March 28, 2025 • 41 mins
Mike Harmon and Dan Beyer (in for Jason) get you all up to date on one of the craziest sports day of the year. And he guys react LIVE to one of the craziest finishes to an NBA game you’ll ever see!!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Give this you're listening to Fox Sports Radio. It's the
greatest day in sports history, hands down, cannot be defeated,
won't be defeated, White Sox greater than Nets. I A Harmon.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Honestly, Mike, think that this puts when we have the
argument of what is the best time of year? Like you,
if you're a Spring fan, if you're if you're a
March sort of vote, this is back pocket ammunition that
September can never pull out and match. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
In the end, I mean, I still want to wall
to wall football guy from the opening of the pregame
shows through the end of any Hawaii game or however
late we go deep into the night. But it's still
just that I don't know. Opening day, my brother's taunting
me by showing up on the south side of Chicago
to watch what was a glorious victory over the Angels.
(01:19):
I was showing you, Nikki Lopez, there's your trivia answer
for twenty twenty five. Who will be the first position
player to throw a pitch in a twenty twenty five game.
It took game one for the Angels to break that seal.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Things are looking up because there's nowhere else to look
up for the Angels.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, we take our victory laps where we can. White Sox.
The over under for wins the lowest in fifty years,
fifty three and a half, Dan Byer. So I'm gonna
find my damn wins wherever I can't. So we're celebrating here. Well,
the other is my brothers were telling me this as
they were walking. They got off the train, right off
the l and they're getting ready to walk to the ballpark.
(02:01):
And for the last several years, rule of law really
didn't exist. Right, So we've got street meat vendors, right,
hot dog vendors with their little carts all over the place. Whatever.
In Chicago, you had guys that were now just pulling
up with the forty gallon coolers full of mini bottles
of booze and cans of beer and just selling them.
So what's the problem. And nobody bought but from a
(02:23):
legality circumstance, right, it's one thing. You're in a tailgate.
I guess there's a free exchange of food, beverage, whatever.
So this was exaggerating. Hey, you just got off a
long arduous l ride. Would you like a little bottle
of teos to take into the ballpark? You know at
six seven like these probably got for three years, probably
made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling booze. Police were
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rousting them from their spot today ahead of the opening day.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Oh that's amazing. There is the point where you're like, man, okay,
where do we draw the line here? What is it?
They're not harming anybody. It's just a couple of hot
dogs out there on a grill. What are we really doing?
That's where you draw the line. That is, as much
as as I know, Frostburg is all for it. I
do think that the police of Chicago figured out where
you draw the line.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
But you are watching the White Sox. You do need
several mods.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
But that's where they're gonna make their money, is that
you're gonna come in and drink and a life well
and get some of those milkshakes right, because that's what
they have every year, is the White Sox unveil some
crazy ass milkshake that becomes the thing. Last year it
was the s'mores. This dim it's like a birthday cake
kind of thing for their anniversary and all that. It's
it's the fantastic thing. Now we've had the discussion of
(03:35):
street meets. Welcome in. It's the Jason Smith Show with
me Mike Carmon, No Jason Smith. For the rest of
the week. We don't have, you know, any Mets talk
other than they lost, and we'll hear about, you know,
that final grated bat from Juan Soto at least five
times tonight because the Dodgers were victorious, the White Sox
were victorious. That's not so much. But we're broadcasting live
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folks who've tried to go through the processes of opening
(04:17):
a restaurant, food truck, whatever. That is a long, arduous
and costly process versus I have a cart where I
can boil some water and have meat on the street. Sure,
with no certifications for food safety grade.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
There's not a hanging from the Sure, this is a
beef dog, correct, I get it. I get it. When
you're on a sidewalk as well, it can be a
safety hazard with cars pulling up blocking lanes. I get it.
I trust me, I understand, I understand. And Mike, it
may not be real meat, but those carts do smell
(04:53):
really good.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
They do really well. Yeah, there's no question about it.
It's the tough thing, right. I appreciate the hustle, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Me.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It's a industrious, you know kind of side of me
of where can we find an angle, where can we
find a win? And certainly coming folks half staggering back
to their cars or to the trains after sporting events
and concerts has become a very lucrative business across these
United States. So certainly there. So we have Opening Day
(05:21):
Major League Baseball, Part two. So we have that, and
now we're looking at the fun and excitement of the
NCAA Tournament. As we resume the Sweet sixteen, couple of
games already in the books. If you had chalk moving forward,
you're feeling pretty good. Arizona and Duke just underway. Duke
(05:41):
two nothing. Arnie Spanier has already broken his television.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
This is the the night. Then, Hey, Duke, I'll tell
you what if there was ever a surprise that we
could see from this weekend, this would be the biggest
of them. If Houston loses to Purdue, which I don't
think they're going to do, but you could say, well,
heck produce playing in their backyard Kentucky and Tennessee Conference rivals,
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they're gonna play the other side of the bracket. Ole
Miss is playing some good basketball. I'm not sure how
great things are from Michigan State, but that's a battle
of two similar teams. But if there was craziness to happen,
which we haven't had on this bracket, this would be
the crazy option, and you'd have to think that Arizona
at least can match up with Duke talent wise, do
(06:28):
just maybe the better team and maybe the team that
locks in defensively, but.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Boxing one on Cooper flag make your decisions nine and
a half. Arnie Spanier is yelling something far more or
nefarious given that Cooper Flag has already been injured. So
you know, all of those kind of things. As I
take the stink and genius to task here because he's
been bugging me about Arizona Duke all day.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
This well, I'll tell you, Mike, this is the marquee
that's at the Marquee window. They didn't start with this.
They put it at the top of the hour, It's
on CBS, it has the brand names. Even with cal
Perry and the undercard, you could say tonight against Texas Tech,
it doesn't rise to the level of these. Arizona's not
a blue blood, but if you want to get knocking
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on the door, they're darn close to what we've got
in the top of college basketball.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
But that's it. We know their history, right, We've seen
a lot of big teams and players come out. Certainly,
you've got mouthpieces like Richard Jefferson out there, Luke Walton
and going down the line, guys that have had some
prominence as coaches, players, broadcasters, et cetera. So you know,
you run with that. I'm just thinking of that team
(07:38):
Michael Wright and those guys that you had back in
the day for loot.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yeah, I'll tell you what what Tommy Lloyd's got going on,
Like there's there is a definite correlation. And it's not
that Mark Few has done a bad job, but Tommy
Lloyd leaves and goes to Arizona and has success and
maybe Gonzaga just isn't the Gonzaga that we had known,
you know, for so long. This year, really good end
(08:02):
of the year. Unfortunately they ended up losing to Houston
for the Bulldogs, but Tommy Lloyd is a big part
of that. And now going to Arizona as a four seed,
beating Oregon in that crazy game that they had in
the second round. But I mean, nobody's got Cooper Flag
on their roster in college basketball. But you'd have to
think that Arizona, with their talent and size at least
(08:23):
has the ability to match up.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Match it up. Nine and a half was the number
coming into this one. We'll keep you apprized of that
two games. As I said already in the book, you
heard it from the update from Moncy Belanos at the
top of the hour, Florida taking down Maryland. We need
to talk about Maryland. A lot of the quiet parts
have been set out loud for the last couple of
weeks from Willard from the departing ad. Now we'll expect
(08:45):
I have to expect Willard to show up with a
Villanova sweater on for his postgame press conference at this
point after all of this. But they go down eighty
seven seventy one pretty limply in this round with all
of that swirling around. You saw as they were heading
towards the arena that they were getting booze from some
of the folks in attendance.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
There.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I do my weekly hit in Baltimore, and I'd made
the prediction and they're like, well, wait till some more
of this stuff starts to fester. And then they texted
me to kind of say, hey, give it forty eight hours,
you're gonna have a very different opinion of where the
school is headed. And sure enough, you started getting from
the ad and then Willard decided, Hey, I'm going to
(09:28):
tell you whatever whatever is on my mind in terms
of jobs, and it's always been there, Dan and you
and I chatted a little bit before we came on air,
Like all of this stuff, I'm not naive, right, everybody
in the building knows what's going on. Coach is probably
gonna leave. A bunch of players at least are dipping
their toes to see if there's not a big check
(09:48):
somewhere else, or more playing time or all of those things.
But it usually stayed hidden until you were defeated and out,
and then we'd have the purge in this new and
new world with the brands for portal, with money flowing,
and with everybody everywhere seemingly a quote journalist. Yeah, and
I call them ernalists anymore a lot. That's that's my
(10:11):
name for steven A. Well done right here ere in
the one hundred million dollar bag and good autumn. But
that Jay for journalism left a long damn time ago.
But we can talk about that a little bit. That
was my best. You know, I'm gonna start getting serious
like steven A. But from Maryland. If they pulled off
a win today, it might have ranked as a top
ten upset in NCAA tournament history, given all of the
(10:33):
cesspool that it's become.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah, they didn't have they just they didn't have the horses.
