{"podcast":{"title":"Fieldhouse Files: Scott Agness on the Indiana Pacers","slug":"fieldhouse-files-scott-agness-on-the-indiana-pacers-48439","podcast_index_feed_id":48439,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/27fc7854/podcast/rss","website_url":"http://fieldhousefiles.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/6608573/6971eced920c8b76.jpeg","author":"Scott Agness","episode_count":316,"summary":"Fieldhouse Files is a Pacers podcast from reporter Scott Agness, who's been around The Fieldhouse since 2003. He delivers comprehensive coverage of the team, tracking how the Pacers are performing on the court as well as going deep into stories about the team off the court.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fieldhouse-files-scott-agness-on-the-indiana-pacers-48439"},"episode":{"title":"Author Keith O'Brien on \"Heartland\" — the origin story of Larry Bird","slug":"author-keith-o-brien-on-heartland-the-origin-story-of-larry-bird","published_at":"2026-03-05T02:00:17+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fieldhouse-files-scott-agness-on-the-indiana-pacers-48439/author-keith-o-brien-on-heartland-the-origin-story-of-larry-bird","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fieldhouse-files-scott-agness-on-the-indiana-pacers-48439","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scott-agness/episodes/Author-Keith-OBrien-on-Heartland--the-origin-story-of-Larry-Bird-e3fv57l","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO5970924672.mp3","summary":"On this episode of the Fieldhouse Files podcast, I’ve got a very special interview. You know Larry Bird — the Pacers head coach and then team president. But New York Times best-selling author Keith O’Brien wanted to look back the origin of Bird, so he did. O'Brien's new book, “Heartland” is out this week and he joined to discuss his findings. Among the items discussed on this episode: Why this specific era (1973-79) Bird declining to be involved Takeaways from French Lick, Terre Haute Impact of Bird's childhood ISU coach Bill Hodges' often forgotten role The infamous Sports Illustrated magazine cover The most illuminating thing to come from this project and much more ----- Follow Scott on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , and read his work on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠fieldhousefiles.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ .","meta_description":"On this episode of the Fieldhouse Files podcast, I’ve got a very special interview. You know Larry Bird — the Pacers head coach and then team president. B…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1471,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fieldhouse-files-scott-agness-on-the-indiana-pacers-48439/episodes/author-keith-o-brien-on-heartland-the-origin-story-of-larry-bird/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fieldhouse-files-scott-agness-on-the-indiana-pacers-48439/author-keith-o-brien-on-heartland-the-origin-story-of-larry-bird.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}