August 7, 2024 • 10 mins
Hour 3 of Wednesday's show is under way with Craig and Cam following the latest updates from the 2024 Paris Olympics including the Steeplechase, Women's Basketball, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Craig Way alongside the producer Cameron Parker. Glad to have
you alongside as well. Glad to have Cam back from well,
I'll just call it the working vacation because it was vacation,
but he was being the good son and helping his
mom move. So there was that down in Florida. The
Olympic women's basketball team continues to play and dominate. They
(00:22):
are up by twenty two points with just under three
and a half minutes to go in the game. They've
led by as many as thirty and they're kind of
cruising right now toward the end, but they're going to
head toward the semifinals and a chance to win a medal.
It was interesting they showed a couple of still shots
(00:45):
during a time out and there was two players who
played college basketball that are in this game. One is
the coach of Nigeria's national team who played her college
basketball against at Western Carolina in Kullaweed now in the
far southwestern corner state. My one of my brothers went
to college at Western Carolina, home of the Catamountains, and
(01:08):
she's the head coach of the Nigerian team. But one
of the players that she went up against was Zora Stevenson,
who is one of who is the analyst on the
telecast for NBC and Peacock, and she played at Elon
which is in Burlington, North Carolina. Phoenix, the Fighting When
I was a kid, they were the Fighting Christians. That
(01:29):
was actually their name. I think there was the same
name that when Frank Cape was coaching them. Yes, the
Fighting Christians. I asked Jim Schlostangele once who played at Elon,
and I asked him, I said, were they still the
Fighting Christians when you and he said no, they'd already
changed by then to the Phoenix. But having grown up
(01:52):
greens For I new it was interesting is when you
would have Elon and green and Guilford in my hometown
of Greensboro were in what was called the Carolinas Conference,
and the Carolinas Conference had what was I think it
was an AIA basketball and football. In fact, I know
(02:14):
it was an AI because Guildford won a national championship
when I was twelve nineteen seventy three, Guildford College from
Greensboro won the NAI National championship in basketball and they
had two players who were stars on their teams who
went on to NBA stardom. One was mL Carr who
(02:38):
played for the Boston Celtics and mL I think was
a sophomore on that team. He wasn't his big a start,
the leading the leading score for that team. And the
nail American was a guard named Lloyd Free. You knew
him later as World B Free who played for the
Warriors among other teams. He was Lloyd Free back then
when they won the national championship in nineteen seventy three
(03:00):
an AI. So Guilford was in the same conference in
this Carolinas Conference with Elon. Elon was the Fighting Christians.
Guilford was and still is the Quakers. So whenever they
would meet in football, you'd have the Quakers, who are
passive is against the fighting Christians playing in football. Guildford
(03:21):
is now Division three, Elon is Division one in men's
basketball and baseball, and they are FCS in football. So yeah,
and that league back then was a very competitive basketball league.
(03:42):
You had at one time in the Carolinas Conference going
up against one another. You had a team called Pembrooke State.
It's now called UNC Pembrook. It's pronounced like it's br
okay b r o K, but it's not Pembroke. It's
(04:03):
down in the southeastern part of the state. It's known
as UNC Pembrooke and it is a college that had
for decades the largest measure of its twodent body were
made up of Native Americans that were from the Lumbee
Indians and the Lumbee Indian tribe down that way. One
(04:25):
of their star basketball players was a gentleman by the
name of Kellen Samson, so he had him playing. He
had Kelvin playing for what was then called Pembrook State
and High Point College is now high Point University, and
they made a region on baseball for the first time
this year their Division one now and they have come
(04:45):
close but haven't been able to crack into the NCAA
basketball tournament. All they did or did they this year
the first No, I think they missed out on it again.
But high Point baseball baseball the got into the regional
uh and and actually beat East Caroline their first came
over there. High Point had a guard named Tubby Smith.
(05:05):
He's pretty good. And another one of those teams in there.
You had Fifer College, which is in Meisenheimer that's not
far from shar a little bit northeast Fifer Falcons you had.
