Chris Plank and Arnie Spanier talk about Arizona’s loss and more!

Chris Plank and Arnie Spanier talk about Arizona’s early exit, the embarrassing fashion in which the Arizona Wildcats were eliminated, where Arnie goes from here after Arizona saw themselves lose to Princeton, and much more in the world of sports!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio. Almost steadies. He
shoots the second free prowl back of the Rebdill good
Pella Larson the rebound. Bill Horne's gonna sound. The Princeton
Magic is alive and well. The Princeton Tigers upset Arizona
fifteen over A two fifty nine fifty five is the

(00:22):
final score. The Tigers will advance in the second round.
Let's go, stinking genius, Let's go. Let's let's go. I
don't want to, Let's go. It's as excited as I've
ever seen Bo and Chris Perfette for the show today.
You know they're fed up, You're I mean, Bo had

(00:46):
the rundown in it like three o'clock this afternoon Central time,
And I'm glad you guys checked up on me right
after the game. I literally I left you alone. I mean,
I didn't feel like you wanted any pandering you. Okay,
I mean maybe you did. Did you know we saw
the tweet. We we knew exactly where his head was.

(01:07):
We saw the tweet. He wanted to call out until
next year. That would have been fantastic. It was let
me tell you something, it was so bad. Um that
I played basketball on Wednesday. The game was on Thursday,
and then by uh Friday morning. Um, I threw my
backout from all the stress from losing that game. Hold on,

(01:29):
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(01:50):
what's the worst you ever threw your back? I threw
my back out, um, from stressing over the loss. You have. No,
you say you don't understand because there's the second time
we've lost as a number two seed, um to a
fifteen seed. Yeah, and you know what's crazy. I mean,
we're preaching, we're talking about thank you, thank you, We're

(02:11):
talking about Princeton, right, um, which is what I would
have gone to. Princeton had I not gone to the the Arizona.
Princeton was my safety school. So I that that that
was just killing me. That's that's the part that I
killed me. About the whole thing. And what makes it
worse is that Princeton is still in so I and
I can't enjoy any other rest of the tournament. And

(02:34):
what's Arizona lost. I couldn't watch the tournament. I couldn't
enjoy the tournament, and it is you have no idea
because it hurts me more because I'm a bigger fan
than you and all the other lizards out there. That's right,
you're a bigger fan. I am important. Correction, that wasn't
the gut shows. No, I don't know what the hell
you're talking about. I was thinking of sins. I'm still

(02:56):
mad about what happened though. When we goes to Miami
of Ohio thirty years ago, you come on the air,
I went to Miami of Ohio. You have You come
on the air and you're like, hey, we lost on Saturday.
I just shrug it off. We lost fifty thing. It
doesn't bother to me. I'm I'm still not over lost
was thirty years ago. For crying out loud, here's the
here's the funny thing about Arnie claiming that, I guess

(03:18):
in this instance, you take losses harder than everyone else does. Yes, Yes,
what's what's the joke that your writers have written for
you for like to ten years we've done this show?
Is that? What? Let's play? Get a show up tonight
after the Raiders lost. So, I mean, I don't I
don't know how this hurts you more than it hurts
any of us when our teams lose. But I'm here

(03:39):
for it. I don't know if this is gonna be
the greatest show ever the worst, but I'm definitely here
for it. And you know what kills me is I
don't even check my my bracketts because I know I
finished in last you have? So you do? You Award
Atlantic still alive? Do you know where my nickname is?
It's Arnie Brackett's for crying out loud like Jimmy Buckets.
I'm Arnie Brackett. That's not your nicknames. I don't think dame.
But but okay, that's fine. You've given yourself a nickname

(04:01):
like Castanza. You want to be t Bone, TBone brackets
spanning out loud. I'm in last place. I'm behind the
football players for crying out loud. I should be, buddy,
I'm behind football players. Well, when when you basically for
the better part of the last ten years. Every time
you've done this bracket challenge, you've picked Arizona. If they
go down, you're gonna hurt. You're gonna be in pain.

(04:23):
I think I lost my championship team. I think I
had Duke. I don't know. Do you remember last Sunday too?
I remember my wife's like, yeah, you're so happy like Princeton.
We don't lose a dude like Princeton. He said it
on the air too, so we heard it. It doesn't.
And you know what I heard a rumor too, What
was that that the bosses are not happy with us? Oh? Yeah,

(04:45):
why because you've already spent five minutes of our lives
complaining about a game for Thursday from Thursday. No, no,
but no, no, no, that they're not happy with us
about not our prediction about Arizona. If the bosses aren't
happy with us about our prediction on Arizona, they're gonna
be unhappy with a lot of people. Oh, they see
I had him getting beat in the second round, you

(05:06):
had him going to the final. Well, what they don't
understand that, Well, what we don't underst you don't understand
it is I guess they said the rumor is that
they were gonna fire me, you and the Segar unless
I'm either right on with your my NBA pick or
my NFL pick. I gotta be right on one or
the three well, because the three of us are a
team anyway, right, So yeah, I guess we are. Now
they are ready to fire me sure together, So I

(05:30):
gotta be right either with my NBA pick or my
NFL pick. Thank god we have the Dolphins that you've
never tied us together before. Now that you're going down.
But let's mister, I threw out my back because I've
been patting myself on it because of Arizona. Now suddenly
he's going down. Now suddenly it's like, oh, we all
have to sing together. The reason the bosses don't hate

(05:51):
you because you don't tell anybody who your favorite teams
an't right out loud. That's right. I'm actually objective at
a New Test convention. Never you never go out on
a limb. I'm I'm the only one Plank doesn't care
for his team loses one hundred to nothing, and I'm
the only one that has to suffer from from losses
from thirty years ago. So what you better hope Arnie
out of my end a Lions fan. We don't have

(06:11):
playoff we don't have playoff wins. If our ducky, we
don't fire you. If our jobs are in Arnie's hands.
Let's all just look over each other's resumes. Yeah, it's
kind of sure. I think I personally have long proven
how little to no power Armie. I found out. I
just found out over the weekend that there is somebody
higher than me. How about that? I would never have

(06:32):
thought anymo. Yeah, yeah, there's shock. So I better get
right my n NBA pick or my NFL pick. But
don't don't worry about it because we still have the
Dolphins to fall back on this year. Well, I mean we,
did I hear the word we? Yeah, that's just we thing. Yeah, Well,
we're not French, is what I'm Time's not we. We
We're not French. It's it's we. Whenever things are going

(06:54):
terribly for Arnie, it's all him. Whenever it's anything else.
I think I've I've given my of some disease with
my back now because of that loss. So you have
no idea you use a disease because Chris Flike comes
in and he's skipping and Dancing Oklahoma. You could lose
fifty five fifty four and on eighty yard field goal
at the end, and and Fike's like, hey, I'm over

(07:17):
and over in twenty four hours season mature adult not over.
In the Miami of Ohio game thirty years ago, it's
all right, arn'tie By the end of the show. By
the end of the second half of the late game,
we'll say the quote Mike, Gonzaga Bulldogs, and then they'll
be out of the tournament shortly. That will be the
kiss of death. They are down thirty eight thirty three

(07:37):
at least. Well, it is my Zags, by the way,
So yeogies, it's the sec you weren't here. I was
told everybody Princeton was my safety school if I didn't
get in the Arizona. It was so it was absolutely safety.
You couldn't even say the full sentence without crash. You's
just going to politics like that firm and wrong on

(07:58):
your tweet when you were celebrating them getting a first
round to win. Probably I don't know, man, it seems
pretty important, but so I just want to know who
the hell was that. So for the yeah, you had
Andy Ferman not firm in University, who, by the way,
is already out. Here's what I want to know. I

(08:19):
want to know how you watched it. I want to
know the immediate reaction, and I just I don't know.
I'm just curious how if it's so hard, if you're
so hardcore, and if it's so tough, I want to
know how you handled those moments after you knew and
when did you know that they were doomed? I felt
like I just asked a podcaster because they had just
beaten UCLA and a thriller to tournament the previous weekend. Well,

(08:44):
umar Bo had a broken arm for crying out loud.
Not quite. Let's by the way. I heard his leg
fell off and they had to and Cozy had one
arm the other one fell off off. I mean even
it was just because he played like he had one
arm like Ash from The Walking Dead. We don't have

(09:05):
to attach like a chainsaw into your hand exactly. So
I want to hear Artie, what was it did you
go through? Princeton never led until about two minutes left today. Yeah, well,
in the final five minutes we had a ten point
lead and when they were closing it down, I'm closing
it down, and my wife just came on when I go, well,
there you go, that's it's over now. She thought you

(09:25):
were talking about the marriage. Yeah, exactly, you I knew,
I knew. I knew as soon as they cut it
down to like four I think it was four or
three all of a sudden hitting her three pointers and
I'm like, oh, this is over. Have we played so scared? Yea.
In the final minutes Arizona was over seven shooting from
the floor and three turnovers. And we had some bad

(09:49):
losses this year, this one stays I it may be.
And you know what you want to hear, how position
did you play? You want to hear thank you well
from the college. If people went to the college, it
is a wee. If you ever played a knowledge games,
it's very much a week. And you want to know
how dark of a place I went to? How started thinking?
I said? I started thinking, Well, how many more tournaments
do I have left in me before I die? Like thirty?

(10:12):
I go, I go, I go. If I don't wint
wanted like the next twenty years, I go, what difference
if I wint won between the ages of age and
ninety what am I gonna tell the nurse, oh, we
wanted now can you change my diaper? No, when you
say it with a dark place I went to, I
honestly thought you were going to say New Hampshire, right,
thinking about death and how many more? How many more

(10:34):
tournaments do I have to see my Wildcats winds they won?
That's the thing is that it's like the people they
were Atlanta Braves all those years with three Hall of
Fame pitchers. They did win a World Series, and you
still like a Packers fan, Right, I'm gonna really even
with a Rodgers they won once. You know, I'm not
kidding around. I told my wife I want to move
back to Tucson. No, do you want to why? He's

(10:56):
retirement age, right, That's why, Yeah, I want to. I go.
I want to move back to Tucson. It and then
enjoy my last year's watching mild Wildcats since they're never
gonna win a tournament anyway, I get aren't go to
the game and get the season tickets. And the good
news is that in about five years you can just
say Arizona won the tournament and all you'll hear back
is okay, Grandpa, let's get you to back Grandpa, let's
get your mats. You going there? You go, Yes, I

(11:19):
know you did a radio what tournament? Old everyone they
were gonna win. You know what's wild to me? And
I'm just because I was thinking about this from a
game perspective, right whenever, for instance, Princeton beat UCLA in
nineteen ninety six. Yeah, they took the air out of
the ball, right, they slowed it down. They were in
the four corners one on a famous backdoor cut. That's right.

(11:40):
I mean, Princeton was just banging inside with you guys
outscoring you in the pain. It's like they had better
dudes than you did. Do you remember when you had
raptible players. I was gonna say, remember, this is not
gonna be the old ten battles back cut, and it wasn't.
You're right, well, but you're right on that. I must
stay again out loud. Princeton's in the IVY League, which
still has no athletic scholarships. Arizona was paying people to

(12:03):
come pay for the program. That This is why, and
Sean Miller is still alive in the tournament here. This
is why I've hated the Sayer for fifty years now,
ever since I was nine. I've hated say I knew
you know what I like this UCLA Dodger. Frank is

(12:26):
looking out for you, Arnie. Right off the top, he
hits us up. The best way to stay in touch
with this program is Twitter. I'm at Plank Show, Arnie's
at Stinking Genius one, and everybody should be following us.
You can tagus at Fox Sports Radio. Arnie writes Frank,
I'm here to cheer you up. We don't have to
talk about Arizona. Instead, let's focus on something you look

(12:47):
you can look forward to. Edwin d is closing for
your mess. Oh how's that? I mean, that's exciting, right
bas Just to put it in proper perspective, I would
rather have the whole starting line up for the Mets
have happened to them if Arizona would have won the NCAA.
Was this for you? I was going through you talked

(13:10):
about in Miami, Ohio in nineteen ninety five? Right, um?
You uh you lost in nineteen What what happened in
ninety nine in the first round? Do you remember Tennessee?
I think that would be the University Voclahoma knocking you
out in the first round of the turn. Well, that's right.
Wait a minute, I think that might have been in
um Milwaukee. It was? It was it Kelvin Sampson, your

(13:31):
coach nineteen ninety nine, care the one three four? I
think he was. Yeah, he gave me tickets to the game,
did he really? Yeah? He knew, he knew what your
presence in the arena would do about the musch, So
he gave your finger after we lost. I think, bring
this guy in here so that way, how way, by
the way, plauts, hold on just a minute, how could

(13:53):
you not remember that Kelvin Sampson was the coach and
gave you tickets to the game. How could that be
something that just fight you? Like? Was he the coach
ninety nine in Milwaukee? Yeah, he gave me tickets. How
was that something that you wouldn't put in the lock
box to make sure you remember it. I don't know.
Coach giving you tickets small games seems like it's it

(14:13):
would be something you would remember. Well, they all liked
me back then, right right, right? So this one, let's see,
we got a couple of other early exits we can
talk about. Yeah, that was, oh well two thousand and four.
You were only nine seats, so that didn't really matter
was there was an NBA play on the team by
name of mister Jennings. You remember mister Jennings. Yeah, that

