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There's a lot going on. Golf, the open championship underway. Tennis just wrapping up at Wimbledon this past weekend. In the middle of all of this, of course, we're getting set for college football. Last week in Las Vegas, Big 12 media days. This week in Dallas, four days to get set for the SEC college football season. And I am pleased to welcome my longtime friend, but also longtime Big 12 and Oklahoma football insider, Jenny Carlson, who has beyond the box score with Jenny Carlson on Substack.
Also has a YouTube channel. You can find her on Twitter at Jenny Carlson underscore OK. Joining us from Dallas, where the SEC is still going on.
So Jenny, what's it been like? You're covering SEC media days on the heels of the Big 12. What is the atmosphere like in Dallas? I've only ever been to Big 12 media days before, which is a big event. It's not small potatoes, but just the sheer number of media and the space that this event takes up at the Dallas Omni this year. And there's just, I think it's something like fifteen or sixteen hundred media credentials for this event.
I don't think they're all. Yeah, I don't think they're all there at the same time. We've had some that have come in and come out, you know, just for a specific team that they cover.
That's a lot of people. And, you know, big, big area for Radio Row, big room for sort of the main interviews. And then obviously there's a big stage set up in the main room.
So, yeah, just the whole like the footprint of the whole thing is really big. And yeah, it's been really interesting to sort of see just the inner workings and how the SEC does it. And I think a lot of the events is really for the TV partners, but that doesn't mean there's not been some opportunities to hear from coaches, talk to players, see some administrators, those sorts of things. So it's definitely been an eye opening thing to be in Las Vegas a week ago for Big 12 Media Days, now in Dallas for SEC Media Days.
And the feeling and the setup is really totally different with the two. It sounds a lot like a Super Bowl Radio Row. Yep.
Yeah. The Radio Row is by far the biggest area. There are literally, I'm going to guess 50, 75.
I don't know. It's a ton of radio stations that are just lining up this whole area. And the weird thing is, is that unlike Big 12 Media Days, I don't know how it is for Big 10 or, or ACC or whatever, but at Big 12 Media Day, you know, they've got Radio Row and the players and the coaches are kind of out and they will sit down and get grabbed and hey, come and join us for five minutes, coach or whatever. SEC Radio Row, the coaches and the players don't pass through there.
So they don't really get in the interviews out there. A lot of it is just people doing the radio shows, maybe running audio from, you know, other interviews, but it's, there are just tons of people there. I think the thing is the connection that the fans have, the media really reflects that.
And it's just, you know, the passion's there. And so then I think you see the media showing that, you know, reflecting that with the coverage that they're doing in this event. The SEC Commissioner, Greg Sankey, held court on the first day of Media Days. What stands out from what he had to say about the expanded conference now at 16 teams? He had talked a lot about how, you know, they really feel good at 16 and he deflected several questions during his Q&A part of his presentation about potential future expansion. You know, I don't think that the SEC is necessarily actively out talking to schools right now about coming and joining the SEC, but everybody knows that there's ongoing litigation involving the SEC, Florida State. Those types of things, if Florida State and say Clemson work to somehow come available, I don't think the SEC is saying absolutely not the future expansion. So I think they really like where they are with the 16 teams they have now. They didn't just add two schools. They added two of the biggest brands in all of college football in Oklahoma and Texas. Two Blue Bloods, two long-standing powerhouse programs.
So the fact that they were able to add such quality to their already very quality lineup, I think just speaks to the strength that they feel like they have. But, you know, in today's day and age, I don't think anybody is ever totally set. I think everybody has to be on the lookout for what else might be happening. And so to me, if Florida State and Clemson come open, I don't necessarily feel like Greg Sankey or the SEC says absolutely not. I think they're going to have those conversations. We're so excited to have Jenny Carlson back on the show, sports columnist and longtime insider for Oklahoma and Oklahoma State football for the Big 12, now having to spend some time focusing on the SEC with this transition.
She's got Beyond the Box score with Jenny Carlson on Substack and it's after hours with Amy Lawrence. So Jenny, how do Texas and Oklahoma fit in the SEC so far? Something I mentioned earlier, the passion of the fans.
I think that's where culturally I think these two pools and then by extension football programs really make a lot of sense in the SEC. I heard somebody say at one point, you know, when SEC football teams lose, it affects the mood of their fans for days. When they win, it affects the mood of their fans for days. And that's very familiar territory for Sooners and Longhorns. When they win, it's great.
