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Hello and welcome. It's our number four, our number four of our radio program.

It is a toss-up question.

And there have been many zany moves, many zany moves by professional athletes financially and

whatnot.

But what is the crazier part of this Jalen Smith story?

He's a linebacker for the Cowboys.

Crazier story involving Jalen Smith, him wearing Tony Romo's old number or paying six

figures to wear number nine.

A Ben Mather Show investigation coming right now.

Here it is our number four.

A numerical equation.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mallor show.

We are in the air everywhere as we dig down coast to coast, border to border and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from inside your eardrum, providing marginal sports talk radio all night long into the morning.

The Fox Sports Radio Studios, we take a break from the conversation.

There's a lot of basketball here in the overnight.

The NBA playoffs rolling on the first round.

Can't get too worked up on that because the playoffs go on for like another four months.

And we had a little baseball hot talk.

It's the Astros and Dodgers renewing their rivalry last night deep in the heart of Texas.

But our lead this hour comes from the NFL, a story that caught my attention.

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