The Sports Reporters - Episode 266 - Which Teams or Athletes Are Really Missing Their Golden Opportunity?

The Sports Reporters

Compass Media Networks

Sports, Sports News, News, Talk Radio

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

With the College Basketball season canceled, the start of MLB delayed, and the rest of NBA season hanging in the balance... Which teams or players are really missing their golden opportunity or window to excel now? Is it LeBron and his red hot Lakers? Is it Tiger Woods, who won't be able to play his favorite Major, The Masters? Or how about senior Cassius Winston and the Michigan State Spartans? Or maybe it's the Dodgers and the fact that Mookie Betts is a free agent at the end of the year? The guys discuss the all scenarios. Plus, a look back at MJ's "double-nickel" game at Madison Square Garden and Christian Laettner's amazing performance against Kentucky in 1992!

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0:00.0	Award-winning journalists, New York Times bestsellers.
0:04.9	No topic out of bounds.
0:06.6	No opinions left unsaid.
0:08.6	An institution for sports talk and information.
0:11.9	This is the sports reporters.
0:14.0	Here's Mike Lupica, Mitch Album, and Bob Ryan.
0:16.5	I'm Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.
0:19.2	I'm Mike Lupig, the New York Daily News and
0:21.2	MLB.com. And I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press and you're listening to the sports
0:26.5	reporters podcast, podcast incarnation of the long running Sunday morning TV show on ESPN, now heard twice a week,
0:34.1	Mondays and Thursdays and all the years, decades that we were on television,
0:38.5	we never had to talk about things that we're talking about these days. We never had
0:44.5	absences of sports all together across the landscape. But it has ceded the ground for some
0:52.2	pretty interesting discussions looking forward, one of which now,
0:55.6	given the news of the weekend that President Trump has now extended the sort of national stay-at-home
1:02.0	and don't go anywhere and don't gather in crowds until at least the end of April, we're now
1:08.0	looking at pushing back even further the possibilities of an NBA playoffs,
1:13.5	an NHL playoffs, or even a baseball season. So we got to thinking about, well, if that should
1:19.2	happen, if there's no more basketball for 2020, if there's, in terms of this season,
1:27.3	if there's the same for hockey, if there is no
1:29.8	baseball season, who suffers the most? What player, what franchise is going to take the biggest
1:36.9	hit if a big eraser comes to this year? And I'll toss it out to my colleagues, Mike and Bob,
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