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Longhorns expected to be without key starters against Vanderbilt · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Craig Way with you from the broadcast booth at First
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  Speaker 1: Bank Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee. Tomorrow, the Texas Longhorns take
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  Speaker 1: on the Vanderbilt Commodorees here in this very cozy or
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  Speaker 1: cozily confined configuration here because they've got the renovations going
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  Speaker 1: on on one end past the what would be the
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  Speaker 1: south end zone, and that's that's going on. It is
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  Speaker 1: reduced seating capacity they're going to have right around twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine thousand. We'll be able to be here for that
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  Speaker 1: and that's it for the game tomorrow. Now, they'll be
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  Speaker 1: there'll be some long worn fans here. The plane flight
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  Speaker 1: that it was on this morning was just packed full
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  Speaker 1: of burnt orange, and there were other flights as well
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  Speaker 1: going on, so there will be there will definitely be
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  Speaker 1: Texas fans here, but the preponderance of the fans will
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  Speaker 1: be obviously wearing black and gold for Vanderbilt, and their
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  Speaker 1: students will be out in force like they were for
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  Speaker 1: the Alabama game. So it's it's one of those deals
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  Speaker 1: in a tightly confined facility where the long wrornes are
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to come out and play well coming off
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  Speaker 1: the loss to Georgia taking on a Vanderbilt team. You heard,
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  Speaker 1: if you were listening last hour Steve Sarkisian saying their
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  Speaker 1: five and two is real. Is what he meant by
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  Speaker 1: that their record is real. Now the reel includes the
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  Speaker 1: two losses. One of the losses was a very respectable
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  Speaker 1: one in double overtime in Columbia, Missouri to a then
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  Speaker 1: at the time seventh ranked Missouri team, And it was
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  Speaker 1: only because Vanderbilt missed on a couple of field goal
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  Speaker 1: tries it would have won the one that could have
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  Speaker 1: won them the game in regulation that had missed earlier,
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  Speaker 1: and then one that could have sent it to a
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  Speaker 1: third overtime. There there was that there was one that
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  Speaker 1: would be a head scratch of the loss to Georgia
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  Speaker 1: State out of some. But they also dealt with prosperity
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  Speaker 1: well following the win over Alabama, going to lexing Kentucky
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  Speaker 1: and beating Kentucky so and they did kind of get
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  Speaker 1: involved in a bit of a sluggish game with Ball
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  Speaker 1: State here last week. Our friend Greg Tepper from Dave
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  Speaker 1: Campbell's Texas Football Magazine would say that Vanderbilt perhaps in
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  Speaker 1: that contest played with its food a little bit, but
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  Speaker 1: they did pull away in the fourth quarter to win
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  Speaker 1: the game, and so they're five and two. There, one
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  Speaker 1: went away from Bowl eligibility, and that would be huge
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  Speaker 1: for the Commodores considering they went two to ten a
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  Speaker 1: season ago. But the road is not an easy place,
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  Speaker 1: and for that matter, the home games not easy either.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of the way. They go to Auburn next week,
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  Speaker 1: then they host South Carolina, might need their best chance
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  Speaker 1: to win a game down the stretch in those final
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  Speaker 1: few weeks. Then following an open date, they go to
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  Speaker 1: LSU and they finished with Tennessee. So tough, tough closing
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  Speaker 1: schedule for Vanderbilt, but they just need one more win
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  Speaker 1: to become Bowl eligible. We mentioned the fact that the
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  Speaker 1: SEC Student Athlete Availability Report was updated and in other words,
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  Speaker 1: the injury report and for Texas, Andrew mccooba still listed
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  Speaker 1: as doubtful, Isaiah Bond downgraded from questionable to doubtful. I
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  Speaker 1: think doubtful's the best way to describe it. I doubt
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  Speaker 1: that we'll see either of those guys on the field tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: But Sark talked about this on the air on Longhorn Weekly.
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  Speaker 1: Because they are deep at both of those positions, both
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  Speaker 1: at wide receiver on the offensive side and then in
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  Speaker 1: the secondary on the defensive side that they can absorb
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  Speaker 1: a loss and still get quality play on the offensive side. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah Bond is their leading pass catcher. He's got twenty
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  Speaker 1: three passes for three hundred eighty yards four touchdowns, averaging
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  Speaker 1: sixteen and a half yards per catch. He's also had
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  Speaker 1: the two big running plays, including one for a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: So they do lose him if he is unable to go.
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  Speaker 1: And again he's listed as doubtful, so I doubt we
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  Speaker 1: will see him tomorrow, but they've gotten plenty of contributions
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  Speaker 1: from other people. Matthew Golden's only one catch behind Bond
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  Speaker 1: for most catches on the team, and he is averaging
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  Speaker 1: just under fifteen yards per catch. He has three touchdown catches.
