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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com We’ve got a fantastic NBA-centric pod with SiriusXMNBA host and ever-candid broadcaster Justin Termine. So many subjects topics to cover as the NBA world comes to a boil. Topics! Include! * Why are NBA teams suddenly treating Jaylen Brown like a risky asset instead of a franchise cornerstone? * Has the new CBA qui...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com We’ve got a great House of Glass for you today. Just look at the docket. You have to subscribe, just so you can hear how Ryan pronounces “Thierry Henry.” Topics! Include! * (2:00) Tim Bontemps to the…Hawks?! Why would someone voluntarily leave ESPN for an NBA front office? * (7:00) Could “take artists” be more val...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com A glorious conversation with our PRIDE CORRESPONDENT Katie Herzog of Blocked and Reported on this whole San Francisco Giants Rainbow Hat Controversy and so much more. Topics! Include! * Is catcher secretly the strangest and most brutal position in all of sports? * The San Francisco Giants Pride controversy and the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Dunc’d On Founder and co-host of my new favorite YouTube channel Nate Duncan, everybody. * How huge is this Finals? * Wembanyama temp check: Nate loves Wemby, but how does the public feel? * Does Wembanyama’s unprecedented physical advantage make him more compelling—or less entertaining—to watch? * Is Wembanyama a...

We’re podcasting per the launch of the World Cup-tracking Probability Cup , but of course, just had to talk about Wednesday night’s NBA Finals classic. The BIG question on my mind: Should predictors/gamblers price in the NBA’s massive incentive to make this great series continue? Topics! * Knicks–Spurs Finals comeback analysis and whether San Antonio collapsed or New York surged. * How teams shoul...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Wow, do Ryan and I have much to discuss with all this Knicks-Spurs NBA Finals buzz. Topics! Include! * Why the NBA Finals suddenly feel like a major cultural event again * Glass man gives a tepid defense of New York’s most hated man (James Dolan) * The controversy surrounding Trump’s appearance at the Finals * Con...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Delighted to be joined by Scott Agness , publisher of Fieldhouse Files and man of the hour . I asked him Scott the Indiana Fever are acting so strangely towards him and media writ large. Scott was fair and measured on this pod, as per usual, which makes what the Fever did especially inexplicable. Topics! * Agness...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com We love Neil Paine , our analytics-forward friend. He covers seemingly every sport with a data-driven zeal. Today we took at look at whether the foul-bait backlash to the Thunder is rooted in reality. Does this populist basketball anger result from a real difference between this team and all the others? Topics! In...

Teutonia World , otherwise known as “Ben,” has been a prominent subscriber since the earliest House of Strauss days. He’s vocal in the House of Strauss BCC chat and often sends me good ideas over email. He’s an analytical mind and a critic at heart. I wanted him on to reflect on this site and what it’s been up to over the past few weeks. In that vein, if any of you have ideas for topics that deser...

I was introduced to Chris Dalla Riva , who I’d describe as an analytics-driven music historian. He wrote Uncharted Territory: What Numbers Tell Us about the Biggest Hit Songs and Ourselves . I know very little about music but I’m fascinated by objective measures of subjective taste. I enjoyed our talk and look forward to reading the book for yet more fascinating question fodder. Topics! * 00:01:14...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com We’ve got Jesse Singal in large part so we can discuss his quality as a basketball player. Of course, other less important topics were discussed. Such as! * 49ers Draft Controversy * The Michael Tracy/Jim Acosta Altercation * The Jeffrey Epstein Files * Social Media Bubbles vs. Normal People * Hassan Piker and Mod...

Sharing the pod I did with the TECH BROS over at Monitoring the Situation . Tried to give some sense of what we discuss over here at HoS, plus engage in the discourse of the day. Topics covered include: * How sports shape the future of X/Twitter * Caitlin Clark, the WNBA, and the business of controversy . * Nike, ideology, and shareholder value * The fragmentation of internet culture * Erik Torenb...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com House of Glass is here to discuss an especially fertile week in sports media. Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports DARED DISAGREE with a few of my takes on Vrabel-Russini. We found considerably more agreement as we shifted to NBA television discussion, as per usual. Topics! * Mike Vrabel-Dianna Russini scandal...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Trying something new and curious what you all think. Instead of separating this week’s articles into their own narrations, I combined them all into one narration. It’s an audio compilation of the following: Eagles Fan Shows the Flaw in NFL Broadcasting UBS Report: NBA Decline Hurt Nike NBA’s Solution is More in St...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Honestly, this was one of the most enjoyable podcasts for me. I credit the WNBA, everyone’s favorite league, and also give thanks to the incomparable Wos . We had a great time cathartically venting on what’s unsaid about recent NFL media and WNBA “coupling” scandals. Topics! Include! * WNBA romance frenzy : Fudd-B...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Spike Eskin got into it with Sopan Deb of the New York Times and became a character in my article on UBS blaming the NBA for Nike woes . We podcasted about this subject, Diana Russini resigning from the Athletic, and the playoff outcome that would best help the NBA. Topics! Include! * NBA popularity decline : Disc...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Our guy Tom Haberstroh is here to discuss an article of his that sent shockwaves throughout the NBA. What’s going on with this “alarming data” that suggests stars are increasingly prone to miss national TV games? We talk about that and much more. Topics! Include! * Record star injuries explode with 1,400+ games mi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com The greatest sports media podcast in all the land returns as Ryan and I get into some NBA heavy chatter, with a side of Roger Goodell’s Rooney rule defense. Enjoy! Topics include but aren’t limited to… * LeBron James’ likability in a golf video with Bob Does Sports and potential post-retirement renaissance. * Luka...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Kyle Porter from Normal Sport is a thoughtful commentator who thinks about a lot more than just the sport he covers. So I wanted to press him on this topic, plus a few others: Is golf, with the PGA Tour now led by a former NFL exec , about to truly take off and conquer the culture? We get into the sport’s eccentri...

Some of you have asked where I am on politics these days, so my best friend and occasional main antagonist decided to objectively gauge it. In this episode, Matt and I go through every question of the famous Political Compass Test , reasoning out where we fall on the spectrum. Will WOKE MATT pull me towards his way of thinking? Listen and find out. For a taste of the questions we’re answering, see...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Our man Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports is here to discuss how Ross Barkan and others are joining his MLB > NBA bandwagon . Is it true? What are the numbers to support the idea that MLB has surpassed the NBA? Topics! Include! * World Baseball Classic Buzz: Is our media rooting against us? * Rob Manfred’s R...

I visited the friendly confines of Basketball Illuminati , only to be at a severe rhetorical disadvantage versus Amin Elhassan. He was strongly anti Luke Kornet’s criticism of now cancelled Magic City Night , and argued that case with energy. I was more understanding of Kornet’s position, but wasn’t inclined to vigorously defend it. Still a great talk that included, but wasn’t limited to, Adrian W...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com It’s a convoluted world out there and I trust Stratechery’s Andrew Sharp to help us navigate it. In this podcast we humble former NBA media types dared entered the fraught topics of Anthropic vs. Trump, world affairs, reason for America’s Israel alliance, the Iran war, and always, fixing the NBA. Enjoy!

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.houseofstrauss.com Author, filmmaker and ardent basketball fan Sherman Alexie joins me to discuss one of my favorite topics: The 1990s. Though, to be honest, we stray from that subject and get into others subjects of interest. Such as! * Rob Mahoney thinks “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is bad . Fair? * Smells Like Teen Spirit changed ev...