Monday, July 21, Hour 2

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Eye on the Ball with Steve Rovera on
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Hey, welcome back to One of the ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty French Steve Rivera. You're Dave silvert
Re las Rey. But it's okay. You had to take
off real quick, kind of a like emergency, so we'll
come back with us too. Just go with a little
breaking news. I don't have a whole lot, Dave, unless
you have some stuff that we'll talk about. The summer league. Yeah,
summer league. But did you see what what do you

(00:37):
take of Arizona's athletes going to UCLA? We've seen that
a few times in softball. It happened again again and again.
It's interesting.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
I mean, you know because before they were our conference
rivals from you know, Zona and Ucla.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
So things maybe you're a little.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Bit yes, that's a good point, good you know.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
And then also to some of these athletes, I don't know,
I know, we wasn't a picture just signed. I guess
today or yesterday. Yeah, don't know. If he's from Los Angeles.
I haven't looked at this story that deeply. But you know,
we used to get a lot of We still get
a lot of players from southern California to come here.
So they've got allegiance to their hometown and a chance
to play in front of their fans.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
So it's it's been happening.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, Well Cindy or Sydney, somebody Summerdike guse Yeah a
picture for ub has now decided to go to UCLA.
So good luck at her. One of the premier softball
programs over the last twenty years. It's happened quite two
three years ago if some of the better players went

(01:34):
to UCLA. Yeah, left the program and went there.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Not shocked, No, I mean, you know she's from Villa Park,
you know, so she's from out there. Okay, so that's again,
she's probably recruited by them to begin with and maybe
just decided to get you know, leave leave her hometown area.
UCLA comes calm and needs someone to pitch, they get her.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, here's the issues. The funny thing, if funny is
the right word. Uh, you kind of never hear the
reasons why, you know they go and they never say
really what you know, either the disgruntled or they didn't
you know, time, or they didn't like the coach, or
just a better opportunity. It's rare that you hear that
I remember, will bind him, remember, will bind them. Back

(02:22):
in the day, he was playing behind uh Selim and
a very good player, obviously smallish NBA with the NBA,
a good enough player. He was playing a lot here too,
and he had some star moments, right but one lonely
night in February or March, he and the other kid
who went who was a coach in He's from Kansas

(02:43):
and the name right now escapes me, but they left
right and and he goes to Georgia Tech. I think
they go to the final four. He has the guard
YadA YadA. He plays in the NBA. You know, whatever
happens to him happens to him. And said, what's the
reason why he left? Said, well, I got up. I
got caught up in the stars at Arizona, you know,
those those gold stars and everybody I just got caught

(03:04):
up in and just wasn't for me. I mean, that
was kind of one of the first times I've ever
heard somebody's leave and actually say why, Yeah, well, I mean.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Getting back to Sydney, you know, she got a Twitter,
she's got a Twitter feed. She basically just you know, said,
you know, I'm grateful for everything that happened. I'm entering
the transfer portal. This is back in May, so it's
taken a couple of months. But yeah, the next thing,
you know, there's a picture excited and grateful to be
a Bruin.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Sure, so sure she switches.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
You know, there's the nil situation these days. You know,
who knows exactly why why they go? Combination of what
they can get and maybe more chance to play.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Maybe somebody who knows can call Insten let me know.
Maybe you know this state, So if you go to Arizona,
we know that the percentage of the collective the not collective,
but the shared revenue is going to the football team
and then some going to the basketball team, I don't know,
eighty fifteen whatever, and the rest goes to everybody else. Yeah,
is it this consistent with everywhere else? Are they doing

(04:03):
the same thing? I would?

Speaker 3 (04:04):
I would think basically since they usually they say that,
you know, football kind of pays the bills, right, So
I'm going to assume that they're going to get the
most in most situations where there's I mean, there's going
to be some schools that don't even have football well
of the world. Yeah, but yeah, I mean I would
think that's probably going to be the kind of the
general breakdown just based on what these teams bring in.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
I think I've asked you this question, but I've already
spaced it, and maybe I haven't asked this question day
because you were in the fundraising business outside of athletics.
So they have to come up with twenty million dollars
right every year? In twenty and a half million dollars
whatever it is? How difficult is that? It's not easy?
That's a pretty big number, you know. I don't I

(04:43):
don't have the numbers in front of me, but.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
You know, the universities are are having a hard time
raising money period. I think I think that that's why
it's their goal this year. They just ended their fiscal years,
so they just started a new one on July first,
So those numbers are probably available.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
I don't know about it.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
So about you, that would be tell me the numbers
that could you find that nunder what?