When they lose, it's the worst thing in the world. So I think that culturally makes a lot of sense for Oklahoma and Texas. Obviously, how they fare on the football field, you know, the history, the tradition for both of these programs, I think stands up when you look around the SEC. Obviously, the recent history of the SEC, especially with Alabama and Georgia, is otherworldly.
I mean, it's to a different level. So nobody anywhere stacks up to what they've done in recent years. But as you look historically, Oklahoma and Texas was very similar to a lot of the teams around the SEC.
And then how do they fit right now? You know, I think Texas will enter the SEC in a much better place to compete and contend right away. They return, you know, a bunch of the team that they had a year ago, and they went 12 and two, won the Big 12, went to the college football playoff.
So when you've got that kind of recipe, I think that bodes really well for Texas. Oklahoma, while not as bad a place as they were, when Lincoln Riley left them for Southern Cal a few years ago, they definitely still have several question marks and probably the biggest question marks on the lines of scrimmage. You know, they lost some guys on their offensive line. It's going to be largely rebuilt with either guys that are inexperienced and have been in their program or guys that they brought in is a transfer portal. So how they perform in an offensive line remains to be seen. And then their defensive line, while it has some talent, it's pretty young. So you're taking, you know, two kind of question mark lines into the SEC, a conference that if you spent any time at the Dallas Omni this week, you're likely to have seen some very large humans and those who are offensive and defensive linemen had a chance today to be around some of the Alabama players.
And Tyler Moore is one of their offensive linemen who was there today. He's definitely one of the largest human beings I've ever been around, probably one of the biggest five human beings I've ever been around. Guys, 6'5", 352 is how he's listed, probably in the off season.
He runs a little heavier than that even. I mean, just a super-sized human being, but that's the type of lineman you find around the SEC. So Oklahoma, how do they match up?
That is still very much unknown at this point. It might be great, it might be great, but at this point, you just have to feel like for the immediate future, how these two programs fit in, Texas seems much more ready to go, you know, plug and play, be in the mix for a conference championship. Oklahoma might be there, but it's going to have the app to require them answering some of those questions in the affirmative. Well, it's sort of funny to hear Nick Saban throwing a bit of shade on Coach Stark, who of course coached under him, so they know each other well, but this idea that Nick Saban was scoffing at, that Texas was just going to come in and be a dominant team or come in and challenge for the conference championship right away. It is kind of funny to think about these two teams joining a conference that has had so many championships and championship opportunities over the last couple decades. I think Saban was right in that Texas and Oklahoma have largely been lockstep towards the top of the league, you know, not maybe every year, but you know, there are programs that other teams in the Big 12 knew they were going to have to contend with, and because of how good they were on the football field, that really translated into how they ran in a lot of ways what happened in the conference as far as from a leadership perspective, a boardroom perspective, if you will. So from that standpoint, especially even if Oklahoma and Texas come in and become high-level championship competitors in the SEC right away, everybody else in the SEC is going to be like, we've got our own national championships, like we see you, but we do this too.
So it's not like they come in and can suddenly separate themselves from the pack. So that will take some adjusting for tuners and Longhorns everywhere, but Nick Saban in the days since that he said what he did about how they won't maybe come in and run the league, he's also made his pick for the SEC championship game, and that was Georgia and Texas. So he picks against his team that he led the school where he still has an office, he still has a position as an advisor for the athletic department, he does not pick Bama. Said there were just some questions in the secondary, and I think that speaks sort of going back to the fact that Texas just doesn't have as many question marks.
So while they may not run the conference, I think he even recognizes that they're probably going to be pretty competitive in the conference this next season. How much talk is there still about Arch Manning, who presumably would be number two on the depth chart this season? You know, it's funny, I actually made a comment today to some of my cohorts after Steve Sarkeesian had his press conference in the main media room, which is the big interview ballroom that a lot of people are set up in. He makes his opening statement long, you know, that talks about last year, talks about this year, talks about the move, all these sorts of things.
Takes several minutes and then questions begin. The very first person that gets called on the very first question is about Arch Manning. You know, they've got Quinn Ewers who could potentially be a Heisman candidate. They've got, you know, several players that are probably, you know, high draft picks in the NFL draft next year.
They've got a team that could contend for a championship playoff spot, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. First question is about the second string quarterback. So it was really kind of illuminating, but clearly people are fascinated by him. Quinn Ewers is, you know, talented. He had a, had his best season last year for the Longhorns, but before that he had, had kind of been up and down career. A couple of years ago they went to Stillwater and I saw him in that game against Oklahoma State. He was really, really inconsistent.
