of this show are recorded. Strap in and be prepared.
Room for error is much slimmer in basketball.
One player and it changes your entire team. It's
not like that in football. It's just not. It's
not. Interesting guests. Kelly Graves, Mike Parker,
Coach Mark Waskowski, Noah Eagle, Melissa Lombardi,
Kenyon Barnard, Jonathan Stewart. Sharp opinions.
Dana Altman probably earned a pass for a down
year after almost 20 years. of what he's done
for Oregon basketball. And some smiles. Guys,
I was stuck in a car wash. Sounds like an R.
Kelly song. It's not an R. Kelly song. It's Danny
Havel. I can't remember, and I've been doing
this for longer than you've been alive, which
is really horrible that I have to say that, but
it's the truth. Justin Grossweiner. It's like
the saying in Alaska, that you don't have to
be faster than the bear, you just have to be
faster than your friend. Danny and Justin starts
now on Fox Sports Eugene and Fox Sports Newport.
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Danny and Justin Radio Program. Welcome, friends,
to a Friday. We made it to the weekend. And a
packed show today with no guests. We've tried
it before. We're flying without a net today.
So come on and join us on the Oregon Man Clinics
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topics we would love to hear from you, our fans,
our listeners, our P1s. We're also going to do
big bets just like we always do on Fridays with
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for the March Madness Suite, the championship
game. They are going to have that for you if
you win the drawing at the end of this session,
which is basketball. So we'll do basketball again
all day today. I like it that I can see Intern
Dom, Intern Blaze, Intern Dom's out front, but
I can see Intern Blaze over the top of my monitor.
Dom is, like, lower. I can just see his hair,
but I can actually see Blaze. We can make eye
contact. I got Baby J over here. I'm Doc. What
up, boy? Yar! You like that? Did you like that?
I did like that. Slid that in there for a Friday.
It was an interesting choice. Have you heard
of National Talk Like a Pirate Day? I have not.
When did I miss this? When is that? See, you
bring this up, then you've got to let me know
because I literally— Let's see. I've got to tell
you a great pirate story. We've got a little
bit of a ways. There's a great pirate story as
well that I can tell you. While you're looking
at that, I'll tell you my pirate story. You ready
for this, intern? Blaze, Dom's out there manning
the phones. So you want to call in right now,
we'll put you on hold, and we'll throw you right
on the air with us. You can ask a question, comment,
whatever you want. Just make sure it's clean.
So my pirate story is this. My daughter— Before
she was 10 years old, we always had themed birthday
parties. One year it was like Frozen. Another
year it was Rapunzel. And another year we had
a pirate -themed birthday. And this is when I
was living up in Damascus. Had all of her little
friends over. Everybody dressed up as pirates.
Deb and I, my wife, we dressed up as pirates.
And I was leaving for New York the next day.
We had all the parents over as well. Not all
of them dressed as pirates, but I did. So I don't
know how it happened, and just hand to God, there
was no alcohol involved. How old were you? Well,
my daughter, I think it was her seventh birthday.
Okay. So I would have been in my early 50s. Okay.
So I'm dressed up as the pirate. I mean, I'm
Jack Sparrowed out, man. I got the hat with the
long hair extensions on it and everything else
like that. So I'm doing that. And all of a sudden,
like halfway through the party, because I'm telling
people that I'm heading to New York, they go,
I dare you to wear that on the plane to New York.
And so then I said, well, I'm not doing this
unless I'm getting a little something something
for it. So there was literally almost $200 down
on the table. And I have pictures of this. I
wore. With my plastic scabbard, I wore the pirate
outfit from Portland Airport all the way to JFK.
I was having people— They allowed you with the
scabbard? Well, it was plastic. Okay, so this
is definitely post -9 -11, though. Yes, it's
post -9 -11, but it was plastic. So there were
literally kids asking their parents to take pictures
with me when I got off the plane in New York.
And I thought I was going to be embarrassed by
it. Absolutely not. And I made $200. There you
go. Well, I did my quick research on International
Talk Like a Pirate Day. Ironically, just an hour
and 15 minutes away from your party in 1995,
six months after I was born in Albany, Oregon.
Albany? Albany. Albany. Albany. Whatever. I lived
in New York. John Bauer and Mark Summers created
this holiday, International Talk Like a Pirate
Day. It's from Oregon. So you know what else
is from Oregon? National Corn Dog Day. Really?
Have you heard of National Corn Dog Day, Blaze?
You can turn your microphone on. Just nodding
to me on radio doesn't work for me sometimes.
No, I've never heard of National Corn Dog Day.
National Corn Dog Day was a couple of frat brothers
in Corvallis at Oregon State built this. It was
many, many years ago. And there actually was
sponsors with Pabst Blue Ribbon or Ida for the
tater tots. So what it is, it's a contest. You
get to be King Corn Dog. For the day, it is eating
10 corndogs, downing 10 12 -ounce beers, and
eating 100 tater tots. And whoever gets there
first is King Corndog. And it is on the opening
weekend of March Madness. I hosted one of these
parties for a couple of years. Did you play -by
-play? I did not do play -by -play. I was King
Corndog one day, and I paid for it. The next
day, like, you think 10 corndogs, 100 tater tots,
and 10 beers. It sounds really good when you're
empty stomach. And then you get about probably
a couple of corndogs in, and then you're just
like. And the way you do it is you have the corndogs,
the beer, and the tater tots on the back of your
shirt. And when you finish one, you have somebody
else mark on your back how many you've done.
