August 5, 2024 • 10 mins
Craig talks about Noah Lyles last minute victory in the olympics. Simone Biles racks up a good amount of medals as well and Olympic updates from volleyball to basketball!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here on a Monday. Hope your week is off to
a good start. I know I had to start right
the mere fact that it just even has to start.
The work week has to start, but it has to
start somewhere sometimes. That's for those of you who and
I always had this because I know many, many, many
people in this world. And I'm not just talking about
(00:20):
the broadcast business. I know lots of people whose work
week is not Monday through Friday. It might be Wednesday
through Sunday. It could be Friday through Tuesday. I've seen that,
especially like some of the weekend sports anchors and stuff
like that, that the work the weekends. You know, they
(00:41):
might they're off days might be Tuesday, Wednesday or Wednesday Thursday.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You know that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
So I understand people have different work week schedules. I'm
just glad that you found enough time to tune us in,
and I do appreciate that. As always, the Olympics have
been going on, as we talked about, someone Biles did
is today. If you didn't hear me last hour and
you want to go media blackout, cover your ears, I
give you a couple of seconds here and tell you
(01:07):
what happened with her, and here we go. She finished Olympics,
not in the way that she's done the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
She fell off the beam, finished.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Fifth and then took silver in the floor exercise because
she stepped out of bounds a couple of times. But
she did still wind up as the silver medalist. That Androjia,
the young Brazilian young lady who a teenager who had
(01:40):
just been nosed out by Biles in the all around,
wound up taking the gold in the floor exercise. So
there you go, all right. So the Olympics, of course
took it. There was a lot of a lot of
conversation over the weekend. I know that Leo Noigebauer was
(02:06):
disappointed that he didn't win the gold, the former long
horning in the decathlon, but he did finish with the silver,
and so congratulations to him and other Longhorns who were
And my goodness, what Scotty Scheffler did was tremendous on
the golf course, a twenty nine on the back nine,
a bogie free round of sixty two, came from four
(02:26):
shots names down, four shots at the turn, came all
the way back, got the lead, made a birdie at seventeen.
Tommy Fleetwood made bogie at eighteen or excuse me, at seventeen,
and Scheffler was playing two holes ahead of Fleetwood, and
Scotty made birdie at seventeen. Fleetwood made bogey at seventeen,
(02:48):
and then Fleetwood was chipping from off the green for
birdie that would have tied him, got close but rolled
past the hole, and Scheffler wins the gold. Now this
was something else that came out and read this, and
I think I think most of us probably knew this.
We didn't know the dollar amount, but we probably knew this.
(03:09):
The American Olympic athletes don't get rich off the Olympics,
off the events themselves. Did you say howmuch Scottie Scheffler
is getting for winning Olympic gold.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
No, I didn't see, but I figured they're getting endorsement.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So it's just this side shy of thirty eight thousand
dollars that's.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It for winning gold.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I think American athletes get thirty eight grand for winning
a gold. I think it's twenty for winning a silver
and six thousand bucks for winning a bronze. So someone
Biles picked up an extra twenty grand today for the silver.
But you are spot on their Cole Dixon. It's the
endorsement thing. I mean, that's a drop of a bucket
(03:53):
compared to you know, the money that Scheffler made.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
He wasn't in it for the money. And you could
tell that about.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
How he got emotional little of a clemp, you know
there during the playing of the national anthem when the
Star Spangled banner was going on, when he was standing
there on the podium, But it was really cool. So
so he winds up winning the gold there. The other
big story about the gold that happened was that Noah
(04:26):
Lyles won the gold in the one. Now, anybody who
watched that might have concluded initially that he did not win,
initially that he might not have won it, and that
Kashane Thompson of Jamaica won one hundred meters. In fact,
(04:50):
many people, including myself, kind of thought that when I
looked at it, and so did the announcer for NBC,
Lee Diffi, he said and owned it today and said, hey,
I got it wrong. He said, he said the men's
one hundred was epic and closest of all time. My
(05:14):
eyes and instinct told me Becaushane Thompson won. Obviously that
wasn't the case. I should have been so bold to
call it, but I genuinely thought he won.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I got it wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
And then he said he was thrilled for Lyles because
quote as his story only gets bigger because Lyles became
the first American win the event since Justin Gatlin did
it twenty years ago in two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
It happens, and he.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Said, or in Sydney and said he'll try to make
it a sweep this week when he goes for the
gold and the two hundred meters. Diffy didn't offer much
more than that. When the AP asked about you know, hey,
what do you think about then he said, rather not
fuel the fire. They're all experts after it's over right.
