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Speaker 1: Let's start off with.

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Speaker 5: The sports court with some Power Conference commissioners defending NC

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double A red shirt rule in court. So eligibility has

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been a point of conversation over the last few years,

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whether or not you were a maybe you were a

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juco player, right or maybe you played you know, you

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had a red shirt or a medical red shirt. And

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so this continues as Power Conference commissioners defend the NC

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DOUBLEA redshirt rule in court.

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Speaker 1: What what's the summary on this one?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, So, I mean why is the LGB eligibility rule

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Speaker 4: Why are we talking about that?

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Speaker 7: Well, it's because of the almighty dollar and what's happened

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with nil opportunities for athlete.

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Speaker 4: So this is an evolving thing going on, and.

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Speaker 7: This is regarding the red shirt rule that the NCAA

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has And I'm going to focus on one side of it.

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Speaker 4: But what's going on here is the eligibility that used

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Speaker 7: Had five years to have your four years of eligibility,

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and there were some exceptions to that, like medical red

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shirt things that happened in the transfer. We know that

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that it became a little more flexible a few years ago,

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you're still eligible to be red shirted even though you played,

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snap or one quarter of a game, you gave up

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your eligibility. Well, now this is an issue in the

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courts and the commissioners have all banded together because they

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really want to force this predictability on eligibility. And the

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arguments that they're throwing out there are a few, and

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one of them is they say, you know, first, they're saying, hey,

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this is college sports, and eligibility is something unique to it.

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is eligibily focused on. I mean, there's been arguments where

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played D one athletics, basketball or football, you have four

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years of eligibility. And here's what I think they're both.

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seeking more eligibility, and you know, based on this red

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Speaker 4: But finally it was reached and the commissioners.

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Speaker 7: Saying, hey, if you've agreed to these roster limits and oh,

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guess what that does. That takes another player's roster spot away,

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someone who is transferred and committed to a university. If

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deciding what eligibility limits are. Courts decide. They did decide

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that athletes can benefit from their nil name engine likeness

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and that they could get educated education related benefits, but

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they don't want the courts jumping in and trying to

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address this issue of eligibility because we've seen different courts

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are given different rulings on this. So they want some stability.

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this is just another area where they're looking for stability.

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Speaker 5: Let me get your your opinions on this, right, And

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it's this is more of a maybe a macro philosophical

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view of collegiate athletics. We have these institutions of higher

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learning combined with athletic departments that are behemos, right, one

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hundred and fifty million, two hundred million dollars plus organizations

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that focus on sport, right, And they say student athlete,

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but we all know it's athletes student for the most

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Speaker 1: Especially for football. Men's football, men's.

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and just the bandwidth that you can only only have

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twenty four hours in a day. So, like you take

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the landscape into account and you wonder if you allowed

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for these big brands, right the Ohio States, the SEC,

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the Big Ten, the Big twelve, these power conferences to

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essentially like almost operate as a professional league with a

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brand association with the university that's no longer so academically

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elongated uh I guess uh tenure of eligibility? What would

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't that wouldn't that improve.

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Speaker 5: Or give maybe more opportunity for those I just wonder

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how that would maybe impact the overall product of of

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the still the the the altruistic student athlete component? Does

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that make sense where like all these other schools are

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Speaker 7: I think players and students at these schools are they're

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seen as you know, student athletes.

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Speaker 4: I mean they're not getting ANIL deals.

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Speaker 7: They're happy to get their their scholarship or whatever. They're

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getting to earn a degree and they're not caught up

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in this. But you know, as we know happens. You know,

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if you perform at one of these schools, guess what

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you're jumping into the NIL world and your focus change.

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I don't know the answer to this, Ben, I've wondered

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What are the academic requirements of a player?

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Speaker 4: Do you have minimum requirements?

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Speaker 7: I mean you used to hear, oh that so and

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so couldn't play because he didn't make grades or she

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didn't make grades.

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Speaker 4: You never hear that anymore.

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Speaker 7: I mean the example you're you're going to hear is

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he's going to school this semester.

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Speaker 2: But.

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Speaker 4: He's not to finish the next semester. He's not even

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to finish the next semester.

