OVIES & GIGLIO

OG After Dark is live on YouTube following another character defining win of the Carolina Hurricanes playoff run. The Philadelphia Flyers scored two goals in 39 seconds early in the game and put the Canes in a hole they hadn't been in all postseason. The "never trailed in the playoffs" streak was over — and for the first time since their double overtime win over Ottawa in the first round, this Car...

The Stanley Cup Playoffs picture is coming into sharp focus — and the Carolina Hurricanes are emerging as the team in the Eastern Conference with the most playoff experience in the field. Ovies and Giglio break down whether that experience advantage is enough to carry the Canes to the Stanley Cup Finals or whether the tippy top talent on the Montreal Canadiens and Buffalo Sabres represents a genui...

OG After Dark is live on YouTube — straight from a former co-worker's wedding reception in Garner, beers in hand. The Carolina Hurricanes took Game 1 against the Philadelphia Flyers and Ovies and Giglio aren't letting a wedding stop them from breaking it all down. Logan Stankoven and his linemates continued their postseason hot streak — the group has been one of the most dangerous lines in the ent...

The OG Mailbag is back and the listeners delivered another wide ranging week of questions. Did the Carolina Hurricanes ultimately win the Mikko Rantanen trade war now that Dallas has made an early exit from the Stanley Cup Playoffs? The guys weigh in on what that departure means for the Canes moving forward. Then a very important logistical question — how exactly are Ovies and Giglio going to hand...

The Carolina Hurricanes know their second round opponent — the Philadelphia Flyers — but the schedule is still up in the air. Mike Maniscalco hangs out in studio to break down everything Canes related, from the latest injury updates to what the matchup against Philadelphia actually looks like when it tips off. OG Sports Phone calls are in the mix too. Then Chris Powers from Trophy Brewing and Jake...

The NCAA is moving toward expanding the men's and women's basketball tournaments to 76 teams as soon as next season — and Ovies and Giglio are not on the same page about it. Giglio is firmly in the "more is more" camp and welcomes an expanded field that keeps pace with the growing number of Division I basketball programs. His issue isn't with the expansion itself — it's with how the NCAA is planni...

Rest vs. rust. It's one of the most classic debates in playoff sports — and the Carolina Hurricanes are right in the middle of it after sweeping Ottawa while Pittsburgh continues to grind through their series against Philadelphia. What does history actually say about teams that spend extended time between rounds? Ovies and Giglio dig into the numbers and the narrative before shifting to college ba...

Demetri Ravanos is filling in for Giglio today and the show is packed from start to finish. Ovies and Demetri open with the one big takeaway from the NFL Draft that everyone keeps coming back to — NIL's impact on the available draft pool. Some executives viewed this year's class as losing an entire round of the draft, with a significant chunk of players choosing to stay in college thanks to NIL pa...

The Carolina Hurricanes are through to the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Four games. One sweep. And Logan Stankoven cooking at the perfect time. OG After Dark is live following a series clinching win that had everything — Stankoven's game winning goal to cap a dominant 4 goals in 4 games performance, a desperate and physical Ottawa squad that was handed multiple power play chances in a...

The OG Mailbag is open and nothing is off limits this week. The Dundon discourse. What the transfer portal is doing to the emotional wellbeing of college basketball fans. The Carolina Panthers trusting the process at the NFL Draft. Fan gatekeeping — and who actually gets to hold the keys. Whether rock music is genuinely dead or just resting. Ovies and Giglio get into all of it and more in this wee...

Ovies and Giglio are live on YouTube following a dominant Carolina Hurricanes performance that puts the Canes in complete control of their first round Stanley Cup Playoff series against the Ottawa Senators. Up 3-0 and looking every bit like a team built for a deep run, Carolina did the little things right all night — keeping Ottawa's top line flustered and getting another standout performance from...

What is an "industry plant" and why are the people looking for them so naive? It's a topic that has roots in the old concept of "selling out" and the audience's obsession with authenticity. Plus! ESPN doesn’t respect Western New York, WWE fans are in shambles, and Tom Dundon meets the NBA media. OG SUMMER POP UP SHOP: http://ogtrianglemediashop.com/ OG Membership Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c...

The college basketball transfer portal is moving fast and Ovies and Giglio are keeping up with every Triangle storyline. Everyone wants to do the eyeballs emoji over Matt Able going from NC State to UNC — but the real takeaway isn't about switching sides in the rivalry. It's a reminder of just how bad the vibes were during Will Wade's lone season in Raleigh. Meanwhile Justin Gainey is doing exactl...