They have five really good horses, but outside of that,
it's tough to beat a full Florida team. That people
feel that when you're looking at a run to a
Final four, run to a national championship, there's always a
game that may be a hiccup, and we know that
Florida had all they could handle it. More from Yukon
and Danny Hurley. Danny Hurley told you so after the
(10:58):
game last weekend. But it is the fact, Mike, of
when your coach is talking about these things and this
has become a distraction. It may not have been a distraction.
Maryland doesn't have a bench flooried out score their bench
something like twenty eighth to nothing. Tonight out rebounded them
two to one. That is all that could be expected.
(11:18):
It's just the point of it doesn't help when your
coach is doing this stuff. I also have a difficult
time in hearing the messaging and the messaging being something
to the effect that I'm paraphrasing, but I think a
lot of us heard. The sound bite was I can't
believe we couldn't get an extra night in New York
City for Christmas with my team. I would love to
(11:41):
take my family to New York City for Christmas. That
would be amazing. It's also really expensive Okay, so if
you're and you can take a train even if you want,
whatever the case may be. You sound entitled. It sounds
like it's too much. It's not like a hey, so
on those parents couldn't make it to the game because
they couldn't travel, so the school couldn't provided Remember those
(12:03):
arguments years ago? Absolutely, and we felt you're like, yeah,
this system stinks. This system didn't stink when you're asking
for nights in New York City, an extra night in
New York City, by the way, to spend with your
team and Christmas, and just like that messaging just rings hollow.
And if that might that may be a bigger nil
(12:24):
transfer portal, whatever deal you want to have in this
arms race, we've gotten college sports. But it's just difficult
to hear a message like that and then feel bad
for a guy and then almost feel like he's holding
his team hostage throughout the week. They probably weren't going
to beat Florida even and maybe even on an that's right,
but still it just it didn't Shure didn't help keep
him focused this week.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Well, and everybody's got to answer questions about it, right,
all press availabilities of Hey, what's the messaging from coach. Sure,
the players are trying to do their best to be honest,
but while also not laying everything out that they've either
heard or been told for that week period. And you know,
all the other stuff is part of the growing pains, right,
(13:06):
I've lamented it on air here and it's getting better.
But you know, Smith being a Syracuse guy, me being
a Northwestern guy like this seemed like a position as
everything changed to be ripe for the picking for schools
like that that have alumni bases as they are. You
got you know, you can just read the Wikipedia pages.
(13:27):
There's there's moneyed people like everywhere else, but usually they
can get activated to a cause. Well, they didn't decide
to do that right now. You see Andrew Luck trying
to do whatever he is up at Stanford. First thing,
getting rid of the football coach. But it's all about
activating your alumni base to say, hey, we need I mean,
how many commercials do you hear for the UCLA thing
here in Los Angeles? Right? The Sons of Westwood or whatever.
(13:50):
But like all of that is behind the scenes stuff,
whether it's with the administration or because if that's the
reason you're leading guess what, You're gonna find another problem
at the next place. You're going to air them out to. Yeah, exactly,
only we're here three years. Like, it's not like you
were long, long suffering trying to build something long term
and just couldn't get them on board. Three years is
(14:11):
a very short window of time, but it's accelerated by
the way the game has changed. So you come off
as nothing more than a cry dab.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah, no, you're you're one hundred percent right, And there's
there's there's so many different layers to the comments as well. Listen,
Derek Queen's going to the NBA, so like his his
thoughts on everything on oh my gosh, his coach gonna leave.
It doesn't matter to him. He knows he's going to
move to the next level. But it's also just the
point of the conversation of dealing with throughout the week
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of maybe there could be a focus on Florida and
Merrily got a bad draw anyway. They were put up
in Seattle for the first two rounds, then they got
to play in San Francisco, so they just stayed out
here on the West coast.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Damn if that guy doesn't travel Colorado State's play.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
It's true, It's very true. Is the dress black or blue?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
The ques that I then say, though, if I'm a
Marilynd booster is if I'm hearing Kevin Willard sit there
and complain about all this stuff? Why am I willing
to open my pocketbook? Please leave? Please leave, because you
outing us as saying that we're cheap or there's not
(15:19):
funds for it, or the administration or whoever. Fine, I mean,
you put me in a bad spot because now if
I give the money, it's not even like well received.
It feels like it's expected. Just yeah, it's not a
good look at all.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Difficult moment, but they go down and then we get
some record breaking shooting. We'll break down that because you've
got a scary squad breaking records tonight here as the
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Speaker 2 (16:41):
Hey, welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show
with Me Mike Carmon, No Jason Smith tonight in instead
my guy Dan Byer. He and I do the I
Watch Your Flex podcast, so you can find that wherever
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and Rich Show, and then on Sundays we get to
(17:03):
play for two hours noon to two Eastern time zone
in the head. Yeah, that is.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Right, you got it right there.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
You go hat Dan Byer on Fox where you find
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on any myriad of topics the Sweet sixteen in the
NCAA tournament, whether you're still heavily involved, or maybe you
just put on a baseball cap a jersey and started
walking around. I did you check for stirrups on any
of the guys in the hallway.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Hey, Bursch was decked out. He had the opening day
Dodgers gold hat and the jersey. Shay had jersey and hat.
Frostburg's got hat. I don't you've got your white socks.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
I've got my green White Sox giveaway.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Yeah, very very trendy. There are a lot of guys
that could suit up right now for the Dodgers. It
just drove down the freeway.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah, I'm just curious, man, if we did a cup check,
I mean, have we gone full uniform away?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
It's Opening Day? You got to be in the spirit, right, bigot.
Except for the Dodgers. It's Game three, that's true home opener.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
But did you see it took how many people didn't
take to raise that flag?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
What was it like?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Nine people pulling on that course?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Now, did you say, Mike, did you say you wanted
to hear Toni's home run?
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Here's the three two show HiT's this one to left,
it's carrying.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Here's again Otani hold run. Tom Hanks must have called it,
Magic called it, and the Dodger fans are looking forward
to seeing that for years to come.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
The league grows to two Otani second of the season.
ESPN on the call, five to four, your final Dodgers
close it out a little threaten the ninth, but able
to squash it with a foul out to Freddie Freeman ending.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
At least the banner was right set up. That's a
good point, Illinois found is half the battle.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Let's retire a guy's jersey, bring him back. You're was
he there long enough to retire his jersey? That's a
whole other thing. But I guess you know, Kendall Gill's
not walking through that door.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
You should retire shorts, right if you're only there like
two years for your shorts today his shorts are hanging
in the rafters because he was only here for a
hot minute.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I kind of dig that. All right, We're nearly midway
through the first half, Duke with a seventeen to sixteen
lead on Arizona, Texas Tech Arkansas just underway the other
game from earlier, Dan talking record breaking Alabama one hundred
and thirteen to eighty eight, and the tail of the
tape right an onslaught from three point range, an absolute
(19:37):
barrage from Alabama. Get this overall, just two more made
field goals and two more made free throws like, oh, close,
game great? No, they made nineteen more three point shots.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Most three point attempts in an NCAA tournament game ever
by Alabama. Most made threes by a team in a game.
Mark Sears, when he had ten threes, was one shy
of tying Jeff Fryar's all time mark of eleven threes
in an NCAA tournament game. There was a point in
the first half where it was going back and forth,
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and I just said to myself, you know, at some
point Alabama's going to just start missing these shots. Maybe
BYU is going to have an advantage. No, I was
completely wrong. They did not miss. They kept shooting, they
kept making and kept the Cougars basically at arms length
for the entire second half.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
You can't even say, all right, you got to close
out whatever like this. This is circa shots. This is
anywhere on the court. I mean shooting what forty nine
percent sure three point range? Twenty five to fifty one.
Let's hear the record breaker. I trying to paint the picture.
These people are ooing and on at the just point
Seers nails of three.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
There's a new NCAA record for three pointers paid by
a team in the tournament, twenty two of them for Alabama.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
The great Scott Graham of Westwood One on the call.
Sears would go ten of sixteen from three point range,
made only one other from inside the arc, finishing eleven
of eighteen for the game. Talk about operational efficiency thirty
four and eight, one of the stories of the college
basketball were started talking about transfers and impact players. You
(21:19):
know something I sat down and did, because you know,
you can't tell the players without a scorecard, but I
did for the coaches, kind of looking at ten years,
right and how quickly you turn things over. You've got
nine of these coaches in the sweet sixteen at their
colleges three years or fewer more than a half, right,
(21:39):
so we know Willard's already leaving, so put the villain
on the tag. We get to restart his start. But
between Kevin young Shire, Willard Golden Calipari in his first year,
yeah right, McCaslin of Texas Tech second year come to
the other side of the bracket, Beards only in his
second year at Old Miss. You got Mark Pope at Kentucky,
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Dusty May, Nust he May and then then we start
getting into the and you got a fourth year guy
and Tommy Lloyd outside of that, and then you're talking
about the grizzled veterans like Painter and Izzo and Pearl
that have been there forever. Just an interesting dichotomy what
we're talking about, the changing face and players and how
the interchangeable parts and hey come into a new program
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and for some of these I joked with Aaron yesterday
is you know, and we've talked about it a little bit.
