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The Dan Patrick Show
iHeartPodcasts and Dan Patrick Podcast Network
4.5 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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NFL insider-host Mike Florio questions the NFL's handling of officials and notes ongoing discussions surrounding an 18-game schedule. Michigan State Head Men's Basketball Coach Tom Izzo reveals he had talks with the Phoenix Suns and discusses the grueling schedule Michigan State went through this year. Duke legend Grant Hill gives his point of view from the broadcasting table during UConn's thrilling win over Duke, and believes Michigan is the team to beat.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | You are listening to the Dan Patrick show on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:09.0 | He's Mike Florio, Pro Football Talk Live co-host, and his latest novel, Big Shield, available |
| 0:15.2 | on Amazon, an e-book form for only 99 cents. |
| 0:19.1 | It's a tale of the mob, pro sports in the age of legalized gambling |
| 0:23.5 | who plays you in the book if they make it into a movie i'm not in the book oh you're not |
| 0:30.1 | okay no i'm not in the book no god i'm trying to try to write something people actually be |
| 0:34.4 | interested in man good morning well I didn't know if it was |
| 0:37.7 | based off your father. No, that was father of mine. Kind of. That's the first one that I did that |
| 0:44.1 | focuses on mob activity that ran rampant in my hometown of Wheeling, West Virginia in the 70s. My |
| 0:50.2 | dad was a bookie in that crew. Inspired by is the tagline for that one. |
| 0:55.8 | Big Shield is inspired by the reality of the NFL that it tries to ignore, that it could |
| 1:00.6 | easily be infiltrated by betting interests and players could be corrupted. |
| 1:04.9 | And we've seen evidence of it with the NBA and MLB. |
| 1:08.0 | And it's just a matter of time before it happens to the NFL. |
| 1:10.1 | Where is the entry point, do you think, for this kind of corruption, fixing games with the NFL? |
| 1:16.7 | I think players are a very easy way to do it. |
| 1:20.4 | Not as it relates to fixing games, but fixing bets, prop bets, what we saw with Terry Rozier, right? |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.7 | Leaving a game early, somebody loads up on the unders. We've seen that multiple times in the NBA. The micro betting, which I think is |
| 1:37.5 | becoming more and more of a focus, number one, because it's so damn addictive for the gamblers, |
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