The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: Amin's Week Long Observations

Episode Date: April 17, 2025

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he is a fascinating figure somehow just we haven't had one like this really a villainous executive character he doesn't know what he's doing let's all laugh at him and then figure out how Dallas management explains worse and worse as they try to explain something that cannot be explained Nico Harrison becomes a figure for a symbol an avatar for management incompetence There's the suit who takes the blame when he ruins everything doesn't understand the emotion business is an idiot and coldly tries to explain it and Can't because he doesn't understand Luke and those people had a relationship that you have to respect that. Did you guys not see what happened to that

Super League because Europe actually respects its like things that thing fell apart because you can't just come over here and buy everything rich people that's not how it works like the Luca relationships not supposed to be something with your super maxi your super maxi max whatever you're not supposed to be able to just come in and buy that relationship because you don't care for it like it's why it was so confusing so we'll get to that in a second we got to get to mad dog as well because as it is telling me i got to play some mad dog sound oh man it will not disappoint i have not i have not heard but i wanted to get a means perspective

on as an executive and and somebody from basketball specifically, watching Travis Hunter come over to football with what I'm assuming we're all gonna believe is an empty threat, but it's just a wild thing to say, entering the league, telling your future employer, a league that has proven to be fairly conservative in terms of giving people like you that the power you presently want, which is to strut into the league is the dion sanders thing and say

hey who do i work for here i don't work for you if you don't play me both positions offense and defense whether you think it's right or not with me as an asset i'd choose i'll quit on the spot now it's uh... that i want to say it's an empty threat, but god, I hope it's not an empty threat. If you don't allow me to work more than anyone else, game over. I quit. That's my favorite part about all this is that, like, we're all pretending that these

teams are going to say, no, you've got to pick one, and I'm just waiting for the team to dress up and say, yeah, go ahead. And then like after a week of OTAs, he's like Jesus Christ This is a lot harder than that. Can I just make one? No, no, you said you were gonna quit You got to do too and then run him ragged all summer long by the time we get the camp He'll be begging to play one position and it'll be special teams. He doesn't even want to do anything else What an interesting way to look at it and probably doesn't really explain how we, lovers of sport, could explain to you, well wait a minute, if he could do it in college, why couldn't he do it in the pros?

And you're saying it'll run him too ragged because it'll be just way too much, all of it's too much, but he doesn't think it is. Dan, this happens to us in the NBA all the time where their players are like, they don't run any plays for me, man, why don't you get me the ball, I'll do it. And finally the coaches will be like, you know what? All right, clear out for him, give him the ball,

and then force feed him for a quarter. And then when that player realizes, like shit, this is hard, like creating against a defense that's waiting for me and no one's helping me, never mind. I get it. I like my role. It's a lot easier to just cut and make layups. Same thing here.

You could talk about what you want and trust me when I hear language like that, I'll quit and all that. That doesn't sound like to me the player. That sounds like people around the player. Man, you know what you should do man? You should tell them you quit if they don't listen. All the people hyping them up like yeah, yeah, it'd be so great for your brand, dude, if you played both, you'd be the first guy like,

yeah, yeah, I could do it, I did do it in college. And then you find out, oh, everyone here was elite in college. Everyone here is great at their job. And it's not just the physical demands, but I mean, we'll talk to Hawk tomorrow, I'll ask him about it. How much, I talked to Hawk about this last Friday.

I said, how many meetings did you guys have? He said, we had a team meeting, and then we had the offense meeting, and then we had wide receivers meeting, and then we had the special teams meeting. Now, double all that shit for this kid. Forget about the physical part, Dan. All the homework, all the playbooks, all the video,

all the, like, all that stuff. It's so much work. And then you realize, wait a second, I don't get to hang out with my girlfriend who wants to be a brand too and wants me to support her in the things she wants to do. I don't get to hang out with my friends. I'm basically all day long doing homework. And that add on to that, the physical demands of Jesus,

I'm exhausted, I'm getting hit all the time. It's, there's a reason why nobody does it. It's not because we're too conservative It's because it's too much to ask of one person, but he'll find out the hard way You can't split yourself, right? And that's the thing like if you're gonna be a wide receiver You need to be committed to being the best wide receiver you can be if you're committed to being a cornerback You have to be at the cornerbacks meeting and the DB's meeting and do all the things you got to do Hawk said it the other day