Do you do a little dipping action, like Joey
Chestnut? No, there were no sauces involved.
That's a very good question. There were no sauces
involved. Well, but it wasn't even sauce, because
he did it with— Dunking it in water. Yeah, to
make it so that the bread is easier to eat. See,
it was like I would—so there were people— Not
about taste. No, there were people that had strategies
of, I'm going to get all the tater tots done
first. Very poor strategy. It ended up being
that way for a lot of people. You want a bunch
of carbs? No. I think it took me like three and
a half hours or something like that. Oh, you
get a lot of time. Okay. Well, it's unlimited
time. It's whoever gets there first or when we
run out of beer, basically. What's the time frame
looking like for these competitions? No, that's
the whole thing. It was open -ended. We had an
Irish band there. It was a whole thing. We had
basketball on the TV. It was great. It's like
cricket. It's like full -day test matches. I'm
not much into cricket, so you've got to help
me with this. Are you a cricket aficionado? No,
I'm not at all. It's confusing to me. But I do
see that they have these – apparently the best
way to play it is over a course of multiple days.
And they do – I don't know how these games work,
but it seems like it's like a series like it
would be in any other sport like baseball or
something like that. So I'd have to look it up.
But I do know that the purists, they love the
test matches. That's what they're called. Oh,
nice. The Danny Justin Radio Program, live on
Fox Sports, Eugene, Fox Sports, Newport. Thanks
for hanging in, folks. Yes, we will talk sports,
although I think we talked competition, so I
think there's kind of a parallel there with National
Corndog Day, and so that's coming up. I mean—
Competitive eating? I think it's— See, not— Is
it a sport? I don't know. No, I'm not sure. Competitive
eating's a sport. Well, do you consider NASCAR
a sport? It's just taking a left turn, so I don't
know about that. I'm not sure if I consider NASCAR
a sport. Maybe we can get a caller to give their
opinion. Well, maybe, if you want to call up
the Oregon Man Clinics hotline, if you want to
defend NASCAR to Baby J, because he's thrown
down the first gauntlet that says NASCAR is not
a sport. I just said I'm not sure. No? Okay,
now you're backtracking a little bit. I believe,
actually, I said I'm not sure. Okay. If you've
ever been in one of those cars, the G -forces
that they go through, they are incredible athletes.
They are incredible athletes. These guys, just
like golfers, and people say golf's not a sport,
but these guys do weight training. They don't
just sit in a car all day long. Have you ever
seen a NASCAR driver that is like 280 pounds?
No. Okay, they do a different type of training,
though. They train their stomach. Yeah, they
have to train their core. Yeah. I'm talking about
the competitive eaters. Oh, the competitive eaters?
Yes, they absolutely train. Is it a sport? We
were debating that. We got Coach Mark, by the
way. All right, so Coach Mark's on the Oregon
Man Clinics hotline. He wants to talk holidays.
He wants to talk holidays? Yeah. Okay, well,
we're going to diverge. See, this is what happens
when we open it up to the inmates is that we
go all over the place. And let's bring in Coach
Mark on the Oregon Man Clinics hotline at 541
-343 -5673. What up, brother? Guys, so I appreciate
the content so far, and I wanted to know, you're
talking about Corn Dog Day and all these other
days. If there was a Danny and Justin day, how
would you want everybody to celebrate? Because
we need to have that someday, and I love the
show. So I just wanted to see that, and I'll
listen on the air. Okay. I think there would
need to be, first of all, I think we would need
to have hats, some kind of hats. There would
have to be some kind of themed clothing as well,
I think. So the hatch would be one thing. There
would have to be some kind of competition. We'd
have to make up a competition or like a series
of competitions, like a mini Olympic -type competition
that people would have to participate in. You
want the Olympic Games? A Danny and Justin Day.
Like a mini, like something fun. Like a festival.
Yeah. Do putt -putt or nothing that's too ultra.
You have to be a certain high skill level type
of thing. You want it to be family friendly,
everyone involved. I want to get as many people.
If we're going to have a celebration of Danny
and Justin, that's the way I would want it to
look. There would have to be bubbles involved
as well. Love bubbles. I feel like there has
to be something either like Portillo's or Chicago
food related. Chicago themed food. Yeah. Absolutely.
Again, it'd have to be tavern pizza instead of
deep dish. Yes. And Chicago dogs would definitely
be on the table. That's a good question. We have
to think about the Danny and Justin day and how
we'd sell. We could do it on September 9th. That
was the unveiling of our first show. Two -year
anniversary? Two -year anniversary show. Hmm.
Hmm. It's a good idea. Yeah, he's got the wheels
turning on the Danny and Justin radio program.
The phone line is open at 541 -343 -5673. That's
the Oregon Man Clinics hotline. You want to talk
some sports, let's do that. Always. The Oregon
women's softball team, after a tough loss against
Auburn in the Mary Nutter to open up that...
Tournament in Cathedral City came back with a
really, really good win against Texas A &M. Number
11, Texas A &M. A 2 -1 win. Oregon moves to 6
-5 on the season after they lost to Auburn 10
-5. So they won that game against Texas A &M.
