The Roundup Podcast

On today's show, football is back! NFL scheduling was a thing of beauty, with potential Playoff matchups all over primetime, as we kicked off with as much  excitement you could ask for between the Chiefs and Ravens, a solid Packers/Eagles tilt, OT in Detroit between the Lions and Rams, and a dominant performance by the Niners vs the Jets. Then on Sunday, it was RedZone time, as we watched Josh All...

On today's show, we had two conferences to cover, so we split it up into two separate parts, with episode 617 covering the South, and now here, as we wrap up our NFL season previews out west. Now we get to our defending conference champions, the favorites yet again, but we'll take a look at what's changed from last season and how likely a repeat Super Bowl appearance really is. Plus, there's What...

On today's show, as our NFL season previews continue the outlooks shift radically as we head down south. Between the North and the East divisions in both conferences, I counted no fewer than 8 teams with a viable chance to get to the Super Bowl, in the Eagles, the Cowboys, the Bills, the Jets, the Lions, the Packers, the Ravens and the Bengals, but as we look to the 8 teams from AFC and NFC South,...

On today's show, it's time to head to the heartland, as we take a look at what we might expect to see out of the black and blue NFC North and the AFC North. Three legit Super Bowl contenders, a boatload of superstars, and tons of storylines highlight our season previews; we're talking Caleb Williams and the bandwagon Bears, the Lions, the Ravens, Joe Burrow, and thats just the tip of the iceberg....

On today's show, we start to shift gears, going from pretty much just talking basketball since the Chiefs won the Super Bowl, back to football, as the 2024 NFL season just sneaks up on us after an extremely active NBA offseason. Sure, Gaber and I both have lots to say about what we saw in Paris, everything from Steph raining 3's in the medal rounds and giving the world a Nuit-Nuit to close out Fra...

On today's show, even tho the NBA Finals ended more than a month and a half ago, the hoops world hasn't slowed down at all after the end of the season; it's just been one event after another. The Draft, trades, Free Agency, then Summer League and Team USA Showcases, and now two weeks of Olympics' hoops that takes us thru the middle of August and seamlessly merges into football season. Throw in wat...

On today's show, despite the season being almost two weeks in our rear view, the NBA hasn't gone anywhere. We've had Bridges' trade to the Knicks, among other deals of varying significance; the Draft, and why YMMV, we're gonna try to refrain from deciding the career arcs of players who haven't set foot on an NBA court yet; and now, Free Agency is underway, and while there haven't been any mega-dea...

On today's show, it's all about perspective, as we reconcile endings with memories and new beginnings. The sports world lost an all-time icon, as Willie Mays passes away at age 93, but the outpouring of appreciation we saw immediately following the announcement was befitting of the legend he was, both on and off the field. RIP #24, I never saw him play but I was always acutely aware of how great h...

On today's show, finally, after what seems like forever, we have an NBA Finals game to look forward to, with the championship series starting tomorrow. After more than a month of at least one NBA game on every single night, two quick Conference Finals series of 4-0 Celtics and 4-1 Mavs left us with the awkward absence of NBA hoops for over a week. But it's given us time to really marinate on the c...

On today's show, we're wrapping up the Conference Semifinals and looking ahead to the round of four, and although ymmv on entertainment value, the sheer volume of games has been fantastic. NBA Playoff basketball has kept hoopheads busy, that's for sure, with 74 games in 33 nights, and 31 nights straight with at least one game, and Playoff hoops at that. And we still have two rounds to go! Sure it...

On today's show, with the NBA Playoffs in full swing it's all hoops, all the time, and we have a lot to get into with Round 2 underway. But first, it's a way too late post-mortem on our Golden State Warriors' season; we've been so busy talking about actual Playoff teams that we didn't get a chance to review the season and look ahead to next year, but rest assured, this will likely be the last Warr...

On today's show, we're checking in on the NBA Playoffs midway thru Round 1 action, and so far, the "old" stars seem on their way out, even as the new generation appears ready to take over. Our guy Steph, now in his mid-30s, is out, sent home before it all even started, while 25 year old SGA is in, as in, likely in the Conference Finals this year with his Thunder, and the franchise looking to be in...