You cannot split yourself and try to input all that information and then on top of that go out on the field and then practice On one side and then practice on the other you're just running back and forth back and forth But you can't do it. Isn't that why we don't see more Shohei Otani like either a pitcher or you're a hitter Like you can't do both you need to dedicate well time well, but the part that I simply don't understand in the examination of this is there would appear to be a disconnect between however it is that Travis hunter thinks football playing is that would make him the best at all the things that he tries and now in the Deon Sanders household I don't know if you any any of you watch the d

on reality series like what d on has done to get to the top of a salary bigger than bill bella checks in college sports is he took an athlete a couple of athletes so supreme his son the lesser of them and he built a college football team the hardest way through black colleges when everyone told me can't do it can't do it can't do it he conquered college football told Travis Hunter he was going to do it Travis Hunter was the number one recruit in the land now Travis Hunter gets to

the league and you guys are saying the way you're analyzing this is because of what his path is without whatever the business of doing football with Deon Sanders was because Deon Sanders thinks it's easy and because for Travis Hunter it has been easy. Travis Hunter thinks that what the pros are is not something much harder than what he has already done and he has the confidence that he that whatever's just whatever we imagine just studied to be. These guys hey they're all at military schools they're going 40 hours a day they're in both playbooks. You gotta know the next opponent.

You gotta know both sides. No human being can do it. Dion did it. Dion did do it, but you cannot do it. You will not do it. You will not work harder. You will fail in three weeks. Why would you know that and he doesn't?

Does he have a 12-year-old understanding of what professional football is? When you say Dion did it, Dion did it to sports, right? Which I would argue probably is easier because at least there are different seasons and you can kind of zero in. When I'm playing baseball, I'm in baseball mode. When I'm playing football, I'm in football mode, right? Versus when I'm playing wide receiver versus DB with changes from possession to possession. And they need to be great at that. The other thing also is, how many plays do they have in baseball?

Let's be real. How much homework are you doing in baseball as far as like learning, maybe pitch. You're studying a pitcher's like what he throws on first pitches, second pitches. Scanner reports, yeah. Yeah, but like we're not talking, it's not football level. There's a lot of film watching of yourself to improve at your own individual level and

before a specific matchup against a pitcher, you're watching and seeing what their sequencing is. But because they play every day, it's not the same amount of film work as it would be in something like the NFL. But to your point about playing two different sports being something that's beneficial, you could actually argue Shohei Otani is essentially doing that. Hitting a baseball and playing a position as a hitter is a completely different thing from being a pitcher, where Travis Hunter having to play on both sides

of the ball in football in that individual game with the type of effort that that requires It is a more strenuous thing There's another part of this that we kind of been glossing over and it's my fault because I said forget about the physical But also they don't hit you in baseball They hit you every possession of football you're getting hit not Okay, get it. You hit by a ball every once in a Not, okay, get it, you're hit by a ball every once in a while, right? How often do guys get hit by a ball, Roy, in a game?

On average. Not seldomly, not on purpose often. But sometimes they lose control. Somebody who gets hit by a pitch a lot will get hit 12 times a season. The answer is not often. Right, 12 times a season, a season. Right, how many times you getting physically hit

in a football game if you're out there? Oh, maybe 12 times in the first half. Right, so in the first quarter, like just collision. Forgive me for this, can you guys please look up for me who led, because Craig Bishio would like to have a word. Getting hit with a baseball seems horrific. Horrific getting hit by a baseball. You know what's more horrific?

And so when you guys say, ah, 12 times a year, oh my god, no, no please. No foul tips, none of that stuff. That ball moves fast and it's more and so when you guys say at 12 times a year. Oh my god. No no please No foul tips none of that stuff that ball moves fast It's very hard, but go look up some numbers on Don Baylor like I go look up some numbers on hit by pitch Don't tell me that's not physical I'd be terrified to stand in and try and see somebody throw a hundred miles an hour at me Dan Let me ask you a question. Would you rather? Get hit by a pitch by Shohei Otani,

or would you rather get hit by Miles Turner? Miles Garrett. Miles Garrett. Miles Turner is also, I wouldn't want to get hit by him. I don't want to get hit by him either, but I'm crazy. No, but he's having trouble going between the sports. He's trying to dance between basketball, football, and baseball.

