You're listening to Draft Kings Network. Hey there, boys and girls, welcome to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brand.

I'm your host, Andrew Brand. We're produced by Jack Connell. Musical producer, the music you hear

underscoring my voice. Is that a boy blue tunes at boy blue tunes on Spotify, my son. And we are

presented, as always, by Draft Kings, recording this on my other son's birthday, June 3rd, 2026, he turns 24, and we are off.

What a week it has been in the NFL with two monster trades, and we'll get to all that.

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I think you'll enjoy it. Okay, let's get right to it. First of all, I recorded when I got back last week from the French Open. Just a couple notes on that. Boy, had things changed because at the French Open during my time there a week ago, it was 90-something degrees. It was a heat wave. People were dropping like flies, including the number one seed Yanik Center who wilted in that heat and to some

extent the number, I believe three seed, Novak Djokovic, who wilt in the heat. And now it's just

been a free-for-all on both sides as we have, yes, we have Zverev, who's the second seed,

but you have a couple of Italians playing in the

quarters tonight that aren't ranked. You have Mensick in the semis, who's like 26 seed. I mean,

it's just, it's just a crazy tournament, especially on the women's side, Sabalanka loss today,

to Schneider. And we're going to have a semi-finals women that's going to have, I believe, two Russians, a Ukrainian, and a poll.

How about that? It's just a, you know, that's what the French clay can do. The red clay can really

sort of stunt the results to what everyone expects. But again,

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