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NPDS - State of College Football: Transfers, NIL, lawsuits, and 9th year players!?; NFL playoff picks for the weekend! Sox Update: Boston & Chicago (Episode 972)

Le Batard & Friends Network

Dan Le Batard

Sports

4.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We’ve been nominated in two categories for the Sports Podcast Awards! Best Baseball Podcast! Best Sports Business Podcast! You can vote for us now: https://www.sportspodcastgroup.com/shortlist-category/ Today’s word of the day is ‘eligibility’ as in transferring as in college athletics as in football as in what is going on!? 9th year players? 7th year players? What happened to 4 years? We’ve got the DOJ involved now. We have conferences fighting with teams. And of course, NIL. (15:30) NPPOD - it’s NFL playoff football! Get excited! (27:12) Review: Boy Swallows Universe. (30:02) Red Sox fans are very mad at the team right now. What is Boston doing? (38:36) Are the White Sox staying in Chicago? Is the flirting done with Nashville? (43:35) Are the Astros going to sign Josh Hader? He wants more money than Edwin Diaz! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here you go.

0:04.0

go. Oh. Eligibility. That's the nothing personal word of the day. It is Friday

0:19.8

January 19th, 2024. Welcome to everybody watching the show live or on video

0:27.2

nothing personal with David Sampson. You will notice today I'm not in my

0:31.2

normal uniform. I'm actually in a horse hockey sweatshirt and a nothing personal trucker hat.

0:38.0

The reason, A, I got zero minutes of sleep last night, but that's not really the reason.

0:43.3

That's sort of ordinary.

0:45.1

I had a procedure done yesterday on my face.

0:48.4

For those of you who don't believe in sunscreen,

0:52.3

I can only tell you I was amongst you and now I'm not.

0:57.0

I was at the dermatologist and I had something done for pre-cancerous and potentially cancerous.

1:04.3

I'll let you all know, I'm fine, I'm sure.

1:06.6

But basically my face has been peeled off

1:08.7

like I'm in some sort of movie.

1:12.1

And this is as good as it's going to look all weekend.

1:15.0

After this show I'm going into my bunker.

1:18.0

I will binge something and then watch football.

1:22.0

But there was no way I was going to miss a show,

1:25.1

but unable to shower or get my face wet,

1:29.0

I wasn't going to put on a blazer and a shirt.

1:31.2

So that is why I'm wearing my lucky horse hockey sweatshirt.

1:36.0

Eligibility, let's get into it.

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