Steal Your Take

Thoughts (and feelings) on the Mavericks' disastrous decision to trade away the franchise.

A sub-par NFL week 18 slate wrapped up the 2024 regular season despite a historic NFC North showdown. - Sam Darnold's struggles a cause for concern - Is the Week 18 mess fixable? - Black Monday: Best coaches available - Not-too-early Draft lookahead - Travis Hunter: Better CB or WR prospect? - Most intriguing Super Bowl matchup possibilities Jalen Milroe's career at Alabama comes to a crashing end...

Our final show of the year puts a bow on 2024 as we highlight which athletes, coaches and fanbases had the best years, and which ones have already turned the calendar towards 2025. We also play Santa and give out gifts for the year to come. The College Football Playoff has a blowout problem, but this is nothing new. We examine Saquon Barkley's quest to break the single-season rushing record and wh...

The Oklahoma City Thunder get a national stage Tuesday night to show why they may be the Celtics' only obstacle to a title defense in the NBA Cup finale. We analyze the short list of potential threats to OKC and Boston. The leagues's 3-point barrage reaches new heights. The College Football Playoff kicks off this week, but is being overshadowed by an inconvenient "free agency" period. We break dow...

SMU nabs the final spot in the College Football Playoff over Alabama. Why Greg Byrne and the entire Crimson Tide program have no one to blame but themselves. Do conference championship games have an expiration date? The SEC turns into a basketball conference. Juan Soto signs a record-breaking contract with the New York Mets. Where do the Yankees go from here? The National League is a gauntlet and...

We plant a flag in the CFB regular season and debate which teams and fanbases are the most relieved that 2024 is behind them. We discuss Ohio State's inexcusable and soon-to-be-infamous loss to rival Michigan and what it means for Ryan Day, along with the aftermath of rivalry weekend. Alabama? South Carolina? Miami? Ole Miss? Which of these teams deserves a spot in the Playoff? And should SMU and...

Eleven of college football’s top 12 teams all have one thing in common: easy schedules. We debate if the SEC should avoid scheduling difficult non-conference opponents going forward after three conference playoff contenders lose on the road. Nobody had more to lose than Ole Miss. Do Rebel fans have it worse than anyone? Auburn fans (and seemingly every other school) storm the field after the Tiger...

The 2024 rookie Quarterback class saw a record six signal callers drafted in the first 12 picks. And early returns show this class could be the best group of young passers the NFL has seen since Joe Burrow, Justin Herbert, Tua Tagovailoa and Jordan Love all were taken in 2020. The hosts hand out report cards to the 12 teams that owned the first dozen picks of the ‘24 Draft to see which teams hit,...

The SEC is approaching a scenario where there could be quite the traffic jam on the road to Atlanta. We try to figure out what teams are positioned best in the case a bottleneck of two-loss teams forces the conference to go deep into tiebreakers to help determine a champion. And why Alabama has a big advantage. Ole Miss wins more than just a football game. Why Connor Stalions is the last person LS...

While the rest of the nation is voting on the things that matter, we vote on the things that don't. The hosts take to the polls to cast their ballots on the rules, traditions and quirks in sports to decide if any sweeping changes need to be made to the games we love. The first College Football Playoff rankings are out and we give our instant reaction. And lastly, we assume the role of Athletic Dir...

The dominant Dodgers take a commanding World Series lead thanks in large part to the theatrics of a hobbled Freddie Freeman. We discuss where Freeman’s Game 1 walk-off fits in the annals of World Series history. And why baseball consistently delivers moments that other sports just can’t do with the same frequency. Aaron Judge is a disaster and his playoff sample size is growing uncomfortably large...

We analyze the Power 4 conferences in CFB and try to determine who will meet in the conference title games... because nothing ever goes wrong when we predict the CFB future. UGA rolls Texas despite Carson Beck once again looking less than pedestrian. The panic button officially gets pushed in Tuscaloosa. Auburn is allergic to victory. And we preview a unique set of critical matchups in Week 9. A m...

We break down and debate which NFL teams have the most optimistic five-year forecasts based on everything from their QB situation to their salary cap and draft picks. And we tell you the teams that have the most dyer outlook for the next half decade as well. College Football is simply better than the NFL right now, and Brad and Clark swear it's not because the Jags and Cowboys are embarrassments....

