Rockville resident and Landon School administrator Joan Vassos became a household name when she became a contestant on the ABC show The Golden Bachelor. Vassos, 60, hit it off with the show’s namesake Gerry Turner, a 71 year-old widower from Indiana, but then suddenly departed the show when her daughter asked her to come home. Vassos shared her sto…

Scott Van Pelt graduated from Sherwood High School and University of Maryland. After more than 20 years at ESPN, Scott Van Pelt has become one of the most successful and popular sportscasters in the business. The SportsCenter anchor has over two million followers on X, has hosted countless big sporting events and recently took over hosting duties f…

Kayla DiCello is a world-class gymnast at the University of Florida. The Boyds native and Northwest High School alum was recently honored as the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Freshman of the Year. DiCello is working to make the U.S. Olympic team for the 2024 Summer Games in Paris. She was selected as an alternate for the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo.DiCe…

Lisa Ann Walter was born and bred in Silver Spring. She graduated from Blair High School and Catholic University. Two years ago, Walter became part of an ensemble cast that formed ABC's Emmy Award-winning show Abbott Elementary, about a public school in Philadelphia. Walter plays the tough but lovable Melissa Schemmenti on the show. Walter is the h…

TCU (Texas Christian University) will be playing for the college football national championship against defending champions Georgia in Los Angeles on Monday, Jan.9. Coming into the season, the Horned Frogs were not considered serious contenders for their conference (Big 12) title much less for the national championship. As unlikely as TCU's meteori…

The Quince Orchard High School football team completed their second straight undefeated season last Thursday beating CH Flowers 32-7 in the Maryland 4A state championship game. It was the Cougars’ 28th consecutive win, second straight state title and third in the last five years. Quince Orchard head coach John Kelley earned his 100th career win Thu…

Maryland state senator Cheryl Kagan represents District 17 which covers Rockville and Gaithersburg. The Montgomery County native has earned a reputation as one of the most passionate and influential politicians in the county, serving on powerful committees and authoring many important bills. Kagan recently talked to MCM’s Director of Content Joe Ya…

The Montgomery County Agricultural Fair in Gaithersburg has been around for over 70 years and has become one of the county’s can’t miss events of the summer. Marty Svrcek is the Executive Director of the fair and fair grounds. He refers to the far as “Disney North.” MyMCM Director of Content Joe Yasharoff talked to Svrcek about all aspects of the f…

On December 7, 2021, Kurkjian received a call to inform him that he had been named the recipient of the prestigious Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA) Career Excellence Award. He was dumbstruck. In the seven plus months since the award was announced, Kurkjian has had time to reflect back on a career that took him from Walter Johnson H…

Retired soccer star Bruce Murray’s list of accomplishments on the field is long. Murray starred at Churchill High School, Clemson University and the U.S. National Team before playing in the pros for several years. He has been inducted into three halls of fame including the inaugural class of the Montgomery County Sports Hall of Fame. Now 56, Murray…

Paul Rabil is one of the greatest lacrosse players of all-time. He recently retired and co-founded of the Premier Lacrosse League. He grew up in Gaithersburg and was recently inducted into the Washington, DC Sports Hall of Fame. Rabil talked to MyMCM about his career and continuing to grow the game through his professional league. Available now on …

Hootie & the Blowfish was one of the most popular rock bands in the world in the 1990's. Fronted by Darius Rucker, the band had a string of hits including Only Wanna Be With You and Hold My Hand and won two Grammys. Rucker met guitarists Mark Bryan and Dean Felber - two buddies from Seneca Valley High School - at a dorm at the University of South C…

Maury Povich, host of Maury, is the longest-running host in daytime television history. Povich spent many of his formative years in Montgomery County. He talks about growing up in MoCo, working for years at WTTG (now FOX5), his wife Connie Chung, and his legendary sports columnist father who is being honored with a statue on MoCo’s Most Famous. Ava…

News anchor/reporter Eun Yang has covered popes, inaugurations and everything in between in her decade-plus at NBC4 in Washington DC. For the last couple of weeks, she’s been in Tokyo covering all the local athletes – including swimmer Katie Ledecky and hurdler Noah Lyles – competing in the Olympics. Yang was born in Seoul, South Korea but grew up …

Did you know that pickleball is the fastest growing sport in the United States? And that the world’s top-ranked player is from Montgomery County? Ben Johns grew up in Laytonsville playing all sports, but only one stuck: pickleball, a hybrid of tennis and ping pong. Johns talked to MyMCM about his upbringing in Montgomery County and his ascendency t…

