Speaker 1: The sports page with the Orlando Sentinel at FM ninety
Speaker 1: six nine in the games, Mike the bulldog beyond you
Speaker 1: on jr R.
Speaker 2: All right, I think we got the bulldog there, Mike,
Speaker 2: we got you.
Speaker 3: I am here, baby.
Speaker 2: Hey. I know you mentioned earlier in the week the
Speaker 2: passing of Larry Guest. I just wanted to again say
Speaker 2: to you what I want to say on the air,
Speaker 2: what I said to you via text yesterday. Your call
Speaker 2: him on the the Gentleman, the storied calmness for many
Speaker 2: years here in central Florida and the Orlando Sentinel. Your
Speaker 2: piece was phenomenal. I saw that too well.
Speaker 4: I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Larry Guests one of the one of the big
Speaker 4: time calms from the good old days when when newspapers
Speaker 4: meant something.
Speaker 3: What did you say?
Speaker 1: I believe your words were a guy that I could
Speaker 1: never replace because he was that good.
Speaker 4: He was that good, and again, newspapers mattered back then.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's uh, you know, the media is obviously
Speaker 4: changed a lot in the last Yeah.
Speaker 3: Since the Internet.
Speaker 4: As I wrote, the Internet hit the newspaper industry like
Speaker 4: a giant meteor.
Speaker 3: But you have to remember Orlando Sentinel Dot com. That's right,
Speaker 3: that's right.
Speaker 4: You can read that column at Orlando Sentinel dot com. Uh,
Speaker 4: guess who's on the verge of being back for the Magic.
Speaker 4: Palo came back last week and a Franz the Frons.
Speaker 4: He had his injury designation upgraded yesterday. He went from
Speaker 4: quote torn write abdominal muscle to quote return the competition reconditioning.
Speaker 4: So the injury is healed. Now he's just got to
Speaker 4: get back in some playing shape. He's probably gonna be
Speaker 4: back in three four games. So the Fronds close to
Speaker 4: being back. That's a major step for the Magic. Jalen Suggs,
Speaker 4: of course, their starting point guard. He's still as out
Speaker 4: with that strained back, but he should be back soon.
Speaker 4: So the Magic should be back to close to full strength.
Speaker 4: Down they're not gonna be full strength because Moe Wagner
Speaker 4: of the Franzos brother he's out for the season, but
Speaker 4: and he was having a great year. But their entire
Speaker 4: starting lineup should be back within I'm gonna say, within
Speaker 4: the next two weeks, all.
Speaker 2: Right, So short handed again tonight at Milwaukee.
Speaker 4: Yeah, although Pallo will be you know, playing tonight, but yeah,
Speaker 4: they played tonight at Milwaukee. They're still the four seed
Speaker 4: again when they get healthy. As long as they can
Speaker 4: lock down a four seed for the playoffs, you know,
Speaker 4: get home court advantage opening round to the playoffs, which
Speaker 4: really hurt them last year because they were the fifth
Speaker 4: seed and they had to play Game seven in Cleveland
Speaker 4: and they ended up losing that game even though they
Speaker 4: were up by eighteen in the first half. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I think the Magic are starting to look really good.
Speaker 4: College basketball. Last night, UCF goes on the road pulls
Speaker 4: off an upset over Arizona State. Wow. Their player Keisha
Speaker 4: and Hall forty points last night, career high forty points
Speaker 4: for UCF's leading scorer. The Gators, though, who were ranked
Speaker 4: number five in the country. At home, they lose to
Speaker 4: unranked Missouri eighty three to eighty two. That was their
Speaker 4: highest ranking, by the way, since twenty seventeen. And they
Speaker 4: had won sixteen straight home games and then they lose
Speaker 4: at home last night to Missouri. So that wasn't good
Speaker 4: for the Gators.
Speaker 1: Hey, dog, quick question, like, when you were talking about
Speaker 1: the leading scorer for UCF basketball wise, what is he ballpark?
Speaker 3: Excuse me with that, nil.
Speaker 4: Well, he's not even their best player. Their best player
Speaker 4: was actually out with an injury.
Speaker 1: I'm just last night, but college basketball players are making
Speaker 1: nil because I know the.
Speaker 3: Best the best college basketball players.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple of Mills, Mill, okay Mill, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: know it all goes most of it towards football, rightfully,
Speaker 1: so sorry basketball players.
Speaker 4: But yes, checking, Yeah, where was I going?
Speaker 2: I was watching?
Speaker 3: Do you guys watch any that?
Speaker 4: Have you watched the Ends Simulated Golf League?
Speaker 2: Is this that Tiger Woods Rory McElroy thing?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the t It's called the tg Yell. It's on
Speaker 4: every Tuesday on ESPN. And last night last last week
Speaker 4: was the debut and Rory played last week. Tiger played
Speaker 4: last night, and I was watching a little bit of it.
Speaker 4: It's I guess it's somewhat entertaining. They try to be,
Speaker 4: you know, they yuck it up for the cameras and
Speaker 4: all of that. But the ratings last week though, for
Speaker 4: the debut without Tiger, nearly a million viewers, which was
Speaker 4: which is prett pretty damn good for a Tuesday night
Speaker 4: at nine o'clock on the ESPN.
Speaker 3: It was up the.
Speaker 4: Same time slot last year had college basketball. It was
Speaker 4: up twenty eight percent from that last year. So people
Speaker 4: are actually watching this. I don't know how long they're
Speaker 4: going to be watching it, but they're actually watching it.
Speaker 2: People also watched Bewitch three runs from sixty years ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: With Montgomery on the Bewitched Hot.
Speaker 3: She was, she was a smoke show. Listen.
Speaker 1: That may have started because it was the first week
Speaker 1: strong and then the second week whatever. I'm the golfer
Speaker 1: on the show and yeah, you're not sucking me in, dude, No,
Speaker 1: not even live. I'm like, okay, I I other things
Speaker 1: to do than try to keep track of how you
Speaker 1: keep scoring this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lightning Lowse got hammered pretty good last night. Boston
Speaker 2: six ' to two, Bulldog Oh ouch ouch.
Speaker 4: Big news in college football yesterday, the College Football Coaches
Speaker 4: Association approved a proposal that they're sending to the NC
Speaker 4: Double A that would essentially reduce college football's transfer portal window.
Speaker 3: They're going to do away.
Speaker 4: They want to do away with the multiple windows and
Speaker 4: have one single, single ten day window in January to
Speaker 4: try to preserve the integrity of the bowl season and
Speaker 4: put some guardrails on the transfer portal. I don't know
Speaker 4: if this is going to pass through the NC Double A,
Speaker 4: but I would as a fan, I would love to
Speaker 4: see it happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, make too much sense? Yeah yeah. Hey.
Speaker 2: I also also saw there was discussion about trying to
Speaker 2: penalize these teams who are feinting injured injuries late in
Speaker 2: the game when they're out of timeouts.
Speaker 1: Stop they should yeah yeah, they should just like flopping
Speaker 1: in basketball, saying that in soccer, same thing, dude.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So we'll see what happens there, all right. You
Speaker 4: gotta see this. This Caitlin Clark stalker. He was in
Speaker 4: court yesterday, wouldn't shut up. The judge was telling him
Speaker 4: to show up. This guy's a lunatic. Good lord, scary.
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