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The Kevin Sheehan Show

Ben Fawkes analyzes the Commanders win total for next season & March Madness sweet 16 favorites

The Kevin Sheehan Show

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Sports, News

4.7696 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

3.26.26, Ben Fawkes from Yahoo Sports joins The Kevin Sheehan Show to discuss the Commanders’ expected improvement for next season in win totals, what the betting favorites for the March Madness tournament look like.

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0:00.0

Really, really good Sweet 16 lineup.

0:06.4

Four games tonight, four games tomorrow night.

0:08.9

Two of those four tomorrow night right here in D.C. at Capital One Arena.

0:14.8

Duke will be in one of those games against St. John's and then Michigan State

0:19.9

Yukon in the nightcap. But man, there are good games. I'll have my smell test picks

0:24.2

later on in the hour. The smell test at 14 and 8 against the numbers since the tournament

0:31.0

began. Joining us is one of my favorites to read. Ben Fox does such a good job as the senior

0:37.3

sports betting analyst at Yahoo Sports.

0:40.5

You can follow Ben on X at B Fox 22. Ben joins us right now. Before we get to the Sweet

0:49.2

16, I just noticed something, and I'm wondering if it's unique.

0:55.1

The Major League Baseball odds, I've got a consensus number in front of me right now.

1:00.2

The World Series odds, the Dodgers are 2 to 1 plus 200,

1:05.0

and next after the Dodgers are the Yankees at plus 1,000.

1:14.3

Has there ever been a season that started with that prohibitive of a World Series favorite, a two to one versus the next in line is 10 to one?

1:22.3

I think you're giving me assignments here, Kevin. This is something I got to look into.

1:27.5

Well, what's your hunch? I would guess that there probably has been, but not for a long time.

1:35.7

So just the Dodgers, I remember looking for an article last week. I think that's their

1:41.1

best, their shortest World Series odds since like 1985, just for them as a team. And then for any team, I think it's the shortest since the Yankees,

1:51.0

I want to say, in 2003, who are a little shorter to win the World Series. And then some of those

1:57.7

Yankees teams, I think, in the late 90s, had very good odds as well.

2:02.0

But it is very rare.

2:03.3

It's kind of reminiscent a little bit to some of those Warriors teams, right, with KD and

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