Episode 70 - Know Your Mid-Majors: Big West

Today's Know Your Mid-Majors is on the Big West Conference.  This conference is comprised entirely of public schools, all but one of which is in California.

The member schools of this conference are:

• Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
• Cal State Fullerton
• Cal State Northridge
• Hawaii
• Long Beach State
• UC Davis
• UC Irvine
• UC Riverside
• UC Santa Barbara

 


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Episode 69 - Sports Movies Discussion

Mike and Tim discuss their favorite sports movies.

(Yes, this is a sports movie.)




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Episode 68 - 2014 NFL Draft Review

Mike and Tim give a brief review on the NFL Draft 2014 edition.



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Arsenal win FA Cup!

Congratulations to Arsenal FC on winning the 2013-14 FA Cup!

In case you missed it: Mike did pick the Gunners (one of the English teams he happens to be a fan of) to win England's most prestigious football honor.

Final score: Arsenal 3-2 Hull City

Mike is SAFE from any batsu game in relation to the FA Cup.

Episode 67 - Know Your Mid-Majors: Horizon League

Today's Know Your Mid-Majors is on the Horizon League.  If there were pro/rel between Division I conferences, this conference would be the Football League 1 to the Summit League's Football League 2 - almost all of these schools have been members of the Mid-Continent Conference/Summit League at some point (including when Mike was at a student at another former Summit League school).

The schools of this conference are:

• Cleveland State
• Detroit Mercy
• UW-Green Bay
• UW-Milwaukee
• Oakland
• Illinois-Chicago
• Valparaiso
• Wright State
• Youngstown State

 


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Episode 66 - Know Your Mid-Majors: MAC

Today's Know Your Mid-Majors is on the Mid-American Conference (MAC).

The schools of the MAC are:

• Akron
• Ball State
• Bowling Green
• Buffalo
• Central Michigan
• Eastern Michigan
• Kent State
• Miami (Ohio)
• Northern Illinois
• Ohio
• Toledo
• Western Michigan

 


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Episode 65 - Instant Replay in Baseball

Mike and Tim discuss the recent implementation of instant replay in MLB.



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Episode 64 - Where Are They Now? 5

Tim does another edition of Where Are They Now?

Today's athletes of discussion:

• Albert Belle
• Todd Marinovich
• Jerry Tarkanian
• Monica Seles

Mike is on Four Words for this episode.



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Episode 63 - Mike, Batsu Game!

The good news for Mike: the UEFA Champions League Final features two teams from Spain.

The bad news: neither team is Barcelona.

At the beginning of the tournament's group stage, Mike had picked Barcelona to win the European Cup.

Barca got knocked out in the Round of 8 by another Spanish side, Atletico Madrid, which will play their more famous crosstown rivals Real Madrid in the upcoming final.

Mike's punishment: Four Words, Spanish edition - Cuatro, Escuchar, Hasta and Mayo.



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Episode 62 - Know Your Mid-Majors: Mountain West

Today's Know Your Mid-Majors is on the Mountain West Conference, which spun off from the WAC in 1999.

Former members of this conference include two schools now in major conference - Utah (Pac-12) and TCU (Big 12) - as well as BYU (in the West Coast Conference - and a football independent).

The current membership of the Mountain West is:

• Air Force
• Boise State
• Colorado State
• Fresno State
• UNLV (Nevada-Las Vegas)
• Nevada-Reno
• New Mexico
• San Diego State
• San Jose State
• Utah State
• Wyoming

 
This podcast includes audio clips from Countdown with Keith Olbermann (MSNBC version) as well as An Evening with Kevin Smith.  Used for illustrative purposes only.



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