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This is a Matter of Sports where we take a deep dive into the the most talked about issues in the world of sports.
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Who Will Be the Next Indiana? (opens the original)
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Last season, the Indiana Hoosiers won their first ever football National Championship, but what seems to many people as an overnight success, really took 2 seasons to build which in itself was no small accomplishment. The question is can it happen again? In this episode, Kent Koen and Jon Madani discuss which teams out there have the potential to be the next Indiana and go from nothing to a Natty in 2 years. First, they'll discuss some rule changes that will most certainly affect which team will
Craig Way and the State of College Football (opens the original)
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If you have listened to a Texas Longhorn Sports radio broadcast in the last 30 years then you know this man's voice. Whether it's football, men's or women's basketball, or baseball he has been the "Voice of the Longhorns" longer than the current crop of athletes has been alive. He's seen wins, losses and championships and probably remembers every single one of them...as well as the mascots of every high school football team in Texas. Go ahead...quiz him. In this episode, Kent Koen and Jon Madani
The Business of Big Time Sports with David Fletcher (opens the original)
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We all love going to the big time sporting events like NFL games and college bowl games and World Cup Soccer...but do you know what it takes to make these events happen? Its a lot more complicated than you might think with so many moving parts and so many people involved. In this episode, Kent Koen and Jon Madani talk to our old friend David Fletcher, the General Manager of Lone Star Sports and Entertainment, who brings these big events to life every day, about what it takes to keep a city like
The Future of LeBron James (and a little World Cup) (opens the original)
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By now we have all heard the news...LeBron James will be a Philadelphia 76er next season. How did he decide to do that? Well that's a great question. In this episode, Kent Koen and Jon Madani try to figure out which team LeBron will pick (we recorded before the announcement) and why he would pick that team (Hint...Jon was right). They also look at this decision in the bigger picture of the near and distant future of the NBA. Oh, and of course they had to wrap up the World Cup just a bit. For inf
The WNBA (opens the original)
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The last couple of years have been big for the WNBA. Big TV contracts, breakout stars, greater attendance, but does that mean the WNBA is a truly viable league that has a firm future, or could it be that some of the numbers just aren't there they way they need to be? In this episode, Kent Koen and Jon Madani talk WNBA. The positives, the negatives and what can be done to make "save" the league and secure its future. Oh, and of course Jon gets to brag about his World Cup prediction... For informa
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