The Sport Blokes

(00:21) What Caught Your Attention and Whatdya Miss? (9:58) Basketball. Australian Basketball Hall of Fame inductees (Andrew Gaze elevated to legend status) North America: Thoughts on NBA Finals (with a flashback to ep 70 an NBA season preview episode); We talk as fans about our favourite teams, Stu on the OKC Thunder and then Nath on the San Antonio Spurs (DeJounte Murray trade); Several stars an...

(00:22) Introduction (01:57) Early career; Travel, the 'doomsday double' and best teams/opponents/favourite venues. (14:08) The move from winter to summer and tv coverage (18:01) Winning championships as a coach/pressures of coaching and coaching in Australia (25:40) Media & commentating (29:14) Lauren Jackson rejoins Australian Opals (after Liz Cambage saga) (31:13) Perth Wildcats' woes (and many...

Recorded 25 June 2022 (with other clips from interviews on 26 May & 7 June) (00:00) Thanks very much Alex Loughton, Peter Hooley & Brad Rosen for their contributions to this episode! (00:35) Introduction (03:24) Context - the NBL & the Next Stars Program (12:10) Dyson Daniels – Pick #8 New Orleans Pelicans (22:35) Ousmane Dieng – Pick #11 Oklahoma City Thunder (via New York Knicks) (32:49) Luke Tr...

Recorded 14 May 2022 (00:25) Baseball - Game 6 2003 NLCS Chicago Cubs v Tampa Bay Rays: Steve Bartman (25:58) Football World Cup Qualifiers (CONCACAF) -  Team USA v Trinidad & Tobago (2017) (38:45) Final Thoughts   Check out all the Choke Specials! Apple: Episode 72 Great Sport Chokes I: https://apple.co/3l64KUR Episode 75 Great Sport Chokes II: https://apple.co/3FCQBry Episode 102 Great Sport Cho...

Recorded 12 June 2022 (00:25) Intro (Nath has COVID-19) (03:02) Basketball: NBL1 & NBL - Stuey attends Warwick Senators loss v Geraldton Buccaneers and Adelaide confirm Antonius Cleveland and Robert Franks signings. (05:02) Basketball: NBA - Max's 3 becomes a 2 in Miami; Random thoughts on NBA Finals Games 1-4 (19:53) French Open: Iga Swiatek & Rafael Nadal win (but lots of love for Coco Gauff too...

Recorded 7 June 2022. (00:25) Introduction (01:53) Interview: Peter Hooley (Basketball). Thoughts on the rumoured Adelaide 36ers signings; Junior football and being related to footy royalty (the Aishs in the SANFL and James Aish in the AFL); College at University of Albany and early basketball career (Aussie college pipelines, Selection Sunday, the NCAA tournament and playing against future NBA ta...

Recorded 26 May 2022. (00:25) Introduction (05:30) Interview: Alex Loughton (Basketball). Thoughts on 2022 season, playoffs and finals (with congratulations to the Sydney Kings and big wraps for Tasmania JackJumpers' coach Scott Roth); Reflections/thoughts on each team heading towards season 2023. (1:10:09) Final Thoughts   Check out our other chats with Alex in episodes 38 & 53.

Recorded 8 March 2022 (00:25) Intro (03:44) Basketball - 1993 NCAA Championship - North Carolina v Michigan: Chris Webber (30:29) What Made Stu Say Bloody Hell? (2022 ATP administrators) (32:52) Football (NFL) - 2017 Super Bowl 51: Atlanta Falcons v New England Patriots (43:35) Outro   Check out Episode 72 Great Sport Chokes I & Ep 75 Great Sport Chokes II

Recorded 14 May 2022 (00:25) What Caught Your Attention and Whatdya Miss? (Part 1) (00:46) What Made Stu (and Nath) Say Bloody Hell? (03:32) What Caught Your Attention and Whatdya Miss? (Part 2) - with NBA (08:52) NBL (48:30) The Road Ahead (53:49) What Are You Amped For?/Final Thoughts

Recorded 5 May 2022 (00:25) What Caught Your Attention and Whatdya Miss? (08:50) NBL (42:34) NBA (1:06:50) AFL (1:21:24) What Are You Amped For?

Recorded 27 April 2022 (00:25) What Caught Your Attention and Whatdya Miss? (09:31) Basketball: NBL (50:17) This Week in Sport History (1:02:42) Basketball: NBA (1:29:05) What Are You Amped For?

Recorded 19 April 2022 (00:25) What Caught Your Attention and Whatdya Miss? (15:10) What Made Stu Say Bloody Hell? (17:28) Basketball: NBA (45:24) Basketball: NBL (1:00:16) Footy: AFL (1:16:24) What Are You Amped For?

Recorded 13 April 2022 (00:25) What Caught Your Attention and Whatdya Miss? (11:23) Basketball: NBA (56:16) Basketball: NBL (1:00:20) Footy: AFL (1:10:19) This Week in Sport History (1:14:44) Cricket (1:19:08) What Are You Amped For?  

