Bobby Manning and Friends

Joe Biden felt the burn, from Kamala Harris. Cory Booker and Beto O'Rourke fight to speak Spanish first. Elizabeth Warren ends up on the wrong day. A Dem Debate Post Game Show. 

Lindo stops back to kick it, talk basketball and be his outrageous self. I'll let him take a victory lap on Anthony Davis if Al Horford is joining him. Also, splitting a season in Tampa and Montreal is the worst idea in sports history*. *my lifetime 

Former Syracuse Orange forward Matt Moyer relaunches The Bobcast. Social media, his youth, the violin, his latest music, keeping tabs on the NBA Draft that many of his close friends are in and his summer at Vanderbilt preparing for his third college season. Plus a look back at Syracuse's epic run to the 2018 Sweet 16. 

Boston's Theo Curtin has played in the Newport Jazz Festival, alongside the Boston Symphony Orchestra and has received numerous awards for his jazz guitar abilities before the age of 20.  We dive into his love, life and journey through music from Beatles fan to rock guitarist and his transition to jazz. Various influences from John Lennon through Emerson, Lake and Palmer then eventually the likes...

Fortier's top-5 food conversation starts with peanut butter. His writing career began with making Star Wars booklets in 1st grade, then the yips ended his aspiration to play sports all the way up until his senior basketball media game at Syracuse.  Now, he's writing for the Washington Post. It's not his first time there, a knack for listening led him to stories with top publications all over the c...

Carmelo Anthony is a Rocket. It's a situation that will make or break his legacy in the court of recency bias. It could also make or break the greatest team the Rockets have assembled. Is this really worth the risk? Is there any chance Melo changes his ways?  In a sign of the times, we're focusing on the SPACE FORCE over water on Mars and a trip to the Sun by NASA.  Also, another bad look by the C...

Devan Fink returns to the Bobcast after a 2 year hiatus. We hit on the 10 big picture baseball questions that loom large over the game since we last talked. Plus, Devan's shift from reporting into analytics.  1. Low MLB avg, high Ks 17:18 2. Manfred, Trout 17:18 3. Cubs' issues 22:37 4. Sox-Yanks back? 25:35 5. ASG change 28:41 6. NL DH? 29:14 7. Expansion 32:39 8. Bad teams 34:34 9. World Series...

What's hand, mouth and foot disease anyway?  The Yankees are suffering from that and more following their battering at the hands of the Red Sox this weekend that all but ended the division race. NYY's youth, Greg Bird's scoop and Alex Rodriguez's infamous call of the game all catch our critique.  Then, Zhaire Smith is out with a fractured foot. Have the 76ers lost another rookie for the season? Se...

Lindo Zay makes his weekly stop and we realize 3D printers are way too expensive to buy and start a gun manufacturing business.  Jose Reyes pitches, Mets are in the trash can and he didn't throw 90 mph. Looking back on his career, specifically the unbelievably forgettable 2012 Marlins.  Speaking of teams that are becoming easier to forget, what happened to Roy Hibbert?

Tony Capobianco started in Wyoming and 100,000 later, after suffering a Devil Rays-colored bruise at Fenway, he's back in Miami.  We're wondering what's up with the MLB. Over half the league is horrible and cutting costs, but Tony sees some light at the end of the tunnel.  The bought drinks that did not influence his analysis of the Blue Jays' farm system and how life's changed since he got hit in...

The artists coming up in today's music scene are facing a crunch of competition so great that they're being forced to pay for performances at venues.  Anthony Obas' Voiceless Music bought into this strategy of making $ by giving independent artists consultation, but is it the right way for artists to bet on themselves?  Plus, ObasRants and is marketing or content the more important factor in pushi...

How much did Hillary Clinton discourse inspire a firestorm over a city rep using his own email?  Did Gary Sanchez cost the Yankees the division by jogging to first base?  Where are the dozens of Syracuse students displaced by an apartment building not finishing going? Could the Melo Center fit them (we have to ask Jim Boeheim). 

Welcome Lindo Zay to the Bobcast for weekly appearances.  Why's Ronaldo leaving Real Madrid? Anything left to get excited about in Spain?  A quick schooling on soccer transactions.  The MLS All-Star game, a standard or boring/awful?  Is picking the Supreme Court a sacred duty or just extremely easy to do? Carmelo Anthony's still out there everybody!  Drew Hanlen's working magic. Time to get excite...