You had several other small colleges in that. Another one
was Leonor Ryan which is now Division two and Leono
Ryan had a small forward by the name of Rick
(05:25):
Barnes who and they all played at the same time
during those early seventies there in the Carolinas Conference there.
The Carolina's Conference no longer exists, those schools have fanned out,
but it did have some have some history to it
on the basketball side. But it made me think about
that the Fighting Christians playing the Quakers in football, contesting
(05:47):
on the football field. Okay, a couple of Olympic updates
for you. Olympic Women's basketball US is kind of cruising
the lead. Well, it's about to be final. It's down
with seventeen points led by his man. He is thirty,
and the final score is going to be eighty eight
to seventy three, so they're gonna wind up winning. They
(06:09):
might have wait a minute, they might have a foul
and they're kind of separating some talking between the company. Yeah,
it looks like Thomas may have inadvertently spiked the basketball
off of Nigerian players. That's good sportsman, ok. Rolin Humphrey
somewhere is smiling, and I do need any of that here.
There's eight tenths of a second remaining in the game.
(06:32):
Off of that, but the US is going to win
this and go on into the semifinal round of the
tournament and have a chance to play for a medal,
and obviously if they win their silver medal matchup, then
they'll play for the gold on Sunday, so we'll see.
But they'll play on Friday in the Summer final round.
(06:54):
And again they're still sorting all that out. With eight
tenths of a second remaining in the ball game, the
US is going to win the game, but it's just
kind of prolonging. They call it. You're right, they call
a technical foul, so it's going to make the final
margin closer by one point. The US is going to
win this by fourteen. The final will be eighty eight
to seventy four. So the United States of the wind
(07:16):
streak is what fifty nine now ye fifty nine in counting,
and they're on into the semifinals, which means at the
very least they would be playing for a bronze on Sunday.
But clearly they have their sights set on winning another goal,
and with this winning streak, they haven't even dropped a
game in group stage, let alone in the middle round.
So they win by fourteen, they led by as many
(07:38):
as thirty, and they'll go on and move on to
the semi file in round where they will play Australia,
who won handily over Serbia today eighty five sixty seven.
The other semifinals are France against Belgium. Belgium has turned
out to be pretty feisty and they won by thirteen,
(07:59):
and so France and Belgium in one semifinal and the
US against Australia and the other semifinals, and that will
be on Friday again. They went eighty eight to seventy four,
all right, so that's the final. There. Now a couple
other Olympic notes to mentioned. Quincy Hall able to do
it again, became the latest American to really have a
(08:25):
big performance on the track. Kind of came out of nowhere,
was way back in the four hundred meters to pass
three runners and capture the gold medal. He was in
fourth place as the runners rounded the final bed and
he outran the runner on his outside, then two more
to the inside, crossed the line in forty three point
(08:48):
four zero seconds, that's the fourth fastest time ever and
did some stone angels on the track afterwards and did that,
so he did it. He beat Britain's Matthew Hudson Smith
by four hundreds of a second. That's now the fifth
fastest time in history. And Musala Simulconga of Zambia finished
third for the bronze. All becomes the first American since
(09:10):
Lashawn Merritt sixteen years ago in two thousand and eight
to capture gold in that one lacquer one lap race.
And that comes one after one night after that amazing
finished by Cole Hawker coming from behind to beat the
favorites and the men's fifteen hundred and then of course
(09:30):
Noah Lyles winning the one hundred meter and Lyles advanced
to the final of the two hundred meters, did not
win his semifinal. Let's out Tobogo of semifinal won the semifinal.
But the two hundred meters is tomorrow, so the two
(09:52):
hundred meters final, so the Americans really cashing in now.
Lyles has won the one hundred, he'll be in the
two hundred finals. Cole Hawker won the fifteen hundred. He
was way back, He was in dead last about halfway through.
Then he was in fifth as they were rounding the
far turn, and then just kicked it in the high
gear and he winds up stunning the field to win
(10:15):
the fifteen hundred for them. And then on top of that,
Gabby Thomas on the women's side winning Olympic track gold
as she wanted the women's to under meet her last night.
So the US continues to do really really well on
the track with what they're doing. All right, More long
worn football discussion coming up next when we continue on
(10:36):
sports Radio AM thirteen hundred ozonn of the iHeartRadio app.