He got stuck with the miles, it totaled up to a mile northeast Ohio. It can be tough, it can be tough. It's a good question though, I mean, the physical nature of what it is that we're talking about though I'm actually interested in the mechanics of Travis Hunter's mind here Because it strikes me that he's so confident so arrogant with arrogance. That's earned, right? We can't we can't say it's not earned like the hit him and Deon and they just conquered college football

It's not earned like the him and Deon and they just conquered college football for all the money and got to you on a bigger Contract than Bella chicks like they won the biggest bet the biggest way and they were 13 and 12 Yeah, I don't know last few years like what they conquered. Okay, they got paid. All right, a lot of people got paid Terrible though, they were tear they were I don't think they want a ball game. Wait a minute guys So they were the worst program and then he made them matter, which is all that matters like, okay Yeah, and they weren't that good and they've got two top picks but Travis hunter believes he built all that it does Can he not take credit for saying? Yes, I was the best tour and and when he says I can do both What why is his understanding so limited with that? can see, Travis, this is way too hard.

You're not going to want to do it in nine days. You're not going to have a life. It's not possible to do full time on both sides. Dan, I'll give you a great example as far as the difference between the pros and college. Because you can do things in college. We had a saying when I worked in the league, which is everyone's got a scrapbook. Like, I was, yeah, look around, everyone here was all time leading scorer, all time something, right? The other night I'm in Golden State in San Francisco watching Warriors versus Grizzlies. And it was a good game.

It was a good game. Zach Eady gets a one-on-one in the block against Quinton Post, a name no one had heard of six months ago. And he couldn't even take advantage of that. And I said, I turned to the guy next to me, I said, a year ago, this guy was the player of the year in college basketball. And they were saying, I can't believe he's not in the conversation for number one. And all of us who are in the pro level are like,

yeah, because this shit ain't like that over there. It's a different ball game when you get to the pros. And that's what we're talking about here. Travis Hunter did help make Colorado from a laughing stock to a mediocre team. He did win Heisman. He did play both sides. He was excellent and he is an excellent prospect. Should he choose to be one or the other, either way I think he's going to be great at the next level. But there is a cap to how great you can be, and that cap is I play against everybody who is great.

Everyone out there is great. And so I go back to my question. Would you rather get hit by a pitch by Shohei Otani, or would you rather get hit by Miles Garrett? And by the way, hit by a pitch by Shohei Otani, that might happen maximum. Maximum, Shohei just doesn't like your ass. Twice in a game. Twice in Otani, that might happen maximum. Maximum, Shohei just doesn't like your ass. Twice in a game.

Twice in a game, that's the maximum. Miles Garrett can do that shit all day long. Why doesn't Shohei Otani like my ass? All right, I got some numbers on hit by pitchers. The current active leader is Stalin Marte, with 161 so far in his career. Single season record, Huey Jennings, back in 1896. The modern is...

How about Huey Jennings? Huey Jennings had 51. Love a good like do-do-do-do-do when you're like scanning your eyes on a website. Yeah. A little filler noise. Don, Don, Ron Hunt. When the whole show is resting on your neck.

Peek-a-bee. Just like this helmet. Big fat white face. Fat white face. And you've got a chin strap on. And you ran in here and you're like, Dan, we're late on Mad Dog and Victory Lap and Weekend Obs and Game Time, this segment.

Yeah, Ron Hunt, the modern leader with 50 in 1971. Career leader is Huey Jennings, 287. Craig Vigio with 285. Anthony Rizzo, the all-time leader for left-handed hitters. So Jeremy, pitch clock is around the corner here. And I'm looking forward. I decided yesterday after that time with Kirch and that I'm going to do something.