OG After Dark is live on YouTube following one of the most dramatic games of the Stanley Cup Playoffs so far. The Carolina Hurricanes survived a double overtime thriller against the Ottawa Senators in Game 2 — but not before getting their hearts ripped out and put back in their chests. A Mark Jankowsku goal with 2:42 left in the 1st overtime looked like the winner — until a controversial replay re...

The Stanley Cup Playoffs are here and the Carolina Hurricanes wasted no time making a statement. Ovies and Giglio walk through Game 1 against Ottawa — how the Canes handled the Senators' attempt to physically impose themselves and how Freddie Andersen delivered the kind of performance that quiets a fanbase's deepest anxieties about goaltending. The guys also address a long running frustration — de...

Roster turnover is a part of college basketball and especially with new coaches. But what's going on at NC State? Will anyone come back? Did UNC make a mistake in letting Dylan Mingo go? Jacey Zembal of the Wolfpacker joins Joe Giglio to answer your OG Mailbag questions. Plus, getting into the take business requires takes. Some didn't like Giglio's LaMelo Ball or Illinois basketball takes. They're...

The Charlotte Hornets will face the Orlando Magic on Friday in the NBA play-in round. The winner will be the No. 8 seed and face top-seeded Detroit. The Hornets have not made the NBA playoffs since 2016. The Hurricanes will begin their eighth straight trip to the Stanley Cup playoffs with the Ottawa Senators on Saturday at home. Chip Patterson of CBS Sports joins Joe Giglio to discuss the Spring o...

Have we heard the last of the Dianna Russini/Mike Vrable speculation? Probably not. Joe and Demetri talk about the value of insiders, a move that is sure to rock the Triad media scene, and how serious the government is about breaking the NFL’s stranglehold on TV. OG Membership Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Qpevj6hElebdWc2SSGkWw/join OG SUMMER POP UP SHOP: http://ogtrianglemediashop.c...

On a buzzing episode of Ovies & Giglio, the guys recap a wild night in Charlotte as the Charlotte Hornets faithful came out of “hive”rnation for a Play-In showdown with the Miami Heat. The Hornets found a way to win in a fashion that didn’t exactly match how they got here — but that’s what makes it feel different. And then there’s Coby White, who once again reminded everyone just how fun basketbal...

It was a newsy day in Chapel Hill. Michael Malone's version of the Tar Heels is starting to take shape — Caleb Wilson is officially heading to the pros, roster movement is happening on both ends of the transfer portal, and in the most surprising development of the day, five-star guard Dylan Mingo will not be joining the program after visiting with Malone and his staff over the weekend. Mingo — a c...

Ovies and Giglio aren't in full offseason mode just yet — but they can see the Carolina Hurricanes Stanley Cup Playoffs existential dread coming from a mile away. Just how deep can this team go? It might come down to goaltending — and based on the way Rod Brind'Amour has been talking about the position lately, Canes fans better get comfortable with Freddie between the pipes. Before diving into hoc...

The OG Mailbag is back and the listeners have a lot to say. Carolina Hurricanes fans are pushing back hard on Ovies and Giglio — apparently the guys have been too pessimistic about the Canes' Stanley Cup Playoff chances and the fanbase is letting them hear about it. Is the criticism fair? The guys weigh in. Then more reaction to Michael Malone's hire at UNC — the questions, the optimism, and every...

The Carolina Hurricanes are one of the most entertaining teams in the NHL — but the "regular season merchants" knock isn't going away until they make a deep run when it matters most. Ovies and Giglio open the show wrestling with that question and whether the goaltending is actually good enough to carry this team to the Stanley Cup Finals. Then ESPN's Brooke Pryor — a proud Tar Heel — comes through...

Michael Malone stepped to the podium at North Carolina and said all the right things. Now the real job begins. Ovies and Giglio react to Malone's introductory press conference and break down whether the optimism surrounding the hire is justified — and there is genuine reason to believe it is. The Athletic's Brendan Marks joins the show to separate fact from fiction in UNC's coaching search — which...

The comparison is lazy and Ovies and Giglio are dismantling it right out of the gate. Mike Malone is not the basketball version of Bill Belichick at UNC — and the proof was hiding in plain sight long before the hire was official. A Carolina Insider podcast appearance back in October showed a coach who already understands what matters in Chapel Hill and brings far more personality to the table than...