2 -1. Lindsey Grein got the win. Oregon Bats
came alive enough. And that's the one thing with
this offense. There's been some opportunities
left on the cupboard. And I know Melissa Lombardi
is going to help clean that up. It's really early
in the season. Number 18, Oregon, used their
timely hitting, though. And that dominant pitching
performance as Grind went six and a third innings
against the Aggies allowed just one run on five
hits. They will take on. coming up today, and
I think, what did you say, Justin? It starts
at 4 o 'clock. South Carolina, 3 o 'clock. 3
o 'clock. South Carolina is number 13, and then
Cal State Fullerton at 5 p .m., so another back
-to -back games this weekend for the Ducks. Really
big win. I think that, you know, we could debate
whether or not it was a bigger win for Oregon
softball or Oregon women's basketball, because
I think those were two huge wins yesterday, and
for this softball team, I think... maybe a little
bit of a monkey off your back. They've had these
close games against these ranked teams. I don't
know if they think about that. I don't know if
they go into these games like we do and go, well,
this is a ranked team. I'm sure that every day
they're just approaching it like this is another
game. But there probably is a little bit of them
and maybe the coaching staff that goes, okay,
we got one of these nice ranked wins in there.
That was kind of the goal of this early season
schedule, right? And it was a murderer's row
of a schedule. And they played really well. They
had a previous game. I think there was maybe
a little bit of a low point of the season so
far. You had a big 10 -5 loss against Auburn.
So it was a nice bounce back. You kind of end
the day on a high note instead of having that
loss hang over your head for a day. So Taylor
Spencer got roughed up a little bit in that first
game against Auburn in the circle. And then Elise
Sokolski came in, and she got banged around a
little bit. But Maddie Millhorn is coming in
the last couple of games. She's the freshman,
the kid from Washington. And, man, that kid is
throwing darts. Yeah, she's got an arm. future
for Oregon softball because Lindsey's going to
run out of eligibility after this year. And Elyse.
And Elyse. So if you've got the next wave of
pitchers, there is none better to start with
than a freshman at Maddie Millhorn who can rocket
that softball. So we'll keep our eye on that.
Let's move over to, you mentioned Kelly Graves'
squad, Oregon women's basketball. Great second
half comeback. And Ahisa Atute keeps Oregon close.
Katie Fiso provided the finish. touch, and Janiyah
Williams gave a much -needed spark off the bench
as the Ducks win over... Oh, where is I have
it here? Nebraska. Nebraska. 80 -76 in a tough
-fought game. Ducks are now 19 -9, 7 -8 in the
Big Ten. They trail by 11 early in the fourth
quarter. But Etute, Fiso, and Williams combined
for 22 of the 28 points in the fourth, and they
came from behind for the win. It was kind of
a fugly game, to be frank about it, although
the Ducks do shoot 50 % from the field, 41 %
from three. But here's the thing that I think
Kelly Graves is going to keep looking at. 16
turnovers. baby jay and i don't think that's
that is not a kelly graves uh run offense but
as as he said before they like to get out and
they like to run and sometimes turnovers will
happen because you're trying to push the pace
they do but i think that when it comes down to
it this is one of those games that think about
the other direction if they would have lost this
game it would have felt like such a disappointment
because it felt like an opportunity for them
right you have a couple losses previous couple
games and you want to bounce back and this would
have been one of those games that it would have
felt like, ah, man, like really missed opportunity
here. But I think that you can kind of flip that
on the other direction now and go, wow, like
entering that fourth quarter, they didn't have
the lead, I don't think, the entire game. I think
Nebraska controlled it pretty much the entire
time. It was all Nebraska. And all of a sudden,
the Ducks, 28 points in the fourth quarter. And
it's a little Jekyll and Hyde with this team
sometimes where. You get the good Oregon, and
they'll have a huge quarter, and at the right
time, they'll win a game because of it. And then
there's other times where it feels like they
get in this funk, and there's just nothing going
right. That was against Washington. So do I have
a good feel game to game whether or not I'm going
to see the good Oregon or the bad Oregon? I would
say no, but I do think that this is a character
win for sure. Well, Nebraska turned it over 15
times. They only shoot 24 % from three. Oregon
with that big fourth quarter, as Baby J said,
with 13 -point advantage over Nebraska to sneak
out with the 80 -76 win for Kelly Graves' squad.
And again, it was Ahisa Tute with 21 points,
Fiso with 19, and Williams 5 of 5 from the field,
2 of 2 from 3, and she had 12 points coming off
the bench. And that was a big boost. Ducks will
be... At Indiana, Sunday, 10 a .m., that really
weird schedule in the Big Ten as they try and
even their record in Big Ten play. Last note
about this game, Nebraska also did well shooting
free throws, but Oregon needed every single one
almost of their 24 free throws, hit 21 of them,
88%. That's a good percentage. That'll win you
games. So PK Park is the site right now as Oregon
baseball. They started 205 first pitch because
they're trying to get it in before it gets frigid.
and breezy and just downright cold. That's going
to sting the hands if you hit a ball off that
bat wrong. So they start at 205 instead of 305,
the single set game against Youngstown State.
Yesterday it was impressive as Oregon hurlers
allowed just one run on two hits over five and
a third innings. And that was Toby Twist, by
the way, who was the starter. And this kid has
gutted it out in his career at the University
of Oregon, oft injured. And he started his career,
I think, three years ago and hasn't seen a lot
of action in the last couple of years because
of those injuries. This was his first start of
the season, actually, only second game. So, yes,
it would be his first start. And he was impressive
in five and a third. Just one run on two hits
is the only run that Youngstown State got. The
Bull King came in and shut it out. 18 -1. Non
-conference victory over the Penguins out of
Youngstown State. And they do another one today.
