The Sportive

Old friend Josh  and Cousin Brian join a live recording at Legends along with a host of off-mic podcast pals. Discussed: The state of our #BuxChub What to do with Aaron Hicks Pants Down, LLC Cousin Brian on being wooed by "The Bachelor" franchise Cousin Brian on his Australian Rules Football career (Jon took his pants off during this segment) Review of the Nelson concert. Repeat: NELSON CONCERT A...

Hello and welcome to Sexual Dave and the Pervs. We rolled with a skeleton crew this week as Jon and Clarence were no-shows, so Stu and B went sports-light and covered:   Escrow accounts? Ranking musical Crows One-album wonders  Weekly pageboy haircuts Super timely review of 80s comedians 4th of July plans (Nelson!) The micro agony and macro joy of parenting Bumming out on the England World Cup own...

It's an all-NBA (well, mostly-NBA) episode of the podcast. Brandon and Jon are joined by our friend Dylan and his brother Ian to talk about: Karl-Anthony Towns and erectile health Flip Saunders and how we loathe him Would you rather be wrong and happy, or right and miserable? The best Wolves starting five How to improve the NBA How to improve hockey overtimes (it got random at the end) Later the W...

Filbert nuts and harmonicas both take the brunt end of some serious shit-talking Neil Young is pretty good John Popper is not #BUXCHUB A sad review of Twins FIPs NBA finals recap Weekend plans   Meandering, unprepared, vulgar, funny. We checked all the Sportive boxes.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Reunited and it feels so good - at least for a few minutes until Stu drops out and never returns. Nevertheless, we battle through the adversity to cover: Jon's new footie gig Friendlies: do they matter a tiny bit, or not at all? The asinine draft and cold streak that cured us of Nant Fever Embracing the insane NBA finals Clarence's Denver review General travel woes Then we broken skull challenge e...

Clarence ditched us again so fill-in host and startribune.biz editor Brian Stensaas  joined us to holler about:  "I did a little Pony" - Stu's self-review of his Dad Dance More head-scratching about the Twins Molitor review Invention idea: anti-snob pills Sordid details of the Strib behind the scenes (mostly just Sid being cranky) A tiny bit of AP talk, sorry Half-assed NBA and NHL finals previews...

Clarence couldn't make it for this one, so we replaced him with Liz Welle and got back to work. Thanks to her for being willing to talk to us about any and all of the following: The Twins: are we ready to love again? Upside-down nachos Paynesville, MN Why Rangers fans are the absolute worst, and how much we hate people who went to North Dakota Nacho criteria A horrifying soccer story And plenty mo...

TITLETOWN. Letterman. Wilco. Towns vs Okafor. Hakstol. Eliminate tugging? Twins musical chairs. Mauer the fucking animal.   Titletown. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We forgot to prepare for the show so we did a group tap-dance routine for an hour. The routine included:   Clarence's NFL draft rebuttal Our throats are scratchy, we're coming down with something, not sure what it could be, it's a mystery NBA draft lottery (yes, it got that desperate) Art-A-Whirl, dance competitions and various other tangents   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...

Topics: Vikings draft review in which Brandon compliments Spielman and immediately enters witness protection to avoid the wrath of Clarence Heavy sighs over the Wild Stu's daughter says hello! Group therapy on how to deal with sports loss and the key to happy fandom Our annual cackling over the Twins brief competence Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the first time in more than 100 episodes, we got all four of us in a room at the same time. We went to Grumpy's in Roseville, where we were joined by an all-star cast, including Aaron Gleeman (for the whole thing) and (at various times) Hans Van Slooten, Amanda White, Lindsay Guentzel, and Dave Marthaler. When all four of us weren't talking at the exact same time - which was most of the time -...

Flush with new listeners after our City Pages award, we tried an experiment in which one of us got hopped up on cold medicine, two others watched TV instead of paying attention and the fourth chatted into an unanswering ether about god knows what. The result was...interesting? Maybe? Topics: Paul Molitor is the bright spot in the organization because he's not yet obviously terrible According to lo...