That what I would like to do here is With Zaslow tomorrow night. I want to have all the stakes around Zaslow watching this game for all the stakes Is that we're doing? Yeah. Yeah, we're gonna figure it out, right? I look as content it has not worked But we're going to figure out an all-or-nothing consequence to Zaslow will either work here for free During the hockey playoffs or he will not get any of these tickets. However, it is, we're reverse engineering it because I'm telling you he will not have

these tickets if he does not win whatever this bet is. All right, so tomorrow night, Tony, you got the board there. You have the dry race board. I'm looking at it. Can you give it to me again? I want Joe. So this is what I'm telling you, Tony. This must happen okay there has to be a game tomorrow night

that our fan base cares about enough to watch a heat game when they are sick of our show caring about the heat this is where the last embers of all the heat shit goes to die zaslow says no it's not it's a freight train jeremy says i'm willing to believe andrew well wiggins greg kody is seconds away now no longer with a flap over his belly button from saying andrew wiggins our home run for jimmy butler and then the lose to cleveland for games uh... but if they beat atlanta but

if we're going to believe in something i'm gonna make you guys bet for in a way that will make zaslow work for free or not at all around here during the hockey playoffs and will have consequences or he'll have the night of his life and three great fun months. Night's up. Night's up. Correct. I think the caveat here and the grab for content is doing a live stream with Zaslow on our YouTube channel where all of a sudden it's Zaslow at the Zaslow Mansion of course. Yeah. Ready to watch the game. Why not here? Or here, I mean, depends.

I didn't want to take him all the way from the Zazzle Mansion back down. I have a car. Cooper City Rattlesnake. No, look, where's that? Look, when is this game? Tomorrow. OK.

How do we get Zazz to sit in the studio for however long it has to be for the night of his life? What you guys are not understanding is that if we put these actual stakes on it, this is going to be the biggest game of Zaslow's life. It really will be, and I was at all the games in the NBA Finals. Like to have him be able to sit in the middle of huge stakes. Can we get this picture please of Zaslow?

Who betrayed you? Oh, Sedano, like a rat. What a weasel move by Sedano. After game five in the 2012 Eastern Conference Finals The Heat went down three games to two brutal game terrible loss at home I was never more down until of course in 2023 Derek White game six that right there was the lowest point maybe of my life, but at the time in 2012 I was

Despondent after the Heat lost that game because of course you know the blueprints on the line and we're about to go that's not the picture right there that's mean okay that's not I'm not the kid from what is that is that no no no that's not me all right no one no one would ever say that that's me but I Sedano he snapped a picture of me after the game where I'm sitting underneath the bowels in like a we will find that picture and we've shown it before. It's a dirty move. It was a betrayal. Look there have been a couple betrayals today. All right Zazzle just found out for the first time that we stole his bit. Yeah. Finally. And we don't execute it well and nobody does their punishments and now the... Hey I

had to do a floor gymnastics floor routine in a leotard. That's good The breaking news it never stops Adam Schefter tweets that was no enthusiasm there Draft Kings the crown is you We are back what just happened this is actually not the happiest story ever That's why I was if you're heavy. Okay, is it your heavy tongue? Is it that's getting into serious journalists? No, no one died. Yeah, cuz you're gonna hear the name and think me. Oh No, Lee Corso the legendary ESPN broadcaster. Come on Will make his final headgear pick on college game day on Saturday week one August 30th

All right, so we're not gonna get the full season of a goodbye, but week one we will say goodbye to Lee Corso. That's pretty exciting, because he's had a, I'm happy for him. I've been stressed out the last few years watching him on television, so I'm happy now that we can celebrate him and send him off. And hopefully he'll still be around.

I just like, they need to keep the visual of him around, even if he's not on air as much. Chris, would you rather be able to talk to Lee Corso or a cane Corso? I got it. I got to be honest with you guys it is for people who say that Corporations do not care And the corporations can be cold The way ESPN and Disney has handled with grace with with great, great grace, the aging of Dick Vitale and Lee Corso, who were never mascots and were great and are great for

the brand. Seeing them get old on television and fight back from illness for all, for that particular show, popular, popular show show to change all around him quickly and protect him with love on television as the internet was mean to grandpa's slurring grant the internet and man oh man what great care to be able to allow Lee Corso because nobody wants to take the car keys away right I can't get my dad to stop driving I'm like dad don't go anywhere anymore. You're 80 years old, stop driving anywhere. Yeah, he wants to keep working. Mike has wrote on Twitter, could this be in Miami?

Because doesn't Florida Miami play week one? I think it's gonna be in Columbus. I think it's gonna be Texas, Ohio State. That makes a lot more sense than Florida Miami. What inside info? As ESPN radio insider Jonathan Zaslow reports, Chris, is that what you just, did you just defer to Zaslow because Zaslow works for ESPN? Well, I travel for college football season.