The trading card world where they've gone in and because
of the change of rules, you can make cards of
collegiate players. Right, So there was a top set that
came out and I was sorting the other day. It's
like that guy's not at that school again. Like and
I started doing the game, it's like more than half
the guys weren't at school. And it's not because they're
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playing in the NBA, just they've moved.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
There's a graphics circulating as well with the starting fives
of each and it happened last year and it made
its rounds this year. Perdue is the only team to
have all five of their starters start at Purdue start
their playing careers. Duke had I believe four out of
their five starters, and it helps when they're freshmen, So
like that kind of tilts the scales. But to your point,
(23:08):
I think it's interesting because you do have Izzo and
I don't care. Like I I know that we've wanted
college basketball to have names, and you and I grew
up with names, but it wasn't like it wasn't about
coaches back when we were still the coaches John Thompson,
Jerry Tarkanian, Dean Smith, Bob Knight. You know, coach k
(23:29):
was making a name for himself, like Denny Krummett that
Louisville Like that's that's all it was at.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
That for me in Chicago, right, ray Meyer followed by
his kid Joey and go on down the line, right,
those were all those guys, Gene Katy for a million years.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Absolutely, Yeah, you know Dale Brown at LSU for like
they we knew the coaches and now Jim Behim and Syracuse,
I'm your first name would have been out of Jason's
mouth to that to that point. But there still is
that aspect. But that is another domino of NIL and
transfer portal is how long do these guys want to
(24:05):
stay in these certain spots. And now you bring up
Kevin Willard's point of like I'm not getting enough from
my school. All right, Now you have coaches wanting to
leave because they're not getting enough from say NIL or
from the school at least in those sort of lines.
Not that the coach is getting an anil, but just
it's it's such a changing time. But I still think,
(24:28):
like when you turn on the TV tomorrow, you're gonna
watch Michigan State and you're gonna want to see is
those teams playing, And that's still a draw.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
But a lot of it does go back to mobility
on the coaching side as well. Right, it's we have
that period in the NBA where guys were signing the
two and ones. It feels like where a lot of
coaches are anymore. Right, it's maybe a three year deal,
even if it says five. You're hoping to keep them
beyond three. Sure, and maybe they turn it around right
(24:56):
away if everything goes right, and we talk about the
team changing conferences, and obviously that that machine keeps rolling
on towards super leagues or whatever super Liga comes to
college buckets or whatever the case may be. But for coaches,
it's just interesting because we still have some of those names,
and I think that's where we get some of the
warm and fuzzy like you and I talked about a
(25:17):
little bit on Sunday. Right, we're suddenly Cali, Perry and Patino,
who were always pointed out as everything that was kind
of wrong in the old system of there's there's a
bunch of stuff under the surface that you're trying to
wait for the other shoe to drop. But now because
they're familiar that we keep rolling with it.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Uh uh uh oh, Mike, did your bulls just.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Bulls just finished off?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
No idea?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
What just happened? The sequence in the final twenty seconds
of this game, absolutely in absolute insanity.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
So the Lakers were up at one point, what like
thirteen points, It was like one oh five ninety two
or something like that.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
One of those Reggie Miller moments against the Knicks happened
a couple sequences ago, and then Josh Giddy from the logo.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
For the win. So it was one oh five ninety
two Lakers with five twenty seven remaining in the game.
What a bad loss. And down the stretch you get
in the final twelve seconds two free throws from Austin
Reeves to put the Lakers up four. Then you have
a Patrick Williams three point shot, so one fifteen, one thirteen,
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you have a steal off of Lebron James inbound that
gets back out to Kobe White for a three. So
now it's one sixteen, one to fifteen. Austin Reeves comes
down and makes a layup just that fast, three point
one seconds remaining, and then Josh Giddy from the logo
and we're talking.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
We're talking right eye moving right to left. So I
don't think you had crossed mid court. We're in soundpof
proof rooms, in soundproof studios, and I heard two screams yeah,
and one of the person it doesn't even have a
voice right now, so that's what's even more amazing.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
So are you gonna do the update because that might
have been the last of it right there, that might.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Be tapping out Monty after.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
My goodness, Yeah, Josh Giddy pulls up from beyond half sword.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Austin Reeves makes the layup to go up. How much
time is on the clocket?
Speaker 7 (27:19):
Reach takes point one seconds?
Speaker 8 (27:20):
Actually three point one after he Yes, it was a
quick layup, not even contested right on in and then
three seconds and.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
He had kind of turned his ankle earlier in the Yes,
he did had to be helped off. But wow, season
sweep for your bull balls. Everything's turning up harm This
might you might never have.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I mean that the White Sox are one to know,
the Mets are oh in one.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
This is the Night of Harman. I am proclaiming it
Knight of Harmony's good a box of cards for him
to open so he can pull one of one.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
So you know what, we might dial up the local
shop and see if they're ripping right now.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
You're gonna pull that uh that card from Japan, the
Otani with the guy what's whatever his name is.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Oh, that was insane. Yes, the cards have gotta be
worth a million bucks, be worth well actually in the
Japanese market, and might get to that. So there you go.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I don't know, I'm not familiar, but I am intrigued
with Otani, with the guy what guy legend? I'll tell
you what. The tea's had me hanging Frostburg. So it worked,
Tani with the guy.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
While during their trip to Japan. One of the things
they did have a big tops Slash Fanatics installation. Okay,
so while they have Otani there and you've got a
bunch of the Japanese legends, what better way to do
a bunch of promotion by getting them to stand together
sign some cards that will then be reinserted into packs
(28:56):
in later products. And during that trip they also had
a Japanese only product that started to hit the market,
and there was a one of one Otani Ichiro card
that got pulled, which is absolutely glorious, this gold finish
autograph that is already into six figures and bidding. Did
you figure out who it was? Frostburg? No, but I
(29:17):
do have that bulls final call. We got that turning around.
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Six point one, gotta get it in.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
They get it in the ring.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Oh my draft done. That's what you do.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
You they don't have a timeout? Were true?
Speaker 7 (29:34):
Were on?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Kiddy? I don't think it's gonna count. Oh no, from yesterday,
that one going blanket right away? Lakers TV on the call.
But yeah, there you go. Everything coming up me for today?
(29:56):
What do we need to do? It could be the
best dinner ever could be.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I mean, what yea harmon?
Speaker 4 (30:03):
We might have to take this show into a car,
plug in a comrex and go to Vegas.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Right now, let's go. We do the show.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
It's been done before at Fox Sports Radio, So let's
do it.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I have no doubt. Yes, lots, he said, I'm in.
I don't need a voice for Vegas.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
That's exactly what I'm ready for marriage.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Yeah, I'll get you there for the second half of
this Arkansas game.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
I always tell the story, Remember that Chiefs Rams game?
Remember that that that was you know, fifty one to
forty or whatever it was. I watched the first quarter
at my father in last place in North Hollywood, about
half a mile from Burbank Airport, boarded a flight, went
to Las Vegas, landed, drove out to North Las Vegas
(30:45):
and stopped at a famous Daves and watched the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Yeah, that game was so long, but it was so entertaining,
and it gave the NFL network years and years of
programming because if there was never anything on or happening,
they're like, just put that chiefs Rams game on. That
was awesome from a couple of years ago from the
coloredo oh.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Slap that back up. All right, I think I found
out it wasn't a it was. There were baseball legends
certainly to be had, but it was the artist, right,
Takashi Moracama.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
There you go, Uh, the guy? All right?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
So that was the guy.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Okay, he's definitely a guy. Oh you were You had
me intrigued.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
There you go. So yeah, they du we'll sign the
card because they put together an insert set that he designed,
et cetera. So there you go. Look for those at
your card shop coming soon enough at Dan Byro on Fox.
Where you find Dan find me over at Swollen Dome.
Since we've got the voice has been re established, maybe
awakened by that crazy ass Finish Bulls Lakers. It's Monsey
(31:44):
Milanos with everything going on in our sporting universe.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
You know, if I lose my voice, it was totally
worth it for.
Speaker 8 (31:50):
Those twelve seconds. Insane, We're insane. When Kobe White hit
the three, it was insane. And then when Austin Reeves
had the easy layup, I was like, man and.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Oh no, did he had a steal of lebron after
the failed inbound that.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
There was someone else's fault. I'm just kidding. I don't
know what he did. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
I just say I question is, how far do you
guys think Stephen Ay flew off his couch in his
tighty white.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
He can't wait for tomorrow, he canunt.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I'm in his head. I'm in his head. I forced
that bad bad I.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
Mean Josh Josh Giddy wins it.
