The Roundup Podcast

On today's show, we're just about down to just 4 more regular season games in the NFL season as no fewer than 22 teams jockey for Playoff positions, but we have to remember; a lot can change in a short time, as we've seen with the Niners, once losers of three straight and now the number 1 seed in the NFC and the Cowboys, leading the NFC East after a huge win vs Philly, themselves now losers of 2 s...

On today's show, as Week 13 of the NFL season gets underway, I'm only seeing 5 legit title contenders. Sorry Dolphins, sorry Jags and sorry long suffering Lions' fans, I know your teams are really good, but realistically, you're just not Super Bowl champion good, and even despite a one dimensional, Josh Allen-centric offense, I might have included the Bills, were it not for devastating season endi...

On today's show, it's midseason in the NFL and uncertainty abounds. Missing this season is the truly dominant team, the absolute can't miss Super Bowl contender whom every other team fears and, to me, the any given Sunday cliche pretty much defines the season. Sure the Eagles are great, but even at 8-1 the assessment on them is that they're not as good as last year's version and their most reliabl...

On today's show, the sports eclipse is upon us, as the NFL trade deadline hits after Week 8, the Rangers go up 3-1 in the World Series, and the NBA season is underway. The Niners have lost 3 straight now, Brocktober is over, and the upside is definitely there in their acquisition of edge rusher Chase Young, but should they have targeted Rasul Douglas instead, who the Bills acquired to bolster thei...

On today's show, the sports eclipse is here, as the NFL season heats up and we have half of our our World Series matchup, but what I'm most excited about today is the return of our Warriors and the NBA season. Blatant homerism notwithstanding, Steph Curry looks to be in prime form and I love this roster, but I'm also excited to see Wemby in action, the superteam Suns, Jokic and the defending champ...

On today's show, with 6 weeks of the NFL season in the books, we've seen enough by this point to start making some judgements as to what we've witnessed so far. With losses by the Niners and the Eagles, there are no more undefeated teams left, and this is the perfect opportunity for us to assess the teams' performances so far with our first power rankings of the season. Plus, with the NBA season s...

On today's show, we're amazed how fast this NFL season has gone by; it's wild that we're almost a quarter of the way through the schedule already but it proves the time honored adage that time flies when you're having fun. The Niners and the Eagles are having a blast out there as the league's last remaining undefeated teams at 4-0, but it's always more fun when you're winning and I'd have to say t...

On today's show, we interrupt our regularly scheduled coverage of this already wild NFL season to get into some NBA talk, as we get a preseason blockbuster trade with Dame Lillard getting moved to the Bucks to team up with Giannis and getting his chance to win that elusive ring. Now, we all know that Miami was his destination of choice, and lately we had heard that the Raptors were in on the trade...

On today's show, we're 2 weeks into the NFL season and as we should've expected after all of these years watching the NFL, things aren't going exactly according to expectations. Now, the Cowboys and the Niners look as dominant as we thought they would, and despite Week 1 losses, the Bills and Chiefs were able to bounce back in Week 2, but I doubt anyone saw the Bengals starting off 0-2 with Joe Bu...

On today's show, football is back, and it's time for that time honored tradition, you know the drill, where we make every result from Week 1 of the NFL season a referendum on how the season is gonna play out. Losses by top tier Super Bowl contenders like the Chiefs, the Bengals and the Bills, or Playoff contenders like the Steelers, the Seahawks, the Chargers or the Broncos, start an avalanche of...

On today's show, we continue our NFL previews by going out west. The NFC West has a clear cut favorite, with the Niners looking to build on the surprise success of Mr Irrelevant, Brock Purdy, now fully recovered from his elbow injury, as well as fielding an all-star team on defense, especially now that Nick Bosa is back in the fold with a new contract, but the Seahawks appear to be ready to repeat...

On today's show, we continue our NFL previews looking at a loaded east. The AFC East boasts one of the most dominant teams of the past few years, albeit one that has fallen short in the Playoffs, as the Bills look to live up to high expectations behind a healthy Josh Allen. But all the attention is on New York, as the new look Jets, complete with Aaron Rodgers as their first franchise QB since Joe...

