Weekend Edition - The Sports Agents
The News Agents
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🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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This week on The Sports Agents...
From sneaking a disguised Novak Djokovic into a team talk, to lessons from Ben Stokes and the LIV/PGA divide, we chatted to European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald for an exclusive interview (02:15).
One day Jim Ratcliffe said Manchester United were on track to be 'bust by Christmas', and the next they announced plans for a £2bn stadium... so we asked Professor of Football Finance at the University of Liverpool, Kieran Maguire, how that makes sense (08:45).
Michael Jordan, Usain Bolt, Sarah Storey... lots of famous sportspeople have tried switching sports. We got into what that's like with double Olympic champion Jade Jones, who's swapping taekwondo for boxing. We also chatted to Usain Bolt's football coach, Mike Mulvey (16:30).
And comedian Adam Hills chatted to us about his new role as President of the Rugby Football league, which seems to involve a big gold chain, hearing stories from his Ukrainian counterpart and spending his spare time at the Para-Standing Tennis World Championships (21:30).
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| 0:00.0 | They did it again. Flower, instead of flowers, on my birthday. And 95 minutes late, but it's hard to leave when you've shared so much. Your postcode, your gluten intolerance. Then I saw it. 25% off your first Akado shop, plus free delivery. And I just knew I'd found the online supermarket of my dreams. |
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| 0:26.7 | Max saving 20 pounds, new customers only, terms at Accardo.com. |
| 0:32.5 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:36.7 | Novak came last year. We dressed him in like a waiter's costume with |
| 0:40.8 | beard and then he was starting to serve champagne and then he took it all off. We don't have enough |
| 0:47.4 | men to play 13 aside at the moment. So we're going to play nines because so many men have just been |
| 0:52.9 | drafted into the army. |
| 0:57.9 | Every time someone flies at me, I just like go to lift my leg. |
| 0:59.7 | Like it's like an automatic reaction. |
| 1:02.5 | And the girl that I was sparring was like, hey, she's kicking. |
| 1:06.2 | Hi, Mark. |
| 1:07.0 | Hi, Gabby. |
| 1:11.0 | Welcome to another weekend edition of the sports agents where you can catch up with our favourite bits from this week's podcasts. |
| 1:13.1 | So we've got everything coming up here from golf to rugby league to building new stadiums |
| 1:19.4 | and everything is covered. |
| 1:21.1 | Adam Hills was on as well this week talking about his twin passions of rugby league. |
| 1:27.2 | You just mentioned there in his gold chains. |
| 1:29.0 | And also standing paratennis, |
| 1:31.9 | which he is, I think, determined to get to the Paralympics playing as well. |
| 1:36.1 | And also, if you want to be successfully in a sport going into middle age, |
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