Speaker 8 (32:22):
He steals the ball, hits and like you said, Dan,
it's beyond the half court line like he is on
the other side. And he ended with a dribble double
twenty five points, fourteen rebounds, eleven assists. Bulls walk it
off with that logo shot one nineteen to one to
seventeen Against the Lakers. The Thunder pulled away in the
fourth quarter and won one twenty five to one oh
four against the Grizzlies. That sixty one wins for Oka see,
(32:45):
which is a franchise record. Pard Nick Gallow their sideline
reporter bombarded. They put a camera over him. They made
him hold the camera as he's interviewing, like you know,
they're a big happy family over there. So Nick Gallo
literally they put a camera over him and made him
hold it.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Right now.
Speaker 8 (33:00):
In the NBA, two games going on, Rockets Jazz Houston
up eighty five seventy eight late in the third. Early
in the second, the Kings are on top of the
Trailblazers forty to twenty nine. We'll check in on those
college hoop games you guys are talking about. Four seed
Arizona had the early lead, but one seed Duke is
now on top twenty eight to twenty five with six
minutes to go in the first half.
Speaker 7 (33:19):
Cooper Flag seven points so far in the game.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
With ten minutes to go in the first half, Ten
seed Arcus Arkansas on top of third seed Texas Tech.
Speaker 7 (33:27):
Eighteen to nine. The games had already finished.
Speaker 8 (33:30):
Two seed Alabama moving on in the NCAA Tournament after
cruising past.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
Six seed BYU won thirteen to eighty eight.
Speaker 8 (33:36):
Mark Sears led the way thirty four points eight assists,
And you guys were talking about Bama setting the record
for the most threes made in a game with twenty five.
One seed Florida also moving on as a defeated four
seed Maryland eighty seven to seventy one. And it is
Opening Day in Major League Baseball. We've got some games
going on right now. The Cubs have scored against the Diamondbacks.
They're up three to one, bottom of the second inning,
(33:59):
top of the third scoreless. The A's and the Mariners
Dodgers as the Tigers five to four. Show, Hey, tany
hit a home run?
Speaker 7 (34:05):
What else is new?
Speaker 8 (34:06):
Dels got hernani Is hit a three run homer in
the win. The Padres outscored the Braves seven to four.
The Astros top the Mets three to one. If you're
wondering what Juan Soto did, he had a chance to
be the hero and failed. He went one for two
with the single and a walk.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Wear it.
Speaker 8 (34:19):
Jason Phillies defeated the National seven three and ten innings.
Bryce Harper Kyle Schwarber both homered for the Phillies. The
Red Sox had a five to two win over the Rangers,
and the Marlins walked it off five to four against
the Pirates, and of course the White Sox crushed the Angels.
Speaker 7 (34:35):
Eight to one.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Back to you guys that we all demand restitution because
MLBtv did not work all day. Really, I did not
get to watch my White Sox.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I'm gonna have the opportunity more.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
I was still getting text from the ballpark, obviously following
a box score.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
But it's like, come on, man, really smart of the
schedule makers. No offense Mike to put Angels White Sox
weekend one. People are gonna show up anyway, right.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
But that's what I always argue with the NFL schedule
and everything, as why are you giving me the Marquee game.
I've been waiting on it for six months? Give me
Jaguars Titans every day? What about suthing that I'm watching it?
You're still gonna watch absolutely, no question about it. Hey,
we're here at the Tirack dot Com. Fox Sports Radio
Studios coming up next. We were talking Vegas a little bit.
Dan posited a question that I think deserves a little
(35:23):
bit of a discussion here. Why why at Dan Byron Fox?
Where you find them on Twitter. Find me over at
Swollen Dome. We'll do that next here at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 2 (35:41):
Hey, welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show
with me and Mike Carmon. No Jason Tonight. Dan Byer
my partner on the iWatch Flex podcast. You hear me
here at Fox Sports Radio, including our Sunday show nine
to eleven Pacific. Hanging out watching the NCED DOUBLEA Tournament
and has continues. Duke now a four point lead, thirty
six thirty two, about three minutes left in the first half.
(36:04):
Arkansas and Texas Tech very odd game, Dan, as we
were talking about a little as the Bills got paid
the four for five start from Arkansas beyond the arc,
but then they were one of eleven inside.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Yeah, Texas Tech shot forty four threes in their opening
run win against their first round win against UNC Wilmington.
But they don't like to play with a lot of pace.
Arkansas doesn't play with a ton of pace either, and
coach Callus known to get his teams to play defense.
But they they won some rock fights against Kansas. They
they could have easily lost the Kansas game if Kansas
(36:38):
wouldn't have completely collapsed at the end of the game.
And then we saw what happened with Saint John's. But
Arkansas does make you play that way. And Texas Tech
is having trouble. I told you during the break, Alabama
and BYU was a fifty one to forty game at
the half, and that could be the final of Arkansas
and Texas Tech in the in the same night of
(36:58):
the Sweet sixteen. So yeah, it's a rock fight between
those two teams. But I'll tell you Duke Arizona living
up to the absolute hype. I'm not saying that I
called it, Mike, because I don't want to call anything
in the first half in a two point game, But
if you're a Duke fan, this this was the game
that could kind of scare you. Now, the final ten
minutes is really where the hay is made, obviously, but
(37:20):
you'll also have to wonder if Arizona's got the fire
per to keep up. But if it's a close game,
how does Duke respond, especially with the young stars that.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
They have always about, you know, can you make them
sweat because that's certainly something we haven't seen. Duke have
to do a lot over the course of the year,
a lot of blowouts, a lot of operations shut down
in the final eight ten minutes of games. So when
you're talking about young stars trying to carry you through,
this is not a circumstance. If it is close in
those waning minutes, to see how they respond to what
(37:48):
Shire can get out of them.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
It's it's it's gonna be I don't want to make
it sound generic Mike and say it's going to be interesting.
But the more Arizona hangs around. Now a taigh game
at thirty six apiece at two thirty five, yeah, this
is gonna be the game of the night.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
You know me, I love chaos. Go back to that
Texas Tech stat line for a moment, five of twenty
two from the field, one of ten from three point range.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
They got a lot of guys that can shoot it
as well. But it's just Mike, they don't necessarily need
to get up and down with you. But Arkansas size
and defensive pressure right now giving them headaches.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Guys looking for their union cards, and the brick layers
right now, forty two percent from the field. That's what
Arkansas Limited tech.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
We'll start to hit a couple of shots. Just how
will Arkansas respond is the question. That's it.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
We'll keep an eye on this one as we go. Hey,
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With the inevitable expansion of the NBA into Las Vegas,
(39:16):
and we're waiting on what the ballpark eventually looks like
in Major League Baseball, the rush to get there over
the last decade has been incredible and I know there's
a lot of wide open space to take over. You've
got to deal with the elements some but seemed like
we went from we can never be there, we can
never be there. Okay, boys, the doors open, the water's fine,
(39:39):
come on in.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
It's crazy because I thought, Mike that the NBA, when
Vegas had zero professional teams, that the NBA would be
the first team to the first league to have a
team there. Remember they had the All Star Game there.
It was a two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yeah, that didn't go particularly well. There was a lot
of extracurriculars that I take the league, and certainly with
David Stern at the Helm at that point, he wasn't
looking for a speedy return.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
And I give credit to the Golden Knights for developing
what they have done, which I think made it even
that much more of a viable option of being a
team that great success. But also then you have a
following around them. And honestly, the the NBA does need
like a Marquie, another marquee team in the Western Conference
(40:25):
outside of the Lakers and Warriors. Like, when you're talking marquee,
I if they're not in the finals, maybe I mean
the Eastern Conference has the Celtics, has the Knicks as
the seventy six ers. When your bulls are good, they're
hey Kobe is bringing them back. Yeah, so there's there's
Hey Frosts.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
He's going to try to kill me in the break.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
But it's just it's I don't know where else you
could go in the US if you were to put
another team, But it's just to me, like, why does
Vegas now get everything?
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Yeah, I mean there's an excitement in Adam Silver dressed
in a bit with with Seattle being part of it.
