Hello and welcome back to Power Hour, the athletics Tuesday National College Football podcast hosted by yours truly Nicole Auerbach.

And I am joined by my friend and colleague and the person who is teaching me how to make homemade

pizza and pasta and really all sorts of things.

So I'm never going to leave my house to buy store-bought items again.

Michael Fowler from Stadium.

Hello.

Ourback. I'm super excited. I saw your homemade pasta. It looked delicious. I'm sure it tasted.

I'm sure it tasted even better. And that's the cool part about it. And once you don't have to do that,

it's it's freeing. You can do it at any time. Maybe you store some, some sauce and a little bit of noodles in the freezer. You can roll them out

at any time. It's a quick meal. But honestly, and you said my friend and colleague, I want to just

give you some props. Sports rider of the year. Come on. Let's go. Thank you. I appreciate that.

Like, it's a big deal. I've really appreciated the work that you've done all season, the work that you've done all year, not all season, all year, because a lot of folks don't realize this, but we didn't really have an off season because we weren't sure what was going to happen with college football. And so, even in the summertime, when usually, listen, usually we're Mungo Jerry out there in the

summertime, right?

When the weather is hot, we're doing the thing.

And now this summer, it was always, it was a bunch of will they, won't they?

And you did a lot of really good reporting.

So I just wanted to say, what is it, national sports media association, sports

rider of the year, hour back, praiseback praise hail let's go thank you and i think

i think you're right like it actually was way more chaotic than the season and that never happens i mean

it was you know the the NCAA tournaments but never. I mean, this was a year that sports

had not experienced in our lifetime. And I think that that was something that was really rewarding

about this was that it was for covering the hard stuff. I think a lot of people, you know, especially

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