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Gambling investigation, Lee Sterling's Weekly Picks, Chicken Coop Contest · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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All right, good afternoon. Welcome Melory Condon on a
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Thursday. The Iowa Sports Radio Network
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back at it for the next 6 hours. Appreciate you starting your
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afternoon here with myself and Trent Condon will take you up
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until 2:00 off the bench to until 5:00 and then over a time
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Iowa from 5:00 until 6. Here's what's coming up on our
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program. Just one guest in the first hour
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of the show, Lee Sterling, paramountsports.com.
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Timely data have Lee. We'll talk sports wagering with
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Lee Sterling. Why the tenor of our show
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changed this morning, did it not?
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Lee Sterling coming up at 12:30. He's got a handful of games that
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he'll pine on. And then if you'd like more
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information, if you're so inclined, he'll give you an
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opportunity to or give you the details how you can contact Lee.
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In our number 2, we'll do a little football conversation
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with two of our regional teams. We'll start with Dane Mazzutani,
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who's in LA covering the Chargers and the Vikings
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tonight. It's certainly a game.
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I, I can't wait this one of all the Thursday night ones, this
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one's got my attention as it does.
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I'm guessing a lot of you, 3 1/2 the number there.
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We'll talk to Dane Mazatani on the Vikings to kick off our
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number 2. And then Dave
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syndicanzonecoverage.com. Another game that's on my list
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of games to watch. Well, it's only one.
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There's Sunday Night Football, right?
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It's the Packers and the Steelers.
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Certainly some intrigue in that one.
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And then Stephen M simple in his weekly segment, we'll talk about
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Nebraska versus Northwestern guessing.
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We'll take a look back at the Minnesota, just a guess, just a
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guess that that might come up. And then Trent will make some
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plays. Circus Sports sponsored that.
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So I tried to warn him. I tried at the end of the show
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after he gives his walk off 4213, Yeah.
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What did you say? I said sip, sip, sip, sip, sip.
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Wait, you can't just walk out with that team that have beat
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him four in a row, 4213? It's the delusion.
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It's the delusion of not just the fan base, but their media.
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It doesn't help them. It hurts them as a program, as
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an organization, as a football program, that media, very little
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accountability. It hurts them.
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There's too much fanboy. And I love SIP, you know that.
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I love hanging out with SIP. That's like giving SIP a hard.
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Time which I'm guessing he will start cutting up at 1:30.
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You know where he got off. I think got got LED down the
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wrong path. He's very close.
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What's Rayola? Dominic Rayola, the former
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lineman that played there and had such a decorated career.
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He got very close sipping him were were very close.
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And even after his Nebraska days, they remained so.
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And he's the new offensive line coach, right?
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And what did Zip tell us before the year?
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Oh, they're going to be better than.
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Iowa better than Iowa, but that's offensive lines in the
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country and I'm guessing he was the Fed that information from
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his friend and that is certainly been the furthest thing from
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reality because these guys are bad.
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How big this is going to sound crazy.
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It's but I but I truly believe what I'm about to say.
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How big is this Nebraska Northwestern game when it comes
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to Matt rule? This is a team you should stomp
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because Nebraska's air quote back right?
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Their their resumes are similar. In fact, Northwestern might be a
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little bit shinier at this point.
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But if you get beat by northwestern on the heels of
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getting embarrassed by Minnesota, all of a sudden this
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mat rule is our guy. He's we're back.
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We're on our way. You know, not what they're going
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to be ever again, but certainly the the worm is turned.
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This is a big spot. Last year they raced out five
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and one. Yep, lost four in a row, finally
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punch bowl eligibility, then lose to Iowa.
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This year, they're five and two, and if you lose at home to
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Nebraska, this is what awaits them.
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Northwestern. Yeah, or Northwestern.
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Yeah, USC on the road at UCLA. Not the Gimme we thought.
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Penn State team that didn't look like they quit Saturday night.
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Yeah. I mean, the the freshman
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quarterback's not very good, but maybe he'll be by that point,
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he'll have a couple of games under his belt.
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So you would expect he would take a step, step forward.
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I agree. OK.
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And then Iowa. Yeah.
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Could you imagine this team, after finally getting right no
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missing a bowl game again it it starts with.
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Not without the realm of possibility, Trent.
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It's it's crazy to say and. Rules pulling off the old Frosty
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the coach man calling out people.
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They're one people under the bus.
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That we've reached that stage. We're at that spot.
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Yeah, we're at that spot. They got to five wins in his
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first year, proceeded to lose 4 consecutive.
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And then it went the other way. Falls apart quickly.
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It's a huge game for that reason.