(14:35):
was his name, mister Yeah. I don't rememb everybody called
him mister Jennings. I'm sorry, Keith maybe, but yeah, he
was always known as missing. I don't remember that one.
You guys are better than me. But um, if you
add in the loss in eighteen to Buffalo, who was
a thirteen seat twenty sixteen you lost to which you
talk was happening, you knew I liked this. You knew

(14:57):
that one was Buffalo, that was DeAndre eight and they
were supposed to go far in that tournament. Right, Thanks
for reminding me of that one. So where does this
one rank in your constant post season disappointment? Really, it's
three of the last five tournaments that they've been in,
they've been out, We've been, we've been We've lost the
double digit teams the last three years, I believe, ranked

(15:20):
double digits. I'm looking right out at eleven, thirteen and
fifteen percent right the first round, it's enough to make
me cry. Well. Actually, if you want to drillly even deeper,
you've lost to double rank, double digit seeds in four
of the last five tournaments. Because when Xavier beach in
twenty seventeen, they were an eleven seed and knocked you

(15:40):
out of the tournament. But at least that was the
Sweet sixteen, right, Or does it hurt more when you
think about like twenty fifteen when you made a run
he got to the Elite eight and some dudes in
Wisconsin beat you. I mean, I know that doesn't hurt
like the Illinois loss in overtime. That one hurt. See,
how did you think this was possible? My back is
actually worse now. That was just think I didn't think

(16:01):
it could get worse than it was. But I say correct.
Then two thousand and five, over time, they were way
ahead Arnie probably sixteen points with five minutes going to
the final four. He probably said it out loud. I
was saying not only that, I was saying, Okay, I'm
gonna meet my buddy Keg and Keysh and Resin. I
was gonna drive from Illinois. The final four was in

(16:22):
Saint Louis, so I was I was just gonna drive
there and meet all the guys there. M M. I'm
assuming that didn't happen. My wife Jings, does that game
got you? Well? You really You've got some heartbreakers in here. Man.
You're always bragging about how great you are. Man, I
completely understand, because you get close to being really good
and you blow. That's because you don't want to. You're

(16:44):
up there with Harvard and Yale, Princeton and Arizona academically.
That was a basketball reference. He just don't push it
to say you're you still make it fired if I
don't come up with the fixed Yeah, I see exactly.
Now it's all our fault that things aren't going well.

(17:04):
It's not just him. We are a team. We are
We've been a team for ten years now. We're just
getting started on a Sunday night and Zags are only
down too. He hasn't cursed him yet. I said, my
Zags are going to win this. That's my team. I
don't even like them, but I have nobody else to
root for. Oh, I can't even know. There's not plenty. No,

(17:25):
the whole tournament sucks. Is the worst tournament ever. I
want to see Houston against Texas next weekend with the
winner going to Houston, Texas, which is where the final
Who cares about those teams. Really, yeah, exactly. No, san
Diego State against number one from but I'm rooting against
San Diego State just because of him. That could be
forty ninety one. And I'm rooting against Connecticut because of Torres.

(17:48):
So you just now decided you want everyone to be
as miserable as you are right now? Do you want
to root against them? You should be rooting for them.
Torres was gonna go to Vegas for the game. He
has to be at our wedding rehearsal Thursday. He said,
Oh no, I would be. I would be at no
wedding rehearsal. There'd be no wedding rehearsal. Why do you say,
you say it sucks, this is a terrible tournament. You
would go like that was my team. No, if that

(18:09):
was my team, there'd be no wedding rehearsal to go through.
I'm I'm going to the game. If Arizona was playing,
you know what it is. There was a guy in
my fraternity who is the biggest jinx on the face
of the earth, and he went to the game. Yeah,
he's the jump in Sacramento. He comes up at Northern
Cow so I know he totally jinx Us. I know
it's gonna be his fault. Yeah, all right, we'll continue this.

(18:30):
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(18:53):
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(19:39):
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Progressive dot com. So can we talk tournament? Can I
bring up the games? Or no? Are you done? It's
not still going on? Still going on? Can confirm? Can confirm?
I was so upset I switched over to the women's
game so I could see Arizona when they're first came

(20:00):
against West Virginia. There you go, congratulation the women's tournament.
Come on, it's not the same. I had to do,
go on as I had to do something. They lost
today to Maryland, so I okay, So now they're out too.
It doesn't matter. South Carolina is gonna beat everyone. They

(20:21):
beat the eight seed today seventy six to forty five.
So yeah, looking pretty good out there. I was by
forty who did Vermont? Yeah, it didn't go so well
for the old cat amounts for the men and the women.
Not good at all. Boy, you're just cursed right now? Boys?
Do we need to call and see if someone else
can come in? So I worried about it? Is the

(20:44):
Arizona One's gonna stick with me for a long because
you know what's gonna happen from years on out. Now
it's gonna be this is the time a year where
you get the upsets and then you're gonna see the
Princeton knuckle heads and the guys in the stands, the
fans they had going yeah and screaming. I'm like, oh,
you guys make me sick. Yeah. How dare a sports
fan that's watching his team win scream and support of

(21:08):
his team, especially as we're falling apart too? I'm like, ah,
I knew I should have went to Princeton. I really
wanted to go there as a kid. I'm telling down
everyone did as a kid. I don't know why I
didn't go other than they didn't accept me. But I
don't know why I didn't go there. I'll tell you
what UCLA Dodger Frank is on fire tonight. He gave

(21:28):
us the graphic of pain Arni's triangle of pain. Uh,
get your hopes up is at the top of it.
Then you get disappointed, and then you have to start
believing again. It's just in neverating triangle and all of
us try to talk to you, but you just don't listen.
It's like an episode of intervention. Well, because like I said,
these losses stick with me for like thirty forty years. Well,

(21:49):
I think we may have like one or two listeners
that are big sports fans like I am. Otherwise the
other nine percent of you, guys, you included placing the Sager. Geez,
he won't even tell you what his favorite team is.
Is you guys just shrug it off. We lost two
hundreds of nothing today? Never get another drink? Yeah? Since

(22:11):
when did the Sooners lose two hundred and nine? Yeah?
I don't think that's happening. Oh you tex has got
a little out of hand this year. But I'm just
I'm intrigued to know this, this level of fandom that
you're at, that none of us are at all. I'm
just I'm so in deser Wasson's ever stuck with you?
Right now? Tell me you deser Wasassons ever stuck with you?
Eighty five playoffs? Jack Clark against the Dodgers? Yeah, that

(22:33):
one was kind of painful to also elbowed Mike Sosha
that series as well, too, didn't he? I could go
back to this year? Who Texas forty nine? Nothing? I
can go back this year every single thing that's not
like the NC Double a tournament. I mean, come on now,
Actually I would say it's infinitely more important than the
NCAA tournament. But I'll just I'll play along to make

(22:54):
you feel better. I can do. I can throw in
lions cowboys in here. Yeah, lions cowboys. I mean, we've
all had tigers. Something does. You should be used to
This is the point tonight. You should be used to this.
You actually, I would you would think I would. You
never get used to it? You never do. Yeah, you
started all over again. It's like having amnesia, and you're like,

(23:15):
wait a minute, now, I remember why I had amnesia,
because we keep losing it all the time. I will say,
Pete hits on a pretty good point. I think that
not only do you have back pains, but his Pete writes, Wow,
now Arnie is talking in third person. I did you
just become like an influencer or some million multi billion
dollar athlete because it's now all about Arnie, right, I

(23:38):
hear you the third person? Now I really should be
an abridge. I should be like the Charlie Brown of
Like there was a long time ago, even before maybe Twitter,
there was a guy that went to like Northwestern and
in his four years there, they never won a football game.
And then he transferred like Columbia and they never won

(23:58):
a football game. So it like six or eight years
the guy, his team never won a football game. So
it was him, he was, he was exactly. That's a
very hurtful thing to say about Mike Harmon. Yeah, there
you do that. No Arnie, Charlie Brown and the Arizona
Wildcats or Lucy pulling the football away every single thing.
And I don't know, I mean, does anyone I'm trying

(24:19):
to remember the penis. Does anyone ever peanuts? Peanuts make
that very clear? Does anyone remember the Was anyone warning
Charlie Brown to say, hey, don't kick the football, She's
gonna pull it out? Was there like a Linus or
someone that was told me always had the inner conversation man.
Lucy just always laid it on thick and he still
somehow felt again. So I just I feel like we're

(24:41):
here to try to be that help for you, and
you just consistently that's right. The doctor is in five cents. Yeah.
I think my favorite thing that happens on this show
is you might just mention something in passing, like you
brought up. Have you ever had a loss at hurt
like that boom to say, here names one, I name
one exactly perfect and Arnie, do we not bleed exactly

(25:02):
the Scottie writes. Scottie writes the end of the twenty
ten LSU Tennessee game, the Mount Cody block you oh
nine any of the Florida Tennessee game for thirteen to
seventeen when Florida should have won our Tennessee should have
won five and row. It's like, literally, you're acting like
you're the only person that's felt sports pain before. You
don't get you don't go ahead and throw your back
out for over walk back out? Do you know how

(25:23):
many do you many Lions fans send me pictures of
the holes they punched in their walls after that flag
got picked. It's like perdue a couple of nights ago.
Did you see the white board after Purdue lost? Oh
that thing was demostroy destroyed. Which has everyone made this
joke bow which they would have shown that fight on
the court. Oh hey, that's yeah, okay, that's that's been
everywey on it. I literally sat in the studio and

(25:45):
watched the Eagles lose the Super Bowl like a month ago,
with all of us here. We see each other once
a year, and I don't even think he said by
to me. I think it was just like losing the
Super Bowl is not the same thing as losing. Yeah,
it's gagger. Oh wow, Yeah, here we go. Any even
a Laker fan gets a hellen that James Worthy pass
in the finals. It killed it against the sex. Anybody

(26:06):
could come up with anything, even if your team has
won far more than Arizona. It's different because it's college
and you go to school there and you live it
in your word on your sleeve. That's the difference. You
guys don't understand that. No, No, I already said last segment.
It is a legitimate wee. Anybody who's covered college sports
like Chris and I it is. That's that's no kidding.

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I mean when UCLA at Rose Bowl games they say,
come on, Bruins. They mean to the fans, let's cheer.
I want to see even playing cries when Oklaholma softball
ever loses. You know, well that's never lose. That's all right.
Listen as we roll past the bottom of the hour,
we got a lot to get to tonight. Todd Ferman
is in the house and Steve de Seger has eyes
on this solid game down the stretch between TCU and Gonzaga.

(26:50):
What's going on, Steve? It is Zags in the lead
by three, now fifty eight, fifty five over TCU. They
just missed at dunk nine minutes to go. I know,
and this is where the announcer says, keep that in
mind if they lose my two. But they do have
possession Gonzaga despite missing the dunk up three. And we
got a lot more March madness to discuss in a moment.

(27:11):
But USA Baseball absolutely dominated Cuba tonight in Miami in
a semifinal at the World Baseball Classic. Fourteen two was
the final. The lineup is so awesome. Pitching staff maybe
not so much, but the lineup is so incredible. Trey
Turner is the number nine hitter. He had the grand
Slam in the eighth to win last night, solo homer

(27:33):
in the second tonight, three run homer in the sixth.
Nolan Arronado RBI triple in the fourth tonight he scored
on a wild pitch also to make it seven one.
Then in the fifth Eronado was hit by a pitch
on the hand. X Rays were negative, but the starter
and winner, Adam Wainwright of the Cardinals through four innings
get out of a bases loaded jam in the first
said afterwards, this is the best environment I have ever

(27:57):
been in for a baseball game I play in. And
last night Trey Turner said the same in the close win,
which was a classic game against Venezuela and an incredibly
allowed crowd and once again sold out in Miami. And
of course you had Cuba as the opponent in Miami,
so of course there were other things going on, including
protesters outside the stadium before the game against the Cuban government,

(28:20):
including somebody going on the field with a banner free Cuba,
and later another protester running on the field carrying the
Cuban flag. But then that just caused the USA USA
chance to break out tonight during the game in response
to that, and my goodness there was well, of course,
you get that in international competition anyway. But even before

(28:42):
the game, guys, we have two Cubans from the White
Sox that did choose to play for Cuba, and when
they got announced they were roundly booed by the folks
in Miami tonight. Updating Gonzaga now leads sixty three fifty
five over at TCU eight and a half minutes to go.
The winner plays UCLA and lost Vegas on Thursday night.
Also Thursday night, it'll be Arkansas, the team that beat Kansas.

(29:05):
Arkansas going up against Connecticut, which eliminated Saint Mary's seventy
to fifty five. Craighton down Baylor eighty five seventy six,
Ryan Nemhard thirty points. Miami was up three against Indiana
with about ten minutes to go and put away the
Hoosiers eighty five sixty nine. Xavier started the day beating
pit eighty four to seventy three. Florida Atlantic has advanced

(29:27):
with a record of thirty three and three now and
my howls now that's the kiss and deaths. Sixteen seed
Fairleigh Dickinson is out seventy eight seventy is the final.
So by the way, this from the NCAA itself, with
Florida Atlantic advancing first time. Conference USA has had a
team in the regional semis in almost fifteen years since

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Memphis Kansas State eliminated Kentucky seventy five sixty nine and
Michigan State won against the two seed in the East
Marquette sixty nine sixty. That means to Mizzo sets a
record as a coach. He has won sixteen times in
the NCAA tournament when he was facing a better seated team. Wow.

