming a recognizable face. On top of it he’s about to get married this week and revealed his plans excluviely here and who the lucky woman is. His story is one of perseverance in an industry where most don’t make it.

Besides Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras, Jim Courier represented the United States in men’s tennis as the number one ranked player in 1992. The 37-year-old won four majors during his professional career and today plays on a senior circuit with Pete Sampras and other veteran tennis players. Besides that, Courier is a producer for the upcoming ESPN Classics documentary Unstrung airing this weekend.

Tatyana Ali is all grown up from her teen years as Ashley Banks on the Fresh Prince of Bel Air

For all the stories you hear of child actors going bad when they get to adulthood, Tatyana Ali is not one of them. The 29-year-old actress and singer best known for her role as Ashley Banks on the Fresh Prince of Bel Air decided to go to college after the hit NBC show ended. She enrolled at Harvard University and in 2002 received a degree in Anthropology. Today she is working on her latest album The Light that will be out later this year and you will see her in the soon to be released flick Hotel California besides her work this election cycle. Ali admits she’d love to do Dancing with the Stars, has sympathy for Lindsay Lohan, and that the Fresh Prince of Bel Air cast are all still very close among other things.