We've talked about Nashville for a while as that. I mean,
that's blown up that area and certainly the surrounding areas
watching real aship get gobbled.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Up for sure. And with Nashville you can even say, well,
Memphis has a team, maybe that fits. But you know,
now with baseball, like what you know is Portla gonna
get a team from Major League Baseball? Why does Vegas
end up getting everything? I just I don't know. I'm
not a fan.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Because people spun it around a little bit, don't get
their income taxes and you know, there's a lot of
tax breaks to go out to hang out in the Desert.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Give this you're listening to Fox Sports Radio. It's the
greatest day in sports history, hands down, cannot be defeated,
won't be defeated, White Sox greater than Nets. I A Harmon.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Honestly, Mike, think that this puts when we have the
argument of what is the best time of year? Like you,
if you're a Spring fan, if you're if you're a
March sort of vote, this is back pocket ammunition that
September can never pull out and match. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
In the end, I mean, I still want to wall
to wall football guy from the opening of the pregame
shows through the end of any Hawaii game or however
late we go deep into the night. But it's still
just that I don't know. Opening day, my brother's taunting
me by showing up on the south side of Chicago
to watch what was a glorious victory over the Angels.
(01:19):
I was showing you, Nikki Lopez, there's your trivia answer
for twenty twenty five. Who will be the first position
player to throw a pitch in a twenty twenty five game.
It took game one for the Angels to break that seal.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Things are looking up because there's nowhere else to look
up for the Angels.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, we take our victory laps where we can. White Sox.
The over under for wins the lowest in fifty years,
fifty three and a half, Dan Byer. So I'm gonna
find my damn wins wherever I can't. So we're celebrating here. Well,
the other is my brothers were telling me this as
they were walking. They got off the train, right off
the l and they're getting ready to walk to the ballpark.
(02:01):
And for the last several years, rule of law really
didn't exist. Right, So we've got street meat vendors, right,
hot dog vendors with their little carts all over the place. Whatever.
In Chicago, you had guys that were now just pulling
up with the forty gallon coolers full of mini bottles
of booze and cans of beer and just selling them.
So what's the problem. And nobody bought but from a
(02:23):
legality circumstance, right, it's one thing. You're in a tailgate.
I guess there's a free exchange of food, beverage, whatever.
So this was exaggerating. Hey, you just got off a
long arduous l ride. Would you like a little bottle
of teos to take into the ballpark? You know at
six seven like these probably got for three years, probably
made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling booze. Police were
(02:46):
rousting them from their spot today ahead of the opening day.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Oh that's amazing. There is the point where you're like, man, okay,
where do we draw the line here? What is it?
They're not harming anybody. It's just a couple of hot
dogs out there on a grill. What are we really doing?
That's where you draw the line. That is, as much
as as I know, Frostburg is all for it. I
do think that the police of Chicago figured out where
you draw the line.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
But you are watching the White Sox. You do need
several mods.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
But that's where they're gonna make their money, is that
you're gonna come in and drink and a life well
and get some of those milkshakes right, because that's what
they have every year, is the White Sox unveil some
crazy ass milkshake that becomes the thing. Last year it
was the s'mores. This dim it's like a birthday cake
kind of thing for their anniversary and all that. It's
it's the fantastic thing. Now we've had the discussion of
(03:35):
street meets. Welcome in. It's the Jason Smith Show with
me Mike Carmon, No Jason Smith. For the rest of
the week. We don't have, you know, any Mets talk
other than they lost, and we'll hear about, you know,
that final grated bat from Juan Soto at least five
times tonight because the Dodgers were victorious, the White Sox
were victorious. That's not so much. But we're broadcasting live
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the street Meat Soapbox is having known a bunch of
folks who've tried to go through the processes of opening
(04:17):
a restaurant, food truck, whatever. That is a long, arduous
and costly process versus I have a cart where I
can boil some water and have meat on the street. Sure,
with no certifications for food safety grade.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
There's not a hanging from the Sure, this is a
beef dog, correct, I get it. I get it. When
you're on a sidewalk as well, it can be a
safety hazard with cars pulling up blocking lanes. I get it.
I trust me, I understand, I understand. And Mike, it
may not be real meat, but those carts do smell
(04:53):
really good.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
They do really well. Yeah, there's no question about it.
It's the tough thing, right. I appreciate the hustle, you know.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Me.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It's a industrious, you know kind of side of me
of where can we find an angle, where can we
find a win? And certainly coming folks half staggering back
to their cars or to the trains after sporting events
and concerts has become a very lucrative business across these
United States. So certainly there. So we have Opening Day
(05:21):
Major League Baseball, Part two. So we have that, and
now we're looking at the fun and excitement of the
NCAA Tournament. As we resume the Sweet sixteen, couple of
games already in the books. If you had chalk moving forward,
you're feeling pretty good. Arizona and Duke just underway. Duke
(05:41):
two nothing. Arnie Spanier has already broken his television.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
This is the the night. Then, Hey, Duke, I'll tell
you what if there was ever a surprise that we
could see from this weekend, this would be the biggest
of them. If Houston loses to Purdue, which I don't
think they're going to do, but you could say, well,
heck produce playing in their backyard Kentucky and Tennessee Conference rivals,
(06:06):
they're gonna play the other side of the bracket. Ole
Miss is playing some good basketball. I'm not sure how
great things are from Michigan State, but that's a battle
of two similar teams. But if there was craziness to happen,
which we haven't had on this bracket, this would be
the crazy option, and you'd have to think that Arizona
at least can match up with Duke talent wise, do
(06:28):
just maybe the better team and maybe the team that
locks in defensively, but.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Boxing one on Cooper flag make your decisions nine and
a half. Arnie Spanier is yelling something far more or
nefarious given that Cooper Flag has already been injured. So
you know, all of those kind of things. As I
take the stink and genius to task here because he's
been bugging me about Arizona Duke all day.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
This well, I'll tell you, Mike, this is the marquee
that's at the Marquee window. They didn't start with this.
They put it at the top of the hour, It's
on CBS, it has the brand names. Even with cal
Perry and the undercard, you could say tonight against Texas Tech,
it doesn't rise to the level of these. Arizona's not
a blue blood, but if you want to get knocking
(07:13):
on the door, they're darn close to what we've got
in the top of college basketball.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
But that's it. We know their history, right, We've seen
a lot of big teams and players come out. Certainly,
you've got mouthpieces like Richard Jefferson out there, Luke Walton
and going down the line, guys that have had some
prominence as coaches, players, broadcasters, et cetera. So you know,
you run with that. I'm just thinking of that team
(07:38):
Michael Wright and those guys that you had back in
the day for loot.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Yeah, I'll tell you what what Tommy Lloyd's got going on,
Like there's there is a definite correlation. And it's not
that Mark Few has done a bad job, but Tommy
Lloyd leaves and goes to Arizona and has success and
maybe Gonzaga just isn't the Gonzaga that we had known,
you know, for so long. This year, really good end
(08:02):
of the year. Unfortunately they ended up losing to Houston
for the Bulldogs, but Tommy Lloyd is a big part
of that. And now going to Arizona as a four seed,
beating Oregon in that crazy game that they had in
the second round. But I mean, nobody's got Cooper Flag
on their roster in college basketball. But you'd have to
think that Arizona, with their talent and size at least
(08:23):
has the ability to match up.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Match it up. Nine and a half was the number
coming into this one. We'll keep you apprized of that
two games. As I said already in the book, you
heard it from the update from Moncy Belanos at the
top of the hour, Florida taking down Maryland. We need
to talk about Maryland. A lot of the quiet parts
have been set out loud for the last couple of
weeks from Willard from the departing ad. Now we'll expect
(08:45):
I have to expect Willard to show up with a
Villanova sweater on for his postgame press conference at this
point after all of this. But they go down eighty
seven seventy one pretty limply in this round with all
of that swirling around. You saw as they were heading
towards the arena that they were getting booze from some
of the folks in attendance.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
There.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I do my weekly hit in Baltimore, and I'd made
the prediction and they're like, well, wait till some more
of this stuff starts to fester. And then they texted
me to kind of say, hey, give it forty eight hours,
you're gonna have a very different opinion of where the
school is headed. And sure enough, you started getting from
the ad and then Willard decided, Hey, I'm going to
(09:28):
tell you whatever whatever is on my mind in terms
of jobs, and it's always been there, Dan and you
and I chatted a little bit before we came on air,
Like all of this stuff, I'm not naive, right, everybody
in the building knows what's going on. Coach is probably
gonna leave. A bunch of players at least are dipping
their toes to see if there's not a big check
(09:48):
somewhere else, or more playing time or all of those things.
But it usually stayed hidden until you were defeated and out,
and then we'd have the purge in this new and
new world with the brands for portal, with money flowing,
and with everybody everywhere seemingly a quote journalist. Yeah, and
I call them ernalists anymore a lot. That's that's my
(10:11):
name for steven A. Well done right here ere in
the one hundred million dollar bag and good autumn. But
that Jay for journalism left a long damn time ago.
But we can talk about that a little bit. That
was my best. You know, I'm gonna start getting serious
like steven A. But from Maryland. If they pulled off
a win today, it might have ranked as a top
ten upset in NCAA tournament history, given all of the
(10:33):
cesspool that it's become.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah, they didn't have they just they didn't have the horses.