Speaker 4 (05:07):
I don't know. I'm not I'm not quite sure.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
You're not quite sure. I mean, you're saying they've met
their obligations this last year, this physically.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Or they maybe set a record, you know, they set
a goal for themselves. We would set a number and
we'd say, okay, we'd like to reach you know, three
hundred and twenty five million, and you know, sometimes you do,
sometimes you don't, right, But yeah, that's kind of how
it herd And.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
For this situation, it's twenty and a half at least
for this, Yeah, in addition to the other stuff that
they want to get accomplished.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
I mean again, that would I think you probably would
get a straight or answer from somebody within the department
and yeah, and just seeing how or not or not
or at least some idea of how they're doing or
how the year went, or maybe even Desiree will come
out and just say, hey, you know, we had a
we had a great year. We've hired a lot of
new people. We you know, we restructured our our department
and where this is stuff just we're seeing. Yeah we

(05:57):
don't know, we're not we're not living that, no, but.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
We are seeing that. Yeah. Right, Well, she has the deficit,
at least according to her, down to five six million dollars.
Surely to fix it by next year. They said that.
She said, uh, and then now you have to raise
that twenty million dollars. Why are they probably doing it anyway? Yeah,
now it's just allocated somewhere else.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
There's there's a lot of loyal u of a people
out there, whether they're alumni or whether there are people
who've moved here. You know, we found a lot of
gifts would come in just from people here in Tucson
who moved to Tucson who enjoyed going to the games.
They weren't alumni, but they were just happy to help
support the programs. Yeah, not even just sports, I mean
obviously everywhere else on.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Campus were they come to small fish or they called
the just happy Fish or the whatever ends depends.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
I mean, look at look at the the Davis's. I mean,
they're not from Tucson. Look what they're done around around
McHale and around football. So that's the type of people
who have just come to town and they, you know,
kind of fall in love with the program. They meet
the coaches and the players and the stories, and you know,
next thing, you know, they're willing to assist.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, well, to me, that's just such a big and
maybe it's it is. And maybe it's a big university
though too.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
That's you know, with a lot of I mean even
when I was there, you know, we would say, you know,
we've got three hundred and twenty five thousand alumni around
the around the world, everywhere and all walks of life,
doing all kinds of things, and you know, it's just
a matter of connecting the passion to what's needed on campus.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah, okay, let's quite a little on summery. Go ahead
and give us your whose observations are they?

Speaker 5 (07:27):
Now?

Speaker 4 (07:27):
These are from the Ringer.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
A pretty good sports side, very good with basketball and
just some of the things that they were seeing. And
one of the top players that they said who kind
of broke through, especially among the young guys, was Carter
playing for San Antonio, Carter Bryant. There's a quote here
from Cooper Flag saying, you know, he was picking He says,
he plays really good defense. I mean, he didn't look
tired the whole game. He was picking me up ninety

(07:51):
four feet and I was definitely feeling a.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
Little bit gassed. And he says, talking about Carter.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
That was that one game. Remember we saw him where
they can went toe to toe yeah, and Carter had
the good defense.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Yeah, so that was that was good.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
You know, he was the number fourteen pick, so you
know he's kind of you know, in the middle of
the pack now, and what people are gonna expect from
him there, they're gonna expect him to apply. I mean
they've had two first round picks.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Yeah. Well, when you get him in the first round
and you have money invested, you're gonna have to put
time into so that. Let me just give you some numbers.
He finished seven points, four point three rebounds, two blocks,
one point five assists. This is coming from the asy
Deserts Form people who put this stuff together. He take
a guess on how he shot? Does it show it

(08:32):
wasn't very good? Well, it was twenty seven point three
percent from the field. Uh, two point three field goals
made in eight point three field goals attempted. So yeah,
not so good, especially from the three point line. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
The first two games he was won for thirteen, right,
seven points. That's something you know, without goes without saying
you need to work on that. Here in the off
season as he gets ready for their training camp, which
is you know, a couple of months away.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Right, well, October October. We'll see what happens. What about
who else? Anybody else? Do you have a familiar name?

Speaker 5 (09:11):
Really?

Speaker 4 (09:12):
I mean the basics.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
I mean, obviously Cooper Flag just you know how he
looked and what was expected of him. You know, he
had thirty one points against in that San Antonio game
against the Spurs and the second and final game. He
only played a couple of games, so they shut him
down pretty quickly.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
A lot of the guys didn't play.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
Carter didn't play the last two games, right, I think
he only played a couple, maybe three games out of
the whole thing. It's it's a showcase. I think more
for players who are, you know, on the couple or
whatever making even making the team, what are they gonna do.
Are they gonna cut them? Are they gonna give them
those two way contracts? They're gonna go somewhere else and play.
Most of the games that I watched, I had no idea.

(09:52):
Most of the players, the big names, they were in
and out. I mean, Caleb played really well in a
couple of games. Caleb Love So.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
I'll give you that. Caleb. He's scored in double figures
in all five of his games, average fifteen point four
points shot thirty five point including thirty three percent from
the three point line.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
You know, and it's it's good that he's on a
team with a good coach who was a guard, Chauncey
Billups in Portland.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Here's an issue. Here's the issue, because we talked about
this a lot last week. Date. Uh, they signed uh Lillard,
I know what you're gonna say. And then the Rogers
already packed with guards really uh five or six deep
because our guard oriented with Liward's there and he did
sign a two way, so good luck with that. Good
luck with that.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
And Lillard is coming off the Achilles too, so who
knows if he's even going to be there this year.
But you're right, if they've got too many players in
front of him, you know what's it is almost better
to go play in the in the minor leagues if
you will, or go play somewhere else and then come
back if you have a chance.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, I guess it's some people who works for some
people doesn't And guess what, they still make a lot
of money.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
Yeah, yeah, Well, I mean Bronni Bronnie James.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
I think you know, he was up and down a
little bit, and he did play some of the games
in the Summer League, and I think he well, yeah,
he played well, he's growing up.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
It wasn't against the the big boys exactly, the big
book exactly. Yeah, So Christian Colloco will go with it
this one too. They have thirds did this stuff. He
averaged seven point two points, two point eight rebounds and
played five games, and he's been there three or four
years now, right, three years at least.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
Coloco.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah, you know, he was that skinny kid when he
came here and kind of just the shot blocker. Now
he's become a better player, so I think he'll he'll
stick again with the Lakers.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
Yeah, I mean, how many how many what is he
seven threes?

