Speaker 1: Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to Why on the Ball here on
Speaker 2: Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve RIVERA be with me
Speaker 2: today is Dave silver.
Speaker 3: Machine is one?
Speaker 2: That was fun though, That was fun.
Speaker 3: That was great. You know, I don't think I've ever
Speaker 3: interviewed him or really had a chance to meet him.
Speaker 3: You obviously have. Yeah, that was very cool. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean that's a legend. My my children are listening around
Speaker 3: the country on the iHeart apps. Wow, Dad, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was good. He's always good, funny guy him.
Speaker 2: And you know Bill, No, Bill is fantastic, is your brother?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Do you ever read You probably don't read my books.
Speaker 2: You don't have time. So so in the in the
Speaker 2: Dukie By Towel story, okay, do you think do you
Speaker 2: think Luke came up did no effort?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, do you think Luke came up
Speaker 2: with it?
Speaker 3: Now, he's not.
Speaker 2: He's not that mean, he's not that funny. He's not
Speaker 2: he's got a dry sense of humor. But so it
Speaker 2: was Bill. Bill's the one, because Bill's the funny guy.
Speaker 2: And and then that's well, okay, that's how Luke picked
Speaker 2: up on it right.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting, you know, with people in Tucson know
Speaker 3: about the whole Rito Park situation where it looks like
Speaker 3: there's not going to be a racing for a while
Speaker 3: if ever, and now they're looking at you know, going
Speaker 3: out to Morana or someplace or somewhere else that's going
Speaker 3: to take a lot of effort. I mean that was
Speaker 3: that was where this guy got his start. And every
Speaker 3: time you watch them on any race, you know, there
Speaker 3: seems to be like there's at least for me, I'm thinking, well,
Speaker 3: you know that's the Tucson guy. Well, no gallous guy.
Speaker 2: To your point, and you asked me, could he be
Speaker 2: involved the there's a lot of power because they have
Speaker 2: the the teaching that the US industry would. They have
Speaker 2: a lot of kind of powerful lumps who might be
Speaker 2: able to kind of save it. I just don't know
Speaker 2: if they have enough power to do it or a
Speaker 2: care to do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I mean, you know him and Todd Pletcher,
Speaker 3: especially those two. You know, again, every time Triple Crown
Speaker 3: races in particular, or some of the big ones, the
Speaker 3: Beagers Cup and stuff, when you when you see their names,
Speaker 3: you instantly think about their ties Tucson. So you know,
Speaker 3: it's good to have that relationship, right.
Speaker 2: Okay, now one you're on the you're on the hook
Speaker 2: here for your second to last breaking news. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: we're gonna do it.
Speaker 3: We're gonna do it. Yea, yeah, all right, this is
Speaker 3: on the.
Speaker 1: Ball breaking news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty.
Speaker 6: Happy Thursday to everyone out there, yours truly me hit
Speaker 6: the Lindo, getdy two shoes. Uh, gonna try to not
Speaker 6: get emotional in the next two weeks.
Speaker 2: You're like that, you know, you get a little too
Speaker 2: too the anxious do I well, you your last two
Speaker 2: months of school was like, holy crap. But the world
Speaker 2: is gonna end.
Speaker 6: Well because it was first off, first off, it was
Speaker 6: a little bit dicey towards the end. But to break
Speaker 6: the news, We're gonna start off with some Arizona athletics
Speaker 6: as I usually do.
Speaker 3: H going to.
Speaker 6: The track and field area for Wildcats Jesse Alvina, Rinaldo
Speaker 6: Rodriguez and Zach Landa has have punched their tickets to
Speaker 6: the NCAA Outdoor Championships, happening uh in Eugene from the
Speaker 6: eleventh and through the fourteenth of June.
Speaker 2: Again Eugene, one of those places.
Speaker 3: What's going on? Everyone's going up there? So yeah, well,
Speaker 3: I mean obviously they got the greatest track college track
Speaker 3: and maybe one of the best tracks in the country.
Speaker 2: Yeah what you would think.
Speaker 3: I was there that day. We talked with Ken Go Yeah,
Speaker 3: used to write for the Oregonian. Yeah. So yeah, so
Speaker 3: these are just the regionals, right, this is just the
Speaker 3: West So.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what it does too, is it gives
Speaker 2: Fred Harvey, you know, kind of a continued until he
Speaker 2: finally retires.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Being A finished with the personal best and finished fifth overall.
Speaker 6: Rodriguez finished tenth in the long jump, and Landa won
Speaker 6: the shot put with a throw of a twenty point
Speaker 6: zero six.
Speaker 3: Good for them. Okay, oh wait, so I was wrong.
Speaker 3: So the championships are going to be in Eugene, right,
Speaker 3: Whatever they did here this week got them to you.
Speaker 3: They were in college station.
Speaker 6: Okay, I misread that it was announced today for the
Speaker 6: some of the Arizona football games. The non conference schedule
Speaker 6: has been announced as far as game times and what
Speaker 6: channels they'll be on. Week one against Hawaii will be
Speaker 6: a seven point thirty on TNT Sports, the first Big
Speaker 6: twelve football game.
Speaker 2: On T and T cool. Cool, And they're all going
Speaker 2: to be night games.
Speaker 6: Ye seven o'clock against we Were State ESPN, plus six
Speaker 6: o'clock on a Friday against Kansas State on Fox.
Speaker 2: And the only time you can actually watch a game
Speaker 2: in Tucson in September is a night game.
Speaker 4: Yep. Yeah.
