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Greg & His Friends Talk Sports ... with Grant Shouse & Michelle Garmon (2.224.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's spent, they have no time out for making.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Smith will bring it up before quickly.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Smith, on the drive to the rim.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Miss the layup.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Rebound loose.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's scooped up my gale.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He'll throw it to the other end of the four.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Caravan tracks it down with two seconds.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We've won the heatcrubs at the half court.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And since 1989, there's been a blank space in the Michigan Trunky case.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, right there, name.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Michigan, the 2026 men's basketball national champions.
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[SPEAKER_03]: 169, 63, 2 in the schools, second men, basketball champs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome Central Indiana Sports Fans to the Central Indiana Sports Report for my new podcast Greg and his friends talk sports.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm your host Greg Mangel and every week day after noon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My friends and I are talking about whatever Central Indiana Sports fans are talking about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Coming up today, Tuesday, April 7th, 2026.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Michigan is your national champion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Grant Shouse was at the game and he will share his on Michigan's win over UConn and
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[SPEAKER_00]: We will also hear from Tipton Tribune and Elwood Collieter Sports Senator Michelle Garmin on the State of College Basketball.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Before we get to all of that, when I let you know what's going on at the Central Indiana Sports Report, earlier this week where you released a fever report with Michelle and John Robertson, a pacer's report with Mike Rich.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hopefully later today, we'll have an IU report with Grant Shouse and my cuttle, expect a Purdue report on Wednesday, an Indie car report on Thursday, we're also working on a colds report and some other cool stuff too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for joining us, my friends and I will be back tomorrow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And here's what happened on Monday, April 6th, 2026.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Michigan beat UConn 69 to 63 for its first national championship in 37 years in Minsk College, basketball.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Big Dense first in 26 years, the Wolverines also became the first team ever to win a national championship with five transfers in their starting lineup.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Elliott Cadou, a North Carolina transfer, was named most outstanding player.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He led all scores with 19 on Monday night, not exactly an offensive display.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The two teams combined to shoot 34% for the game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Grant Michigan third a little slow, but in the end they were obviously the best team right.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't think there's any doubt.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think that
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[SPEAKER_04]: Um, just from being there, it was 80-20 Michigan fans.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Just a sea of amazing blue took over downtown.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I thought that happened to crowd behind them, and the year that they've had has been really, really special.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I just thought they were the better team all around, and probably a team we're going to be talking about for a long, long time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And your first national championship game experience live?
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[SPEAKER_00]: What was it like?
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, it's always been a bucket list as a sports fan.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Like, think you have certain things that you want to accomplish as a fan.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Like, I think the average fan will tell you it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You want to go to what guests to see the masters.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe you want to go to the Super Bowl.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe you want to go to the Indy 500.
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[SPEAKER_04]: For me, that bucket list has always been go to the final four, go to the National Championship.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And being able to do that was really, really cool.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I made so many friends this weekend, started Thursday at the NIT and one of those guys told me they're like, hey, you know, the day of the national championship game, look for tickets on the secondary market because they really go down the day of the game.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's what I did.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I found a cheap ticket in my price range where I didn't mind sitting and I thought outside the box a little bit and I brought binoculars.
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[SPEAKER_04]: and use the binoculars and watch it from where I was through the binoculars.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, if you take the binoculars out and you don't watch it through binoculars, you can't stop doing it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think it's one of those really cool experiences you have to be prepared for.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You've seen other people talk about how like, oh, I'm sitting way up in the nose, please.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I can't see, and I wasn't necessarily into those, please.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You just felt like you were a mile from the court, you know?
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[SPEAKER_04]: So it, it, it was a really cool experience.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I would, 100% do it again.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The people were, were awesome.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Seeing the Michigan people celebrate being an IE fan.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We've gone through with football and went in an actual championship.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That, that is one of those things that really resonates with you.