Speaker 3 (11:46):
How many guys like that can do what he does,
shoots from the outside and play kind of a different
type of center, which the NBA has kind of become
that anyway, So there's not much inside game.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
Anymore, it's seems.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
So if he can get out there and play, and
he's athletic, he's still young.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Good luck. Let's go now to Pele. Yeah, scored. I
was eighteen points a game in three games, three point
seven assists, two point three rebounds. You know, he's going
to have a nice little career in the NBA after
one year.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
I think so.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
I think so he's he's you know, he's not flashy,
but he's got good skills. He's fundamentally he's good. He
doesn't seem to make a lot of mistakes, right, And
those are the kind of players you need.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Oh God, because I'm old and I forget. Who is
the lefty before him? Here? Tobellus? Sobellus? So had we
said this to you three four years ago, who's going
to be the better player, Tobellis or Larson?

Speaker 4 (12:41):
I know I would have said to Bellis, And where
is he?

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah, he's in somewhere in Europe. Europe.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yeah, So I don't know a lot of it's just
you know, your size and your strengths, and the team
you're on, the coaches.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
I mean, there's a lot of stuff. I'm sure that
goes into it.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
But Larson always seemed to be the guy that just
he would hit a big shot when he needed to.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
He's kind of the glue guy, if you will.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
I'm sure he's much better too now because this is
his job. Not so much you know, going to school
or you know, whatever work you work at. This because
you get the taste of it and you work hard
to stay in there. Yeah, you know, Okay. Key Shot
played in three games, averaged twelve points, four rebounds, and
he's on a two year contract with the Heat. So

(13:27):
and he was on a two year but now he's
no longer on two years.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
I guess with the team he was again, I saw
a little bit of him playing. I don't know if
you saw much of him in action. I think maybe
the first game. I think he was in the very
very first game, so he was out there. He seems
like he has you know, depends on the numbers, I guess, yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
And he's got that body, he's got that energy, he's
got all that. Yeah, so he'll be fine too. I
think the Petlic's probably gonna have a longer career. But
Key Shot, I mean they asked me a year ago
and says, I don't really know if he's gonna be
able to make it because he doesn't have a shot.
But he does other things. He does other things.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
He can get the rebounds, he can play some d
and that's teams need that because they're gonna have guys
that are gonna score. They just need to have other
people who can just pick up pick up the slack
on defense and you know, make a couple big plays
that way.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
I'll give you this, bollow Lumar one of the fan
favorites all time here, at least in the last fifteen years.
Are you on the same website. I'm looking at it
as well. Okay, five points five and a half points
four four point five rebounds went to Indiana. Of course,
made a nice little chunk of change there. When he
went it turned out to be not so good. But
apparently he has signed with an Italian club. Yeah, good

(14:40):
for him.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
He is gonna be an interesting character to see if
he you know, is he gonna be good enough to
come back.

Speaker 4 (14:46):
And play in the NBA. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
His game is a little bit all over the place.
For the big guys. I mean, big guys now are
are out there shooting threes. He's not doing that, right.
He's he can rebound, but how much pounded inside type
basketb all that.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
We see anymore, even even he doesn't do that as often.
As you think.

Speaker 4 (15:06):
He's pretty I think he's more athletic than Omar was.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, then he's not as you know, he's more mobile.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
He Yeah, he gets the basket quicker.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, he's he's, you know, quick finisher. Bollow never had that, No.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
And then he couldn't hit a piro No consistent consistently
say that was sad. Yeah. And then lastly Tree Townsend
appeared in one game with the Pelicans, scored five points
in sixteen minutes. Similar to Ballo, Show would most likely
signed with somebody international. Yeah, hell, I wish I had
their future.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
Yeah, I mean these guys are they they kind of
know what they're getting themselves into. They come here and
they can play and they showcase themselves on on national
level and get either drafted or signed. That's good that
they even got this far, right because playing at Arizona
probably helped just get into the short training camp with
New Orleans and then somebody can see him and a
scout can pull him away.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Right, give him a look with that. We're going to
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Breaking down All the X is a ohs. This is
I on the Ball with Steve Roba on Box Sports
fourteen fifty.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Hey, welcome back to I on the Ball here on
Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Roberta, and today with
me is Dave Silver. Now when the phone we have TJ. Juskowitz,
the executive director of ELK Tour. Tjhi doing, Hey, doing great?

Speaker 5 (21:27):
Guys?

Speaker 2 (21:28):
Is it the dog days of summer for you?

Speaker 12 (21:32):
Well?

