Steve Rivera and Jacome Solens. They have their eye on the ball on two
Sons sports station, Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Hey, welcome back to win
the ball here at Fox Sports fourteen fifty. Or I'm Steve Robera, you're
Jacob Zonas. Who're gonna have breaking news from you? Jake? Maybe we
aren't brought breaking on the ball break up. I don't know if I want
breaking news. Man. A couple of things we did, okay, um,
well, right out of the box, Well, we were talking about
you know, Alabama, Alabama player here at Arizona under some let's just say,
some curious circumstances mentioned. I think yesterday that maybe it was the day
before that there was a situation with Alabama baseball and UH sports books now in
three states of stopped taking bets on Alabama baseball. The first comment was,
if you're betting on college baseball, you're a super degenerate. You've got a
big problem. As we go along, more and more stuff is happening.
The first thing is that UH Alabama's baseball coach, um UH Brad Bohannon was
fired today and according to ESPN, it's been determined that sports book surveillance video
shows that the person who was making the bets and uh, there was a
person that's I don't know how sports book making bets on LSU okay, was
talking to Bohannon on the phone at the time. So basically they've determined that
that the Alabama coach was feeding information to this guy who was making bets in
Ohio. And the reason that caught the you know the there there's uh they
have companies that that monitor monitor and the reason they caught their eyes because this
one guy placed two large bets, one right after the other on on on
LSU to win. Okay, Now, what they're saying is that the information
that this guy got was that Alabama for this game was gonna have to scratch
its starting pitcher who was their ace, because of a bad back. And
it's not like the and the Major League Baseball where an hour ahead of time
you give the light. You know, that was information that this guy got
that nobody else had and he made these two large bets. Are you reading
this? Who's ESPN all? This is? According to ESPN all this this
this just came out a little bit ago. Uh that uh um, But
they have surveillance video that says that somehow from the video they know that this
guy was talking to the Alabama baseball coach, so he's been fired. Um
and uh, the game was they were putting in a guy who hadn't pitched
since March. So your thing, right, you bet on Alice? Here
he bet a whole bunch of money. Nobody they haven't given an amount.
They just called keep calling it a large bet. And again, not even
that many people bet on college days. What was the outcome of that game?
Well, Alice, you won, You're winning ten to ten to one.
Alabama made a little bit of a rally but ended up still losing ten
to six or ten or something like that. So the bet one. But
the reason again, the real caught the risk because there's so little betting on
baseball. When somebody throws down some large chunks of money and it's the same
guy, and he does it twice. Well and in fact you say that
with good points. Uh, this FanDuel, they did ESPN and whoever did
the story. There was no bets Frontanduel. There was no bets on some
of the other just here just there. He went in bed at at at
the sports book at the Reds Ballpark, right, right, right, So
at was the Great America Park or whatever it's called, at the Great American
Ballpark. So they it was suspicious just because this guy bet a bundle of
money on a college baseball game down in Alabama. So they looked into it.
They've fired the coach, and look, this wasn't the first time.
Right, you don't catch him. You don't ever catch him on the first
time in general, you know, maybe you do, maybe you don't.
But just saying that he's busted, he's fired. He'd been the coach since
twenty seventeen and he is out, Well you know why you why why do
you risk here? I mean, look, the odds on him, The
odds on a baseball game aren't gonna be you know, big huge, right.
Plus you're playing LSU, who's really damn good, number one in the
country, so you're betting that they're gonna lose anyway, So what why you
You could be betting so much money that you're gonna win a whole bunch of
money. So anyways, um, all right, um uh. Milwaukee Bucks
head coach Mike Budenholzer out after after earning the number one seed in BA and
then getting then losing in the in the uh in the first round. They
fired. Are there any other NBA teams looking for a head coach? I'm
sure there are. There will be the reason why he won't be without a
job at anytime soon. He won a championship two years. He made my
book a time or two because I think that uh, mister Brassie, U
Matt Brassie. A lot of people are tied to you of a know him
and said that he was an influence on their lives and blah blah blah.
It's really strange. But you're as good as your last hair buy. He
won the championship two seasons and then he was he had the best team in
the NBA for the regular season, and you're gonna fire him? He as
good as your last haircut. Man. Yeah, by the way, you
need a haircut. I just got a haircut, a better one. But
you know what I'm saying, what have you done for me lately? Um?
I did see estat that says of the past four NBA eight champions Okay,
so last year was the Golden State. It was Milwaukee. I think
it was that the Lakers and the Celtics. So the last four NBA champions.
The only coach still coaching is the other three have been fired. Yeah,
Buston's a gun from the fair affair? Who Lakers gone? Um?
What's the guy? I can't remember? Yeah, gun Lakers Guns gone?