(30:10):
The old record was held by Jim Beheim. Third on
the list. Lud Olsen, in his career eleven times got
a tournament win even though his club was lower seated
in the matchup. In the NBA wins for Denver and Milwaukee.
Oklahoma City beat Phoenix one twenty four one twenty Shay
giljis Alexander forty points. There are two late games the
Clippers have won at Portland one seventeen one oh two.

(30:33):
Portland's lost sixth straight. Lakers are holding on to a
lead with under four minutes to go, ninety nine ninety
six over Orlando Austin Reeves with twenty five points for
the Lakers. Cowboys acquired wide receiver Brandon Cooks. NASCAR win
for Joey Logano back to you, Oh, are you serious?
And my cats don't have a closer. I'm sorry, did

(30:54):
I miss him? My son? My son suited up against
the Boston Bruins today. You don't even give the score
let's hear it. He played against the Bruins. Come on,
the Bruins a legend. The Bruins a one nineteen. Thank you,
well what the gave up one? He gave up one goal?
Improves you play in the NHL because these guys are

(31:15):
fifty and sixty and seven the att the actual Boston
Bruins won again seven nothing at Buffalo. The Boston Bruins
this year are fifty three and eleven. He gonna beat
them too. He gonna beat them. Good for shay Man.
Thanks Steve. Party of playing bat tuned part buy the
good folks at Discover. At the end of your first year,

(31:36):
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check it out for yourself at discover dot com. Slash Match,
did you get to watch him? No? Well it was
recorded so I'll be able to watch it later on.
So it was unlike Bruins TV. But yeah, they I'm like,

(31:56):
who scored on your rape work? Wasn't It wasn't Ara,
But no, those guys didn't play. There's like a they
had a bunch of like fifty and sixty and two
hundred year old men running around there. They lost the game.
They lost the game as a matter of fact, five four.
But cha Away gave up one goal, so he played well,
let's go well, Um, congratulations, congratulations, big deal. I told

(32:18):
them so. A Bill writes a question that I think
is is a very fair question here, Um, don't crow
when your team wins and then run away when they don't.
Don't be that guy. You're better than that. I didn't
run away. Who am I running away from? I gotta
stop it, man, Believe me, I wish I could run It.
Sounds like my wife sent that in. My wife's like,

(32:41):
you take it like a man because you give it
that other time and you wish bad on everybody else's team.
And this is payment. This is karma for wishing bad
on everybody else. By the way, Bill, that's a very
good tweet. Don't let Arnie bully you, U wager. The
rabbit says, we need more Princeton talk. Yeah, I thought
Princeton was really good, Arn'tie? What from? I wonder if

(33:03):
I want to Princeton, would I like be like a
CEO or big attorney, engineer, maybe president? Who knows? Man?
If I want to and then one more Duke Zona,
Kansas and Purdue went down. Arn'tie, So you have good company.
That's from JFC claims doesn't make big money. Yeah, it
doesn't make me feel any better though, it doesn't. I don't.

(33:25):
I don't enjoy in that. And the only thing is
that Princeton still around and I got a root against them.
Is what I have to do. All I've got something
for you when we come back. Yeah, I've got something
to try to make you feel better. And it doesn't involved. Hey,
do you notice that when d is um it's I
feel a lot of those Yeah, I noticed, And by
the way, I already gave credit. I think UCLA dodger

(33:46):
Frank was in first, maybe Jason was. But they're all
hilarious and keep sending them. But when we come back,
as we monitor gonzag and trying to pull away from TCU,
seven fifty three to go in the game, it is
sixty three fifty nine, Zaga has to lead on TCU.
The horn Frogs just hit a three. I'm gonna make
you feel better, aren't I'm gonna make you feel better.

(34:06):
I guarantee it, I promise you, because well, you're hurt
that Arizona loss. It wasn't the worst thing that happened
in the NCAA tournament. I'll tell you about it next
year on Fox Sports Radio. Coming to you live from
the tirerac dot Com Studios. Fun finish, Final four thirty
four of the Gonzaga TCU game. The horn Frogs have
picked the absolute wrong time to implode. Shooting wise, they can't.

(34:31):
They can buy a shot, aren'tie? Sixty eight? Sixty one? Well,
I see he makes a second free throw? Oh four, Okay,
you're a little way behind. You're way behind. Well I
thought you weren't watching. I thought you were done with
the tournament. I didn't. I had to put it on
now since we're on the air. Else I got it.
Don't worry about it. I was about to win. I'm

(34:52):
feeling pretty good about that. No, don't say that. They
always blow games like this. Oh my, go through a
monitor through the studio glass here. I'm just about to say,
mister mush here, trying to call everything is over is
gonna drive me crazy, trying to make what's what's that
Chris four points? I was gonna say, at what point,

(35:14):
with the way Anthony Davis is playing, do you think
four point leaders. This is a point I was gonna
try to make you feel good. But don't worry about it. Now,
let's just pile on. Let's talk about the greatness of
Princeton the rest of that time. Hey, we're gonna have
to hear you better. Hope I'm on target with my
NBA or NFL picks or we're in trouble again. My
record is not a reflection of you. Your record is

(35:35):
not a reflection of me. So and I honestly, your
picks have always been terrible. So I don't know why
you're worried about him. Now I've heard. I see. I'm her.
I'm held to a higher standard than everybody else. That's
the problem, right, No, I understand that, But there's that's
why I was hired Fox. Right. They came out and said,
we got to find a guy who can't get a pick. Right. So, No,

(35:55):
my name is Arnie Brackett's. I don't know if you
know that, Marnie bracket. You're fire. Get out by the way,
one seat is about to lose in that women's tournament
that you couldn't care less about. Let me try to
make you feel a little bit better about things. Here, Aren'tie,
because I know you're hurt and you're embarrassed, but I
feel like right now Perdue Fan had the more embarrassing loss.

(36:16):
Princeton's a still alive, so they're moving on. Take a
little solace in that, but be Farley Dickinson might be
the worst team to ever win a game in the
nca tournament. Wow, they were the Ken, So there's a
nerdy Well. First of all, I'm sure you're all tired
of hearing this story hammered in your head. But they're
not even supposed to be in the tournament. They lost

(36:37):
their conference championship because Merrimack was transitioning from what D
two to once They have that stupid rule in place
where you're not eligible for a postseason for two to
three years, And it's a dumb reason why, because I
guess D three schools Arenie that were highly that had
a lot of finances would jump into each two and

(36:58):
win titles. Never knew that was a thing. Apparently it happened.
It cost Merrimack and may have cost Purdue. Add this
to it, Fairley Dickinson was an underdog in the play
in game to a team that finished eighth in the
swack this year. The tournament that Farley, Fairley Dickinson came
out of are the excuse. The league they came out
of was the lowest rated league of any of the

(37:20):
leagues in the tournament, and they would have been a
seven and a half point underdog to UMBC that team
that beat Virginia in the first round in what twenty eighteen,
twenty nineteen. So yeah, there you go. You your lost stinks, right,
it hurts, but nothing is more embarrassing than losing to
a team as a one seat only the second time

(37:42):
it's ever happened to a team that had no business
being their smallest team in the tournament. You got a
seven foot five guy that's the player of the year,
the lowest probably rated team ever in Kim Pomroy's rankings. Ever, Arnie,
I feel like Purdue fans should feel a little worse
than you. That's close, close, but not quiet. Not quiet.

(38:03):
I would say, it's close, but not quite what I'm
going through. Uh And it was the second time that
we've lost to a fifteen seed. You've seen nobody but
Purdue loses to Uh, well what about Virginia two? I mean,
my goodness, I'd want bet and five. There you go. No,
you wouldn't, Matt, because I'm gonna give you a list
of guys. There's only three coaches who have lost three

(38:24):
times to a team seed at thirteenth or lower. All right,
there's Tony Bennett, right, Matt Painter, and Lude Olsen. So
you're telling me that you want Tony ben That means
you want to Lude Olsen fire too, aren't he? Come
on now? Yeah, Painter, Lude Olson and Tony Bnnett are
the only coaches to lose three times to a team

(38:45):
ranked are seated but eighteenth or lower, and Matt Painter
has done it in three straight. Yeah, but you gotta
just say where Lude Olson came from. I mean, he
took over a team that had like four wins. We
were one in seventeen in the Pac ten that year,
we were just horrible. We took over a bad, bad program. Yeah,
but you're you're also going back to like nineteen what

(39:06):
did he take over nineteen seventy. Nineteen eighty three was
his first year. Yeah, he took a one and seventeen
team and made him eight and ten? Why in the Okay,
so eighteen games? Like seventeen games? But so there you go.
Little history for you, Arnie, not as bad as far
as the embarrassing nature of it. I mean, you can
be heard, but it's much more embarrassing what happened at

(39:29):
Purdue than what happened to you or even for Did
you see my Twitter account after the game? After Arizona game,
everyone that came in, I was almost in tears. That
was just killing me. You know, it was awful. Well,
I mean it's not like you. You sit here every
single sun and night and grandstand and they talk about
the greatness of Arizona. I mean, I don't know why
anyone would think about trying to point out that they

(39:49):
just lost Arnie. I don't know why they would do.
You terrible people, How dare you do that to Arnie
in his time of morning? All Right, you get Zaga
is trying to pull away from TCU. Zags your zags.
You might not first to this one, but TCU, by
the way, is a team that's found ways to come
back late in games. So even with under three minutes left,

(40:12):
look out. I wouldn't count out in Mike Miles and TCU.
Plus when we come back next hour, we're heading to Vegas.
How have the book's done. What are the numbers looking like?
And we'll even try to sneak in a little NFL
talk on a college basketball heavy edition of Arnie and Playing.
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(40:34):
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tire buying should be. Now, Arnie's handled the law. Swell, oh,
I have not kind of So are you on this gonzagabandwagon?

(40:55):
So this is your team now going forward? You wanted
to beat UCLA? Yeah, that's my tipoy. Usually I just
root against everybody else's team. So I got that going
for myself. Well, the way the Fox Sports brackets, well
I might have just cursed Gonzaga. Um, the way the
Brackett Challenge is going right now, though, I think everyone
has UCLA. You're not bad, You're not You're in tenth place.

(41:18):
I looked at every Well maybe it's updated now, so
maybe that's it. You there, and there is no way
you could have been it and been in DFL. I've
seen some of our partners picks. You're doing much better.
I think you're in the Arizona and Kansas in the finals.
That's not good. But you also were one of the
few people that believed in Florida Atlantic. Nothing. I give

(41:38):
you like three points and you picked firm it. No.
I thought you had Florida Atlantic like going to the
final four, the elite eight. That's that's a lot of
points right there, A big deal. What you uh? What
you like about the Owl's going into the tournament? Oh?
I loved everything about him. What are your kids? Oh? Man?
I will hey, I will say, of all your left

(42:00):
you alone. I just left. I don't know how some
fans can't be did that? I thought for sure you
do a weal fame check to just you know. Usually
I worry about you when your teams have bad losses.
But I see, I'm like, you don't care. So whatever
doesn't make well, I do care. You can ask my wife.
I probably care a little bit too much. Maybe there's
some things to get thrown in some words. My kids

(42:20):
have learned, But I will say this much. It has
been as unpredictable of a tournament as we've ever had,
and I honestly think if you're leading in the bracket challenge,
that might be the person we need to talk about
their job, because how in the world can you cover
sports or college basketball this year and pick any of

(42:41):
these games right right now? I mean, it just makes
absolutely no sense. And I hate I hate being behind
football players too that work here at the network. That
really drives me crazy. Why do football players matter. I'm fine,
at least they're athletes. Oh, but I don't want to
be behind the football player when it comes to March madness.
That's just adding saw in the injury, you know, assault

(43:01):
of the wound there. Yeah, exactly. You're in twelfth place
right now, Arenie, You're just behind noted college basketball expert
big Ben Maller. Oh. I should be fired for that.
You do have some football dudes in front of you.
You got TJ. Who's your daddy, your boy, your boy?
All Caps VJ is in fourth place right now, third

(43:26):
so Errington. Yeah, yeah, oh my goodness, sorry, dude, embarrassing.
I think I really need TCU in this game, and
it's not gonna happen. So I've kind of given up
on my bread. Do we do the same thing for
the NBA? Do we do NBA? Brackett, Yeah, we do.
And I think you you claim you won that one,
and I don't think you got a first round pick

(43:47):
right last year? What if the if the bosses do
fire us, but they're going to say your picks are
just too Okay, I don't sit here and talk about
my picks or call myself the stinking genius, So quitn
making that a week on versation, your picks, your projection. Yeah,
I mean because I have held do a higher standard,
because steaking genius. And the reason they hired me, I

(44:08):
remember this was ten years ago, was like, you pick
like nobody's business man. You're just You're just unbelievable. Nobody
gets the right. You gotta right like ninety percent of
the time. We have to have you on this network.
We have to. Don Martin was looking for the next
great predictor um and then he's like, listen, there's gods
to get him. There's this span. Your kid up in

(44:29):
Fi picks every game right and right one of incredibly wrong.
So yeah, I h I don't know, Ernie, I wouldn't
be too down about it. There's always next year. You
got football coming up, right right? You got football. You
got the excitement of your conferences, do and you got
that by the way, you see, there's a difference between
being right and wrong, and there's a difference between being