I trusted my eyes an instinct and got it wrong
(06:01):
by five one thousands of a second. So but even
Lyle said he thought he had lost at first. He said, oh,
I thought I was gonna have to eat my words
or something like that. Or he said, be humble about it.
So it was that close. Those things happen. I've made
(06:21):
mistakes on play by play calls before, too. It does happen.
I think he does a good job. I think if
he does a good job, but obviously folks are going
to be quick to jump right away at him for
missing it, because if you're in the one chair, you're
supposed to get it right you are, And as many
(06:43):
people pointed out, now again this is easier to do
hindsight being twenty twenty, that he should have waited and
said something like and we hear this like in horse
racing a lot and also sometimes in track that it's
a photo, we'll wait for the decision or something like that,
instead of it's Thompson, you know, winning it for Jamaica
or something like that.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
So you know, we'll we'll see, you know. But I
think he's done a pretty good job.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
In fact, I think that by and large the announcers
for the Olympic Games have really done a fine job.
That includes Dan Hicks and Rowdy Gaines are always a
hit in the pool. They always do a great job
on the swimming. I think Terry Gannon has done good
job with Tim Daggett on the gymnastics. Part of what
(07:31):
happens at the Olympics that doesn't happen quite as often,
or as or as obvious in some of the other
sports is that the.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Analyst really takes center stage. Now. It happened sometimes at basketball.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I mean, after all, when Dick Vitals in his prime,
you knew, you know, he's going to be learned in
the way it was described to me. When you're doing
television and play by play on sports, the analyst takes
on a larger role than a radio radio It's up
to you as the play by play, got to paint
the picture, to set the scene, and then the analyst
(08:11):
jumps in and says what they talk about, why things
happen the way they did. And good broadcast teams understand
that and have a good synergism between them and they
work together toward that. And I think that's important. Baseball
is really almost conversational in the way that it works.
But it's important to do that. But for the Olympics,
(08:31):
because not only do you have athletes who ex athletes
who are analysts on these telecasts, you also have athletes
who did it at the highest level.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Tim Daggett was.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
A metaled gymnast for the US sign you Richard Drops
of course, who married Aaron Ross, the lifetime long horning
Sonia you know, based down here and done tremendous work
she of course, has been a former gold medalist, and
she has done a tremendous job. I think so that
you know that that happens, that occasionally the guy on
(09:16):
the call to play by play, he's gonna make a mistake.
It happens, It does happen. But by and large, I
think the I think the commentary has been really good
on the summer games by the stable of announcers at
NBC has brought in.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Dwayne Wade and Noah Eagle do a great job. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I Noah very much a chip off the block. I
think Iron Eagle is as fine a football and basketball
broadcaster as there is in the industry. That's how highly
I think of Iron Eagle. I think he's that good.
He's really really good. And his son is right there
(09:54):
with him. I mean, he's learned well from Pops, there's
no question about that.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
All right.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Coming up, we're gonna hear more from Long Horns hit
football coach Steve Starkesian So Sark with some thoughts on
where they are with things. They're five practices into it now.
They go into pads tomorrow for the first time. So
we'll hear from Sark coming up, and we'll continue here
on this Monday afternoon on Sports Radio AM thirteen under
(10:19):
the Zone and where you always listen to us for
absolutely free, the iHeartRadio app.