Wow, unbelievable The way the league is this just what have you done for
me? Hot? All right? Um. On the recruiting side, Hunter
Dickinson, who was widely considered the number one A player in the draft portal
uh leaving left Michigan, gone to Kansas the rich get Richard Yeah, um,
he's he'll be a guy who'll make an immediate impact. You'll probably make
a lot of money there and uh and helped Kansas. Uh you know it
makes Kansas immediate favor to be uh national and they were last year and they
were ye so um all right, um, oh did you see? Okay,
there's a lot of again a lot of get off my lawn guys.
Wander Franco shortstop with he catches the ball, passes it up in the air,
catches it and then throws the guy out of you. Never seen it.
I've never seen it. It was cool but different, but people are
losing their minds over it. Again. The way the way people lose their
minds when somebody does something different or so, so go, where are you
going with this? I just saw the plane. I thought it was I
thought it was all right, But I'm going. Where I'm going with this
is that people lose their minds over everything. It was like, I did
you care? I thought it was cool. I said, that's kind of
risky, because what if he twel he creates an error, he drops the
ball. Now you're an idiot, right, But he did cool. It
was kind of cool. I was always afraid of being an infielder that my
ball wouldn't get to retire. I didn't have the arm to be able to
do stuff like that anyway. So it's just I just thought it was I
just thought it was. Anybody who's complaining about stuff like that, you have
too much time in your hair, all right? Um. The Colorado Athletic
director Rick George has come out defending the Dion Sanders. Of course, he's
going to basically saying that you know, what's going on in Colorado happens all
the time. Well, yes, and no coaches get rid of players,
but not to the extent that who is it will contact him in four years
saying out, yeah, how'd it go? Um, George says, we
are not the first to do this. Eighteen months ago, there was a
lot of criticism in our program because guys were leaving around twenty four to twenty
five left in December, right after the season. Similar things that happened at
other schools. We are not unique in this. We know that in coaches
first year, you have a head coach exemption, which is part of NC
Double A rules. Having a conversation with student athletes after springball, Hey,
this may not work out, you may not get the playtime you want.
We'll have you go somewhere else. That's what those discussions were about. After
everybody's season, coaches and student athletes are having those conversations. Yeah, it's
a lot, but we are focused on getting better. But it's one little
different though. There was this whole matter of they were kicking guys out of
the program, but then they weren't helping them find other places to go.
They weren't let him get their reversis film ultimately reversed it, but for a
while they were saying, you know, it was it was consentious. Yeah,
sorry, you can't do that. But they get out of here and
you can't have your film all right. Another one from what were these guys
thinking? Uh? Two USC journalists journalism students who were covering the NFL draft,
a guy named Eric Lambkins the second and Jude o'conys. Uh. They
were in Kansas City doing the draft and they were, uh says for a
student run multi platform news outlet known as Annenberg Media, which I recognize as
you know, getting UM credentials and packed off tournaments whatnot. Apparently they got
busted, they were they were arrested while boarding a plane back to LA in
the theft of more than a thousand dollars worth of first round draft pick jerseys.
So I don't know if they thought they were gonna steal these jerseys and
sell them out in the market or whatever. But they have video surveillance that
show them around one twenty am entering the areas connected to the NFL Draft where
they did not have access and they were staying taking stuff. Uh. They
said they entered into the talent waiting room with Lambkins holding a bag. They
stayed in the new five minutes before leaving with the bag looking forward. So
talk about wrecking your career right before you even start your career. That's way
too bad. All right, Um, that's kind of all I got.
There's a big game boomer out that was kind of dumb. Yeah, well
that's kind of what Even though we talked to him and he's guests on the
show, he comes up with dumb stuff. But we even talked about coming
up with dumb stuff. He said, I do, I do. And
the thing of it is is he got the Arizona part of this, all
right, Okay, So okay. The twenty five best and worst college football
stadium nicknames. Okay, okay, so you know Number one was Death Valley
at LSU. Number two the Swamp of Florida. I've never heard of this
on Fort Snyder at Kansas State is number three, The Big House in Michigan,
which I think should be number one actually, but that's number four when
I'd never heard of, the Bounce House at Central Florida. Then the Horseshoe
at Ohio Steak right. Worst nicknames Clemson, Death Valley, Junior Kentucky,
the grocery Store um Central South Florida, the Pirate Ship because they play where
the Buccaneers play, Rutgers calls. There's the Birthplace of college football Wisconsin calls
there's the camp because it's Camp Randall. Um, so then you're going down
those are the worst, top the worst, top five worst, well down
on Among the best names down at number twenty twenty is Arizona. He called
it the Old Pueblo. I'm like, dude, what to stay him?