Speaker 5 (21:33):
Today doesn't feel a good dog day of summer. It's
kind of cool out, but yeah, the last couple of
weeks have been pretty vitile for if you ride a bike.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah, yeah, but but it seems like things are going, Okay, uh,
give this an update on the number of people who
have who have decided to join the festivities in November.

Speaker 12 (21:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (21:53):
Sure, we're turning really great. To be honest with you,
we've had the kind of record numbers sign ups. You know,
we track that stuff pretty pretty religiously year over year,
and we're seeing numbers that were up, you know, forty
plus percent a.

Speaker 12 (22:08):
Year over year.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
So you know, an extra thousand people, an extra two
thousand people would just be great for eltor to Tucson
and the Tucson economy.

Speaker 4 (22:18):
Why do you think that is? Is there a reason
why the numbers are kind of soaring already?

Speaker 12 (22:25):
You know, it's hard to pinpoint.

Speaker 5 (22:26):
We've done a lot of really good good things promotionally wise,
having a lot of really good influencers, and sometimes these
things just take a little bit longer to get people
to say, Hey, I'm gonna make that track to Tucson.
So we're seeing people from countries I had to look
up on a map where you know, there was a
European show that went out about El Tour over a

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year ago, and all of a sudden, we're getting people
from Slovenia and Slovakia, and all these kinds of countries
that are you know, how did they hear about El Tour?

Speaker 12 (22:57):
And when you talk to them, they're.

Speaker 5 (22:59):
Like, yeah, we saw this this little special on the
internet by the GCN group and so it's like weird
little things like that. I can't pinpoint one thing exactly,
but you know it's got a good reputation, it's fun,
two song, puts on a great show, all those things
that make make an event special.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah. In fact, you know, you know, I have Blake
on here, a lot Eager and some of the other
guys that are on here, and it's a bunch of
you guys pulling the rope to make everybody else successful too.
How does that help with everybody? You're part of a
committee with the with the things that you do with
people pumping up the pumping up your organization, and you're

(23:40):
doing the same for them.

Speaker 12 (23:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (23:43):
I think it's a great team effort. You know, it's
not just a bike ride by any means. We want
people to come in have a great experience. If they
got gouged by the hotels or restaurants, they wouldn't have
a great experience. So you know, you can't go to
a final four Super Bowl without paying you know, twenty.

Speaker 12 (23:59):
Five dollars of beer and overpriced for a stake. So
the nice thing about Tucson when they come.

Speaker 5 (24:05):
In you know there, if they order a margarita that
you know, that post ride margarita, it's the same price
that we pay every day here in Talent and so
no one's gouging people. The prices remain relatively good. You know,
hotels are relatively inexpensive compared to you know, if you
go to California or something like that for an event,
you're paying two or three times the amount that they're

(24:26):
going to pay in Tucson. So I think, you know,
the people like visit Tucson.

Speaker 12 (24:30):
Blank's organization. All these people are into the same goal.

Speaker 5 (24:33):
It's got a lot of people to come and enjoy
our community and hopefully they'll come back, tell some friends
and come.

Speaker 12 (24:39):
Back or possibly even move here after they enjoy our town.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
I remember covering that early, very early, the first few years,
and I mean it was just kind of starting from scratch,
and it's now I don't know what numbers are we
talking about eight nine thousand riders at this point.

Speaker 4 (24:56):
It's unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (24:58):
Yeah, we're right at that ten thousand mark, and like
I said, if we keep training the way we are,
we're probably going to be eleven or twelve thousand this year.
And so to see that many people, you know, safely
enjoying theirselves, that's that's our goal. And you know, it
started back, you know, forty two years ago with people

(25:18):
having that same philosophy, Let's put on a good event,
Let's raise some money for some charities, which we still
do today, but then you know, really put on a
fantastic bike ride that highlights some of the great roads
and scenery that we see in Tucson.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
One of the things that you know, being involved now,
you know Richard Deebanarus came up with this thing kind
of made Tucson one of the mega places to come
and ride in the winter, in the spring and to
enjoy the weather. But we had something on this on
the website not long ago. I answered a question on
the Facebook the velodrome. I mean, I don't think the
velodroome doesn't show up here if il Tour wasn't successful,

(25:57):
maybe I'm wrong.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
Yeah, I just think all these things together, I mean,
we are the cycling Meca. I don't care what anyone says,
in California or Wisconsin or any of these places, you know,
when you can go have the recreational side with the
Calberry Loop, you could ride Mount Lemon, which is a
world class climb. You've got the Velodrome coming on on
board and hopefully this fall, and then you know, you

(26:23):
got epic events like that has the twenty four hours
in the old playblo for mountain biking, You've got amazing
mounta bike tracks. And then of course you got El
Tourta Tucson.

Speaker 12 (26:32):
And so when you add.

Speaker 5 (26:33):
Up all those things and the level of cycling facilities
we have here, I'll put our facilities up against anyone
and you can enjoy them pretty much three hundred and
sixty five days a year.

Speaker 12 (26:45):
And you know they can.

Speaker 5 (26:47):
They can talk about how great the cycling is in California,
were Madison, Wisconsin, but they don't compare in my book.
And I think anyone that's come here and written our
roads and and events and all that stuff, or the
off road stuff, it's just fantastic when you add up
all those and that'll.

Speaker 12 (27:07):
Just continue to grow.

