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December 8, 2025 12 mins
In sports, a nice win over the weekend for the Dallas Mavericks has us taking a look at the standings and upcoming schedule, and why we should be excited about the near future for the Mavs, plus KT takes us through the chaos and outrage that ensued from the College Football Playoff bracket. 
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now let's go around the sports k TD fun queens
as all the sports.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Let's work through the weekend. Here's Friday night. After we
did our show up Pluckers, I went out to uh
Bar to watch North Texas and Tulane play. I saw
that how'd it go? We didn't go? Well?

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Man, is it bad to lose the best running back
three plays into the game?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, your best player, well outside of the quarterback, best
player hurt and you know had to fumble because his
shoulder was numb. North Texas twenty one, tu Lane twenty,
the refs fourteen. Unfortunately, that's not enough to overcome a victory.
Tulane gets the win and will advance and mel by
the way, our coach is gone, and they took the

(00:47):
GM with him. The twenty four year old g went
to with him.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
They did make it really fun in the fourth quarter though,
there was a chance for them to come back through
an interception and then it.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Was just like a crap.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
It was a fun game to watch, if you watch
the entire thing, it was fun.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
It did get fun, and you know, there was such
a chance to actually still win it. There were and
I know this, like I am never ref guy I
don't like doing that. I don't like blaming stuff on refs,
like seeing other people who had no dog in the
hunt go. They need to investigate the refs here. What
happened the touch back? Especially right the touch back? I

(01:23):
mean there was a touchdown that should have been overturned.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Honestly, follow well was He's a North Texas guy, but
he was saying I didn't I didn't see the game.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
By the time dinner, it didn't look good.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
And then the Mavericks were starting, so I was watching
them have a really close game with the thunder up
missing it and just reading about it later.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
So they started turning TVs at the bar to put
it on the MAVs, and the whole bar started screaming,
No one wants to see the Maves lose. By thirty
to night, where did we milo? Was nice? Then as
I went home ball, I talked to myself, and they're
getting the pop tart bawl that they no, they got
the new Mexico Bowl on. By the way, Bowl games

(02:05):
are going away. Teams are just now saying I don't
want to go now. Yeah, I know what your dame
thing was so funny, so good, We're.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Good but also now that you have players that are like,
I'm gonna go in the portal. I don't need this
Bowl game.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
You didn't need it anyways.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
So my wife's what's as our friend, but he and
his sister they live in Burls. We're gonna watch the
Tech game. I was like, let's just go to Milos.
So we went to Milos twice in twelve hours. Oh
my god, Tech and BYU.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
You see Clayton Kershaw there.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Clayton Gersher was there playing darts as always as always
there there I heard he.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
I talked to Matt Hicksey yesterday and it turns out
that Clayton Kershaw wears Sketchers.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Happy Birthday. I did remove him from the Today game.
Oh you did? Yeah? Okay, So Tech gets the window.
Tech is in Uh. They crushed BYU, who's got a
quarterback named Bear that wears number forty seven. Tech is
in there the number four seed. They will play on
January first. I talked to Emily Jones yesterday. Jared Sandlers charity,

(03:04):
He's got to be very happy, and she was like,
it if it sucks that we gotta go to like
the games in Miami because Tech wins your eyes thinking, okay,
play the Cotton Bowl. Well, Ohio State, who lost, went
down from one to two, and they chose to play
at at and T Stadium. That's how that works. You
basically you get to choose where. Tech was the four

(03:25):
seed with the buye, so they had to go play,
you know, New Year's Day in Miami. So so drunk,
they're gonna be very drup and they're very good, like
they got a chance, they got a real good chance.
Not that. The thing that happens at eleven am yesterday
is the unveiling of the bracket and how do you
t do? Ut did not get in and they were

(03:47):
really not up for consideration, so they will see if
they opt out of the bowl game. The team that
gets in is Miami over Notre Dame. Notre Dame gets
left out. Notre Dame's like, we're not going to the
bowl game. But what's can fusing about it? And if
you watched it on TV, it was very interesting because
Reese Davis of ESPN has got the guy for like,

(04:07):
how did y'all? And Reese Davis is asking debate level
great questions, okay, and he's trying not to offend the
guy and he's like, hey, I don't disagree with it,
but how did you get to this process? Because for
the last six weeks the committee has had Notre Dame
Miami and now Miami smoked Notre Dame earlier in the year. Actually,
well then they decided. Between the last six weeks, every

(04:31):
Tuesday night they've been having Notre Dame of Miami. They're like, well,
we'll put body and that's why you have a flaw
in the system causing outrage. Oh okay, And I'm like, guys,
this is all better than it used to be. Yeah,
Like dude, it's okay. If one team gets screwed, it's
better for it to be the thirteen seed than the
five seed. It's okay.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, that's why, Like, I mean, I'm disappointed that Texas
in in the mix. He lost to f and Florida.
Didn't they go to overtime with Kentucky?

