July 10, 2024 • 38 mins
In this week's edition of The Midway, Doug and the crew share their favorite sports moment from the first half of 2024. Doug gives his thoughts of Big 12 media days and circles back to Mike Gundy's head-scratching comments about Driving Under The Influence. Plus, Monse Bolanos takes Doug through a Wednesday edition of "The Press".
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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the way tire buying should be welcome in. It's a Wednesday,
it's the middle of the week. Although it's really weird.
I look, Jason, I agree with you on this one thing.
And every time somebody says it, like, I go crazy
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now because Jason's like, is it July already? I can't
believe it's almost August August right, like people, Jason loves
that we hates it, but he we love that we
were late on that level. On the other hand, I
would say that it's not because it's you know, we're
(01:04):
in the second week of July because a holiday fell
in the middle of the week, Like what day it
is I have? It takes you so long to adjust?
Is anybody else like that? Right? Where if holiday falls
in so in the middle of the week, And last
time was on Thursday, which is kind of a money
day to have a holiday because then you get the
next day off and then you have a super long weekend.
(01:24):
A lot of people were out since like the second
of July. Now they're just kind of getting back in.
But trying to figure out what day of the week
it is when you had additional weekdays off is one
of the most confusing things to mankind. Maybe I'm the
only one. I'm confused. So today is a Wednesday. A
Wednesday is a hump day. A hump day is also
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the midway point of the week. This is also the
midway point of our show. Reminder, the podcast hour is
after this show, available wherever you download podcasts. Let's get
to midway. It's not getting.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
It's time for.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
The midway, all right, here's the midway. Okay, midway, Okay,
the midway is this is the midway point of the
sports calendar, right, we can do it starts over you know,
or we could just say this is the halfway point.
So anything sports wise that from jan one to now
(02:28):
is first half. Anything from now until December three first
is second half. We'll do favorite. Let's do favorite moment
of the first half of the sports year.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Can I Can I make an abridgment to that? Because sure?
Are we all agree?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Is it a junior bridgement? Uh? Yeah, sorry about the
way you gotta know NBA trivia.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Go ahead, baboheata bridge abridgement.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Bob Ohita Babohata was awesome, and you.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Want to base if you google that, you'll you're going
to laugh after you google it. Okay, So let's see.
Can we start right after the super Bowl, like the
Monday after the super Bowl? Because to me, the sports
calendar year ends with the super Bowl?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Correct, I thought it ended with I thought it ends.
I mean I thought it ends with the fourth July
or that's the midway point. So that's the like the
half point. So once you go back six months, which
should be January one.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Yeah, no, no, if you if you're being winnear and technical,
you're right. I'm just saying that the sports calendar.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
You one after after football, after stuff. Everybody cares about
for the stuff that only we care about.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I want to care about football.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Please, Well, it sounds like you guys have waded in,
So we'll do January first.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
To uh to up to today.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Because no, it's just to one right now.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I actually thought it was going to be from January
until July.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
I did.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I made so it sounds like really wants to talk
about his football team, So you go first, you go first.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Oh, okay, so the disaster of the decision making by
your coach, I get point nine? Is that your favorite moment?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
No, I'll take everything that happened right up until that moment. Sure, nice, Yeah,
that not the way it works.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
But okay, no.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
But I get to enjoy the moment in that history,
considering that my team hadn't had a playoff win since
you're a half.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Full like not that they gag ay a chance to
beat the Niners on the road.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
No, it sucks that that sucks. But everything else leading
up to that moment is cool. And I don't think
that because something bad happens later on that it immediately
annihilates every good, every good thing I felt in the
preceding weekends. I don't I if you want to call
me half full on that then sure, I don't think
that's a bad thing to be a full I don't,
I really do not.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Can I can? I can I get share an event
in a moment that I think we all thoroughly enjoyed. Yes, okay,
do you guys remember the feeling of watching the Packers
go into halftime with the game essentially in hand against
the Cowboys? Yep?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
How much fun was that?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
How much fun was that? And by the way, the
Packers defense was not good last year, so much so
they let the defensive coordinator go right like this was
not a good defense. They had two pick sixes. The
game felt over. It really was over at the half.
And that's I mean, we're just sports is about joy
as much as anything. You know, joy in moments. And
(05:27):
I just remember I was in a Buffalo Wild Wings
with my son and they go to half and he
turns me, He's like, is this thing over? I was like, yes,
it is. He's like at halftime. I was like, yeah,
I kind of think the Packers are going to play
it smart and this thing is like over over, It's
like holy cow, And it was just and everybody's cackling.
(05:48):
It was a really enjoyable moment. So I don't know
if that's the best moment, but that's the most enjoyable
moment I could think of it.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
That is a good one because I agree with you, Doug.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
I think a lot of people would agree with you
that that was a good moment just sports. Unless you
were a Cowboys plane then it.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Wasn't a good one for you. You guys aren't gonna
agree with me.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
But I really liked everything that was going on with
the Chiefs, like them winning, Travis and Taylor Swift, like
all of that, especially because I believed in the true love,
well none of you did, and the true love still going.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
So in the first half of the year, that's I'm like,
I'm still I'm still like, man, I'm happy the Chiefs one.
I'm happy that Travis and Taylor are still together.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Yeah, I'm for that.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
Maybe because it's because I work weekends with Monsey and
I know you, me and rich rich Ornberger have had
these conversations where we just all get gassed up because
we know it annoys guys like Steve Hartman out there.
Oh yeah, like it annoys the older gentleman out there
that it just there was enjoyment with that, and that
I had never gotten off the Chiefs train. I still
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find them likable. I don't think they had that Patriots
turn with them yet. And that Super Bowl I found like,
I did not like the first half that Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I was kind of getting bored.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
But that second half and going to overtime and everything
else that was that was a perfect way to end
that football season. Yeah, once again, it's it's why I
kind of fought to keep everything from the football season
in here because.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
That's my sport.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
I enjoy the NFL, I really do, and I'm spoiling
a bit, but I'm looking forward most of the NFL
season coming up here.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
JAYSETU. Any other moments you want to share?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, I have one.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I gave Mancy a chance to select us and she didn't,
so I'm just gonna take it and run, kay.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Go for it. Now. I was gonna say Kitlin Clark.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Now that this is obvious, Kaitlyn Clark was wonderful, But
there was a specific moment in time, and by moment
I mean like three or four days where.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Kaitlyn Clark won the Final four.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yes, okay, and then in the time between the she
won in the Final Four against LSU maybe okay, and
then she had had to play South Carolina for the
championship game, and in that time, the space was filled
with this amazing culture war, like literally, and I tell
people this that the OJ Simpson verdict was most fascinating
(08:15):
to me when they would show the videos of how
people of color reacted to the verdict and how people
of white people reacted to the verdict, and it was
diametrically opposite the time between Kaylyn and Clark winning the
Final Four and South Carolina. You were rooting for Kaitlyn
Clark because you were white and racist, and you were
(08:36):
rooting against her because you weren't white. And that was
the culture war on Twitter, and it was fascinating to
me that this amazing player doing amazing things was put
in the middle of that conversation. And then the first
quarter of the game against South Carolina was one of
the most fun quarters of basketball I've ever seen in
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my life watching any level of sport. That she just
lit up the scoreboard and couldn't sustain obviously, but the
first quarter of that game against South Carolina was unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Now, it was a good quarter mid what my favorite moment.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I have some others that I'd like to share, please.