Two on Saturday. Oh, actually, I think it's one
on Saturday or two on Saturday. It is. No, it
is one on Saturday, one on Sunday, I believe.
So there we go. They just started on Thursday.
Right. So the Ducks are 5 -0 coming out of the
gate. Youngstown State still looking for their
first victory. But Youngstown State's got a couple
of aces. as they've got a couple of players coming
in that are really tough on the bump. And Oregon's
going to see one of them today as Braden Gebhardt
will take the ball. And he held Auburn to just
a couple of runs. And Auburn's going to be a
pretty good team. They're number five in the
country. So Oregon's going to see. Ace 1 and
Ace 2 on Friday today and then tomorrow on Saturday.
So let's see how the bats, who have been just
scorching for Mark Waszkowski's team, can handle
this against Youngstown State. Yeah, Auburn was
played very tightly by the... Penguins, as we
detailed it yesterday. No, it's been a nice start
for Oregon baseball. You got to have, I think
that we're still trying to learn how this rotation
is going to go. I think Kyle Scolari is clearly
the guy that people are looking at as the number
one, but you got to have depth, right? And Toby
Twist, one thing he's got going for him, you
know that I like some good alliteration. He's
got some good name alliteration there. So Toby
Twist. Only four base runners had two hits, one
walk, and then there was a hit by pitch as well
in five innings, so not a lot of traffic there.
I think the debate right now for Oregon baseball
really should be, okay, yeah, Youngstown State,
they played pretty well against Auburn, but do
we really know how good they are? George Mason,
I'm not sure how good George Mason is. I'm not
trying to rain on the parade or anything like
that, but I think that... These are really nice
victories. You obviously want to win 18 -1 whenever
you're playing a team like this, but I still
don't think we really know how good this team
is yet. The Danny and Justin Radio Program, live
from the Bigfoot Beverages Studios, the Oregon
Man Clinics Hotline, open for you. Open phones
today, no guests. So it's all on you out there
in Radioland to help us with the program. If
you want to chime in with a comment, take us
in a different direction. If you want to talk
about Oregon women's softball, Oregon women's
basketball, Oregon men's baseball, Oregon men's
basketball. If you want to throw... and Oregon
State into the mix. If you want to talk NIL and
transfer portal, that's always a topic we can
talk about. We can also talk about some moves
in the NFL, but we'll save that for a little
bit later. By the way, Jack Messamore is the
other big ace for Youngstown State. He'll be
on the bump tomorrow. And then a right -hander,
Brandon Mikos, will be slated to start for Youngstown
State on Sunday. And this game is the first time
I think... in a couple of games that the Ducks
have seen a lefty. So Braden Gephardt is a lefty
for Youngstown State. So we've got that going
on. You can still have time to get out there
to PK Park and support the Ducks. We'll give
you an update on the score here in a few moments.
And finally, let's wind up with basketball for
the University of Oregon. Oregon men are back
on the road Saturday, USC, 1 p .m. It'll be on
FS1. USC leads the all -time series 70 -64, including
a five -point win, a game that if you roll this
tape back a bit, when Oregon was almost completely
healthy, the Ducks hung with USC here at Matt
Knight Arena, and it was an 82 -77 win over Oregon
by USC. Oregon's 28 -28 against USC under head
coach Dana Altman. The Ducks, this is amazing
to me, Justin, as well. The Ducks are 9 -3. at
the Galen Center under Coach Altman as well.
So they have a winning record by six games in
Los Angeles, but this is an Oregon team that
is literally just trying to get their way to
the end of the season. I agree. You know it's
bad because when you said it's amazing, I thought
you were about to say a stat that... was not
very amazing that's an amazing stat no it isn't
that's a very positive stat but just the way
that oregon season's gone i thought you were
going to go somewhere negative with it but no
i mean i think i said this the other day the
penn state game felt like it was an inevitable
win that was a team you're playing at home not
very good but other than that they took a step
back again against exactly i mean that game was
brutal Did we get a chance to talk about that
game? We didn't talk about it too much because
it happened when I was gone. And I was there.
I was at the game. There was one highlight, which
was a dunk. It was the best dunk I've seen in
person, maybe. It was close. It was on the list.
Did you almost get thrown out of press row because
you're not supposed to? Well, I wasn't in press
row. Okay, good. I literally verbally exclaimed
when that happened. I was like, whoa, where did
this come from? But no, other than that. So complete
your thought, though. It was just a dead arena.
And there was no excitement, and the diehards
were there, and it felt like, I think you were
there too, right, Blaze? Yeah. You talked about
this on Wednesday. I was sitting in the student
section right behind the rim, so I saw the back
angle of the dunk pretty much. And what did you
think of the dunk? Like Justin said, it was probably
one of the craziest dunks I've seen in person.
It really came out of nowhere, honestly. Was
that a breakaway? Two -on -one breakaway? Yeah,
I mean, it made sense when it happened. But just
the energy of the game was so dead the entire
time. Yeah, that's too bad. It really is. It
felt weird. It felt wrong. It just didn't feel
like this is what Oregon basketball is. Fox Sports
Eugene, Fox Sports Newport, live from the Bigfoot
Beverages studio. Still have a chance to chime
in. We're going to do big bets here in about
15 minutes or so. So we'll do that as well. We'll
take a break. Let's take a break right now. When
we come back, we will do a quick segment with
the Bears, the Chicago Bears. Are they going
to actually move out of Illinois? Out of Chicago.