They have five really good horses, but outside of that,
it's tough to beat a full Florida team. That people
feel that when you're looking at a run to a
Final four, run to a national championship, there's always a
game that may be a hiccup, and we know that
Florida had all they could handle it. More from Yukon
and Danny Hurley. Danny Hurley told you so after the
(10:58):
game last weekend. But it is the fact, Mike, of
when your coach is talking about these things and this
has become a distraction. It may not have been a distraction.
Maryland doesn't have a bench flooried out score their bench
something like twenty eighth to nothing. Tonight out rebounded them
two to one. That is all that could be expected.
(11:18):
It's just the point of it doesn't help when your
coach is doing this stuff. I also have a difficult
time in hearing the messaging and the messaging being something
to the effect that I'm paraphrasing, but I think a
lot of us heard. The sound bite was I can't
believe we couldn't get an extra night in New York
City for Christmas with my team. I would love to
(11:41):
take my family to New York City for Christmas. That
would be amazing. It's also really expensive Okay, so if
you're and you can take a train even if you want,
whatever the case may be. You sound entitled. It sounds
like it's too much. It's not like a hey, so
on those parents couldn't make it to the game because
they couldn't travel, so the school couldn't provided Remember those
(12:03):
arguments years ago? Absolutely, and we felt you're like, yeah,
this system stinks. This system didn't stink when you're asking
for nights in New York City, an extra night in
New York City, by the way, to spend with your
team and Christmas, and just like that messaging just rings hollow.
And if that might that may be a bigger nil
(12:24):
transfer portal, whatever deal you want to have in this
arms race, we've gotten college sports. But it's just difficult
to hear a message like that and then feel bad
for a guy and then almost feel like he's holding
his team hostage throughout the week. They probably weren't going
to beat Florida even and maybe even on an that's right,
but still it just it didn't Shure didn't help keep
him focused this week.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Well, and everybody's got to answer questions about it, right,
all press availabilities of Hey, what's the messaging from coach. Sure,
the players are trying to do their best to be honest,
but while also not laying everything out that they've either
heard or been told for that week period. And you know,
all the other stuff is part of the growing pains, right,
(13:06):
I've lamented it on air here and it's getting better.
But you know, Smith being a Syracuse guy, me being
a Northwestern guy like this seemed like a position as
everything changed to be ripe for the picking for schools
like that that have alumni bases as they are. You
got you know, you can just read the Wikipedia pages.
(13:27):
There's there's moneyed people like everywhere else, but usually they
can get activated to a cause. Well, they didn't decide
to do that right now. You see Andrew Luck trying
to do whatever he is up at Stanford. First thing,
getting rid of the football coach. But it's all about
activating your alumni base to say, hey, we need I mean,
how many commercials do you hear for the UCLA thing
here in Los Angeles? Right? The Sons of Westwood or whatever.
(13:50):
But like all of that is behind the scenes stuff,
whether it's with the administration or because if that's the
reason you're leading guess what, You're gonna find another problem
at the next place. You're going to air them out to. Yeah, exactly,
only we're here three years. Like, it's not like you
were long, long suffering trying to build something long term
and just couldn't get them on board. Three years is
(14:11):
a very short window of time, but it's accelerated by
the way the game has changed. So you come off
as nothing more than a cry dab.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yeah, no, you're you're one hundred percent right, And there's
there's there's so many different layers to the comments as well. Listen,
Derek Queen's going to the NBA, so like his his
thoughts on everything on oh my gosh, his coach gonna leave.
It doesn't matter to him. He knows he's going to
move to the next level. But it's also just the
point of the conversation of dealing with throughout the week
(14:40):
of maybe there could be a focus on Florida and
Merrily got a bad draw anyway. They were put up
in Seattle for the first two rounds, then they got
to play in San Francisco, so they just stayed out
here on the West coast.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Damn if that guy doesn't travel Colorado State's play.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
It's true, It's very true. Is the dress black or blue?
Speaker 3 (14:58):
The ques that I then say, though, if I'm a
Marilynd booster is if I'm hearing Kevin Willard sit there
and complain about all this stuff? Why am I willing
to open my pocketbook? Please leave? Please leave, because you
outing us as saying that we're cheap or there's not
(15:19):
funds for it, or the administration or whoever. Fine, I mean,
you put me in a bad spot because now if
I give the money, it's not even like well received.
It feels like it's expected. Just yeah, it's not a
good look at all.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Difficult moment, but they go down and then we get
some record breaking shooting. We'll break down that because you've
got a scary squad breaking records tonight here as the
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Speaker 2 (16:41):
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in the head. Yeah, that is.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Right, you got it right there.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
You go hat Dan Byer on Fox where you find
buy me over at Swollenome. You want to get in
on any myriad of topics the Sweet sixteen in the
NCAA tournament, whether you're still heavily involved, or maybe you
just put on a baseball cap a jersey and started
walking around. I did you check for stirrups on any
of the guys in the hallway.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Hey, Bursch was decked out. He had the opening day
Dodgers gold hat and the jersey. Shay had jersey and hat.
Frostburg's got hat. I don't you've got your white socks.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
I've got my green White Sox giveaway.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Yeah, very very trendy. There are a lot of guys
that could suit up right now for the Dodgers. It
just drove down the freeway.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah, I'm just curious, man, if we did a cup check,
I mean, have we gone full uniform away?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
It's Opening Day? You got to be in the spirit, right, bigot.
Except for the Dodgers. It's Game three, that's true home opener.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
But did you see it took how many people didn't
take to raise that flag?
Speaker 3 (18:07):
What was it like?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Nine people pulling on that course?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Now, did you say, Mike, did you say you wanted
to hear Toni's home run?
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Here's the three two show HiT's this one to left,
it's carrying.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Here's again Otani hold run. Tom Hanks must have called it,
Magic called it, and the Dodger fans are looking forward
to seeing that for years to come.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
The league grows to two Otani second of the season.
ESPN on the call, five to four, your final Dodgers
close it out a little threaten the ninth, but able
to squash it with a foul out to Freddie Freeman ending.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
At least the banner was right set up. That's a
good point, Illinois found is half the battle.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Let's retire a guy's jersey, bring him back. You're was
he there long enough to retire his jersey? That's a
whole other thing. But I guess you know, Kendall Gill's
not walking through that door.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
You should retire shorts, right if you're only there like
two years for your shorts today his shorts are hanging
in the rafters because he was only here for a
hot minute.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I kind of dig that. All right, We're nearly midway
through the first half, Duke with a seventeen to sixteen
lead on Arizona, Texas Tech Arkansas just underway the other
game from earlier, Dan talking record breaking Alabama one hundred
and thirteen to eighty eight, and the tail of the
tape right an onslaught from three point range, an absolute
(19:37):
barrage from Alabama. Get this overall, just two more made
field goals and two more made free throws like, oh, close,
game great? No, they made nineteen more three point shots.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Most three point attempts in an NCAA tournament game ever
by Alabama. Most made threes by a team in a game.
Mark Sears, when he had ten threes, was one shy
of tying Jeff Fryar's all time mark of eleven threes
in an NCAA tournament game. There was a point in
the first half where it was going back and forth,
(20:13):
and I just said to myself, you know, at some
point Alabama's going to just start missing these shots. Maybe
BYU is going to have an advantage. No, I was
completely wrong. They did not miss. They kept shooting, they
kept making and kept the Cougars basically at arms length
for the entire second half.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
You can't even say, all right, you got to close
out whatever like this. This is circa shots. This is
anywhere on the court. I mean shooting what forty nine
percent sure three point range? Twenty five to fifty one.
Let's hear the record breaker. I trying to paint the picture.
These people are ooing and on at the just point
Seers nails of three.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
There's a new NCAA record for three pointers paid by
a team in the tournament, twenty two of them for Alabama.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
The great Scott Graham of Westwood One on the call.
Sears would go ten of sixteen from three point range,
made only one other from inside the arc, finishing eleven
of eighteen for the game. Talk about operational efficiency thirty
four and eight, one of the stories of the college
basketball were started talking about transfers and impact players. You
(21:19):
know something I sat down and did, because you know,
you can't tell the players without a scorecard, but I
did for the coaches, kind of looking at ten years,
right and how quickly you turn things over. You've got
nine of these coaches in the sweet sixteen at their
colleges three years or fewer more than a half, right,
(21:39):
so we know Willard's already leaving, so put the villain
on the tag. We get to restart his start. But
between Kevin young Shire, Willard Golden Calipari in his first year,
yeah right, McCaslin of Texas Tech second year come to
the other side of the bracket, Beards only in his
second year at Old Miss. You got Mark Pope at Kentucky,
(22:03):
Dusty May, Nust he May and then then we start
getting into the and you got a fourth year guy
and Tommy Lloyd outside of that, and then you're talking
about the grizzled veterans like Painter and Izzo and Pearl
that have been there forever. Just an interesting dichotomy what
we're talking about, the changing face and players and how
the interchangeable parts and hey come into a new program
(22:25):
and for some of these I joked with Aaron yesterday
is you know, and we've talked about it a little bit.