I mean, I think Kansas City beating Buffalo have just
the idea. Like I I'm not sure I feel sympathy
for Buffalo, but there's a little bit of sympathy for
Buffalo because they were thirteen seconds away a couple of
years ago from beating them, and now it feels like
they're never going to beat him, doesn't it.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
But it does feel like they have the misfortune of
having this great team, this great coach, this great quarterback,
and also existing at the same times that Patrick Mahomes
and Andy Reid exist together.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yes, yes, NBA wise, we do. There's so many different
parts of it we do forget that were really really amazing.
I thought, you know, I remember I was at game
one of Oklahoma City Dallas, and the next day I
(10:08):
went on to Oklahoma City radio and I said to
my good friend Mark Rodgers, like, I think there's a
path there for the Mavericks to win this thing in
five or six, and he was just like, no way,
that game was a mismatch. I was like, eh, I
don't know. There's a couple of things that are missing
with the Okahoma City Thunder and watching that watching it happen,
(10:32):
and I did pick Mavericks and six and end up
winning in six, but watching Game two and watching Luca
and some of the things that he did, like I
just was my jaw was dropped to the floor, to
the floor at how he can control a game so really,
really amazing.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
I think one of the more fascinating things this is
maybe getting closer to present day, but and I know
it probably cause Lakers fans a lot of pain, but
that whole week of Dan Hurley news.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Was fascinating to me.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
It was fascinating in the sense that everyone felt like
there was no I think I was with you, Doug,
and I think I said that I thought Dan Hurley
was going to go back to Yukon. But there was
a lot of people who felt very very sure that
it's the Lakers, It's Los Angeles. How can you turn
this down at all? And that entire blitz just and
the fallout that has been for the Lakers is very
(11:27):
still very fascinating to me. It feels like a turning
point in how we treat the Lakers organization. That it
went from like you can't say no to the Lakers
to what is going.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
On with say to the Lakers. Good one, Chris, because
I agree.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, I forgot my favorite moment of the ring. You guys,
remember what my favorite moment's.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Ring was, what's getting your new job?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, I mean it's not really a sports moment, Yes,
it is what we're talking about played.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
No, that's a moment. That is a moment.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Yes, I can't believe.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You should have heard Monsey and Dan were filling in
for you last week and we took a call from
Green Bay from Mason and he actually said his favorite
sports moment of the year was was Doug Gottlieb getting
a hired at Green Bay.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
That's it was a pretty amazing call. So air check Doug.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
But by Mason was that you.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
You're really quick. You're like Detective Sherlock Holmes her.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, okay, that's about No, it's I mean I would
just yeah, I have some vivid memories, like I'm sitting
here right now in my office and just remembering like
all of the things that are going through my mind
and it's a little bit out of body experience, but
(12:53):
an incredible experience. And then when I got done with
that day, I was like, I need like fifteen minutes
I walked outside. It was like eighty degrees and I
literally laid on the grass and just like kind of
like soaked it in. You ever heard you every guys
ever done grounding?
Speaker 8 (13:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
You never grounded?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Is that like thing? Not electrical grounding? I help?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
No? No, No, grounding is a midway. There's like a
healing power to grounding. None of you guys ever done it?
No called earthing? You can call it earth thing as well.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Is this an Aaron Rodgers thing?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
It is a little bit of an Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
I've heard that the term barefoot in hiking like people, Yeah,
hike barefoot?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Is that the same.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Sort of it's you know, it's more for functionality. It's
supposed to bring like it's supposed to being kind of
like a balance to you, per.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Are you walking barefoot?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
It was a therapeutic technique that involves doing activities that
ground and electrically reconnect you to the earth. It's a
little it could be a little hokey to people, but
there's actually an alkalinity to it. There's scientific data to
it anyway. So I've done that a lot where I
just like take off your socks and shoes and just
(14:22):
kind of walk and be and kind of feel there. Anyway,
I literally just laid down and just kind of was
one and I was like, this is this is literally
the most amazing kind of twenty four to forty eight
hours of my life. Yeah, it was very much, very different.
That's my favorite one.
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Speaker 1 (14:52):
Live Doug Gottlieb Show Fox Sports Radio coming to you
from the tyrag dot com studios. Uh So, apparently Kawhi
Leonard is a nogu. I can't do it, and I
understand that there is always going to be for whatever reason,
(15:12):
Kahi Leonard gets hurt or his knee is giving him issues,
and he turns out to be, you know, all of
these negative things. I one is maybe it's because I
think he's an amazing basketball player. But two, it's because
I understand the process of rehabbing and trying to figure
(15:33):
out if your body's right. I like the fact that
he tried it, that he went through workouts, that he
gave it a go, and couldn't do it and doesn't
take up a spot for somebody else, because like, look,
Kawhi Leonard deserves the right to be on the Olympic team.
He's that good. He truly is that good, and he
(15:57):
deserves that right. He's earned that right by pulling out. Now,
you know, he gives away a gold medal, one that
Derek White, I guess is now going to be in
that he's going to get a chance to get And
I just however that however that went down, I see
(16:17):
no negativity towards it. I understand that we're all to
the man Kawhi has crossed over from the you know,
a chance to be an all time great to a
what he could have been an all time great if
he hadn't been healthy. Like he's a more accomplished Brandon Roy,
two time finals MVP, surefire first ballot Hall of Famer.
But there are moments over the past couple of years
(16:38):
when he's been healthy, he's been the best player in
the league, but he just hasn't been healthy enough and
may never be healthy again. So I think he's awesome,
But I actually like that he's pulling out of the
Olympics before they go to Paris. Am I wrong there.
(17:00):
Let's get you to Monci Bolanos. Get you quick update
of everything going on in the world of sports Monsey
what he got?
Speaker 5 (17:07):
The semifinals in Euro twenty twenty four continue on Fox
and right now it is a tie game between the
Netherlands in England. They are tied at one apiece after
sixty five minutes of play. Whoever wins will hatch the
finals and they're gonna face Spain on Saturday. As you
just mentioned, no Kawhi Leonard and the US Olympic team.
It's Celtics gard Derek White, who's going to be replacing
(17:28):
him in the WNBA. I don't know why the game
started at eight thirty this morning, Doug, but they did.
Caitlin Clark recorded a stat that has never been recorded
in the w or the NBA twenty nine points, five rebounds,
thirteen assists, five steals and three blocks. But the Mystics
held on to beat the Fever eighty nine to eighty four.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Right now, they probably did it because of summer camps.
It's probably a eleven thirty start and they had like
every summer camp in the area there probably sell out.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
It just seems a little bit weird, like all of
these games. I neither was a reason, but it just
was like eight thirty was the first game. Caitlyn Clark's
on the on the East Coast. Yes, you're right, still
seems really still seems early for.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Like a week. It is really. I don't know if
I've ever told you, guys the story to ever tell
you a story about playing at in Lehigh University in
the USBL. We played we played in DC the night
before and we had a couple guys, my guy Darren
mcclinton's from the DMV, so they all went out after
the game. We get in wee hours the morning, like, hey, guys,
(18:28):
we got a game in eleven tomorrow, like eleven, Yeah,
eleven in Lehigh, which was I felt like it was
like an hour and a half away. So we drive there.
This is the USBL. It's a really really good May
June minor League, summer league whatever that no longer exists anyway.