Speaker 3: In fact, it's interesting because last year they played Kansas
Speaker 3: State on a Friday in Manhattan, Kansas, so they're kind
Speaker 3: of doing the same thing. And these are not conference games.
Speaker 3: I was just going to stay part of the non
Speaker 3: conference schedule that they put together a few years ago
Speaker 3: before the both teams wound up in the Big Twelve.
Speaker 3: So it'll be interesting to see them against them. They
Speaker 3: should have won that game, and I think, if I remember,
Speaker 3: they've had a pretty good chance to win that game.
Speaker 3: So maybe they get a better chance at home to.
Speaker 6: Some college softball. We got a couple of games already
Speaker 6: played today. Texas beat number three Florida three zero, three homers,
Speaker 6: three homers, and then Oklahoma rallied uh and they won
Speaker 6: four to three against Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Yeah, didn't you say we when we got here? You
Speaker 2: were talking about that.
Speaker 3: All happened while I was in the car so yeah, basically,
Speaker 3: I mean Oklahoma was in trouble.
Speaker 4: They won.
Speaker 3: How many championships have they won in the last five
Speaker 3: I think years five straight, six or seven I think
Speaker 3: eight total? Yeah, so yeah, they win at home, you know,
Speaker 3: in their in their home area. Again, they're they're pretty
Speaker 3: dominant with the fans and stuff, so good for them.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So it'll be a Red River showdown and then uh,
Speaker 6: the next game for Oklahoma and Texas Tennessee Florida looking
Speaker 6: to win and stay alive. Yeah, Mississippi place Texas tick
Speaker 6: today right now, it's in delay always.
Speaker 2: Uh, it's been pretty pretty stormy there, so well we
Speaker 2: DAVI has covered the event. I've covered it about three
Speaker 2: or four times. Delays were common because tornadoes and and
Speaker 2: and showers.
Speaker 3: I think the delayed games and the delayed moments were
Speaker 3: more memorable than some of the actual games because you
Speaker 3: sit there for hours and some basically they leave the
Speaker 3: lights on. It'd be like ten o'clock and then well,
Speaker 3: you know, we'll start this thing at eleven. You know,
Speaker 3: there was a couple of moments like that.
Speaker 2: Right, I guess a couple years ago they finally decided
Speaker 2: to make it more equitable, like like the men. If
Speaker 2: it's not going to be played, they'll move it over
Speaker 2: and continue the tournament you know later. Yeah, but for you, yeah,
Speaker 2: we remember, it was just sit it out and wait,
Speaker 2: sit it out and wait.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it was very stormy. I mean May in Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: You know, hopefully there's no tornadoes, but there's usually some
Speaker 3: pretty good thunders. So we had to sit through a
Speaker 3: couple of them.
Speaker 2: I remember the sounding and they well, one day it
Speaker 2: was so it was stormy. We took the day after
Speaker 2: Dud and myself and somebody else, maybe it was Jemino.
Speaker 2: We went or somebody like that went golfing for the days.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna die here. What are we doing? What do
Speaker 2: you swear? Golf club? Right?
Speaker 4: Lightning? Crazy is this?
Speaker 2: But we didn't pay much for the for THELF. I
Speaker 2: don't care nobody else out here right exactly. The guys
Speaker 2: are crazy.
Speaker 3: What are they doing? Arison?
Speaker 2: They don't know any better.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I once Old Miss and Texas Tech take place, they
Speaker 6: finished that game, it will be Old Pac twelve, but
Speaker 6: new Big ten show down between the Oregon Ducks and
Speaker 6: the UCLA Bruins. Winners face the winners, losers place face
Speaker 6: the losers yeah.
Speaker 2: I'll bet you. I'll bet you whatever you want that
Speaker 2: Texas Tech beats Mississippi. Well, that picture is on. That's
Speaker 2: why she's unbelievable. Yeah, and there's got there. They have
Speaker 2: a four of them. The Tennessee picture that lost today. Fantastic.
Speaker 2: She's throwing seventy eight miles per hour, right, and she
Speaker 2: had to beat the Who I think is fantastic is
Speaker 2: Jeordie Geordie Ball. Last week I couldn't stop not watching.
Speaker 2: It was fantastic. So this is the time here I
Speaker 2: actually stopped watching start watching these girls play.
Speaker 6: I think most people said, yes, yeah, the NBA Warriors abandoned.
Speaker 6: Uh Pozemski had left surgery, had left Fort Surgery on Tuesday.
Speaker 6: But you should be ready for the start of training camp.
Speaker 6: Maybe somebody to keep any on if there's any future
Speaker 6: injuries with him sticking in the NBA. The Thunder beat
Speaker 6: the Timberwolves. Not only beat they, they killed the Timberwolves
Speaker 6: ended their season, winning the series four to one in
Speaker 6: Game five ninety four.
Speaker 3: They're off to the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2: I still Indiana, that's serious with them. I think it's
Speaker 2: gonna be a very good one. I don't know if
Speaker 2: this canna be watched very much, but it's gonna be
Speaker 2: pretty good.
Speaker 3: Serious. I mean, yeah, the ratings won't be great, but
Speaker 3: you know, that's all that's left, you know, if you're
Speaker 3: gonna watch, that's all we got. And it's really I
Speaker 3: think this has been a great example this last you know,
Speaker 3: a couple weeks or so of really the changing of
Speaker 3: the guard of just looking young players. You know, Sga
Speaker 3: is fantastic, Halliburton is great, and even even Mathern had
Speaker 3: a chance to play, and McConnelly, so they're both they're
Speaker 3: both contributing. But it really is just kind of seems
Speaker 3: like Page is turning to a new generation of players.