(44:51):
really right. Remember what, because I already told you it's
gonna be the Dolphins and the Cowboys. And what two
teams are picking up people like kids like the are
all star teams. The Cowboys just picked up Brandon Cooks.
I mean, the whole thing is happening right in front
of our eyes. You can you can see I'm one
hundred percent ride right now. It's it's you're always one
hundred percent ride in the offseason. You've never missed a

(45:14):
pick in the US. But do you could tell it's
going to be the Cowboys? And that's why I'm I'm
feeling good that we won't get fires. I know it's
gonna be the Cowboys and Dolphins. Would will be my prediction? Well,
I have a bigger question for the show tonight. I
think this is the most important question. Why are you here?
What do you mean? What do you here for? Where

(45:34):
there's worse here? Why are you here? You bet your
job that Arizona wouldn't lose to Princeton. In fact, I
believe that the exact saying was, did I did I
say that if Arizona loses to Princeton, I'll quit my job?
I'm pretty sure bo. I mean, I think I remember
hearing that perfect Maybe I have a I have a
tweet here. I'm just pulling it up from Artie from

(45:55):
the from when they did lose, and I'm pretty sure
it was that you were. Arnie said he was going
to call out until March of twenty twenty four. But
even going back to last Sunday show, I vehemently, or
as one of my friends likes to pronounce it, vehemently
remember you saying that you would quit your job. So

(46:15):
I don't know if I said that. Okay, you went,
you went men in black on everybody in mature. They
just forgot about it. You have the tape here. It's
just a matter of willpower. Yeah, we all know what
he said is I knew that our producers are the
worst in the business. But who is what's our producer's
name again, Chris, Well, it's bow Binson. Okay, Yeah, so

(46:36):
I knew they would I knew this guy what's his name?
Bo Bo? Right, Okay, I knew he would never pull it,
so um oh, like, well I had nothing to worry about,
right U Jr Jr. Smitty hit us up on Twitter,
he writes, stop playing, please stop. Boiler Nation is still
in shock. It's so embarrassing, but such is life. History

(46:56):
was made. Unfortunately, college football can't get here quick, joy.
Problem is, nobody really knows that Purdue has a basketball team.
So no one really knows that Purdue has a basketball team.
Even when they're number one. You're like, oh, hey, yeah,
Purdue's got a team. How about that seven weeks at
number one this year for Purdue they started this season.

(47:16):
I don't know how that's possible, you know what I
mean when when you're a one man team. Well, I again,
if you're I'm glad you're feeling better mocking Purdue, but
I mean, I'm kind of looking at you crazy. My
son's girlfriend was here this week and she goes to Purdue. Really,
oh yeah, so I got I started calling her a loser,

(47:38):
and she got all I try and stuff like that.
I'm sure your son appreciated that. I can. It's all
because my son tried to come down and talk to
me during the game, and I'm like, get Addie here,
move along, move along, don't talk to me while you
know the game's going on. And then when we lost,
I made their life hell when Purdue lost. So it's

(47:59):
so so in other words, you're like, I'm miserable. I'm
bringing everyone down with me. I do like that. Yes,
that's that was exactly what went through my mind. So
you know exactly the way I was thinking, all right, well,
I've got a can we hit a couple of other tournaments? Okay, yeah,
I thought you bet tweets, but yeah, you get hit
whatever you want. Go ahead, Well, if you want more tweets,

(48:19):
I could. I was just trying to move away from
the negativity. I was trying to bring some positivity. It's
even gotten fifty two million of them, so somewhere somewhere
in that that area of close to fifty two million,
I did appreciate the kind thing from Isaac, who writes,
I wouldn't trade my dad for anything, but if I
could choose a second dad, it would be Arnie. Oh
thank you. Even though his wildcat stole a three pete

(48:42):
from my wall cat as a Kentucky fan is what
he is. Very cool. How you root for your son
rough day? Thanks for cheering me up. Yeah, Kentucky. Yeah,
but you know what, my kid gave up one goal
to probably some sixty year old man with a pot belly,
so you know, just because he was a former brewing,
big stinking deal. That wasn't with somebody like Chara ray Born, right,

(49:03):
it wasn't anybody big so um yeah, big deal. I
told them, you gave up a goal to some stats
all you want to you want a wild note, you
want a wild stat, nerdy stat for you? Yeah, go ahead.
So as as Gonzagas put the finishing touchers on this,
they'll advance to the Sweet sixteen. Mike Miles a guy
that I think is one of the best college basketball

(49:25):
players in the country. Mike Miles went m ia over
the last ten minutes for TCU. I have no idea
what happened, but congratulations to the Gonzaga Bulldogs. They'll move
on to Las Vegas for a showdown with UCLA next weekend.
So forward to that, it'll be UCLA and Gonzaga in

(49:46):
the bottom part of the bracket. Eighth straight Sweet sixteen
for the Bulldogs, Yukon and Arkansas in the top half
of the bracket, which is quite amazing to me. But
here's the stat Apparently, this is a chalky mcchaukerson Sweet sixteen,
an utterly normal Sweet sixteen. Even with Princeton as a

(50:09):
fifteen seed. The average seed of the sixteen teams left
is four point six. Oh and by the way, the
normal Sweet sixteen seed over the last forty years thirty
seven to be exact, is four point five. So right,
it seems crazy. It seems like we've had all this
madness and it's right in line with every tournament. The

(50:31):
chalkiest tournament we had was twenty nineteen, where the average
seed of the Sweet sixteen is three point one. And
just two years ago, wait, what year is this, twenty
twenty twenty three? Okay, two years ago the wackiest was
the average seed was five point nine. So is that wild? Right?
Doesn't it seem like it should be more? The average
sheet is like six or seven. I feel like we've
had upsets galore. But you look and sure there's a

(50:53):
one seed out with Kansas out but you know, and
Purdue out. But yet the twos are for the most
part still there. The fours are still there. You want
to know the whole six thing. Part about the whole
thing is Princeton of course, be by Wildcats. They're gonna
beat Creighton and then they'll go ahead and beat who
will they play like Alabama, San Diego State winners out

(51:14):
all they'll play there, that's right, and they'll beat them too,
so they'll go to the final four. Yeah, I don't
know about that with Alabama. But I'm just surprised to
see how Chalkie mcchalkerson is. Our producer, Bo Benson has
been hard at work. Bo, I'm sorry about that. I
was getting to my nerdy stat. Yuh, it's okay. I
don't know if you guys were watching the end of
this Gonzaga game here, Um it was seventy eight eighty

(51:38):
four as the clock ran down, h gives a score
like that TCU player hits a buzzer beating three, not
to you know, make the game interesting or anything, brings
it to eighty four eighty one. Final The line was
indeed Gonzaga by four and a half. So serious Vega.

(51:58):
There's some betters who got sensed the Shutoutah, Vegas oriented
people are not not pleased with that TCU fellow right now,
Oh my goodness, are you serious? So it was a
six point game with second slap. Gonzaga had started even celebrating,
not even fractions of a second, right, it was fractions
of a second. They rolled the ball across half course

(52:19):
and he just picked it up and heaved it and
made it. That's still not as bad as Texas say,
Atem Corpus Christi, by the way, because the guy was
just drilling, just drilling it out for twenty seconds and
that throws up a three of that that covered the bread.
By the way. If that's not the most beautiful campus
on the face of the earth, I really don't know
what is. What's that Texas say, I'm Corpus Christi. Yeah,

(52:39):
have you seen that? Oh yes, it's awesome. It's crazy.
Remember when everyone discovered Florida Gulf Coast, Yes, exactly ten
years ago. Boys. Ten years ago was when Dunk City
was first unveiled. Any Enfeld has been at USC that
law and then we remember we learned about that campus
and had had the lazy river around Adam. Corpus Christie

(53:01):
is pretty close to that from ten years ago. Unfortunately,
they didn't win all we have to talk about is
that bad bat old guy too was dribbling Arnie the
adem Corpus Christie one, which I don't think it's as
bad as this, but he was literally dribbling it down
like it was a tie game. I hear him, I
hear him in his in his head. Good, they're trying
to guard me three. I mean he puts up the shot. Oh,

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instead of winning the game, it's like they kind of
a spread. But it was hilarious that that happened. This
This shot was was made like point four left and
it was Damian Blah who hit the three. It was
a four and a half spread. Point spread. Wow, wow,
And that covered for TCU. Dad is unbelievable. TCU, you're happy.

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I mean, of course you're not happy if you had Gonzaga,
though Noah Blah I was. I was gonna say, wouldn't
that be fun if it was his only three pointer
he made? But he was three for four from the
field beyond the three point arc, so there is at
least that. But Gonzaga is moving on. Great team. Good
teams win, great teams cover. They win the last second,
three ruins the cover and it's almost perfect timing because

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Todd Ferman is coming up next. I do want to
go through these brackets. Aren't you not sitting here and
tell you how how good or bad our picks were?
Just some of the cool stories. And even though the
numbers show you that, hey, this is fairly normal for
what we've seen over the last four years of the tournament,
I feel like there's some great stories. We'll have to
those coming up next. As always, it's Arnie in Plank
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Todd Furman joined us, coming up in just a bit
as we come to you alive from the tire rack
dot Com studios. I just had to look for fun
at the Fox Sports Bracket Challenge and Fox Sports dot Com.
You guys, hopefully everyone's in million dollar bracket challenge, of course,
to nobody had a perfect bracket. I don't have a
single team left in the East, I mean, and I

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kind of thinking to myself, that's got to be terrible.
But then I realized your two seeds out the uh
nobody had Tennessee beating Duke. So Tennessee is still alive,
and only you had Florida Atlantic going as far. So
I think I think I'm gonna be okay, call up

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some of the upsets and my eyes on a wildcown's
kind of eliminated, alright, o Man. Todd Furman joins us.
Of course the bet the Board podcast, Todd, we we
were joking about that final play in the TCU game
because the number was four and a half. He hits
the three to cut it from six to three. So
TCU betters rejoice. But that's happened a couple of times

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with these late bad beats in the tournament. There's there's
no such thing as an easy winner until you're able
to put the game in the win column, as we
find out with numbers this tight late in the year.
But talk about a ridiculously improbable sequence of events from
making us three to not following to following. I mean
everything had to go just right for TCU backers who
will go to the window and cash their tickets and

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not apologize to anybody. Now, you could bet Princeton and
they'll pay off before the game starts. From what I hear,
that's yeah, Well, I was looking at the schedule for
the Sweet sixteen already. I'm trying to figure out what
time the Arizona game tips off. So my schedule must
not be correct because I don't see the Wildcats listed
anywhere playing on Friday, March twenty fourth at the KFC
Yum Center in Louisville, so they must be saving all

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their bullets for the n I t What was the
money line on Princeton in that game? Around seven and
a half eight to one in that game, so not
astronomical or anywhere close to what you were looking at
for FDU, who ended up going off right around a
twenty two to one hunderdog, and they're outright up set
against Perdue is a twenty three point dog. Well what
about wait, I was gonna say, what about Princeton head
your show? What about Princeton going to the Sweet sixteen?

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What kind odds could you get on that. I actually
didn't see a price on the Princetonsiger. I did a
tweet sixteen when you're talking about a fifteen or sixteen seed.
And the main reason for that is most of the
books will create a little bit of exposure to the
favorite because you would have had a ton of support
from professional betters betting the no price on a fifteen
or sixteen to get here. But here we are. The
Tigers go dancing into the second weekend and they'll find

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themselves in a role they're very comfortable with as a
ten point hundred dog taking on the Blue Jays Friday.
That was that was my safety school. If I didn't
get in the Arizona Princeton Yeah, yeah, I'm not quite
sure about that. But Plank, we know Arnie likes to
tell a lot of tales around here. I'm not sure
they would have allowed Arnie to serve at Hoagihaven in Princeton,
New Jersey level those that foot in any of those

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hallowed hallways. Yeah, I didn't say I got in. That
was my safety school. So he always has to have
a safety school, Dodd. I dug all the numbers. I
dove into it. It's fairly Dickinson the worst team to
ever win an NCAA tournament game, and it's not close.
I mean, you look at what's out there. I mean,
obviously you had a sixteen seed in u NBC out there,

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but fairly Dickinson from a metric standpoint and everything else,
nowhere close to a team that you thought was capable
of doing it. But you know, for all the heat
and Victu always see through social media and journalists that
want to crucify Tony Venetts or for some premature exits,
he still has a national championship on his resume. Matt
Painter looking for that first final flour for Producings nineteen
eighty and this may have been rock bottom when you
look at the Boilers who have now been bounced out

(58:20):
of the last three tournaments by a double digit seed
every year. Just when you think things are going to
set up well for them to have a favorable road,
they go and lay an egg. Absolutely incredulous that Zach
Dy does not attempt a single field goal from the
floor in the game's final seven minutes. Todd, what are
you hearing that you're supposed to bet the under in
this tournament? You'd be winning? Like what seventy five percent
of the time or what. The Unders didn't have a

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good day the second day of the tournament on Friday,
they went off I believe in a fifteen to one
clip depending on the closing line value that you were
able to achieve. But when you're looking at the games today,
I mean, you wouldn't have had as much success by
any stretch of the imagination. Things tend to balance out
over the course of the tournament. And as I look
and do the quick monkey mass here six and two
or five even three right there to the over with