We roll up to Lehigh's arena and it's packed with
(18:53):
summer camp kids, just packed. And Darryl was a doctor
was it? What's the why? What's uh? Oh man? He
played for the Sixers. Darryl Darryl Dawkins was the head coach. Okay,
(19:14):
and anyway, Darryl Dawkins, famous dunker NBA, came straight out
high school. Anyway, Darl Dwkson is a coach, and we
were getting ready to play and we had all gotten
up late. This before the days of Starbucks. There was
no place to stop get some snacks. It was like, hey,
can we get something to eat? So they brought in
from the concession stands like cokes, hot dogs, and stickers bars.
(19:35):
So I'm starving, got to play a game, drank a coke,
had a hot dog and a stickers Wow. So you
get twenty five dollars a day per diem in the
USBL And we're flying home that night to Oklahoma to
en at Oklahoma out of Philadelphia, which is like an
hour away. So we get done with the game at
like one thirty places pack we end up getting to
(19:57):
win a bunch of screaming little kids in there. And
before we hit the road in these vans to go
to Philadelphi's airport, they give us our per diem. I
get eighteen dollars and fifty cents, and I was like,
why do I have eighteen dollars? Fifty cents, not my
twenty five dollars, Like, well, you got a hot dog,
a coke, and a stickers bar. They took it out
of my per diem. Wow, that's minor league basketball a right,
(20:19):
go ahead, Monsey coo.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Yeah, no, it makes it makes sense as to why
with all the summer caps, like you just said, in
all these things.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
It's the Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio. So Big
Twelve had itself what I think was a great day yesterday.
Unfortunately it was completely overshadowed by Mike Undy's comments like
there's no talk about the Big Twelve, which I thought
Brett or Mark he's done a remarkable job of stabilizing
(20:48):
and growing that league when when he took over it
looked like it may go away. This is Brett yor
Mark and his remark yesterday.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
You said yesterday day quote, you are open for business
discussing the Big Twelve.
Speaker 9 (21:04):
What does that look like to you?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Well, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 10 (21:07):
We're open for business, and we are going to explore
any and all opportunities to create value our players, to
build the brand and the business of the Big Twelve.
And I'm very excited about obviously what's at the forefront
right now is realignment, and that is truly something that
I'm focused on.
Speaker 11 (21:26):
We are truly a national conference in ten states, four
time zones, and all eyes are now on the Big
Twelve for all the right reasons, and I think it's
safe to say we.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Are more relevant now than ever before.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I think he's right, And listen, this is the guy
that's done an amazing job, and not everything he's done
is hit, but it's been ideas, ideas, ideas. Right, he
changed the conversation with the Hey, should we sell the
naming rights to the conference? Should we change the name
of the conference? Like, look, Brett, and I've gotten to
(22:03):
know Brett, and he's awesome. He's awesome. He's a force
of nature. But it's pretty crazy if you think about it,
that no one outside of this current segment I believe
in sports radio is talking about Brett Yormark and the
Big Twelve and their relevance because well, this is what
(22:27):
Mike Gundhy said yesterday. Now, his running back is Oli Gordon.
Obviously full disclosure of Mike's a friend of mine. He's
the head coach and the most successful head coach in
the history of Oklahoma State University. And I like Mike
a great deal, and he is an honest salesman. But
this was not the response to his best player, his
(22:49):
highest paid player, getting a DUI last week on what
his punishment's going to be, what he feels, what he
went through, and trying to decide that punishment earlier this week.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
So I looked it up on my phone.
Speaker 12 (23:04):
What would be the legal limit like in Oklahoma's point
eight and Ollie was point one. So I looked it
up and it was based on body weight. Not to
get into the legal side of it, but I thought, really,
two or three beers or four I'm not justifying what
all he did. I'm telling you what decision I made. Well,
I thought, I've probably done that a thousand times in
(23:26):
my life, and I'm you know, it's just fine.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
So I got lucky. People get lucky.
Speaker 12 (23:31):
All he made a decision that he wished he could
have done better. But when I talked to Ollie, I
told him, I said, you're lucky you got out light
because you make a lot of money to play football.
So back in the day, being able to cover the
cost of what he's going to go through would be
difficult for a college player.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
It's not for him.
Speaker 12 (23:51):
Now I'm not speaking for him, but I'm just saying
that's not an issue for him.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
So nobody got hurt.
Speaker 12 (23:56):
And I said, we see people doing this and people
losing their life across the country, not just football players
but everybody.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
So you got out lucky.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I do think he got out lucky, but he literally
got out scott free with exception of legal fees. Like
that's it. And the I've it's not the time. I
haven't done a thousand times. That's a quote that doesn't
go away a thousand times a lot. And by the way,
(24:28):
the three four or five beers, that's calculated in an hour,
not in a sitting, not a sitting. So I it
feels you know what it feels like. It feels like
when keeping it real goes wrong. That's what it is.
And keeping it real goes wrong, like, hey man, I've
had a couple too many pops and got behind the
wheel of a car before. Okay, that's keeping it real.
(24:50):
I've done it a thousand at least a thousand times.
That's keeping it real goes wrong. You got out lucky,
which is okay, he did. He was lucky. He didn't
hit anybody. Lucky, It could have been a lot worse.
You got to have lucky, And I'm not going to
punish you. Well, that's kind of a joke. You know,
(25:12):
that's just a joke. His punishment is that he has
to pay legal fees and then he had to do
interviews yesterday. What am I missing? You know? I love
that there's no fake Hey, We're not going to make
him fake and do fake community service and they are
I going to fake like he's you know that he's
devastated for or whatever. But man, it just I don't know.
(25:35):
And when Tony Allen first got to Oklahoma State, and
granted Tony Allen was well traveled, unlike Oli Gordon Olli
Gordon no off the field issues at all up until
this one. But Tony Allen's first day on campus as
a student, every the first Thursday, which usually the first
(25:55):
day of class, everybody goes out and he got into
a fight at Waterburger with some football players from Langston,
which is the HBCU, which is about twenty five minutes
away from campus. And when the coaches found out about
it that he got in a fight at one am,
they decided they were going to run the entire team
(26:17):
at one am. So one am for the next week,
you guys want to go out, fine, you go out,
go out to the football field and we're gonna run
at one in the morning. And they ran inside as well.
So I just again, I like Mike. I think he
stands for a lot of the right things. I love
his honesty. But if that's his honesty, like if you've
(26:40):
drank three, four or five beers in an hour and
got behind the wheel of a car a thousand times,
the problems that we and I don't think that's actually true.
The problems that we have are much bigger than Olligard.
One of the calculation problems is it's not three or
four beers. It's three or four beers in an hour,
or four or five beers in an hour, And like, look,
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the only response is that's not okay. Ever, it's not
a decision. He wishes he could do better. Like what
are we talking about? Seriously? I mean, again, here's the
biggest issue that most of us have is you athletes
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want it both ways. And a lot of us who
are in the media and again I'm in the media
as well as coaching, but in the media. We're so
petrified by being critical. You want it both ways. You
want to be treated like a pro. Here's the pro. Okay,
you make a million dollars a year, dude, you can't uber.
(27:43):
Yeah it hurts the team for you to sit and
miss a game. Yes, it hurts the possibility of you
becoming in All America and win in the Heisman Trophy.
That's the decision you made instead of you're like, man,
I'll tell you the biggest punishment. I may hand the
ball fifty times, like what are we doing? What are
we doing? And you can sit there and go, well, God,
(28:06):
if you got in trouble, you made a bad decision college.