Is not called the Old Pueblo. The town is called the Old Pueblo.
The stadium is that? So Arizona fans are understanding, it's not We're not
the stadium is not. So that's on Twitter. Yeah, So did he
did he respond to the the Uh? Probably not. Let's see. Uh,
that would mean that he'd have the whole list. Uh, well,
every everybody. You know, he's a respond He's pretty much responded to everybody,
people saying that's not the nickname of our you know, st stadium and
whatnot. Well he stopped after about five or six of um, so he's
not responded to I haven't seen a response to Arizona. But he just he
just got it wrong. I mean that's what he and maybe he saw something
about the Old Peblo. But two sons the Old Peblo. But the stadium
I've heard it called the old gray lady, right, but not not never
the old Pueblo. Anyways, you're getting old, dude. Today was funny
with you, He was me, it's funny, you know what when you
told me because are you know your age? And I kind of get it
wrong because I think you're younger than what you really are. And I said,
I was joking, wait till seventy sixty, and you said you was
gonna be sixty four. And I'm thinking, holy crap, you're kind of
old, and which means I'm gonna kind of old because I'm turning. I
turned old next week. But I'm thinking we were young kids when we started
this. When we met, we were I was twenty three years old.
Yeah, it's like, how how did this happen? When you said sixty
four? I don't know why it hit me, but it hit me in
a weird way that God, you're old, but so am I. I
was twenty six years old when I went to the started covering sports. That
years on the day we start three and we met years a couple of years
later, three years later. That's how long. You know? That's scary.
It's what's scary is now because what we don't remember names and the guy
that guy. Well, there's a reason you said sixty four said you're on
the way. I know, I can, I can, I can start.
I can start getting so security right now if I wanted to. I'm
holding off because you know, I wanted to build up a little bar.
But um yeah, you know, I'm so security age in another year.
It's sixty five. It's really kind of like that's when you're supposed to other
people kind of push it out, which I think is as long as I'm
doing. Okay, now, I'll keep holding it off. I'm retiring and
tun on Tuesday. I'm passing away. I know I am. Oh God,
Okay. So that's that's enough of that, Steve. Okay, so
we'll continue. Yeah, we have a ravend Roman Compais from Rito Downs.
They've got a big Kentucky Derby watch party coming up tomorrow, so we'll have
talk about that and get his take and get some of his thoughts on on
the Kentucky Derby. Yeah, I'm excited. I've actually got you might go.
I've got to do. I've got it your sugar skilled Saturday night,
but I've got the day free to Oh do you you're gonna be you're not
gonna make it. You can't bet the game. It's gonna be late.
It's like five forty six. They go off late. It's specific time,
so it's late. You won't have time to do that and do that at
least for the race. It just is the race like a three in the
afternoon. It is over there, over there, it's like five six o'clove.
You're right, you're right now that think about it. I've had I
had to watch it, the one where they disqualified the guys. I had
to. I watched that at the at the arena. Man, okay,
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Now on the phone. We have the moon Kampasano. How are you Roman?
Hey, life is good. We're with Yeah, good to hear.
How are you on the show. We're gonna talk a little about Relie,
don't read dope park read the Park, and what you guys got going on
on Saturday. Well, this Saturday, we have a Kentucky Derby party going
We're opening up at noon until five pm. Post time? Is that the
actual Kentucky Derby post time is at three fifty seven? Yeah, three fifty
seven. But isn't it that over there or our time? He's three fifty
seven hour time, So six fifty seven time, Yeah, on the East
coast four o'clock. Okay, Kentucky, what do you say? Three fifty
seven? Yeah, so it'll go for about yeah, yeah, all right,
all right, So so talk us about the party. Um, what
people can expect when they come over and uh, you know, admission,
all that kind of stuff or whatever. Well, uh Jay, Patrons will
be able to place bets on races eight through thirteen. The Kentucky Derby is
race number twelve and uh so you want to stick around for the whole thing
again, We'll be open at noon. People can bet from races eight through
eight through thirteen to Derby race being number twelve is which is a big one.
You'll be able to get paid out right there. All right. We'll
also have food footing Hamburgers, Premium Sausage, Um hot Dogs, corn dogs
and nachos. Full service bar, which means that we'll have all the all
the beverages that you want to do, beverages and things of that sort.
Uh mint and the Kentucky Derby mint Julip, which is the drink of the
Kentucky Derby. Now is this all in the clubhouse or is it in the
lower level where where's the where's the party? This will all be in the
clubhouse, so there'll be one entrance open and that'll be the only entrance,
so there won't be any kind of confusion. And when it comes to that,
um drive until you see all the cars, all the cool people,
and you'll start seeing you know, ladies and hats and all that good stuff
and uh yeah, what's the great to see one or the two of you
there? What's the admission? It's free admission is okay, that's santastic.