What are the top 20 Drake songs? We have the answer.  I heard my buddy Rocco, who I agree on little with, say he was ranking every Drake song so we brought our best to face off his Drake apologist view vs. my staunch criticism of his inconsistency.  This is part one of a two part series that will release on Friday and Monday. The first 10 are here, then 10 on Monday.  Also, Lonnie Walker says that...

First of many discussions on a story that's now gone national, a video became a point of debate as it exhibited frat members of Theta Tau at Syracuse using the slurs against Black, Hispanic and Jewish people. Immediately statements were made, people separated themselves in many communities from those accused but the video wasn't released. What this says about frats, race on campus and greater exhi...

Danny McDonald took a few tries to hit on the biggest mistake of his career, but it was worth the wait.  He worked about 10 years to reach the Boston Globe and got rejected over 10 times before he was hired in 2015 and has worked covering a variety of subjects since. Inside his journey around the world, his fascination for writing about crime and what almost brought him to Cambodia before the Glob...

Have you ever had a food ruined for you? I can no longer eat Philly Rolls thanks to Vasquez, and I don't think I'm going to take his diet advice.  Also, is Chick-Fil-A "fast-casual?"  Ty Ray joins Bobcast #37 for a heated discussion on the media since he exited several years ago. The Sinclair controversy is a backdrop to a climate that's distrustful and frankly conspiracy-driven when it comes to d...

Praise for the Kings with how they've handled the Sacramento protests over the killing of Stephon Clarke. They haven't handled much correctly in the past decade, they did this well.  John Karalis joins the program with tales from his playing days, his early media career in Boston, how local news networks function around viral videos, the early internet and testing the waters on stories.  We got in...

Grabbing a slice at Varsity, I realized two things; 1. I underrated their pizza 2. I've got quite a few Bobcasts to release.  Here's the first, with Sean Keeley. He brings us back to his days at Syracuse, stealing a coffee sign off Marshall Street, and the start of NunesMagician.  What's he been up to since leaving? What was it like to follow the 2003 Carmelo Anthony title team? Plus, the weird ph...

As the average age of politicians in the United States rises, the door opens once again for young people to enter the fold and create change to what many feel is a broken system. Young Syracuse University politician Jalen Nash joins The Bobcast to discuss the future, today's political climate and the dynamics of what makes gun control the hottest, hardest issue to solve in American society. What's...

Special musical edition of the Bobcast, Chop Up the Beat, as Voiceless Music's Anthony Obas joins to help Bobby complain about the Grammy's again. A year that should have been the best ever turned into another letdown, with a few bright spots. Kendrick Lamar shines, SZA and Jay Z snubbed and Bruno Mars takes over. We get into a debate over Bruno's merit of being in the R&B category, go over sn...

Sam Fortier facilitates a conversation with Bobby Manning about his goal to run the 2018 Boston Marathon. They dive into the past year and a half, Bob Manning's battle with leukemia and moving forward past his father's death in May. Please consider donating to the cause:  https://www.crowdrise.com/o/en/campaign/bidmcboston2018/bobbymanning1

Bentley college and Peabody, Mass' Matt Gonick joins The Bobcast to reminisce on going to the Little League World Series representing New England in 2009 with the Peabody West team. He looks back on where they are now, the feelings of playing at that level at 12, getting an RBI and being on second base when the legendary grand slam sent them to Williamsport. 

Nekias Duncan, one of the rising stars in the online NBA media world joins the Bobcast to discuss his start, growth and style. He also eyes Dwight Howard as one of the most intriguing players going into next year and looks forward to a high-variance Heat squad. He also breaks down the rise of NBA analytics and how he uses them in his work. 

Bobby and Jamel discuss Flower Boy, with luscious production and a deep introspective focus it's an album so sonically and spiritually emotional it's easy to keep playing again and again. Jamel notes that Tyler seemed more excited for this than any of his other releases and loves the continued Neptunes influence. Bobby digs into the introspective, yet guarded side of the and Tyler's two-sided musi...