More Weekend Football Notes, Media News From Chicago, and the Profile Location of the Week

The Press Box

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Sports

4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Bryan and David are back to discuss the weekend full of divisional-round playoff games. They break down the impact these games have had on the audience and touch on Aaron Rodgers’s interview with Kevin Van Valkenburg two days before his divisional game as well as Tony Romo's performance (6:42). Then, they address the potential career moves for New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton, former Cowboys star Troy Aikman, and NBC commentator Al Michaels (25:21). Lastly, in the Notebook Dump, they discuss the news that the Chicago Sun-Times was acquired and will become a nonprofit, touch on Robert Costa leaving The Washington Post for CBS News, and then wrap things up with a new feature called Chyron Copy Editor (39:20). Plus, the Overworked Twitter Joke of the Week and David Shoemaker Guesses the Strained Pun Headline. Hosts: Bryan Curtis and David Shoemaker Associate Producer: Erika Cervantes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The NBA season is heating up and Kevin O'Connor and Chris Vernon have got you covered on the mismatch.
0:04.7	They discuss all the news, the trends and transactions happening around the league.
0:08.5	They also offer their on-court analysis and occasionally get into heated debates.
0:12.3	Check out the mismatch on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:18.5	David!
0:20.2	I went to Vermont for a wedding last week.
0:23.7	In one of the cool parts about travel is getting to read various publications on the road.
0:28.8	Would you like some notes from my Vermont reading list?
0:33.6	Yeah, please.
0:34.9	All right. The coolest thing by far is I got to read the Boston Globe Sports section every day on paper.
0:41.2	They were delivering it to the hotel. The Boston Globe is one of like
0:45.6	four newspapers whose sports section resembles in any way. It's
0:50.8	70s and 80s glory.
0:53.6	And one of the cool things about the globe is in the 70s. They blew out those notes columns.
0:58.3	Like they gave Peter Gammon's a page on Sunday and said,
1:01.1	just write a page of national baseball notes. Same thing with Bob Ryan in the NBA.
1:06.5	And this is before we could just find notes everywhere.
1:09.0	Well, I opened the Sunday Boston Globe Sports section and there is not only that,
1:14.0	there is a page of national hockey notes. National hockey notes.
1:20.4	Wow. By Matt Porter.
1:23.3	It's still intact. Any part of the old newspaper sports page
1:26.8	is still intact makes me incredibly happy.
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