So first one hundred games will will receive an official Kentucky Derby souvenir glass as
well. So that's all part of the of the of the fun. There's
a program available so you can see what the stats are for the Kentucky Derby
and other races, and that's available for twenty dollars. Well that sounds like,
I mean, you know, a fun opportunity to just come and spend
the afternoon there. I mean they will be I bet and let me say
you, Jay, I went to the one I went to a couple.
I've gone to a couple. Uh and it was during the Triple Crown of
Baffort and that rate. It was bonkers crazy because everyone loves you know,
Bob and Blah blah blah and the one with I think American Ferrell. But
it was you know, the hat contests and the people just enjoying themselves.
So if you have a chance to go, this should go. So you're
encouraging people to dress as if they were coming to the Derby and Churchill Downs
and whatnot. Right, Yeah, yeah, we're actually going to give prizes
for the best dress. We're the best hat and the best bow tie.
Best hat. I believe this for the ladies, best bow ties for the
gentlemen. I was gonna wear a hat too, so so you're gonna be
able to sig bet simulcast from other places as well, or just just Churchill,
you know, as as far as they know, it's just going to
be from from the from the Derby. But I'm not sure if they're we're
going to have other other well, I'm assuming I'm assuming we will. UM,
that's just kind of a thing that we always have. But there'll also
be a raffle prizes and we'll be selling tickets. That will be selling tickets
for UM. It's gonna be a fifty fifty and some other raffles as well
gift shop items. What are some of the raffle prizes UM, I don't
have a list of the raffle prizes as of yet. Our fifty fifty raffle
UM during our season got up to I think seven hundred and twenty bucks on
the very last thing, so that's it's it's an exciting time. We always
have great stuff, lots of generous sponsors and donors that didn't generate great things
to UM for us to raffle off, so don't be surprised. We have
some great so so you can't win, I know you dress Guapo Roman.
Um, you know you're not allowed to win if you probably were the boat
tie two. Um, so it's gonna be crazy. You'll have the reserve
seats, right, what about those to purchase? Well, you know this,
it's all gonna be open seating. So um. The table that usually
said that we stayed with me as Steve is will be open. Um,
all the different tables. But it's gonna be some. It's gonna be the
best place to be is the place where your years the end, which is
right by the bar. And it's right you know why because casinos. I
don't drink, but but there's a lot of tea there's you were with me.
I sat there, I sat there with I didn't realize I was too
perfect. Yeah, I didn't realize I was sitting in the guy with the
reputation like that. But so, uh, you're you're you're you remember the
Rito Park Foundation. So how much are you into the horse racing in terms
of as a as a horse racing batter, handicapper? You know, can
you give us a few things of what you think about the race coming up
on Saturday? Well, you know, I I love horse racing. I
love to see and the feel of it. But you know, more than
anything, I love the tuc sound feel. I love the feel that we
still have something but we're not you know, like all the other different things
that have left to song. This is something that we still have and have
had just before I was born. Yeah, so that's really what what I'm
all about. But as far as the Kentucky Derby itself, I don't have
any favorites. Typically I kind of nudge one of the other board members and
kind of, you know, ask them, hey, what what should I
bet on? Who do you guys and get a couple of other guys no
opinions as well. Is more of a mover and shaker. He's out shaking
hands. You know. It took the Huney Brothers, the Honey Brothers on
the final day and he hadn't really met him, so he kind of introduced
them to everybody. So hit a good time, right, Yeah, absolutely,
Well that's the best part for me. Yeah. Well, it's great
that you guys what you guys have been able to do. You know,
we had Mike on all, you know, all during the season and stuff,
but you know, just it sounds like there's you know, a lot
of excitement out there, and I guess when you do stuff like this too,
right, I mean it's partly generate some excitement, get some people to
come out, see the place, take part and just see how much fun
this can be. Absolutely spot on. So so how many people can you
accommodate up at the top? Typically for race day there's five thousand and five
and a half, but up there might be about two. Maybe I think
we can fit a good three. Okay, so it should be past.