I did, but you know what, it wasn't gonna cost
anybody else their life. Can we have some reality here?
And if you want to say he got off lucky,
that's great, Hey, thank goodness. But you're driving a loaded weapon.
That's a weapon. Do we not see the car crash
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with the what's the I keep forgetting it's three football players.
One was of Minnesota Viking, who I mean tragically died.
Did you see his dodge challenger? Did anyone see it?
Chris Purfett, did you see the vehicle.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Yes, I did, for Kyrie Jackson and his teammates. Yeah,
I did.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
It's just it's disintegrated. Gone, it's disintegrated. There is there's
a car there. Like, Mike, you can't say these things?
Does not anybody have the balls to say? Like, dude,
you can't say that. It's not okay, it's not a decision.
He wishes. No, you nearly killed other people. Oh, people
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could have been hurt. No, we just had three football players,
one NFL player get into a car accident, his car
disintegrated same week, and a reaction is well time, I've
done a thousand times. What what his punishment is? He
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has to pay his legal fees because he's a millionaire
from playing college football? Am I living in a it
looks like the universe that I'm used to? It does?
It looks there's a parallel. It seems like the universe
I'm used to. Feels the same, the weather's the same.
(30:02):
But am I living in a parallel universe? That the
most successful? And just so you know, Mike Gundhy doesn't
have to win another football game. He has a rollover contract.
I believe they owe him twenty million dollars if they
ever want to fire him, so it doesn't have to
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be a win at all costing. Like he wants to win,
he wants to do things the right way. But like, dude,
this ain't about money for Mike. And so you know,
when Mike Gunny first got the job at Oklahoma State,
the reason they were down initially was he ran off
anybody who he thought was a bad citizen. Like, Mike's
about the right things, but this one, Holy cow, what
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the hell are you talking about? It's not okay. There
is no referencing and there is no no, it's not
okay ever period at a es actually in this day
and age, to miss the whole point of well, he's
got enough money for legal fees, you know, he else
(31:05):
says enough money for uber lift or call a friend
or just sleep it off. Dude, what I just I
cannot fathom that being any sort of appropriate response. And
(31:30):
I and it's like one of those deals we're like, wait,
this is this is what we're doing. Does the path
we're going? I cannot It's a point oh one, by
the way, it's a point oh eight. But he's underage.
And I look again, do I care about did I
have beers? Did I drink before I was twenty one. Yes, yes, okay,
(31:57):
but I believe and I could be wrong. I'd have
to actually look Oklahoma, like most dates, when you're not
twenty one, I think it's a zero tolerance. So it's
not like he was point to over he was drinking
when he's not allowed to drink at all and drive.
I just what are we doing that? That is the response.
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the air, Let's get to the press, the press. What
he got there? Monte Blana's Well, Doug.
Speaker 6 (33:31):
You were just talking about Big twelve media.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Days and coach Deonce Sanders of the Colorado Buffaloes had
this to say about how he is viewed.
Speaker 9 (33:42):
Do you feel an obligation with whom you are to
perform at a higher level or coach at higher level?
Speaker 13 (33:48):
Yeah, like I gues, Yes, I'm judged on a different scale.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
My wins are totally different than your wins.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
Wins.
Speaker 13 (34:01):
You just judging football. That's why I have to start
out and give you education and academics and so forth.
I have to give you those things so you understand
there's a greater scope. I can't win nine games and
we our GPA suffers. Our GPA can't be high, but
we lose another eight games. We can't not go and
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grab high school players, and you got a bunch of
guys in the portal, out of the portal that's getting concerated.
My wins are different. We have to win in every area.
That's the way we're judged. I'm cool with that because
we come a little different.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
What do you make of that, Duke here, a new
head coach.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Well, I know what he's said. I agree with I
agree with him on one premise that like, wins and
losses are important, and they're probably the most important thing,
but they're not the only thing. On the other hand,
you do realize what he's doing. Right, He's sitting there
going like, well, I'm judged differently, Like, no, everybody's judged
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that way.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Mmmmm.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I believe that he may. I don't know if you disagree,
but he's making it out that because I'm not sure
it's because he's black or because he's Dion and he's
a was a superstar football player and a Hall of
Famer that he thinks he's judged differently. I don't know,
but they're all judged that way.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Yeah, he just think Yeah, I think it's all of
the things you mentioned. I think it's the whole list
As to why he thinks he is judged differently.
Speaker 6 (35:32):
I don't have sound of this, but he.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Did make a joke that he was mad at a
d Rick George for putting them on the schedule to
open up against North Dakota State.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
North kost State is good man.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
Yeah, he says, why didn't you give me a layup?
Or Yeah, like, why couldn't you give me a layup?
Speaker 6 (35:50):
That's all right, you think you feel the same way.
You want to lay up on your first game, Doug?
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Yes, do you know you know he plays?
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Right?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
They play at Colorado State at Nebraska, Yes, before they
play in the Big Twelve, right, Yeah, it's terrible scheduling.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
Yeah, that it's been it's been set for a while,
Like it wasn't just you.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Can get out of it. All you gotta do is
right check if you want to get out of it.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
Ah, there he goes, so.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Yeah, I actually he's completely right, Rick. That schedule is awful.
North Dakota State can beat you. You don't want to play
anybody that can beat you in that first game. Those
you need. You need a couple of games that there's
no chance you can lose, and they that's a tough game. Again.
Then you have, you're gonna have to play and show
what you can play. And then you have to play
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at Colorado State. We know how how competitive that game was.
Plus it's on the road. Then you gotta play at Nebraska.
Like that's terrible scheduling, Yeah, terrible.
Speaker 6 (36:44):
Right now at you're twenty twenty four semi finals. England
has scored the go ahead goal.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
In the ninety ath minute against the Netherlands, so they're
up two to one ninety two minutes in County right
now for this match. Okay, moving on to Copa America.
I don't know if you saw that Drake bet against Argentina.
He bet three hundred thousand dollars that Canada would win,
and know Leonel Messi and Argentina, they ended up beating Canada.
Speaker 6 (37:12):
So the Twitter page.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Yes, the Drakers, but the Argentina Twitter, like the soccer page,
they wanted to poke fun at Drake and so they
tweeted a picture of the team and with the quote
not like us, not with us, which is what's going
on with his rap rival Kendrick Lamar's song that he
has said.
Speaker 6 (37:33):
To him in a message. So even Argentina is taking control.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Argentina's trolling Drake. Yes, so good, Drake. That's the kiss
of death.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
Right, It's like Drake, And also Drake's an idiot.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
He posted a picture of his bet, like why why
you're an idiot?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Don't do that well? Him losing three hundred thousand dollars
is kind of like us listening three dollars.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
That's the interesting this money to burn.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Yeah, it's a flex, but it's not because you always lose,
su it's not really the flex, you know what I'm saying.
All right, quickly here Rory McElroy US Open. Not too
long ago, it seemed like he was in a perfect
position to win. He also was going to go through
a divorce then not anymore. He had a little bit
to say about that moment from the US Open where
kind of things went downhill.
Speaker 14 (38:20):
Yeah, I got over it pretty quickly. Like the few
days after it were pretty tough at times. But yeah,
I feel like I've done a good job of thinking
about it rationally and constructively and taking what I need
from it and trying to learn from it. But like,
for the most part, you know, it was a great day.