Craig Way alongside the producer Cameron Parker. Glad to have
you alongside as well. Glad to have Cam back from well,
I'll just call it the working vacation because it was vacation,
but he was being the good son and helping his
mom move. So there was that down in Florida. The
Olympic women's basketball team continues to play and dominate. They
(00:22):
are up by twenty two points with just under three
and a half minutes to go in the game. They've
led by as many as thirty and they're kind of
cruising right now toward the end, but they're going to
head toward the semifinals and a chance to win a medal.
It was interesting they showed a couple of still shots
(00:45):
during a time out and there was two players who
played college basketball that are in this game. One is
the coach of Nigeria's national team who played her college
basketball against at Western Carolina in Kullaweed now in the
far southwestern corner state. My one of my brothers went
to college at Western Carolina, home of the Catamountains, and
(01:08):
she's the head coach of the Nigerian team. But one
of the players that she went up against was Zora Stevenson,
who is one of who is the analyst on the
telecast for NBC and Peacock, and she played at Elon
which is in Burlington, North Carolina. Phoenix, the Fighting When
I was a kid, they were the Fighting Christians. That
(01:29):
was actually their name. I think there was the same
name that when Frank Cape was coaching them. Yes, the
Fighting Christians. I asked Jim Schlostangele once who played at Elon,
and I asked him, I said, were they still the
Fighting Christians when you and he said no, they'd already
changed by then to the Phoenix. But having grown up
(01:52):
greens For I new it was interesting is when you
would have Elon and green and Guilford in my hometown
of Greensboro were in what was called the Carolinas Conference,
and the Carolinas Conference had what was I think it
was an AIA basketball and football. In fact, I know
(02:14):
it was an AI because Guildford won a national championship
when I was twelve nineteen seventy three, Guildford College from
Greensboro won the NAI National championship in basketball and they
had two players who were stars on their teams who
went on to NBA stardom. One was mL Carr who
(02:38):
played for the Boston Celtics and mL I think was
a sophomore on that team. He wasn't his big a start,
the leading the leading score for that team. And the
nail American was a guard named Lloyd Free. You knew
him later as World B Free who played for the
Warriors among other teams. He was Lloyd Free back then
when they won the national championship in nineteen seventy three
(03:00):
an AI. So Guilford was in the same conference in
this Carolinas Conference with Elon. Elon was the Fighting Christians.
Guilford was and still is the Quakers. So whenever they
would meet in football, you'd have the Quakers, who are
passive is against the fighting Christians playing in football. Guildford
(03:21):
is now Division three, Elon is Division one in men's
basketball and baseball, and they are FCS in football. So yeah,
and that league back then was a very competitive basketball league.
(03:42):
You had at one time in the Carolinas Conference going
up against one another. You had a team called Pembrooke State.
It's now called UNC Pembrook. It's pronounced like it's br
okay b r o K, but it's not Pembroke. It's
(04:03):
down in the southeastern part of the state. It's known
as UNC Pembrooke and it is a college that had
for decades the largest measure of its twodent body were
made up of Native Americans that were from the Lumbee
Indians and the Lumbee Indian tribe down that way. One
(04:25):
of their star basketball players was a gentleman by the
name of Kellen Samson, so he had him playing. He
had Kelvin playing for what was then called Pembrook State
and High Point College is now high Point University, and
they made a region on baseball for the first time
this year their Division one now and they have come
(04:45):
close but haven't been able to crack into the NCAA
basketball tournament. All they did or did they this year
the first No, I think they missed out on it again.
But high Point baseball baseball the got into the regional
uh and and actually beat East Caroline their first came
over there. High Point had a guard named Tubby Smith.
(05:05):
He's pretty good. And another one of those teams in there.
You had Fifer College, which is in Meisenheimer that's not
far from shar a little bit northeast Fifer Falcons you had.
You had several other small colleges in that. Another one
was Leonor Ryan which is now Division two and Leono
Ryan had a small forward by the name of Rick
(05:25):
Barnes who and they all played at the same time
during those early seventies there in the Carolinas Conference there.