Like I said, people who are betting on this thing, they go crazy
because they think, you know, they have the winner. Yeah, no,
it's it's fun, I mean. And look, I mean it's not
only been recently been able to bet on the derby right here. It's kind
true without having to go to like a place, right so it's it's been
a lot of fun. So what what you know, what are your thoughts
going forward? You guys again, had had a great season. What are
some of the things that you as a board member, uh want to see
you know happen at Rito downs Rito part you know, maybe you know the
coming year, coming years, what's on your plate? Well, you know,
and we've always wanted the Friday night racing. We've always wanted that to
be a thing. These are just things I'm throwing out just as as a
board member with high hopes and ambitions. But that in addition to having like
maybe a little bit more of business presence out there. I'm big on Tusum
business, local businesses kind of showcasing their stuffy They have advertising out there right
now, but I would like to see maybe maybe some table set up something
of that effect. So you're talking, that's interesting. I hadn't heard the
night racing. Obviously, you're there at the at the soccer fields. How
would that accommodate? Would you have to put in lights that would allow for
racing at night? Based on what I've heard so far, we would actually
turn those those lights turn three sixty, so we would turn them the other
directions. Okay, that's possible. Then that'd be nice, absolutely so,
and just kind of throw that out there if you see any of my other
fellow board members. It would be something to do on a Friday night for
sure. How I know this is kind of an off the wall question,
but have there been any thoughts of you know, setting up other stuff a
sports book, a casino. I mean that would you require some long term
stuff, but anything like that that could happen here or is it just because
it would have to be on a reservation. I don't know the ins and
outs of that, but I know that with the you know, the whole
twenty twenty one sports book, you know, the the laws being changed.
Actually it was a law that expired in twenty twenty one which allowed sports book
to come out and all these other different things. You know, there are
a lot of different possibilities. I know, I don't know exactly what they
are right now, but I would love to see some kind of other we
we have had the casino nights at the at the tracks. However, therefore
more for like those kind of those sponsor excusing those fundraising events that you go
to at other places. It would be kind of like the same thing,
but just at the track, which is which makes it a pretty unique feel.
Yeah, so that's not gonna happen that Friday, right or tomorrow.
I should say, oh no, no, we we're just gonna have just
a derby and we're gonna have a good time on on Saturday, and we're
gonna we're gonna crank out a few people when they have a really good time
and see some cool hands and some cool both ties bands or anything like that.
It's probably just gonna be horse racing, dressing up, having a good
time. Yeah, absolutely, that's it makes her a cool Saturday right,
No, great? Great? Okay, Romont, thank you very much.
Thank you appreciate it. Man, have a good time tomorrow time, yes,
thanks, gentlemen. Okay, well not tomorrow, Jay, Saturday,
Saturday, Saturday, not tomorrow. Yeah, it's weird. It's all day
to day. I've been thinking about it being right. So that's why when
I came here. Are we supposed today's Thursday? Right? I was supposed
to get wings and I didn't get it. Let me down. I went
for the kids over here. You don't, yeah, I don't. I'm
watching your diet, thank you? Watching You're done? Yeah, thank you.
I I don't need anybody. Why don't look at my diet? It's
not every day is a cheat day apparently because I know I'm cheating too,
I might done. The doctor doesn't like it. Oh god, all right,
um, well it should be fun. The derby is always fun.
So you know, I was told I was going to be at the arena.
I was about four o'clock. Yeah, what I would do for you,
Well, you know what I wouldn't. It's so tough for you because
what time you have to be there? Four o'clock. Oh yeah, so
that's kind of well. I don't know why I got this because it's seven
o'clock over there, you know, in the time chains. I'm thinking,
well, why did I miss that time up? But you know it's four
o'clock here Eastern's about six fifty eight ye seventy yeah, so no, and
I like I forgot about the time. I've got to get their head of
the game right. So, and I do recall seeing the seeing the derby,
seeing the race. Yeah, um on my iPad at the arena.
What I'll do again? The one thing that I would suggest if you wanted
to bet the race, well you have TVG you have TV Jo's and say,
if you go to the track, bet it. But I wouldn't know
how you would catch it. Right now, I can do it on TVGYA.
My wife doesn't know I have that account. Yeah now, I hope
she's not listening, but i'd just like you today I did not have to
stop it. She I had. I had a turkey sandwich at home before
I came over here, and I've got an over here to keep to keep
me from dry. Hey, okay, so who do you got tonight tonight?
Oh? So I went with the three teamer I don't say it's a
two foot put yesterday and I went. So I had to sell tics because
I thought I went with all the teams that had to win, right so
Boston, but not Golden State State like two and a half. It was
three chalks pretty much, So Golden State tonight because I think they have to
win. And then tomorrow the Sun's tomorrow. The sun is gonna be my
worst bet. I may have to do something. Oh god, I mean
you can't. I can't be banned from doing stuff, well, not my
stuff. Don't put your peanut butter in my chocolate. I'm not sure like
how that sounded. Just don't do it, because no, you only have
two games to do this pretty much? What's the third? Actually, the
Celtics and the Sixers play tomorrow according to the draft Kings. Yeah, I
wouldn't touch that one, all right me? So so right now a minus
two eighty on the Warriors and minus one seventy five on the Suns. That's
your plus one thirteen. Yeah, that's even money. Is it worth it?