But you don't own a coat and you've never been anywhere in the world. I may have to do a little shopping. Okay, no, wait a minute. You're not ready to be a star of any sort. Look at that. Look at what becomes a star at ESPN right here. A total Homer betrayed by Sedano. Weasel move by Sedano. Okay, so this is, when was this? Oh, this is the blueprint on the line game. Right before. So listen to me, do you understand the stakes of Pearl Jam tomorrow

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Again, started on the breakfast flan. Oh man, I've been singing the song to myself all morning while I'm... Breakfast flan, da-da-da-da-da. Stugats! Have you never heard the breakfast flan song? No, hit me with it. Okay, I wish I had some breakfast flan, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Breakfast flan, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

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Kevin Garnett had like 26 points that night. Oh my God. He was a dog. Haunted me in my sleep. It is time for- I mean. To share his game notes. Wow.

No one in the media will tell you what happened better than my boy Amin. Weekend observations. Hold on a second. I mean, this is going to be hard to do with the buttons and whatnot. Weekend observations. I've never done this before, so that's my fault. And it's brought to you by Miller Lite. Dan, after a season in which everyone criticized it for having too many threes and too many miss games by stars, the NBA postseason is back. 20,000 seats, same color t-shirt draped over each one,

and a generic team slogan on it, like it's our time or we bleed insert color here post-teen basketball gooses what happened there honestly enough with the complaining about three-pointers from downtown behind the arc bang Jimmy Butler 38 points seven boards six dimes Playoff Jimmy I miss him Mikael Bridges Starting and fouling six seconds into a game to leave and preserve his games played streak

asterisk the rare time People are complaining about tips playing a starter too many minutes Few minutes That is an asterisk though. That's I mean are you willing to put an asterisk on it? playing a starter too many minutes few minutes what happened there that is an asterisk though that's I mean are you willing to put an asterisk on it I'm willing to play asterisk on this performance by me in my personal record

book you should have to play a quarter I mean I'll has a book calm coming soon Anthony Davis was a perfect five and oh I guess the Montes Sabonis this year you know what that means he's got his number as long as the Clippers are playing basketball Nick Batum will be sniffing around still in the league? Thunder he's a Clipper how is that possible, do it in the playoffs.

Klay Thompson, turning back the clock. You know what the T in Thompson stands for? Turning back the clock. Yeah, good job, Dano. I'm not saying it'll happen, but just for a moment, can we all close our eyes and imagine the victory lap Nico Harrison would take if the Mavs win the championship oh Can we do victory lap don't we have to do victory lap? We'll do it later later

Well, but you just mentioned a victory lap Nico Harrison my bad. Nico's not here Hey mark Cuban if you didn't want the Mavericks to trade Luca Maybe you shouldn't have sold the team. I mean how about that? Maybe you shouldn't have sold the team. I mean, how about that? The guy sells the team and then he's like, oh, I wouldn't have done it that way. It's not my fault. Well, yeah, I mean, yeah, you sold the team. Keeps the team.

Sold the team to people who don't care about basketball. That's right. Like, whose fault would it be? It's Mark Cuban's fault. Steph Curry was having a rough shooting night until he wasn't. Can I just go back for a second because I know we've talked a lot about Nico and everyone is concerned with Nico but does mark Cuban went to chart tank has made great wealth is there

any kind of prison for him in caring about that team as much as he does having all the wealth in the world that you can have and and got out at the right time and everything else but also oh my god at the end that's something I actually care they they suck the soul right out of it in a way that actually hurt the billionaire got three more pages of this then oh no gotta get to it Santino's waiting Steph Curry is having a rough shooting night until he wasn't greatest shooter ever someone please tell buddy healed no player in the history of the NBA has benefited more Until he wasn't greatest shooter ever. Someone please tell Buddy Heald. No player in the history of the NBA has benefited more

from having one teammate more than Draymond Green did with Steph Curry. Without Steph Curry, Draymond Green is Luke Harangody. Hold on a second. I didn't write this. Hold on. Draymond, I didn't write this. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