The much talked-about and written-about Brood X cicadas have started to arrive, showing up on trees and in backyards. Millions more are expected to emerge from their 17-year long slumber in the coming days. Central Maryland is expected to be the epicenter of the madness meaning that Montgomery County could be ground zero for cicadas. MyMCM wanted t…

Denny McCarthy is moving up the charts. The 28 year-old Montgomery County native is coming off the best stretch of his PGA Tour career. In his last three tournaments, he tied for 26th place at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, was 55th at The Players Championship but was one-shot off the lead at one point in the second round and had a career high fin…

Lewis Black is that angry, ranting comedian you've seen in several stand-ups specials and who essentially played himself as the voice of Anger in the Pixar animated, Oscar-winning film Inside Out in 2015. Black grew up in a funny household in Silver Spring attending Springbrook High School in the 60's. He won a Grammy for best comedy album in 2007 …

Dorian O'Daniel knows winning. The 26-year-old NFL linebacker won a state championship at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in Olney, won four ACC Championships and a National Championship at Clemson University and last year was a member of the Super Bowl winning Kansas City Chiefs. On Sunday, O'Daniel and the Chiefs will attempt to repeat as ch…

Take Me Home, Country Roads was a big hit for Rock and Roll Hall of Famer John Denver in 1971, peaking at number two on the Billboard charts. It is considered Denver's signature song and became one of West Virginia's official state songs in 2014 but the song has strong Montgomery County roots. Two of the song's co-writers - Bill Danoff and Taffy Ni…

Curtis Pride was a dominant athlete at Kennedy High School in the 1980's in not one, not two but three sports. Pride was all-everything in baseball, basketball and soccer. This Sunday, Pride will be inducted into the Montgomery County Sports Hall of Fame (MCSHF). Pride became the first deaf person in almost 50 years to play in the Major League Base…

Isiah "Ike" Leggett is back in the limelight. But just briefly he says. Leggett, 76, has stepped out of retirement to join a group including David Trone, Connie Morella and Carmen Ortiz Larsen fighting against two questions on the ballot for the upcoming election: B and D. Leggett spoke to MyMCMedia's Joe Yasharoff in the latest episode of MoCo's M…

Five years ago, Jake Funk helped lead Damascus High School to an undefeated 14-0 record and the 3A Maryland state title scoring seven touchdowns in the championship game against Dundalk. Now he's a senior running back at the University of Maryland. Injuries have ended his last two seasons and it looked like he would miss his senior season when the …

Bram Weinstein is the new radio play-by-play announcer for the Washington Football Team. Weinstein grew up in Montgomery County graduating from Springbrook High School and then American University. He has worked at ESPN, ESPN radio and FOX5 over the last several years. In the late 1990’s he worked at Montgomery Community Media as the sports directo…

Silver Spring native Dominique Dawes is known by many as a three-time Olympic gymnast and a gold medal winner. But this week Dawes is doing something she considers much more significant - opening the Dominique Dawes Gymnastics Academy in Clarksburg. Dawes talked to MyMCMedia's Joe Yasharoff in the latest episode of MoCo's Most Famous about opening …

As the song reminds us, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. At MyMCMedia, we want to help make the holidays as festive as possible so we approached the most beloved and famous person of all – especially this time of year – to see if he would grace us with his presence on the MoCo’s Most Famous podcast. Hope you enjoy Episode 20 of MoCo's Most…

Dominique Dawes is far removed from winning four medals in three Olympic Games between 1992 and 2000. Now 43 with four small children, the Silver Spring native is excited to be opening the Dominique Dawes Gymnastics Academy in Clarksburg in the spring of 2020. Dawes talked to MyMCMedia's Joe Yasharoff about the new academy, the sexual assault scand…

Jud Ashman, the affable mayor of Gaithersburg, talks to MyMCMedia about Wawa and Royal Farms potentially coming to Montgomery County, the future of Lakeforest Mall and his pet project, the very popular Gaithersburg Book Festival.