Don't do it, don't do it. Don't mess me up. What's
it with the Suns? It's only a four point spread. Maybe I'll take
the well, you know one today, I was watching all the shows before
I came here. Everyone's picking the Lakers because of what they did in the
first game. And I'm thinking, come on, really, uh had had
a great games that ain't gonna happen again. It might happen down the road,
but it didn't happen tonight. Gonna you know what? Okay, so
that I'm not taking money line said the same thing as you. Maybe I'll
take the lines on both of those. I think I think the Warriors will
cover tonight. I don't know about the Suns because I there. If you
without Chris Paul, but so be at home. I think that'll help them,
at least for one game. Yeah, they're gonna play with some desperation.
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. We'll see. Maybe I'm not
doing anything, honey. In case you're watching, you're listening, All right,
let's take our last break. We're gonna come back. We'd love to
get your calls on all the stuff that's been going on. You know,
if you have an opinion on what Arizona football should be doing with Jaden Delora,
if you're happy, you're unhappy with the Jade Bradley thing coming to play
basketball at Arizona having been I use the word involved loosely on the the the
tragedy that happened over there in Tuscaloosa, uh and anything else that's been going
on. Should your college baseball coach be giving gambling tips to his bookie or
who whever? That's very bizarre, I mean really bizarre. All right,
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I Heart Radio a app. This is I on the Ball with Steve Ribera
and Jay Gonzalez on Fox Sports fourteen fifteen. Hey, welcome back to the
Balco Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Stevia Jay. I'm not gonna be here
tomorrow, so you're on your old yep. Have fun working working on a
guest host. I think I've got one just making charcoal and then, um,
we're gonna have hurt his chin two sound sugar skulls head coach. Uh
home game. They've got a home game this Saturday. It's against the Northerners
Wranglers. So they've they've didn't play last week. Great, right, they're
three and one, so they they're still stinging from the we'll find out.
I'll tell you what. Um. After the game, hurt Us was so
upbeat still. It was kind of like this happens, you know. I
mean it was a terrible loss because you know, they got beat basically got
beat on a hail Mary. If they knocked on a hail Mary, they
win the game. And they're four and oh and feeling good about themselves.
But he's kind of like, we lost, we got a week off,
we got to gather ourselves and we'll be back and so um, we'll see.
We'll see what they've been doing in the last week and a half.
There's always in a in an off week, there's some you know, some
changeover in personnel s if he's made any changes there. But we'll talk to
Hurt his chin about Saturday, his game against Northern Arizona. It's developing into
another pretty good rivalry for the Sugar Sculls. And then we'll have Jake Fisher.
Well, I loved you. I'm looking forward to getting Jake, Jake's
take on all this stuff that's gone on this week, Jane Delora, h
Jane Bradley, all this stuff, and he's usually mister positive but mister realistic
positive. This will be very interesting. I'm gonna have to hear this.
Yeah, I mean, he's been on social media very happy that Arizona has
gotten Bradley. There's been no uh no comment about you know, his uh
being tied to that situation, back to the to the shooting in uh in
Tuscaloosa. But I really wanted to hear got to say about Jake Henley play
Alabama next year. That's right, Phoenix's right, Phoenix, Yeah, I
think that. I think that Tommy has some more players upcoming, right,
maybe another player or two um that I think there was at of fans.
I don't know who they are, but he'll be fine. Nil. Or
if you didn't listen to our Nil show yesterday, it was in the first
hour, late the first hour, Yeah, the first segment of the first
time. I think you'll enjoy it if you're still having any reservations to help
you listen to the show. About the last twenty minutes or fifteen minutes of
the first segment of hour one, we had Adam Lazarus, so not a
just sort of an We reached out to him and said, give us a
call because we have some things we want to clarify. And I think that
segment did clarify a whole bunch of stuff. I feel like I better understand.
Okay, what if you're going to give money for NIL to kind of
know where you should where you can do the most right right. Any questions,
he said, just give him an email, send him an email,
or send him or just go to the website or the website. Yeah,
there's ways to contact. This is Arizona Assist, which is a it's an
entity that helps men's basketball friends of Wilbur and Wilma hops all the program.