Speaker 5 (27:08):
And you know, it's great to see things like the
velodrome coming online.

Speaker 12 (27:12):
You know, we're we're on the.

Speaker 5 (27:13):
Cusp of the twenty eight LA Games. Now we have
a velodrome and just a great place to train. I'd
be shocked if we didn't see international teams training here
before the LA Games.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
What's it like just kind of coordinating with the city
and I guess the county as well. Is that is
that like a you know, three hundred and sixty five
days a year kind of thing, trying to figure out
the routes and everything.

Speaker 5 (27:38):
Yeah, and then they tell you a curve ball with
a construction project or something like that. So it's multiple
cities because we're going through not only Tucson, but you
know Southa, Rita. We're going through South Tucson, going through
the Vail area, Green Valley area, So dealing with all
those different communities. Plus there's there's state folks that are involved,
there's county folks involved, in city folks involved. So making

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sure everyone's on the same age, engineer's law enforcement, all
the permitting that needs to happen between, you know, before
the event happens. The nice thing is that everyone wants
us to be successful, and so everyone that we deal with.

Speaker 12 (28:16):
Is on the same page as us.

Speaker 5 (28:18):
Let's make sure, you know, we run a safe and
successful event and make sure people have a good time here.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
One of the secrets of this event, the secrets maybe
that'd be the right word, but you have a lot
of dignitaries come in the day before or two days before,
they ride with VIPs and they actually ride in the
event as a casual type of ride. You were able
to pull that off in Scottsdale with Armstrong. Lance Armstrong
kind of came in and did that and kind of

(28:46):
rode away. How cool is that? And who's coming?

Speaker 5 (28:51):
Yeah, so we got a lot of the usual suspects
plus a few more. One of the biggest names we
have is Sir Bradley Wiggins, who won the Tour de
France back in twenty twelve.

Speaker 12 (29:00):
So you talk about, you know, this is the Masters
for cycling and this is this is the absolute peak.

Speaker 5 (29:06):
So to have guys, you know, obviously like Lance Armstrong,
who's the household name, but Bradley wigans in the cycling world,
you know, to win the tour, it is just as
big as it gets.

Speaker 12 (29:16):
We're also seeing, if.

Speaker 5 (29:18):
You know, this is the Tour France is going on
right now. It's about two thirds complete. The broadcasting team
that does the tour every day for twenty one days
with Bob Roll and Christian Vandeveldt. They're on the NBC
Peacock team that's doing broadcasts every day and then the
post ride analysis between Sir Bradley Wigins, Lance Armstrong and

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George Hincappy.

Speaker 12 (29:40):
So four out of those five guys.

Speaker 5 (29:41):
Are definitely going to be here in Tucson riding with everyone.

Speaker 12 (29:46):
But there's you know, some others as well.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
We've got Christin.

Speaker 5 (29:50):
Armstrong, the most decorated female cyclist ever, Choediger up and
coming who's going to be riding the women's version of
the Tour de France. So and we always see some
logo pros. I mean, one of our stars this year
for the Tour de France a kid named Quinn Simmons
whose grandparents live here. Quentin comes here quite a bit

(30:11):
to train on Mount Lemon and he's one of the
he's probably the top American cyclists right now. It's a tour,
so you're going to see lots of familiar faces. If
you're at all into cycling, you're going to see, you know,
some of the biggest names in cycling for sure.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah, the Steite's kids. Was got that future too? You
won last year?

Speaker 12 (30:29):
Yeah, yep, yep, good, good, up and coming.

Speaker 5 (30:32):
I mean the nice thing about this, Matthew Ricutet, is
another one.

Speaker 12 (30:37):
Well that you may not be at the Tour de
France this year. These are the future stars of the
sport for sure.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
The same kind of situation with like three miles and
sixty two or thirty two sixty two, one hundred and two.

Speaker 4 (30:49):
Is that still the plan for this year?

Speaker 2 (30:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (30:53):
Three different distances, you know, give everyone an opportunity to shine.

Speaker 12 (30:58):
You know, some people are not.

Speaker 5 (30:59):
Up for one hundred or one hundred kilometers, so thirty
two might fit.

Speaker 12 (31:03):
Them well with a little bit of training. I mean,
give it.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
Your old cohort, Jay was able to pull off thirty.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
Two miles and his U barely.

Speaker 7 (31:12):
So yeah.

Speaker 5 (31:14):
So I mean, if Jay can do it, then geeze.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
He wanted to, he did for a while, and if
he made it and he threw.

Speaker 5 (31:21):
Up, well I'll give him an a for efforts.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Yeah, of course, of course, you know, and we tease
him about it, of course.

Speaker 5 (31:31):
No.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
So you have your eye on the Tour de France
now that it's nerds end.

Speaker 5 (31:37):
Yeah, I mean we're we're witnessing probably the greatest cyclist
of all time and Taddy Pagatcha. If you've not tuned
in one day, I mean this kid is he's just
just twenty six years old and it's just absolutely dominating.

Speaker 12 (31:52):
To give you a little.

Speaker 5 (31:53):
Stat if he wins this year, which will be his fourth,
Towar de France, he'll have to for Tour de France
wins before Lance Armstrong went his first or with an
asterisk I guess so you're you're witnessing just probably the
greatest cyclists of all time, and this kid is just
absolutely phenomenal.

