August 5, 2024 • 10 mins
Craig goes over what Olympic events caught his eye over the weekend. Cole chimes in with a hot take about water polo and even goes as far as to say that it is the hardest sport to play!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Glad to be with you here on this Monday afternoon,
coming off of the weekend. And as I mentioned, the
the weekend included quite a bit on the Olympics. Now,
Cole did not see much of that. He was just
chilling pretty much.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Weren't you, Yeah, for the most part. But the one
I did watch, and we did talk about this during
the break. I have a new respect after watching water polo.
I thought hockey was the toughest sport to play in
the world. I'm going to go ahead and say water
polo is okay, all right, I mean it's very taxing.
Oh yeah, question, Yeah, it'll take a toll on you,
(00:39):
for sure.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Simone Biles finished the Olympics with a silver in the
floor exercise. It was a routine that included a couple
of costly steps out of bounds. Rebecca and Rage from Brazil,
became the first gymnast to beat Biles in a floor
final in a major international competition. She finished just ahead
(01:04):
of her by gosh, I'm looking here, I guess it
would be thirty three hundreds of a point. And Jordan Chiles,
longtime friend and teammate of Biles, earned the bronze and
that there was a little bit of controversy about the score.
She initially received a thirteen sixty sixty six, but after
some delay, her total was boosted by point oh one
(01:26):
when she filed an inquiry about the difficulty component of
her score, and that pushed her past Romanians on A
Barboso and Sabrina Manackavuna and into third. Biles said after
winning the ball on Saturday, she noticed her haters were
really quiet.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Now, so that's strange. So she.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
When she went in, she went inside there because it
was a little bit quiet.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
She said.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
The floor exercise obviously her her signature event, but it
was kind of as she described it as an uncharacteristic
stick lapse in execution.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
She said she hasn't decided whether she will.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Return to the Olympics in la in twenty twenty eight.
She would be thirty one at the time. She says,
never say never. The ext Olympics are at home, so
you just never know. I'm really getting old because she'll
be thirty one by the at age when most him
have long since retired. But you know, Katie Leadecki said
(02:34):
the same thing, and she's twenty seven, and she said,
we'll see.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
She said I'd love to be able to do it.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
The one thing that keeps Americans who excel at the
Olympics this year, keeps them holding their options open about
competing in the next Olympiad is the mere fact that
the games are in the States, that they're in Los Angeles,
(03:07):
Because you know, if say, on back an Olympiad or
two prior and Michael Phelps, if you knew the next
minutes it was in LA, maybe he would have stuck around.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Of some of the others, maybe they would have stuck around.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
The temptation to be able to do it in front
of your home fans, I think can be pretty strong.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
And who knows.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
If she stays the course in both cases she meaning
either La DECKI and or Files, then yeah, then perhaps
then we'll see them in LA in twenty twenty eight.
Updating Olympic Men's volleyball. They're now on the fourth set
and it's a barn burner. The United States and Brazil
(03:53):
in a quarterfinal right now, men's volleyball, and the US
leads two sets, the one the goal for the match,
but it's only a two point lead right now.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
It's twenty one to.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Nineteen at a timeout in that one, so obviously we'll
we'll keep you updated on that. Let's see the gold
medal game in case you wanted to know. For the
(04:23):
men's gold medal game hasn't been played yet for three
as they call it three x three basketball, the three
by thirty three on three three x three as they
call it. That's France and the Netherlands they haven't played yet.
Germany and Spain are in the women's gold medal game
in the three x three and at sixteen sixteen right now,
(04:44):
the bronze medal in the men's three x three goes
to Lithuania, which beat Latvia twenty one to eighteen. And
the women's bronze medal game has the United States in
against Canada and and I think the United States has
won it. They won it sixteen thirteen, so the US
(05:05):
women in the three x three take the bronze. The
men did not make the metal round on that, but
the women did and they wind up taking the bronze,
so good for them on that. The men's full court,
if you will, basketball team will play Brazil tomorrow as
(05:30):
they've reached the medal round, so that'll be in the
quarterfinals tomorrow. The United States against Brazil in the quarterfinals.
