Best of Outkick the Coverage: 07/31/2020
2 Pros and a Cup of Joe
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Did the NBA hypocrisy due to the China situation bother Clay Travis too much during it’s return? Clay answers that, and also dives into what he calls “destruction versus construction.” Clay also has a great speech about how our country finds a way when in trouble. Sports gambling is back, Clay’s TV partner Todd Fuhrman joins the show to catch up and give you his best bets! Plus, Petros makes a special Friday appearance, he chimes in on all the top sports stories AND Clay finally gets to the bottom of Jeff Goldblum stealing his date when he attended USC!
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for listening to the best of outkicked the coverage podcast. |
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| 0:18.6 | This is the best of outkicked the coverage with Clay Travis on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:23.7 | So we talked about the NBA returning to open off the show, which I think is by far the biggest story out there. |
| 0:34.6 | And it's exciting and it's a great story about sports being back. |
| 0:38.6 | And if you're listening to me this morning, it's also fantastic to think about the NHL returning tomorrow. |
| 0:43.6 | Major League Baseball being underway. |
| 0:46.0 | There's a lot of positivity out there. |
| 0:48.1 | And I'm going to talk a little bit about some of the challenges that I see in the way that sports are coming back here. |
| 0:55.0 | And also a bit about college football because I know many of you are wondering about what in the world is going on right now with college football. |
| 1:04.5 | But if you listen to me in the open, you know that I said, I think the NBA just looking at the product on television. |
| 1:13.9 | If you just sit back and watch the actual game, I think so far it looks a lot more normal than Major League Baseball. |
| 1:22.4 | And I think the NBA did a really, really good job making their court seems somewhat normal. |
| 1:29.6 | We're in an abnormal time in the world of sports other than maybe golf where you can argue a golf course is just as much fun to watch without a single person on it in the crowd. |
| 1:40.6 | Because you can actually see the course better without people on it other than that, I think you can look at the NBA game on television and think, Hey, this product looks pretty good. |
| 1:51.7 | Here's what I think is going to be a challenge for the NBA. |
| 1:55.8 | To what extent are they going to lean into the political side for the entirety of their time in the bubble here? |
| 2:04.8 | There was a massive production put on before each of these games when it came to kneeling for the national anthem. |
| 2:13.9 | And the truth of the matter is kneeling has become so commonplace now that it's actually braver to stand than it is to kneel. |
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