The Sports Reporters - Episode 372 - Best Final Four Moment Ever? MLB All-Star Game Pulled from Atlanta

The Sports Reporters

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🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

UCLA and Gonzaga provide one of the all-time great moments in Final Four history as Jalen Suggs of Gonzaga hits a 3 pointer at the buzzer in overtime to send Gonzaga to the National Title game! The guys discuss that epic game and give a quick preview into the showdown that everyone wanted from the start of the season, Baylor vs. Gonzaga. Plus, MLB makes the decision to pull the All-Star game out Atlanta, Georgia due to the states passing of new voting laws. What do we make of this decision? And taking a broader look at where sports and politics mesh. Should more sports teams be taking the lead on these types of issues?

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0:00.0	award-winning journalists new york times bestsellers no topic out of bounds no opinions left unsaid an institution for sports talk and information this is the sports reporters here's mike lupica mitch alb and bob ryan i'm mike lupica mlb.com in the new york daily news i'm mitch album of the detroit free press. I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press.
0:22.1	And I am Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN, and we welcome you to the Monday morning
0:26.0	edition of the Sports Reporter's podcast.
0:28.3	We're with you each Monday and Thursday.
0:30.0	And we are here on the morning of an athletic event that we've been waiting for and is once delayed gentlemen this
0:40.1	actually is this a three-month delay they were going to play back in December until
0:44.3	COVID reared its ugly head but we're going to get the game that that people who
0:47.2	follow college basketball have been hoping and and pining for and looking forward
0:51.5	to we are getting one two we are getting Gonzaga and
0:55.0	Baylor tonight and you know that's it that that's as good that's why you're a sports
0:59.8	fan stuff like that no I'm a sports fan because of games like I saw Saturday night
1:05.7	well that's true we'll get to that no go go right to it go right to it yeah let's let's let's let's let's let's for
1:12.5	for this for our purposes this morning before we get to the final let's not bury the lead here
1:17.6	UCLA and Gonzaga played a the kind of sports event game on Saturday night that people like
1:24.4	to say breaks the internet it was it was that great because as the night
1:29.6	unfolded and all props by the way to clark kellog for the game he said no i don't want ucla
1:34.7	to hold the ball they've got the only chance they've got is to try to score with them they got to
1:38.7	score more than 75 points well they sure did and and it was everything that you want um a final four game to be we did
1:48.2	have even an unlikely Cinderella because of the name on the uniform UCLA and then we have an
1:54.0	ending like that and guys it what I'll just say about Suggs his shot is I was about 10 feet from Gordon Hayward when he released the ball against Duke in that same stadium one time.
2:07.6	And it looked like it was going to be the flutie pass of college basketball.
2:11.6	It was just off.
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