Just like I said, right now, the United States is
playing Brazil in the quarterfinals and men's volleyball and is
twenty three to nineteen to the US in front. The
women have reached the quarterfinals as well, so and they
(05:52):
won handily. In fact, at one point the women got
up by only seven points before Germany.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Made a late run too to pull to win.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I think they pulled to within eighteen is what they did,
but before the women won handily on that. So we'll
keep we'll keep an eye on that over the course
of the next couple of days to see how the
how the women do as well as the men in
the in the Olympics, they're in the full team basketball
(06:33):
for that both teams just sweeping right through it. And
the US women, by the way, are playing Nigeria.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
In the quarterfinals.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
That's that's their matchup in the in the quarterfinals they're
playing Nigeria. So anyway, that's kind of the Olympic update
on that, and we can tell you now the United
States has just advanced to the final four the semifinals
and men's volleyball.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
They just defeated Brazil.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
The final score in the final set was twenty five
to nineteen. The US takes it three sets to one.
So Team USA onto the semifinal. That means, at the
very least they would be playing for a bronze now
that they're in the semifinal round. So they're going to
get a chance to compete for a medal in the
medal round either if they win their semi final. Obviously
(07:26):
they're assured of no worse than the silver, and they'd
be playing for the gold if they and they move
on and they're going to play Poland in the semifinals.
The other semifinal will be Italy against France on that,
So Team USA Men's volleyball on to the semifinal round.
On that.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
All right, coming up.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
We're going to hear more from LONGGRNS head football coach
Steve Sarkasian. The team went through its fifth practice of
this fall camp thing. You know, when they started off,
they were going at two thirty in the afternoon. And
for those who were wondering, boy, why they're going out
(08:07):
there really subjecting themselves to the heat. Remember the kickoff
time of the season opener Colorado State, It's two thirty
in the afternoon and on August thirty first. To be
quite kind, it's still gonna be hot as blazes. It's
still gonna be really, really hot. By the way, you're
(08:27):
a northern California guy, how have you you know adjusted
to the heat.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I love the heat. I can't do the cold. I'd
rather be hot than cold.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
You know what, I'm with you on that. I don't
like real cold weather myself.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Because at least I can go to the river or
the lake or go swimming. Yeah, that way it's fun.
If I'm cold, I gotta be staying, I gotta bundle
up and at the house. I'm just I don't want
to be at the house. Okay, that's a good I
prefer the heat. Okay, So it's going to be hot
on August thirty first. I think all of us realize
that unless, you know, unless another one of these tropic
(09:00):
storms come in, like this Hurricane Debbie that made landfall
in Florida today. I have two brothers who live on
the North Carolina South Carolina coast, and a sister who
is moving toward the South Carolina coast from ConA, of
all places. Let's to say to her the same thing
I said to my mom and my mom moved back
from ConA.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
What retiree moves back from Hawaii, right?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
My mom did it because she want to be close
to her grandchildren and she had been widowed out there,
so she moved back and settled in the Dallas Fort
Worth area to be close to grandchildren. My sister has
lived in Hawaii over twenty years and she and her
husband are pretty much retired and they're moving back wheuse
he is a serious, serious, avid, heavy duty golfer, like
(09:48):
a scratch coffer.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
He's really good.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And the place where they're moving is near Hilton d
so there's lots of great golf now in that area
as well. But anyway, they're all over there on that
coast and they're getting a lot of heavy, heavy rain
and it's you know, flooding issues and all that sort
of stuff. So hopefully they're okay. They last checked they
were all fine. But unless we get another tropical depression
(10:17):
or system or storm or something like that in the
Gulf that brings rain to the coastline of Texas and
then on onward inland up here to the area.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Unless we get that at the end of the month.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
We're going to be in for a brutally hot day
for the season open or August thirty first, So the
Long WRN football team has been practicing neat now. They
had they had an evening workout on Friday and Saturday,
they did a day off Sunday, and then they went
to a morning workout today.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
So the very some of that up going forward.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
But we'll hear from Long Wrn's head coach, Steve Sarkasian
coming up when we continue here on Sports Radio AM
thirteen under the zone of the iHeartRadio app.