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah? They fart around Mississippi State too.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah, do you have opportunities throughout the year?

Speaker 2 (05:02):
I get it.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
When it was the old system, there was three teams
that could complain. Now, if you're the number thirteen team complaining,
take a.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Lap well, and also fix your criteria. I guess if
you want to, you can change your criteria to teams
that are playing well this time of year, because Texas
would didn't qualify, yeah, and Alabama would not. Right, but Alabama,
this is an other things interestingcause Alabama played the SEC
championship game lost, and one of Reees Davis's points was, well,
there's got to be stakes for these games. So you're
telling me that Ohio State lost their championship game and

(05:34):
dropped one. But Alabama lost their championship game and they
did not drop one. So what do you like? Do
these games kicking by? You needed to win over Texas
Tech to get in, so that game had stakes, but
the Big Ten and SEC championship game had no stakes
on it.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Why don't they get rid of the championship games because.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Doctor Pepper and TV money.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Oh that's a good point, all right. That's the way
the college football system is shaking out. What about the
way the Mavericks are shaking out? Did they have a
good weekend?

Speaker 2 (06:04):
We'll break all that down next right here on ninety
seven point one The Eagle, Hey Ben and Skin Show,
ninety seven point one The Eagle coming up here in
fifteen minutes.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Dave Groll's redemption. Christina tells us all about it. We
also have Lamb of God tickets to give away. They're
coming to Toyota Music Factory in April'll be listening for that.
But right now, it's time for part two of Around
the Sports.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
All right. So the MAVs lost on Friday night to
Oklahoma City.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
Great game.

Speaker 2 (06:30):
We don't sweat that too much. Oklahoma City is not
really losing to anyone twenty three one. They might be
setting records here. By the way, did you guys know
that there's a train from Forth to Oklahoma City?

Speaker 1 (06:40):
What?

Speaker 3 (06:41):
No, I didn't.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
It's just seventy two dollars. It's called the Heartland or something,
the Heartland, the Heartland, whereas I would call it the
Heartland because the way it's it's one word. Gotcha, it
seems weird. I'm not sure. But I read a little
bit up on it today.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
So you read everything about except where it is.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Well, no, I can find it. I put it in
my little document here. It's got a a lot of content.
Uh yeah. Round trip tickets seventy two dollars to go
from Fort Worth to Oklahoma City or back Oklahoma. Yeah,
round trips seventy two bucks. They called that the Travis Frederick.
It's four hours. It's a little bit longer than the drive.
Why because they stop. They have to do stops. Ye,

(07:21):
that sucks, but you.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
Can get drunk on there.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
It leaves from Fort Worth's Central station at five twenty
five pm, Okay, and arrives in Oklahoma City at nine
thirty pm. Then, so you would stay and then you
would go to a Thunder game and then you would
come home.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
I guess I don't really, I mean, how often are
they rolling out because if the game start at seven o'clock?