Speaker 3: So you know, us sold guys, we're gonna have to
Speaker 3: just kind of run with it.
Speaker 2: Well here's the thing. I mean, you look at the
Speaker 2: rosters and the people on the floor. You think, where
Speaker 2: did he come from? Where did he come from? Who's he?
Speaker 2: You see it more and more I didn't see him
Speaker 2: playing in college. Well it's because they're barely there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, or they're not even they're coming,
Speaker 3: you know, from overseas and and and making a mark
Speaker 3: joke kitch people like that. But yeah, it's definitely. You know,
Speaker 3: it's great to see Lebron hanging on and staff and
Speaker 3: people like that, but you know their time is going
Speaker 3: to come here in the next few years.
Speaker 2: And Dave, you and I you know we will still
Speaker 2: be around. We won't gave time will honestly come and
Speaker 2: these guys going to come back.
Speaker 3: From Louisville and take over, Take your show over. I
Speaker 3: had them all Part two, the sequel.
Speaker 2: It's to be like show Girls. The guy if he
Speaker 2: falls down and somebody has to replace her on this
Speaker 2: is all yours when I'm done.
Speaker 6: All right, sounds good, but you have to get me
Speaker 6: for Chilians a house. Like you said, it will more
Speaker 6: than likely be the Indiana Pacers. But so while they
Speaker 6: play the game Game five happening at five o'clock by
Speaker 6: when the show ends, Pacers nicks Indiana leaves leads three one.
Speaker 3: Yeah you think that will win tonight?
Speaker 2: I think they should. They should.
Speaker 3: I mean, the teams that are down three to one
Speaker 3: have like basically no chance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and the nixt So the next.
Speaker 3: Thing I want to just can go on back to Indiana.
Speaker 2: Again, right, Yeah, that's the whole thing.
Speaker 3: I was shocked. I mean, I thought the Timberwolves would
Speaker 3: put up more of a fight. Last when I saw
Speaker 3: the first quarter and they're down, like, what was it
Speaker 3: like twenty six to nine or something like that in
Speaker 3: the first quarter, is like, I don't care a point
Speaker 3: per minute. Yeah, that's not how you win.
Speaker 6: No, just Deeve's favorite sport the hockey. Yeah, hockey League?
Speaker 2: What do they do?
Speaker 3: What's that got a big game tonight? Tell me he's
Speaker 3: gonna tell you Panthers.
Speaker 6: Well, yesterday the Panthers beat the Hurricanes and a gentleman sweep,
Speaker 6: winning that four to one. They're off just Stanley Cup Final.
Speaker 6: Tonight you have the Edmonton Oilers facing the Dallas Stars
Speaker 6: Edmonton Leeds three to one. They're also looking for a
Speaker 6: win sweep.
Speaker 4: And there.
Speaker 3: Was that four to one is a gentleman's sweep and
Speaker 3: there's there's a lot of buzz with.
Speaker 4: When you talk about hockey.
Speaker 3: Thank you. Is this going to be a rematch?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 6: Wait, am I getting my years ago? The Panthers are
Speaker 6: are coming back. I think they were there last last season. Uh,
Speaker 6: but the Oilers, it's been a while and they're looking
Speaker 6: to do it for Old Canada. The National Football Foundation
Speaker 6: announced an adjustment to their eligibility criteria, making it possible
Speaker 6: that uh, the late former head coach of the Mississippi
Speaker 6: State Bulldogs, Mike Leach, as a possible college Football Hall
Speaker 6: of Famer.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, go ahead, No, I mean they're talking about
Speaker 3: their winning percentages, so it's going to go up to
Speaker 3: fifty nine point five percent or point five nine five.
Speaker 3: So Leach was at fifty nine point six, so he
Speaker 3: would be eligible in the Texas Tech Wazoo Mississippi State.
Speaker 3: And then there's a couple others that are kind of
Speaker 3: on the list right up right around him. Last Miles Jackie,
Speaker 3: Ryl Rich rud Ri Trod is right there at five
Speaker 3: ninety six, which would be interesting since he's kind of ways,
Speaker 3: you know, he's just kind of what taking over again
Speaker 3: at West Virginia.
Speaker 2: He could he could go below, he could mess it up.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well that's the thing with Dick Tommy, because I
Speaker 2: know the guys the you know, Jay's brother and people
Speaker 2: with the National Football Foundation Southern Arizona, they've been trying
Speaker 2: to petition this very thing because Dick was around that percentage,
Speaker 2: right and then he went to San Jose and that
Speaker 2: kind of messed up the numbers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's at five point fifty seven.
Speaker 2: I thought, but if you you have his back, did
Speaker 2: you you googled the checks? And because he didn't have
Speaker 2: a great time or you know, successful percentage, why that
Speaker 2: screwed it up? I think they were trying to do something.
Speaker 2: I try to get him on the phone or haven't
Speaker 2: call us, but I haven't heard back yet. Who Rick
Speaker 2: Gonzalez that I know their own vacation to talk about
Speaker 2: what they were trying to do to get him in
Speaker 2: because he was right there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was ten below five hundred in San Jose,
Speaker 3: so he's twenty five thirty five right.
Speaker 2: So that there could have through the through the mid.
Speaker 3: Over the below the below the threshold.
Speaker 6: Is uh Tomy's overall record is one eighty three to
Speaker 6: one and seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, let's do you have a lot of Do
Speaker 2: you have a lot of stuff? Uh?
Speaker 3: Just some stuff. I've just a minute for a minute.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 6: Sad news in the college football world. Baylor defensive lignement
Speaker 6: Alex Foster eighteen died early Wednesday after he was found
Speaker 6: multiple gunshot wounds in his car in his hometown of Greenville, Mississippi.