Here on a Monday. Hope your week is off to
a good start. I know I had to start right
the mere fact that it just even has to start.
The work week has to start, but it has to
start somewhere sometimes. That's for those of you who and
I always had this because I know many, many, many
people in this world. And I'm not just talking about
(00:20):
the broadcast business. I know lots of people whose work
week is not Monday through Friday. It might be Wednesday
through Sunday. It could be Friday through Tuesday. I've seen that,
especially like some of the weekend sports anchors and stuff
like that, that the work the weekends. You know, they
(00:41):
might they're off days might be Tuesday, Wednesday or Wednesday Thursday.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You know that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
So I understand people have different work week schedules. I'm
just glad that you found enough time to tune us in,
and I do appreciate that. As always, the Olympics have
been going on, as we talked about, someone Biles did
is today. If you didn't hear me last hour and
you want to go media blackout, cover your ears, I
give you a couple of seconds here and tell you
(01:07):
what happened with her, and here we go. She finished Olympics,
not in the way that she's done the rest of it.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
She fell off the beam, finished.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Fifth and then took silver in the floor exercise because
she stepped out of bounds a couple of times. But
she did still wind up as the silver medalist. That Androjia,
the young Brazilian young lady who a teenager who had
(01:40):
just been nosed out by Biles in the all around,
wound up taking the gold in the floor exercise. So
there you go, all right. So the Olympics, of course
took it. There was a lot of a lot of
conversation over the weekend. I know that Leo Noigebauer was
(02:06):
disappointed that he didn't win the gold, the former long
horning in the decathlon, but he did finish with the silver,
and so congratulations to him and other Longhorns who were
And my goodness, what Scotty Scheffler did was tremendous on
the golf course, a twenty nine on the back nine,
a bogie free round of sixty two, came from four
(02:26):
shots names down, four shots at the turn, came all
the way back, got the lead, made a birdie at seventeen.
Tommy Fleetwood made bogie at eighteen or excuse me, at seventeen,
and Scheffler was playing two holes ahead of Fleetwood, and
Scotty made birdie at seventeen. Fleetwood made bogey at seventeen,
(02:48):
and then Fleetwood was chipping from off the green for
birdie that would have tied him, got close but rolled
past the hole, and Scheffler wins the gold. Now this
was something else that came out and read this, and
I think I think most of us probably knew this.
We didn't know the dollar amount, but we probably knew this.
(03:09):
The American Olympic athletes don't get rich off the Olympics,
off the events themselves. Did you say howmuch Scottie Scheffler
is getting for winning Olympic gold.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
No, I didn't see, but I figured they're getting endorsement.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So it's just this side shy of thirty eight thousand
dollars that's.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It for winning gold.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I think American athletes get thirty eight grand for winning
a gold. I think it's twenty for winning a silver
and six thousand bucks for winning a bronze. So someone
Biles picked up an extra twenty grand today for the silver.
But you are spot on their Cole Dixon. It's the
endorsement thing. I mean, that's a drop of a bucket
(03:53):
compared to you know, the money that Scheffler made.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
He wasn't in it for the money. And you could
tell that about.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
How he got emotional little of a clemp, you know
there during the playing of the national anthem when the
Star Spangled banner was going on, when he was standing
there on the podium, But it was really cool. So
so he winds up winning the gold there. The other
big story about the gold that happened was that Noah
(04:26):
Lyles won the gold in the one. Now, anybody who
watched that might have concluded initially that he did not win,
initially that he might not have won it, and that
Kashane Thompson of Jamaica won one hundred meters. In fact,
(04:50):
many people, including myself, kind of thought that when I
looked at it, and so did the announcer for NBC,
Lee Diffi, he said and owned it today and said, hey,
I got it wrong. He said, he said the men's
one hundred was epic and closest of all time. My
(05:14):
eyes and instinct told me Becaushane Thompson won. Obviously that
wasn't the case. I should have been so bold to
call it, but I genuinely thought he won.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I got it wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
And then he said he was thrilled for Lyles because
quote as his story only gets bigger because Lyles became
the first American win the event since Justin Gatlin did
it twenty years ago in two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
It happens, and he.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Said, or in Sydney and said he'll try to make
it a sweep this week when he goes for the
gold and the two hundred meters. Diffy didn't offer much
more than that. When the AP asked about you know, hey,
what do you think about then he said, rather not
fuel the fire. They're all experts after it's over right.
