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Dr. Brian Fallon is the director of the Lyme and Tick Borne Disease Research Center at the Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Fallon says each year hundreds of thousands of Americans are bitten by ticks and coming down with Lyme and other tick borne diseases.

Dr. Fallon says that vacation hot spots like Cape Cod, the Hamptons, Martha's Vineyard, Northern California, Western Massachusetts, and Vermont all are dealing with tick infestations.  Dr. Fallon warns that walks in the woods, picking blue berries, or cavorting in a pile of leaves, can be hazardous to your health.

George McDonald and Harriet Karr-McDonald are the founders of the Doe Fund, a non-profit organization that trains and houses homeless men in New York City and Philadelphia who are "Ready, Willing and Able" to work. The men are ex-drug addicts, ex-offenders and military veterans transitioning back into society. The organization was named in honor of a homeless woman known as "Mama Doe" who died of exposure on Christmas Morning 1985 in Grand Central Terminal.

Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson lost his battle with cancer in October of 2016.  Thompson was 50.  Thompson made history in 2013 when he became the first African American to be elected Brooklyn District Attorney.

Thompson's enduring legacy includes the formation of a Conviction Review Unit which overturned the wrongful imprisonment of 21 people, winning national applause and attention.

Roma Torre is the Emmy Award winning anchor of Time Warner Cable's NY1 News and the theater critic for NY1 On Stage. She has used her celebrity to promote colonoscopies after she underwent successful colon cancer surgery.

Roma is the daughter of the late Marie Torre.

Marie Torre made journalism history in 1959 as a columnist for the now defunct New York Herald Tribune when she served 10 days in Hudson County Jail in Jersey City, New Jersey for refusing to disclose her source in a CBS controversy involving actress Judy Garland.

Martin Garbus, a winner of the PEN First Amendment Award of honor, is one of the country's fiercest fighters for free speech. Garbus also received the James Joyce Award from the University of Dublin for Excellence in Law and the New York University Law Alumni Achievement Award.

Garbus' boldface clients included Robert Redford, Nelson Mandela, Tom Brokaw, Spike Lee, Michael Bloomberg and the neo Nazis. He is writing a memoir of the Cuban Five, a case he calls the worst in American Legal history.

Michele Bratcher Goodwin's investigative research in human trafficking, the black market for body parts, reproductive rights, the politics of organ transplants, and bioethics has won her wide acclaim. She discloses how women in Florida were forced to give birth by cesarean surgery.

Goodwin is a Chancellor's Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy at the University of California, School of Law, Irvine.

Yuki Ohta created the SoHo Memory Project in New York City to educate the throngs of visitors who have turned the one time haven for mafia landlords, struggling artists and sweat shops into an international destination for fashionistas and foodies.

In this edition of Conversations with Allan Wolper, Ohta discusses the impact that the May 25, 1979 disappearance of six year old Etan Patz had on the Soho area and the country. He was declared dead in 2011.

Click above to hear the entire show with Yuki Ohta.

Frank Casey was the first investment analyst to blow the whistle on financier Bernard Madoff’s incredible Ponzi scheme that looted more than $65 billion from people around the globe. “This is a story that still has legs,” says Casey, now an analyst at Race Rock Capital in Boston.

The Write on Sports 10th Anniversary Gala is set for October 14, 2015.

Write on Sports Founder Byron Yake, WoS curriculum expert Dr. Erik Jacobson of MSU and WoS camper Elan Lakes join SportsJam host Doug Doyle to talk about Write on Sports program and how it gets kids excited about writing and researching.

WoS is a literacy/journalism program for at-risk middle school students that teaches youth how to write about sports as a way to inspire and help them to write.

The New York Yankees retired Bernie Williams' #51 Jersey at Yankee Stadium in 2015. In this tribute encore edition, Bernie Williams talks about his baseball and music career.

Bernie Williams was first a guest on SportsJam with Doug Doyle in 2009.  He spoke about his glory days with the Yankees and how he's enjoying his work as a jazz guitarist.

Williams, considered one of the most clutch playoff performers, played his entire 16-year career with the New York Yankees from 1991 through 2006.

New York City Public Advocate Letitia James is a fierce fighter for low income tenants facing eviction from predatory landlords. James is pained by the fact 60,000 people have to sleep in homeless shelters every night. She recently started a campaign to win equal pay for women working in City Hall. She is the first woman of color to hold citywide office in New York, a former city council member,a Legal Aid Society public defender and an assistant attorney general.

Kim Ann Curtin, dubbed the Wall Street Coach by New York media, wants to find the good guys working in the financial district and hope they will create an ethical movement their colleagues would follow.

“We know who the bad guys are,” Curtin says in a Conversation with Allan Wolper interview. “But we don’t who the good guys are.”

Dr. Margaret Haney, an expert on the impact that marijuana usage has on the brain of teenagers, utilizes human volunteers to conduct her research. She is a professor of Neurobiology in Psychiatry and co-director of the Substance Abuse Research Center at The Columbia University Medical Center.

Dr. Haney is also concerned that the country’s intense debate on the medical benefits of marijuana.