Speaker 6: And then something I found just randomly right, Now Indiana
Speaker 6: has announced the return of their bison mascot with the
Speaker 6: cinematic reveal. I didn't know that their mascot was a bison.
Speaker 6: Indiana who the Indiana Hoosiers? It is apparently the what
Speaker 6: the video kind of mentioned talked about is that there
Speaker 6: was a bison that used to roam around Bloomington area
Speaker 6: and they kind of just took it as the mascot.
Speaker 3: It's on their the state flag.
Speaker 6: Or the state seal and uh so they announced the
Speaker 6: return of it.
Speaker 3: Looks like early early Wednesday. Nice. So yeah, it's going
Speaker 3: to be called the Hoosier apparently, So welcome back, Hoo's
Speaker 3: your the Bison and I'm excited about that.
Speaker 2: We'll come back, Dave. We won't call you anything else.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to I never knew what a Hoosier was anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's like a yeah, hey, listen like a sooner, let's
Speaker 2: go because we're gonna have another great guest here of
Speaker 2: Laura Woods on the other side.
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Speaker 1: Steve Rivera Key's got his eye on the ball on
Speaker 1: Tucson's sports station, Fox Sports fourteen fifty eight.
Speaker 2: Hey, welcome back to All the Ball here on Fox
Speaker 2: Sports fourteen fifty I'm Steve Rivera and with the Today's
Speaker 2: Dave Silver got one of the controls and now we
Speaker 2: have former U of a basketball player center Laura Woods. Lauren,
Speaker 2: how are you now?
Speaker 4: I'm doing good? But you acted like you wasn't sure
Speaker 4: if I played basketball or if I was any good
Speaker 4: at it or anything like you seem very questioned when
Speaker 4: you would give me the introduction. Let me do it again.
Speaker 4: This is Lauren Woods, former you of a basketball star
Speaker 4: and now Hollywood actor. That's how you got to do it, Steve,
Speaker 4: Come on, man, who were gonna ask you why you
Speaker 4: just had surgery? I know you just had thirty sodas.
Speaker 3: You've got to get back into the groove.
Speaker 2: I'm drugged down. Yeah, you and Jesus brother, you and
Speaker 2: Joseph Blair and oh you guys. Give me a lot
Speaker 2: of grief and I'm okay with that.
Speaker 4: Okay with that?
Speaker 2: Before around, how the hell are you?
Speaker 4: I'm doing fantastic. First of all, thank you for having
Speaker 4: me on the show. It's a pleasure, it's an honor.
Speaker 4: And good see you still doing it, man, after all
Speaker 4: these decades killing it out there.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm just an old man trying to survive.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. But you know, I saw a
Speaker 2: clip of you. I don't know what movie was from,
Speaker 2: so did Dave. I don't know if you remember Dave
Speaker 2: from Channel nine. You were in the hood. You were
Speaker 2: this tall dude. What show? What movie was that? Man?
Speaker 4: It was? It's called Spirited on Apple TV. Oh man,
Speaker 4: we shot that well, it was like I think it.
Speaker 4: It came out in twenty twenty two, so a few
Speaker 4: years back, a blast, Ryan Reynolds, Will Ferrell, Octavius Spencer.
Speaker 4: I mean there was some heavy hitters on that one.
Speaker 4: Patrick Page, you know, the Broadway King, so we we
Speaker 4: I had so much fun shooting that and getting to
Speaker 4: know those people. They were all fantastic and they treated
Speaker 4: me like like family and it was a great, great time.
Speaker 4: I was very fortunate to be a part of that.
Speaker 3: How did you get into the Hollywood world And did
Speaker 3: we know you were gonna do this twenty years ago
Speaker 3: when you were here?
Speaker 4: Well, this is the funny thing about that. I literally
Speaker 4: was just telling this story about about a week ago.
Speaker 4: So when I came to u of A, I wanted
Speaker 4: to major in theater. But half of the curriculum is
Speaker 4: like at nighttime. So you know, when you're an athlete,
Speaker 4: then your sport goes over to semesters, you know, you
Speaker 4: just won't be I wouldn't have been able to take
Speaker 4: half of the classes or most of the classes. So
Speaker 4: at that time, I remember that's what the counselor said.
Speaker 4: So I was like, Okay, well, just I can't do it.
Speaker 4: But I've always had an interest in it. Always loved movies,
Speaker 4: always loved plays, things like that. So once I had
Speaker 4: the time, I was able to do it. So how
Speaker 4: I got into it, I kind of got lucky getting
Speaker 4: back into it. It was after I retired, I was
Speaker 4: in Phoenix. It just opened my basketball Academy. So this
Speaker 4: is pre COVID. Everything was was going great. One of
Speaker 4: my friends called me, he lived in Los Angeles, said hey, man,
Speaker 4: I have a friend that's putting together the sting about
Speaker 4: the Lakers. You know, he's looking for like tall guys
Speaker 4: to play Kareem. You're interested in reading for the part.
Speaker 4: So I said, yeah, yeah, sure, whatever, no problem, okay cool?
Speaker 4: So Rick Fox, no Lie. Rick Fox texted me the
Speaker 4: next day and I hadn't seen Rick since I played
Speaker 4: in the NBA. I mean that was, you know, ten
Speaker 4: years before this, so you know, he said, hey man, look,
Speaker 4: I'm a part of this project. I really want you
Speaker 4: to come and read for this part. Now. The whole time,
Speaker 4: I'm hearing people say read, read, read right. So I
Speaker 4: was like, okay, this is great.
