Longtime Pardon My Take podcaster and current freelance broadcaster Jake Marsh joins the program.
What’s Going to Happen in 2025
Georgia will win the national championship. Oregon will win the national championship. Oregon State will win the national championship. That’s three of them, right there.
Joe’s Notes: Putting a Price on Neyland Stadium
Tennessee says it sold its stadium’s naming rights, but it’s keep the name.
Stu’s Notes: Sports Are the Point of Sports
Why people are weirdos for getting mad at Leigh Diffey, and plenty more from your local NIT blogger.
Joe’s Notes: Sherrone Moore’s Penalty and Jim Harbaugh’s Legacy
What a Sherrone Moore suspension would mean for Michigan, what Jim Harbaugh did to Jim Harbaugh’s legacy, and a lot of Olympics and baseball from the last few days.
Stu’s Notes: The Coolest American Athlete in Every Sport
From Simone Biles to George Kittle.
Stu’s Notes: Let’s Rank the Olympic Sports
Why Olympic swimming rocks and Olympic soccer stinks.
Stu’s Notes: America Needs to Stop Caring About (Men’s) Soccer
We can care and win, or we can abstain and lose. At this point, the choice has been made.
Stu’s Notes: Who’s Weirder—Texas A&M or Tennessee?
Also: Just Stop Oilers, and the Gay Mets’ international man of mystery.
Stu’s Notes: Remembering Willie Mays
A collection of tributes, memories, and reactions from last night and today.
Joe’s Notes: The ACC–SEC Battle, Beyond the College World Series
It’s not as lopsided as it appears.
Stu’s Notes: Will Adam Silver Make Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum Fight?
We must salvage the narrative.
Joe’s Notes: How Scottie Scheffler Compares to the Historic Greats
Where Scheffler’s third major before age 28 would put him against Woods, Nicklaus, and the rest.
Stu’s Notes: Poor Jayson Tatum
Jayson Tatum might not deserve our respect. But he probably doesn’t deserve this. Also: Yusei Kikuchi lit up Tyler Soderstrom and Dan Campbell committed a very Dan Campbell rules violation.
Joe’s Notes: The Post-Superteam NBA
With a new generation comes a return to team identities. Also: The Timberwolves’ depth, what went wrong for the Nuggets, and signs of renewed arrogance from the NCAA.
Stu’s Notes: Moonshine
Time to get back in? Then: Scottie Scheffler finally arrived, Paul Skenes might be good, and the refs at hockey worlds look like even bigger dorks than usual.
Joe’s Notes: Is the PGA Tour Going to Let LIV Win?
Where things currently stand on the merger that wasn’t. Also: Mystik Dan’s Preakness chances, more goalie interference, and the David Fletcher wrinkle to the Ippei Mizuhara scandal.
Three Things: Does College Basketball Media Hate Doug Gottlieb?
Reacting to the reaction to Doug Gottlieb’s hiring at Green Bay. Then: The Astros? Cheating? And the PGA Championship is a problem.