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This is the best of the Ben Mallor show on Fox Sports Radio.

Back at it again, new week here at Fox Sports Radio.

When you hear my voice, it starts a new week of programming.

I know because they send the schedule out, and it says the weekday programming starts with the Ben Mallor show.

Very corporate of them to send out an email, and they make that announcement.

So what you heard before was the end of weekend programming operations at Fox Sports Radio, if you're listening earlier.

And this is the beginning.

I'm in the lead-off spot.

Batting lead-off. I hopefully will get on base.

Hopefully I'll get on base, and then I can get driven home by someone else.

But anyways, there's no need here to beat around the bush.

We know what the big stories.

There's a couple of big stories of the day over the weekend.

Most of them involved basketball.

And good news for the civic leaders in the Delaware Valley.

No need for extra Criscoe protection for the street signs of Philadelphia.

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