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I'm anyway. So let's talk about the big
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story of the day. And obviously there are two
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different paths to this gambling story that apparently it's just
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the tip of the iceberg is what we're hearing of the of the two,
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I'm not sure which one disappoints me more.
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Obviously, it's the Chauncey Billups and the other people who
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were used to lure marks into these rigged card games.
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Knowing that the person that they were trying to get involved
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in these card games was about to lose hundreds of thousands or
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millions of dollars. That tells me a lot about the
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person that Chauncey Billups is and that doesn't pay the very
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kind picture. When you hear the La Costa
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Nostra involved in the mafia in any of this stuff, that one is a
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bad scandal. The one that pisses.
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And I'm, I'm guessing I'm, I'm not putting words in your mouth,
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but you feel the same way. And I'm not being preachy
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because you and I have preached about this until the freaking
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cows come home. And it's the fact that inside
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information and transparency and availability reports and the one
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the former assistant coach LeBron James's friend Damon
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Jones had information before LeBron James hit the injury
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report that he wasn't going to play and try to sell that
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information and a proves our point that this is going on.
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But please don't be naive to just think that this is a pro
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thing. We are not signaling out anyone
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by by in this discussion. I'm not I don't think you are
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either. It's everywhere these
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availability reports need to be need to have started coming out
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when PASPO was overturned in 2019.
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It took years for it to happen. It's finally here.
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But the the reason that these guys are being caught now is
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because of legal sports wagering, because there is a
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path to breaking these scandals and to cleaning this up.
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You can come up with ideas to try and limit it.
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Maybe we shouldn't be able to bet on player props period,
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whether it's college or pro if because you know that
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Washington's going to get involved in this and somebody's
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going to want to see their name in the paper if they get back to
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work. So maybe it's that.
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Maybe it's a state by state basis.
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I know in the state of I you cannot bet on player props when
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it comes to the college players, but just the locals, the locals,
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right, We can bet on, you know, Nebraska, Northwestern, have at
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it. Yes, mean for the longest time
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in Vegas you couldn't bet in the UNLV game.
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Right. For the longest time, yes.
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I remember I had some Wisconsin friends that went out there when
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they played UNLV and they're apoplectic.
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You could just bet on the game. When they went out there and
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they thought they were going to double things up, sure.
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Vegas, you're going to get my trip paid for the Maloofs.
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You remember the Maloofs brothers, They own the
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Sacramento Kings. They also owned the Palms.
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Palms and Palms Place, the two gambling entities off Strip.
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Because of their ownership, the NBA would not let them offer
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wagering on the Sacramento Kings back in the day.
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So it's here. It's not going away.
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The proliferation consideration of advertising.
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I don't think that a professional athlete was sitting
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in his hotel room and saw FanDuel, the DraftKings or
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whatever fill in the blank sports betting operator
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commercial. All right, I'm going to start
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betting. This is the way.
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That you sold me. No, this has been going on
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forever. And now that it's now that there
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is transparency and some accountability with these firms
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that you know, that see an inordinate amount of bets and
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then tip off the the sports books or the authorities in
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both, in most cases both at the same time.
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This is good. This is good, but we shouldn't
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be surprised it's happening. But just the fact that, you
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know, Damon Jones knew inside information on at the time.
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The guy who was absolutely still on the peak of his powers in the
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NBA and knew he wasn't going to play and tried to sell
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information to encourage his betting friends that I've got
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inside info that he is not playing in this game.
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And that's why LeBron James, who has not been accused of doing
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anything wrong. He's just caught up in this
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because his friend apparently used the inside information on
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him at the time. So we'll see where it goes.
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Obviously everybody's innocent until proven guilty, but
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apparently this is the tip of the iceberg.
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Chauncey Billups has been paid leave type of thing.
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At this point, who knows where it's going to go, but they
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caught him for a reason. And one of the reasons is, is
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because of these companies that work behind the scenes to
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monitor all of these inordinate amount of bets was able to, you
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know, put this case together. We talk about the insider
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information and this happens a lot.
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This happens all over the place and there are a lot of angles to
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it, and I don't know if there's a way that you can combat that
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outside of what we're seeing here.
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One of the first places that my mind went as I was reading
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through the story and getting the information is, you said it
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now we have ways to stop this. How long this has been going?
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That's just that trend. How long?
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Right. You go back to CCNY if you don't
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know that story in college basketball, this was a high
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level program in New York City. They were hit.
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We saw it with Hawkins when he made his way to Iowa, was never
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eligible because of ties to investing.
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This has been happening well before you flipped on and saw
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that FanDuel ad, the DraftKings ad, when you're watching a game.
