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VCU is on deck for the Billikens as the Atlantic 10 is hanging out on their off day before kicking back into action over the weekend to determine a conference champion. The A10 will only have one team appearing in March Madness this year, and it'll take everything SLU has for them to be the conference representative. Where did things go wrong this season? They were supposed to be a lock for the to...

Joe and Cole may only be 6 years apart, but they are from VERY dfferent generations. Cole explains how he essentially had 2 different childhoods wrapped up into one due to some of the cultural changes that occurred throughout his youth. Kendrick Perkins caused a stir throughout the sports world when he backed down from his assertion that white European basketball players receive favoritism from MV...

The cards were out at Cole's aunt's house last night and there was some good music playing on the speakers! Name that tune is probably the best trivia game you could possibly play. It's been brought to Cole's attention that Joe delivers contradictory statements when it comes to discussing controversial topics on Frank's show and Charlie Tuna's show. So Cole puts Joe on the hot seat to share HIS OW...

Powerade unknowingly picked a really bad time to make Ja Morant the face of their business. Ja has already run into trouble earlier in the season when a member of his entourage allegedly pointed a gun at the Pacers' team bus, and now he's back in the news as he has allegedly beat up a 17-year-old and threatened him with a gun. DaMichael Cole of The Commercial Appeal in Memphis joins the show to of...

Joe is very excited for people to quit pretending to care about boxing. The sports world doesn't care about real boxing anymore, and Joe wants people to stop caring about fake boxing. Apparently Joe just wants the sport to die! What a heartless individual. The weather has not been great lately, but that is no excuse for some of the poor performances that the local drivers have been putting togethe...

The phone lines are OPEN in the last segment of the show! Microbiologist Jack skipped class at the University of Iowa to call in and celebrate Tommy Edman since he feels like he doesn't get enough glory from Cardinals fans. D calls in to try to get Joe and Cole a promotion. Joe brings some audio from Chad Ochocinco to further illustrate how weird he is, and we learn that Cole has actually displaye...

Carl Reed, has spent years coaching high school football in the St. Louis area and is now doing college football work for 247 Sports. He is also known to have penned the single greatest tweet to ever grace that app. Carl has plenty of thoughts on the structure of the sport of football at every level imagineable, and he brings those opinions right here to Cover 2. You may not have realized that you...

Eric Bieniemy felt that he had reached his apex within the Kansas City Chiefs organization, so he decided to move on. EB won the press conference in Washington despite telling numerous lies. There is a new Jeff Fisher in the NFL. Lamar Jackson and the Ravens have yet to agree on a long term contract. In fact, Lamar Jackson and the Ravens can't even agree on what the Ravens' most recent offer was....

Joe presents his Dummy Stories of the Week which feature a celebrity sports fan who found a terrible way to pay for his season tickets and a USA Today writer who questions whether or not Tiger Woods loves his daughter. Joe and Cole then present their most memorable sports moment that the entire universe seemed to love except for them. A couple of listeners offered some solid submissions, as well....

PJ Green is our first repeat guest on Cover 2! He was live on the scene at the Super Bowl parade in Kansas City, and he joins us to give us Eastern Missourians an idea of what went down! PJ also gives some insight on the Chiefs coaching staff which has had an abundance of rumors surrounding Andy Reid, Eric Bieniemy and Matt Nagy. Do Chiefs fans consider the Bengals to be rivals?

Ka-Kaw! The St. Louis Battlehawks make their valiant return to The Dome which may or may not have dangerous turf still sitting inside of it. A texter says that he's excited for AJ McCarron's wife to attend Battlehawks games. Cole puts out the second edition of The Ex-Girlfriend Report so we can all figure out what's happening with some old St. Louis flames. A former Rams coach has stooped to a new...

If all goes according to plan, we ~should~ have ourselves a heck of a Super Bowl matchup on Sunday! Who do you got? Loyal listener and Travis Ford hater "D" calls for Travis's job. D goes as far as to illustrate how Cuonzo Martin was a better coach in this neck of the woods than Travis Ford has been. Big Al calls in to offer a brief yet bombastic airing of his grievances which we all enjoy.