Speaker 2: I know how to read.
Speaker 4: So I'm just go in there and I read off
Speaker 4: a piece of paper. So I go. I met my
Speaker 4: friend's house of the night before I'm supposed to go
Speaker 4: in and meet with them. So they said, hey man,
Speaker 4: you're ready for your audition. I was like, audition, what
Speaker 4: are you talking about? All I have to do is
Speaker 4: go and read for the part. That's easy. I'm just
Speaker 4: going to read these lines and that's it. He said, no, bro,
Speaker 4: this is Hollywood. That's an audition. I was like, oh shoot,
Speaker 4: I don't know how to act. I said, oh, don't
Speaker 4: worry about it. So he called one of his friends,
Speaker 4: like she came over, you know, a great person. She
Speaker 4: came over and spent like three hours with me going,
Speaker 4: you know, basically giving me a crash course in acting.
Speaker 4: And that that was at twenty nineteen, and ever since then,
Speaker 4: I've been all in on it.
Speaker 2: So what happened to that, to that audition or the show, Well,
Speaker 2: the show was winning time.
Speaker 4: Obviously I wasn't the one that played Kareem. And honestly,
Speaker 4: back then I know the guy who who got that part,
Speaker 4: he was much more like Kareem. I would have just
Speaker 4: been trying to play my idea of what Kareem was
Speaker 4: like I do not. You know, I wasn't an actor
Speaker 4: at that time. Now I could do it. Back then,
Speaker 4: you know, I wasn't student for it, but I stayed
Speaker 4: with it, and like I said, you know I was.
Speaker 4: I've been you know, classes in school and all those
Speaker 4: things for you know, since twenty nineteen. And that's kind
Speaker 4: of like how the spirited thing came came about when
Speaker 4: I when I went to that audition, you know, uh,
Speaker 4: Sean the director and now you know writer, he's like, man,
Speaker 4: you were as soon as we saw your audition the
Speaker 4: first one, we were like, you know, this is the
Speaker 4: guy and so you know, but I had been working
Speaker 4: at it for so long, so you know, just just
Speaker 4: very fortunate and blessed.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: We had you on the show a couple of years ago,
Speaker 2: two three years ago. We talked about the academy that
Speaker 2: you had started up in Phoenix. So you're no longer
Speaker 2: in Phoenix. You're in La now.
Speaker 4: So I'm in La now. All of this happened after
Speaker 4: after COVID, but you know, like so the academy kind
Speaker 4: of shut down. It just got this decimated, like like
Speaker 4: so many people. And here, I'm not going to sit
Speaker 4: here and you know, talk crap about you know what
Speaker 4: happened to my academy when people lost their lives during COVID.
Speaker 4: So you know, I was very fortunate so that happened.
Speaker 4: I think I had I was going into the marketing
Speaker 4: realm around that time, and I think that's the last
Speaker 4: time we spoke. But this is before. This is before
Speaker 4: the movie for sure. Because I remember this time and
Speaker 4: you know that that that kind of fizzled out too.
Speaker 4: But all all the while, this whole time, I've been
Speaker 4: doing acting and acting and writing and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: So you know, this, this is just it's the new passion.
Speaker 4: It's the thing. It's it's it's what I one of
Speaker 4: my many passions that I have. So, uh, you know,
Speaker 4: I can't see myself not doing this until I retire.
Speaker 3: Are you in the position now where you're getting chances
Speaker 3: to audition for certain things? I mean you're gonna You're
Speaker 3: gonna have opportunities, I would think, just based on on
Speaker 3: your your size and and just your abilities. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's gotta be some roles for you out there. I hope.
Speaker 4: Well, Dave, that's very optimistic of you. I want you
Speaker 4: to keep that same energy for me.
Speaker 2: He does.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Please call them because uh, no one is
Speaker 4: writing things for seven feet people in Hollywood. It's just
Speaker 4: not a huge market. Now the things that come out,
Speaker 4: I can definitely get into the room. It's not a problem.
Speaker 4: So what I've learned to do is over the last
Speaker 4: three years three four years, is I've been writing. I've
Speaker 4: been writing a lot of my own things, a lot
Speaker 4: of my own content, So I'm just I'm trying to
Speaker 4: have that so when I do have that chance, I
Speaker 4: can present it or you know, there's a couple of
Speaker 4: things that I want to put on camera, so you know,
Speaker 4: I'm trying to get those things up so I can
Speaker 4: just have those and then when I again, when I
Speaker 4: go into the room, I'm ready. Hey, like you want
Speaker 4: this kind of script, I already wrote that. Oh by
Speaker 4: the way, I had this pilot too, We shot that,
Speaker 4: you know. So I'm just trying to, you know, prepare
Speaker 4: myself for when that next great opportunity comes along.
Speaker 2: Are you at the level where you can maybe write
Speaker 2: your own stuff?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I've wrote. I've written two movie scripts already
Speaker 4: and a TV pilot, so you know that those are
Speaker 4: ready to go. But again, this is Hollywood. You could
Speaker 4: throw a rock and you hit fifteen actors and writers. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you know before it hits the ground. So and everybody's really,
Speaker 4: really good. So it's just about when you get that opportunity.
Speaker 4: Just like with sports, you get the opportunity, see the moment,
Speaker 4: do whatever you can do at that at that moment,
Speaker 4: and hopefully something good comes out of it. If not,
Speaker 4: then you have to be ready for the next opportunity.
Speaker 3: How about your connections here to the u of VAN two?
Speaker 4: Soon?