Speaker 12 (32:12):
He's just better than everyone else.

Speaker 5 (32:14):
And uh, it's just a really great story and he
seems like a really great kid that just just has
its head on straight. So it's it's good news for
cycling to have such a superstar. You know, in Europe,
he's as big.

Speaker 12 (32:29):
As it gets.

Speaker 5 (32:30):
You know, European sports are a little bit different than
American sports, where you know, the Messi's and people like
that of.

Speaker 12 (32:35):
The world are are walk on water.

Speaker 5 (32:38):
Pagatcha's like that, and in most of those European countries,
but uh, you know, little by little we're we're we're
getting more and more fans to cycling, and you know,
one day we might have an American champ again that
that probably wears the red, white and blue.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Well, just no long ago. Tell me, he just received
the big honor. Oh, the first American and he just
got a big good metal. So you know, he was
a vacation recipient too, he was he was here in Tucson.

Speaker 13 (33:10):
Yeah, he's you.

Speaker 5 (33:12):
Know, I think and Richard we're we're good friends. And
you know what Greg had done being the first you
know to win and won several especially you know with
his story he was you know, injured in a hunting accident.
For him to come back and reach the peak after that,
it's just an amazing story. And so, uh, he was

(33:32):
honored by by Congress with the I think the Congressional
Medal of Honor is the award that he was he
was bestowed. So you know, really really saying something.

Speaker 12 (33:42):
And you know, again he's been been the.

Speaker 5 (33:44):
Tucson a few times over that period, and you know,
just I wish him well. I mean, he's had a
stellar career and continues. He's still involved in the bike
industry with a bike company of his own.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
How can people sign up for it.

Speaker 5 (34:00):
Pretty simple to eltword to Tucson dot org. You know,
we are a nonprofit. If you want to get involved
with we've got over one hundred teams that are nonprofits
as well. Uh you'll see those teams if you want
to ride for one of those teams like Boys and
Girls Club or Big Brothers, Big Sisters, you know, different
groups charities like that. Money have different charities to pick

(34:22):
and choose from all kinds of causes and great causes
those are. But but if you want to just ride
for yourself, you know this is the time. El tow
to two sounds dot work.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Right, plenty of time to get this done or the
other better because it's less expensive. And if you want
to write for a charity, that's even better. Yep, okay, thank.

Speaker 5 (34:46):
You, yeah yeah, don't wait too long again, like like
see you said, the price does go up after, you know,
as we inch closer to that date. But if you
if you think you're going to be riding, I mean,
sign up. It's a it's a great opportunity to get
out and ride with a whole bunch of folks from
all over the world and you can see some some.

Speaker 12 (35:03):
Big name folks.

Speaker 5 (35:04):
But you know, what everyone has to pedal on their
own and get through, and you.

Speaker 12 (35:08):
Know, when you're done, we've got.

Speaker 5 (35:09):
A nice, big celebration to celebrate your your success. So
you know, come on out and join.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Us well real quick, because because I think the world
of them. The jerseys, how cool are those?

Speaker 5 (35:25):
You know, it's it it's hard to imagine, like, you know,
how some of those other jerseys could could you possibly
dop some of those other jerseys, But this year Joe
Paget has just pulled off a gym and it really
just depicts some some some things that are just near
gear to Tucson being the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of the founding of Tucson, so things like you know,

(35:49):
sugar skull on a bike and Mariachi and riding through
the barrios.

Speaker 12 (35:54):
I mean, it's just a.

Speaker 5 (35:55):
Really cool depiction of just kind of the just a
cool scene out of you know, a fantasy scene out
of what happens at El Toora, Tucson. So you haven't
seen our jerseys. Joe Paget did an amazing job. And
he's been our resident artist for probably five or six
seven years, and he just he never ceases to amaze

(36:19):
me of some of the great artwork that he pumps out.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
Yeah. Cool, Okay, Dave, you're the next guy who's going
to challenge yourself to get on that mike.

Speaker 4 (36:28):
The one mile.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
One Yes, TJ, thanks a bunch.

Speaker 12 (36:34):
Hey, all right, guys, take care of Did you just.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Quitch the executive character?

Speaker 4 (36:38):
I could probably do thirty two three miles?

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Three miles? Yes. I just did a story on a
woman who did it the one mile, the three mile,
dedicating her son to the ride. And now she's going
to try the thirty two. So she's going to attack it,
which is great. That's the type of people. All right,
that's that's my goal. You're going to November November twenty
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Speaker 2 (41:13):
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(41:35):
that you have on your mind.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
I was I was kind of talking a little bit
before about Richard Jefferson. That's good news that he's going
to stick around with with the ESPN to be their
lead guy. And another you have a alum that has
done quite well on the media.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
It's kind of fun to get keep track of these guys.
Not surprised to me in my game room. I have
a story that I did his junior year, his final
year year, how I thought he had a great future
in whatever he'd to do because you knew him right,
you covered him to He was kind of a pain,
but he was a good pain in terms of good
quote him and the rest of the guys. But he

(42:10):
was always outspoken. If you remember when Bobby passed, he
spoke at the at the Thina Michale was fantastic, speaking
his mind there and saying great things about her and
the family. And that's when I wrote the column. I
just said that you know this guy and I followed
him when in high school, right when he decided to
commit to Arizona, that he had this future in basketball.

