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An NBA podcast featuring a rotating lineup of the best insiders, writers, and reporters from The Athletic. Monday thru Friday. Monday: Basketball Buds with Zach Harper, Jay King and Josh Huestis | Tuesday: Hoops Adjacent with David Aldridge and Marcus Thompson | Wednesday: Nerder She Wrote with Dave DuFour, Seth Partnow, and Mo Dakhil | Thursday: Tampering with Sam Amick, Anthony Slater and Fred Katz | Friday: The Slam & Jam with Andrew Schlecht and Alex Speers.
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Author, essayist and journalist Meghan Daum has spent decades giving voice—and bringing nuance, humor and surprising perspectives—to things that lots of people are thinking but are afraid to say out loud. Now, she brings her observations to the realm of conversation. In candid, free-ranging interviews, Meghan talks with artists, entertainers, journalists, scientists, scholars, and anyone else who’s willing to do the “unspeakable” and question prevailing cultural and moral assumptions.
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Matt Klinman is a comedy writer (The Onion, Funny or Die, Adult Swim), Ethan Strauss is a sports writer (The Athletic, ESPN). They are two long-time friends who started their careers on the internet but keep finding themselves having conversations about how the digital world has become increasingly cancerous, bleak, centralized and lame. Is Facebook destroying the internet? Is Twitter destroying politics? Is Instagram destroying children? Is this false dichotomy destroying rational arguments ...
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Tampering is now part of The Athletic NBA Show. Subscribe here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-athletic-nba-show/id1358187061 to go behind the scenes evert Tuesday with host Sam Amick and fellow NBA insiders from The Athletic including Joe Vardon, Shams Charania, and John Hollinger. Peek behind the curtains and step into the World of GMs, Player Agents and the figures that make the game on the court far more complex than seen on TV. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-athlet ...
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Mark Cuban might be selling the Mavericks but Jason Kidd isn't buying ESPN's Tim MacMahon's line of questions. Amin and Charlotte react to Jason Kidd's expletive filled press conference and LeBron James' tweet to the rescue! Then, Oddball continues the conversation about the NBA's tech and streaming wins and woes with House of Strauss' Ethan Straus…
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HOLIDAY MERCH SALE: https://davidsamsonpodcast.com/shop/ Today’s word of the day is ‘crickets’ as in where is the news as in the MLB Lottery as in MLB Winter Meetings as in no big trades as in no big signings. Wake up MLB! Wake up agents! The media is hungry! (11:30) What’s happening at the winter meetings? Anything? Anything!? ANYTHING!? (16:19) S…
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Steve Kornacki is, as you may know, the affable guy who gives you highly accurate election information on NBC. He’s got other projects, though, and I found this one fascinating. In this episode we discuss “The Revolution,” a podcast series on Newt Gingrich’s rise to power. Kornacki’s series argues that the Newt-fueled 1994 Republican takeover of th…
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Welcome back to ThomaHawk! This week, hosts Andrew Hawkins & Joe Thomas are joined by Juju Gotti and Phat Nattt. Hawk takes a nuance stance on the Jamal Adams "Yikes" tweet, which leads to a spirited conversation. Later they discusses the latest College Football controversy, share their collective fear of the San Francisco 49ers and, of course, wis…
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Sorry, Boston and Sacramento... the Pacers and Pelicans are going to Vegas! Tyrese Haliburton finally gets the national attention he deserves and records his first triple-double; LeBron does a 360 layup and gets and earful from Ime Udoka; Luka becomes a father and leads the Mavericks on a 30-0 run (and still lose!) plus, more NBA headlines! Amin an…
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A fierce debate — about no less than the meaning of intelligence itself — has broken out in the world of football scouting, as star quarterback C.J. Stroud puts together one of the best rookie QB seasons ever... after bombing the new Wonderlic test. But can this S2 Cognition exam actually predict how your brain impacts athletic performance? Pablo p…
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HOLIDAY MERCH SALE: https://davidsamsonpodcast.com/shop/ Today’s word of the day is ‘apprehensive’ as in the Jets as in Zach Wilson as in Robert Saleh as in Aaron Rodgers as in how could it get worse? Well with the Jets it can always get worse. (12:45) Shohei Ohtani has reportedly met with the Toronto Blue Jays!? (18:30) Mookie Betts is now a 2nd b…
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Coming off Sunday’s thrashing of the Eagles, the San Francisco 49ers are riding high. Naturally, we had to have 49ers +/- host Tim Kawakami on to discuss a variety of Niners and Niners adjacent topics. Of course, given Tim’s status as the best sports writer in the …
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We can't allow referees to continue making massive mistakes that determine the outcome of Premier League matches! A new week, a new EPL officiating controversy, this time in the biggest game of the weekend! Manchester City and Tottenham played to a thrilling 3-3 draw on Sunday afternoon, but of course, the referees will claim the spotlight after Si…
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Zach Harper, Josh Huestis and Jay King give their quick predictions on the In Season Tournament, and then discuss the following topics quarter way through the season: Best Team, Best Player, Best role player, Most entertaining player/team, Most disappointing team, Most disappointing player, Team that is playing unsustainably good, your preseason ta…
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Billy took a vacation that nobody knew about so Chris Cote joins the show. Do the Packers have another quarterback for the next 15 years that the Jets will eventually sign to run their team? Lucy is back from the SEC Championship game and she shares her existential crisis for how heartbroken she is for FSU for being left out of the playoff, but com…
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MERCH SALE: https://davidsamsonpodcast.com/shop/ Today’s word of the day is ‘musical chairs’ as in someone is in when the music stops but someone is also out. Let’s look at the College Football Playoff. Florida State did everything it needed to to get in… and they were left out. Alabama the brand name gets the final spot. Why? Because it’s a TV pro…
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Amin & Charlotte have a lot to say after going to the Miami Heat's exciting "Star Wars Night" win over the Indiana Pacers and why Tyrese Haliburton is playing must-see basketball and how the future already looks bright for Jaime Jaquez Jr. Now, if one thing is for sure, it's that Oddball doesn't lie but that ain't the truth for a lot of people in t…
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Slam and JamAndrew Schlecht and Alex Speers discuss the "Week that Was" in the NBA, talk about 6 lineups that are standing out so far this season, EXTREME TEAMS, and then discuss the Denver Nuggets with Adam Mares of DNVR. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy The Athletic
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