Speaker 5: Are you?
Speaker 3: Are you still? Have you? You know, tried to stay
Speaker 3: close to the program in any way. I know it's
Speaker 3: been a while since you were here playing, but and
Speaker 3: there's been a couple of different coaches since you left.
Speaker 3: But you know, how's that relationship gone.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, I'm always a fan. I was a
Speaker 4: fan before I even came to the University of Arizona.
Speaker 4: I'm going to be a fan until I die. So
Speaker 4: I stay pretty much, you know, up to speed with
Speaker 4: who's in the program year in and year out, and
Speaker 4: the level of accomplishments and all those things. Haven't been
Speaker 4: back and been been to the to the McHale Center
Speaker 4: or or even close for for years. But again, you know,
Speaker 4: I'm in a chat group with with about thirty other
Speaker 4: U of A you know, all stars, and then we
Speaker 4: we go from all the way from you know JDS
Speaker 4: that in that group before him, the way after I left.
Speaker 4: So you know, we're all we're always cheering. I want
Speaker 4: everybody to know if everybody close to the program, like
Speaker 4: we are always cheering every game, almost every play. I mean,
Speaker 4: we we are up to speed.
Speaker 2: So yesterday I don't or maybe the weekend I saw
Speaker 2: something on TV and I don't know, I can't remember
Speaker 2: what it was. It was the Organ game, uh and
Speaker 2: where you were fantastic. You were a star that day.
Speaker 2: Block fourteen blocks, I can't remember how many blocks, but blocks.
Speaker 2: I think it was a triple double. Do you remember
Speaker 2: much about that year? That game? And I still and
Speaker 2: we talked about this with Dave, I still say, and
Speaker 2: all the teams I covered, two thousand and one was
Speaker 2: the best arisone team ever.
Speaker 4: Wow, Well, thank you so much, you know for giving
Speaker 4: us that. We had a lot of characters on that team,
Speaker 4: that's for sure. We probably were number one in personality.
Speaker 2: Yes, Jean Gilbert's Holy crafty.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we had some guys, Luke. I mean, you
Speaker 4: know it was it was some amazing characters on that team,
Speaker 4: you know, awesome personalities. I remember that game. What I
Speaker 4: remember most about that game is something that Gilbert said
Speaker 4: to me. I remember in the first half. He I
Speaker 4: think I had maybe four or five blocks or something
Speaker 4: like that in the first half, and He's like, again,
Speaker 4: I have to say, man, I'm not playing any defense today.
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna let everybody come to you because I
Speaker 4: think you're hot today. You might get like nine or
Speaker 4: ten blocks today. I said, kit let him, let them
Speaker 4: come on, bro, like just just feed me. It's all good.
Speaker 4: And then you know I ended up having whenever I
Speaker 4: had like thirteen or fourteen blocks. So it was it
Speaker 4: was a fantastic, big you know, fantastic game. You know
Speaker 4: you're talking lout, you know, rest in peace. You know.
Speaker 4: He he's like one of those coaches where you just
Speaker 4: show up to you know, to the game. You're already ready.
Speaker 4: You know, it's not anything You're not trying to get
Speaker 4: ready for anything, you know, because we prepare so much
Speaker 4: down to the smallest detail all week, so you know
Speaker 4: we we know we're doing as soon as we walked
Speaker 4: out on the floor.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I'm looking it up. February third, twenty fourteen
Speaker 3: block shots. He had three in the first minute when
Speaker 3: they just came at you and just standing there and
Speaker 3: there just trying to score over you, like one after another.
Speaker 3: That's funny.
Speaker 4: That had to be a record. I don't know if
Speaker 4: anybody that has to be an ntry double a record.
Speaker 4: You know, they track every kind of stat Now, I
Speaker 4: won't to know how many what's the most blocks in
Speaker 4: a minute? That has to be three. I have to
Speaker 4: be number one on them.
Speaker 2: We also talked about the Duke game. Obviously Gilbert was hurt,
Speaker 2: Luke had hurt his hand. Just the circumstances of the event.
Speaker 2: You guys, I guess, I guess to me the most
Speaker 2: talented team I've covered. Eighty eight was pretty good. Obviously
Speaker 2: so was ninety seven ninety eight, but you guys were
Speaker 2: just special.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we're fortunate it was. It was one of
Speaker 4: those things where you get the right group. You just
Speaker 4: don't get to have that all the time. And I
Speaker 4: don't know if college basketball will ever have something like
Speaker 4: that again. There was all kinds of teams like that
Speaker 4: back then, but just now with the way the rules are,
Speaker 4: you know, the transfer portal and NIL and all that.
Speaker 4: And don't get me wrong, I don't think anything is
Speaker 4: wrong with the NIL. There should not be a cap
Speaker 4: on it. Players should be able to make a hundred
Speaker 4: million dollars off their name if they could, and I
Speaker 4: love it. I wish I could have done the same thing.
Speaker 4: But you're just not going to get that level of,
Speaker 4: you know, special atmosphere anymore, because you're not going to
Speaker 4: have teams that are together like that anymore. You know,
Speaker 4: on that team, we had what five seniors I think,
Speaker 4: you know, get Gilbert and Jason Public could have turned
Speaker 4: pro after one year. You know, they were that good
Speaker 4: as pressman. You know, Jeane took off a year so
Speaker 4: he could get his degree and then he came back
Speaker 4: and played. You know, Josh was there coaching from the sidelines,
Speaker 4: and he had been there for six years, so you know,
Speaker 4: you know, Richard and Michael Wright recipes, you know, like
Speaker 4: you know, these were ultra talented players that stayed in
Speaker 4: school for multiple years. So you know, it's and we
Speaker 4: had to you know, because we were just weren't getting
Speaker 4: drafted like that back then. You know, It's like you
Speaker 4: had to do some time. So you know, it was
Speaker 4: a very fortunate time for us, and you know, we
Speaker 4: were very lucky to be a part of.