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This has been happening for a long time.
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But now with it becoming so prevalent, how many of these
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stories fell by the wayside that you never knew about because
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those opportunities were always out there.
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There was always a chance to do player props and people that put
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those numbers up offshore or with your bookie around the
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corner. Now we have a way to combat
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that. So I look at that in a positive
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light that it's happening, but I wonder how many of those things
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have happened. You mentioned the player prop
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part of it, and that's what all these stories are turning into,
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right from the first pitch of an ending in baseball to what we're
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seeing here is the player prop movement that is becoming big
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and big. And we're a couple little guys.
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But when you talk to the younger people, the people that bet,
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that's what they're involved in. It is so much bigger.
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Wave gambling ever what have anticipated.
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I thought it was bigger. Than in game betting because
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that was always going to be the biggest.
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I don't know, but at what I do know is with the younger people,
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it is huge and that's what it is.
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You know, I see it in our little discord we have for the video
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game league that we have with our KXO listeners.
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And when they're talking about every once in a while somebody
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will put up, hey, I had a big one and they're almost all
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player props. They're there anytime,
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touchdowns or first touchdown, you know, those kind of things
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and on and on and on. It's not the way that I bet all.
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All I wanted was games be able to do it legally.
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That's all I cared. About I want to win
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championships. Yes, but for the.
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Futures. For the younger people, that's
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and we're seeing that connection because the guys playing the
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game are younger too and that connection's happening and it's
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obviously it's so much easier to manipulate what I'm doing as
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opposed to my team. We got to cover this 8 1/2.
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We don't have to cover this 8 1/2.
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Now point shaving is much more difficult because you're one of
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five on the floor, 1 of 11 on the field.
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It is different when what got a bad back?
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Let's set out this one. Oh, look at this.
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I just got to throw a ball to open up an inning.
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That's pretty easy, you know, and then we'll go from there
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here. Manipulation, when we become too
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small and everything that is available, that's where we're
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seeing the problems that have come up.
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And I think the perfect example is the first pitch of the game.
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Yeah. I mean, my God, I didn't even.
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You could make such a faint. Yeah, but apparently you can.
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And guys have been getting busted for it.
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Here's what I think might. Might curtail it a little bit.
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I hope that the athletes that are involved in this are prosec,
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not maybe prosecuted. Pay the most severe price they
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possibly can in addition to a fine.
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I'm not saying they have to go to well, maybe maybe a little
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time behind bars might not hurt. But obviously you lose your
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privilege to play that sport, right?
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Automatically you can never play your sport again.
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The the the penalties for these violations, for these crimes
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need to be as extreme as they possibly can cause maybe then,
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and only then might discurtail some of this when it comes to
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the athletes. That's a simple way to look at
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it. I think the best way to look at
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it Crazy story. It's crazy.
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It's nuts. I mean, we, we got, we got the
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mafia involved. We got the X-ray tables, the
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X-ray glass. I remember as a kid, and I
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wasn't nuts. I wasn't into AI, could buy a
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seahorse on the back of the Archie comic or I could buy
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X-ray glasses. Yes, absolutely.
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Did you read comics? Oh yeah.
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Not not much. But yeah, yeah, they were huge.
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But I was never really into mother than I could buy a, you
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know, you pour yourself a glass of water.
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Sea monkeys, not sea horse, sea monkeys.
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I could buy Sea Monkeys and and have them for a pet or I can get
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X-ray glasses. But just the the level of
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technology, the count carting, the cow card counting machine
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that is able to track what cards are coming up and relay this to
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someone in a backroom somewhere that's called the quarterback
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who would relay this information to someone who's actually at the
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table playing in these rigged games.
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The poker chip tray, the hidden cameras in the glasses in
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contact lenses. I mean, just to the extreme that
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these contests that these card games were rigged in the fashion
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that they were. And again, guys like Chauncey
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Billups, former athletes who give, I don't know, Joe Fan, an
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opportunity to come to a poker game to play with a whole bunch
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of former athletes that, you know, maybe you cheered for or
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you're cheered against. Or gosh, Darnie, you mean I'm
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going to be playing cards with this guy and this Hall of Famer
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over here? Hell yeah, I'm in Chauncey
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Billups, knowing full well that this mark, this mark is about to
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lose $1,000,000. Who does that to a quote?
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Acquaintance people that are sociopaths I, I, I can't
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envision it Money is the root of all evil, I guess.
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And you look at these guys these are not poor people no, that's
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why they reach out to them. These are not people that are
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struggling financially and yet still to get help I mean, how
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much is enough? I think we learned more and more
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that for people with money, I guess it's never enough.
