
Marty Smith
@MartySmithESPN • 349,764 subscribers
Dad and husband. Be kind, work hard. The rest takes care of itself.
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My interview with Lane Kiffin prior to his departure from Oxford to Baton Rouge. •Why he chose LSU over Ole Miss •Why he wasn’t in Sunday’s Ole Miss team meeting •His response to not coaching Ole Miss in the playoff •Why this took so long •Peter Carroll’s important msg
Marty Smith2,988,888 views • 10 months ago

Appreciation: Davis Wade Stadium — The best playing surface in all of sport.
Marty Smith124,677 views • 18 days ago

Immediately after USA Hockey won gold, they used the platform to honor Johnny Gaudreau. A beautiful tribute to a fallen brother. His kind spirit is always with them. They carry him every day. Our ESPN piece on the life and legacy of Johnny Hockey, from one year ago.
Marty Smith637,245 views • 8 months ago

NASCAR moves at 200 mph. But when someone is hurting, it stops to comfort. The NASCAR Family -- and it is indeed a family -- wrapped it arms around the Busch family, who Sunday sought comfort from grief at the place Kyle captivated us all. The racetrack. For SportsCenter, an essay on a 200 mph remembrance.
Marty Smith331,923 views • 4 months ago

Sunday on ESPN NFL Countdown: For three straight Januarys, Joe Burrow has watched from home. He regrets his own Super Bowl performance. Burrow tells me he has no time for patience anymore. It’s put up or shut up time in Cincy. See Part 1 of our wide-ranging convo Sunday on ESPN
Marty Smith73,380 views • 1 month ago

The pregame ceremony at the Sugar Bowl was beautiful. Roman -- a New Orleans icon -- and I were quite moved. The moment of silence for those lost and hurting. The National Anthem. The cheers for our nation. You pray for the right words to convey the emotion. We did our best.
Marty Smith973,624 views • 1 year ago

“It’s okay to not be okay.” Watch as Gary Woodland details for me the post brain surgery PTSD that, some days, leaves him “face-down in bed crying that I don’t want to fight this anymore,” exhausted from “fighting the struggle of my brain shutting down, fighting the struggle of being hyper-vigilant, thinking people are trying to kill me.” In 2026, Woodland is possibly the best story in sports. His brutal honesty and transparency about the minute-by-minute fight against PTSD has helped countless people not feel alone in the struggle. Absolute warrior.
Marty Smith82,933 views • 1 month ago

At the height of his opioid addiction, Scott Cochran told me he was snorting 50 pills a day. OxyContin and then fentanyl. As a strength coach at LSU and Bama, and then ST Coordinator at Georgia, Cochran won 8 total National Championships. He was elite and respected in the bright lights of big time college football. But in the shadows of solitude, he felt like a fraud. Now Scott Cochran tells us he’s nearly 19 months clean and back in the game — as a head coach for the first time — with a message: Recovery is real.
Marty Smith494,012 views • 1 year ago

On draft night, the cufflinks on Jack Bech’s shirt sleeves were engraved with his older brother’s fingerprints. Fitting. Because Tiger Bech’s fingerprints are all over his little brother’s football journey to the NFL. Jack Bech Las Vegas Raiders TCU Football NFL #SCFeatured
Marty Smith498,536 views • 1 year ago