Apply all the clichéd adjectives you want to the Philadelphia 76ers’ 105-104 win over the Miami Heat in Wednesday’s play-in game: gritty, old-school, physical, hard-nosed. This was not the beautiful game, but rather a scrappy slopfest befitting a high-stakes postseason contest. The four players who took the most shots made a combined 33 percent of their attempts: But after overcoming a 12-point half-time deficit and several rounds of boos from the home crowd, the 76ers can breathe a sigh of...
Justin, Rob, and Wos start with their reactions to the two Eastern Conference play-in games, first with the Sixers beating the Heat, and then the Bulls beating the Hawks. They also briefly discuss their thoughts on Sixers-Knicks in the first round and how injuries will impact the Heat and Bulls moving forward. Then, they talk about Jontay Porter getting a lifetime ban from the NBA for betting. In the second part of the podcast, they debut a new segment called “The Verriables,” where they answer...
Ian is joined by Ryan Hunn and Arsenal Vision’s Clive Palmer for instant reaction to Arsenal’s defeat to Bayern, which saw them go out of the Champions League at the quarterfinal stage. There’s talk about the game, how this Arsenal side has progressed, what might help the team in games like this, and whether tiredness as well as a lack of experience, played a factor. Host: Ian WrightGuests: Ryan Hunn and Clive PalmerProducers: Ryan Hunn and Roscoe BowmanAdditional Production: Jonathan Fisher...
House and Hubbard are back to give their final takeaways from this year’s Masters tournament, including what the TV ratings for the event mean. They also talk about how they enjoyed seeing Tiger perform over the weekend (05:01). Then, they briefly discuss the nonsense rumors regarding Rory McIlroy joining LIV Golf and whether he can win a major this season (27:16) before offering their preview and picks for the RBC Heritage (35:35). Hosts: Joe House and Nathan HubbardProducer: Eduardo Ocampo...
The official start of the 2023-24 NBA playoffs remains days away, yet playoff discourse has already reached peak form. The play-in matchups and playoff seeds that resulted from the weekend’s Game 82 chaos set up one big question that immediately made headlines at ESPN and elsewhere: Should the eighth-seeded Lakers intentionally lose the West’s 7 vs. 8 play-in game because its winner will face the defending champion Denver Nuggets in the first round? If they did, the Lakers would be forced into...
When a particular brand of greatness persists for more than two decades, as LeBron James’s career has, certain real-time moments can feel like inadvertent communes with the past. Watching James freely and calmly dismantle the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday in the final game of the 2023-24 regular season, I found myself thinking about 2015 and the luxuries LeBron possesses today, at 39, that he couldn’t access then at the ripe old age of 30. In other words, I was beside myself after witnessing...
Last December, after a professional golfer named Jon Rahm showed up on Fox News wearing a varsity jacket with the LIV Golf logo, a Reddit user going by the name Golfhood started a thread with the subject line: “I’m done with pro golf.” Golfhood claimed to be a former mini-tour player who had been working in the golf industry for nearly 15 years. The game, to Golfhood, was a way to break free of everyday life for a few hours, talk trash with friends, and eat hot dogs at the turn. But the...
Ceruti and Paul return to recap the latest in the Premier League (8:55). Then, they preview this week’s UCL matchups (18:15). They finish the episode by doing their Americans Abroad segment and giving out their best bets (48:36). Hosts: Steve Ceruti and Paul CarrProducer: Stefan Anderson Subscribe: Spotify
We watch in hopes that all our questions and maybes will harden, over the course of a game, into certainties, but even after the final buzzer sounds, sports has a maddening way of leaving us with a litany of “what-ifs.” In the final five seconds of what was the most anticipated college basketball game since well, chart-topping Iowa-LSU earlier this week, the ball was in the hands of one of the game’s central characters, Paige Bueckers, with her UConn Huskies down one point against Caitlin...