How we failed LSU and Iowa by focusing on the WRONG thing; NBA gets new CBA: who won the deal? (Episode 786)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘lamentable’ as in LSU defeats Iowa in the women’s NCAA championship and the story was less about basketball and more about everything else. Bad officiating. Angel Reese vs Caitlin Clark. And a whole conversation about race. (14:20) There’s a new CBA agreement in place in the NBA. What is happening? Did the players win? Did the owners win? Did the fans win? (31:30) Review: Champions. (35:25) MLB is back and the big story is game speed! The pitch clock rules! (38:45) NPPOD. (41:00) Chelsea sack Graham Potter after appointing him in September. Todd Boehly continues to reign terror on his new club. Have a great Monday! It finally feels like Spring! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You go, here you go.
0:16.2	Lamentable.
0:17.2	That's the nothing personal word of the day.
0:19.4	It's Monday, April 3rd, 2023.
0:23.7	The word of the day is lamentable as in how I feel about what happened in the event.
0:29.9	Final of the NCAA women's tournament yesterday.
0:33.4	It is the talk of sports for all the wrong reasons.
0:36.6	We should be talking about right now about the quality of play, about what an unbelievable
0:43.1	story it is that LSU came together with basically all new players and won a championship, the
0:48.7	first championship in the history of LSU, men's or women's and that includes Shaquille O'Neill
0:54.4	playing at LSU.
0:55.6	We should be talking about Caitlin Clark and the fact that she's got the same range as
1:00.9	Steph Curry.
1:02.4	We should be talking about the quality of what happened on the court.
1:06.7	And I am lamenting the fact that first what we're talking about is how bad the referees
1:12.1	were and the referees were bad for LSU.
1:15.9	They were bad for Iowa.
1:17.5	They were overmatched.
1:18.5	They did not rise to the moment.
1:20.5	It was a disappointing performance.
1:23.1	And on top of that, it had nothing to do with the outcome of the game.
1:28.2	Refereen was equally bad.
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