Shams Charania:
Just in: Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards has sustained a bone bruise and hyperextension in his left knee and is expected to miss multiple weeks, sources tell ESPN. Results showed Edwards avoided any ligament damage, but he will now miss time.
https://www.espn.com/contributor/shams-charania/48ae8d6c475bc
You get ten songs, each starting as a 300-millisecond sliver. Spin a wheel, pick the title. The faster you guess, the more points you keep. Guess wrong and you get more of the song, but you lose points
I got the idea from Switched On Pop. They were basically playing this on the show, and one of the hosts could not get "Fantasy." I was on a walk yelling at my phone. Figured it'd make a fun game.
A New playlist every day. It's free and full of music puns, starting with the name. I made it look like our favorite old player that's no longer with us. Any feedback would be great!
I thought Bills pod with Sam was fascinating. If this bleeds into Walter having to sell the Dodgers at all with all the money they have deferred, there’s a real chance not only baseball but sports ownership in general starts to fold in on itself. Who is going to buy the dodgers at a valuation like that with all the deferred money? Oil money? Maybe I’m being a little alarmist but when Sam started talking about cracks in the system it gave me Big Short energy.
Maybe I'm the only one, but I found it odd how Bill kept referencing life insurance as something your elderly father buys. I get that a guy like Bill does not need life insurance, but just kind of made me chuckle. Anyone else or am i off base here?
I know he is Brian’s son, Matt Damon kind of helped him get into Harvard and he dated Apatows daughter at some point but he seemed smart, thoughtful and credible. Am I over caffeinated right now or did he come on and speak thoughtfully with humor about a complicated subject?
great guest spot, was not familiar with him because I don’t follow Pablo’s reporting, I only get it 2nd or 3rd hand
did a really great job explaining the Walter situation in layman’s terms, it’s pretty complex and convoluted. i don’t know how this isn’t the biggest story in sports right now. glad he also actually gave his own opinions on that situation as well as the Clippers’ saga
i’m not a koppelman burner lol but a lot of these guests are too afraid to say something that can get thrown back at them and as a result hedge everything they say and don’t speak confidently, this was refreshing
I was just thinking about Bill's concept of people who have the belt and the belt I was thinking about was most famous athlete. I'm only talking about America so don't talk about how Messi and Ronaldo are way more famous than these people. The rules are an athlete has to be active to count, no retired athletes. Let's run through the history of this:
I feel like LeBron has been the most famous athlete in the United States since 2010. Basically from The Decision until today.
Before him I *think* it was Kobe but I'm not 100% certain.
It was definitely Shaq in the early 2000s
Obviously it was Jordan in the 90s
The late 80s belonged to Mike Tyson
The early 80s I'm struggling with. Was it Joe Montana? Magic? Bird? Sugar Ray Leonard? Carl Lewis? Rickey Henderson? I need someone older than me to answer.
1967 through the entire 1970s the most famous athlete was Muhammad Ali. He was probably more famous than the President back then
Before Ali I'd say it was Mickey Mantle and before him it was Joe Dimaggio
Joe Louis might have had a run in the late 30s before Dimaggio's hit streak launched him to another stratosphere
This takes us all the way back to Babe Ruth who was the most famous athlete in American history, if you disagree you're just wrong.
So I think it comes down to two questions
*Was Tom Brady ever more famous than LeBron James?*
*Was Joe Montana the most famous athlete in the early 1980s?*
My gut feeling is no but I wanna see how other people feel, especially anyone who might have been alive in the 80s
I also think Mahomes is a lock to be the most famous athlete in the country once LeBron retires and he might be the first football player ever to have that title.
And it's not even close....
Tom had useful insider info and had some wild (Steelers offense) opinions. This gave Bill something to react to and it generated some conversation. He'll have to find his groove on the talk time. He was amped up and yapping.
Never mind the fact that it’ll be a logistical nightmare and put one team at a structural disadvantage, Roger sees a big payday for the league!
Where is our sports czar?
I’m a little lower on Mahomes than the masses might be. He may actually be a bit of an under achiever when it’s all said and done but this is killing me lol guy has one brutal year where he has no one around him and they’re gonna put Drake maye Lamar Jackson Josh Allen and Matt stafford all above him.
I swear the people we can trust the leash to evaluate are the people who are playing the sport.
I get that there is no true ethical consumption and he's probably had sponsors that are even more morally corupt than OpenAI, so I acknowledge it's weird that I'm drawing the line here. But I might be. Tough look for our guy.
Beyond the ethical ramifications, I just don't want to hear Bill reading off AI responses for content. There's tons of sportstalk brainrot slop across social media for that. As crazy as he is sometimes, I listen to Simmons for his own thoughts, not a mindless reguridation. Just get this shit out of anything that remotely relates to art or journalism man. Gross.
Had no idea he was the head of the DNC for years before being NBA commissioner.