(38:40):
I keep saying to people it was a great day until.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
It wasn't until it wasn't Doug, until it was until
who was it?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
I wish you would have shared something with the beer.
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it's the middle of the week. Although it's really weird.
I look, Jason, I agree with you on this one thing.
And every time somebody says it, like, I go crazy
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now because Jason's like, is it July already? I can't
believe it's almost August August right, like people, Jason loves
that we hates it, but he we love that we
were late on that level. On the other hand, I
would say that it's not because it's you know, we're
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in the second week of July because a holiday fell
in the middle of the week, Like what day it
is I have? It takes you so long to adjust?
Is anybody else like that? Right? Where if holiday falls
in so in the middle of the week, And last
time was on Thursday, which is kind of a money
day to have a holiday because then you get the
next day off and then you have a super long weekend.
(01:24):
A lot of people were out since like the second
of July. Now they're just kind of getting back in.
But trying to figure out what day of the week
it is when you had additional weekdays off is one
of the most confusing things to mankind. Maybe I'm the
only one. I'm confused. So today is a Wednesday. A
Wednesday is a hump day. A hump day is also
(01:47):
the midway point of the week. This is also the
midway point of our show. Reminder, the podcast hour is
after this show, available wherever you download podcasts. Let's get
to midway. It's not getting.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
It's time for.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
The midway, all right, here's the midway. Okay, midway, Okay,
the midway is this is the midway point of the
sports calendar, right, we can do it starts over you know,
or we could just say this is the halfway point.
So anything sports wise that from jan one to now
(02:28):
is first half. Anything from now until December three first
is second half. We'll do favorite. Let's do favorite moment
of the first half of the sports year.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Can I Can I make an abridgment to that? Because sure?
Are we all agree?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Is it a junior bridgement? Uh? Yeah, sorry about the
way you gotta know NBA trivia.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Go ahead, baboheata bridge abridgement.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Bob Ohita Babohata was awesome, and you.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Want to base if you google that, you'll you're going
to laugh after you google it. Okay, So let's see.
Can we start right after the super Bowl, like the
Monday after the super Bowl? Because to me, the sports
calendar year ends with the super Bowl?
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Correct, I thought it ended with I thought it ends.
I mean I thought it ends with the fourth July
or that's the midway point. So that's the like the
half point. So once you go back six months, which
should be January one.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Yeah, no, no, if you if you're being winnear and technical,
you're right. I'm just saying that the sports calendar.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
You one after after football, after stuff. Everybody cares about
for the stuff that only we care about.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I want to care about football.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Please, Well, it sounds like you guys have waded in,
So we'll do January first.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
To uh to up to today.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Because no, it's just to one right now.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
I actually thought it was going to be from January
until July.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
I did.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I made so it sounds like really wants to talk
about his football team, So you go first, you go first.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Oh, okay, so the disaster of the decision making by
your coach, I get point nine? Is that your favorite moment?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
No, I'll take everything that happened right up until that moment. Sure, nice, Yeah,
that not the way it works.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
But okay, no.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
But I get to enjoy the moment in that history,
considering that my team hadn't had a playoff win since
you're a half.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Full like not that they gag ay a chance to
beat the Niners on the road.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
No, it sucks that that sucks. But everything else leading
up to that moment is cool. And I don't think
that because something bad happens later on that it immediately
annihilates every good, every good thing I felt in the
preceding weekends. I don't I if you want to call
me half full on that then sure, I don't think
that's a bad thing to be a full I don't,
I really do not.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Can I can? I can I get share an event
in a moment that I think we all thoroughly enjoyed. Yes, okay,
do you guys remember the feeling of watching the Packers
go into halftime with the game essentially in hand against
the Cowboys? Yep?
Speaker 5 (05:04):
How much fun was that?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
How much fun was that? And by the way, the
Packers defense was not good last year, so much so
they let the defensive coordinator go right like this was
not a good defense. They had two pick sixes. The
game felt over. It really was over at the half.
And that's I mean, we're just sports is about joy
as much as anything. You know, joy in moments. And
(05:27):
I just remember I was in a Buffalo Wild Wings
with my son and they go to half and he
turns me, He's like, is this thing over? I was like, yes,
it is. He's like at halftime. I was like, yeah,
I kind of think the Packers are going to play
it smart and this thing is like over over, It's
like holy cow, And it was just and everybody's cackling.
(05:48):
It was a really enjoyable moment. So I don't know
if that's the best moment, but that's the most enjoyable
moment I could think of it.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
That is a good one because I agree with you, Doug.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
I think a lot of people would agree with you
that that was a good moment just sports. Unless you
were a Cowboys plane then it.
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Wasn't a good one for you. You guys aren't gonna
agree with me.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
But I really liked everything that was going on with
the Chiefs, like them winning, Travis and Taylor Swift, like
all of that, especially because I believed in the true love,
well none of you did, and the true love still going.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
So in the first half of the year, that's I'm like,
I'm still I'm still like, man, I'm happy the Chiefs one.
I'm happy that Travis and Taylor are still together.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Yeah, I'm for that.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
Maybe because it's because I work weekends with Monsey and
I know you, me and rich rich Ornberger have had
these conversations where we just all get gassed up because
we know it annoys guys like Steve Hartman out there.
Oh yeah, like it annoys the older gentleman out there
that it just there was enjoyment with that, and that
I had never gotten off the Chiefs train. I still
(06:58):
find them likable. I don't think they had that Patriots
turn with them yet. And that Super Bowl I found like,
I did not like the first half that Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I was kind of getting bored.
Speaker 7 (07:07):
But that second half and going to overtime and everything
else that was that was a perfect way to end
that football season. Yeah, once again, it's it's why I
kind of fought to keep everything from the football season
in here because.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
That's my sport.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
I enjoy the NFL, I really do, and I'm spoiling
a bit, but I'm looking forward most of the NFL
season coming up here.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
JAYSETU. Any other moments you want to share?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, I have one.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I gave Mancy a chance to select us and she didn't,
so I'm just gonna take it and run, kay.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Go for it. Now. I was gonna say Kitlin Clark.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Now that this is obvious, Kaitlyn Clark was wonderful, But
there was a specific moment in time, and by moment
I mean like three or four days where.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Kaitlyn Clark won the Final four.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yes, okay, and then in the time between the she
won in the Final Four against LSU maybe okay, and
then she had had to play South Carolina for the
championship game, and in that time, the space was filled
with this amazing culture war, like literally, and I tell
people this that the OJ Simpson verdict was most fascinating
(08:15):
to me when they would show the videos of how
people of color reacted to the verdict and how people
of white people reacted to the verdict, and it was
diametrically opposite the time between Kaylyn and Clark winning the
Final Four and South Carolina. You were rooting for Kaitlyn
Clark because you were white and racist, and you were
(08:36):
rooting against her because you weren't white. And that was
the culture war on Twitter, and it was fascinating to
me that this amazing player doing amazing things was put
in the middle of that conversation. And then the first
quarter of the game against South Carolina was one of
the most fun quarters of basketball I've ever seen in
(08:56):
my life watching any level of sport. That she just
lit up the scoreboard and couldn't sustain obviously, but the
first quarter of that game against South Carolina was unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Now, it was a good quarter mid what my favorite moment.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I have some others that I'd like to share, please.