(42:33):
But he was he was I don't want to say
yes or but he was just good with words and
he could say some things and and that kind of
solidified it for me when he spoke at her at
her wake or the celebration of life. And then he
was always good with the media. You know, he knew
what to say sometimes he said crazy stuff, but he
was good.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
You could tell he kind of had a twinkle in
his eye usually when he would say something like, maybe
this isn't exactly true, right, right, right, right?

Speaker 4 (42:59):
Talk you're right? I mean again, think about it.

Speaker 3 (43:01):
He was he was twenty years old when he got
up and spoke at that funeral. That was, you know,
quite a sign of maturity and you could sort of
see that. And he and he had a long career
in the NBA, tucking every day after well read stuff
well read.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
His parents were good, came exactly, came from a good family,
and that was a good group minus minus the craziness
of Gilbert from time to time.

Speaker 3 (43:26):
Yeah, but you know, you knew that they got along.
Oh yeah, it seemed like they did. At least they
chalked the way they were.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
Yeah, it depends who you talked to, because they had that.
When she passed, Luke was gone for two weeks, remember
he you know, he took his heatus, came back to
some people's surprise, and then they went on this role.
Uh and it was a good role till Duke and
take it over either for whatever whatever that was worth,
because they could have easily won that game minus a

(43:54):
call and then Gilbert getting hurt the game before Luke
getting hurt with his thumb, a lot of.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
Again again, it propelled a lot of these guys to
long careers in the NBA and beyond.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
Coaches, podcasters, you, you and I were here with Lauren, right.
We spoke to Lauren and look at his future. Now
he's an actor and doing some philanthropy stuff with his
websites and his T shirts and all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
Yeah, Lauren was not a guy that we would not
necessarily get too much information from when we talked to
him twenty five years ago. But now he's kind of
turned the page and doing something different, and yeah, you know,
good luck to him.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Yeah, he was good to talk to you. He's one
of my best best guys in the last three four months. Good. Yeah,
Well you were here with you. When you were you
were like, say, wow, look what you're doing.

Speaker 3 (44:39):
Yeah, I mean, how many seven footers are going to
be actors. He's gonna he could probably do something. He
was in, Uh, it was like a it was a
Christmas Carol take off I think where he played one
of the ghosts. Yeah, I believe, And that was kind
of a chance for him to do stuff. But it
is fun to just watch him grow and you know,
become you know, men and well going to somewhere else.

Speaker 4 (44:59):
Basketballs where they started.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
Look at that starting lineup right now, Jason he's here,
Jason Gardner's here working for the program, Gilbert doing his
podcast and doing things crazy things on the internet. Uh,
we had Luke, I think he was coming off the bench.
So now Luke is with Detroit right Detroit beast to
his assistant at Detroit, former Lakers coach, Golden State coach

(45:23):
Lauren the Center doing what he's doing. Who is the
It wasn't Michael Wright was It was Michael Wright, who's
unfortunately passed away a few years ago, but had a
nice little career overseas. And then you know Wessell and
Harris Donnell and Jeans and the cop in Pima and

(45:44):
doing other things.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
So yeah, some of those guys really have had nice,
nice lives after basketball, and I think a lot of
them would probably admit that, you know, things wouldn't have
happened had it not been for them coming to play
play here and get a chance to grow up and
you know, talk to the media like a Richard Jefferson,
we could tell, yeah, he's.

Speaker 4 (46:01):
Gonna he's gonna be good at this.

Speaker 12 (46:03):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
Steve curR even even before that, you could tell he's
gonna be good. He can just he can where they
handle themselves. They were mature and they managed to parlay
that into a you know, second careers, third careers.

Speaker 2 (46:14):
Well, Javier does that list of people in the media
for all sports do sign? There's so many of them, you.

Speaker 4 (46:20):
Know, Teddy Corey, Teddy Corey, Williams, Sean Billbach. I mean,
just yeah, this is one after another.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
Yeah, Joe mcgreen, did you know me Joel mcgreen a
little bit, because I don't know if he's still doing
I wish I could find him to talk about.

Speaker 12 (46:33):
Stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (46:34):
He was, he was in my early years too.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
He was, you know, a pitcher of course for Jerry
Kendall in the mid eighties, like maybe five team eighties,
not in the eighty sixteen, but I think on the
eighty five he was finished.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
In fact, that's where I should go. I have Blake,
maybe Blake knows how to find him, and Jerry stant
who can find Joe mcgreen.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
You know, he had a long run on ESPN. I'm
not quite sure what exactly happened, might.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
Be in Florida somewhere, can be with the Marlins or
something last night. I think so, I think so. I
just these guys are sometimes hard to find, even in
the stage of the internet.

Speaker 3 (47:03):
That was an eighty five team that was really good too.
It didn't have the success that the eighty six team had,
but he was in it on the eighty five club
that was great. So and then he wound up going
off and playing. I remember just so happened to be.
I was in uh, excuse me, in Philadelphia of all places,

(47:24):
and the Cardinals were in town and we had a
chance to go to the game, and hey, it's Joe
McGray and he's like, what are you doing here.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
When you're when you were doing your your TV?