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Speaker 7: Basketball ends and he's gonna You're gonna withdraw from school

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and the end of story. So I don't know what

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the academic requirements are at you know, not just BYU

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all schools, you know, for these players. But it has

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changed it and you know, and as you point out,

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semi pro model, you know, where there might be a

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collective bargain agreement, which in my opinion would be good

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because it would give some guardrails and predictive predictability.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, Well, it's very intriguing that this is

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also anti trust, isn't it like when you say when

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you put a when you put a limitation legally on eligibility,

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even if so if I'm I'm thirty year old Ben

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but and I still have you know, I still want

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to play football, and I'm enrolled at school. Why can't

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I enroll in play football? If someone if I'm good

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enough to play football, does that make sense? Like, is

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there any anti trust legality that limits me? And can

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of the NCAA from not allow me to play?

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Speaker 7: Well, yeah no, Garrett's going to talk about that in

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another story that's pending with five players, But that has

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been the claim of all the players that not allowing

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me to compete is a violation of anti trust, and

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that's how they're getting around this.

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Speaker 4: Whole eligibility thing.

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Speaker 7: But you know, I mean, okay, so you get a

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fifth year of eligibility, Well, someone might go, hey, that

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Speaker 4: How about a sixth year? You know, that was pretty sweet.

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Speaker 7: The patron saint of this eligibility is Diego Pavia, and

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we'll talk about the case that has come on the

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heels of that, and he had six years.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, let's follow up. I know you let's talk

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about the five players real quick. I know we're gonna

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go out out of step here, but let's talk about

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the five players run to court seeking injunction to allow

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to be allowed to play a fifth year.

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Speaker 1: What do you got for me?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, sure.

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Speaker 6: One of the lead plaintiffs in this in this case

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is actually one of Diego Pavia's teammates, a linebacker from Vanderbilt,

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and so he and five other players have filed this

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lawsuit seeking it seeking to be a class action, and

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what they're seeking right now is an injunction because we

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are at the very tail end of course of the

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college football season, and they're trying to wonder if they

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can get a fifth year. And so what these players

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a Diego Pavia who played at a you know, like

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a D three school or a Juco or something. These guys,

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these players all played their full four years in four years, right.

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players didn't take a red shirt, right, they didn't. They

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played as freshmen and all the way through his seniors,

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they've you know, graduated with bachelor's degrees and they want

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kind of interesting and probably a good strategic move at

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this point. But they've got the same lawyer that did

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represent Diego Pavia. And again, as we've kind of talked

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antitrust laws, right, that they're being prevented from opportunities to

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either have that fifth year to you know qualify for

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you know, to be seen by some NFL scouts or

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you know, up their draft stock or really just to

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make more ANIL money. So I think it's really what

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Speaker 1: Of course, when you.

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Speaker 5: Look at all the data, the the the rulings thus far,

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like do you lean one direction or the other as

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to what the ruling will end up being? And I

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mean it may be by state too, right, Like I

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don't know if there's going to be a federal ruling

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on any of this, because these are all filed within

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you know, state law. But any any way that you're

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leaning or what you guys are leaning in this, well.

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Speaker 6: The way I'm the way I'm leaning on it is

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I'd like to see some predictability. I mean, I don't

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see how we can't have eligibility rules right in college.

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I mean because right, I mean, this is the classic

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flippery slope argument. I mean where does it ends? As

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we've talked about, I mean, when you finish your master's degree,

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can you get a PhD and you're still you know,

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you're still enrolled in school? Why can't you play? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: To but from a legal standpoint, what do you make

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of it?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 5: I think there's a baseline foundational like moral, ethical, uh

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even yeah, you know, like pragmatic part of all of us,

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Like no, dude, you got five years, like to move on,

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go do something else with you know what I mean.

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Speaker 6: But then there's been Yeah, from a legal standpoint, Look,

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let's let's let's be clear. I mean, the n C

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double A has has not had good luck in court

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winning anti trust cases, right, and that's what this is.

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It's an anti trust case. And so I mean, if

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we just look at their track record, it's not good.

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So it's gonna be interesting to see what happens.

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Speaker 5: Well, great content there, great breakdown. Let's go over to

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the suspended sprinter asking second circuit to revive case over

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tainted Gatorade gummies.

