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Today's deep dive looks at the resurgence of play-to-win competitions like the Beast games,

and if it's time to consider them sports or

just reality TV. But before the deep dive, our quick five. Number one, Trump's sports curse

continues. USA hockey fell to Canada three to two and overtime during the four nations

face-off championship. Number two, a new Olympic Netflix docu-series underscores the heated competitiveness of playing for one's country.

Three, Trump continues to insert himself into sports meeting with Tiger Woods about a potential merger between PGA and Live.

Four, we're going to look at this push to ban the tush push.

Five, the Yankees are changing things up after nearly 50 years allowing players to dawn facial hair.

I'm Jason Kander. I'm joined by Ravi Gupta and Disu Demisi.

Welcome back to the game within where we talk about the business and politics of sports and how each shapes what happens on the field.

All right. Well, we were texting during this. I actually was, I was ahead on one screen, the hockey match and then the other, the Court of Gold, a docu series, which we'll talk about in a second. But Adi, you're, you're born in Canada and you live in the great country of the United States of America. Where were your allegiances here? Because I actually

am an American and I was torn based on the optics of this. I have an American to first of all.

I like to say Canadian by birth, American by choice. Thank you very much. I was torn too. I'm not

going to lie. I mean, I said this a couple of shows ago. Hockey's

a religion in Canada. And I grew, I moved to the United States when I was 11. I'm still Toronto

Maple Leafs fan. I grew up in Toronto. Never really lost that allegiance. It's, we're kindred

souls because you're a Bill's fan, so you understand what it's like to be a Leafs fan. And yeah, like I said, I grew up sort of with hockey as my number one sport.

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