It's going to be the Chicagoland area, but it
could be an entirely different state. I have
thoughts. I know you do. Oregon State baseball,
Oregon State women's basketball, men's basketball
also on the docket. And also our Olympic update
coming up right after the break. Danny and Justin.
We'll give you an Olympic update. Sorry. I couldn't
hear myself there for a second. We'll give you
an Olympic update in just a few moments. It's
the semifinal game, men's hockey. Canada moved
on. We'll talk about them in a moment. And USA
and Slovakia are battling in the third period
right now. We'll talk about that in just a few
moments. Also, Big Bats coming up in just about
eight minutes or so. Keep it right around there,
eight, nine minutes. Let's head up north to Corvallis.
Oregon State women blasted 24 points in the third
quarter. Including a 17 -0 run, they pull away
from Portland for a 10 -point win, 64 -54 against
the Pilots Thursday night, last night in Gill
Coliseum. The win now gives Portland a two -game
lead over, pardon me, gives Oregon State a two
-game lead over Portland. And they have pretty
much assured themselves a top -four seed in the
conference tournament with three games to play.
OSU's tied now with Santa Clara at 11 -4, just
a game behind. Co -leaders Gonzaga and LMU, Tiara
Bolden poured in a career -high 29 points to
lead Oregon State, making 11 of 20 from the floor.
Bolden scored 14, the driving force in that dominant
third quarter. Oregon State returns to action
on Saturday. They will host longtime conference
foe Washington State, the Cougs, at 1 p .m. Every
game is crucial now as they head toward the WCC
tournament. The men on the other side are fighting
up. For Oregon State, the Beavers will be on
the road. Actually, they're at home now. They're
going to take on Pepperdine on Saturday. That
will be, I believe, at 1 p .m. Oregon State 7
-1 against the Waves. 3 -0 in matchups in Gill.
They went 2 -1 against Pepperdine last season,
winning both regular season matchups before Pepperdine
came back and beat OSU in the WCC tournament.
Oregon State 9 -1 this season when they hold
an opponent under 70 points. So that's the important
one there. Want to talk a little baseball, Justin?
Always. I mean, I just been doing all the talking.
Spring training started today, by the way. It
did, and the Cubs, I think, lost to the White
Sox. They're losing. They're losing, or it's
still going. It just started at noon, so it's
probably ending pretty soon. Down there in Arizona.
Eighth inning. Oregon State men's baseball is
on the road to take on a nice field in Round
Rock, Texas. at a little tournament down there.
They'll face Baylor this afternoon at 4, Southern
Miss tomorrow at 3. Then they'll back that up
with an 8 a .m. start on Sunday against Purdue
and then finish off that tournament. And then
next Friday they'll be against Houston in Frisco,
Texas. So I think they're staying down there.
And that will be on next Friday at noon. Well,
they better hope. They don't give up three grand
slams to Tice Armstrong. Kid is just amazing.
If you haven't seen that already, that's what
he did, Tice Armstrong, for Baylor earlier last
week. Okay. Let's do our Olympic update. As the
Olympics are winding up, it'll finish on Sunday,
so we'll have one more of these updates on Monday.
Okay. So I mentioned the men's hockey. Well,
men's hockey. Canada comes from behind against
Finland in the semifinal on the men's side to
win 3 -2 as Nathan McKinnon knocks in the game
-winning goal with 37 seconds left. So they're
into the gold medal game. And right now the U
.S. is cruising against Slovakia, 6 -2, 5 .32
left in the third. So it looks like it'll be
U .S. and Canada gold medal game in hockey for
men's just like it was for the women. And now,
I'm not a hockey guy, but this would be the two
favorites to make it to this game, right? I would
assume. It would. You are correct, sir. Well,
then it should be an exciting game, as it was
with the women's. Speaking of Canada and the
U .S., top -ranked Canada and the United States
fall, goodness gracious, in the women's open
curling semifinals. The Canadians, as I said,
were top -ranked. They could not overcome straighter
ice. I have no idea what that means. and a sharp
Sweden squad. Say that five times fast. And the
country's controversial men's team will have
the curling power's last chance at Olympic gold
of the Cortina Games as the women can't push
it through. So now the men are still out. You
know what the controversy is? It's the finger.
You can't push the curling stone with your finger
after you've released the handle. And they have
video. of the Canadians doing that. And there
was like this huge protest. There were heated
exchanges. I think everybody went to neutral
corners. I think it sounds exciting. Speeding
up heating exchanges, by the way. You got an
update on Mick Cronin after this update. Okay,
great. Oh, yeah, I saw that. The mea culpa. American
freestyle skier Alex Ferreria twirled his pole
above his head knowing that he'd done the best
he could to finally become an Olympic gold medalist.
After his rivals had failed to top his score,
he celebrated with a half -pipe gold. So there
you go, another gold. That's right. And Norway
wins their 17th gold medal, and that sets a Winter
Olympics record for medals won. With 17 gold,
they have 37 total. The U .S. is next with 10
gold, 29 total. Italy, the homestanding Italians,
9 gold. and 27 total medals. The Olympics, again,
closing ceremonies will be on Sunday. So there's
your Olympic update. All right, so let's get
some Mick Cronin before we talk about Da Bears.