I mean, I think Kansas City beating Buffalo have just
the idea. Like I I'm not sure I feel sympathy
for Buffalo, but there's a little bit of sympathy for
Buffalo because they were thirteen seconds away a couple of
years ago from beating them, and now it feels like
they're never going to beat him, doesn't it.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
But it does feel like they have the misfortune of
having this great team, this great coach, this great quarterback,
and also existing at the same times that Patrick Mahomes
and Andy Reid exist together.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yes, yes, NBA wise, we do. There's so many different
parts of it we do forget that were really really amazing.
I thought, you know, I remember I was at game
one of Oklahoma City Dallas, and the next day I
(10:08):
went on to Oklahoma City radio and I said to
my good friend Mark Rodgers, like, I think there's a
path there for the Mavericks to win this thing in
five or six, and he was just like, no way,
that game was a mismatch. I was like, eh, I
don't know. There's a couple of things that are missing
with the Okahoma City Thunder and watching that watching it happen,
(10:32):
and I did pick Mavericks and six and end up
winning in six, but watching Game two and watching Luca
and some of the things that he did, like I
just was my jaw was dropped to the floor, to
the floor at how he can control a game so really,
really amazing.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
I think one of the more fascinating things this is
maybe getting closer to present day, but and I know
it probably cause Lakers fans a lot of pain, but
that whole week of Dan Hurley news.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Was fascinating to me.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
It was fascinating in the sense that everyone felt like
there was no I think I was with you, Doug,
and I think I said that I thought Dan Hurley
was going to go back to Yukon. But there was
a lot of people who felt very very sure that
it's the Lakers, It's Los Angeles. How can you turn
this down at all? And that entire blitz just and
the fallout that has been for the Lakers is very
(11:27):
still very fascinating to me. It feels like a turning
point in how we treat the Lakers organization. That it
went from like you can't say no to the Lakers
to what is going.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
On with say to the Lakers. Good one, Chris, because
I agree.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yeah, I forgot my favorite moment of the ring. You guys,
remember what my favorite moment's.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Ring was, what's getting your new job?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, I mean it's not really a sports moment, Yes,
it is what we're talking about played.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
No, that's a moment. That is a moment.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Yes, I can't believe.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
You should have heard Monsey and Dan were filling in
for you last week and we took a call from
Green Bay from Mason and he actually said his favorite
sports moment of the year was was Doug Gottlieb getting
a hired at Green Bay.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
That's it was a pretty amazing call. So air check Doug.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
But by Mason was that you.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
You're really quick. You're like Detective Sherlock Holmes her.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, okay, that's about No, it's I mean I would
just yeah, I have some vivid memories, like I'm sitting
here right now in my office and just remembering like
all of the things that are going through my mind
and it's a little bit out of body experience, but
(12:53):
an incredible experience. And then when I got done with
that day, I was like, I need like fifteen minutes
I walked outside. It was like eighty degrees and I
literally laid on the grass and just like kind of
like soaked it in. You ever heard you every guys
ever done grounding?
Speaker 8 (13:10):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
You never grounded?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Is that like thing? Not electrical grounding? I help?
Speaker 1 (13:17):
No? No, No, grounding is a midway. There's like a
healing power to grounding. None of you guys ever done it?
No called earthing? You can call it earth thing as well.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Is this an Aaron Rodgers thing?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
It is a little bit of an Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
I've heard that the term barefoot in hiking like people, Yeah,
hike barefoot?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Is that the same.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Sort of it's you know, it's more for functionality. It's
supposed to bring like it's supposed to being kind of
like a balance to you, per.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Are you walking barefoot?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
It was a therapeutic technique that involves doing activities that
ground and electrically reconnect you to the earth. It's a
little it could be a little hokey to people, but
there's actually an alkalinity to it. There's scientific data to
it anyway. So I've done that a lot where I
just like take off your socks and shoes and just
(14:22):
kind of walk and be and kind of feel there. Anyway,
I literally just laid down and just kind of was
one and I was like, this is this is literally
the most amazing kind of twenty four to forty eight
hours of my life. Yeah, it was very much, very different.
That's my favorite one.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
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Speaker 1 (14:52):
Live Doug Gottlieb Show Fox Sports Radio coming to you
from the tyrag dot com studios. Uh So, apparently Kawhi
Leonard is a nogu. I can't do it, and I
understand that there is always going to be for whatever reason,
(15:12):
Kahi Leonard gets hurt or his knee is giving him issues,
and he turns out to be, you know, all of
these negative things. I one is maybe it's because I
think he's an amazing basketball player. But two, it's because
I understand the process of rehabbing and trying to figure
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out if your body's right. I like the fact that
he tried it, that he went through workouts, that he
gave it a go, and couldn't do it and doesn't
take up a spot for somebody else, because like, look,
Kawhi Leonard deserves the right to be on the Olympic team.
He's that good. He truly is that good, and he
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deserves that right. He's earned that right by pulling out. Now,
you know, he gives away a gold medal, one that
Derek White, I guess is now going to be in
that he's going to get a chance to get And
I just however that however that went down, I see
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no negativity towards it. I understand that we're all to
the man Kawhi has crossed over from the you know,
a chance to be an all time great to a
what he could have been an all time great if
he hadn't been healthy. Like he's a more accomplished Brandon Roy,
two time finals MVP, surefire first ballot Hall of Famer.
But there are moments over the past couple of years
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when he's been healthy, he's been the best player in
the league, but he just hasn't been healthy enough and
may never be healthy again. So I think he's awesome,
But I actually like that he's pulling out of the
Olympics before they go to Paris. Am I wrong there.
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Let's get you to Monci Bolanos. Get you quick update
of everything going on in the world of sports Monsey
what he got?
Speaker 5 (17:07):
The semifinals in Euro twenty twenty four continue on Fox
and right now it is a tie game between the
Netherlands in England. They are tied at one apiece after
sixty five minutes of play. Whoever wins will hatch the
finals and they're gonna face Spain on Saturday. As you
just mentioned, no Kawhi Leonard and the US Olympic team.
It's Celtics gard Derek White, who's going to be replacing
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him in the WNBA. I don't know why the game
started at eight thirty this morning, Doug, but they did.
Caitlin Clark recorded a stat that has never been recorded
in the w or the NBA twenty nine points, five rebounds,
thirteen assists, five steals and three blocks. But the Mystics
held on to beat the Fever eighty nine to eighty four.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Right now, they probably did it because of summer camps.
It's probably a eleven thirty start and they had like
every summer camp in the area there probably sell out.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
It just seems a little bit weird, like all of
these games. I neither was a reason, but it just
was like eight thirty was the first game. Caitlyn Clark's
on the on the East Coast. Yes, you're right, still
seems really still seems early for.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Like a week. It is really. I don't know if
I've ever told you, guys the story to ever tell
you a story about playing at in Lehigh University in
the USBL. We played we played in DC the night
before and we had a couple guys, my guy Darren
mcclinton's from the DMV, so they all went out after
the game. We get in wee hours the morning, like, hey, guys,
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we got a game in eleven tomorrow, like eleven, Yeah,
eleven in Lehigh, which was I felt like it was
like an hour and a half away. So we drive there.
This is the USBL. It's a really really good May
June minor League, summer league whatever that no longer exists anyway.
