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00:00The first let us start with opening day. Yes, it happened in Tokyo Major League Baseball finished up this morning. It's first game of the season Cubs and Dodgers in case you missed it. This one goes to the Dodgers final score four to one. They pick up where they left off last season.
00:15Yoshinobu Yamamoto five innings pitch three hits one and run one walk for strikeouts on the flip side. Shota Imanaga went just four innings and walked for struck out two for the Cubs Tanner Scott the new closer for the Dodgers picked up his first save.
00:30No Freddie Freeman in this one with rib discomfort. No word if he will play tomorrow again 610 Eastern game Roki Sasaki against Justin Steel. Those are the starters as they finish up this series in Tokyo Dodgers still by the way favorites not that this is going to affect anything but the Dodgers are still favorites to win the World Series Braves nine to one Yankees nine to one take your pick there doesn't always work out to be the favorite.
00:55I know it did last year, but Dodgers still favorite of course to win the World Series. All right, Paul George not going to do his podcast for the rest of the season also not going to play the rest of the season that came fast. Right life comes at you as they say this is reported by ESPN. He received injections in his left adductor muscle and left knee that rules him out for six weeks that takes care of the regular season for Philadelphia because they're not going to make the playoffs.
01:17He was consulting on a lot of different options what to do. It just seems like the fixer season was over. So he did this by the way in case you were wondering is one of the worst fixer seasons ever. They are 23 and 45 on the season and that is only five games out Alex of a play in game NBA. What are we doing in the NBA 23 and 45 and you're only five games out.
01:37I don't get it. Congrats to bet 365. They've opened up in Tennessee officially launched. This is the 13th state that you can bet legally in on the app bet 365 once upon a time very very popular outside of the United States now popular in the United States as well. They become the 12th online sportsbook approved to take bets in Tennessee.
01:57Bet MGM is there. So is Caesars. So is DraftKings. So is ESPN and Fandle. If you live in Tennessee that could be important to you. How about if you live in West Virginia. You may not be happy with your college basketball team not going to the NCAA tournament. One of the all time snubs it would appear in the tournament 19 and 13 six quad win wins this season.
02:19But they lost in Game 1 of the Big 12 tournament to Colorado. And it seems like they're getting a little testy there a little bit salty there. Their governor Patrick Morrissey has lashed out at the men's NCAA tournament selection committee and he's asking the attorney general to investigate the snub and work closely with the NCAA to make sure that that process was fair. And he even did it in front of cameras. Here he is.
02:47West Virginia deserved to be in the NCAA tournament. This was a miscarriage of justice and robbery at the highest levels. Now who was the last team to get into the tournament ahead of the Mountaineers. That would be the University of North Carolina.
03:06Now let's see how their resume stacks up. The Tar Heels went 1 and 12 in quad one games and even had a quad three loss. And we keep hearing about the importance of these quad one wins. But UNC couldn't even get more than one.
03:25We've been involved in dealing with the NCAA in the past. There are some watching now know that I brought litigation against the NCAA with a number of my colleagues a few years ago. I know there were a lot of chance to free Raekwon battle which is what we did when the NCAA rules for transfers was out of whack.
03:47It's hard for me to put that aside right now knowing that West Virginia was out in front suing in 2023. And here we are an NCAA. I don't know what's going on. Is this retribution. We're going to have to get to the bottom of that.
04:05Hopefully they will for West Virginia's sake. Some strong stuff. All right. Iona has fired their head basketball coach late yesterday. Tobin Anderson is out as their head coach 17 and 17 last season. He was 33 and 34 in his two seasons at Iona. All right. First four matchups tonight. That controversial team North Carolina will be at it.
04:28First we got St. Francis against Alabama State. Alabama State three and a half point favorites tonight. It's in Dayton Ohio. It is a 640 Eastern game. And the winner of this one gets to play Auburn. Congratulations in that one. Meanwhile North Carolina the controversial selection to the NCAA tournament. They are at 11 seeds. So is San Diego State.
04:49They'll play tonight at 910 Eastern UNC four and a half point favorites in this one. And the winner will play Mississippi. In the NBA last night the Knicks were down to the heat who have struggled in a bigger way than they've struggled in a long time.
05:05And they came back and won. Miami's now lost eight games in a row. Mikel Bridges had 28 points. Josh Hart had eight his eighth triple double of the season. The Knicks swept the season series for the first time. Get this since 1992 1993. The Rockets have now won seven games in a row. They win in overtime 144 to 137 against the 76ers. The Pacers have been playing some incredible close games. They did again yesterday against the Timberwolves in overtime.
05:32Obie Toppin had 34 points. Rick Carlisle after the game talked about the performance. It was a battle of attrition in a lot of ways for us because once Drew went out then there's no way TJ could play the whole game from that point on. And so Quinn Jackson was going to be an important guy one way or the other. And then it was just trying to piece it together.
05:56Anthony Edwards is as big a superhuman problem as there is in the game right now and he made some spectacular plays. And then on the very last possession Thomas Bryant stayed square on Randall and forced a shot that was slightly short and we're out of here alive.
06:18All right. I don't know if I would have described it that way alive but so be it. All right. The Pistons dominated the Pelicans on the road. Kate Cunningham had 24 and 8 127 81 the final by the way. Zion Williamson had 30 points of the 81 that the Pelicans scored. They also announced that Trey Murphy the third has a season ending torn labrum injury that's going to cost him the remainder of the year and hopefully he'll be OK for next season.
06:42Meanwhile no Nicola Jokic no Jamal Murray and the Nuggets still beat the Warriors somehow 114 to 105. Aaron Gordon had 38 points. Russell Westbrook had a triple double Steph Curry status for tonight's game seems to be in jeopardy here a little bit may not play. So keep an eye on that if you're betting that game the Kings beat the Grizzlies 132 to 122.
07:02The Monticello bonus was lost in this game to an ankle injury and also the Suns beat the Raptors 129 to 89 trying to stay alive for the last playing spot as Dallas is free falling and Phoenix may be able to get that thing. Devin Booker had 27 points in the NFL. The Steelers have signed one Thornhill to a one year contract.
07:20Former second round picks of the Kansas City Chiefs the Texans are bringing in Ronald Darby on a one year million dollar deal. The Eagles signed Aziz Ujulari to a one year four million dollar contract. The Vikings said that center Garrett Bradbury is going to get released. He spent six seasons with the team. Lane Johnson of course is staying with the Eagles. He reworked his contract. He wants to be an eagle for life and it looks like he will be before he ends up retiring.