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I guess you look at the career earnings of those guys and what
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they are and what Terry Rogier, a pretty unknown guy, you know,
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almost $1,000,000 or $100 million, he sees me in his
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career. Yeah, $94 million contract at
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the end. It's unbelievable the money in
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the NBA, there's only so many roster spots.
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You have to spend it all and the money's kind of the same as the
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NFL. You know where you're spreading
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that over 53 and a practice squad.
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You got 15 guys. That's why they're that's why
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it's so crazy. Let's get Pete in here.
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Pete, welcome to the pro. I I honestly thought today and I
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couldn't wait to talk about this story.
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I thought you and I were going to start the day with this
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college basketball. The fact that G League players
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that didn't sign with an agent or we're never drafted, who are
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labouring in the G League for $40,000 a year, all of a sudden
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you're going to be able to return to college basketball and
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make hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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I thought that's what we would be starting about and I would be
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quizzing you. Good for the game, bad for the
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game. Can you blame these guys, blah,
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blah, blah. This took an unbelievable turn.
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Hello, Pete, How are you? Hey, I'm doing all right.
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So first of all, we've seen previous gamblers.
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Who's the quarterback for the Raiders that had all those?
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Issues, Yeah, Arch Lister. Our gamblers are gamblers are
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like Alcoholics or drug addicts, right?
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You can watch everybody around you bottom out, but unless you
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do it, they're not like, yes, these guys serve time and who
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does that to people, but they're not going to deter anybody else
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with a gambling addiction in the NBA or in football to to not
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gamble because, you know, they may keep people who are, you
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know, thinking about doing it, But if you have an addiction or
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an issue, you're going to gamble regardless of what anybody.
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Else, sadly, you're 1000% right. Pete, thanks for the call.
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Appreciate it. Yeah, go.
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You got another point. I was going to say on the
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college basketball thing, I'm torn on this because like those
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pro players that come up or those those European players
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come out of academies where they're paid to develop and
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stuff and then they come over to college and ultimately is the
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goal to keep college basketball amateur?
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What that used to be? Amateur or is the goal to create
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the best watching? Experience.
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That's the answer. Because of the money.
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For four years and pay them. I'd rather I thought basketball
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30 years ago and guys stayed for four years and we've had guys
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who could have been playing pro was better than some of the
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product we get now. And so if that means bringing in
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guys for four years, you're paying so I can get the best
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product on the floor and know the guys on my team, I'd just
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rather see four year contracts that are held, they're held
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accountable for and keep guys around.
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Yeah, unfortunately, I think the genies on the ball appreciate
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the call. I don't know how you go back.
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Look, these these these G League players that were never drafted,
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never signed with an agent, I get, I get their argument.
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I get their legal argument. And five years ago, I would have
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been losing my mind. I would too have now.
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NIL is here. OK?
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I mean, the guy from BYU is apparently making $5,000,000.
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That's what they're. How do you say his name starts
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with D Dyster or something like $5,000,000 for his freshman
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campaign? And and it's Debbanska.
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Debanska, thank you. Guys are toiling in the G League
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for $40,000 a year. Yeah.
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And you can go back and you can make 6 figures a minimum.
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Minimum. And probably more than that for
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guys like this. And how long is it, Trent, until
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guys who did sign with an agent and didn't make it in the NBA,
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they take that case to court? Will they win?
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And then how many are going to be, you know, coming back and
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knocking on the door of college athletics?
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It changes every freaking month. You got the WNBA, what they are
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potentially talking about doing. You see this story?
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You know what's that? They are thinking about allowing
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college players to be drafted the WNBA and go back and forth
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the potential of yes. So you can play from November
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till the end of March? Yep Yep.
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Take a couple of months off. Not even a couple.
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I mean, you go right into training camp.
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Well, training camps are then, Yeah, it's in April or early
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May, right? So you take whatever four or
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five weeks off. Season finishes, you go now
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there's not many players that are going to be able to help and
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do that, but it's yet another some for sure, right?
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Paige Becker's would've. And in today's.
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Evelyn Clark, obviously would've.
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Well, she's got a year of eligibility.
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Can she go back to Iowa for a year?
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Imagine that one. Yeah.
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She hit user COVID year. But didn't.
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That's true. I don't think she needs to.
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No, I don't think she needs to either, but that I did not see
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that story. Now they're going through
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negotiations. And when those things happen,
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when you're going through Cbas, a lot of wild stuff gets thrown
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out there. I think the likelihood is
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incredibly small that that actually actually comes to
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fruition. But just another one of these.
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And again, how your mind can be changed.