So Mick Cronin did apologize to his player that
he ejected and said that he looked at the play,
saw it was a dirty play, and then once he saw
the film, he... Change his mind a little bit.
Didn't see a mention about apologizing to the
reporter. No, he did. Oh, did he? I thought he
said that his comments were very candid at times
and that he didn't need to bring an embarrassment
for his comments or something like that. It wasn't
something he wanted to have as a distraction.
I mean, I guess if you consider that an apology.
Well, he also was. Did he apologize to the reporter
like he did the player, though? Not not. Well,
he like directly. Yes. He lauded the reporters.
OK. Writing style. And, you know, he says gets
in the heat of the moment. The typical things
that I'm sure that there were some people in
the PR department in Bruin Central that said,
you got to walk this back. This is not look good.
And so he did four minutes of his opening of
his press conference today talking about just
that without anybody asking him a question. So
there you go. Did he answer questions afterwards?
I think he did. Yes, he answered questions. The
Danny and Justin radio program was your roll
on. Big bets coming up in a moment. You can get
ready on the Oregon Man Clinics hotline, but
I'm not going to open up the phones yet. But
get the number ready if you want to play against
us at 541 -343 -5673. Okay, so here's the big
news if you're a Chicago Bears fan. And I know
there's some Bear fans out there. Chicago Bears'
push for a new stadium took a step forward last
night. But it opens the door for the franchise
to leave Illinois and build potentially a new
domed stadium in northwest Indiana. Hammond,
Indiana is considered like the Chicagoland area.
So if people don't know geographically— People
don't get this semester from the area. Is Illinois
and Indiana butt right up against Lake Michigan
and— That is all considered like into Indiana
is still considered like the Chicagoland area.
There's a reason there's a lot of Notre Dame
fans in Chicago. Okay. For instance. Yeah, for
instance. So the Northwest Indiana Stadium Authority
now has the power to issue bonds, acquire land,
finance construction. The House Ways and Means
Committee and Indiana State's legislature passed
Indiana State Bill 27 by a vote of 24 to nothing.
Bring that money. to Indiana as they say that
they want the Bears to come to the Hoosier State.
I hate this so much. I'm sorry. I'm not even
a Bears fan. We're Green Bay Packer fans. We
don't like the Bears. This sucks. Honestly, I
hope this doesn't happen. I think it would be
sacrilegious if the Bears were to leave really
even the Chicago area. I know they're talking
about taking it out to Arlington Heights, which
is a suburb of Chicago. And people don't like
that either. And people don't like that either,
even though I think that the talk is, hey, places
like Green Bay, they have Titletown now, and
they're making it more of an experience. It's
something you can't really do in the area of
Chicago where Soldier Field is. And so I kind
of understand the idea of making it more of an
experience. Don't take it away from Chicago.
I mean, what are you going to call them? What
city is it? Hammond, Indiana. Are you going to
call them the Chicago Bears of Hammond, Indiana?
Like the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim? Is that
the same thing? I don't know. I hate it. I don't
know. I don't think they would mess around with
the name. Because they're technically still in
the Chicagoland area. It would be like if you
called it Toyota Wrigley Field. Well, that's
a naming right thing. That's a whole other situation.
But I think the bigger issue is the tax base
and people driving another 25 minutes from where
Soldier Field is to attend a home game. That's
the other thing, is that would this affect attendance
in— And I even looked up how big Hammond, Indiana
is. I don't know much about it. It's huge. If
it's a burb, it's not more than 200 ,000 people.
So I've never heard of it before. So we'll keep
our eyes on that as well. All right, we'll take
our next break. Come back. Big bets right around
the corner. By the way, update. Oregon baseball,
0 -0. They're at the plate with two outs. as
Angel Laya is at the plate, the fantastic freshman
with one on against Youngstown State. So when
we come back, we will give our picks, and then
you will get to do your picks in Big Bets, presented
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On Monday on the program, Old Sawbones from the
Oregonian, Ryan T. Clark, will join us as he's
got a lot to talk about because Oregon baseball,
Oregon women's softball, Oregon men's basketball,
Oregon women's basketball will all have played
multiple games by the time we turn around to
Friday from Monday. Goodness gracious. Did you
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guys ready to go? Everybody ready? Always ready.
We got intern Dom back in the studio. Intern
Blaze. And again, now I... You can see Dom just
his Oregon hat as he sits up in the chair a little
bit taller. That's awesome. Laura is going to
play as well. We got the coin, and now we got
front office manager Laura picking games as well.
So everybody's horning it on the action. Here
we go. North Carolina and Syracuse. And let's
start with Dom. Syracuse. Syracuse. Baby J. I
am going to go with North Carolina here. Caleb
Wilson. These teams both come off of big blowout
losses. So I kind of like North Carolina a little
better. By the way, the team that I say last
is the home team. Okay, so Syracuse is the home
team. I'm going to go. with Syracuse here. I'm
going to go with the home team. I always say
in close games, I always like the home team,
the home floor advantage. Let's find out. Goose
is not here, but let's find out what Goose said
for North Carolina and Syracuse. North Carolina
at Syracuse. Syracuse coming off of a 40 -point
loss, 30 -point loss to Duke, heading back home.