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[SPEAKER_04]: When you see other fan basics, you know, that's not all the Michigan people.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, enjoy it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Take this in and enjoy it because,
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[SPEAKER_04]: you'll never want this shielding to end and it just was a really cool experience, I think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And of course, the big kid now has the football, men's basketball and women's basketball, national champions, all at the same time for the first time ever.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's pretty impressive.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We talked about how the SEC has been soaked on it over the years of controlling football and the emergence they've had in basketball here over the last few years, I'd say five, six years or so.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's just really, really impressive to see a conference like the Big Ten, just be able to dominate in everything.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Michigan's probably gonna win the hockey national championship, too, and then when the men's basketball, you see a lay the women's in that Indiana football.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think, did Indiana football win the national championship?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Grant, let me check my note.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Indiana did win the football national championship.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's what I thought, okay, I just wanted to hear you say it again.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think the conference being the way it has been
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[SPEAKER_04]: is it is really good for the sport and hopefully other leagues start to take notice.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And by the way, Michigan wins the first national championship for the Big Ten and Vince basketball since the year 2000.
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[SPEAKER_04]: First time in my life, the Big Ten is one of the national championship and Vince basketball.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Also the first time that five transfers have ever won the national championship as well kind of tells you, the way college basketball is going and I'm going to be talking with Michelle Garmin about that here in just a minute, last thing Grant.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Dusty Mae, you're thoughts on an IU grad leading his team to the National Championship.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Just a kid from Soulsbury, Indiana, Greg.
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[SPEAKER_04]: How about that?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_04]: From Soulsbury, Indiana, it's the old Bob Knight video.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Kind of like golf, where he used to do a lot of Grouse Hunt down in Soulsbury.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Just to do it from Green County, went to Eastern Green High School.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Really, really cool.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Dusty's a great guy.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I've gotten a chance to beat him a couple times.
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[SPEAKER_04]: and talk with him very down to earth, very respectful and not one of those guys that blows you off and doesn't want to talk to you.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm happy for him.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Honestly, I would have been happy if you con what a one-two.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm a big Dan Hurley fan.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He reminds me a lot of Kurt Signetti, he reminds me a lot of Coach Knight away.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So really cool for Dusty Mae, you know, you talk about him as the IU grad.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think about him as just the kid from Green County in
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[SPEAKER_04]: probably similar to where you grew up in L Wood.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think it's really one of those neat things that's neat for the sport, and thankfully that every team in the final four this year had fingerprints from Indiana on the team.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, Illinois had Jake Davis and Ben Hammer cows, of course, Yukon with Braille and Mullins and then Arizona's assistant Jason Gardner surm Indiana and then Dusty's from Soulsbury.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So,
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[SPEAKER_04]: really really cool and I just think it's a neat thing for for the people of green county and for the state of Indiana.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey Grant, let's talk to my you tonight.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Alright, let's do it, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Dusty May is the fifth who's your native to lead a team to a men's college basketball national championship, Branch McCracken from Monroeville at IU to a couple, Everett Dean from LaVonia, let's stand for two a national championship, I believe 52, John Wooden from Martin'sville, won about 50 of them at UCLA and then Scott Drew from Valparaiso, won at Baylor just a couple of years ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Tipton for Unit L would call either sports editor and my friend and mentor Michelle Garmin is here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Michelle of course is a huge college basketball fan and I wanted to get her opinion of the state of college basketball because Michelle the quality of basketball is really good but there are a lot of issues right there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There are a tremendous amount of issues right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Some of these, I think, affect the women's game a little bit, even a little slightly more than the effect of men's game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's some things that have got to be dealt with because the product is just too good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: March man, this, the whole month of March, March man, this is the best playoff best tournament scenario.