Glad to be with you here on this Monday afternoon,
coming off of the weekend. And as I mentioned, the
the weekend included quite a bit on the Olympics. Now,
Cole did not see much of that. He was just
chilling pretty much.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Weren't you, Yeah, for the most part. But the one
I did watch, and we did talk about this during
the break. I have a new respect after watching water polo.
I thought hockey was the toughest sport to play in
the world. I'm going to go ahead and say water
polo is okay, all right, I mean it's very taxing.
Oh yeah, question, Yeah, it'll take a toll on you,
(00:39):
for sure.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Simone Biles finished the Olympics with a silver in the
floor exercise. It was a routine that included a couple
of costly steps out of bounds. Rebecca and Rage from Brazil,
became the first gymnast to beat Biles in a floor
final in a major international competition. She finished just ahead
(01:04):
of her by gosh, I'm looking here, I guess it
would be thirty three hundreds of a point. And Jordan Chiles,
longtime friend and teammate of Biles, earned the bronze and
that there was a little bit of controversy about the score.
She initially received a thirteen sixty sixty six, but after
some delay, her total was boosted by point oh one
(01:26):
when she filed an inquiry about the difficulty component of
her score, and that pushed her past Romanians on A
Barboso and Sabrina Manackavuna and into third. Biles said after
winning the ball on Saturday, she noticed her haters were
really quiet.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Now, so that's strange. So she.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
When she went in, she went inside there because it
was a little bit quiet.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
She said.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
The floor exercise obviously her her signature event, but it
was kind of as she described it as an uncharacteristic
stick lapse in execution.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
She said she hasn't decided whether she will.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Return to the Olympics in la in twenty twenty eight.
She would be thirty one at the time. She says,
never say never. The ext Olympics are at home, so
you just never know. I'm really getting old because she'll
be thirty one by the at age when most him
have long since retired. But you know, Katie Leadecki said
(02:34):
the same thing, and she's twenty seven, and she said,
we'll see.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
She said I'd love to be able to do it.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
The one thing that keeps Americans who excel at the
Olympics this year, keeps them holding their options open about
competing in the next Olympiad is the mere fact that
the games are in the States, that they're in Los Angeles,
(03:07):
Because you know, if say, on back an Olympiad or
two prior and Michael Phelps, if you knew the next
minutes it was in LA, maybe he would have stuck around.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Of some of the others, maybe they would have stuck around.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
The temptation to be able to do it in front
of your home fans, I think can be pretty strong.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
And who knows.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
If she stays the course in both cases she meaning
either La DECKI and or Files, then yeah, then perhaps
then we'll see them in LA in twenty twenty eight.
Updating Olympic Men's volleyball. They're now on the fourth set
and it's a barn burner. The United States and Brazil
(03:53):
in a quarterfinal right now, men's volleyball, and the US
leads two sets, the one the goal for the match,
but it's only a two point lead right now.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
It's twenty one to.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Nineteen at a timeout in that one, so obviously we'll
we'll keep you updated on that. Let's see the gold
medal game in case you wanted to know. For the
(04:23):
men's gold medal game hasn't been played yet for three
as they call it three x three basketball, the three
by thirty three on three three x three as they
call it. That's France and the Netherlands they haven't played yet.
Germany and Spain are in the women's gold medal game
in the three x three and at sixteen sixteen right now,
(04:44):
the bronze medal in the men's three x three goes
to Lithuania, which beat Latvia twenty one to eighteen. And
the women's bronze medal game has the United States in
against Canada and and I think the United States has
won it. They won it sixteen thirteen, so the US
(05:05):
women in the three x three take the bronze. The
men did not make the metal round on that, but
the women did and they wind up taking the bronze,
so good for them on that. The men's full court,
if you will, basketball team will play Brazil tomorrow as
(05:30):
they've reached the medal round, so that'll be in the
quarterfinals tomorrow. The United States against Brazil in the quarterfinals.