The trading card world where they've gone in and because
of the change of rules, you can make cards of
collegiate players. Right, So there was a top set that
came out and I was sorting the other day. It's
like that guy's not at that school again. Like and
I started doing the game, it's like more than half
the guys weren't at school. And it's not because they're
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playing in the NBA, just they've moved.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
There's a graphics circulating as well with the starting fives
of each and it happened last year and it made
its rounds this year. Perdue is the only team to
have all five of their starters start at Purdue start
their playing careers. Duke had I believe four out of
their five starters, and it helps when they're freshmen, So
like that kind of tilts the scales. But to your point,
(23:08):
I think it's interesting because you do have Izzo and
I don't care. Like I I know that we've wanted
college basketball to have names, and you and I grew
up with names, but it wasn't like it wasn't about
coaches back when we were still the coaches John Thompson,
Jerry Tarkanian, Dean Smith, Bob Knight. You know, coach k
(23:29):
was making a name for himself, like Denny Krummett that
Louisville Like that's that's all it was at.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
That for me in Chicago, right, ray Meyer followed by
his kid Joey and go on down the line, right,
those were all those guys, Gene Katy for a million years.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Absolutely, Yeah, you know Dale Brown at LSU for like
they we knew the coaches and now Jim Behim and Syracuse,
I'm your first name would have been out of Jason's
mouth to that to that point. But there still is
that aspect. But that is another domino of NIL and
transfer portal is how long do these guys want to
(24:05):
stay in these certain spots. And now you bring up
Kevin Willard's point of like I'm not getting enough from
my school. All right, Now you have coaches wanting to
leave because they're not getting enough from say NIL or
from the school at least in those sort of lines.
Not that the coach is getting an anil, but just
it's it's such a changing time. But I still think,
(24:28):
like when you turn on the TV tomorrow, you're gonna
watch Michigan State and you're gonna want to see is
those teams playing, And that's still a draw.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
But a lot of it does go back to mobility
on the coaching side as well. Right, it's we have
that period in the NBA where guys were signing the
two and ones. It feels like where a lot of
coaches are anymore. Right, it's maybe a three year deal,
even if it says five. You're hoping to keep them
beyond three. Sure, and maybe they turn it around right
(24:56):
away if everything goes right, and we talk about the
team changing conferences, and obviously that that machine keeps rolling
on towards super leagues or whatever super Liga comes to
college buckets or whatever the case may be. But for coaches,
it's just interesting because we still have some of those names,
and I think that's where we get some of the
warm and fuzzy like you and I talked about a
(25:17):
little bit on Sunday. Right, we're suddenly Cali, Perry and Patino,
who were always pointed out as everything that was kind
of wrong in the old system of there's there's a
bunch of stuff under the surface that you're trying to
wait for the other shoe to drop. But now because
they're familiar that we keep rolling with it.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Uh uh uh oh, Mike, did your bulls just.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Bulls just finished off?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
No idea?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
What just happened? The sequence in the final twenty seconds
of this game, absolutely in absolute insanity.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
So the Lakers were up at one point, what like
thirteen points, It was like one oh five ninety two
or something like that.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
One of those Reggie Miller moments against the Knicks happened
a couple sequences ago, and then Josh Giddy from the logo.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
For the win. So it was one oh five ninety
two Lakers with five twenty seven remaining in the game.
What a bad loss. And down the stretch you get
in the final twelve seconds two free throws from Austin
Reeves to put the Lakers up four. Then you have
a Patrick Williams three point shot, so one fifteen, one thirteen,
(26:28):
you have a steal off of Lebron James inbound that
gets back out to Kobe White for a three. So
now it's one sixteen, one to fifteen. Austin Reeves comes
down and makes a layup just that fast, three point
one seconds remaining, and then Josh Giddy from the logo
and we're talking.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
We're talking right eye moving right to left. So I
don't think you had crossed mid court. We're in soundpof
proof rooms, in soundproof studios, and I heard two screams yeah,
and one of the person it doesn't even have a
voice right now, so that's what's even more amazing.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
So are you gonna do the update because that might
have been the last of it right there, that might.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Be tapping out Monty after.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
My goodness, Yeah, Josh Giddy pulls up from beyond half sword.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Austin Reeves makes the layup to go up. How much
time is on the clocket?
Speaker 7 (27:19):
Reach takes point one seconds?
Speaker 8 (27:20):
Actually three point one after he Yes, it was a
quick layup, not even contested right on in and then
three seconds and.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
He had kind of turned his ankle earlier in the Yes,
he did had to be helped off. But wow, season
sweep for your bull balls. Everything's turning up harm This
might you might never have.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I mean that the White Sox are one to know,
the Mets are oh in one.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
This is the Night of Harman. I am proclaiming it
Knight of Harmony's good a box of cards for him
to open so he can pull one of one.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
So you know what, we might dial up the local
shop and see if they're ripping right now.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
You're gonna pull that uh that card from Japan, the
Otani with the guy what's whatever his name is.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Oh, that was insane. Yes, the cards have gotta be
worth a million bucks, be worth well actually in the
Japanese market, and might get to that. So there you go.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
I don't know, I'm not familiar, but I am intrigued
with Otani, with the guy what guy legend? I'll tell
you what. The tea's had me hanging Frostburg. So it worked,
Tani with the guy.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
While during their trip to Japan. One of the things
they did have a big tops Slash Fanatics installation. Okay,
so while they have Otani there and you've got a
bunch of the Japanese legends, what better way to do
a bunch of promotion by getting them to stand together
sign some cards that will then be reinserted into packs
(28:56):
in later products. And during that trip they also had
a Japanese only product that started to hit the market,
and there was a one of one Otani Ichiro card
that got pulled, which is absolutely glorious, this gold finish
autograph that is already into six figures and bidding. Did
you figure out who it was? Frostburg? No, but I
(29:17):
do have that bulls final call. We got that turning around.
Let's go.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Six point one, gotta get it in.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
They get it in the ring.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Oh my draft done. That's what you do.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
You they don't have a timeout? Were true?
Speaker 7 (29:34):
Were on?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Kiddy? I don't think it's gonna count. Oh no, from yesterday,
that one going blanket right away? Lakers TV on the call.
But yeah, there you go. Everything coming up me for today?
(29:56):
What do we need to do? It could be the
best dinner ever could be.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I mean, what yea harmon?
Speaker 4 (30:03):
We might have to take this show into a car,
plug in a comrex and go to Vegas.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Right now, let's go. We do the show.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
It's been done before at Fox Sports Radio, So let's
do it.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I have no doubt. Yes, lots, he said, I'm in.
I don't need a voice for Vegas.
Speaker 7 (30:16):
That's exactly what I'm ready for marriage.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Yeah, I'll get you there for the second half of
this Arkansas game.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
I always tell the story, Remember that Chiefs Rams game?
Remember that that that was you know, fifty one to
forty or whatever it was. I watched the first quarter
at my father in last place in North Hollywood, about
half a mile from Burbank Airport, boarded a flight, went
to Las Vegas, landed, drove out to North Las Vegas
(30:45):
and stopped at a famous Daves and watched the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Yeah, that game was so long, but it was so entertaining,
and it gave the NFL network years and years of
programming because if there was never anything on or happening,
they're like, just put that chiefs Rams game on. That
was awesome from a couple of years ago from the
coloredo oh.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Slap that back up. All right, I think I found
out it wasn't a it was. There were baseball legends
certainly to be had, but it was the artist, right,
Takashi Moracama.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
There you go, Uh, the guy? All right?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
So that was the guy.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Okay, he's definitely a guy. Oh you were You had
me intrigued.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
There you go. So yeah, they du we'll sign the
card because they put together an insert set that he designed,
et cetera. So there you go. Look for those at
your card shop coming soon enough at Dan Byro on Fox.
Where you find Dan find me over at Swollen Dome.
Since we've got the voice has been re established, maybe
awakened by that crazy ass Finish Bulls Lakers. It's Monsey
(31:44):
Milanos with everything going on in our sporting universe.
Speaker 7 (31:47):
You know, if I lose my voice, it was totally
worth it for.
Speaker 8 (31:50):
Those twelve seconds. Insane, We're insane. When Kobe White hit
the three, it was insane. And then when Austin Reeves
had the easy layup, I was like, man and.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Oh no, did he had a steal of lebron after
the failed inbound that.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
There was someone else's fault. I'm just kidding. I don't
know what he did. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
I just say I question is, how far do you
guys think Stephen Ay flew off his couch in his
tighty white.