Alabama is embarrassed by Vanderbilt and we attempt to make sense of the historic upset. We play the blame game and pull no punches on Kalen DeBoer and the entire Crimson Tide program. Tennessee, Michigan and Mizzou join in on the misery, while the two hottest seats in college football escape with job-saving victories. Parity in college football has reached an unprecedented level. Will there be an...

The Braves needed 162 to get back to October as Atlanta faces a completely different playoff path than years past. Alabama fends off Georgia. Does Bama's big win make the Tide a lock for the CFP? Ole Miss doesn't waste time disappointing. Auburn's skid continues and the losing might not end any time soon. We break down Jayden Daniels' historic start, Jalen Hurts' turnovers, the mediocre Cowboys, t...

A jam-packed College Football shows touches on everything from week 4, while looking ahead to UGA/Bama and beyond.  The single-game, eye-test Top 5 Hugh Freeze’s grade through 17 games Mack Brown gets humiliated  Utah takes pole position in the Big 12 Miami & Clemson on a collision course  Travis Hunter’s Heisman chances LSU on upset alert vs USA? Army/Navy x2 Also, that Japanese guy for the D...

We wrap up a marathon football weekend with a marathon episode. NFL Week 1 is in the books and we name our Winners and Losers from the opening games. Winners Dak Saquon “Eat” Celebrations Baker Mayfield Xavier Worthy Fluffers Jason Kelce’s wallet Losers Brad Survivor Pools Greg Olsen Deshaun Watson Germany  Atlanta’s new offense James reacts to Auburn’s upset home loss to Cal. Kalen DeBoer gets a...

College Football is back and we recap a huge chunk of the week one slate, including blowout wins by Auburn and Alabama.  “Good Win or Bad Loss?” USC 27, LSU 20 Miami 41, Florida 17 UGA 34, Clemson 3 Vandy 34, Va Tech 27 (OT) Notre Dame 23, Texas A&M 13 Penn State gets style points in a big win at WVU while Big 10 counterparts Michigan and Oregon look ugly in victory. Clark’s preseason Heisman...

Aaron Judge is on track for his second 60+ HR campaign while in the midst of arguably the best season at the plate baseball has ever seen. Is the Yankee slugger the greatest right-handed hitter of all-time? We debate that and discuss Shohei Ohtani becoming the quickest player ever to 40/40. And why, despite two titans of the sport both playing for the league’s most popular teams, their legendary a...

We each rank our end-of-season top 20 teams and combine our three ballots to come up with a 12-team College Football Playoff. Then the hosts go round-by-round to determine a national champion. Heisman Odds: best bets (including three QBs from the state of Texas), longshots and non-QB's. We debate who's likely to be the first coach fired during the season. We look ahead to a lackluster week...

The Associated Press released its preseason College Football Top 25 poll Monday. We debate which teams will be the biggest risers and fallers between now and season's end. We also preview the entire season's schedule and rank the 10 most impactful matchups of the season. We put a bow on the Olympics and Clark tries to defend rooting against Team USA in the men's basketball tournament....

Olympics Spitballin’ The USA’s no-win situation when flag football becomes an event in 2028. Who should suit up for the red, white and blue? Should Olympic athletes be paid? Noah Lyles’s noisy superstardom.  An epic finish in golf and what, if any, format changes would we like to see? Plus, is Novak Djokovic the… dare we say it… Greatest Athlete of all-time? We debate following his gold medal win...

The Olympics are in full swing. We touch on everything we’ve liked (Rafa/Djokovic, floor routines, handball) and everything we don’t (silver medals, judges, the Opening Ceremony). We discuss ESPN’s favorite punching bag and take a look at the current state of the NFL quarterback market. The MLB trade deadline is Tuesday - James and Brad break down what the Braves should or shouldn’t do, & we l...

Sports fans and media alike have griped about ESPN’s recent list of the Top 100 Athletes of the 21st Century. So we decided we’d pile on as well. We discuss what the worldwide leader got wrong and debate who we’d put near the top. We close out major season with a recap of Xander Schauffele’s dominant performance at Royal Troon in Scotland. Is two majors enough to contend with Scottie Scheffler for...

We reflect on 50 episodes and what the heck we were thinking recording our sports opinions. We also give our thoughts on the Home Run Derby and MLB All-Star Game in Arlington, Texas.  Gunnar and Bobby as the sole starpower MLB begging for participants  Derby contestants and their NBA Slam Dunk Contest counterparts Paul Skenes starts the All-Star Game  Carlos Alcaraz wins his fourth Grand Slam at a...