North Carolina also coming off a big upset. Two
coaches that really need it. Two guys that replaced
legends. Neither have kind of made their mark
yet. Give me Hubert Davis and North Carolina
to win at the Dome. All right, he's wrong. Blaze,
what do you think? I agreed with everything that
Goose just said, except his pick. I like the
Qs. I love that. I think Caleb Wilson being injured
is going to be detrimental to UNC. I think the
Cougars will just be able to beat them after
that loss. By the way, again, the Coyne and Laura
both pick North Carolina. Next game, Tennessee
is at Vanderbilt. I will start with this one.
I picked Tennessee last time, and they messed
with me. So, again, I'm going with the home team
here. I'm going to take Vandy. Blaze, you go
next. Normally, I'd pick Tennessee, but Duke
Miles is coming back, and he averages 16 points
for Vanderbilt, and I think that that's just
going to be huge for Vandy. Give me Vandy. All
right, Vandy. How about you say, Baby J? I am
going to do what I did in football season, which
is go, I think I went with Tennessee. It didn't
pay off for me in football season. I think it's
going to pay off for me in basketball season.
You're going volunteers? Go Vols. Go Vols. And
what does our friend Goose say? Tennessee at
Vandy, the in -state rivalry. It's kind of like
what we did in football. I think I picked Vandy
there because I thought it was finally a Vandy
team that's good enough to beat Tennessee, which
is a rare year. I think especially at home, give
me Vandy to win the Tennessee Civil War. He agrees
with me. Coyne says Vandy. Laura says Vandy.
Dom, you get the last vote. I'm going to go Vanderbilt.
They lost to Missouri a couple nights ago, and
it was a close game. They kind of didn't shoot
well, and it was also on the road. I got Vandy
with this one. Baby J is on Volunteer Island.
We have a new island. I like it. All right, as
he's the only one to take Tennessee. Next game
is Arizona at Houston. The planet Houston. Coyne
says Arizona. Front office manager Laura says
Houston. I will start with this game. And, again,
Houston messed with me last time, so I'm going
against them. I will take the road win for the
Wildcats. Dom, you get to go next. I'm a Texas
homer from Texas. I've got to go Houston. All
right. Blaze. I think Houston is in a great bounce
-back situation. They just lost to Iowa State
on the road. They're at home playing Arizona.
Arizona came off a great win. They're riding
high, and they're riding high, so I think they'll
fall. So you don't like that. I think they're
going to fall. I think they're going to fall.
You know, Icarus, he fell because he flew too
high. There you go. Houston. All right. That
was a long way. You just say Houston next time.
That'd be fine. I like the explanation. Baby
J. I don't think that Arizona is going to lose
three out of four games. So you could say they're
coming off of a high, but they off two games
before then. I think they know right where they're
at. So I will take Arizona and the former Pac
-12. By the way, Baby J and I have not had a
winning record in any of the games. I'm two and
three every week. Every week. Two and three.
Actually, I did have one three and two week.
So let's hear what Goose had to say. All right.
Arizona at Houston. I have been on the Arizona
bandwagon all year long. But Houston, tough place
to play. Arizona without Koa Pete. Give me the
Houston Cougars. All right. He takes Houston.
All right. So let's go to Iowa State at BYU.
Baby J, start us off. You know, I just think
A .J. DeVance is too good. And this is a guy,
he's averaging 25 points a game almost, over
50 % from the field. I just like him in this
matchup, so I'm going to go with BYU. BYU. I
will also, you know, this one's tough. It's a
tough one. I'm going to go with a road team again
here. I got to go against the grain a little
bit. Iowa State, I'm going to take the Cyclones.
Iowa State for the coin, BYU for Laura. Let's
go to our interns. Let's start with Dom this
time. I like Iowa State big. Ooh, I like. So
last time you picked one with that much confidence,
we both were on the right side of it. That was
the upset, North Carolina against Duke. So I
like that a lot. Blaze. I think Iowa State has
the chance to blow out BYU. But I like BYU. Give
me BYU at home. There you go. And much more succinct.
I like that. Brevity is good. Let's see what
Goose says. Iowa State at BYU. Iowa State, another
team I've liked this year, but I think Iowa State
a better home team than road team. I know BYU,
another team that's facing some injuries without
Richie Saunders. I think they make a big stand.
I think it's a big Devonsa game. Give me BYU
at home to beat Iowa State. All right, so most
of the panel says BYU, so it's 4 -3 BYU over
Iowa State. All right, last game, Michigan and
Duke. This is our tiebreaker game for total points,
and let's get Blaze first. Go ahead, bud. I've
been thinking about this. This game, all season,
give me Michigan. They have better guards. Duke
doesn't have good enough guards to win this game.
Total points. Over -under is 148 .5. Give me
160. 160. All right, Blaze, you're going to go
hop on the phones. The Oregon Man Clinics hotline
is going to be open for you at 541 -343 -5673.
Once again, 541 -343 -5673. You can hop on the
phone. We'll get to the phones after we're done
with this last. pick all right baby jay why don't
you go next you know this is a tough one and
i'm glad we got all four of the top teams in
here by the way but i think just michigan is
too good um i think they're the best team in
the country i know they're on the road here i
will take michigan what's the total points total
points i will go you said 148 148 and a half
right i will go with 135 going low again all
right don what do you think um i've been looking
at this one it's at duke which means the refs
are with duke I'm going Michigan, though. I'm
getting that 5 -5 feeling from Michigan. So,
Michigan, total points. I'm going to go. I'm
going to agree with Justin. I'm 138. Going under.
