March Madness Preview & Tom Brady’s “Unfinished Business”
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🗓️ 25 August 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Andrew Beaton of The Wall Street Journal joins Takeline to discuss Tom Brady’s surprise return from brief retirement and Calvin Ridley’s indefinite suspension after gambling on NFL games. Joshua Robinson of The Wall Street Journal reports on the sale of Chelsea Football Club from Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich amid war on Ukraine. But first, USA Today’s Dan Wolken helps us fill out our brackets.
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| 0:00.0 | I love my teammates and I love my supportive family. They make it all possible. |
| 0:04.7 | I'm coming back for my 23rd season in Tampa, unfinished business. |
| 0:11.1 | Let's fucking go. go. Hello and welcome to take line it's me your guy Jason Concepcion we've got a wonderful show for you today. I'll be talking to Andrew Beaton of the Wall Street Journal |
| 0:37.4 | who had his weekend blown up like many of us did by Tom Brady's surprise return after a 40-something day retirement. |
| 0:48.5 | I guess it depends on how you exactly count the amount of days since he retired, but he's back. |
| 0:55.0 | Plus, we'll be talking about Calvin Ridley's indefinite suspension from the NFL after |
| 0:59.9 | he admitted to gambling on NFL games. |
| 1:02.5 | And I also talked to Dan Wilkin of USA Today |
| 1:05.1 | who's gonna give us a great preview of the NCAA tournament, |
| 1:07.9 | which I always need because that's the one thing |
| 1:10.9 | I have missing in my life, is a workable and strong knowledge of |
| 1:15.2 | college basketball so lots of good stuff today and I'll talk to Joshua |
| 1:19.5 | Robinson of the Wall Street Journal about the ongoing developments with Chelsea in the wake of Russian oligarch |
| 1:27.0 | Roman Abramovich's sanction and announced sale of the club. |
| 1:31.0 | But first, the Nets beat the Knicks on Sunday. It was a close one. No Kyrie, but he was sitting there court side. And after the fact, K.D. In the post game, just teed off on New York City's vaccine mandate rules and by extension New York City Mayor Eric Adams. |
| 1:52.0 | So Kyrie was sitting court side wearing a |
| 1:55.4 | beautiful what looked like a suede shirt was very engaged. It was definitely a |
| 1:59.7 | weird it's a weird thing to see the star point guard for the home team who is healthy and can play sitting |
| 2:10.0 | courtside in seats that he paid for and not playing for the team now. This is a result of an |
| 2:18.4 | interesting loophole in New York City's vaccine mandate rules which allows players and performers who come from out of state or live out of state as |
| 2:28.9 | Kyrie Irving does as a resident of New Jersey, allows them to, under the more relaxed rules now, to come and watch games, |
| 2:37.0 | not have to be vaccinated to come and watch a basketball game, but it still stipulates that people who live in the city and work in the |
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