But you know, if you want to donate money in there and it goes
to get spread around quite a bit. More of an Arizona it says it
was done specifically to support uh Man's pass and Arizona is indefinite need of that
to help sustain what they already have. Yeah. You know, um,
there were a lot of people who thought, um, this guy a Hunter
Dickinson who ended up in Kansas was going to Kentucky and then so it's always
going to just be in the back of people's minds or maybe in the front
of people's minds. Was it money, wasn't money? Yeah, well we
talked about that Today's winds to their Thursday. I think it was Tuesday that
I saw something that was read through a Kentucky source or a reradio or whatever
saying that it didn't look like they're going to get them because they don't have
enough. Can I eil money? Yeah exactly, This is Kentucky. Yeah,
and it's Kentucky. Yeah. I high are on the air and on
the ball. I'm here. Steve will be happy to steer to show back
onto the lead, the Kentucky Derby, the Kentucky Derby. You know,
you're you're the horse that has come out out of the gate at half the
halfway point. Looks pretty good. You're around the turn and Howard's dying fading
fast. But you know what, I love the pageant tree. I used
too, I should say, I'm gonna tell you why I hate it now,
the pageant tree and the whole thing and the Preakness. They're gonna keep
going. I took my little ger girl when she was like five, she's
twenty almost twenty eight now, and I hated it three years ago when they
got in the rain the first time ever they took it away from a guy
that won the horse and so controversial. Remember yeah, yeah, it was
Bob's Oh I'm they lost me. That's that was Bs that call so and
not never watching it again. But you guys look at it from the betting
standpoint, Yeah you know, but you don't really care about the race.
You just care about who bets. So go Howard. God comes down the
stretch, Go Howard God. And what about those phoenix suns? Well,
okay, well they well here's what they should have done. Now that they're
little defragile man, the strong man Chris Paul. They should have freaking done
it. There was a litter called the Outsider Squad. You knew that is,
I don't know if that's the exact name. The Outsider Squad should have
played in the first two games. They wouldn't lust because they their warts.
They had their defensive liabilities. But guess what their their TJ. Warren the
more buckets joke. Skies can get hot as a rock, remember Vinnie Johnson
the microwave back in the day, and of course, um the habachi people
that heat up and they can, and so they're gonna be playing tomorrow.
So I know, people tend to panic, you know. I mean,
look, Denver is supposed to win the first two games at home, and
they did, so you know, now the sun good, I mean,
yeah, really good too. Yeah, So I mean there's is there any
panic in your mind right now? Well? No, Now, Monty's got
to play those other two guys, and he didn't play them because their defensive
liabilities, and that's bs. But we need to score. He gets the
bottom line. And they can outscore more than game points than they give up,
I think. And now they're gonna we're gonna see right, Yeah,
I remember t J. Warren, Terence Ross. I think they're gonna win
tomorrow. Um, they're gonna win the next two games. They have to
if they lose one of them to get their toast. We all know that
their toast. Yeah, okay, yeah, that's go Howard go all right,
guys down the stretching. Wait, Howard broke a leg on the stretch.
Such an emotional guy. Yeah. I think they're gonna be finding tomorrow.
But after that, I do not know. But he's right. I
mean, come on, we talked about we liked or you liked or whomever
likes sons if if Durant didn't get hurt, no one talked about the guard
always gets hurt, right right, I don't know. I mean, I
let let me just say I from the get go, though didn't see why.
I get they've got Kevin Durant. I just still didn't see them as
the favorite to win the West. Why Vegas had them as a fait because
I think you can assume that everything's gonna go okay, I mean healthwise and
all the stuff, but you can really never assume that, right, And
I know all those guys who you know, the the books and stuff are
all way smarter than me. But I didn't. I just didn't see it.
I didn't and I still don't. I mean, especially after seeing you
know, Denver play, you know, the last couple of the last couple
of games. I've been watching the sons of the Denver to me right now,
and I said that James and James, Jason and I were having this
conversation, you know, during we we talked NBA like the whole last thing.
Oh yes, yes, And I just said, I think I think
the Nuggets are the favorite to win this thing. That's why I picked them,
only because they looked like the best team. They underwent under rate,
under regarded, or they were under the radar, under dar They had the
best team, best record in the league, in the West. I mean,
how could you not. And now they have Murray back who hadn't been
there last two years. So that's why I really liked them, and that's
why I bet him. I mean them and the Warriors. So yeah,
they just oo. Dan Walkin just tweeted this out, Dan, Yeah.
Sure. The share volume of athletic department scandals attached to Greg BYRNS yep,
at both Arizona and now Alabama is breathtaking. Is that him? No,
that's just a tweet tweet that he sent out. He sent that earlier today,
but it just got retweets. He's not wrong, top of my thing.
He's not wrong. Mayn Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's Hi.
You're on the air and on the ball. Hello. Hello, it's
the ghost from calls past. Call maybe I did. Oh, okay,
if you if you were trying to call, give us a quick call.