Speaker 2: It and nobody and this is another thing. Two thousand
Speaker 2: you guys were the number one team going into the tournament, right,
Speaker 2: number one of all the seeds, right, and then you
Speaker 2: unfortunately had your back issues and they had to survive
Speaker 2: without you. How difficult was that?
Speaker 4: That was very tough? Very tough for me. I thought that, uh,
Speaker 4: that year, I probably would have left. I thought probably
Speaker 4: would have gone and turned pro. I think I was
Speaker 4: in a good position to do that, be a decent
Speaker 4: draft pick that year. Obviously, those things didn't work out
Speaker 4: like I thought. The recovery was brutal. It was grueling.
Speaker 4: I think I couldn't even run or jump for six
Speaker 4: or seven months, and then I had to work my
Speaker 4: way back slow. You know. Fortunately for me, I had
Speaker 4: Carla Garrett. She was a strength and conditioning coach. I
Speaker 4: think she's at South Point Catholic now, yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: she was with me. I remember walking into the weight room.
Speaker 4: I had this big back brace on. I couldn't move
Speaker 4: and I was just sitting looking depressed on like a
Speaker 4: bench press machine. I wasn't doing anything, and she just
Speaker 4: kind of came over to me and said, you know,
Speaker 4: like like sorry about everything, but you know, what do
Speaker 4: you what do you think do you think you're going
Speaker 4: to be able to play again or do you think
Speaker 4: you know you want to, you know, try to turn
Speaker 4: pro or go to the NBA. Stal I said, yeah, man,
Speaker 4: I mean hopefully I can. I don't know, you know,
Speaker 4: She's like, well, it's all up to you. Do you
Speaker 4: want to do that. I'm like, yeah, of course I
Speaker 4: want to do that. She's like, all right, well, you know,
Speaker 4: you come, come to the weight room and get in
Speaker 4: here and work, and that's work this summer, and I can.
Speaker 4: I think that you'll be able to do it, you know,
Speaker 4: but it's all up to you. And she was the
Speaker 4: first person that said that I thought my career was over.
Speaker 4: I honestly I thought, I've seen the doctors. All the
Speaker 4: doctors said, well, maybe you're probably never going to play again,
Speaker 4: or you definitely won't be the same. Who knows about
Speaker 4: anything else. I thought my life was over because basketball
Speaker 4: was my life at that time. So yeah, when when
Speaker 4: Carla and I had that conversation, and then you know,
Speaker 4: she trained me the entire summer, you know, I mean
Speaker 4: there's double sessions and nutritionian I mean, she did everything
Speaker 4: and she basically build me back up, you know, from
Speaker 4: from nothing. And you know, I always hopefully she's listening
Speaker 4: to this right now, and I haven't talked to her
Speaker 4: in a few months or maybe in a year, but
Speaker 4: you know, she is. She holds a very special place
Speaker 4: in my heart because she was the one that that
Speaker 4: made me say, oh, you know what, it's up to
Speaker 4: me if I'm going to make it or not. And
Speaker 4: and that's just how that's how it started. Man.
Speaker 3: So yeah, what was the experience like for you playing
Speaker 3: you know in Asia especially you were there a long time,
Speaker 3: have you know a number of years there? What was
Speaker 3: that like, you know, coming from Saint Louis and you know,
Speaker 3: Tucson and America to go out and play like in
Speaker 3: Beirut and Iran and places like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, a little difference, the very very different. I
Speaker 4: will say this. Going through Iran was very different, the
Speaker 4: having you know, the mosque going off constantly, and it
Speaker 4: was a little unnerving at first because those those you know,
Speaker 4: chants are loud. But the places, both the Iran, Lebanon,
Speaker 4: I was in Bahrain also in the Middle East, all
Speaker 4: of these places had the most amazing people. I mean,
Speaker 4: I can go to Lebanon right now, this is no lie.
Speaker 4: I could go to Lebanon right now, go to Beirut
Speaker 4: with no money, no suitcase, no not I would have
Speaker 4: a place to stay, I'd be fed, I was you know,
Speaker 4: had everything that I needed. I'd have within a matter
Speaker 4: of hours just from touching down there. That's how much
Speaker 4: love I have for that place and how much they have,
Speaker 4: you know, have for me. And it has you know,
Speaker 4: it's just about the people and the same thing. You
Speaker 4: know in Iran, the people in around were great, the
Speaker 4: people in bay Rain were great. It was just it
Speaker 4: was always a loving atmosphere.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I never felt threatened or you know, like my my
Speaker 4: safety was in danger or anything like that. So I
Speaker 4: have nothing but good things to say about all those places.
Speaker 2: Or what the Star Center back in the day.
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you. I appreciate that. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Man.
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Speaker 4: I got some self help. I got some self help
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Speaker 2: Good luck to you anytime you want to come back on,
Speaker 2: just let me know. I see you on Instagram all
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Speaker 4: Yes, they're yes. There'll make it easy.
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Speaker 2: Let me tell you. At noon, I had none of this.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hard to believe. I mean I remember the
Speaker 3: remember the game at Yukon. Wasn't he in the middle
Speaker 3: of that Arizona loss case did he get he got
Speaker 3: called for a goaltending? It was yeah, and it was
Speaker 3: seconds very by you Blisto, Richie Biasteros.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was very close. Obviously Loot was not
Speaker 2: there because Bobby Rosborow was there, and just a crazy time.
