Speaker 1: The sports page with the Orlando Sentinel at FM ninety
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the curse of Taco Bob is what it is.
Speaker 2: Man hit him with it, Hit him with it.
Speaker 3: Taco Bob predicted Oklahoma was gonna win their fifth straight
Speaker 3: national championship. Of course he always picks the favorite. Well,
Speaker 3: guess what. Texas Tech, fueled by nil money, beat the
Speaker 3: Oklahoma Sooners last night three to two in the Women's
Speaker 3: College World Series. The Sooners did not go down without
Speaker 3: a fight. They hit a home run in the last
Speaker 3: and he tied it up with the Texas Tech wins
Speaker 3: it in the bottom half of the inning. Wow, Texas Tech,
Speaker 3: what a story they are. They've got this booster up
Speaker 3: at Texas Tech. Was it Cody Campbell's name. He's like
Speaker 3: this billionaire natural gas baron in Texas. In Texas, he
Speaker 3: went to Texas Tech letterd in football. There, he's a billionaire.
Speaker 3: He is pumping all sorts of money into the Texas
Speaker 3: Tech athletic program, including the softball program, their star player,
Speaker 3: their pitcher, a transfer from Canada, and the Jerry Kennedy
Speaker 3: a transfer from Stanford. I mean the Jerry Kennedy a
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Speaker 3: She's pitched every pitch in the College World Series and
Speaker 3: she's the major reason why they are playing for the
Speaker 3: national championship against Texas And watch I'm gonna tell you, guys,
Speaker 3: this Texas texts football program. Because of this, Cody Campbell
Speaker 3: guy signed the number one transfer portal class in the country. Uh,
Speaker 3: watch out for them in college football this year. They
Speaker 3: could compete for the national championship in college football as well.
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Speaker 2: You heard anything about it?
Speaker 1: I investigating baseball. Go ahead and google that and you'll
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Speaker 2: No, I'm assuming one of his sports circle buddies put
Speaker 2: this in their group text and Bob has picked up
Speaker 2: on it in group text.
Speaker 1: I was watching a little sports action and.
Speaker 2: What about what about over in college baseball? Bulldog?
Speaker 3: Well, the major story in the state is Gator baseball
Speaker 3: coach Kevin O'Sullivan. I don't know if you guys saw
Speaker 3: the viral profane rant over the weekend. So the Gators
Speaker 3: were playing in a regional up and Coastal Carolina, and
Speaker 3: the previous night's game between East Carolina and whoever they
Speaker 3: were playing went late, so they pushed the game the
Speaker 3: the after the morning game back in an hour because
Speaker 3: East Carolina finished like past midnight. In Kevin O'Sullivan just
Speaker 3: went on this f this f that rant that was
Speaker 3: caught on video, of course, and he had to apologize yesterday.
Speaker 3: The athletic director at Florida, Scott Strickland, apologized yesterday. If
Speaker 3: you haven't seen this video, go watch it. I mean
Speaker 3: it was. It was the most childish thing you've ever seen.
Speaker 3: And Kevin O'Sullivan should be ashamed of The Coastal Carolina
Speaker 3: coach just ripped him a new one. Uh after the game.
Speaker 2: So that was Meanwhile, Miami moves on to a super
Speaker 2: regional along with Florida State.
Speaker 3: That's right, Miami and Florida State both in the super regional.
Speaker 3: Of course, the Gators didn't make it, which is why,
Speaker 3: probably why Kevin O'Sullivan is such a jerk. But yeah,
Speaker 3: so good for Florida State and Miami. By the way,
Speaker 3: would you like to see Florida State finally win a
Speaker 3: College World Series? They didn't do it all those years
Speaker 3: under Mike Martin. Remember I think he was Oh, I
Speaker 3: think he went to the College World Series seventeen times
Speaker 3: and never won. So it'd be great for Link Jarrett,
Speaker 3: the new Florida State baseball coach, to win a national
Speaker 3: title for the summer.
Speaker 2: Hey, Bulldog, I thought, you know, since we're waiting on
Speaker 2: the start of the championship rounds for hockey and basketball tonight,
Speaker 2: this morning might be a good spot where I could
Speaker 2: bring this up. And I do not mean to blindside you.
Speaker 2: Will put you on the spot with this, and I
Speaker 2: get a question for you. Have you watched the Dale
Speaker 2: Earnhardt four part documentary on Amazon Prime yet?
Speaker 3: I have not, but I want to watch.
Speaker 2: Okay, you ask In the fourth part, the final part,
Speaker 2: which focuses on the tragic day at the Daytona five
Speaker 2: hundred back in two thousand and one, which took the
Speaker 2: legend's life. They brought up a very painful memory that
Speaker 2: I quite honestly had forgotten about, and I thought, who
Speaker 2: better to ask than you? The Orlando Sentinel, which you
Speaker 2: were a fairly new employee at at the time, and
Speaker 2: their lawsuit to try to get access to autopsy photos.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I remember that. In fact, I wrote an obituary
Speaker 3: on Ed Hinton, the legendary former Sentinel NASCAR writer who
Speaker 3: died a few months ago.
Speaker 2: Go read it.
Speaker 3: I went into all of what happened back then. The
Speaker 3: Sentinel did a six month investigation before Dale Earnhardt died.
Speaker 3: Leading up to that Daytona five hundred on NASCAR had
Speaker 3: just totally dropped the ball on safety in their sport.
Speaker 3: Three drivers in the previous months had died on the track,
Speaker 3: including Adam Petty, the grandson of Richard Petty, who was
Speaker 3: going to be a great, great driver. And the Sentinel
Speaker 3: did this investigation, led by Ed Hinton, and you know,
Speaker 3: NASCAR pushedback, said Hinton was full of crap, said the
Speaker 3: Sentinel was full of crap. You know, their facts were
Speaker 3: all wrong. And then what happens, Dale Earnhardt dies at
Speaker 3: the Daytona five hundred and boom, just like that, the
Speaker 3: scenario change. Yes, the Sentinel did request the autopsy photos
Speaker 3: and any you know, and the the propaganda out there
Speaker 3: back then was, oh, the Sentinel wants to print these
Speaker 3: autopsy photos. That was never the intention of what the
Speaker 3: Sentinel was trying to do. In fact, the Sentinel got
Speaker 3: the autopsy photos. They had a settlement with Teresa Earnhardt,
Speaker 3: they got the autopsy photos. The reason they wanted to
Speaker 3: get the autopsy photos was because they wanted to show
Speaker 3: the photos to an independent medical expert at Duke who
Speaker 3: could look at the photos and explain why Dale Earnhardt
Speaker 3: died because the Sentinel did not trust NASCAR, all right,
Speaker 3: And the guy looked at the photos and yes, Dale
Speaker 3: Earnhardt died of the same basil I think was Bassilor's
Speaker 3: skull fracture that Adam Petty and the other drivers had
Speaker 3: died from. And guess what, NASCAR immediately changed it stance
Speaker 3: and a driver has not died on the track ever since.
Speaker 3: So anybody who wants to portray the Sentinel, is this
Speaker 3: gruesome trying to print the photos. That was never the
Speaker 3: intention the Sentinel, in my opinion, along with Dale Earnhardt's death,
Speaker 3: is the reason NASCAR is a much safer sport today.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, that's why I wanted to throw it
Speaker 2: squarely into your court to have a comment on in
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