I mean, there's a as as much as you hate to say it,
and part of it, part of it, you know, I got to
know Greg little personally because his kids went to my kids, his kids back
and here at work, yeah, at games and stuff. But um,
I just don't know. Maybe it's just that he doesn't pay enough attention or
things things start to happen and instead of addressing him, they just kind of
so, you know, sometimes you think I'll go away if I just don't
do anything. I don't know. I don't know. But that's that's a
really good point. It's a point point higher on the air and on the
ball. Oh, this is Dave. I was wanting to talk about the
Dolora. Yea, yeah, Dave, tell us what you think. I
think it's five years ago. He got he did his time, and now
they're like trying to throw him under the bus again. Yeah, there's there's
that point. There's that point, and absolutely you can't deny that point,
you know. And and the thing of it is, if there hadn't been
a lawsuit, right this, this wouldn't be an issue right now. But
the fact that there was means it got out in the public and now we're
talking about it. So there's and that's what I think Steve and I were
saying. I don't know if you agree. There's so many different places that
you can land with this, right, Yeah. Are you a regular?
Are you a regular as ticket holders for football? Yeah? So I'm assuming
that you'll go and you'll have no problem cheering for him and things like that,
exactly. Yeah, And both sides, both sides neither are wrong,
right, And that's that's it, And it's just you just the question is
where's that's gonna end up? What you know is there's gonna be something happened
or not. You know, as we said Wisconsin, is this ue a
statement? They said, he's on our team. This happened before he got
here, and that's it. So I can see if it had happened here,
and it happened like you said yesterday, right, yeah, suspend him
if he did it, kick him off the team. But yeah, five
years ago, he was a teenager. The stuff I'm sure was field.
So that's why you were very Wisconsin whoever didn't know? Right, Yeah?
Right, Well, Dave, thanks about that. That's a that's I mean,
that's a good take. That's a very good take. Yeah, thank
you, Dave, thanks for calling. Thanks a much, keep listening.
Well, appreciate our callers. Guys, anybody want to call. We have
about three and I mean, Dave's gotta he's got James's points career because because
my, my, my situate, my scenario where if this happened today,
yes he'd be suspended and probably kicked off. But it didn't happen today,
it happened five years ago. Whatever whatever consequences there were to him from a
from a criminal standpoint have been dealt with, right, They've been done.
So I don't know, I don't know, I don't I don't know where
to land on this, And yeah, I think we gotta wait and see,
yeah, and then we'll have an opinion. Was that the right thing
or the wrong thing? I you know, I just know that it's it's
it's just way too bad for everybody involved, that that a that it happened,
be that we have to talk about it five years later. And then
it becomes you know that these things, um, they get out in the
public and you have this why gap or widespread of opinions as to what happened.
Right, It's a tough tough call, um, But but okay,
so he keeps part of this now And what did you just read about the
tweet from walking? I mean if he accumulate right, right? Yeah,
exactly? You know things, you know, things do accumulate. And you
know, I mean Dan Wilkin, who you know USA Today writer for those
of you who don't know somebody that he's been on our show. Steve and
I both both know him. I made him and talked to him at the
at the West Regional a few weeks ago. Um. You know, when
national guys are calling your name on stuff like that, it's out there and
it's out there to stay. And uh, you know there's more stuff like
that happens at Alabama. I mean again, you know he brings you know,
his name comes out because of this this gambling thing with the baseball team
of all of all places, baseball, college baseball involved in in a gambling
in a gambling scandal. I mean, what the hell are you supposed to
do? You know, what the hell are you supposed to do? From
a conversation that that may have timing of it was whatever, But why is
he talking to him in the first place? Yeah, right, exactly.
I mean he called this guy and said, hey, you go make some
bets for me. You remember, you remember back in the day, and
I don't even know how long ago, I know, we only have a
minute. When you're in Vegas, you're at the sports book and they didn't
allow phones, right, they didn't things, no electronic devices. Now everybody
has a phone and those things have gone are gone now and for probably this
reason. Well yeah, but you know, but you can. I mean,
you go to sportsbook now, you know you can bet on your phone.
You don't have to go to the window anymore. Right, you get
if you're at the West Gate, you download the wet the super book app.
Are there no um defenses? Yeah? Therefences? Oh yeah, so
you can't you if I couldn't bet Draft Kings, Okay, when I'm in
at the park. Ok yeah, that's why I asked. Yeah, no,
there are there are geofences what they're called. Yeah, yeah, you
can't. Yeah, you can't do those things. So I don't know,
Steve, I don't know, man. It's uh, it's a crazy world
out there, and it's getting crazier oh the time. Okay, I'll see
you Tuesday. All right. Steve's out tomorrow and Monday, so we'll have
some guest hosts and some more guests. Hurt his chin. We'll talk ster
stoves tomorrow, so to be sure to come back for that, as well
as Jake Fisher, so be sure to be here tomorrow. We run in
through the orld like a running back of scar Faceballs by running back