Speaker 2 (07:39):
You know, I think there's one a day because the
return ride leaves Oklahoma City at eight twenty five am,
so leaves Okay, see at eight twenty five am, leaves
here at five five.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
So it's for people they just want to be at
Oklahoma City starting at ten o'clock at night and then
get up early and come back.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, that's not ideal. Well, I think I think no,
you would stay a day in Oklahoma City and then
you would okay, right, Okay.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
I think people need to get to Oklahoma City earlier
in the day. By the way, some cool little things
in Oklahoma City I.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Saw Father John Misty there and really I forget the venue,
but the venue was really cool.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
I would do it for concerts for sure.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yeah, if a concerts started at ten o'clock, it's kind
of like you're drunk and you're planning for the next day.
And then don't make me stay there longer than I
have to.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Oh, Bricktown, that's what it isn Breaktown's cool.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah, Bricktown is cool. And then away from Bricktown, I
mean it's Oklahoma City, so it's small.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
But probably I'll know.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Two miles away from Bricktown is a cool little arts
area with some breweries and some stuff.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Yeah, it's cool. So there's a lot of space. I
have like two seats you wanted Wi Fi.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
When we were in Switzerland, we did the train that
you can do a bus or a train everywhere. But
then when we had to cover great distance we did
this like luxury train. It was so bad.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
We did that in Italy and I was like, why
don't we have this more in the States because way
more trains. It's so fast and it's awesome. You can
drink and just dog.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
I didn't tell you. I rode the dart rail to
my loose Friday night, no cool as much I'd never
done before my life. Which station did you go to
because you're a Richardson boy. Yeah, A hose center, A
rap a hose a rap hose center. Okay, yeah, okay.
So then the MAVs play Houston on Saturday night, and
Houston's a very good team.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
They is.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
They're a very good team, and your Dallas Mavericks showed
their full potential. They did.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Anthony Davis had two points against Oklahoma City. He had
a lot more points. They had so many points he
just left.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
I've got a MAVs calendar, and now is.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
The perfect time to walk over there and make a mark.
So Christina, who does a night show unless the Mavericks play,
is very aware of their schedule and that they're off
all week.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
A week back on Friday, yep, and a chance to
start making a little hay here.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
I was looking at the schedules.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
It feels like a good time to pounce. So I was.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
I was looking, and I'm like, all right, I'm going
to look at it, chunk, because now they're half a
game out of the play in Yeah, all right, but
they still don't have a good record. So I was like,
all right, what does it take to get a good record?
And I was looking at the next fifteen games, like,
if they go ten and five in the next fifteen games,
where does that get them? They would still be two
games under five hundred, but they would probably be more

(10:20):
entrenched in the playoffs in the play in scenario. So,
and I've said this, you probably heard me say this.
If they get healthy, the Mavericks are the proverbial team
you do not want to face. Because if the Mavericks
get healthy and they're playing team, you're going to have
some sad sack team facing Cooper Flag with a year
under his belt, Anthony Davis and Kai and they're gonna smash.

(10:43):
They're probably going to be favorites in four of the
next five games, absolutely, because two against Utah. They got Brooklyn, New.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Orleans, Philadelphia. Yeah, just want to getst Utah.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
Okay, Oh, I thought they played Utah Sunday or Saturday
night and then Monday night.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Uh, Monday the fifteenth. They don't play them Saturday night,
not that I know of. This is a late ad
to the schedule. Yeah, oh it is.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
They play Brooklyn Friday and then they play Utah Saturday.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Saturday the thirteenth.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Here almost one thousand percent.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Okay, at Utah, at Utah because they're at Utah Monday
the fifteenth. Yeah, they probably be trapped in Utah for
three days. Wait, maybe I have it wrong.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
I'm off Friday and Saturday, so I don't know.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Okay, there are games there to be announced, but those
are NBA Cup games.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, no, no, you're right, I'm sorry. They do not
play Saturday. They play Friday, and they play Monday.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
As a matter of point, is for the next five games,
you got a good chance to go get a win. Yeah?
Uh in Detroit. I would like to trade Clay Thompson
to Detroit. I know they don't have the cap money,
but they could use some three point shooting. Is that right?

Speaker 3 (11:45):
You want to who do you want off their squad?

Speaker 2 (11:47):
So I think if you're a pick, let's get who
are they trying to him? I mean give us Duran? Yeah, Duran,
I would. I don't think they're good, dude, they're really good.
Did you know they're in first in the East? Uh No,
but they're arthientic nineteen and three or something. I think, yeah,
five seventeen and five. Does that sound right? Oh? Yeah,
they're good. They yeah, they're nineteen and five. Yeah, they're

(12:09):
in first place in the East. Damn yeah. Yeah. And
there we are chasing Portland in Memphis, Golden State, Phoenix,
Phoenix is gonna fall off, you think, yes?

Speaker 3 (12:19):
All right?

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Uh, there's a little mav stock off to come there.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
It's the Ben and Skin Show ninety seven point one,
The Eagle, Christina.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
What's coming up next in the Cookie Jar?

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Has Dave Grohl officially redeemed himself next
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