The Carolina's Conference no longer exists, those schools have fanned out,
but it did have some have some history to it
on the basketball side. But it made me think about
that the Fighting Christians playing the Quakers in football, contesting
(05:47):
on the football field. Okay, a couple of Olympic updates
for you. Olympic Women's basketball US is kind of cruising
the lead. Well, it's about to be final. It's down
with seventeen points led by his man. He is thirty,
and the final score is going to be eighty eight
to seventy three, so they're gonna wind up winning. They
(06:09):
might have wait a minute, they might have a foul
and they're kind of separating some talking between the company. Yeah,
it looks like Thomas may have inadvertently spiked the basketball
off of Nigerian players. That's good sportsman, ok. Rolin Humphrey
somewhere is smiling, and I do need any of that here.
There's eight tenths of a second remaining in the game.
(06:32):
Off of that, but the US is going to win
this and go on into the semifinal round of the
tournament and have a chance to play for a medal,
and obviously if they win their silver medal matchup, then
they'll play for the gold on Sunday, so we'll see.
But they'll play on Friday in the Summer final round.
(06:54):
And again they're still sorting all that out. With eight
tenths of a second remaining in the ball game, the
US is going to win the game, but it's just
kind of prolonging. They call it. You're right, they call
a technical foul, so it's going to make the final
margin closer by one point. The US is going to
win this by fourteen. The final will be eighty eight
to seventy four. So the United States of the wind
(07:16):
streak is what fifty nine now ye fifty nine in counting,
and they're on into the semifinals, which means at the
very least they would be playing for a bronze on Sunday.
But clearly they have their sights set on winning another goal,
and with this winning streak, they haven't even dropped a
game in group stage, let alone in the middle round.
So they win by fourteen, they led by as many
(07:38):
as thirty, and they'll go on and move on to
the semi file in round where they will play Australia,
who won handily over Serbia today eighty five sixty seven.
The other semifinals are France against Belgium. Belgium has turned
out to be pretty feisty and they won by thirteen,
(07:59):
and so France and Belgium in one semifinal and the
US against Australia and the other semifinals, and that will
be on Friday again. They went eighty eight to seventy four,
all right, so that's the final. There. Now a couple
other Olympic notes to mentioned. Quincy Hall able to do
it again, became the latest American to really have a
(08:25):
big performance on the track. Kind of came out of nowhere,
was way back in the four hundred meters to pass
three runners and capture the gold medal. He was in
fourth place as the runners rounded the final bed and
he outran the runner on his outside, then two more
to the inside, crossed the line in forty three point
(08:48):
four zero seconds, that's the fourth fastest time ever and
did some stone angels on the track afterwards and did that,
so he did it. He beat Britain's Matthew Hudson Smith
by four hundreds of a second. That's now the fifth
fastest time in history. And Musala Simulconga of Zambia finished
third for the bronze. All becomes the first American since
(09:10):
Lashawn Merritt sixteen years ago in two thousand and eight
to capture gold in that one lacquer one lap race.
And that comes one after one night after that amazing
finished by Cole Hawker coming from behind to beat the
favorites and the men's fifteen hundred and then of course
(09:30):
Noah Lyles winning the one hundred meter and Lyles advanced
to the final of the two hundred meters, did not
win his semifinal. Let's out Tobogo of semifinal won the semifinal.
But the two hundred meters is tomorrow, so the two
(09:52):
hundred meters final, so the Americans really cashing in now.
Lyles has won the one hundred, he'll be in the
two hundred finals. Cole Hawker won the fifteen hundred. He
was way back, He was in dead last about halfway through.
Then he was in fifth as they were rounding the
far turn, and then just kicked it in the high
gear and he winds up stunning the field to win
(10:15):
the fifteen hundred for them. And then on top of that,
Gabby Thomas on the women's side winning Olympic track gold
as she wanted the women's to under meet her last night.
So the US continues to do really really well on
the track with what they're doing. All right, More long
worn football discussion coming up next when we continue on
(10:36):
sports Radio AM thirteen hundred ozonn of the iHeartRadio app.
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