We roll up to Lehigh's arena and it's packed with
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summer camp kids, just packed. And Darryl was a doctor
was it? What's the why? What's uh? Oh man? He
played for the Sixers. Darryl Darryl Dawkins was the head coach. Okay,
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and anyway, Darryl Dawkins, famous dunker NBA, came straight out
high school. Anyway, Darl Dwkson is a coach, and we
were getting ready to play and we had all gotten
up late. This before the days of Starbucks. There was
no place to stop get some snacks. It was like, hey,
can we get something to eat? So they brought in
from the concession stands like cokes, hot dogs, and stickers bars.
(19:35):
So I'm starving, got to play a game, drank a coke,
had a hot dog and a stickers Wow. So you
get twenty five dollars a day per diem in the
USBL And we're flying home that night to Oklahoma to
en at Oklahoma out of Philadelphia, which is like an
hour away. So we get done with the game at
like one thirty places pack we end up getting to
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win a bunch of screaming little kids in there. And
before we hit the road in these vans to go
to Philadelphi's airport, they give us our per diem. I
get eighteen dollars and fifty cents, and I was like,
why do I have eighteen dollars? Fifty cents, not my
twenty five dollars, Like, well, you got a hot dog,
a coke, and a stickers bar. They took it out
of my per diem. Wow, that's minor league basketball a right,
(20:19):
go ahead, Monsey coo.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Yeah, no, it makes it makes sense as to why
with all the summer caps, like you just said, in
all these things.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
It's the Doug Gottlieb Show, Fox Sports Radio. So Big
Twelve had itself what I think was a great day yesterday.
Unfortunately it was completely overshadowed by Mike Undy's comments like
there's no talk about the Big Twelve, which I thought
Brett or Mark he's done a remarkable job of stabilizing
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and growing that league when when he took over it
looked like it may go away. This is Brett yor
Mark and his remark yesterday.
Speaker 10 (20:58):
You said yesterday day quote, you are open for business
discussing the Big Twelve.
Speaker 9 (21:04):
What does that look like to you?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Well, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 10 (21:07):
We're open for business, and we are going to explore
any and all opportunities to create value our players, to
build the brand and the business of the Big Twelve.
And I'm very excited about obviously what's at the forefront
right now is realignment, and that is truly something that
I'm focused on.
Speaker 11 (21:26):
We are truly a national conference in ten states, four
time zones, and all eyes are now on the Big
Twelve for all the right reasons, and I think it's
safe to say we.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Are more relevant now than ever before.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I think he's right, And listen, this is the guy
that's done an amazing job, and not everything he's done
is hit, but it's been ideas, ideas, ideas. Right, he
changed the conversation with the Hey, should we sell the
naming rights to the conference? Should we change the name
of the conference? Like, look, Brett, and I've gotten to
(22:03):
know Brett, and he's awesome. He's awesome. He's a force
of nature. But it's pretty crazy if you think about it,
that no one outside of this current segment I believe
in sports radio is talking about Brett Yormark and the
Big Twelve and their relevance because well, this is what
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Mike Gundhy said yesterday. Now, his running back is Oli Gordon.
Obviously full disclosure of Mike's a friend of mine. He's
the head coach and the most successful head coach in
the history of Oklahoma State University. And I like Mike
a great deal, and he is an honest salesman. But
this was not the response to his best player, his
(22:49):
highest paid player, getting a DUI last week on what
his punishment's going to be, what he feels, what he
went through, and trying to decide that punishment earlier this week.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
So I looked it up on my phone.
Speaker 12 (23:04):
What would be the legal limit like in Oklahoma's point
eight and Ollie was point one. So I looked it
up and it was based on body weight. Not to
get into the legal side of it, but I thought, really,
two or three beers or four I'm not justifying what
all he did. I'm telling you what decision I made. Well,
I thought, I've probably done that a thousand times in
(23:26):
my life, and I'm you know, it's just fine.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
So I got lucky. People get lucky.
Speaker 12 (23:31):
All he made a decision that he wished he could
have done better. But when I talked to Ollie, I
told him, I said, you're lucky you got out light
because you make a lot of money to play football.
So back in the day, being able to cover the
cost of what he's going to go through would be
difficult for a college player.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
It's not for him.
Speaker 12 (23:51):
Now I'm not speaking for him, but I'm just saying
that's not an issue for him.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
So nobody got hurt.
Speaker 12 (23:56):
And I said, we see people doing this and people
losing their life across the country, not just football players
but everybody.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
So you got out lucky.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
I do think he got out lucky, but he literally
got out scott free with exception of legal fees. Like
that's it. And the I've it's not the time. I
haven't done a thousand times. That's a quote that doesn't
go away a thousand times a lot. And by the way,
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the three four or five beers, that's calculated in an hour,
not in a sitting, not a sitting. So I it
feels you know what it feels like. It feels like
when keeping it real goes wrong. That's what it is.
And keeping it real goes wrong, like, hey man, I've
had a couple too many pops and got behind the
wheel of a car before. Okay, that's keeping it real.
(24:50):
I've done it a thousand at least a thousand times.
That's keeping it real goes wrong. You got out lucky,
which is okay, he did. He was lucky. He didn't
hit anybody. Lucky, It could have been a lot worse.
You got to have lucky, And I'm not going to
punish you. Well, that's kind of a joke. You know,
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that's just a joke. His punishment is that he has
to pay legal fees and then he had to do
interviews yesterday. What am I missing? You know? I love
that there's no fake Hey, We're not going to make
him fake and do fake community service and they are
I going to fake like he's you know that he's
devastated for or whatever. But man, it just I don't know.
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And when Tony Allen first got to Oklahoma State, and
granted Tony Allen was well traveled, unlike Oli Gordon Olli
Gordon no off the field issues at all up until
this one. But Tony Allen's first day on campus as
a student, every the first Thursday, which usually the first
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day of class, everybody goes out and he got into
a fight at Waterburger with some football players from Langston,
which is the HBCU, which is about twenty five minutes
away from campus. And when the coaches found out about
it that he got in a fight at one am,
they decided they were going to run the entire team
(26:17):
at one am. So one am for the next week,
you guys want to go out, fine, you go out,
go out to the football field and we're gonna run
at one in the morning. And they ran inside as well.
So I just again, I like Mike. I think he
stands for a lot of the right things. I love
his honesty. But if that's his honesty, like if you've
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drank three, four or five beers in an hour and
got behind the wheel of a car a thousand times,
the problems that we and I don't think that's actually true.
The problems that we have are much bigger than Olligard.
One of the calculation problems is it's not three or
four beers. It's three or four beers in an hour,
or four or five beers in an hour, And like, look,
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the only response is that's not okay. Ever, it's not
a decision. He wishes he could do better. Like what
are we talking about? Seriously? I mean, again, here's the
biggest issue that most of us have is you athletes
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want it both ways. And a lot of us who
are in the media and again I'm in the media
as well as coaching, but in the media. We're so
petrified by being critical. You want it both ways. You
want to be treated like a pro. Here's the pro. Okay,
you make a million dollars a year, dude, you can't uber.
(27:43):
Yeah it hurts the team for you to sit and
miss a game. Yes, it hurts the possibility of you
becoming in All America and win in the Heisman Trophy.
That's the decision you made instead of you're like, man,
I'll tell you the biggest punishment. I may hand the
ball fifty times, like what are we doing? What are
we doing? And you can sit there and go, well, God,
(28:06):
if you got in trouble, you made a bad decision college.
I did, but you know what, it wasn't gonna cost
anybody else their life. Can we have some reality here?
And if you want to say he got off lucky,
that's great, Hey, thank goodness. But you're driving a loaded weapon.
