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

Well, it's a blessing and a curse.

Look around the landscape here, and there's not one individual sporting event.

You say, man, that's the big story.

Everyone's talking about it.

The biggest story that people are talking about is a global story, which is going on today. In fact, it wrapped up a short while ago. President Trump

and Kim Jong-un, the despot leader of North Korea, signing a document at the end of a peace

summit for the Korean Peninsula in Singapore. And you say, well, how the hell does that relate to

sports? Stupid. I tuned into a sports show.

What are you going to ruin my night here talking about something other than sports?

Well, there is a sports angle.

And years ago, when I was working my way through the radio business,

I had a program director who told me you can talk about anything you want as long as there's a sports angle.

And thank God for Dennis Rodman.

Ben, congratulations.

The worm, because that's the angle, right?

That's the angle.

If you're an old fart, you remember watching Dennis Rodman play with the pistons and the bulls

and the spurs and briefly the Lakers and the Mavericks.

But if you've not been in the loop here and you're completely cut off from what people

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