Sports Live! With Steve and Justin

Send us Fan Mail A coach tells you a fourth-and-one shotgun run works 71% of the time. We’re telling you that number might be the least important part of the story. Steve, Justin, and the Rabbi get into the tug-of-war between NFL analytics and real football feel, starting with a Jets-related stat that’s so absurd it sounds like a joke, then jumping straight into why “percentages” can turn into a p...

Send us Fan Mail Thursday night gave us whiplash: the Falcons looked like a different team, and the Packers looked nothing like what we expected. That’s the early-season NFL in a nutshell, and it sets up our Week 3 Football Sunday picks with one big idea in mind: react to what you see, but don’t lose the plot when the league gets weird. We go from that first reaction into the card, walking through...

Send us Fan Mail September football lies to you, and we love it anyway. We sit down after Week 2 and try to separate what’s real from what’s just early-season noise, starting with the Bills looking electric again. Josh Allen is putting up MVP-level moments while playing like a running back who can throw, and we talk honestly about what that style means now and what it usually looks like when the w...

Send us Fan Mail Three parlays can make a weekend feel electric, but only if you know what you’re actually betting on. We’re back with our Friday parlay picks and we keep it tight and practical: three tickets, clear legs, and the basic logic behind why each type of bet works when it hits and why it’s hard to sustain when you chase long shots. If you like NFL picks that get straight to the point, t...

Send us Fan Mail Week 1 didn’t feel like a warmup, it felt like an audit. Some teams showed up organized, physical, and weirdly calm under pressure. Others looked like they skipped the part where you tackle, communicate, and get plays in on time. We dig into what that contrast actually means, and why “no preseason reps” doesn’t just hurt timing on offense, it can wreck defensive discipline too. We...

Send us Fan Mail One second gets put back on the clock, your phone lights up with “Michigan, Michigan, Michigan,” and suddenly your whole night feels like a highlight reel you didn’t even watch. That’s where we start, because Labor Day always does this to us: summer ends, football begins, and the chaos shows up early. We talk college football opening weekend, a Delaware home opener, and why campus...

Send us Fan Mail Basketball can feel loud and hollow when it’s reduced to nonstop debate, rings culture, and manufactured drama. After spending a weekend around the American Basketball Hall of Fame in Detroit, we walk away with the opposite feeling: the game is still full of heart, still full of people who built something real, and still full of stories that deserve to be carried forward.  We talk...

Send us Fan Mail Preseason football tells you who got hurt. The NFL schedule tells you who’s about to rise, and who’s about to fall. We’re joined by Mike to break down the league with a simple lens that cuts through the annual hype cycle: strength of schedule, timing, travel, and the quiet advantages baked into the calendar. We go division by division across the NFC and AFC, calling our shots on d...

Send us Fan Mail Empty seats. A 16-win roster. A “football stadium for basketball.” That’s the situation Tom Wilson walks into before helping transform the Detroit Pistons into one of the NBA’s most memorable brands and toughest champions. We talk with Wilson, a 2026 American Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, about the real work of building a franchise when winning isn’t guaranteed yet: creating c...

Send us Fan Mail Preseason football is supposed to be harmless, but it keeps giving us the same nightmare: a quarterback gets drilled, everyone argues about toughness, and the only people who can’t afford the risk are the teams and fans who need that QB healthy. We kick things off by venting about the modern “where is the game streaming” scavenger hunt, then use a scary Giants preseason moment to...

Send us Fan Mail The AFC West looks simple until you actually line up the schedules, the win totals, and the quarterback questions that can flip a season in two weeks. We take a hard look at Kansas City, Denver, Las Vegas, and the LA Chargers, and we keep coming back to the same betting reality: the number is not about vibes, it is about how many winnable games you can find before the injuries and...

Send us Fan Mail College football is getting louder, richer, and way harder to recognize. We sit down with Matt Burkstein to unpack how NIL (name, image, likeness) and the transfer portal rewired the sport from the inside out, from preseason rankings that track big budgets to rosters that can flip so fast you barely learn the depth chart. We talk honestly about why players should get paid, and why...