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Speaker 1: What the heck's going on with this one?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it's kind of a wild story. I mean,

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this is this is involving at the time he was

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a high school senior, is some I some asinga out

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of Texas and he was really an up and coming star,

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you know, in one hundred meter dash and also two

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hundred meter and he was selected to be the Gatorade

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National Player of the Year by Gatorade, a big honor,

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and and part of that Gatorade provided them with more

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or less some I'm calling it some swag, right, and

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and part of this was some Gatorade recovery gummies. And

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on the on the packaging, and.

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Speaker 4: I think this is all in dispute.

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Speaker 6: It on the packaging, it was certified that it was

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safe for sport, meaning that it had gone through some

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rigorous testing, and that it didn't have any sort of

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band performance enhancing substances or drugs in and there's like

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two hundred of them that are identified by the World

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Doping Anti Doping Agency. And so anyway, he's taking these

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gummies and he submits to a drug test and it

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comes up with a banned substance called cardine GW one

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five six. The trace amounts, right, what the heck is that?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 6: I don't even know, honestly, and he didn't know either.

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He's going, wait, what is this? And so it starts

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going through all of any substances that he's taking, Right,

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He's taking melatonin for sleep, and airborne to fight off

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a cold, and you know, drink mix or or whatever.

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And so he sends in all these substances to the

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anti doping lab and they test it and it's the

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Gator EIGHTE gummies that come back positive. And so anyway,

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he's he filed a lawsuit a couple of years ago.

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The lawsuit was dismissed and now it's been appealed to

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the Second Circuit Court, and in the meantime, he's fighting

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the suspension because I guess what I didn't mention he

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was handed down a four year ban in track and field,

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and so it's pretty crushing for somebody when you're eighteen

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years old at the you know, just about to be

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a breakout star. He's gonna head he was going to

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run in the Paris Olympics in twenty twenty four for Sirnam.

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He had a full right scholarship to scholarship to Texas

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A and m a Nike endorsement deal right that potentially

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worth millions. I mean, he'd really proven it on the

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on the track that he had a promising career and

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so he's he a legend this lawsuit that that was

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taken from him, and he's suffered a lot of harm

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because of it. But you know, there's some real legal

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technicalities for why this case was dismissed by the lower

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court and now it's on appeal. And it came down

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to the fact that he couldn't show that by ingesting

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those Gatorade recovery gummies that he'd suffered any physical harm.

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But any harm that he'd suffered was really just economic

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and refutational, not that sort of harm you know, by

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preventing being prevented. And so it's a kind of a

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technical legal thing depending on the types of claims that

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he that he brought forth in his case. But yeah,

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pretty interesting, and there's a whole story, right, we don't

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have time to get into it, but about the testing

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back and forth of the different lots of Gatorade gummies

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and and you know, test coming up positive and negative

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and anyway he's.

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Speaker 5: Out though, and you wonder, okay, well where are they

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manufacturing these?

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Speaker 1: What else are they menu? How did the cartering get

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in there?

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Speaker 5: Because are they also in that same facility producing some

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sort of supplements or you know cartering you know element

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that somehow was cross pollin, a cross contaminated you have

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cross contamination within these you know, so called f the

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approved labs that aren't really regulated, many of them probably

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aren't regulated. But gatorade should be regular Holy cow it's

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a major organization. Anyway, that's crazy, wild and wacky stuff.

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You know what's happening there. Let's let's move on a

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couple last things before we let you go. Two federal

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judges in cases against DraftKings allow Look, gambling has just

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taken over. I mean, it's always been a big part

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of sport, but now it's really accessible to everybody. But

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DraftKings allow allows cases to go forward for on risk

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free betting promotion to go forward.

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Speaker 1: What's going on here?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, so a group of playtiffs become a class that

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put together a class. They have sued DraftKings and their

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claim is there is claims of fraud, there's claiming that

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there is advertisement and ads that claim where Draft Kings.

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Speaker 4: Puts out an ad where they said this.

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Speaker 7: Is risk free betting, this is no sweat betting, meaning

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you have nothing to sweat about. Well, they brought a

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lawsuit against him, saying, hey, wait a minute, it wasn't

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exactly risk free and right here this I'm like, anytime

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you place a bit, Matt, isn't there a.

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Speaker 4: Risk involved with it? And you know that. But their

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claim was that according.

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Speaker 7: To the complaint, I don't know this from the losses

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were reimbursed on as site credits that could not be withdrawn,

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So I guess they got money that they couldn't access.