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markets that have adjusted themselves. You look at a couple
of big line moves TCU Gonzaga one fifty eight and
a half down to one fifty two and a half.
That game goes over the total. Xavier and Pittsburgh a
similar story, one fifty three on the open down to
one forty seven, and that game falls one fifty seven,
exceeding Oddsmaker's expectations. Todd, have you seen odds getting out
a little bit quicker for the tournament games? Are we

(59:24):
still kind of waiting on injuries? And because again during
the season it was the morning of, if not late
the night before, some of these games on Saturdays now,
I mean it seems like they're getting out a little
bit earlier, right, Yeah, books will do everything they can
to get numbers hung, you know, hopefully within the first
five minutes after these games closed, especially knowing that people
are feeling good or bad about their weekends and they

(59:44):
know people are looking to try and reinvest. So not
hanging numbers immediately if they feel comfortable with the prices
that are out there, do a disservice to them and
some of their players. And that's kind of what we
have here with a full slate of numbers widely available
right now, including the most recent number to go up,
UCLA a one point favorite against Gonzaga right here in
my backyard next night to night, give me, give me
some of my zag's baby. What's going on with the WBC? Well,

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what could you have gotten the USA? And who looking for?
What one of the Mexico Japan game or what I mean?
Team USA went off about a one to four favorite
today against Cuba, So not the kind of value that
you're after typically, Ernie, And when you're looking at USA
and Japan, they were co favorites coming into the tournament.
USA actually a slightly shorter favorite in that particular regard,
and Japan finds themselves right around a two fifty favorite

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for their game against Mexico tomorrow evening. We'll see if
it's Mexico punching their ticket creating a little bit of
a border war, or if we're going to get Japan,
who arguably has the best rotation in this tournament, matched
up against a murderers row of Team USA hitters. So
are you a fan of this event? Tied? I've noticed
with the injuries and we saw obviously the celebration from

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Diaz and why am I blaye all two they gets
hurt last night? Are you a fan of this? Because
I am. I've enjoyed everything I watched and it's wild.
It's a week ago we were watching the USA nearly
get run ruled. But how do you like the World
Baseball Classic? I mean, I think it goes by in
the blink of an eye, and you know, obviously you
have to do more to kind of promote it, to
make it at the forefront of people aware. Obviously tougher

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to follow the regions that were taking place in Taiwan
and Japan in the wee hours in the morning compared
to the games that unfolded in Phoenix in Miami. It's
just interesting you go from pool play suddenly to single eliminations.
So while it creates that urgency, it obviously opens things
up to a level of variance. The Edwin Diaz injury
extremely unfortunate. You obviously don't want to see a player
get hurt, especially in a non game situation. Jose l

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TWV with the broken thumb. I mean, that's just the
reality anytime that the stakes get ratchet up, that very
easily could have happened in a spring training game the
same way. So I just don't want to hear de
tract Or saying they can't put players in harms way.
But no doubt a handful of owners out there that
are waiting with bated breath to try and get some
of their superstars back in camp at a hundred percent.
But that doesn't really affect the bets, like even they're

(01:01:57):
over under for win totals or anything like that doesn't. No,
it won't change things a ton. I mean, you're talking
about Jose al Tve being out. You know sixty eight weeks.
Books aren't going to overhaul the odds there. Maybe if
you believed in the Mariners. This is a kind of
injury that'll push you over the top. As far as
the Mets look, I mean, they're gonna have to figure
out who will cobble together the final three outs for them.
That a much bigger injury losing Edwin Diz to a

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torn patellar tendant, which as we know, may not even
be a year recovery. There's a chance that that recovery
gets pushed into the start of next season. So the
team with playoff aspirations and wanting to win the Pennant
obviously has to now figure out who's going to pitch
the most high leverage outs on a nightly basis in
Flushing night Todd, before we let you get out of here,
at least final question from me. Obviously we're still on

(01:02:38):
Aaron Rodgers watch. We all assume and feel like he's
going to play for the Jets next year. But any
of these moves over the last few few days, even
maybe a couple of weeks, that have really done much
about changing your opinion, Any move that just really jumped
out at you, you know, not a ton. I think
the signing for the Kansas City Chiefs to fortify their
offensive line and bringing a player like Charles Amena, who

(01:02:59):
who's gonna get more reps? Probably one of the more
underrated signings that are out there. People love to gravitate
towards the big names, folks like Arnie that c Jalen Ramsey,
thinking that's going to catapult Miami's third in the ACS
to front runners in the AFC overall, and coming from Chicago.
A lot of my fans friends bleed as Bears fans
for everything that Ryan Poles and company have done. I'm

(01:03:21):
gonna question spending money on linebackers before you dressed the
offensive line in some other positions, and the Bears now
being attached to potentially bringing in Jerry Judy. It's interesting.
It's glitz and glamor, and use Colin Collar's term, it's
icing on the cake. But you have to be stout
in the trenches if you're gonna win football games in
the National Football League. And I'm not sure the Bears
have done enough to really change their outlook. Just yeah, Todd,
we're on double secret probation here, so I have to

(01:03:43):
get my football pick right, and I'm pretty confident to
let it all right. On the Dolphins, Cowboys for the
Super Bowl. You know that, don't you. You know that's
the one thing about you, Arnie. No matter what changes
in the world, whether it's the economic situation, whether it's
pandemic recovery, you are a man that sticks true to
his principle. And what those principles are is being a
prisoner of the moment. So kudos to you for doing that.

(01:04:05):
Chase after those shiny objects like a nice cat that
you can find at the rescue, and Artie will be
right alongside her here for it. Todd, have a day, buddy,
Appreciate your time. Have a great week. Hey, always a pleasure, gentleman.
Enjoy the great games. You can't wait to talk about
the Final four this time next week. That's right, final
four this time next week. I'm not doing that tournament thing.

(01:04:26):
You were just watching the games. You were doing your
feed being for before ours kind of thing against all age.
Game's already here. You're absolutely watching it. I'm watching it,
but I'm not enjoying it. About that. That's fair enough,
all right. I'm enjoying steven Sagers updates tonight. So the
man with my kids today in the house. Hello, And

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you did mention earlier, Gonzaga going to an eighth straight
Sweet sixteen, now longest set stretched since Duke went nine
years in a row to the Sweet sixteen through two
thousand and six. The tip times are out for that
round for the Thursday and Friday games, and by the way,
Chris Plank, the late game in the women's second round
tomorrow night is Oklahoma at UCLA. This is the worst

(01:05:11):
tournament since we had a final four of like Pen
Indiana State, Michigan State en seventy four seventy Larry Bird
against Magic Johnson, which I think is still the highest
rated final. That awful final four, and I would have
had any other channels, that's all they could watch. I
think Bird played it overtime or double overtime semi final,
So no, not at Allen, who's the fourth team in there?

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Pen though, was down fifty to seventeen at the half
against Magic in the smartest for the record, which I'm
sure is the last time the IVY League had a
team in the in the final. It's so rare. I mean,
Princeton in the Sweet sixteen State beat who did they beat? DePaul? DePaul?
Remember that's one of the times they actually advanced that
far in the tournament. DePaul used to have great teams

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kind of like Arizona and always out in that's right,
Sweet sixteen schedule. We do know that the Gonzaga game
is the late game from Vegas on Thursday night. The
Texas game is the late game on Friday details. In
a moment, just for fun, I looked up the APE
Top twenty five poll going into the tournament. Perdue number

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three in the country, Kansas number four, Marquette number six,
Arizona number eight. Four of the top eight teams in
the rankings are not even here after the first weekend.
In other word, when we have a guy with a
broken arm, a guy with a fallen arm off so
you know, you can talk chalk and yeah, there's such
it's there have been up since, including four of the

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top eight in the rankings. Now Michigan State beat two
seat in the East Marquette sixty nine sixty Michigan State
has the first game on Thursday. It'll be on Cable
against Kansas State. Kansas State eliminated Kentucky today seventy five
sixty nine. No crying after the game today. By the way,
Tom Ezo knows he's only got so many of these

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tournaments left for Wow, a dark for he was retiring,
not dying, retiring. You're the one talking earlier about I've
only got so many tournaments left. By the way, Florida
Atlantic is still alive with my owls death with a
thirty three and three record. FAU beat f DU seventy

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eight seventy. So Florida Atlantic plays Tennessee Thursday night, nine
pm Eastern and the late game is Gonzaga UCLA about
nine forty five Eastern on Thursday. In the Zag's advance,
winning the late game tonight eighty four eighty one. The
final against TCU could have been some better free throw
shooting in this game, but on the losing side, TCU

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in a close game on free throws was just twelve
for twenty for grant out Wow. Number one Alabama against
San Diego State. Two great defensive teams. I mean, the
Aztecs consistently year after year hold opponents to about forty
percent shooting. Bama is even better than that this year.
They are I think literally number two out of three
hundred and fifty two teams that's that category this year.

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So not expecting the Aztecs to get sixty points. Let's
just say that out loud. Bama and San Diego State
the first game Friday on Cable, and then it's Miami
against top seed Houston at seven fifteen Eastern on Friday.
Miami pulled away for a win over Indiana tonight eighty
five sixty nine. Creton plays Princeton Friday at nine pm

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Eastern time on Cable. Princeton. I don't recall who they beat,
but I know Creton beat Baylor today eighty five. I
think those picks that you were just talking about the
standings with everybody's picks here at the station. Sure. Yeah.
The late game on Friday is Texas against Xavier at
about nine forty five Eastern on Friday. Xavier eliminated pit

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to start today eighty four to seventy three, and Yukon
beat Saint Mary's seventy to fifty five against them an
I t By the way, Oregon and Wisconsin each one.
They'll face each other in a quarterfinal. The late game
in the NBA in l saw Austin Reeves get thirty
five points off the bench. Lakers beat Orlando one eleven,
one oh five. The Clippers and Kawhi Leonard decided to

(01:09:08):
play tonight, so they got a win at Portland one
seventeen one oh two. Kawhi did not play yesterday and
they lost at home to Orlando Denver in Oklahoma City.
With wins, Milwaukee won again. The Bucks are fifty one
and twenty. Still not a good record. It's the Boston
Bruins have. They won seven nothing at Buffalo. Also in
the NHL, wins for Vegas and for the Rangers, who
were up six nothing in the first period and beat

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Pittsburgh seven zip. Cowboys acquired wide receiver Brandon Cooks. Joey
Logano won the NASCAR race at Atlanta. Brad Keselowski finished second,
Christopher Bell was a close third. Legano led over half
the laps. And in tennis, Carlos Alcarez won the final
at Indian Wells, California, regained the world number one ranking.
He's nineteen years old. Just won the US Open last year.

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Novak Djokovic was ranked number one. He can't gain entry
into the US currently, so he was not in this tournament.
Not going to be at Miami either. But in Miami tonight,
USA baseball dominated Cuba fourteen to two in the semis
of the World Baseball Classic Mexico against undefeated Japan, also
on FS one. The other semi tomorrow at FS one
will have the final Tuesday night, also seven pm Eastern Bank.

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You you know you brought up those n IT scores.
I was just thinking, I think the last time Arizona
went to the n IT tb wats in the first round. Also, no,
I'm s first round of the n WOWS the first
to have your I have your year history pulled up
and you absolutely did. So what Cornell or not not Cornell?
I forget who you and your you and your decade

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ago Cornell buck Now, same school. It was about the
time Cornell went to the Sweet sixteen. We lost the
fucked now in the first round of the ni Yeah
that was, which means it was at home, home court,
right n I first round, so too, unless your gym
is quote unavailable. That has happened, including this year. Oh yeah,
we've seen it happen a couple of times. Man twenty

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twelve first round lost in Arizona. I'm proud about that.
Wait a minute, didn't Arizona back when they used to
let you play on the home court in the NCAA
tournament Arizona lost at home to UTAP. Yes that's true too. Yes,
we lost to Utah another school that I hate. Is
that another one of those losses that is causing your
back problems right now too? Yes, Oh it's worse than

(01:11:21):
ever now. I don't even think I'll be able to
go to bed. Seriously, I'm not. I'm taking ibprofen like
their skittles. When they lost to UTEP, I believe that
completed three straight years of losing in the first round
for four four ent right, de Sager, I apologize, you're right,

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three consecutive years, but it was four straight times in
Arizona basketball history that they lost in the first round.
They lost in nineteen seventy seven in the first round
to the Mighty Salute Keys of Southern Illinois. Southern Illinois.
I forgot about that one. And then when Ludolson got
there and they actually turned it around and got into
the tournament, I thought, Yeah, nineteen eighty five they lost

(01:12:05):
to Alabama in the first round. Yeah, but see that
was at ten sec. Whim Sanderson was the head coach
at Alabama. So see tr Era here, mid aye, that's right.
This is had long flowing hair and was in College
nineteen eighty six first round loss to Auburn and nineteen
eighty seven first round loss on the home court. I mean,

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that's just an astounding thing to say out loud. You
played an NCAA tournament game on your home by the way,
to do it positive, Arnie, have you seen the documentary
they made on lud Olson CBS Sports Network. I think
replayed it recently. Highly recommended any college basketball fan, but
an Arizona guy. Absolutely, they I think Jason Terry helped

(01:12:48):
pay to make it and as executive producer credit. But
they got Walton to narrat it, and it's very good.
By the way, it's named Lute, so you can't miss it.
The Seger. You can't answer this, okay. Do you know
who the star player was for UTAP in that nineteen
eighty seven tournament game, Harnie Spaniard, You know I would
know this. I don't remember it off the top of
my head, but go ahead tell me who it is. Sager,

