Phobias & College Hoops with Michael Calabrese
The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast
Playmaker and iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The Favorites is back! Another week of no football but still plenty to discuss as Stuckey, Kendra Middleton and Brandon Kravitz team up for another chit-chat session. College basketball is in full swing but first, what are the crew's biggest fears? Rational or not, things go off the rails as you'd expect with some of these phobias. Plus, the crew welcomes college basketball expert Michael Calabrese to the show for a higher level overview of betting college hoops. With conference tournaments and March Madness just around the corner, tune in to hear how Calabrese and Stuckey are tackling the amateur hardwood. Check out Big Bets On Campus for more for Action Network's college squad with multiple episodes each week. The Favorites will be back with more sports betting content every Tuesday and Thursday so subscribe, rate and review!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the favorites presented by Draft Kings. The Crown is yours. We are now fully entrenched in the murky waters of the NFL off season. |
| 0:19.9 | And we'll continue our trek around the world of sports today with college basketball analyst. |
| 0:24.7 | Our very own Mike Calabrese joins the show. |
| 0:28.0 | Right now, let's intro to the crew. |
| 0:29.4 | I'm Brandon Kravitz, your hosts joined by the prime minister of DGEN nation, |
| 0:33.8 | Stucky and the queen of the pod, Ms. Kendra Middleton. Take that Swedes. Team USA continues on |
| 0:42.7 | in men's hockey and Kenjer. We got a big one today with the women taking on Canada. So your |
| 0:50.7 | world of international hockey is on full display. And we're peaking right now. |
| 0:55.8 | My parley is still alive. |
| 0:57.9 | I was sweating so hard into that overtime yesterday. |
| 1:01.1 | But Quinn Hughes on the ice for like three and a half minutes, scores the game winner. |
| 1:06.1 | Wasn't seeing ghosts on that one for the king. |
| 1:09.6 | My producer in Orlando for my weekday show uh just turned |
| 1:14.7 | 21 so he's now able to bet legally and his first bet placed was a three leg hockey parlay that was |
| 1:24.4 | not gender specific. |
| 1:27.7 | We went, we went women on one side and, and then the USA men on the other. |
| 1:33.4 | And that is his first dive into sports betting and his parley is still alive. |
| 1:39.9 | I told him he should probably hover his finger over the app and just delete it. |
| 1:44.6 | But we'll see if he can come through on that. |
| 1:47.8 | Stucky, how are you feeling as the week progresses? |
| 1:51.4 | Good. |
| 1:52.1 | Just getting ready for college hoops weekend. |
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