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[SPEAKER_01]: period.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Each game presents drama.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's, you know, it's incredible.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The argument is when people keep saying this can't continue the NIL, the transfer portal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And let me be clear.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think NIL is less of an issue than the transfer portal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Correct.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, because it's a transfer portal allows bidding wars every year with the freedom to move around and I get upset when the J bills isn't those guys think Well coaches move around and it's all right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, they don't get to move around every year in NFL in Major League Baseball in an NHL.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I have no problem with the executive order that President Trump signed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would like to see Congress do it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think you should get one free transfer and I I don't have a problem with that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Here's my problem.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What in I L and this transfer portal is doing more so the transfer portal again when a player transfers every year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There is no way they're getting their degree and maybe they're
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[SPEAKER_01]: not going to the ones that don't make it to NBA, I may make it to Europe for a little bit, but they don't make it to the NBA.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're not necessarily getting great big contracts.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're just doing a disservice to them because then they're they're not getting an education and they don't necessarily will know how to value their money or make it work, make it last.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The other thing I have,
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[SPEAKER_01]: bad with the transfer portal is what the NCAA needs to do and I think they can do this and don't have to worry so much about lawsuits because there's precedence with the NFL and major league baseball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: you should have to have certified agents, not anybody can just go represent an athlete.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what's hurting because there are a lot of guys out there to see these college athletes and see money and they pedal them and they are giving them a bad advice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're not thinking of that athletes long-term frame, the future they're thinking of what money they can put their pocket.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How do they can exploit that athlete to earn a percentage?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they should have to age it's
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[SPEAKER_01]: When agencies should have to be vetted and they should have to be approved by the NC2A, or all those agents should have to try to get certification through those professional leagues.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Michelle, thank you so much for your time as always and we will be talking some baseball and golf and all kinds of stuff coming up now, the basketball season's in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much to Grant and Michelle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A couple of more college basketball items that looks like former Nuggets Head Coach Michael Malone will be the next head coach at North Carolina Replacing Meat Fired Hubert Davis, and the transfer portal is officially open, we'll have daily updates on this show, forward local teams and players.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For example, former hair discristen and produced star miles Colvin is leaving Wake Forest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Great day for Brandon Williamson and the Cincinnati Reds, Williamson allowed just three hits and six and two thirds innings.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Reds won their fourth straight game on Monday, meeting the Marlins to do nothing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Reds have allowed just one run in the last three games and five in their last five games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And now have four shutouts in their 10 games so far this season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're now seven and three in a game behind the eight and two brewers who just will not lose.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They beat the Red Sox eight to six on Monday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're tied with the Dodgers for the best record in baseball.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Dodgers drugged the Blue Jays 14 to two behind Dalton Rushing's two home run performance and game one of eight world series rematch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Cubs Pirates and Cardinals all lost Monday in the NL Central, the 4 and 6 Cubs lost in Tampa 64 in the first game at Tropicana Field since Hurricane Milton damaged at 562 days ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Royals turned a rare 5-6-4-3 double play, and a 4-2-0 win over Cleveland, and Bryce Harper had 3 RBIs in the Philly 64 come back when over the Giants.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A couple local headlines amongst the star press name and rose centrals to Sean Bady.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's Boy's Basketball Player of the Year and Mark Dettwiler, their coach of the year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Fisher seen your Kai McGrew tweeted Monday evening that he's received an offer from Ball State to continue his basketball career.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And in football, Zyansville Thightend, Theo Shot tweeted he's been offered by Missouri.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Novel'sville Junior Offensive Tackle Mason McDermott has received a scholarship offer from UCLA.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Taylor Sr. Brady finds been named Crossroads pitcher of the week after throwing five scoreless innings in the Trojans.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Seven to nothing win over St. Francis.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Find is now seven and oh on the season with a zero 0.72 ERA.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's averaging 12.7 strikeouts for nine innings.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And some late breaking news, the fever have offered to extend Kelsey Mitchell's contract and they've reportedly offered Lexi Hole a qualifying offer
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[SPEAKER_00]: more on that on tomorrow's show.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And here's what's coming up on Tuesday, April 7th, 2026.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They game for your Indiana Pacers on Tuesday and a must-lose situation against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll punch a playoffs spot with a win.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The patient needs just two losses to clench a coveted bottom 3 NBA draft lottery spot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It would give them the best possible odds in the May 10th draft lottery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And wins by the Jazz and Kings would also help.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Utah is in New Orleans and Sacramento is in San Francisco to face the Warriors.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're talking a lot about the NBA playoff starting next week on this show and on the central Indiana Sports Report.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We hope to have Mike Rich on tomorrow's show to talk some paces.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Also a little IU Ball State baseball in the discussed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Please join us.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much to Grant Shouse and Michelle Garmin and to Westwood 1 radio that was Kevin Coogler alongside Robbie Humble and PJ Karnlissima on the call on Westwood 1.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I forgot to mention that at the top of the show.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And thank you for joining us, always appreciate it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll be back tomorrow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Also check out the IE report, hopefully later Tuesday and then Purdue report on Wednesday, the Indie Car Report on Thursday, hopefully a culture report on Friday, and we'll be back Sunday with a fever report Monday with your Paces Report.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The central idea of what support is a product of ITG Media, and I love Susie.