That's a weapon. Do we not see the car crash
(28:31):
with the what's the I keep forgetting it's three football players.
One was of Minnesota Viking, who I mean tragically died.
Did you see his dodge challenger? Did anyone see it?
Chris Purfett, did you see the vehicle.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Yes, I did, for Kyrie Jackson and his teammates. Yeah,
I did.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
It's just it's disintegrated. Gone, it's disintegrated. There is there's
a car there. Like, Mike, you can't say these things?
Does not anybody have the balls to say? Like, dude,
you can't say that. It's not okay, it's not a decision.
He wishes. No, you nearly killed other people. Oh, people
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could have been hurt. No, we just had three football players,
one NFL player get into a car accident, his car
disintegrated same week, and a reaction is well time, I've
done a thousand times. What what his punishment is? He
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has to pay his legal fees because he's a millionaire
from playing college football? Am I living in a it
looks like the universe that I'm used to? It does?
It looks there's a parallel. It seems like the universe
I'm used to. Feels the same, the weather's the same.
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But am I living in a parallel universe? That the
most successful? And just so you know, Mike Gundhy doesn't
have to win another football game. He has a rollover contract.
I believe they owe him twenty million dollars if they
ever want to fire him, so it doesn't have to
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be a win at all costing. Like he wants to win,
he wants to do things the right way. But like, dude,
this ain't about money for Mike. And so you know,
when Mike Gunny first got the job at Oklahoma State,
the reason they were down initially was he ran off
anybody who he thought was a bad citizen. Like, Mike's
about the right things, but this one, Holy cow, what
(30:44):
the hell are you talking about? It's not okay. There
is no referencing and there is no no, it's not
okay ever period at a es actually in this day
and age, to miss the whole point of well, he's
got enough money for legal fees, you know, he else
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says enough money for uber lift or call a friend
or just sleep it off. Dude, what I just I
cannot fathom that being any sort of appropriate response. And
(31:30):
I and it's like one of those deals we're like, wait,
this is this is what we're doing. Does the path
we're going? I cannot It's a point oh one, by
the way, it's a point oh eight. But he's underage.
And I look again, do I care about did I
have beers? Did I drink before I was twenty one. Yes, yes, okay,
(31:57):
but I believe and I could be wrong. I'd have
to actually look Oklahoma, like most dates, when you're not
twenty one, I think it's a zero tolerance. So it's
not like he was point to over he was drinking
when he's not allowed to drink at all and drive.
I just what are we doing that? That is the response.
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the air, Let's get to the press, the press. What
he got there? Monte Blana's Well, Doug.
Speaker 6 (33:31):
You were just talking about Big twelve media.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Days and coach Deonce Sanders of the Colorado Buffaloes had
this to say about how he is viewed.
Speaker 9 (33:42):
Do you feel an obligation with whom you are to
perform at a higher level or coach at higher level?
Speaker 13 (33:48):
Yeah, like I gues, Yes, I'm judged on a different scale.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
My wins are totally different than your wins.
Speaker 7 (34:00):
Wins.
Speaker 13 (34:01):
You just judging football. That's why I have to start
out and give you education and academics and so forth.
I have to give you those things so you understand
there's a greater scope. I can't win nine games and
we our GPA suffers. Our GPA can't be high, but
we lose another eight games. We can't not go and
(34:23):
grab high school players, and you got a bunch of
guys in the portal, out of the portal that's getting concerated.
My wins are different. We have to win in every area.
That's the way we're judged. I'm cool with that because
we come a little different.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
What do you make of that, Duke here, a new
head coach.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Well, I know what he's said. I agree with I
agree with him on one premise that like, wins and
losses are important, and they're probably the most important thing,
but they're not the only thing. On the other hand,
you do realize what he's doing. Right, He's sitting there
going like, well, I'm judged differently, Like, no, everybody's judged
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that way.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Mmmmm.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
I believe that he may. I don't know if you disagree,
but he's making it out that because I'm not sure
it's because he's black or because he's Dion and he's
a was a superstar football player and a Hall of
Famer that he thinks he's judged differently. I don't know,
but they're all judged that way.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Yeah, he just think Yeah, I think it's all of
the things you mentioned. I think it's the whole list
As to why he thinks he is judged differently.
Speaker 6 (35:32):
I don't have sound of this, but he.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Did make a joke that he was mad at a
d Rick George for putting them on the schedule to
open up against North Dakota State.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
North kost State is good man.
Speaker 5 (35:44):
Yeah, he says, why didn't you give me a layup?
Or Yeah, like, why couldn't you give me a layup?
Speaker 6 (35:50):
That's all right, you think you feel the same way.
You want to lay up on your first game, Doug?
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Yes, do you know you know he plays?
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Right?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
They play at Colorado State at Nebraska, Yes, before they
play in the Big Twelve, right, Yeah, it's terrible scheduling.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
Yeah, that it's been it's been set for a while,
Like it wasn't just you.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Can get out of it. All you gotta do is
right check if you want to get out of it.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
Ah, there he goes, so.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Yeah, I actually he's completely right, Rick. That schedule is awful.
North Dakota State can beat you. You don't want to play
anybody that can beat you in that first game. Those
you need. You need a couple of games that there's
no chance you can lose, and they that's a tough game. Again.
Then you have, you're gonna have to play and show
what you can play. And then you have to play
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at Colorado State. We know how how competitive that game was.
Plus it's on the road. Then you gotta play at Nebraska.
Like that's terrible scheduling, Yeah, terrible.
Speaker 6 (36:44):
Right now at you're twenty twenty four semi finals. England
has scored the go ahead goal.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
In the ninety ath minute against the Netherlands, so they're
up two to one ninety two minutes in County right
now for this match. Okay, moving on to Copa America.
I don't know if you saw that Drake bet against Argentina.
He bet three hundred thousand dollars that Canada would win,
and know Leonel Messi and Argentina, they ended up beating Canada.
Speaker 6 (37:12):
So the Twitter page.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Yes, the Drakers, but the Argentina Twitter, like the soccer page,
they wanted to poke fun at Drake and so they
tweeted a picture of the team and with the quote
not like us, not with us, which is what's going
on with his rap rival Kendrick Lamar's song that he
has said.
Speaker 6 (37:33):
To him in a message. So even Argentina is taking control.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
Argentina's trolling Drake. Yes, so good, Drake. That's the kiss
of death.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
Right, It's like Drake, And also Drake's an idiot.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
He posted a picture of his bet, like why why
you're an idiot?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Don't do that well? Him losing three hundred thousand dollars
is kind of like us listening three dollars.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
That's the interesting this money to burn.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Yeah, it's a flex, but it's not because you always lose,
su it's not really the flex, you know what I'm saying.
All right, quickly here Rory McElroy US Open. Not too
long ago, it seemed like he was in a perfect
position to win. He also was going to go through
a divorce then not anymore. He had a little bit
to say about that moment from the US Open where
kind of things went downhill.
Speaker 14 (38:20):
Yeah, I got over it pretty quickly. Like the few
days after it were pretty tough at times. But yeah,
I feel like I've done a good job of thinking
about it rationally and constructively and taking what I need
from it and trying to learn from it. But like,
for the most part, you know, it was a great day.
(38:40):
I keep saying to people it was a great day until.
Speaker 6 (38:42):
It wasn't until it wasn't Doug, until it was until
who was it?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
I wish you would have shared something with the beer.
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