(01:13:09):
Greg and Aoster transfer from UCLA. No, Tim Hardaway, I
think Greg Foster was also on the team. He was there. Yeah,
hold on, let's look Tim Harway. Absolutely, Antonio O'Davis was
on that team. I don't see foster on here. Maybe
maybe maybe Sports Reference has screwed this up. So but no,
Tim Hardaway, no big deal. Only average fourteen points six

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assists at UTAP. Tim Hardaway went to the University of
Texas El Paso, Unreal well crazy and outfielder Kenny Lofton
was on all those Arizona teams. That's right, that's rights. Gosh, Arnie,
I'm sorry, man, what a legacy he fell down against
UNLV to give a free open three pointer to a
UNLV player that hit it and won the game against

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US in the tournament. Steve Kershawn Elliott, Tom Tolbert, Judd Buschler,
they're all like doing me, all those losers. Stop it?
Hey how fourteen eventually? Right? You guys did though in
seventy six, Arnie, you beat UNLV in the semi finals,
so there was that. You got to the finals and
loss to use. And back when Arnie was in high
school they lost first round of the n i T

(01:14:15):
in nineteen forty six. Oh there you go, So you
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What's going on, Steve Disager, It's a lot to talk
about the tournament, and kudos to Creton, which eliminated Baylor
eighty five seventy six. Creton literally did not miss a
free throw in the game My Blue Jays twenty two
from twenty two from the foul line, which needless to say,

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ties at all time tournament record apparently set by Fordham
over fifty years ago. So Creighton led by eleven late
first half, wound up winning by nine. Ryan Nemhard had
thirty points his brothers in the NBA. Baylor freshman guard
Keyante George will see if he goes to the to
the NBA, should say. In the NCAA first season to

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his he averaged sixteen points a game for the Bears.
He was one of ten shooting from the flour in
this game. So it's Princeton against Creton Friday in Louisville,
nine pm Eastern time. And the NCAA points out that
as we know the Sweet sixteen right now, eleven different
leagues are represented in the Sweet sixteen, so that ties
an all time record, including of course Florida Atlantic, which

(01:15:47):
with that thirty three and three record will be Tennessee.
On Thursday in New York City nine pm Eastern time.
FAU beat FDU seventy eight seventy. That game was tied
under nine minutes to go. So we have a Sweet
sixteen again with no Duke, no North Carolina, of course,
no Kentucky, and no Kansas. Those four Bluebloods all out

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before the Sweet sixteen this year, and it happened two
years ago as well. Before that, it hadn't happened since
nineteen seventy Nines tournament, which we referenced a few minutes ago.
I looked it up an actual IVY League team in
the final four in nineteen seventy nine because Penn beat
in a row in the tournament, North Carolina, Syracuse and

(01:16:30):
Saint John's and they got absolutely clawbered. Have no idea.
I mean nobody that no starter that we would have
heard of. Obviously, no athletic scholarships there, but down fifty
to seventeen and a half in the final four against
Michigan State. Michigan State had to be one seed Notre
Dame to get into the final four that year, and
Larry Birds Indiana State team, which was awesome that year,

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had to win seventy three seventy one over Arkansas in
its regional final. DePaul got in by beating number one
CLA one seed in the West Region. Now, it is
still the highest rated national championship game when Bird faced
Magic in seventy nine. Put it in perspective, the year
before the national title game was Kentucky against Duke twenty

(01:17:16):
five million viewers. The next year Bird Magic thirty five million.
Wow for NBC. And then it went back down after that. Yeah,
and then back to about thirty million or so when
you had Bob Knight in the final with Isaiah Thomas,
and then you had the Georgetown teams, and yeah, thirty
five million. No one's done that since. And put it

(01:17:39):
that in perspective. Nothing gets that now unless it's the
Cubs winning the World Series or something. But the NBA
Finals last summer with Golden State winning that series averaged
twelve and a half million viewers. Bird versus Magic College
Championship thirty five million, played Houston with like, well, I'll
send there. How much of those gets? Yeah, that was
like the first regular season national game in sixty eight. Yeah,

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that was a regular season game, so I wouldn't even
know the number. And that was also not on a
network that was distributed. They created a network contacting individual
stations in different markets to show it, and then they
had the game on the floor of the Astrodome. I've
seen a picture I think Sports illustrated from above. They
didn't put any seats around the court like they do
at the big stadiums for the Final four now, it

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was literally blank space all the way from the player
bench all the way to like the third base seats
for the Houston Astros. It was crazy. It was an odd,
odd thing, but they packed into the forty fifty thousand
and got a national TV game and it was huge
for the interest of college basketball over fifty years ago.
And the caveat is that the rematch, number two Houston

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had beaten number one UCLA as Kareem was playing injured
that night. Well, the rematch the final four happened to
be in La that year and the semi was Ucla
against Houston and UCLA beat them one on one sixty nine.
In the final four Kareem against Elvin Hayes. So that's
just crazy. USA Baseball's in the World Baseball Classic Final,

(01:19:09):
hopefully against undefeated Japan. What a matchup that would be
Tuesday nights on FS one. Japan plays tomorrow night and
it's semi against Mexico. It's looking like the Americans starting
pitcher will be Merrill Kelly, a veteran for the Arizona Diamondbacks,
Arizona native. His EIRA in the National League last year
was three point three seven. The Americans really had to
use only two three pitchers because they used a ton

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last night, and Adam Wainwright Miles Michaels from the Cardinals
did the trick tonight. Good stuff, Steve, good stuff. All right,
we're just getting started and we only have an hour left.
Are you feeling any better? Aren'tie? No, No, my back
is still crushing me. Sorry, we'll try to make it better.
We'll have some stats in numbers from the NCAA Tournament.
Some lines already out for the Sweet sixteen. Next on

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Fox Sports Radio, Let's go Arnie Final Hour. You're almost done.
Wo The pain last forever though, so it will last forever,
like ten years from now, will still be bringing this up? Well,
I mean you will remember when you remember when you
was to Princeton. Well, yeah, you're gonna have to hear

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way tire buying should be. Now, um, I have to
give you this gym from a Tara Vanderveer. She is
the women's basket. I don't know what she said, but
she looks so bitter right now. Well, she's one season
and and they got beat by what the eight or
the nine old miss r and um which she was

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asked about how good it was he gets tournament games
and how listen, it's not a bad season when you
lose a game in your second round, right, these things
that Matt Painter was trying to sell you all, you know,
it's okay, still a great season. Get this quote from
Tarav hand of here. She said, quote, I know where
a men's team would be ecstatic to play two games
in the NCA tournament. Oh my gosh, wow, zang absolutely

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breaking new Stanford was not in the postseason this year.
So there, Arnie, you might have lost a Princeton, but
at least you're not getting absolutely elbow dropped by the
women's coach because your team didn't even get in. There's that, right, right.
I don't know why she got for that? Was that
was totally uncalled for. Is that supposed to make you
feel better because you're lost? In a matter of fact,

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I think only a one seeds lost in the women's
tournament in the second round, that's all you happened like
a handful of times. It's been that bad. I don't know.
I thought it was kind of cool. I thought it
was funny. It's like, hey, you away, I'd be on
her big time. Why, well, she just took a shot
at the guys team. Is she wrong? Well, they used
to have a rich tradition. Stanford Casey jacobsit online four right,

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he was great, but I mean it was like what
three years whenever he was When Stanford was great in basketball,
they had a couple of twins that were good. Come on,
they can they can yeah, yeah, the Colin was it
Collins twins. They can take it. Take hey, take your beef,
except you stink. The women seem got eliminates. You're you're

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gonna catch some shrap. No one now you're just trying
to go ahead and you know, deflect that. You guys lost,
and um, that's why you have bitter beer face. But
you know whatever you calling someone out for bitter beer
face is fantastic here tonight, fantastic whenever. All you've been
is bitter. So let me try to give you some
some storylines here to cheer you argue. Just one more,

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could I give you out? You know, while we're on
the nc double A, Well, we're gonna stay on the
NCAA turn. Okay, are you are you get a big
deal about what happened at the end of the FAU
game or what I am not? But that's where I
was going next. In one of the three stories, Elijah
Martin try to attempt a three sixty dunk to basically

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put an exclamation point at the end of Florida Atlantic's
seventy eight seventy win over Fairley Dickinson, which, by the way,
I'm sorry, I mean, Tobin Anderson can be Matt all
he wants, and I'm glad that he was in this tournament.
And I but you had no business being in this tournament.
You lost. You lost in your conference championship game. Merrimack

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should be here, not you. If it d get over it,
but hold on to me in one of the detail,
just he may the head coach at Florida Atlantic apologize.
And this dope missed the three sixty dunk two. So
not only did he try it, but he missed it,
and you know what's gonna be a terrible week for him.
Practice one. Now I heard he went ballistic. Well we
didn't get to see that on TV. They were just

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describing it. I don't know if you got to see
a so I didn't. I didn't hear about. I saw
he just walked off the court as all I saw. Well,
my thing is this, No, he shouldn't have done it,
but it's not that big of a deal. Um, the
game's over, they gave up. You don't go ahead and
pilot on like that. A matter of fact, it happened
almost did in the um the wasn't the Miami Florida game,

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and almost the same thing happened there at the end also,
So I mean, look, it's not that big of a deal,
but I can see where the coach was would be
a little bit upset over that. You know, I'm rewatching it.
I mean, yeah, I should he have dribbled it out absolutely,
of course. I mean it might mean no question, but
the bench was into it. He dinged it, and he
missed it. I mean, moving onto the you're moving on

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to the sweet sixteen. If there's an unwritten rule, the
unwritten rule as you hold it out unless um, you know,
the five subs are in there. And this guy that's
never had a shot in his life. There was one
guy that was in a game that never had any
points in four years, and they were trying to get
him his shot as they were about to get eliminated,
and he did get a shot off, but he airball

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din But am I a terrible person that I'm not
really all that offended about this? I mean, and again
I'm open to this, but like literally it mattered zero
in the game. No one was even around him. You know,
you see guys throw up random shots late, I mean
looking at the other team though, that's what it's doing.

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They got beat. Don't like it, don't get beat. I mean,
I I okay, when you're losing and you can throw up,
you know, instead of dribbling the clock out by twenty Yeah,
I mean we saw like Texas sat Um Corpus Christy.
But yeah, I mean, I don't know. I just to
me whenever people and and I understand it's like, why
is he trying that? And once he does, he's like, well,

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you know what they're going to sweet sixteen. I'm sorry,
Florida Atlantic's probably never gonna have an experience like this again.
As a fan of a mid major team embraced this FAU,
you feel like this future is grand and great, and
then all of a sudden, here comes to Xas Tech
trying to hire Dusty May and you don't have a
coach anymore. But I mean, I don't know why, man,

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I don't have a I don't have a problem with
this at all. You know, it gets people more riled
up than everything. It's not the somebody trying to put
it in a slam dunk at the end of the
game when you're supposed to dribble out. It's it's not
even when a football team scores a touchdown, um, you know,
when they're not supposed to when you're up by like
four touchdowns, Now that's not even really all that bad either. Um.
But man, if you're up by like ten nothing in

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baseball and you steal a base oh man, everybody loses
their bar. Why what are you doing stealing a major
knuckle at you. You know, if he would have waited
until after the buzzer went off and just did it
for fun, when everyone had been okay, yes, I think
that wouldn't have been a big deal. Then literally he
tried it with like point three left. So everyone's losing

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their minds over that. If you guys want to check in,
it's Stinkingenius one. I'm at playing show. I'm still marveling
at what Tomizzo has done in this tournament now, as
one of my best friends is a Michigan State fan,
and I remember kind of thinking, hey, listen, Tomzo's loss
in the first round. What once Arnie in his career.
I think that's it. One loss in the NCAA Tournament

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in the first round for Tom Iszo. Now, after what
happened today, he becomes the head coach. With sixteen wins
in nca Tournament games as the lower seeded team, he
has won the most of any coach since seating began
in nineteen seventy nine. He passed Jim Beheim, which I

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kind of surprised me at all. But this this is
a bad Michigan State team, and ISO just find finds ways.
Maybe it's matchups, maybe it's you know, USC wasn't all
that great. Maybe it's you know, Marquette a little bit
of a paper tiger. It's a two seed, but I
mean he's debt taxes ISO in March Arnie, It's incredible
what this team has done. No, you're right, Look you

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he didn't have a very good team, but he constantly
gets his team to the sweet sixteen. Heeds, He's just
a phenomenal coach. He's done a great job this year,
and I wonder if I had him going to the
sweet sixteen. But you you always go ahead and jump
on them. You know that they're gonna go and play
tough no matter what happens out there. And now I
would pick them over anybody in Madison Square Garden. I'm

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guessing you know, yeah, because the final four there Florida
Atlantic in Tennessee and the Michigan State. By the way,
we got something from the Kansas State game coming up
in just a bit. Here's the other thing, all right,
So in your Sweet sixteen matchups Alabama, San Diego State
in the South, Ephraim's over the moon excited. I can
make I can't stand that Creighton versus Princeton. Yeah, you

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just want them to shut down that side of the bracket.
Ladies and gentlemen, we would like to announce we are
not going to play the South region anymore now that
Arizona has lost. Would that make me feel better? That
would make me feel better. Yes, the East, the East,
Florid Atlantic, Tennessee, Kansas State, Michigan State. Like we just mentioned,
the Midwest might be one of the juicier regionals that
that's left. The regions that's left Houston, Miami, that's a

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one five and then Xavier gets through is the three
against the two Texas, Arkansas, Yukon in the West. But
Arnie to me, next week is all about UCLA and Gonzaga.
I am fired up about this matchup. It's the fourth
time these two schools have met in the NCAA Tournament.

