On today’s show, we’re checking in on the NBA Playoffs midway thru Round 1 action, and so far, the “old” stars seem on their way out, even as the new generation appears ready to take over. Our guy Steph, now in his mid-30s, is out, sent home before it all even started, while 25 year old SGA is in, as in, likely in the Conference Finals this year with his Thunder, and the franchise looking to be in great shape for years to come. 28 year old Nicola Jokic is in, he’s the pinnacle of the game right ...
Apr 28, 2024•37 min•Ep. 608
On today’s show, in part 1, we’re checking in on the NBA Playoffs midway thru Round 1 action, and so far, the “old” stars seem on their way out, even as the new generation appears ready to take over. Our guy Steph, now in his mid-30s, is out, sent home before it all even started, while 25 year old SGA is in, as in, likely in the Conference Finals this year with his Thunder, and the franchise looking to be in great shape for years to come. 28 year old Nicola Jokic is in, he’s the pinnacle of the ...
Apr 28, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 608
On today’s show, we’re catching up on a busy time on the sports calendar and we’re reveling in the abundance of stories out there for us to follow, as March Madness and the NBA regular season wrap-up, and as we get ready for the Masters, the NBA Play-in and Playoffs and then the NFL Draft. But what we really get into today are the various seeding battles we have in both the NBA's Western and Eastern Conferences with just a few games remaining before the finale on Sunday, as we examine a few diff...
Apr 10, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 607
On today’s show, as the NBA regular season comes down to the last 10 or so games and the playoffs get closer, we have teams jockeying for seeding position in both conferences, as well as Play-In tourney spots to fill. In the Eastern Conference, Donte DiVincenzo has been on fire for the Knicks, as they try to hold off the Cavs for the 3 seed and get the chance to avoid the Celtics before the Conference Finals, while the Heat and Sixers try catch the Pacers to avoid the Play-In. Meanwhile in the W...
Mar 29, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 606
On today’s show, NFL free agency hit the sports world hard, and while the best players pretty much never hit the open market, there were still some potentially impactful moves. The Steelers are all about 2nd chance QBs, the Texans are building on last year’s success, the Panthers are trying to offer Bryce some more support, the Eagles and Ravens are retooling and the Bears are getting ready for the Caleb Williams era. Meanwhile, we have to wonder, where were the Cowboys during all of this? Plus,...
Mar 18, 2024•2 hr 18 min•Ep. 605
On today’s show, the NFL season is a wrap but the League never sleeps. With the draft the next big NFL event, the Bears hold the best hand and we discuss what course of action is best for the team with the #1 pick. But first, after taking our own All-Star break, we belatedly discuss the criticism of the NBA’s highest profile exhibition game, look ahead to the stretch drive and delineate the true contenders from the pretenders, and of course, discuss our Warriors’ recent improvements. Get ready f...
Feb 29, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 604
On today’s show, Super Bowl LVIII is in the books, along with another NFL season, and we all suddenly have a lot more free time on Sundays. The Big Game started slow but ended with a performance by Patrick Mahomes worthy of the Vegas stage they were on. Mahomes was every bit the smart gambler; he folded a few hands, stuck with his system and in the end, hit the jackpot late in overtime, but as many people seem to want to blame the Niners for the loss as give the Chiefs credit for the win. We’ll ...
Feb 15, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 603
On today’s show, it’s time to make our Super Bowl picks, with just a few days before the Big Game, and let the equivocating begin! At first glance, it looks like the Niners have the superior roster; it’s practically an all-star team. But if you look closer, the Chiefs have the advantage at quite a few positions. And on top of that, after all we’ve seen these past 6 seasons, how do you bet against Patrick Mahomes? If you’re on the Niners, you believe that Brock can play a clean game, CMC will con...
Feb 10, 2024•1 hr•Ep. 602
On today’s show, the Super Bowl matchup is set and we’re recapping how the Niners and Chiefs got here. Now technically it’s a rematch of the big game from 2020, but in reality, these are much different versions of the teams we saw play just a handful of years ago. And we’re not gonna focus on tearing down the Ravens and Lions like other shows seem to be doing; the two best teams advanced, and we got the best possible matchup for the biggest game of the year. Then, with the NBA All-Star reserves ...
Feb 01, 2024•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 601
On today’s show, the intention is to concentrate mainly on the NFL Playoffs this time of year, but the NBA keeps throwing big storylines at us that we just can’t skip past, like Embiid and KAT putting up monster scoring numbers on the same night, Terry Rozier getting shipped to the Heat and the 30-13 2 seed Bucks deciding to jettison their head coach midseason. But after we sort thru all that, we have to focus on the business at hand as we catch up on a fun Divisional Round in the NFL Playoffs a...