I trusted my eyes an instinct and got it wrong
(06:01):
by five one thousands of a second. So but even
Lyle said he thought he had lost at first. He said, oh,
I thought I was gonna have to eat my words
or something like that. Or he said, be humble about it.
So it was that close. Those things happen. I've made
(06:21):
mistakes on play by play calls before, too. It does happen.
I think he does a good job. I think if
he does a good job, but obviously folks are going
to be quick to jump right away at him for
missing it, because if you're in the one chair, you're
supposed to get it right you are, And as many
(06:43):
people pointed out, now again this is easier to do
hindsight being twenty twenty, that he should have waited and
said something like and we hear this like in horse
racing a lot and also sometimes in track that it's
a photo, we'll wait for the decision or something like that,
instead of it's Thompson, you know, winning it for Jamaica
or something like that.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
So you know, we'll we'll see, you know. But I
think he's done a pretty good job.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
In fact, I think that by and large the announcers
for the Olympic Games have really done a fine job.
That includes Dan Hicks and Rowdy Gaines are always a
hit in the pool. They always do a great job
on the swimming. I think Terry Gannon has done good
job with Tim Daggett on the gymnastics. Part of what
(07:31):
happens at the Olympics that doesn't happen quite as often,
or as or as obvious in some of the other
sports is that the.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Analyst really takes center stage. Now. It happened sometimes at basketball.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I mean, after all, when Dick Vitals in his prime,
you knew, you know, he's going to be learned in
the way it was described to me. When you're doing
television and play by play on sports, the analyst takes
on a larger role than a radio radio It's up
to you as the play by play, got to paint
the picture, to set the scene, and then the analyst
(08:11):
jumps in and says what they talk about, why things
happen the way they did. And good broadcast teams understand
that and have a good synergism between them and they
work together toward that. And I think that's important. Baseball
is really almost conversational in the way that it works.
But it's important to do that. But for the Olympics,
(08:31):
because not only do you have athletes who ex athletes
who are analysts on these telecasts, you also have athletes
who did it at the highest level.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Tim Daggett was.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
A metaled gymnast for the US sign you Richard Drops
of course, who married Aaron Ross, the lifetime long horning
Sonia you know, based down here and done tremendous work
she of course, has been a former gold medalist, and
she has done a tremendous job. I think so that
you know that that happens, that occasionally the guy on
(09:16):
the call to play by play, he's gonna make a mistake.
It happens, It does happen. But by and large, I
think the I think the commentary has been really good
on the summer games by the stable of announcers at
NBC has brought in.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Dwayne Wade and Noah Eagle do a great job. Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I Noah very much a chip off the block. I
think Iron Eagle is as fine a football and basketball
broadcaster as there is in the industry. That's how highly
I think of Iron Eagle. I think he's that good.
He's really really good. And his son is right there
(09:54):
with him. I mean, he's learned well from Pops, there's
no question about that.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
All right.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Coming up, we're gonna hear more from Long Horns hit
football coach Steve Starkesian So Sark with some thoughts on
where they are with things. They're five practices into it now.
They go into pads tomorrow for the first time. So
we'll hear from Sark coming up, and we'll continue here
on this Monday afternoon on Sports Radio AM thirteen under
(10:19):
the Zone and where you always listen to us for
absolutely free, the iHeartRadio app.
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