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The FIFA World Cup's impact on youth soccer, a look back at the Bernie Goetz trial and a chat with champion wrestler James Green

By Doug Doyle
Published June 15, 2026 at 2:13 PM EDT
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Youth soccer players at Met Oval
Metropolitan Oval
Youth soccer players at Met Oval

On this special one-hour edition of the June 13 WBGO Journal...

WBGO's Jon Kalish looks back one of that Bernie Goetz criminal trial he covered in 1984 in NYC...

Heather Ann Thompson's book
Heather Ann Thompson
Heather Ann Thompson's book

We’ll find out about the latest efforts to keep the Pinelands wildfire free….

With the FIFA World Cup finally here, we’ll talk with Met Oval's Jeffrey Saunders about how youth soccer has been impacted by the big tournament…

Jeffrey Saunders is the Sporting Director of the Met Oval Academy
Metropolitan Oval
Jeffrey Saunders is the Sporting Director of the Met Oval Academy

And host Doug Doyle chats with USA wrestler and former Willingboro H.S. star James Green who will hoping to make his eighth Senior World Team selection at this weekend’s BTS/FINAL X competition at Prudential Center in Newark…

James Green (left) wrestles David Carr in FINAL X at Prudential Center in Newark June 19
BTS/FINAL X
James Green (left) wrestles David Carr in FINAL X at Prudential Center in Newark June 19

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Doug Doyle
Doug Doyle has been News Director at WBGO since 1998. Since then, Doug and his news staff have received more than 300 awards from organizations like PRNDI (now PMJA), AP, New York Association of Black Journalists, Garden State Association of Black Journalists and the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists.
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