Just not seeming comfortable at all. The last year was a big step forward for him. Doesn't mean he won every game, but he was really good for them a year ago, but they need to have him take, again, another step forward because they're bringing in some new receivers. You know, they seem to always have, running back seems to fall out of trees in Austin. So I assume they're going to have a good running game, but you know, you want that, that quarterback play to continue to evolve. So I can't imagine there are many questions about Quinn Ewers' job security. You know, if he would have injury, he has had injuries in the past, or he would, you know, maybe see some struggles. What happens then?
How does that play out? You know, a few years ago we thought Oklahoma Spencer Rattler got drafted this last year after he moved on to South Carolina. The fans got up in arms. They didn't think he was playing well enough. They wanted Caleb Williams. They even got to the point they booed Spencer Rattler at home. I mean, just some crazy things that happened, but Caleb Williams came in.
He obviously was the number one pick in the NFL draft. Not to say that Arch Manning might not be a better quarterback than the guy he's backing up, but at least for now, I think it's pretty sure that Quinn Ewers is the guy that takes the majority of the snaps for Texas this year. Jenny Carlson is with us from Dallas. SEC Media Days, more like a big circus, taking over for four days to get ready for the upcoming season, but a lot of excitement and certainly anticipation to see how the 16 work out.
It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence. You were also in Vegas, hot, hot, hot Las Vegas, for Big 12 Media Days. So where does the departure of OU and Texas leave the Big 12? You know, obviously they lose two, as I said before, gigantic brands in the world of college football. The Blue Bloods, you don't lose two programs like that.
I mean, there's obviously a hole. You can't, even though they brought in four new teams with the Four Corners School come out of the Pac-12, there's still a void that is left by OU and Texas leaving. But I think the thing that's interesting to think about is three years ago when Oklahoma and Texas knew that they were looking to leave the Big 12 and go to the SEC, when that news broke three summers ago, the expectation was the Big 12 would cease to exist.
It was just going to dissipate, blow apart, teams were going to end up elsewhere, and the league was just not going to survive. Three years later, it's 16 teams strong, they pulled in four schools from another power conference in Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, and Utah. Them getting Colorado to come over to the Big 12 to decide to leave the Pac-12, while it wasn't the first domino, that was really Southern Cal and UCLA deciding to go to the Big 10, that move, taking Colorado out of the mix, really started the dominoes falling. I mean, it wasn't long before the Pac-12 was totally kaput, left with just Oregon State and Washington State. So the fact that the Big 12 got to the point where they were pulling other teams from power conferences, causing big change in the world of college athletics, two years ago, nobody thought that was going to be the reality. While obviously you want as many brands to bring eyeballs as you can, especially in the College Football world, they feel good about the four they've brought in, and they really feel great about the fact that Deion Sanders is the coach of Colorado. Now, I don't know how long he's going to be the coach of Colorado. They started great last year, everybody knows, really kind of went kaput after that, but I know as long as he is, it's good for the Big 12 because he draws eyeballs and attention, and that's one of the things that you lose when you lose OU in Texas.
They draw eyeballs. As long as Deion Sanders is their coach, that is a draw for people, and that's something the Big 12 can tout to its TV partners, can tout to potential sponsors, corporations, all that sort of thing. So they've got a guy in Deion Sanders that I think maybe helps that pain ease a little bit. I still think everybody is chasing the Big 10 and the SEC because of just how much money they have and what they're distributing to their schools. It's just getting bigger and bigger and the gulf between what they're distributing and what everybody else is distributing, that is also getting bigger. Until they figure out a way to close that gap and get more money to their school, the Big 10, the SEC are just going to continue to kind of pull away from everybody else, it feels like. So that's got to be troublesome to the Big 12, but at the same time, I think when you take a little longer view of what the reality looked like three years ago, I think the Big 12 feels like it's in about as good a spot as they could be. What they thought was going to happen three years ago, losing OU in Texas, that actually came to pass. So the fact that that happened and they still are existing, they've added teams, I think that that longer view makes them feel pretty good about where they are right now. But Jenny, what is a college football season in the state of Oklahoma without Bedlam?
