Episode 50: Sam Vecenie on the FIBA World Cup + Celebrating 50 Episodes By Reading Your Comments

Mostly Hoops with Mark Titus and Co.

Barstool Sports

Sports, Basketball

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Friend of the show Sam Vecenie returns to preview the upcoming FIBA World Cup and tell us why basketball fans in America and around the world should care about the event. Sam and Mark also talk some college basketball landscape topics. On the back end of the episode, Mark and TJ celebrate the first 50 episodes of the Mark Titus Show by reflecting on some comments from the first few episodes. Here's to the next 50. Mark and TJ also talk last night's Barstool Sports 20th Anniversary Awards Show, which saw many of the companies' creators descending upon the house of blues in Boston to celebrate the history of the company. All this plus an update on Winning Time Season 2, plus shoutouts. Sam Vecenie is a Senior Writer at The Athletic covering the NBA and the NBA Draft. He also hosts the Game Theory Podcast talking all things basketball and more. Follow Sam Vecenie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sam_Vecenie We'll be back with a new episode Tuesday as we continue our offseason schedule of Tuesday/Thursday uploads. Follow the show on all socials @MarkTitusShow

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0:00.0	Hey barstool listeners, you can find every episode of this show on Apple podcasts, Spotify
0:04.3	or YouTube.
0:05.6	Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon music.
0:08.4	On today's episode of the Mark Titus show, The Phoebe World Cup starts on Friday and
0:12.2	our old friend Sam Vassini is here to break it all down.
0:15.7	By my count, there are four teams now.
0:18.4	Opinions will differ.
0:19.4	You can go listen to other podcasts, and I'm sure some of these other people will have
0:22.1	different, different opinions, but in the, in the extensive, extensive scouting, I've
0:26.4	done with this thing.
0:27.7	I see four different teams having a realistic shot at winning, and now America is obviously
0:31.4	we're the heavy favorites as we should be, but I think there are four teams that can
0:35.9	conceivably win this thing.
0:37.6	And Sam checks two of those boxes because he is an American who currently lives in Australia.
0:43.5	So I thought he would be the perfect guy to have on, because I do think Australia is
0:46.5	the other team.
0:47.5	I guess there's a world where I could have had on a French Canadian to talk about this,
0:52.2	but I'll be honest, I don't respect French Canadian, so I just like, you know, never cross
0:57.0	my mind to have.
0:58.0	So we're going to have Sam on, we're going to talk about it all, and look, I get it.
1:02.6	Most of you watching, most of you listening, do not care about the Feeble World Cup.
1:06.2	In fact, I'm guessing a lot of you didn't even realize it was going on until you heard
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