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I know there's a lot of people out there and I hear from them
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that just they hate college sports and what they're turning
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into. It's the old evolve or die,
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right? This is our new reality.
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I still love college sports. I still had a hell of a time at
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Kinder Stadium on Saturday and I'm still feeling it because I'm
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getting old. But that that that's never going
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to leave me I whatever iteration it turns out.
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For the uniform and you share for the name on the front.
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It's old Seinfeld thing, right? You're chair for laundry.
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Yeah, that's true. And and that laundry is always
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going to be there no matter what happens.
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Players getting paid, whatever it looks like when they
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eventually become employees. And they will, yeah, maybe not
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the foreseeable future, but it will happen eventually.
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And when that happens, I know there will be more people that
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are upset about that. I'm still going to watch.
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I'm still going to be there and hopefully I'm still going to
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have a microphone to talk about it.
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Yeah, fascinating story. All right, Lee Sterling is
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coming. I just want to say this because
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I started my day reading an indictment, and I'm not going to
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break the story. I'm going to let the Register do
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it. But he did it again.
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And if you've listened to or read it, anything about the, you
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can connect the dots who I'm talking about.
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It's the exact same thing. And he's been indicted again.
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And I'll let the Register break the story.
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I'll leave it at that. But it's just unbelievable that
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people don't have Google. How do you not have Google?
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It's 2020. Well, it started in 2024, just
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after he got out the first time. He's done it again.
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Pretty good match. Are you intrigued by this
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Yes, absolutely I am too. I don't believe in Pittsburgh at
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Yes, Yeah, It's kind of a show and tell game for both, for both
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teams. I agree with you wholeheartedly,
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Welcome back, Iowa Sports Radio Network, Lee Sterling.
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at paramountsports.com. Lee joins us with a handful of
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games again this week. Lee Trenton, Ken, thanks for
23:47
coming on. How are you?
23:49
I'm good, I'm real good. We don't have that one marquee
23:51
game, a lot of good ones, a lot of a lot of we're going to find
23:55
out I think finally how good some of these teams are and then
23:59
and the margins could be paper thin.
24:01
Yep, I couldn't agree with you more.
24:02
Lee, before we get to the games, obviously a huge gambling story
24:06
that came out and yesterday you've been in the gambling
24:09
space for an incredibly long time.
24:11
Give us a take away or two that you took away from that.
24:13
And these stories, they become more and more and it seems a lot
24:17
of times kind of connected to player props.
24:19
What your take away is it as you read another one of these
24:22
stories? Well, they might be, you know,
24:24
they're obviously totally independent of each other.
24:26
But the situation with Chauncey Phillips, greed, obviously, I
24:31
mean, unless he is in big time debt, I mean, why you would get
24:36
involved with a, with a crime family makes no sense at all.
24:39
He's making a huge salary as a coach.
24:41
He's made over $100 million. So on the other case, you know,
24:46
who knows, you know, maybe Terry Rozier, we don't know all the
24:49
facts, but maybe he just told from friends of his that, you
24:52
know, he's probably not playing much today.
24:54
So, but a huge mistake. You have to watch what you say.
24:57
And if he's tied to it, you know, he can end up losing over
25:01
$24 million in salaries so and possibly go to jail.
25:05
Just horrible. You don't like to see these
25:07
things happen. He was, I mean, the, the, the
25:09
people that he told only put $13,000 in wagers down.
25:13
So I doubt he was doing it for a cut of the winnings.
25:16
You know, and Trent and I've been harping on this since pass,
25:18
but it was overturned. Just transparency.
25:21
And thankfully now more college teams are starting to put out
25:24
availability reports because somebody knows when somebody's
25:27
not going to play, as was the case apparently with LeBron
25:29
James. Anyways, that's how we started
25:32
the show. Let's get through the here and
25:33
now. And that's the the five pack of
25:35
games you're going to opine. On Let's Kick It Off in the Big
25:38
12, Cincinnati, undefeated in conference play, and Woulda
25:41
Shoulda and that opening week of the season against Nebraska.
25:45
Another lane 5 1/2 against Baylor, A Baylor team that has
25:48
certainly been Jekyll and Hyde. It's been very up and down out
25:50
of the Bears, That weird number. Not a field goal, not a
25:53
touchdown in between. A 5 1/2 for the Bearcats.
25:56
Yeah, so Baylor was plus 3 1/2 at TCU, now they're plus 5 1/2.
26:01
I mean, the Bear Cat Bears, Baylor Bears are one in six
26:05
against the spread this year, but they have talent on their
26:07
team. Trust me, you have two very
26:10
unheralded quarterbacks here putting up some big numbers.