On today's show, in part 1, we're checking in on the NBA Playoffs midway thru Round 1 action, and so far, the "old" stars seem on their way out, even as the new generation appears ready to take over. Our guy Steph, now in his mid-30s, is out, sent home before it all even started, while 25 year old SGA is in, as in, likely in the Conference Finals this year with his Thunder, and the franchise looki...

On today's show, we're catching up on a busy time on the sports calendar and we're reveling in the abundance of stories out there for us to follow, as March Madness and the NBA regular season wrap-up, and as we get ready for the Masters, the NBA Play-in and Playoffs and then the NFL Draft. But what we really get into today are the various seeding battles we have in both the NBA's Western and Easte...

On today's show, as the NBA regular season comes down to the last 10 or so games and the playoffs get closer, we have teams jockeying for seeding position in both conferences, as well as Play-In tourney spots to fill. In the Eastern Conference, Donte DiVincenzo has been on fire for the Knicks, as they try to hold off the Cavs for the 3 seed and get the chance to avoid the Celtics before the Confer...

On today's show, NFL free agency hit the sports world hard, and while the best players pretty much never hit the open market, there were still some potentially impactful moves. The Steelers are all about 2nd chance QBs, the Texans are building on last year's success, the Panthers are trying to offer Bryce some more support, the Eagles and Ravens are retooling and the Bears are getting ready for th...

On today's show, the NFL season is a wrap but the League never sleeps. With the draft the next big NFL event, the Bears hold the best hand and we discuss what course of action is best for the team with the #1 pick. But first, after taking our own All-Star break, we belatedly discuss the criticism of the NBA's highest profile exhibition game, look ahead to the stretch drive and delineate the true c...

On today's show, Super Bowl LVIII is in the books, along with another NFL season, and we all suddenly have a lot more free time on Sundays. The Big Game started slow but ended with a performance by Patrick Mahomes worthy of the Vegas stage they were on. Mahomes was every bit the smart gambler; he folded a few hands, stuck with his system and in the end, hit the jackpot late in overtime, but as man...

On today's show, it's time to make our Super Bowl picks, with just a few days before the Big Game, and let the equivocating begin! At first glance, it looks like the Niners have the superior roster; it's practically an all-star team. But if you look closer, the Chiefs have the advantage at quite a few positions. And on top of that, after all we've seen these past 6 seasons, how do you bet against...

On today's show, the Super Bowl matchup is set and we're recapping how the Niners and Chiefs got here. Now technically it's a rematch of the big game from 2020, but in reality, these are much different versions of the teams we saw play just a handful of years ago. And we're not gonna focus on tearing down the Ravens and Lions like other shows seem to be doing; the two best teams advanced, and we g...

On today's show, the intention is to concentrate mainly on the NFL Playoffs this time of year, but the NBA keeps throwing big storylines at us that we just can't skip past, like Embiid and KAT putting up monster scoring numbers on the same night, Terry Rozier getting shipped to the Heat and the 30-13 2 seed Bucks deciding to jettison their head coach midseason. But after we sort thru all that, we...

On today's show, Super Wild Card Weekend is in the books and we got the upsets we were looking for. The Chiefs and Bills rolled along as expected, and we called CJ Stroud and the Texans upsetting the Browns, while the Cowboys' collapse to the Packers seemed par for the course for Dallas, but the Rams came up just a bit short against the Lions and I regret not having the nerve to pick the Bucs over...

On today's show, it's NFL Playoff season and we're loaded up with previews for what should be a great slate of high stakes football over Super Wild Card Weekend, and we see the opportunity for at least a few upsets. Now the field looks a little different than what we saw coming into the season, with the Super Bowl representatives from last season looking far less dominant this time around, with th...

On today's show, we're zooming in on the NFL as we hit Week 18 and there's still a whole lot to be decided. The 1 seeds are set in both conferences, but everything else will be sorted this weekend, with 2 games on Saturday and a busy slate on Sunday. The marquee matchup is for the AFC East, as the Dolphins and Bills play for the division, but the AFC South is still up for grabs between the Jags, C...

On today's show, we start off by trying to make some sense of a wacky Western Conference just past a quarter of the way into the season, talking some overachievers, underachievers and everything in between, while in the East, it's all a lot more straightfoward, but today's question is, are the Timberwolves, Thunder, Magic and Knicks legit top-6 Playoff teams and can they avoid the Play-in? Plus, o...