Panthers 2018 preview, NFL story lines we are excited about, Braves are good again, and a fresh round of Buy, Sell or Hold
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Panther’s season preview
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Ep. 38 - Carolina Panthers upcoming 2017 season and NCFC's bid for Major League Soccer team
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Mike and Drew discuss the firing of David Gettlemen from the Carolina Panther's front office and what the upcoming Panther's season will be like. We also discuss the prospect of Major League Soccer coming to the Triangle and compare the Carolina Hurricane's struggles with the likelihood of MLS success.
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Ep. 36 - Top 3 Lesson Learned from 1st Round NBA Playoffs
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What are the Top 3 Lessons from Round 1? What did we learn from Cavaliers 4-0 sweep that included a 26 point come from behind victory? Were the Celtics ever really on the ropes? Listen as newcomer Willie Green joins Mike and Drew to talk about playing at Rucker Park, life as a Knicks fan, and, mostly, the NBA playoffs. Mike explains why the LaMarcus Aldridge Spurs are so different from the Tim Duncan Spurs, while Willie explains the Clippers curse and compares the Utah Jazz to a “buzzsaw.” (That’s not a typo.) Join us for that and post-Round 1 investments tips.
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Ep. 35 - NBA Playoffs - Best First Round Matchups
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NBA Playoffs? NBA Playoffs! Can LeBron flip the switch? Early round upset? Could James Harden survive the force of nature that is Westbrook and shoot down the Spurs? The NBA renaissance is fully upon us and Drew and Mike will break down the 2017 match-ups (assuming Drew can figure out exactly whose playing). Listen as Drew tries to explain how Steph Curry is worse this year (he isn't) and Mike throws Tyler Zeller a shout out. Oh, and find out who the most interesting player in the NBA is right now.
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Ep. 34 - Playing JV basketball for the UNC Tarheels
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UNC basketball program just won its sixth national championship and its third one under Roy Williams. But before Roy was head coach, for 8 years he was an assistant coach under Dean Smith and during that time he was head coach of the UNC JV Mens basketball team. Dean Smith believed that every student should have a chance to play on the JV team. And if you played two years for the JV team you are given the chance to try out for the Varsity program. Which means hypothetically at least any UNC student can make the Varsity team and in doing so possible play along side the next Sam Perkins, Vince...
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Ep. 33 - UNC beats Gonzaga - Our "real-time" reactions
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We recorded our pre-game predictions, mid-game reaction and post-game conclusions and then stitched them together in the podcast SPECIAL EDITION. . Relive the NCAA championship game with Ron, Mike and Drew as it was happening.
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Ep. 32 - ACC Bombs, Our Sweet 16 Picks And The NCAA And HB2 Combine To Hose Duke
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How come the ACC got smoked during a wild opening weekend of the NCAA Tournament? Why did the NCAA force Duke to play a road game as a second seed? Plus, we discuss our favorite Sweet 16 matchups (Gonzaga-West Virginia/Kentucky-UCLA, anyone?) before a spirited round of Buy, Sell or Hold in which we predict whether or not Gonzaga will finally reach its first Final Four, North Carolina will succeed at winning it all a year after coming up agonizingly short, and Drew makes the (weak?) case that Greensboro, N.C., is an iconic sports town on par with Green Bay, Wisc., as well as a cultural mecca...
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BONUS - ACC Player Predictions: Who's staying and who's going?
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Now that the Sweet Sixteen is here and only 1 ACC team has it, this talk is more relevant in ever. Avid listeners of the podcast will recognize this as Part 3 of Episode 30. In it, we take a list of ACC players with professional basketball hopes and Ron and Mike debate whether they will stay in school or go on to play professional basketball next year. It’s a segment we called “Staying or Going”.
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Ep. 31 - March Madness - Steal These Picks!
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It's NCAA Tournament time and if you are looking for a No. 12 (or 13) seed to pick to get an upset or wondering which No. 1 or 2 seed is most likely to lose, listen to this episode! In it Drew mines Mike and Ron for their best pick ideas and then brazenly challenges them to a competition. We debate the No. 1 seeds - Villanova, Kansas, Gonzaga and North Carolina. Did the Heels deserve it with seven losses - tied for the most ever for a top seed? Or should Duke, which won the ACC Tournament in fashion Ron Found spectacular and Mike found "one or two plays away from us not talking about them at...
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Ep. 30 - Duke-Carolina, Debating The All-ACC Teams, And Will Brooklyn Steal The ACC Tournament?
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The North Carolina Tar Heels ended the ACC basketball season atop the standings, and we take a second to talk about their final two games - the win against the Duke Blue Devils, where they scored 90 points, and the loss against the Virginia Cavaliers, where they scored 43! We also debate the merits of UNC's Justin Jackson as the ACC Player of the Year (what about Luke Kennard?), try to understand how Louisville's Donovan Mitchell made the first team, and ponder the significance of the ACC tournament's first trip to Brooklyn before telling you exactly which league underclassmen will be bolting...
info_outlineAfter conducting our "official" Blooperman poll, we reveal our top 10 most compelling sports stories of 2016. And lots of amazing things happened this year. We had an Olympics that featured Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps both accomplishing amazing feats, a last second shot that won NCAA Men's basketball tournament, an NBA team (Golden State Warriors) that set a record for regular season wins and a different NBA team (Cleveland Cavaliers) that beat them for Finals championship. Oh yea, and the Chicago Cubs broke their drought in a dramatic game seven of the World Series. All great stories, but which one is number 1? Listen and find out.