26:13
Baylor, Sorry, Robinson 21 touchdown, 7 interceptions,
26:18
while you got Cincinnati's Brendan Sorsby 17 touchdowns at
26:22
mind boggling. Only one interception here.
26:25
Neither defense is very good, but at least Cincinnati has done
26:28
a good job here of falling on fumbles.
26:31
That's probably the difference here.
26:32
So Baylor, I think eventually they're going to cover some
26:35
games. This might be one of them.
26:36
I just don't like Cincinnati lane points here as Cincinnati
26:39
winning the game 3331, but I'll take the 5 1/2.
26:42
Good stuff. UCLA may be the story in college
26:45
football in the month of October, they Indiana one of the
26:48
I mean just an unbelievable story that Signeti continues to
26:51
write. Over 3 touchdowns, 21 1/2 the
26:54
Hoosiers favored over the Bruins.
26:57
Yeah, I I just think it's too much here.
26:59
So UCLA is a completely different team than we saw the
27:03
first couple weeks of the season here.
27:05
We know Indiana bottom 15 and pace of play.
27:08
They're going to have to finish drives a lot of times with a
27:10
touchdown, my opinion to win. I like the fact that UCLA, they
27:14
pushed the ball down the field now and I know the schedule
27:18
makers didn't do them any favors going back and forth across the
27:21
country here. But you have to factor in a team
27:24
that has a top quarterback and Nico right right now is finally
27:28
starting to show out why people loved him here.
27:31
I think Indiana wins 3617 Bruins cover.
27:34
Bruins with another cover as they they are a different team,
27:38
no doubt. Let's go to a game that used to
27:40
just be so huge and it's not the case here recently.
27:43
Michigan State Michigan in state rivalry Big number for the
27:46
Wolverines is their lane 14 1/2 and.
27:49
And, and Michigan is a better team.
27:51
I mean, there's no doubt about that.
27:52
But this is a rivalry game, maybe one of the top five or six
27:56
in the country. This is Big Brother and little
27:58
brother. Whoever loses is going to pick
28:01
fights. I mean, it's non-stop here.
28:05
It's all offseason. You know, we just don't don't
28:08
see it as much in the South. I mean, you're a little bit
28:10
closer to it. So you know what it's all about.
28:13
Michigan did respond well off the road.
28:15
Lost to USC with a 17 point win. Michigan concluded a stretch
28:19
with three Rd. trips and four games.
28:22
Lost all four. Not that Indian, it was expected
28:24
to lose to them, but the sporty's issue here is defence
28:28
giving up 32 points per game, 6.2 yards per play.
28:33
But defence is about effort, it's about hustle and you can
28:36
make up for some of it, especially in a rivalry game
28:39
here. 14 1/2 points laying on the road to me is too much in a
28:44
rivalry game. Michigan wins 30 to 21 sporty
28:47
covers. Speaking of rivalry games, BYU
28:51
in Utah apparently is nasty rivalry, as there is.
28:53
BYU prevailed. Now they go on the road and they
28:56
come to our state. Up in Story County, take on the
28:59
Cyclones. Iowa State 3 point favored over
29:02
unbeaten BYU Lee. If Iowa State defense was just a
29:07
little bit better, I would think about backing them here.
29:10
But you know, you're down your top 2 quarterbacks and and these
29:13
are guys that maybe your best two players on the defense.
29:17
They're that good. So BYU right now, you know, they
29:20
just hang in there. They don't make many mistakes.
29:24
They're one of these teams that controls the ball, not going to
29:27
turn the ball over, plays good special teams.
29:31
I like BYUI think, I don't think they're going to keep winning
29:34
every week, but they're going to eventually lose again.
29:36
But I think they win this game here 2620.
29:39
It's the battle for the pig Floyd of Rosedale, Minnesota and
29:42
Iowa. Feels like a low scoring game to
29:45
me. Two teams going to smash into
29:47
each other for 60 minutes of football.
29:49
But it's north of a touchdown. 8 1/2 currently the number.
29:52
Hawkeye is the favorite. Yeah, and, and the negative here
29:55
from Minnesota is both losses were on the road where they
29:58
total scoring only 17 points. But if you watch them, they play
30:02
play within themselves, very similar to Iowa.
30:04
So defense isn't quite as good here, but you got to think that
30:09
maybe they've got a trick or two up their sleeve.
30:11
You know, this is one of these games they want to win.
30:13
They've lost 9 out of 10 for the Florida Rosedale Trophy here.
30:17
So I just think that Minnesota is getting better.
30:21
And I think the difference even with the home field advantage is
30:23
like 5 1/2. That's six points.
30:25
So I'm going to go with the value here.