Recorded 5 April 2022 (00:25) What caught your attention and Whatdya Miss (10:40) Cricket (23:35) Basketball - NCAA (31:40) Basketball - NBL: That press conference with CoScoMo and the John Brown III saga (52:52) This Week In Sport History (59:39) Football - AFL (1:20:21) What Are You Amped For?

Recorded 29 March 2022 Interview with 2-time Australian Air Guitar Champion and World Champion Runner Up: Alex Roberts aka the Jinja Assassin (00:02) Introduction & what is air guitar? (03:00) How did you get into air guitar? (04:00) How Important is it for an air guitarist to play guitar? (06:50) How Do You Choose Your Songs? (09:25) The "Beat It" Incident (13:14) Quick clip about sport from norm...

Recorded 22 March 2022 (00:25) What caught your attention and Whatdya Miss (03:03) Interview (clip) - 2-time World Air Guitar Runner Up The Jinja Assassin (13:40) AFL (26:50) Tennis (38:07) Cricket (48:29) Basketball - NBA (1:05:05) The Jinja Assassin bids us Farewell (1:11:21) Basketball - NBL (1:22:08) Basketball - NCAA (1:25:10) What Are You Amped For?

Recorded 22 March 2022 (00:25) What caught your attention and Whatdya Miss (08:20) AFL (24:18) Cricket: Benaud-Qadir Trophy, Women's World Cup. (34:28) This Week in Sport History (42:10) Basketball - NBL, NBA & NCAA. (1:05:43) What Are You Amped For?

Recorded 14 March 2022 (00:25) What caught your attention and Whatdya Miss (06:44) Cricket: Women's World Cup; Benaud-Qadir Trophy; Law changes (Substitution rule/Mankad rears his head again) & WA win Marsh Cup. (30:07) Rapid Fire Tennis & AFL (38:43) This Week in Sport History (51:33) Basketball - NBL: Some reflections on (the good games of) Round 15: Tasmania go 2-0; South East Melbourne Phoenix...

Recorded 4 March 2022   (00:25) Introduction. (03:55) How did the boys get into basketball? (10:18) How did the Throwback Hoops podcast begin? (11:57) The boys' massive jersey & bobblehead collections. (16:21) The boys' card collections. (21:38) The boys' favourite players growing up. (26:32) Favourite sport movies/anthems. (31:31) Poeltl/Thoughts on NBA trade deadline/age of entitlement (we grab...

RIP Shane Warne & Rod Marsh   (We really struggled with whether or not to release this clip, its imperfect but its real and in the immediate aftermath of us hearing of Shane's passing - we just so happened to be near the mic. Apologies if thoughts on Rod seem like an afterthought, that is definitely not how we intended it).

Recorded 1 March 2022 (00:25) What caught your attention and Whatdya Miss/Rapid Recap:Tennis; ALF/AFLW; Cricket; MLB; NFL. (18:19) What Made Stu Say Bloody Hell? (23:18) Basketball - NBL: RIP Jack Bendat/Sending our thoughts to CJ Bruton and his family; Good to see Scott Machado & Nathan Sobey back (Sobes has his bronze medal stolen!). The more things change, the more they stay the same round: Bri...

Recorded 22 February 2022 (00:25) What caught your attention and Whatdya Miss/Rapid Recap: Winter Olympics (Kamilia Valieva); Cricket (Australia vs Sri Lanka, Australia's upcoming tour of Pakistan, James Faulkner PSL, Ben Cutting vs Sohail Tanvir, Zimbabwe tour of Australia/Tarisai Musakanda & Matthew Spoors); NFL: Further Reflections on the Super Bowl; Tennis (Carlos Alcaraz, Alex Zverev vs Jense...

Recorded 22 February 2022 Basketball: (00:07) NBL: A recap of the games since we last recorded (Round 11/12): NZ edge out Cairns to finish round 11; Melbourne United pip South East Melbourne Phoenix again (JLA MVP?); Illawarra get much needed win over Cairns; The Phoenix play yet again, getting a close one against Brisbane; Kings defeat Perth in a close one (Wildcats imports, Stuey has back and fo...

Recorded 14 February 2022   This Week in Sport History.   Listen to the full episode out soon! Find us on twitter @sportblokes or write to us sportblokes@gmail.com

Recorded 14 February 2022 (00:25) What caught your attention and Whatdya miss? (05:53) Just Not Cricket (09:13) NFL: Immediate reactions to Super Bowl LVI - LA Rams 23-Cincinnati 20 (Cooper Kupp Super Bowl MVP, Aaron Rodgers season MVP). (22:26) This Week in Sport History (32:11) Basketball: NBA - Trade deadline review, a crazy stat and a Larry Bird story. (1:02:35) Basketball: NBL - Matt Hodgson...