Speaker 3: And yeah, it's you know, because what we got Arizona's
Speaker 3: got Yukon coming up again. That's gonna be kind of
Speaker 3: fun to kind of relive some of those movies that
Speaker 3: were pretty pretty big. Yeah, in the early two thousands.
Speaker 2: Of couse he mentioned this too, because if if you
Speaker 2: remember and he mentioned them, and we have to him
Speaker 2: a personality, Richard, a crazy personality, gene a personality, Gilbert
Speaker 2: of course, the personality crazy team. It's just a bunch
Speaker 2: of dudes. I remember at the Final four and somebody
Speaker 2: came up to me. I don't remember who it was,
Speaker 2: but he says, I think he just came out of it,
Speaker 2: came out of Richard's interview. Says, God, that guy is fantastic.
Speaker 2: He's a quote machine. He said, you haven't talked to Genie,
Speaker 2: then you haven't talked to these guys. He says, No,
Speaker 2: this guy and we all know Richard. Richard just talked.
Speaker 3: Richard was He was a great interview. You know, it's
Speaker 3: funny because he's talked Laurence talking about how he was
Speaker 3: a contender for a position for a role in that
Speaker 3: show Winning Time, and I know some people who were
Speaker 3: involved that show as well. In fact, the writer is
Speaker 3: a guy named Jeff Pearlman who has written some great
Speaker 3: sports books. But I was thinking they could do a
Speaker 3: show about the UFA basketball. That team he's talking about
Speaker 3: writing scripts for movies. That team could be a movie.
Speaker 3: It could.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you, there's no question, and let me tell.
Speaker 3: What they've done since their career.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me tell you. Let me Yeah, Well, the
Speaker 2: program itself and I've done a number of books for that,
Speaker 2: but that year specifically, because there's probably and I don't
Speaker 2: know this, a lot of stuff that nobody knows Gilbert
Speaker 2: Gilbert himself is just ye, holy crap. I mean, did
Speaker 2: you see the documentary.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, if you haven't seen the Netflix doctor.
Speaker 4: Check it out.
Speaker 2: I I have not, So how was that?
Speaker 3: It's interesting? I mean, I just things. I didn't know
Speaker 3: what we're going on. You go ahead and well, what
Speaker 3: is it going on here?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: I mean some of the stories about where he was
Speaker 3: getting gun the guns. I heard that I got my
Speaker 3: guns in Arizona, like where, you know, did you have
Speaker 3: him around the campus or what was going on right? Right?
Speaker 2: And your buddies gave to you? Yeah, I heard about that.
Speaker 3: That team in general talk about personalities that could be
Speaker 3: a great movie or TV show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Gina talked about this. I think one for the
Speaker 2: book is. You know, one day they went to practice
Speaker 2: and Richard and not Richard Gilbert was acting up being
Speaker 2: you know, he was a socomer, he was nineteen years old,
Speaker 2: eighteen years old, and Jean being Jean, you know, the
Speaker 2: older guy, that's the tougher guy. Uh didn't like what
Speaker 2: Arenas was doing. And I guess after or before the practice,
Speaker 2: Arenas had punctured his shoes, his car tires and he
Speaker 2: wanted to kick the crap out of him practice. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and just was all Rosboro. I guess this is Rosboro's
Speaker 2: going to I guess there's something going on between Richard
Speaker 2: and not Richard, Arena and Gene and Gene and Richard says,
Speaker 2: well handle it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was That was quite a group. It really was.
Speaker 3: We fun to just kind of re You could probably
Speaker 3: do a whole thing just on that team. Probably that's
Speaker 3: a good idea look at what they became and what
Speaker 3: they've turned into. I mean, Michael Wright's story didn't end well,
Speaker 3: and obviously Lawrence can kind of continuing. Maybe nothing we
Speaker 3: expected Josh doing what he's Josh having, you know, a
Speaker 3: coaching career, broadcasting probably be a good interesting year. Collaborate
Speaker 3: on that one.
Speaker 2: No, you're right. The season on the brink that wasn't
Speaker 2: And let me tell you they they went through a
Speaker 2: tough time. Bobby he had missed games for the first
Speaker 2: time in his career. Bobby was was passionate away they weren't.
Speaker 2: They had a little struggle there because of the absence, right,
Speaker 2: and then they caught fire again when Luke returned.
Speaker 3: I remember going to Minneapolis that year was very emotional
Speaker 3: for him. Obviously, there were billboards right up there honoring her.
Speaker 3: The team was, you know, really good. I mean, it
Speaker 3: was a lot of stories happening there that always weren't
Speaker 3: always just basketball. There's just the personalities. Like we said,
Speaker 3: it's interesting guys, and yeah, that's quite a group. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so we're going to go about two minutes. No, okay, Lauren,
Speaker 3: you got the website.
Speaker 2: So oh he talks about make sure the people know
Speaker 2: that the website he's giving away stuff.
Speaker 3: Yes, Stan dot store slash and then the word seven
Speaker 3: spelled s e v y n foot So Stan dot
Speaker 3: store slash seven foot and you've got t shirts and
Speaker 3: stuff that he's working on. Book, a book he's written.
Speaker 3: You'll see it. Yeah, maybe we can put it on
Speaker 3: the website somewhere.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, great, Thanks everybody, Thank you one for keeping
Speaker 2: us under control. Thank you Dave. Of course, see you
Speaker 2: guys tomorrow.