Just like I said, right now, the United States is
playing Brazil in the quarterfinals and men's volleyball and is
twenty three to nineteen to the US in front. The
women have reached the quarterfinals as well, so and they
(05:52):
won handily. In fact, at one point the women got
up by only seven points before Germany.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Made a late run too to pull to win.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I think they pulled to within eighteen is what they did,
but before the women won handily on that. So we'll
keep we'll keep an eye on that over the course
of the next couple of days to see how the
how the women do as well as the men in
the in the Olympics, they're in the full team basketball
(06:33):
for that both teams just sweeping right through it. And
the US women, by the way, are playing Nigeria.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
In the quarterfinals.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
That's that's their matchup in the in the quarterfinals they're
playing Nigeria. So anyway, that's kind of the Olympic update
on that, and we can tell you now the United
States has just advanced to the final four the semifinals
and men's volleyball.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
They just defeated Brazil.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
The final score in the final set was twenty five
to nineteen. The US takes it three sets to one.
So Team USA onto the semifinal. That means, at the
very least they would be playing for a bronze now
that they're in the semifinal round. So they're going to
get a chance to compete for a medal in the
medal round either if they win their semi final. Obviously
(07:26):
they're assured of no worse than the silver, and they'd
be playing for the gold if they and they move
on and they're going to play Poland in the semifinals.
The other semifinal will be Italy against France on that,
So Team USA Men's volleyball on to the semifinal round.
On that.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
All right, coming up.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
We're going to hear more from LONGGRNS head football coach
Steve Sarkasian. The team went through its fifth practice of
this fall camp thing. You know, when they started off,
they were going at two thirty in the afternoon. And
for those who were wondering, boy, why they're going out
(08:07):
there really subjecting themselves to the heat. Remember the kickoff
time of the season opener Colorado State, It's two thirty
in the afternoon and on August thirty first. To be
quite kind, it's still gonna be hot as blazes. It's
still gonna be really, really hot. By the way, you're
(08:27):
a northern California guy, how have you you know adjusted
to the heat.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I love the heat. I can't do the cold. I'd
rather be hot than cold.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
You know what, I'm with you on that. I don't
like real cold weather myself.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Because at least I can go to the river or
the lake or go swimming. Yeah, that way it's fun.
If I'm cold, I gotta be staying, I gotta bundle
up and at the house. I'm just I don't want
to be at the house. Okay, that's a good I
prefer the heat. Okay, So it's going to be hot
on August thirty first. I think all of us realize
that unless, you know, unless another one of these tropic
(09:00):
storms come in, like this Hurricane Debbie that made landfall
in Florida today. I have two brothers who live on
the North Carolina South Carolina coast, and a sister who
is moving toward the South Carolina coast from ConA, of
all places. Let's to say to her the same thing
I said to my mom and my mom moved back
from ConA.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
What retiree moves back from Hawaii, right?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
My mom did it because she want to be close
to her grandchildren and she had been widowed out there,
so she moved back and settled in the Dallas Fort
Worth area to be close to grandchildren. My sister has
lived in Hawaii over twenty years and she and her
husband are pretty much retired and they're moving back wheuse
he is a serious, serious, avid, heavy duty golfer, like
(09:48):
a scratch coffer.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
He's really good.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
And the place where they're moving is near Hilton d
so there's lots of great golf now in that area
as well. But anyway, they're all over there on that
coast and they're getting a lot of heavy, heavy rain
and it's you know, flooding issues and all that sort
of stuff. So hopefully they're okay. They last checked they
were all fine. But unless we get another tropical depression
(10:17):
or system or storm or something like that in the
Gulf that brings rain to the coastline of Texas and
then on onward inland up here to the area.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Unless we get that at the end of the month.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
We're going to be in for a brutally hot day
for the season open or August thirty first, So the
Long WRN football team has been practicing neat now. They
had they had an evening workout on Friday and Saturday,
they did a day off Sunday, and then they went
to a morning workout today.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
So the very some of that up going forward.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
But we'll hear from Long Wrn's head coach, Steve Sarkasian
coming up when we continue here on Sports Radio AM
thirteen under the zone of the iHeartRadio app.
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