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They said there was limitation on the credits were disclosed

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only in small print within ads or through linked terms

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of condition. That was essentially they said that the disclosures

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were insufficient for an average consumer, you know, someone who's

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just betting and doesn't know what they're doing to understand

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the true costs of the participation. Well, the court rules

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with them, agreed with them in large they disagreed with

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them in large parts, but they did agree with him.

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Speaker 4: They said. The judge came back and said, yeah.

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Speaker 7: There are critical terms in tiny print and varied links.

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They could become deceptive to the advertising, you know, under

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state law. And they were relying on this new Jersey statute,

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the new Jersey Consumer Fraud Act, and the judge, the

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judge basically agreed to him, says, we're gonna allow this

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to go forward. And what will happen now is it'll

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get into a discovery phase where these plaintiffs, who are

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represented by lawyers, will start collecting documentation and be asking questions,

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doing depositions. That time to learn about what went into

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these what they considered were fraudulent ads. It's interesting, Well,

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there's an Illinois court that agreed with this in large part.

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There was New York court that disagreed with it. They said, hey,

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you know, you couldn't really point to that these ads

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were misleading. They said, you couldn't point to a specific

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ad that was misleading. So he bumped it, he kicked

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it out. He was kind of the same claim and

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he didn't agree with what the New Jersey and the

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Illinois court did. And there's pending lawsuits in a number

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of states, so.

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Speaker 4: We'll see what happens.

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Speaker 1: Crazy stuff.

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Speaker 5: Guys always appreciate a sports court segment.

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Speaker 1: I got one more for you, though.

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Speaker 5: It is related to the University of Utah in part. Jenshaw,

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the wife of I believe Sarishaw, has been released from

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prison and it looks like she's back in Salt Lake City.

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Speaker 1: What's the latest on this one?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Ben, we want.

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Speaker 7: To throw a curveball at the listeners here to try

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to gain a bunch more listeners. You know, you know

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we're talking about on sports court for one one simple reason.

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The jen Shaw who's her fame is that she's one

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of these real housewives, reality celebrities. But she is the

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wife of the loved University of Utah coach Sharif Shaw.

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So that's why we're sneaking in here. But maybe we'll

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gain a bunch of more listeners. But yeah, a few

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years ago, it was hot news while on that reality

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show she was arrested. She was charged, and she was

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prosecuted for claims of conspiracy to commit wire.

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Speaker 4: Fraud and Monday laundering.

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Speaker 7: The claim was that she had a business services group

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that marketed to elderly and some business services and they

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were fraudulently allegedly. But she pled guilty to these claims

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and was sentenced to six and a half years in

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prison federal prison and ordered to pay restitution of six

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point six million dollars to the victims. Well, here we

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are three and a half years later. She has gotten out.

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She's apparently there's some terms of parole. It's stated that

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she will She has been released to community confinement program

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and looks like to be released in full August thirty

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of August thirty of twenty twenty six, so about ten

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months from now.

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Speaker 4: Crazy time listeners.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, well I'll tell you this much.

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Speaker 5: I'll give you a social commentary here and you guys

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can retort if you want if there was a and

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I'm not trying to throw rocks.

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Speaker 1: At at at anybody here.

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Speaker 5: But if this is a BYU football coach that whose

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wife was released from prison, there'd be a lot of

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Utah ads jumping on this one. May be a lot

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of you tough fans talking about this all the time. Anyway, guys,

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great sports Court segment, and we appreciate you joining us.

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That's the verdict on the latest in the sports court. Gentlemen,

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forward slash donate for any monetary donations if you'd like

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to give back. Last year, the Road Home serve over

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eight thousand people across as sheltered housing programs, and that

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includes two thousand people. The Road Home remains steadfast and

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its mission to help families and individuals experiencing homelessness homelessness,

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to stay safe and to put them on the path

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towards a stable home. They're also receiving nonperishable food items, blankets,

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lightly lose, lightly used, closing items, as well as hygiene items.

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Stop by any of the road home locations and let's

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give back to those in most need. Let's take a

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brief time out. We'll be back recap in the show

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and getting into all the news and notes coming out

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of Brigham. This is Cougar Sports on one O three

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nine ninety eight point three