Jeff Nunokawa, a professor of Victorian Literature at Princeton University, has published a volume of poetry and literary essays, culled from hundreds of pieces he wrote on his face book page. The work included literary exchanges with his students.

The new volume, called Note Book, was published by Princeton University Press.

Students have nicknamed Nunokawa's face book page, "Jeff Book." His personality and scholarship earned him the title, The Legend of Princeton, from the university's alumni association magazine.

Julio Medina spent 12 years in prison after he was convicted of running a major New York drug ring. But he turned his life around in the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York, one of the most violent institutions in America.

In Sing Sing, he found a way out. He earned a BA degree from the State University of Albany and a Masters of Divinity Degree from the New York Theological Seminary. And when he was finally released, Medina was ready to leave his drug dealing days behind him. Which he did, in a remarkable way.

102-year old former baseball star John Ellerbee was one of the most dynamic guests on SportsJam with Doug Doyle and I never got to meet him in person. 

Ellerbee, who was big part of the 1930's semi-pro black baseball team The Smart Set, passed away a few months after this 2013 interview took place.  The Smart Set played their home games at Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson. 

Actor Jim Caviezel is best known for portraying Jesus Christ in the 2004 film The Passion of the Christ and from 2011 until 2016, as John Reese on the CBS science-fiction crime drama series Person of Interest. 

In a 2014 edition of SportsJam with Doug Doyle, Caviezel talked about his role in the movie When the Game Stands Tall, his acting career and his basketball days.

Bruce Cutler made his bones as one of the most flamboyant and controversial defense attorneys in recent history. His personal and professional relationship with the late mafia boss , John Gotti, known as “Teflon Don,” made headlines and spawned controversy.  

Melba Wilson is the Queen of Comfort Food who holds court at Melba’s restaurant in Harlem, a neighborhood eatery that often attracts celebrities, movie stars, politicians and the media.

Melba honed her culinary skills in her grandmother’s kitchen, and later in Sylvia’s, the legendary eatery of her late aunt, Sylvia Woods, internationally known as the Queen of Southern Soul Food. 

Wilson showed off her talents on the Food Network when she bested famed chef Bobby Flay in an old fashioned Throwdown.

Dr. James Braxton Peterson, director of Africana Studies at Lehigh University and founder of Hip Hop Scholars, LLC, believes Hip Hop will lose its millennial followers if it does  not clean up its homophobic attitude.  It was a refrain uttered in 2005 by Kanye West.

But despite gay marriage and the mainline acceptance of the LGBT community, homophobia remains a constant in Hip Hop culture. 

Dr. Peterson grew up in Newark amid the murder, mugging and general mayhem that has plagued  the city for generations.

Hall of Famer and Knicks legend Earl Monroe sat down with SportsJam host Doug Doyle to talk about his new book "Earl the Pearl: My Story" and his early days in South Philly.

Monore played for two NBA teams, the Baltimore Bullets and the New York Knicks. Both teams have retired Monroe's number. Due to his on-court success and flashy style-of-play, Monroe was given the nicknames "Black Jesus" and "Earl the Pearl".

Former Boxing Champion Mike Tyson says he's finally happy. His one-man show "The Undisputed Truth" toured the country in 2013. 

He received a standing ovation at his performance at NJPAC in Newark on April 25, 2013.

In March of that year, Mike Tyson joined host Doug Doyle for this edition of SportsJam.

Click above to hear the entire show.

Dr. Deane Marchbein is the President of Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).  Marchbein talks to host Allan Wolper about the struggle her organization endures to treat the sick and injured in war ravaged areas of South Sudan, Syria Libya and other hot spots around the globe.

Many sports enthusiasts consider Jim Brown as the greatest athlete of all-time.  Some consider him the greatest football player.  Some say the HOF running back was also the best lacrosse player ever.  He excelled at both football and lacrosse at Syracuse University before going into the NFL with the Cleveland Browns.  Brown was enshrined the in Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971.

In September of 2012, SportsJam host Doug Doyle spoke with Brown about his sports career and life.

Gretchen Morgenson, an assistant business and financial editor of The New York Times, doesn’t party with the people in the financial world she writes about.

Annette Gordon-Reed is a Harvard Law and History professor who has won national acclaim for her biographies on Thomas Jefferson.

Her 2008 book, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family: explores the relationship between Jefferson and Sally Hemings, a slave on his plantation, with whom he had seven children. Her book won a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award.

Veteran actor Dan Lauria, best known for playing the father in ABC's hit The Wonder Years, wowed audiences in the title role in Broadway's Lombardi in 2010.

Lauria, one of the most geniune celebrities you'd ever want to meet, sat down with SportsJam host Doug Doyle to talk about the play, the legendary coach Vince Lombardi and his own love of football.

Matthew Bogdanos, an assistant District Attorney in Manhattan and a Marine Reserve Colonel, has long been angry at the looting of antiquities from museums in the Middle East by terrorists.

He points out that the money the terrorists received from selling the artifacts stolen from the National Museum of Iraq during the war there was used to purchase weapons that were used against American soldiers. “The trade in illegal antiquities funded the insurgency in Iraq,” he said in an interview seven years ago in Conversations with Allan Wolper.