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  Speaker 1: DeAndre Moore has now started to explode through. He has
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  Speaker 1: eleven catches, averaging fourteen yards per catch and has scored
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  Speaker 1: three touchdowns. Ryan Wingo, the freshman, may get his first
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  Speaker 1: collegiate start tomorrow. He's caught sixteen passes. He's averaging nineteen
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  Speaker 1: yards per catch with two touchdowns this year. Obviously, Jayden
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  Speaker 1: Blue catching passes out of the backfield He's caught twenty
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  Speaker 1: one passes out of the backfield, their third leading receiver
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  Speaker 1: and has three touchdowns. Of those guys, he would be
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  Speaker 1: actually the fourth leading receiver I mentioned Bond number one,
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  Speaker 1: number one among wide receivers wide receivers leading receiver on
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  Speaker 1: the team is Gunner Helm the tight end. He's got
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven passes for three hundred and seventy three yards
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  Speaker 1: and two touchdowns. He's averaging just under fourteen yards per cat.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not like they don't have weapons. Silas Bowden
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  Speaker 1: has also caught ten passes this season. They have Johntay
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  Speaker 1: Cook who's caught eight passes and a couple of touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: this year. Ryan Niblett obviously can catch passes and then
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  Speaker 1: line up in the backfield as well. I think Trey
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  Speaker 1: Wisner will be okay. In fact, in that player that
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  Speaker 1: Student Athlete Availability report. Good news in that Tray Weisner's
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  Speaker 1: not even listed on the report. That means he's good
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  Speaker 1: to go. He had to be limited in practice him
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  Speaker 1: during the week with that sore shoulder from that hit
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  Speaker 1: he took that Sark certainly thought could have, if not
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  Speaker 1: should have been called a targeting call against Georgia. But
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  Speaker 1: it's good that he's able to go and come off
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  Speaker 1: the injury report, which means he should be ready to
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  Speaker 1: go for Vanderbilt. The one guy who's listed as questionable
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  Speaker 1: as their corner Kolbe Taylor. The other guys had been
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  Speaker 1: either questionable or probable. They're all probable now, Eli Stowers
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  Speaker 1: the tight end linebacker, Langston Patterson running back aj Newberry,
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  Speaker 1: who's the backup to Ceder Calexander. Alexander listed as probable
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  Speaker 1: now when he had been listed as recently as yesterday
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  Speaker 1: afternoon as being questionable. Martell Height cornerback, listed as probable,
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  Speaker 1: Miles Kpler's the edge rusher, is probable, and Linus Sunk
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  Speaker 1: defensive lineman listed as probable. Only zalem Wood defensive lineman,
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  Speaker 1: Mark Davis corner and Grayson Morgan, an offensive lineman, are
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  Speaker 1: ruled out of the game tomorrow afternoon. Of course, our
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  Speaker 1: coverage tomorrow afternoon will begin at hi noon, coming your
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  Speaker 1: way at noon from Twin Peaks down south at Stasney,
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  Speaker 1: and that's where Cameron Parker and also my Cardbowl Hard
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  Speaker 1: and also Mark Henry will set the stage for you.
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  Speaker 1: Now I have to ask you, Cam, you know what
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  Speaker 1: they like to say at Twin Peaks, eats, drinks, scenic views.
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  Speaker 1: Who which of the three of you will be most
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  Speaker 1: consumed with the eats? I think I know the answer
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  Speaker 1: to that. Which one will be most consumed with the drinks?
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  Speaker 1: Which one will be most consumed with the scenic views?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Mark Henry does not drink. But if you've been
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  Speaker 2: listening to the station, you probably have heard our promo
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  Speaker 2: play a few times where Mark Henry says, I like
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  Speaker 2: the flaps, And to clarify, he's talking about the wings,
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  Speaker 2: y'all the flappers on the wings. So he'll be most
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  Speaker 2: concerent zoomed with the food. Hardball will be most consumed
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  Speaker 2: with the drinks. And then I'm not going to answer
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  Speaker 2: the if there's other people that will be there. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I'm focused on Vanderbilt, right, I'm focused on Vanderbilt. But
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a fun show again. We'll be live on
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  Speaker 2: thirty five in Statty Twin Peaks location noon to two.
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  Speaker 2: Butt like drink specials. And here's a throwback name for you,
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  Speaker 2: Craig Thomas Baskins, the former Texas Longhorn defensive lineman for California. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: number ninety will be joining us for our Longhorned Legend segment. Well,
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  Speaker 2: Chip Brown from Horns two four seven, he'll hop on
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  Speaker 2: live from Nashville. Of course, we'll visit with you and
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  Speaker 2: Roger Wallace in the First Bank Stadium Broadcast booth. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get Mike Harges's Keys to the Game, Mark Henry's hype train.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna be a lot of fun. So if you're not
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  Speaker 2: in Nashville looking for a place to pregame, come out
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  Speaker 2: to Twin Peaks.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you got the big field coming out. Thomas
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  Speaker 1: Baskin was one of my early favorites in my time
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  Speaker 1: in the booth there in the early years. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when I started in ninety two as the analyst with
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  Speaker 1: Bill Schoening on the play by play, it was he.
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  Speaker 1: He was one of one of our favorites. He was
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  Speaker 1: always a lot of fun to talk to us. I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad Thomas Baskin will be there for you guys tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: All right, up next, we're gonna shift gears and talk
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  Speaker 1: some Long Worn basketball. Rodney Terry a segment from last
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  Speaker 1: night's Long wornon Weekly, kind of an overview of this
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  Speaker 1: brand new season with so many new faces and and
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  Speaker 1: yet some very recognizable quality returners as well, as we
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  Speaker 1: continue on this Friday afternoon on sports Radio AM thirteen
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  Speaker 1: under the Zone and the iHeartRadio app.