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The Sports Junkies

Best of WJFK/WTEM Interviews: April 7-11, 2025

The Sports Junkies

Audacy

Sports, Comedy

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2025

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Alex Ovechkin has made history, and we hear from ESPN’s Steve Levy and TNT’s Eddie Olcyzk about being there for No. 895. On the Nats tip, Ted Leonsis still wants to buy them, and we hear from him on that, as well as GM Mike Rizzo in his weekly Junkies visit. Monumental’s Wes Hall, Wizards guard Bub Carrington, and GM Will Dawkins weigh in on the end of their season, plus author Timothy Gay discusses his upcoming Rory McIlroy book as The Masters gets underway!

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0:00.0

It's the Offen Show.

0:01.3

We're still talking about Ovi.

0:02.7

It is time for Not My Beat.

0:05.6

Today's top story from the perspective of someone who's there.

0:09.8

You are looking live.

0:11.8

This just in Not My Beat.

0:15.9

And it's our pleasure to welcome to the show now.

0:18.8

Steve Levy, who hosts ESPN's hockey coverage, watching

0:22.5

them on ESPN, talking about all kinds of things for years, but always been right there

0:26.7

alongside John Bucci Gras and their team for the hockey coverage and leaves. What a day

0:31.8

for Alex Ovechkin this weekend, man. And to me, there's kind of two athletes that have always

0:36.9

sat in a different tier in sports.

0:39.3

And as a guy who also calls football games on the weekends in the fall, I feel like you'll

0:43.5

you'll either sign off on this or tell me I'm missing someone. But Jerry Rice and his records,

0:48.4

the receiving records, anytime you get close to one of those, like you've done something

0:51.3

pretty spectacular. And same thing with any record of Wayne Gretzky's.

0:55.0

So how do you try to put into context what Alex Ovechkin has done here, breaking one of the all-time records that Gretzky had?

1:03.6

Yeah, I'm not sure there is context.

1:06.2

I mean, it's phenomenal what he did.

1:09.6

Listen, I'm a tinged, sadden, quite frankly, that it's over.

1:15.7

I imagine there will be, you know, even some letdown in the Capitol's room.

1:20.1

That's something for Coach Carberry to try to figure out, make sure they're still ready to go in these final few regular season games. Look, we knew

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