AGENDA: Head scratching and back slapping over our "Best MN Sports Podcast" award  from City Pages Wild playoff preview including Keys to the Series (spoiler alert: the keys are Cooperalls and weird trash talk) The Twins are garbage but we have two silver linings, both related to boners Out of context quote: "Hairless Twink Ads" Unhinged griping about the Wolves, who even in this terrible sports t...

We commemorate our milestone 100th episode by being woefully unprepared and overly negative as usual. A few topics we grit n grinded our way through:   Our dumbest statements over the first 99 episodes Jon setting a world record for worst explanation of the NHL playoff structure Some very necessary Twins venting Ask Sportive: our most hated team, our favorite generation, ranking outstate cities, t...

We spent the entire hour talking about the Twins and it was as depressing, hopeless and ranty as you'd expect. We reviewed the terrible offseason, claimed our annual bros & turds and then predicted the wins total. Some quotes: "Who the shit is JR Graham?" "Nick Punto exists to be accidentally punched"  "A touch of Rob Deer" "Ozzie's getting an ice cream helmet" "What I'm hoping for is a bunch of i...

Topics: Brandon's whiny Vegas recap BIG FOOTY NEWS from Jon, MN soccer's OG fan Are AP and his agent really this stupid? The official Sportive stance on public funding Wild still good /  Twins still bad Idea: platoon fifth starter Plus we hit our tangents quota. Give 'er a listen, friends.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Brandon went to Las Vegas instead of calling in, leaving the rest of us to flounder through. We even resorted to actually looking up facts, for the first time in the history of the podcast, so listen to us type the following into Wikipedia: Just how bad was Gopher basketball this year? Why Devan Dubnyk maybe doesn't need as much of a rest as some seem to think The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Ac...

Brandon, Stu, and Jon head for Grumpy's in Roseville to have a Bloody Mary and discuss: What's the best suburb? Matt Cassel, Shaun Hill, Mike Wallace, Greg Jennings, and how much Clarence loves Rick Spielman (Clarence wasn't there) What can we find to be mad about, with the Twins? Brandon is going to Vegas to watch hoops New Minnesota soccer web site Northern Pitch , and how you should be reading...

This week we decided to try talking about sports:  Cassel trade AP: maybe not so good of a guy Why Jon hates small town hockey AA State teams to root for Al Meyer predictions, or how to reverse troll Whether Sano weighing 500 pounds bothers us BUX CHUBS Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Discussed: KG trade Wild outlook Beerfest Brandon admits to being a hothead prick We laugh for 45 minutes about a tweet from our pal Mike Rand A new segment called "Clarence's Rants: Directors Cut" A bunch of other BS that we've already forgotten Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Agenda-free which means we discussed: danceline controversies, celebrity deaths, youth wrestling, strip clubs, elbow surgeries, Fireball raffles, chain smoking, Ikea on a Friday, Parlour burgers, baby analogies, Aussie rules football and more.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Covered: All the positivity in this town just sucks Russo v. Swamptown Whether or not Curt Flood was a real person RIP golf The athlete with the most interesting life story Over-the-hill singers and bucket lists We detail our extensive romantic plans for Valentine's Day Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guess what? We had audio issues. Our recording app failed to record around 30 minutes of this podcast, leading to two large gaps in what were some spectacular #AskSportive answers from our good friend, national champion tweeter Zach Floyd (go follow him at @floyding ). We talked about the Wild and Wolves a little bit, but most of this episode was given over to your random questions. Which we, you...

Welcome to Ain't Shit Goin' On Week here at The Sportive. After decades of pure misery from Minnesota sports, our spirits have finally broken to the point that we can't even muster the energy to complain anymore. Instead we discuss advanced football stats, best practices on bribing children, crow-hopping cell phones and then we just start listing vacation spots we'd like to visit.  Look at what yo...

Our friend and pigskin expert  Josh  joins us to give a detailed review of the Vikings season and outlook for next year. Along the way we toss out our standard tangents, which include:   Laughing at the Packers loss Bill Belicheck is a cheater and future murderer Brandon's pathetic ploy to stay young Yet another battle on the righteousness of curly fries #FarmTalk A classic softball story As meand...