30:26
I have, I will win in this game. 2420 Minnesota coverage.
30:30
Let's stay in the Big 10. It's your game of the week.
30:33
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Just think of the exact same thing.
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Boy, boy, that would be. He'd be in front this quarter, I
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think now a year ago at this time, you said you're only going
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to do. Millions.
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Well, it the the the wound was still raw, I think when I
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proclaimed. That.
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Falsehood because I've been knocked out of Survivory.
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It's such a fun contest. It is.
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It truly is. It pisses you off.
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The sweat that you get, the, the interest you have in whatever
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It really is. It's just so, and especially for
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you. I mean, we're in the last week
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of October. My partner's still alive still.
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In it and I might be changing my original plan.
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Oh, so here we go. So I told you a week ago I was
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holding off to the Patriots because I was targeting this
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week. You know, there's something
32:38
about that Cleveland defense that me leaves me a little
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concerned. They're very good.
32:41
They're very good and Drake May young quarterback that is
32:45
playing at an incredibly high level.
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They're just something that feels off.
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Can't put my there's nothing, there's nothing like
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statistically that I can point to off and I go back to the
32:57
Bengals. If there's ever a time to use
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them, it's this week right against The Jets, at home
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against The Jets. I won't use them again.
33:04
Like this would be the time. Am I overthinking it?
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Well, probably the answer is yes, but I understand why you're
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overthinking. It's you're live in an $18
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million contest, of course you're going to overthink.
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It and the Patriots still have. Speaking of The Jets.
33:19
They've got to have them a time or two.
33:21
But they do coming up to here in just a few weeks, Thursday Night
33:24
Football on the 13th of November, they.
33:27
Can they flex at that time? Please tell me they can flex at
33:29
that time. I know they can flex.
33:32
Yes, yes they can. I think they get 2 one or two
33:35
flex that has to leave. But doesn't it have to be like
33:38
over 30 days? I don't know the I think it
33:41
might be already too tight to even flex out of that.
33:44
But when I was looking through the Patriots schedule, I saw
33:46
that one. Obviously at the end of the year
33:50
they also get the Dolphins at home in Week 18.
33:54
So help me out with this and if you're trying to get in the
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chicken coop, you're getting a busy signal, but we'll we'll
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unblock the phones in a second. How are your bears a touchdown
34:02
dog in this game? Is Lamar Jackson going to play?
34:06
Yes. You sure?
34:08
No, But yes, I think he will. He went through practice
34:12
yesterday as the number three. If this was Friday and we're
34:16
having this talk, yeah, different.
34:17
But he already went through Wednesday practice, at least out
34:21
there. That tells me that he is going
34:23
to go. Or he's trending in the right.
34:24
Direction to go, Yeah, obviously something could happen.
34:26
He could re tweak the hamstring, that could change it.
34:29
But yeah, that he's going to go. You're saying put that in your
34:32
back pocket? I, I just, I don't think that
34:36
the, I mean, he's not gonna help the defense.
34:38
No, that's true, right? But Caleb Williams has not been
34:41
very good recently either. I'll defer to you on that.
34:43
Yeah, he has struggled, and he struggled last week against the
34:47
Saints at home. And you've used the Colts?
34:50
Yep. And you've used the Chiefs or
34:53
you're saving the Chiefs. You're.
34:54
Saving them because they are involved in both the holidays.
34:57
The short. Weeks.
34:58
Yes, the holiday week. So because of that, that's the
35:00
direction that I'm looking at. Can you imagine?
35:03
He was in the Cincinnati Bengals with Joe Flacco, though.
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Jim F Kyle Jim K&J. The tiebreaker is total points
36:01
in Sunday Night Football. Sunday Night Football Green Bay,
36:05
not FB GB, Kenneth Green Bay and Pittsburgh.
36:11
I figured it out. You did?
36:12
Yeah. I can't see.
36:15
Let's go to Jim F First of all. Hello, Jim F, How are you?
36:19
Hello, gentlemen. How are you guys today?
36:21
Doing pretty well. Thursday Night Football.
36:23
Chargers are a 3 1/2 point favorite tonight against the
36:26
Vikings. I'll pick the Chargers and the
36:29
points. Iowa State, give the points.
36:31
You got it. Iowa State is giving 3 1/2 to
36:34
BYU. Don't take BYU.
36:37
Iowa gives 8 1/2 to the Gophers. Go Hawks.
36:42
Broncos, a 3 1/2 point favorite over those Cowboys of Dallas.
36:47
Is that game in Dallas? It is in Denver.
36:50
Oh, I'm going to take. You know what?