Send us Fan Mail A Yankees captain dies at 32 and somehow the shock still echoes through decades of fandom. We start with Thurman Munson not as a trivia answer, but as a standard: toughness behind the plate, clutch postseason production, and the kind of leadership that makes a team feel like a family. That leads straight into the uncomfortable but necessary question: if baseball can make room for...

Send us Fan Mail The AFC East always looks simple from far away, then you zoom in and it turns into four different arguments about identity, quarterbacks, and whether anyone is building the right way. We start with the New York Jets because the story isn’t just the record, it’s the direction. We talk through the stadium rumor noise, the reality of a 15-year playoff drought, and why this season fee...

Send us Fan Mail LeBron James to the Philadelphia 76ers is the kind of NBA free agency news that feels like a championship shortcut and a controversy generator at the same time. We talk through the move with the one thing hot takes skip: what it actually demands from a roster, a locker room, and a superstar who has lived under a microscope since the day the hype machine started rolling. We get int...

Send us Fan Mail The NFL keeps telling us it “takes gambling seriously,” but the business of football is now built around betting lines, sportsbook ads, and apps that live on everyone’s phone. We start with the Ryan Gold suspension and the allegation that confidential, non-public information made its way outside the building, then pull back to the bigger question: what did the league think would h...

Send us Fan Mail Tomorrow’s World Cup final isn’t just a matchup, it’s a referendum on two completely different ways to win. Mark Leonard joins me to break down Spain vs Argentina with real tactical detail, plus the human stuff that makes this game feel bigger than sports: Messi’s late-career magic, Yamal’s rise, and the kind of pressure that makes teams either freeze or level up.  We start by rew...

Send us Fan Mail He logs on wearing a clown suit, and it somehow turns into one of the most honest conversations we’ve had about New York sports, sports radio, and what it takes to stay relevant in a world of nonstop platforms. We’re joined by Sal Licata, a longtime New York voice known from WFAN and SNY’s Baseball Night in New York, and we start with the story behind the suit: an apology for doub...

Send us Fan Mail A $760,000 MLB minimum salary sounds like a dream until you see what actually hits a player’s bank account and how long teams can control a career before true free agency. We take a labor law view of Major League Baseball and walk through the MLB collective bargaining agreement in plain English: what it is, what it controls, and why the contract structure shapes the entire sport....

Send us Fan Mail LeBron James can still play, so why does the hardest part feel like finding a team that actually wants the whole package? We get into the NBA free agency theater and the real question underneath the headlines: roster fit, team culture, and whether a young core can grow when the spotlight is guaranteed to tilt toward one superstar. We game out the most talked-about landing spots, i...

The NBA never stops rewriting its own stories, and we’re right in the middle of a few that could swing the league. We start with Patrick Ewing and the question people keep dancing around: what kind of coach is he now, after the Georgetown run, the early bumps, and the growth that came from taking the job seriously? We talk about why his biggest impact may be as a mentor who can protect young playe...

A late goal can feel like an earthquake when you’re watching from the winning team’s backyard. Mark Leonard joins us from Portugal minutes after Spain’s 1-0 win, and we unpack the whiplash: the streets that were loud last week, the sudden quiet tonight, and what it means when Cristiano Ronaldo plays the full match as the World Cup window starts to close on a legendary national team run.  Then thin...

A perfect game into the eighth inning gets ended by the manager, and the bullpen nearly blows the whole thing. That moment sends us into a bigger question: why does modern MLB feel like it has less stamina, less action, and fewer players who can truly carry a game from first pitch to last?  From pitch counts and the vanishing complete game to the way strikeouts and “three true outcomes” baseball s...

Picking a couple “best sports movies” should be easy, right up until you realize you have about twenty you would defend in court. We start part two of our live hang by setting up a sports movie draft, then immediately tumble into a fast, opinionated watchlist: baseball staples like Major League, kid classics like Rookie of the Year and Little Big League, and football favorites that range from Any...

The NBA Draft moves fast, and the story changes even faster. We jump on a quick follow-up right after day one to talk about how many picks landed exactly where we expected, plus the trade chatter that instantly reshapes the board. A Knicks-to-Lakers deal grabs our attention because it hints at bigger front-office plans, and we lay out what we’re watching as day two unfolds and more details come ou...