Close on the Bob Barker. Let's see what Deuce
has to say. Michigan at Duke. This is a good
one. I like both these teams as well. I've been.
Michigan is my favorite for the NCAA championship
this year. I know it's an easy thing to say when
they're number one, but just watching them, I
think their star power is better than most. Boy,
Cameron's a tough place to play. I think it's
a close one. Give me John Shire and Duke. Give
me the Devils at home. All right, he likes Duke,
and he picked 142. He texted us with his points,
142 total. So I get the last pick. I'm going
to go with Michigan here. I think Michigan is
too strong. They're going to win on the road,
but I'm going to go a little bit higher with
the points. I'm going to go 163 on the points.
Blaze is going to. Kick me here, but I'm going
to go 163 points. Coyne says Michigan. Laura
says Duke. Coyne has 149 total points. Laura
has 162. All right. Head on over to the phones.
The Oregon Mad Clinic's hotline at 541 -343 -5673.
Justin, who do we have? We have Steve and Eugene.
Steve, you ready, buddy? You bet. All right.
Here we go. Let's race through them. Here we
go. North Carolina, Syracuse. North Carolina.
Tennessee, Vanderbilt. Tennessee. You're going
with Justin on that. There you go. Arizona, Houston.
Houston. Iowa State is at BYU. Iowa State. Thank
you for that. Appreciate your vote of support.
And Michigan is at Duke. That's also the tiebreaker
game total points. Michigan 159. 159. Buddy,
we love having you participate in the program.
Be safe out there. Thank you so much. All right,
there he goes, the great Steve. And the phone
line opens up at 541 -343 -5673. So it's pretty
interesting that a lot of the games are fairly
split between the panel here. Which I like. And
the panel has grown now. You realize with the
coin and now Laura, we have six. The fans don't
have to worry about playing against the coin,
okay? But Laura's a part of the crew now. She
is. So, I mean, she could be the superstar here.
I'm glad that she's officially in this, too.
Yeah, she's been asking to come on it, and we
just ignored her. Yeah, because we're just bad
people. Well, we try not to be. So, once again,
the Oregon Man Clears hotline is open for you.
If you can't get in at 541 -343 -5673, we've
got, like, three minutes left. We can take picks.
Go to BiggerBets on Twitter. bigger with a one,
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Perfect. Do that. But you can certainly call
in at 541 -343 -5673. A couple more minutes.
On this, by the way, bottom of the third, Youngstown
State, Oregon still knotted zeros across the
board right now. Ducks, nobody on with two outs.
Ryan Cooney is at the bat right now for, well,
we've got to start the music again. We got a
caller? Yep, we got Chris from Junction City.
All right, Chris, you don't have your buddy Steve
Goose in studio, but I know he's listening, so
you ready to go? Yeah, I'm actually on my way
to the Coquille right now for the weekend you
guys so graciously awarded me with. Beautiful.
Have a great time at Bet Black. That's all I'm
going to tell you right now. All right. All right,
buddy. Here we go. North Carolina, Syracuse.
North Carolina. Tennessee, Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt.
Arizona, Houston. Zona. Zona. Iowa State, BYU.
Iowa State. And then finally, Michigan, Duke.
We're going to go Michigan and 151 points. 151.
Travel safe, buddy. Look out for squirrels. All
right, there he goes. Chris from Junction City.
Got time for maybe one more. So quickly, if you
want to get in, I'm going to give you about 15
seconds, and you're going to have to go fast,
but we've got time for one more call if you want
to get in on the Oregon Mannequins hotline at
541 -343 -5673. So have you watched any of the
Olympics, guys, at all? I have not watched much
of the Olympics. I was watching some of the halfpipe
today before I came into the studio. It's pretty
cool. Yeah, I've watched a little bit of the
freestyle skiing with my roommates, of course
the hockey, but the skiing also is insane. And
there's a kid from Bend who was participating
in the halfpipe. He didn't medal. He got knocked
out in, like, the third round, but it was a kid
from Bend participating. You know, maybe this
is just me being an Alaska. I've had enough with
Alaska and winter. All right, I'm going to count
it down from 15 here. 15, 14. 10 seconds. Otherwise,
we can't get you in, guys. We're just going to
run out of time at the top of the hour. And that'll
do it. Oh, we got Coach Mark. Okay, hurry up.
Coach Mark, let's get him in. Mark, you ready?
Coach Mark, you ready? Yes, sir. All right, go.
Here we go. North Carolina, Syracuse. Give me
North Carolina. Tennessee, Vanderbilt. Tennessee.
Arizona, Houston. Arizona. Iowa State, BYU. Iowa
State. And finally, Michigan, Duke. Give me Michigan,
158, and I am earning my nickname, baby. All
right. There he goes. All right, that'll do it
for Big Bets. Let's close that off, and let's
squeeze in Dad Joke right now. Let's go ahead
and do that. Oh, a joke. I got fired from the
bank today. A woman asked me to check her balance,
so I pushed her. Dad jokes. What kind of jewelry
do rabbits wear? What kind of jewelry do rabbits
wear? Well, quarter carat gold. Okay. All right.
That's always a good one. You can just leave
that up as well. I just play the out music as
well. All right, kids. Great job. Intern Blaze,
Intern Dom, Baby J, of course. I'm Doc. Thanks
for tuning in. God bless. Put a smile on your
face. Someone else, they deserve it. So do you.
Have a great weekend, everyone. Peace.