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The first come on man Adam Morrison crying on the court.
That was the first time that yep, two thousand and six.
That's when the Gonzaga LA lead. Right, that's right, that's right.
And I was shocked to find out that UCLA was
the higher seeded team because just for some reason, my

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memory wouldn't allow me to accept that Gonzaga with Adam
Morrison was anything less than like a one seed. But remember, Arnie,
that was still kind of in the infancy of Gonzaga, right,
we were still learning about him. I think Mark he
would just you know, I mean, he'd been there for
a minute. But Dan Monton and left for Minnesota. Then
he takes over. I mean, think about this for a moment.
A coach left Gonzaga to take the Minnesota job. That

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shows you how much has changed there. And UCLA won
that game seventy three, seventy one. They went on to
the championship game and lost to Florida. In two thousand
and fifteen and two thousand and twenty one. The last
two times they faced Arnie, Ucla was an eleven seed
both times, wow and and Gonzaga beat him both times

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seventy four, seventy two, and fifteen and the ninety two
are ninety three ninety over time win in twenty one
when he had the last second heave by Sugs that
won the game and everyone went crazy. So I guess
if you want to try to take any extrapolate any
data from that, Arnie, when UCLA's a higher seed in

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the postseason, they are in a much better spot to win.
But given the history, it's not a ton right. Only
three games, but and I think they the last time
they played was in the regular season, and I think
Gonzaga beat him. Like what year was? What year was
that one? Which one's that? That's twenty one, twenty twenty one. Yeah,
because we were on the air, and I think I've

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ruined that call for you guys, um going, oh, look
at what just happened Black, I can't believe it. I
think we were on there for that. So it's amazing
how you remember how terrible you are at ruining things
for us. It's amazing your call back on that but
I mean, is that fair? Of those Sweet six team matchups,

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is that the most anticipated and maybe the best matchup?
I mean, well, I'm looking forward to it, but I
don't know how many of the people who were even
over college basketball fans consider um, you know, especially when
it's West Coast Exclusive and UCLA and um Gonzaga and
you know gonzagas I'm in the best team that you're
also And I didn't think they were going to be
come back and win this game. They really struggled. They

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struggled in their first game. Also, that UCLA and Gonzaga
game is the late game on Thursday night. Have you
looked at the spreads yet? Yes? I have? Oh okay,
so are you surprised to pick them? Uh? What USIL
was minus one? As that's what Todd said. I'm surprised
us was it more? Um like, well, I was gonna

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say about three or four point favorite. But again, they
have injuries and Gonzaga has struggled a little bit, so
that should be right right right around there. I think
that's gonna be a highvily bet game, no doubt about that.
Is this Who did I get this from? This is
from Sportsbetting Dot ag they have it as even our
pick him. I'm sorry right now over Under in that
game one thirty nine point five, Well, they say the

(01:32:40):
Unders have been hitting like crazy. Um Todd told you
that's evened up a little bit. But UM, yeah, I guess,
I guess you stick with the Unders in that situation,
all right. And then the final note, some people are
mad at John Calipari tonight. I mean Kentucky fans are
mad because they're out of the tournament. But I saw

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this from my buddy Rob Collins in Kansas City. So
Kentucky got eliminated by Kansas State. Listen to how and
it takes a lot Marquis Nuel Markisnel, the talented Kansas
State player twenty seven points nine assist. Listen to how
John Calipari talks about Noel. We had some guys really

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fight like crazy, and and then had a couple of
guys offensively not played their game the way they've played
all year. But that stuff happens in this tournament. And
we had did a pretty good job on Johnson and
he makes that three, and the little kid makes the three.
How he you know, make a deep three. We missed

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a couple and all so they're up in arms because
he referred to markis Nuel as the little kid that
hit a three. I was I was joking. I was
laughing here when I looked at Rob Collins tweet, it's
already got one hundred and sixteen thousand view on that
video from John Calafari, and the comments are just, hey,
be more respectful, disrespectful waiting for your apology. You have

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a problem. Probably just forgot the kid's name. Your eyes
have seen your moment of anything, that's all. Is he
in trouble at all into Kentucky or no? No, I
don't think so, I don't. I don't know who would
take his place out there. Yeah, and and by the way,
and just so you know, Marquise Noel's five foot eight.
So whenever he says that little kid out there, it's
not is how he's talking about. It's literally it's it's

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it's a it's a dominium. I would like to see that.
I think, Well, I mean, you could, you could lay
on him, but I mean I don't think you'd be
able to get anything athletic against him. But there you go.
Just a couple of notes, a couple of controversies. People
mad about the three sixty dunk excitement over UCLA and

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Gonzaga next week. Pick him line right now is not
very excited. They're real really kind of um, you know,
papooing the Madison Square Garden games going. Well, he's gonna
want to go to that now. Tickets are gonna be
plentiful for that one, probably, but I'm here to tell
you right now, Kansas State fans will show up, Michigan

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State fans will show up. So they might say tickets
are plentiful because Duke's not gonna be there, or I
guess Kentucky's not gonna be there. But there's these people
that will wear purple and they're awesome McKenzie State fans
and they're coming back. You better get ready for them.
People were in purple and then the Tennessee fans were
in there. What is that puke orange or something like that.

(01:35:38):
So we're running all around Manhattan. Oh my goodness. Man.
By the way, Jason B. Diamond points out that it
was actually at Aaron Torres that you ruined the game
for so aa Ron was not happy with you because
that was when you were doing the Saturday Night Show
before you retired from that and it was going double

(01:36:00):
all overtime, and we were all pumped up, you know,
it's like, how this game's going overtime? And then I
was actually I think I even told you I was listening.
I was driving around because I had responsibilities, and it
was late. It was I was I partying. No, no, no,
it was late or that happened. And I remember hearing
you and I was just angrier than I could ever be. Period,

(01:36:23):
Are you ruining that? So that's right, it was. It
was Taurres, That's who it was. Well done, Jason B. Diamond.
All right, so there's some news and nuggets. Let's hit
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Central time zone. Tirect dot com studios. We did some tweets.
Gummy Dave hit that one first real quick. Well I

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was just pulling him. What did Gummy davey? Yeah? Um,
how did the Bruins alumni hockey game today? Yeah? Against
people don't know, my son was in goal against the
Boston Bruins, and mud I say alumni or can I
just say Boston? Just say Boston Bruins. No one's gonna

(01:37:29):
check you on and it's fine. You're you're pretending like
people are paying attention to hockey right now. Yeah, well, okay,
the Boston Bruins alumni, that means they have played for
the Bruins one time in their career and it's a
bunch of pot belly fifty year olds. But any way,
he played. There was only two period games. He played
one period, thirteen shots on goal, made twelve saves, gave
up one goal. So but he gave it up to

(01:37:50):
a guy who knows. I mean I looked at the
I looked at the rosters, each one of them. I
think I knew maybe one person um that played today.
So you know, wasn't like it was overwhelming talent. So
it wasn't like you were out there and like Ray
Boor and all the Ray wasn't out there. Though he's
on the team and Chara's on the team and stuff

(01:38:11):
like that, but they weren't playing in this game. Sorry,
he played, well, he gave up. I need a reason
to get excited about the NHL again. Kings are looking good.
They're pulling me back in. But Shay Spaniard playing in
the NHL, I'm in. Let's go. Um here's I was
gonna say, there's a chance. Well, no, in about a

(01:38:32):
week or two he may get picked to play for
Team Israel and the World Championships coming up, So what
should I take some time off to go watch him
playing that if he makes the team? Yeah, I absolutely would.
But I mean, like, where are they playing? Do you
have to go to Israel? No, you don't have to
go to Israel. They're not playing. They're playing in Madrid. Okay,
that's not bad. You know that that's light. No, you

(01:38:54):
know that's outside of Vermont, which means you have to
leave your home. Yeah, that's why. That's why I'm probably
not gonna go. And I you know, i'd have to
go by myself too, without my wife, So I can't
go to Madrid. By myself and by the way, but
I'd be able to navigate around there by myself. I'd
probably probably we gotta we gotta listener base over there.
I'm sure. I'm sure there's some. I'm sure there's Arnie

(01:39:15):
span your fans games are all in a week, so
I could probably go there, just miss like one Sunday
show or call in and and just go ahead and
you know, go out to Madrid. But I don't know
if I could do that, I'd have to leave Vermont.
Like you said, if you're I know, it's leaving your house.
Arn'tie's the only person that literally is maybe a thirty
minute car ride away from being able to legally gamble

(01:39:36):
that will only do it in Vegas. He's like, Oh,
I gotta get to Vegas. I'm like, dude, you can
get in your car and drive like to New York
and you could gamble. No, you gotta do it in Vegas.
So no way you're gonna leave your house for that.
Ryan rites. Is Arnie still pushing for the Arizona Wildcats
to join the SAC this Southern Atlantic Conference. He keeps
talking about the SEC and the SEC se An SAC.

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I think he's confused. BacT. Maybe for you guys, I
would still like the SEC, didn't I send you another
story about that the PAC twelve was trying to be saved,
and that there's a different story every single day. I'm
just as somebody who lives this, and I try not
to impose on y'all tonight. I respect your time and

(01:40:21):
your ears. I know there's a place in my world
for conference realignment talk, but there's literally a story every
single day from I mean, I think we're on the
eighty sixth meeting between Arizona and the Big twelve. According
to all the different clickbait websites out there, we're on
at least a fifteenth different story about how everyone's staying
together in the PAC twelve. So I mean, because everyone

(01:40:43):
saw oaklumb in Texas leaving for the Big twelve, and
everyone saw UCLA and USC leaving for the Big ten.
So there'll be plenty of spoiler alerts out. Yeah, and
then they want to be fine, you know what I mean. Yeah,
they don't want to be left behind this time around.
You know, Arnie will send me an article and I
get no. I thought you a good one, I thought
you would like and you just pappooted. It was on

(01:41:05):
Darren Waller getting traded. Yes, I pappooted it was a
good one. No, it was on the Raiders moving up
to the number one pick overall. No. I again, I
appreciated that, but it showed you that the Bears are
the Yeah, the Bears are crazy people. They're wanting three
first round picks to move up to number one. And again,
everyone you just read that when they said the first

(01:41:25):
round pick this year, that's just the swap. It was
only the two first round picks. I know everyone says three.
I'm sorry, I'm not giving up two first round picks
to move up. Not doing it. It's just too much.
Two first round picks beyond that, and then you swapped
from nine would for what's his face from usc Williams.
I would give you every single player on my team

(01:41:48):
for Caleb Williams. Caleb Williams is not in this strike.
And so you would give the anything up next year,
next year, next year when the Raiders stink this year
because Jimmy grow Plow is gonna get hurt in, our
quarterback's gonna be Brian Hoyer this year, whenever the Raiders
have the number three pick, so they're just outside of
getting cable Williams or Drake May. I would call whoever

(01:42:11):
had the one pick and said, you can take five
guys from my team and its many first round picks
as they'll let you take from us. We want to
be number one, That's who. That's what I would do
to get cable. Williams. Frank writes, there's two things you
can count on in March, not remembering what you did
on Saint Patrick's Day and Arizona going out in the
NCAA tournament. He's not wrong. You know what the joke

(01:42:34):
used to be when lud Olsen was head coaches that
he owned a restaurant but it didn't do well because
it was one round and you're out. Sorry, you only
get one round. Get up, just like he was in
the tournament for so long. Pete rights those damn ivy
leagues such a record of success in March madness. I
mean literally the pictures of their current coach, I mean

(01:42:58):
he looks like he was twelve and now he looks
like he's sixty. From the last time that Princeton want
to get the tournament. My wife came home right at
the end, I go, would you believe we're gonna lose
this game, and she goes, well, that's what you get
with the karma. When you wish everybody else to lose,
it comes back and bites you in the ass. And
I am really starting to like your wife. And then

(01:43:19):
one more um Then Tibron Why writes I'm surprised that
Arnie didn't say, following an Arizona loss that he had
gone to such a dark place that he may have
seen Aaron Rodgers. See you need a joke, tib You
need to write Arnie's jokes for him. That's a good one.
I went to such a dark place I saw Aaron

(01:43:39):
Rodgers there. But by the way, Frank wrote, and Arnie
could go on vacation to Spain, but somehow filling in
on the Spanish sports talk radio discussing soccer and bull
fighting and telling them how you're an expert at it.
By the way, they take that very serious, you might
end up do the oh yeah, yeah, you'd be in
big trouble. He'd be like, what do I like? What

(01:43:59):
would get me trouble? I advised, Oh, that team sucks, yeah,
might that team might be waiting for you outside the station,
is what it would be had. But hey, why don't
you go and try it might be a good time
for you. Right, you get your son there, you can
be you can try it? Why not? Why not? All right? Hey,
one final time for us tonight, Steve to Saker, we'll
get more of your tweets come up in a second.