I need to stop everything here because the train has gotten away from roy bellamy i can no longer put amin al hasid in the position that he is presently in where andrew santino is staring at him eight amin knows it a comedian a professional comedian is here and amin is workshopping some of stew gots is work for the first time i will not do that to ameen as a performer allow our sloppyness to be

something that makes ameen be out here feeling like he's performing comedy one-liners for andrew santino got a bomb then that's part of the job got a lot of bomb crayon and the Hawks Steamrolled by the magic bringing us one step closer to the inevitable Caz versus Hawks NBA TV series people in sports and entertainment that can note getting steamrolled Oh

Li press Taylor bad BAM out of bio. Number five David Blatt Number four Smush Parker Number three rascal flats Number two David Ferrer the bulldozer and at number one the 1970s Denver Broncos Don't look now but here come the Reds

Speaking of bad matter bio the Miami Heat just beat the Chicago Bulls in the play-in for the third straight year three Pete Bulls You think the play on is your ally? You merely adopted the plan the heat were molded in it. That's right. You know what happened to the Bulls Lights got too bright. Oh Heat fans celebrating a play-in win like an NBA title. This used to be a proud franchise He's a DJ Tucker Nick, it's all I got used to be a proud franchise. How dare you. That's today. PJ Tucker.

Nick. That's all I got. Really? Dan, you know what the L in light, the beam stands for? Losers. Okay, there we go. There we go. Damar DeRozan.

Zach Levine. Welcome to Chicago West. Sounds like a show I could stream on Peacock. Like the Dan LeBattar show with Stu Gotts. There you go. Time to wink right. Death, Taxes and Jimmy Goldstein, court side of NBA playoff games. Goldie. Colorado football announced that they will retire Shadour Sanders jersey. You know what they say Dan-o, anytime you lead a team to a 13 and 12 record and win zero bowl games They have to retire Jersey

Especially if your dad is the head coach Nepotism I love it. Why don't we retire Shiloh's Jersey to? Shador is not even the top five Colorado football players of the last 40 years top five Colorado 40 years Top five Colorado Are gonna be nice they're gonna they're not gonna be five better than him. Oh, I Nate sold her Mike Pritchard Daniel Graham Charles Johnson Eric B enemy Michael Westbrook and the entire offensive line from their 1990 national championship team Number five cordell Stewart

Number four Travis Hunter Cordell Stewart For Travis Hunter Number three Alpert Williams number two Darien Hagan number one for Sean Salam Didn't write it bad doesn't matter that no that move on no, it's not no no I'm not gonna move on that's cheating you the last three were not good enough They're not none of them are better than Travis Hunter that was along None of them are better than Travis. Okay, whatever NOS gauntlet

If you tell your friends you're going to a bar and they don't tell you that it's trivia night at that bar Are they really your friends? Seriously anybody give me a heads up Jesse Fuentes anybody even Someone let me know it's Trivia Night. Warriors and Rockets in the first round. Dreymon Green. Dylan Brooks. Collision course. What are the odds both of those guys make it through the series without being suspended? Zero. Mike Bootholder told Bradley Beale he should play more like Drew Holiday.

That's right. Hey Mike Bootholder you should coach more like Steve Kerr. Mike Bootholder nickname is Bud. Shouldn't his nickname be Boode? Mike Booneholzer signed a five year, $50 million deal, then was fired after a single year, meaning he makes another $40 million for doing absolutely nothing for the next four years. Mike Booneholzer, the StuGots is stronger than you. Kevin Durant, Coach Killer. You know what the K in KD stands for, Dan?

No. Coach Killer. That's not. I didn't write that one either, KD. I understand, I don't know why you're doing that. I'm sorry you have to do them in front of Santino. I wrote it. It's vulnerable, I'm sorry.

That's terrible, and that's why he's not coming to the heat. Speaking of KD, Katy Perry, going to space, just announced your set list as a publicity stunt. To sell more tickets for your tour, the Stugats is strong in you. Josh Giddy looks like the lead singer of a band that Roy has never heard of. Once you lose Dirk's support, it's over for you in Dallas. Rock bottom. Hey baseball, hope you enjoyed a nice couple of weeks with your torpedo bats.

We got it from here. Cassidy Hubbard received a beautiful tribute at the end of Heat Bowls. Her final game as she's leaving ESPN for Amazon after 15 years. So from the bottom of our hearts, here at Metal Alk Media, congratulations on the amazing run. Tony Collins, can't wait to see your work at Amazon.

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