My Conversation with Greg Heister

Greg Heister is a really nice guy. How nice? He accepted a text from a perfect stranger for an interview then, worked out the details during commercial breaks while calling the WSU/Utah basketball games. He then conducted the interview while awaiting the “shoot around” prior to calling the WSU/UW Women’s game. “Ya gotta see Charlisse Leger-Walker play”, he told me, “She’s incredible.”

Despite seeing almost every televised Gonzaga game for the past two decades and almost every Mark Few show, I knew little about Greg Heister before I researched and conducted this interview. I knew he called games on other networks and there was something about a fishing show, but he did so much more than I…