Speaker 7 (32:14):
He can't wait for tomorrow, he canunt.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I'm in his head. I'm in his head. I forced
that bad bad I.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
Mean Josh Josh Giddy wins it.
Speaker 8 (32:22):
He steals the ball, hits and like you said, Dan,
it's beyond the half court line like he is on
the other side. And he ended with a dribble double
twenty five points, fourteen rebounds, eleven assists. Bulls walk it
off with that logo shot one nineteen to one to
seventeen Against the Lakers. The Thunder pulled away in the
fourth quarter and won one twenty five to one oh
four against the Grizzlies. That sixty one wins for Oka see,
(32:45):
which is a franchise record. Pard Nick Gallow their sideline
reporter bombarded. They put a camera over him. They made
him hold the camera as he's interviewing, like you know,
they're a big happy family over there. So Nick Gallo
literally they put a camera over him and made him
hold it.
Speaker 5 (33:00):
Right now.
Speaker 8 (33:00):
In the NBA, two games going on, Rockets Jazz Houston
up eighty five seventy eight late in the third. Early
in the second, the Kings are on top of the
Trailblazers forty to twenty nine. We'll check in on those
college hoop games you guys are talking about. Four seed
Arizona had the early lead, but one seed Duke is
now on top twenty eight to twenty five with six
minutes to go in the first half.
Speaker 7 (33:19):
Cooper Flag seven points so far in the game.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
With ten minutes to go in the first half, Ten
seed Arcus Arkansas on top of third seed Texas Tech.
Speaker 7 (33:27):
Eighteen to nine. The games had already finished.
Speaker 8 (33:30):
Two seed Alabama moving on in the NCAA Tournament after
cruising past.
Speaker 7 (33:34):
Six seed BYU won thirteen to eighty eight.
Speaker 8 (33:36):
Mark Sears led the way thirty four points eight assists,
And you guys were talking about Bama setting the record
for the most threes made in a game with twenty five.
One seed Florida also moving on as a defeated four
seed Maryland eighty seven to seventy one. And it is
Opening Day in Major League Baseball. We've got some games
going on right now. The Cubs have scored against the Diamondbacks.
They're up three to one, bottom of the second inning,
(33:59):
top of the third scoreless. The A's and the Mariners
Dodgers as the Tigers five to four. Show, Hey, tany
hit a home run?
Speaker 7 (34:05):
What else is new?
Speaker 8 (34:06):
Dels got hernani Is hit a three run homer in
the win. The Padres outscored the Braves seven to four.
The Astros top the Mets three to one. If you're
wondering what Juan Soto did, he had a chance to
be the hero and failed. He went one for two
with the single and a walk.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Wear it.
Speaker 8 (34:19):
Jason Phillies defeated the National seven three and ten innings.
Bryce Harper Kyle Schwarber both homered for the Phillies. The
Red Sox had a five to two win over the Rangers,
and the Marlins walked it off five to four against
the Pirates, and of course the White Sox crushed the Angels.
Speaker 7 (34:35):
Eight to one.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Back to you guys that we all demand restitution because
MLBtv did not work all day. Really, I did not
get to watch my White Sox.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I'm gonna have the opportunity more.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
I was still getting text from the ballpark, obviously following
a box score.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
But it's like, come on, man, really smart of the
schedule makers. No offense Mike to put Angels White Sox
weekend one. People are gonna show up anyway, right.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
But that's what I always argue with the NFL schedule
and everything, as why are you giving me the Marquee game.
I've been waiting on it for six months? Give me
Jaguars Titans every day? What about suthing that I'm watching it?
You're still gonna watch absolutely, no question about it. Hey,
we're here at the Tirack dot Com. Fox Sports Radio
Studios coming up next. We were talking Vegas a little bit.
Dan posited a question that I think deserves a little
(35:23):
bit of a discussion here. Why why at Dan Byron Fox?
Where you find them on Twitter. Find me over at
Swollen Dome. We'll do that next here at Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
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Speaker 2 (35:41):
Hey, welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show
with me and Mike Carmon. No Jason Tonight. Dan Byer
my partner on the iWatch Flex podcast. You hear me
here at Fox Sports Radio, including our Sunday show nine
to eleven Pacific. Hanging out watching the NCED DOUBLEA Tournament
and has continues. Duke now a four point lead, thirty
six thirty two, about three minutes left in the first half.
(36:04):
Arkansas and Texas Tech very odd game, Dan, as we
were talking about a little as the Bills got paid
the four for five start from Arkansas beyond the arc,
but then they were one of eleven inside.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Yeah, Texas Tech shot forty four threes in their opening
run win against their first round win against UNC Wilmington.
But they don't like to play with a lot of pace.
Arkansas doesn't play with a ton of pace either, and
coach Callus known to get his teams to play defense.
But they they won some rock fights against Kansas. They
they could have easily lost the Kansas game if Kansas
(36:38):
wouldn't have completely collapsed at the end of the game.
And then we saw what happened with Saint John's. But
Arkansas does make you play that way. And Texas Tech
is having trouble. I told you during the break, Alabama
and BYU was a fifty one to forty game at
the half, and that could be the final of Arkansas
and Texas Tech in the in the same night of
(36:58):
the Sweet sixteen. So yeah, it's a rock fight between
those two teams. But I'll tell you Duke Arizona living
up to the absolute hype. I'm not saying that I
called it, Mike, because I don't want to call anything
in the first half in a two point game, But
if you're a Duke fan, this this was the game
that could kind of scare you. Now, the final ten
minutes is really where the hay is made, obviously, but
(37:20):
you'll also have to wonder if Arizona's got the fire
per to keep up. But if it's a close game,
how does Duke respond, especially with the young stars that.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
They have always about, you know, can you make them
sweat because that's certainly something we haven't seen. Duke have
to do a lot over the course of the year,
a lot of blowouts, a lot of operations shut down
in the final eight ten minutes of games. So when
you're talking about young stars trying to carry you through,
this is not a circumstance. If it is close in
those waning minutes, to see how they respond to what
(37:48):
Shire can get out of them.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
It's it's it's gonna be I don't want to make
it sound generic Mike and say it's going to be interesting.
But the more Arizona hangs around. Now a taigh game
at thirty six apiece at two thirty five, yeah, this
is gonna be the game of the night.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
You know me, I love chaos. Go back to that
Texas Tech stat line for a moment, five of twenty
two from the field, one of ten from three point range.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
They got a lot of guys that can shoot it
as well. But it's just Mike, they don't necessarily need
to get up and down with you. But Arkansas size
and defensive pressure right now giving them headaches.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Guys looking for their union cards, and the brick layers
right now, forty two percent from the field. That's what
Arkansas Limited tech.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
We'll start to hit a couple of shots. Just how
will Arkansas respond is the question. That's it.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
We'll keep an eye on this one as we go. Hey,
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With the inevitable expansion of the NBA into Las Vegas,
(39:16):
and we're waiting on what the ballpark eventually looks like
in Major League Baseball, the rush to get there over
the last decade has been incredible and I know there's
a lot of wide open space to take over. You've
got to deal with the elements some but seemed like
we went from we can never be there, we can
never be there. Okay, boys, the doors open, the water's fine,
(39:39):
come on in.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
It's crazy because I thought, Mike that the NBA, when
Vegas had zero professional teams, that the NBA would be
the first team to the first league to have a
team there. Remember they had the All Star Game there.
It was a two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yeah, that didn't go particularly well. There was a lot
of extracurriculars that I take the league, and certainly with
David Stern at the Helm at that point, he wasn't
looking for a speedy return.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
And I give credit to the Golden Knights for developing
what they have done, which I think made it even
that much more of a viable option of being a
team that great success. But also then you have a
following around them. And honestly, the the NBA does need
like a Marquie, another marquee team in the Western Conference
(40:25):
outside of the Lakers and Warriors. Like, when you're talking marquee,
I if they're not in the finals, maybe I mean
the Eastern Conference has the Celtics, has the Knicks as
the seventy six ers. When your bulls are good, they're
hey Kobe is bringing them back. Yeah, so there's there's
Hey Frosts.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
He's going to try to kill me in the break.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
But it's just it's I don't know where else you
could go in the US if you were to put
another team, But it's just to me, like, why does
Vegas now get everything?
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Yeah, I mean there's an excitement in Adam Silver dressed
in a bit with with Seattle being part of it.
We've talked about Nashville for a while as that. I mean,
that's blown up that area and certainly the surrounding areas
watching real aship get gobbled.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
Up for sure. And with Nashville you can even say, well,
Memphis has a team, maybe that fits. But you know,
now with baseball, like what you know is Portla gonna
get a team from Major League Baseball? Why does Vegas
end up getting everything? I just I don't know. I'm
not a fan.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Because people spun it around a little bit, don't get
their income taxes and you know, there's a lot of
tax breaks to go out to hang out in the Desert.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
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