The Most Fascinating Storylines to Watch in 2025

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🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The sports world is transforming in 2025, with new rule changes, new playoffs formats, and many other innovations across the landscape. So we brought on some of our favorite regular guests — Katie Barnes, Bill Barnwell, Elle Duncan, Luis Miguel Echegaray, Andreas Hale, Ryan McGee, Jeff Passan — and Clinton Yates, who will be back in the host’s chair later this month, to tell us not only what they’re most excited to cover in 2025, but also what they’re most excited to watch as fans. Plus, guest hosts Michele Steele and David Dennis, Jr. share their hot takes for the year and our team of ESPN Daily producers reveal what they’re most looking forward to covering on the show. Check out this playlist featuring our favorite stories of 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	2024 is in the rear view, David Dennis Jr.
0:04.0	Happy New Year.
0:05.2	Happy New Year.
0:06.2	I hope you had a fantastic time celebrating all the holidays and not working as hard.
0:12.1	That's me all the time, David.
0:13.6	Not going to lie.
0:14.7	But 2025, yes, we are getting a new slate of sports underway, even though technically we are in the middle of seasons for a lot of sports.
0:25.1	It's a new slate for us.
0:26.8	And every team that broke our hearts in 2024 has a real shot at redemption in 2025.
0:33.4	Chicago Cubs, Chicago White So I am looking at you.
0:36.3	So what's your initial read, David, on 2025?
0:38.9	What do you think this year in sports is just going to be like?
0:42.5	What are you expecting?
0:43.7	Pretty mediocre year of sports ahead of us, I think.
0:47.4	Very mid.
0:48.3	Right, very mid.
0:49.3	Mid 2025.
0:50.6	No, I think sports is like this canvas right now, this blank canvas where everybody's just trying new stuff.
0:56.1	We've got sports that are going to be on different platforms.
0:59.8	We've got different streaming things.
1:01.0	We've got different playoffs.
1:02.1	We got rule changes that are a lot of people are tossing around.
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