(01:44:19):
But I know Steve wants to get out of here.
And he got and he asked, he Scott's boy, who's
the broadcasting profession exactly? He has tons of stuff to
get you from the world of sports. What's going on, Steve,
including March Madness in a minute? And the TV ratings
were great, by the way. The first couple of days.
I even saw that the TNT Thursday Night had as
large an audience as the CBS games on Thursday Night.

(01:44:41):
So TV ratings see a weekends. We'll find out later
as the business week Monday Tuesday goes along. But March
Madness ratings have been good so far. By the way.
A women's one seed went out at home. Stanford lost
tonight to Old Miss fifty four forty nine. No, that's
still better than the men's teams. Yeah, that's what I
hear from their veteran coach welse been there a long time.
She can speak freely. Semi final of the World Baseball

(01:45:03):
Classic was dominated by the US against Cuba in Miami tonight,
fourteen to two. Trey Turner with a solo homer in
the second, a three run shot in the sixth. Last night,
also in Miami, the US beat previously undefeated Venezuela by
a nine to seven final is Trade. Turner hit a
grand slam in the eighth. Tonight. Mookie Bets, the leadoff,
hit her three hits. Paul Goldschmidt a two run homer

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in the first, Pete Alonzo of the Mets at RBI
single in the third. Nolan Eronado of the Cardinals hit
an RBI triple in the fourth, wound up scoring on
a wild pitch to make it seven one at the time,
but in the fifth inning, Eronado was hit by a
pitch on the hand. X rays were negative. He was
saying to his teammates on the way out, I'm good.
Starting pitcher Adam Wainwright through four innings, got out of
a basis loaded jam in the first tonight, and pitcher

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Miles Michaelis, also of Saint Louis, also through four innings
Monday night, undefeated Japan against Mexico and the other semi
The final is Tuesday night, all in Miami, all on
FS one, all at seven pm Eastern Time, and Shoheyotani,
who was the starting pitcher for Japan's last game, could
be available to pitch in relief Tuesday if they're in
the final. Josel. Tuove of Houston will need surgery for

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a broken thumb he was hit by pitch last night
at a loss to the US. Veteran ou fielder Jurikson Profar,
who just played for the Netherlands in the tournament, will
sign with the Rockies. The Dallas Cowboys acquired wide receiver
Brandon Cooks and sent to Houston fifth and sixth round
draft choices and colds. Texans will pay a third of
his salary this year. Texans are giving tackle Laramie Tunsel

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a three year extension worth up to sixty sixty million
dollars in guarantees. Former Vikings wide receiver Adam Thieland signed
with Carolina and the Lions tonight signed former Eagles defensive
back CJ. Gardner Johnson, Joey Logano won the NASCAR Race
at Atlanta and your golf update. Same weekend, we had
live golf and the PGA event in Florida, which was

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won by Taylor Moore by one stroke, his first tour title.
He earns nearly one point five million dollars and he's
now headed to next month's Masters. Congratulations Danny Lee. He
won the Livgolf tournament in Tucson in a four man playoff.
First prize for livgolf is four million dollars and this
was his first tournament win anywhere since twenty fifteen. Four

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million dollars for three days of golf. The fifth place
golfer in livgolf got nearly a million dollars. Wow PGA
event fifth place was about three hundred thirty thousand dollars.
The late game in college hoops went to three. See
Gonzaga over TCU eighty four eighty one drew Timmy twenty
eight points. Zag's trailed by six early in the second half.

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But in Vegas the late game Thursday night Gonzaga against UCLA.
Also Thursday night, Arkansaw against Connecticut at about seven pm
Eastern Connecticut beat Saint Mary's earlier tonight seventy to fifty five.
Yukon trailed early second half. The game was in Albany,
New York, in case you didn't hear, about one hundred
thirty miles from Connecticut's campus. So Yukon's in the Sweet

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sixteen for the first time in nearly a decade. Crighton
over Baylor eighty five seventy six. Ryan Nemhar with thirty points,
and Miami was up three on Indiana tonight with about
ten minutes to go, but beat the Hoosiers eighty five
sixty nine, So the Kames play top seed Houston Friday
seven fifteen pm Eastern Time in Kansas City. Xavier over

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pit to start the day eighty four seventy three. Xavier
was up by seventeen late in the first half, so
coach Shawn Miller beats the school he played for many
years ago. Friday night, it will be Xavier against Texas
in case that's the late game. Friday nine forty five
pm Eastern time, Florida Atlantic is thirty three and three
after eliminating sixteen seed Fairleigh Dickinson seventy eight seventy That

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game was tied with under nine minutes to go. FAU
plays in NYC at MSG against Tennessee on Thursday, nine
pm Eastern time, Kentucky's out Kansas State beat him seventy
five sixty nine. Case State trailed with two and a
half minutes to go. By the way, attendance was only
sixteen thousand. In Greensboro, North Carolina. Capacity it was twenty

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three thousand. They get more for ACC games usually there.
Kansas State from three point range, started over thirteen, but
drain threes late and still won at Oscar. Shebway has
done twenty five points eighteen rebounds for the Kentucky Wildcats
who lost to the Kansas State Wildcats, and of course y'
all know what happened to the Arizona Wildcats. Michigan State

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beat two seed Marquette in the sixty nine to sixty
Spartans were trailing over about ten minutes to go. Coach
tommeezo it bears repeating wins his record sixteenth tournament game
as the lower seeded team at MSG. First game on
Thursday is Michigan State Kansas State in the Sweet sixteen.
Thursday six thirty pm Eastern time, n I Oregon beat

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UCF Wisconsin over Liberty at a close one. It'll be
Oregon against Wisconsin next in a quarterfinal, and the late
game n I t tonight Utah Valley one at Colorado,
so Utah Valley will face Cincinnati next. NBA late games
went to the Lakers and Clippers, Milwaukee and Denver each one.
Oklahoma City got forty points from Shay gil Just Alexander
and beat Phoenix one twenty four to one twenty despite

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forty six from Devin Booker and John Miranda. Memphis will
not play tomorrow, although he's eligible to return against Dallas.
For the moment, Luca don Sich and Kyrie Irving in
the baths each questionable back. Can you thanks, Steve, have
a great week, buddy, Sunday night. Final four will be
set next Sunday night. Is that right? Yeah? Final four
will be set by the time we keep going next Sunday.

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I keep forgetting weight sixteen down eight down to thirty two.
I mean the first I would argue if if we
had a show thinking about the summer here, Bob, if
we had a show where we did the sports weeks
one to fifty two and it was a depth chart, right,
number one was the best week in sports. The first
four days of the NCAA tournament, Arnie, It's gotta be

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up there pretty high, right, Oh yeah, if not number
one in some people's minds. Super Bowl, Well, I used
to love it until this time around, But usually I
love it. I mean it's I get my brackets down,
I got different colored pens to mark the ones I
get right and the ones I get wrong. And then
I'm looking and um to see how everybody's done in

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the pool, and I'm beating, and oh man, it just
it just sucked all the fun away. But I usually
love this type of this time of week, no doubt. Yeah.
And in fact, and I'm one of those old heads
that still has to have a paper bracket, so I oh, yes,
I don't have mine that I filled out. I did
all my ones that actually filled out on online. But

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I have the paper bracket where I'm changing the color
pin for teams that move on. Lookout creativity at its
finest here on Fox Sports Radio. But now what is that?
By the way, what is it up to now that
the lost production in the workplace is like fifteen billion
dollars now or something that's not real? None of that's real.
Well nobody works anyway, so I mean it's just that's

(01:51:47):
not even real money. That was. I know that, but
I saw it might even be more than that. I'm like,
how's that even? Pod? Billions of that? Because it's made up,
it's fake, it's it's a famous. Should take all the
fun out of it, because I get stupid the idea
that people are handwringing over lost productivity. Oh no, what
happens to productivity? Drops? Does like a demon rise out

(01:52:08):
of the sea to slay us all. Have you not
hit a commercial break and seen the Fox Sports devil
that pops up and takes all the money out of
your pocket? Yeah, I went the Chris on that one.
I always hear this, like so much productivity loss. I'm like,
ninety percent of these people are playing on Facebook anyway
while they would work if you have access to a laptop.
That's what your problem. It's like the first skill I

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got taught in my internship how to slack off at
my job proper in an office job. You gotta see
what I'm doing during breaks? All right? Justin rights, I
don't think we're giving enough credit to the guy who
hit al Twov's hand. Can you imagine the accuracy it
hit to hit those small, cheating little hands. True, it's
kind of tough out there. That is very true, no

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doubt about that. Roger the Engineer, who I can like
again since the football season is over, writes, Arnie's back
is broke? Is its spinal? Does any wouldn't get that?
That's Mike Tyson. I broke my back. My back is
broken spinal. And hey, it's always a good INCAA tournament
when Kansas loses early. We can all agree on that.

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Right I threw, I was playing basketball. Everything is fine Wednesday.
I even went to Orange theory and everything, and I'm
feeling good. And then once Arizona lost, I woke up
the next day and I'm all hunched on the stress
of losing to Princeton of all teams. My safety school

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is just it's just too much to bear. And then
one more here from leg A Day, Greg had to
tune in to hear here Arnie sign off, Gunna Missie man. Yeah,
so Arnie said he would quit his job if Princeton
beat Arizona. I don't hear that. I don't hear you're
playing that cut there. I don't hear anything. Well, it's
next Arnie's final segment on Fox Sports Radio coming up

(01:53:58):
right here on Fox Sports on day at It's Rollie,
did look what you did? What a do the mantham
Fennis says, wait, did I hear you? Guys right? Arnold's fine.
Arnie's final segment like for good. Those are tears of joy.
By the way, No, it's not my final segments. Dude,

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you said you would quit your job. No, I okay,
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Almost steadies. He shoots the second free roll back of
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gonna sound. The Princeton Magic is alive and well. The
Princeton Tiger's upset Arizona fifteen over A two fifty nine
fifty five is the final score the Tiger in the

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to be with the Arizona Radio Network and in Nevada
and now is one of the stars of Westwood One.
I thought it was a really good call, Arnie. What
do you think I tuned it out. I'm sorry about that. Yeah,
I'm not gonna listen to that again, over and over?
What is what is wrong with you? Ryan's a rock star?
All right? It's time for Arnie's picks. Arnie taken away?

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All right? I said, picks are you doing? I'm gonna
do picks. But like I said, you know the bosses,
and I've just found out that we do have bosses
over you. You don't run this place. No that they're
very unhappy with our our football or our predictions, not
our football, just overall our predictions out there. You and

(01:56:08):
I better go ahead and get my NBA one right,
or my NFL right, or that me, you and de
Sega could be fired for my bad predictions. You're the
ones getting them wrong. Yeah, I know, not not me,
but they go ahead. I mean, yeah, all of us
are gonna get fired if Arnie doesn't get picks right.
So you better get these right, aren't he? Well? Not
this just the NFL Super Bowl pick. But I got

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a couple of good ones from March Madness because I'm
gonna take my Zags over UCLA. Feel good about that one.
I like Arkansas over Yukons. I'm root against Torres. You know,
I'm the only person in America to pick Fau and
my Owls woo um over Tennessee. I gotta look who

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they were playing my owls are you know? I'm all
over my Princeton Tigers. Oh you're gonna adopt him? Now?
That was your safety school, Crayton. I would have gone
the Princeton two reasons. On one, I don't think they
accepted me. But that's okay. I still gold have gone

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and uh still good have gone. Though you weren't accepted,
I love it. Yeah, you can take part time classes
and still go. But once I got in the Arizona
all bets were off. I pick a team USA over Japan. Nice,
So that's gonna be when in like three days, Yeah,
Japan has to beat Mexico first and tomorrow, right, three

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hundred twenty nine more days until my Miami Dolphins get
the revenge on the entire world when they beat the
Cowboys in the Super Bowl. So there you have my picks,
two of them, as you please. No longer strictly for
entertainment purposes only gone. It's been fun working with you.
You like that you like my dolphin pick? Huh. I

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don't know why you put so much faith in your picks.
I mean, it's okay to say I really like our
chances to win. I hope we get it done. But
when you're like, I bet my job on it, it
just this effects all about Nobody knew that Princeton was
gonna win. Stop what your blond Princeton was gonna win?
But you were so confident they weren't You bet your

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job on it. I don't remember that. I didn't hear that.
You know, what's our producer's name, bo? I didn't hear
bow play that one, So maybe you got away with
it tonight. A great job tonight, Bob Bench. An awesome
job is that our producer, bo Benz. It's it's been
a minute now as always, A great job by Steve

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Sager on updates, and the audio crew did a great job.
I mean, these these are some of the longer days
because there's so many games and there's so many different feeds.
So thanks to our editing crew behind the scenes. Well,
I guess since we can't find the audio, we can't
prove that you bet your job exactly on this and
plus one. Whenever you get a tweet like this from Julian,

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who writes, I swear out my life if Arnie Spanier
was a stand up comedian, I would try to make
every single show he had. That's why this guy is
still on the air. Thank you, Ernie, is what she
writes for every Sunday night, Ernie. All Right, Artie, have
a great week. I hope you to your passion for
the NCAA tournament. Thank you, Chris, thank you, Thank you,

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Steve Disager. Artie's back is broken. It's final, Big Ben
Maller is coming up next. We'll see you back here next.
Have a great week, everybody. This is Fox Sports Radio.