At the ripe old age of 15, Katie Ledecky stood atop the highest podium during the medal ceremony at the 2012 London Olympic Games proudly listening to the national anthem after winning her first gold medal. Now 22, Ledecky has five Olympic golds and will be trying to add to her collection next summer at the 2020 Tokyo Games. For Ledecky, it all sta…

47 years as head coach at four Montgomery County schools. 405 career wins, the most in Maryland history. Eight state championships. The numbers are startling but only tell part of the story of Bob Milloy, one of the most influential coaches these parts have ever seen. The retired coach came to MCM to discuss the countless players and coaches he has…

Mark Ein might as well be called DC’s Mr. Tennis. He made his name as an investor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist in Washington D.C. but most people know him as the owner of the Washington Kastles, a professional team that won six championships (including five in a row) in World Team Tennis. He is passionate about the game having grown up in Chev…

Shawn Springs is one of the best football players to ever come out of Montgomery County. After a decorated career at Springbrook as an All-Met football player and track star, Springs was an All-America at Ohio State and the third overall pick in the 1997 NFL Draft by the Seattle Seahawks. A 13-year NFL career was highlighted by playing for Joe Gibb…

Dr. DeRionne Pollard is not your father’s college president. Not even close. She’s out, proud and in charge. In her 10th year of leading Montgomery College, Pollard discusses what the goals of higher education should be, why community colleges matter and her go to music artist after a tough day at the office on this week’s episode of MoCo’s Most Fa…

You may not know his name but chances are you know the face and have seen him on TV over the last several years. Jason Kravits has had roles on many prominent shows like Friends, Curb Your Enthusiam, The Practice, Law and Order, Everybody Loves Raymond, 30 Rock, Blue Bloods and many more. He grew up in Gaithersburg attending Magruder High School th…

It’s a building that Washingtonians see every day while driving on the Beltway: the Mormon Temple (actually called the Washington D.C. Temple). Most have never been inside so there’s a mystery attached to it. On this week’s MoCo’s Most Famous with Joe Yasharoff, we try to pull back the curtain and demystify some of the misconceptions about Montgome…

Tommy Davidson burst onto the comedy scene in 1990 as part of an ensemble cast which included Jamie Foxx, Jim Carrey and the Wayans family in the groundbreaking TV show, In Living Color. That was eight years after graduating from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School. Davidson still relishes his days in Montgomery County and his five years on the hit sh…

Sue Palka has been FOX5's chief weather forecaster for over 33 years. She talks about starting out as a teacher and an actress, the major changes in meteorology over the years and why she loves Montgomery County – on this episode of MoCo’s Most Famous with Joe Yasharoff. Available Now on MyMCMedia, Overcast, Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic, Spotify, St…

Michael Bobbitt, artistic director for the Glen Echo-based Adventure Theatre, will take a new position in the Boston area on August 1st. Learn about his 12-year journey with Adventure Theatre, the health of the institution, and Bobbitt’s plans for the future – on MoCo’s Most Famous with Joe Yasharoff. Available now on MyMcMedia, Overcast, Apple Pod…

The longtime voice of University of Maryland basketball and football, Johnny Holliday, is this week’s guest on MoCo’s Most Famous. Holliday talks about the Terps’ chances in the NCAA Tournament, living in the same house in Montgomery County for almost 50 years and what he likes and doesn’t like about basketball today. Available Now on MyMCMedia, Ov…

Potomac, Md native Maggie Rose takes time out during her country-wide tour to talk with MCM. Hear about sharing the stage with Kelly Clarkson, the inequity of radio play between male and female country singers, and how growing up in Montgomery County influenced her career on this episode of MoCo's Most Famous with Joe Yasharoff.…

When it comes to golf, NBC Sports and Golf Channel announcer/reporter Steve Sands has seen it all. Sands shares stories about the Tiger Woods’ phenomenon, growing up in Montgomery County and his dream foursome on this episode of MoCo's Most Famous with Joe Yasharoff.

NBC4 chief meteorologist Doug Kammerer, one of the area's most trusted sources when it comes to forecasting bad weather, shares his story about replacing one of his boyhood heroes and the subject of one of his school projects, Bob Ryan, on MoCo's Most Famous with Joe Yasharoff.

Movie critic Arch Campbell on this episode of MoCo’s Most Famous with Joe Yasharoff. Arch makes his Oscar predictions, reminisces about the good old days of broadcasting at NBC4 and reveals the back story of that infectious laugh.

Best-selling author John Feinstein shares personal stories about Hall of Famer Frank Robinson and much more on this episode of MoCo’s Most Famous with Joe Yasharoff.

Former University of Maryland head basketball coach Gary Williams lays it all out on the MCM podcast premiere of MoCo’s Most Famous with Joe Yasharoff.