On today's show, we continue our NFL previews by going up north. The NFC North will be up for grabs, as the dominant team of the past 10 years, the Green Bay Packers, retool after losing franchise anchor Aaron Rodgers in the offseason, and this will be the first time in over 20 years that they don't have a Hall of Fame QB. The Lions look set to take over, with the Vikings expected to come back dow...

On today's show, we answer the question, are you ready for some football with a resounding "YES!", as we begin our NFL season previews. We're starting at the bottom, with what we expect to be the divisions that have the least likely chance to put a representative into the Super Bowl, and that would be the AFC South and the NFC South, and then, as we get closer to opening kickoff on September 7th,...

On today's show, we return from our summer hiatus to transition from NBA coverage to the upcoming NFL season, in addition to recapping what we've been up to over our break. As we shift our focus from the hardwood to the gridiron, we still have some catching up to do on the hoops front, as far as what we saw during Summer League and what we think of all the moves our Warriors made in the offseason,...

On today's show, NBA Free Agency got off to a frenzied start, with the top names flying off the shelf on some hefty price tags as teams collectively spent over a billion dollars in total contracts on Day 1 alone, but even as the spending slowed down over the holiday weekend, Summer League tipped off, so we have a lot to catch up on. Yeah, we saw seven 9 figure contracts given out, a few at $40+ mi...

On today's show, only 2 weeks removed from the coronation of Jokic and the Nuggets, the landscape of the NBA has already shifted significantly, and we have a lot to catch up on. We all know by now that the NBA offseason holds a special place in the hearts of hoops fans, how the machinations and movement fascinate a segment of fans who rarely even actually watch the games. It's probably one reason...

On today's show, it's a wrap, with another NBA Finals in the books, and the 2022-2023 season ends with Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray and the Denver Nuggets as our NBA champions. The Nuggets' Playoff run was impressive, with only 4 total losses as they rolled through the postseason with never a series in doubt, and today we're looking at what makes them a deserving champ. With the spotlight shining br...

On today's show, we're getting ready to dig into a rather appetizing NBA Finals matchup for us basketball nerds, while acknowledging that at the same time, Heat/Nuggets might not have the appeal of Lakers/Celtics to the NBA League Office, nostalgia-buffs and casuals. But we have a 2 time league MVP making his first Finals appearance, and he legit has a title-worthy Nuggets team behind him. Jamal M...

On today's show, we were all set to put a wrap on these Conference Finals and move on to the Joker vs Jimmy but the Celtics had something to say about that, taking Game 4 in Miami to avoid the sweep, and in doing so, created for themselves an almost ideal comeback situation, as well as the most probable scenario for a Heat collapse. So we postponed the pod til after GM 5 back in Boston; since we w...

On today's show, we're done moping after watching our Warriors take an absolute thrashing in a clinching Game 6 with the Lakers, we're ready to look ahead to the Conference Finals and wrap up Round 2 of the NBA Playoffs, and I'm wondering which fan base took their team's Conference Semifinal exit the hardest. Warrior fans are coming off a title year so they're out, we have nothing to complain abou...

On today's show, we're checking in on the Conference Semifinals heading into four high leverage Game Sixes starting tonite. We always love a Game 6 around here, one team with their backs against the wall, the other poised to advance, but what sets this scenario apart is that three of the teams facing elimination are the higher seeds and their Game 6 is on the road. The pressure is on both teams th...

On today's show, we're live at Casa Goldfield, still celebrating a huge win yesterday by our Ws in an epic GM 7 but ready to break down what was an extremely unusual 1st round. We got 4 upsets that we're gonna get into today, yet we only had one series that ended up really competitive, in Kings/Warriors, illustrating how decisive these other upsets really were. And we had injuries, lots of them an...

On today's show, the NBA Playoffs are off to a raging start, and even though we're only a week in, there's so much to catch up on. The Kings staggered the defending champion Warriors in Sacramento, with the Dubs losing both games as well as losing Draymond to a suspension, and the eulogies for the champs started coming from everywhere, but back in the Bay, Steph and Loon saved the day with a Game...

On today's show, NBA Playoff season is here! Well, almost. There's still the technicality of the final Play-In games tonite to determine who gets the dubious distinction of being first round fodder for the Nuggets and the Bucks, but the real action starts Saturday with a 4 game slate, and we're ready for it with previews of each and every series. The East is looking pretty chalk, hard to anticipat...