NFL Draft, NBA Playoffs, Boxing + Oakland With Cousin Sal and Andre Ward (Ep. 205)

The Bill Simmons Podcast

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4.4 • 30.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2017

⏱️ 95 minutes

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HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons welcomes back Cousin Sal to discuss potential NFL draft prop bets (4:00), the backup QB conundrum (10:00), the Pats' sneaky-good picks (16:00), a potential Jimmy G draft-day trade (19:30), the Warriors' 16-0 potential (28:00), Edmonton's Stanley Cup odds (32:55), and betting on the writers' strike (36:00). Then, two-weight world champion boxer Andre Ward joins (40:10) to discuss his Olympic gold medal in Athens (45:00), 12 rounds vs. 15 rounds (51:00), fighting Sergey Kovalev (58:00), contemplating retirement in 2014 (1:04:00), the rematch with Kovalev (1:14:00), the best Bay Area athletes (1:17:00), his favorite legendary fights (1:21:00), and the Raiders' exit from Oakland (1:25:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:51.3	Uh, all the great NBA stuff that we've done. I think we've had a really good last couple weeks as well as all the other stuff
0:57.6	NFL draft pop culture everything and uh and also
1:03.1	The ringer NFL show is really heating up because we got the NFL draft on Thursday
1:08.4	We have a late night round one
1:12.3	Recap podcast with all of our NFL dudes lumbarity Clark maze everybody and then we have another one Friday after round two
1:19.0	So subscribe to the ringer NFL show right now. You can hear all that stuff speaking in the draft
1:23.3	Cousins how coming up we're gonna do draft ads and then an interview we did with Andre Ward that uh
1:27.9	I was surprised by how much I enjoyed what a cool guy. All right pro jamerica
1:50.4	All right Wednesday afternoon
1:53.7	11.30 a.m
1:55.5	West Coast time
1:57.2	Lot of basketball coming tonight. We have Andre Ward in an interview that I taped last week coming up a little bit later
2:02.9	That I'm very excited about he was very interesting right now a road friend cousin south. This is we're hitting
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