Hello Sunshine, I'm Alexi Lollis and welcome to the State of the Union podcast, where we look at the

beautiful game on and off the field through the lens of red, white and blue colored glasses.

This week we'll be talking, oh yeah, can you feel it?

Can you smell it? That's CCL fever. Oh, we all got it. We'll talk Kong and

Polisic and Neymar and Tina and Weston and the Exodus of Americans, Rinaldo, not the Christiano type, but a different Rinaldo,

Eddie Murphy and so much more.

But first joining me, as my friend my colleague my guiding light

David Mossy I saw what is he oh yeah he's a soccer savant and a fox soccer researcher

and writer extraordinary.

You know him, you love him.

Massey, how are you doing on this Monday, April 5th in the year 2021?

I'm doing okay.

You might recall at the start of the NCAA tournament I was actually quite

pessimistic about Michigan's chances because we had lost our star player Isaiah

livers to injury.

And so I didn't think I'd be that upset

when we got knocked out, but things unfolded in such a way

where it actually was quite frustrating

that we didn't reach the final four.

We got to the elite eight.

We faced an 11 seed UCLA and we were favored and lost by two at the buzzer.

But UCLA certainly a worthy final four participant. They were involved on Saturday night in one of the great games in

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