The Sports Reporters - Episode 450 - Covid-19 Still Overshadowing Sports. AB's Side of the Story. Final Weekend in the NFL

The Sports Reporters

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Sports, Sports News, News, Talk Radio

4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The world's #1 tennis player, Novak Djokovic, won't be participating in this year's Australian Open because of his vaccination status and it has turned into an international incident! Plus, Antonio Brown gives his side of the story in his dramatic exit last Sunday. What to make of that situation? Kyrie Irving makes his Nets debut with mixed fanfare. Should he be celebrated? Why do the Nets put up with his situation? And don't forget about Week 18 in the NFL! There's still a ton to play for in the last weekend of the regular season. The guys sort it all out. Don't miss a loaded Sports Reporters Podcast!

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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.
0:16.4	I'm Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.
0:19.2	I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press.
0:21.2	I know them. I know them.
0:22.9	This is Mike Lubig at MLB.com in the New York Daily News.
0:25.5	Welcome to the Thursday edition of the Sports Reporter's podcast.
0:30.2	And as we move up on the second anniversary, not that anybody's going to think of it as an anniversary of the world basically starting to shut down because of COVID.
0:43.0	That story continues to dominate not just the news of the day, but the world of sports.
0:49.3	To wit, the number one player in the world, one of the three men in history with 20 majors novac jilcovic
0:56.1	or no vaks jilkovic as i call him now um is now in a quarantine hotel in melbourne because his
1:04.0	visa was basically revoked yesterday as he tried to enter the country on a medical exemption
1:09.0	to play in the aust Open. And he has looked
1:12.5	for an injunction because the prime minister, who apparently nobody thought to consult on this,
1:18.2	is ready to deport him. So he has become an international incident. And once again, a guy who
1:27.4	ought to go down is the greatest player
1:29.0	of all time has has gotten in his own way in an epic way well anybody who's been to
1:35.1	Australia or New Zealand and I've been there many many times shouldn't be surprised by
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