We play Fight U of L to welcome in Louisville alum and NBA columnist and analyst Shane Young to Cover 2. Shane helps Joe and Cole dissect the trade deadline that just passed. What under-the-radar trades does he think people are overlooking? Will Kyrie and Luka be a good fit together?

Joe Davis is none too pleased with some of the commentary he's been hearing from the elder statesmen in the media about LeBron James. Joe thinks that there's a generational war taking place in the sport of basketball. Cole has bad news for local fans of college basketball. 590 The Fan has received numerous complaints throughout the season about wanting Travis Ford fired from SLU due to insufficien...

Tom Brady announced his retirement on the worst day possible. ESPN had appointment television that got hijacked by the Brady retirement. Cincinnati Bengals running back Joe Mixon has kept a pretty clean record since his incident at Oklahoma, but that record is clean no longer. This news gives Cole the idea of how the NFL should handle their athletes who run into trouble with the law while simultan...

It's another week of Cover 2, and we have another new segment that's debuting. What do you do when you misbehave? You go to Confession. Joe and Cole must confess some their worst opinions that they now recognize they were wrong about.

Whatever plans we had to open the show can wait, because Kyrie Irving needed to deliver one more nail in the coffin to end his roller coaster of a tenure in Brooklyn. A man who has a history with premature free agency declarations, Kyrie has informed the Nets that they should probably get compensation for him while they still can before he walks for free in the offseason. Joe and Cole outline the...

Joe and Cole pledge their allegiance to the teams they are rooting for the rest of the way in the NFL playoffs. They are both avoiding the same team, and it may not be the team you expect. They continue their Friday tradition of picking the NFL games on the weekend slate. All 2 of them! Who is going to be playing in the Super Bowl? Also, Steve Wilks got the short end of the stick in the Panthers h...

Ky McKeon is the founder of the highly successful Three Man Weave podcast covering college basketball. Ky brings us his expertise to keep up with what's going on in the national landscape of college basketball including a struggling Big Ten, a surging SEC and Big 12, potential replacements for Mike Brey at Notre Dame and a great story about traveling around the country to different college hoops v...

Joe and Cole continue St. Louis's celebration of Scott Rolen being elected to become the newest member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. There has been much discussion in St. Louis about whether Rolen will enter the HOF with a Cardinals cap or a Phillies cap on his head. That discussion has been put to bed right here on Cover 2 as Cole explains why Scott Rolen and the city of Philadelphia have been at...

The weekly NFL picks segment is preluded by a variety of topics as listeners of the show offer their suggestions for overrated musical artists. One texter is officially writing off Ben Simmons who just has eclipsed 10 points in just once in his last 8 games including a goose egg against the Celtics. Joe and Cole discuss how Ben Simmons manipulated the mental health discuss to force his way out of...

PJ Green is a Digital Sports Reporter for the FOX affiliate in Kansas City. He drops by Cover 2 to offer his insight on the Kansas City Chiefs as they gear up for battle with the Jacksonville Jaguars on Saturday. PJ also gives high praise to Mizzou alum Nick Bolton for his contributions on the defense this season.

The dominance of the Chiefs is starting to be exhausting for Cole, but he's just going to have to continue to suffer because the NFL may have already hinted at a Chiefs vs Bills AFC Championship game before the Divisional Round has even been played. Joe teaches Cole about the history of the Governor's Cup and how the state of Missouri used to be passionate about preseason games. We have TWO NEW SE...

The NFL playoffs are upon us, and Joe and Cole are continuing their segment of picking games to close out the show. Following the picks, the guys discuss the candidates who are being interviewed for the 5 available heading coaching jobs.

Damichael Cole is the Memphis Grizzlies beat reporter for The Commercial Appeal as well as a podcaster for Locked On Grizzlies. Damichael offers his expertise and insight on the co-leaders of the Western Conference. You can follow him @DamichaelC on Twitter, and you can hear Grizzlies games broadcasted on 590 The Fan throughout the NBA season.