Jan 25, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 600
On today’s show, Super Wild Card Weekend is in the books and we got the upsets we were looking for. The Chiefs and Bills rolled along as expected, and we called CJ Stroud and the Texans upsetting the Browns, while the Cowboys’ collapse to the Packers seemed par for the course for Dallas, but the Rams came up just a bit short against the Lions and I regret not having the nerve to pick the Bucs over the reeling Eagles. So now the Divisional Round is set, with the overlooked Jared Goff, the resurge...
Jan 18, 2024•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 599
On today’s show, it’s NFL Playoff season and we’re loaded up with previews for what should be a great slate of high stakes football over Super Wild Card Weekend, and we see the opportunity for at least a few upsets. Now the field looks a little different than what we saw coming into the season, with the Super Bowl representatives from last season looking far less dominant this time around, with the Eagles even opening up on the road in Tampa, the Rams, Steelers, Packers and Texans surprising a l...
Jan 12, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 598
On today’s show, we’re zooming in on the NFL as we hit Week 18 and there’s still a whole lot to be decided. The 1 seeds are set in both conferences, but everything else will be sorted this weekend, with 2 games on Saturday and a busy slate on Sunday. The marquee matchup is for the AFC East, as the Dolphins and Bills play for the division, but the AFC South is still up for grabs between the Jags, Colts and Texans and there are 3 available Playoff spots for 5 teams with the Steelers, Colts and Tex...
Jan 04, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 597
On today’s show, we start off by trying to make some sense of a wacky Western Conference just past a quarter of the way into the season, talking some overachievers, underachievers and everything in between, while in the East, it’s all a lot more straightfoward, but today’s question is, are the Timberwolves, Thunder, Magic and Knicks legit top-6 Playoff teams and can they avoid the Play-in? Plus, our Warriors get over on the Celtics once again, and it’s Steph with a huge game winning 3 that we ju...
Dec 21, 2023•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 596
On today’s show, we’re just about down to just 4 more regular season games in the NFL season as no fewer than 22 teams jockey for Playoff positions, but we have to remember; a lot can change in a short time, as we’ve seen with the Niners, once losers of three straight and now the number 1 seed in the NFC and the Cowboys, leading the NFC East after a huge win vs Philly, themselves now losers of 2 straight. Meanwhile, the North divisions from each conference are well represented, QBs are banged up...
Dec 11, 2023•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 595
On today’s show, as Week 13 of the NFL season gets underway, I’m only seeing 5 legit title contenders. Sorry Dolphins, sorry Jags and sorry long suffering Lions’ fans, I know your teams are really good, but realistically, you’re just not Super Bowl champion good, and even despite a one dimensional, Josh Allen-centric offense, I might have included the Bills, were it not for devastating season ending injuries to 3 key defensive players. Now I know we’re gonna have 14 Playoff teams, and it’s not t...
Dec 01, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 594
On today’s show, it’s midseason in the NFL and uncertainty abounds. Missing this season is the truly dominant team, the absolute can’t miss Super Bowl contender whom every other team fears and, to me, the any given Sunday cliche pretty much defines the season. Sure the Eagles are great, but even at 8-1 the assessment on them is that they’re not as good as last year’s version and their most reliable offensive option has been a QB sneak. Three preseason Super Bowl favorites like the Niners, Bills ...
Nov 08, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 593
On today’s show, the sports eclipse is upon us, as the NFL trade deadline hits after Week 8, the Rangers go up 3-1 in the World Series, and the NBA season is underway. The Niners have lost 3 straight now, Brocktober is over, and the upside is definitely there in their acquisition of edge rusher Chase Young, but should they have targeted Rasul Douglas instead, who the Bills acquired to bolster their injury depleted defense? Elsewhere, the Vikings attempt to replace Kirk Cousins with former Cardin...
Nov 01, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 592
On today’s show, the sports eclipse is here, as the NFL season heats up and we have half of our our World Series matchup, but what I’m most excited about today is the return of our Warriors and the NBA season. Blatant homerism notwithstanding, Steph Curry looks to be in prime form and I love this roster, but I’m also excited to see Wemby in action, the superteam Suns, Jokic and the defending champion Nuggets, and the new look Bucks and Celtics, and we’re sorting thru the Vegas odds to give our p...