36:52
Let me make sure. Let me make absolute certainty.
36:55
It is in Denver, yes. You're taking the Cowboys, did
36:57
you say I'm sorry? I'll take the Cowboys, Sir.
37:00
Got it. Yep.
37:01
Total points Sunday Night Football Green Bay at Pittsburgh
37:04
closest without going over 44 and ghost dealers 44 and ghost
37:09
dealers. Thank you, Jim.
37:10
Appreciate the call. Thank you, guys.
37:12
Yep, good to hear from you. And Kyle is next.
37:15
Hello, Kyle, How are you? I'm doing well, good.
37:18
Charges are a 3 1/2 point favorite over the Vikings
37:21
tonight. Oh, give me a school, Iowa
37:24
State, a 3 1/2 point favorite over BYUI.
37:28
Think BYU outright. All right, Iowa 8 1/2 over
37:32
Minnesota. I'm going to say Iowa wins, but
37:38
I'll take the points. Taking the points.
37:39
OK, Broncos a 3 1/2 point favorite over the Cowboys.
37:44
And then we decided that is in Denver, right?
37:46
Yes, it is. I'll take Denver, please.
37:49
All right, total points Sunday Night Football, Green Bay,
37:51
Pittsburgh closest without going over 5555.
37:57
Thank you, Kyle, you have a good day.
37:59
Thank you. Jim K is next.
38:02
Hello Jim. How you doing guys?
38:04
Good, good. Chargers 3 1/2 to the Vikings.
38:10
I'll say the Vikings just to be different.
38:12
OK? Iowa State is a 3 1/2 point
38:14
favorite over BYU. Iowa State, Iowa an 8 1/2 point
38:19
favorite over Minnesota. Iowa Broncos 3 1/2 over the
38:24
Cowboys. I'll say the Cowboys.
38:28
Sunday Night Football tiebreakers.
38:30
Total points in that game closest without going over 41.
38:34
Thanks, Jim. Enjoy your day.
38:37
Thank you. And Jay is our final contestant.
38:39
Hi, Jay. How we doing good.
38:42
Chargers the 3 1/2 point favorite over the Vikings.
38:45
Well, I tell you, I hate to go against the Vikings, but I will
38:47
take the Chargers, all right. Iowa State gives 3 1/2 to BYU.
38:52
BYU Hawks 8 1/2 over the Gophers.
38:57
Go Hawks. But I'll tell you what, it's
38:59
going to be a Minnesota Covered, All right?
39:01
What did you say, Trent? They're going to line up and
39:03
beat the crap. Run into each other each other
39:05
for 60 minutes. Broncos 3 1/2 That's pretty
39:08
apartment. Broncos 3 1/2 to the Cowboys.
39:11
We'll take the Broncos and total points Sunday Night Football
39:14
closest without going over it is the tiebreaker by 3939.
39:21
It is. Jay, thank you.
39:23
You bet. Have a great day.
39:24
Yep, you do the same appreciate that appreciate the chicken coop
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so Jay, Jay Scott text is Trent. I'm sure you've seen it yes,
39:31
regarding our flexing of Thursday Night Football Thursday
39:34
Night Football flexes can only happen in weeks 1415 and 16 and
39:38
they must be made 21 days in advance.
39:41
So there is a time stipulation there, but we're not at Week 14
39:44
yet, which is good, right? But bad.
39:47
Then we're going to have to be stuck with that game.
39:49
But it's football, of course we're going to watch.
39:50
So Week 14 Cowboys at Lions keeping it, Week 15 Falcons at
39:55
Bucks. Keeping it.
39:57
Week 16 Rams at Seahawks. They're not moving up any of
40:00
those games. We know our Thursday games.
40:02
Yes, we do. Yep, absolutely.
40:03
So the Thursday night slate is set.
40:07
We will start with NFL conversation in our number 2.
40:11
Dane Mazzutani covers the Vikings for the Saint Paul
40:14
Pioneer Press twin twincities.com.
40:16
And he's travelling today. So we'll catch him in an
40:19
airport. I think he'll be there already
40:21
as long as there were no delays. He's.
40:23
In Minnesota. So he's got a non-stop right
40:25
LAX. Yes.
40:26
I'm going to guess there's a few flights that make that thing,
40:29
yes. That's a.
40:30
Beauty. Not like flying out of sucks.
40:32
Sioux City, you know that's their airport.
40:34
That's what it's called UX. Is it really?
40:36
I had no, no idea. Sucks.
40:39
And then we'll talk to Dave Sinican and then we'll talk to
40:41
Stephen M Simple, Miller and Condon now or two is next.
40:44
It's the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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Come get it, SIP.