Speaker 4 (47:32):
Okay, yeah, we were there for something else.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
Oh is it the basketball with when there was it
was no.

Speaker 3 (47:38):
I don't even remember exactly the circumstances, but we were
there since maybe the last time I've seen him, but
he's been around. He was, you know, playing then and
went off and became a broadcast.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
Yeah, what's up with Scott Rickson? I don't remember his name.
In a while, there's been a lot of good guys
through the years.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
Yeah, he was kind of in that Trevor Hoffman era too,
so I'm sure they stay close.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
Yeah. So baseball program, if you're going to talk about
blue Blood, yeah, that's the blue Blood program as well
as the softball program.

Speaker 3 (48:04):
Just the legacy of these guys have had and you
look back and you know they're going to be that
we've got. You know, you have Trevor in the Hall
of Fame. You know, you and I have talked about
Kenny lofton.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
Yeah, and we have. Perhaps did you listen to that
one with Reggie? He was fantastic. I think he was fantastic. Yeah,
I mean, another guy exactly ever would get anything out
of him, saying with Bibby, baby's been on a file.
In fact, we're going to have Bibby on hopefully this
week because he was in Greece last week with his
daughter who just committed to uh UA volleyball. He said

(48:33):
he'd come on the show with her, So we're gonna
see when that happens this week. And he well, how
many words did you talk to him? Did you ever
have one?

Speaker 12 (48:41):
Tea?

Speaker 2 (48:41):
Not very many because he was not good for TV.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
He didn't talk much. Yeah, it says that he is,
says Joe McGrain is still broadcasting. Yeah, joined the MLB network.
He's had been part of the it's been a while.
He was part of the Tampa Baby.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
I knew he was in Florida for a while. Yeah,
so we'll try to see if I can get on
him on just because I should have got to try
to get him on for the Arizona run to the
World Series.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
Yeah, he was good, he was good, didn't play a
long time. I think he's one of those guys that
probably are.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
He's a good quote too, that's why they're good. Yeah,
you know, and he's sixty one, sixty one. He's wait
a second here, Yeah, so my twenty is saying, Dave,
I already just told you off the air. I feel
like I'm one hundred things are happening or not happening.

Speaker 4 (49:27):
His career, his career ended, he was thirty one.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
You know, it's funny because you look at that, You
start looking at guys now, Yeah, and thirty one as
you're in your prime, right, because you're not pitching. Thirty
years ago, they didn't have the type of surgeries available.
Tommy John wasn't all that great. You play your elbow
out of thirty one, you could be done.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
And you're not working as hard. You know, you got
four or five good innings, they take you out. You
got a mineral ever now and you have a proposure.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
Yeah, I mean he won eighteen games.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
We're talking Joe McGrain won eighteen games in nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 4 (49:56):
That was his best season? Was that nine?

Speaker 2 (49:58):
Was that the erics was that where's that at? I'm
in Saint Louis and that he played I don't know,
that's where I remember.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
And he went to the Angels at the end in
the White Sox his last season. But then, yeah, he's
done at the thirty one. So h And what do
you do when you're thirty one? Yeah, kind of like
too old to really kind of start a new career.
So when you find broadcasting your coach or something, sure,
we'll look at how far it's thirty one. Thirty years
later you still exactly?

Speaker 2 (50:27):
Yeah, look at us still out here trying to do
this here, trying to survive. Need a contract pays me
a million? Serious, do you hear us? Yeah, it's the
wrong number. Sorry, you get the wrong number. Well, thanks
for coming in today. We got about a minute left,
so day. Thanks for coming in. You probably be in

(50:48):
the marrow, right, you might be in the marrow if
you need me.

Speaker 4 (50:50):
I probably around.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
Yeah, you're not doing anything. Took you took a week off, Yeah,
took a week off. You have to re energy. We're
gonna try to get some good guests tomorrow. I have
some maybe the bibies. Uh and his daughter will come
on tomorrow. I have someone.

Speaker 4 (51:08):
Can you get her?

Speaker 2 (51:09):
Yeah, that's that's what she was coming on and then
she's dada, I'm a little too nervous. Can you come
on with me? Exactly? We joked about that because you
know he wouldn't say two words three words during the season.

Speaker 4 (51:23):
Yeah you should.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
Maybe we could come up with a show or we
just get like kids of the stars that now maybe
you're coming here.

Speaker 4 (51:29):
Let's let's see if we can make a.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
List of there have been a few. There have been
a few. Uh Turner, Joe Turner, his daughter played volleyball
here for a cup of coffee.

Speaker 4 (51:37):
And Harvey Mason's Harvey Mason both came right right, do
a little a family.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
Well, look at it now. Steve Chris's son is now
his assistant. The Golden State. Bushler's I'm sure are doing
well in the volleyball world. Man, we're getting old. You're right.
I won't even say how old you are. I'm still here.
It's just like everybody. Thanks for listening to day. Thank
youfull ye, thankfully it's over. Oh it was good. Okay

(52:05):
we pulled it off. Yeah we did, we survived. Thank you, Dave.
I's you tomorrow. Thanks everybody for listening. Take care,