Oct 24, 2023•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 591
On today’s show, with 6 weeks of the NFL season in the books, we’ve seen enough by this point to start making some judgements as to what we’ve witnessed so far. With losses by the Niners and the Eagles, there are no more undefeated teams left, and this is the perfect opportunity for us to assess the teams’ performances so far with our first power rankings of the season. Plus, with the NBA season starting next week, it’s time to get back to some hoops talk. Next week we’ll come strapped with our ...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 590
On today’s show, we’re amazed how fast this NFL season has gone by; it’s wild that we’re almost a quarter of the way through the schedule already but it proves the time honored adage that time flies when you’re having fun. The Niners and the Eagles are having a blast out there as the league’s last remaining undefeated teams at 4-0, but it’s always more fun when you’re winning and I’d have to say that based on expectations, after being drafted last 2 years ago, Mr Irrelevant Brock Purdy is probab...
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 589
On today’s show, we interrupt our regularly scheduled coverage of this already wild NFL season to get into some NBA talk, as we get a preseason blockbuster trade with Dame Lillard getting moved to the Bucks to team up with Giannis and getting his chance to win that elusive ring. Now, we all know that Miami was his destination of choice, and lately we had heard that the Raptors were in on the trade talks, but Dame probably landed in the best situation available so we’ll call him a winner here, an...
Sep 29, 2023•56 min•Ep. 588
On today’s show, we’re 2 weeks into the NFL season and as we should’ve expected after all of these years watching the NFL, things aren’t going exactly according to expectations. Now, the Cowboys and the Niners look as dominant as we thought they would, and despite Week 1 losses, the Bills and Chiefs were able to bounce back in Week 2, but I doubt anyone saw the Bengals starting off 0-2 with Joe Burrow still hobbled by a preseason calf injury. Meanwhile, the Dolphins are 2-0 and seem to be the ea...
Sep 22, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 587
On today’s show, football is back, and it’s time for that time honored tradition, you know the drill, where we make every result from Week 1 of the NFL season a referendum on how the season is gonna play out. Losses by top tier Super Bowl contenders like the Chiefs, the Bengals and the Bills, or Playoff contenders like the Steelers, the Seahawks, the Chargers or the Broncos, start an avalanche of analysis and send everyone scrambling to adjust their preseason predictions. So far I’ve heard that ...
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 586
On today’s show, we continue our NFL previews by going out west. The NFC West has a clear cut favorite, with the Niners looking to build on the surprise success of Mr Irrelevant, Brock Purdy, now fully recovered from his elbow injury, as well as fielding an all-star team on defense, especially now that Nick Bosa is back in the fold with a new contract, but the Seahawks appear to be ready to repeat their Playoff appearance from last year behind Geno Smith and a revamped roster. But that’s where t...
Sep 06, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 585
On today’s show, we continue our NFL previews looking at a loaded east. The AFC East boasts one of the most dominant teams of the past few years, albeit one that has fallen short in the Playoffs, as the Bills look to live up to high expectations behind a healthy Josh Allen. But all the attention is on New York, as the new look Jets, complete with Aaron Rodgers as their first franchise QB since Joe Namath, try to live up to the hype with all of their young talent, guys like Sauce Gardner, Garrett...
Sep 01, 2023•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 584
On today’s show, we continue our NFL previews by going up north. The NFC North will be up for grabs, as the dominant team of the past 10 years, the Green Bay Packers, retool after losing franchise anchor Aaron Rodgers in the offseason, and this will be the first time in over 20 years that they don’t have a Hall of Fame QB. The Lions look set to take over, with the Vikings expected to come back down to Earth after over achieving last year, and the Bears continuing to rebuild. The AFC North on the...
Aug 31, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 583
On today’s show, we answer the question, are you ready for some football with a resounding “YES!”, as we begin our NFL season previews. We’re starting at the bottom, with what we expect to be the divisions that have the least likely chance to put a representative into the Super Bowl, and that would be the AFC South and the NFC South, and then, as we get closer to opening kickoff on September 7th, we’ll go through each and every division. This isn’t to say that there isn’t anything worth getting ...
Aug 24, 2023•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 582
On today’s show, we return from our summer hiatus to transition from NBA coverage to the upcoming NFL season, in addition to recapping what we’ve been up to over our break. As we shift our focus from the hardwood to the gridiron, we still have some catching up to do on the hoops front, as far as what we saw during Summer League and what we think of all the moves our Warriors made in the offseason, and then we’ll move on to some first impressions on the impending NFL season. Over the next month w...
Aug 12, 2023•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 581
On today’s show, NBA Free Agency got off to a frenzied start, with the top names flying off the shelf on some hefty price tags as teams collectively spent over a billion dollars in total contracts on Day 1 alone, but even as the spending slowed down over the holiday weekend, Summer League tipped off, so we have a lot to catch up on. Yeah, we saw seven 9 figure contracts given out, a few at $40+ million per year, but the names of the players who got the big UFA money hardly include an All Star ap...
Jul 06, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 580