I don't know, I really don't know. That game gets played last year and we knew it was the last one on the schedule for a while and you know it's obviously there's a lot of melancholy and it really hit me at the end of that game. It was a classic game, one at the end, Oklahoma State wins, everybody's going crazy and all I could think was, this is, why are we, why are we doing away with this? I mean, it was really, really a gut punch in that moment just to know that that rivalry was going away. So I don't know, I've never, I mean, well heck, nobody alive has ever been around without Oklahoma and Oklahoma State playing a Bedlam football game. So it's been, it's been going along, it's been going that long, but nobody knows what a football season looks like without it. So it's going to be weird.
I don't quite know how that's going to feel at the end of things. I guess we start to hold out hope that with this expanded college football playoff, maybe Bedlam happens in the playoff at some point. That would be fantastic, at least from my perspective. I have no idea if the coaches and the player, and I think the players would like it, the coaches, I don't know, and the administrators might not be all that fired up, but I think it would be fantastic. We've seen it happen some with Texas and Texas A&M.
Yes. That rivalry got split for a while. You would see them get matched up in, you know, NCAA tournaments and basketball and baseball and softball and those sorts of things. I can't, I don't think they played a football game, but you know, obviously now they're back together. So who knows, maybe there's an opportunity with this expanded playoff for those two teams to meet at some point. That's what I'll hold out hope for because yeah, it's definitely an alternate universe in my mind, not having a Bedlam football game.
And there certainly are some pretty incredible games on Norman's soil and obviously Texas has got a loaded schedule too, but it's, as you talk about, cuts the heart out of the state of Oklahoma in terms of its football and traditions that they look forward to every year. All right, really good stuff with Jennie on her Twitter. You can find photos and videos called Beyond the Box Score with Jennie Carlson.
It's on Substack, but you can find her on Twitter or Twix or X or whatever you call it. At Jennie with an I, Carlson underscore OK. Gosh, we've known each other for a long time. It's always a privilege to have you on the show. Thank you so much for your insight. Such an honor, Amy.
Thanks so much. Really great intel from SEC Media Days. Four days in a row are required, and what did she say? 15 to 1600 credentialed media wowsers. So it will be interesting to see how Texas and Oklahoma fit in or if they fit in. But yes, Nick Schaven, who's been holding court there in Dallas, was throwing some shade earlier about Texas and what the Longhorns should expect once they get immersed in SEC football. And the schedules?
Man, without the divisions, they are landmines, full of landmines. We'll hear Nick Schaven a little bit later, plus Kaylin DeBoer, who's taking over for Nick Schaven and that relationship there, where Schaven still has an office in the building, still works for the athletic department. But how is that affecting the new head coach? This portion of the show is sponsored by the all-new Hyundai, Hyundai, Hyundai, Hyundai. I think it's Hyundai.
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I still think it's really funny I've been to two weddings this summer that featured 20-somethings as the bride and the groom and in well in one case there was an actual DJ in the second wedding it was a friend who had a phone and a playlist trust me the vibe was not the same but in both cases 80s and 90s music was prominently featured of course of course Colton when are you getting married are you maybe not sharing that information publicly share it's fine okay may 15th 2025 so you're inside of a year to go now in fact you are inside of 10 months to go now that's amazing okay but what kind of music just off the cuff do you think you would have featured or you will have featured at your wedding of course knowing that the bride's opinion matters the most I was gonna say she's probably gonna be pulling the strings a lot on that one because I'm more of a country guy and so is she but that's not really something you like sure it is well not if your friends and peers aren't all like country people so it's kind of people I like it I listen to a variety of everything you can give me some classic rock alternate rock I'll be very happy so I'm letting her pull the strings and nice okay so this is kind of funny because I got married in Texas I actually like country music as well but my younger niece actually neither of my nieces are country music fans my younger niece who was in the wedding said to me about a month before we got married Auntie Amy can you tell them no country music at the wedding sweetheart we're getting married in Texas well I know but you're the bride can't you tell them no country music no honey I can't the whole other side of the family loves country music I love country music Auntie Amy anyway we had a good mix we allowed our family and friends to submit 10 songs each that they wanted played and it was a really good mix but yeah very nice yeah it was kind of fun we wanted everyone to dance so it was some country but I wouldn't say it was predominant mostly it was 80s and 90s and classic kind of get up and dance music which was fun but yeah the wedding I went to in late May in Texas which was a 22 to 23 year old who got married they had a good mix of country because that's their favorite but all the rest 80s and 90s classics I'm gonna see if coming up there's one more wedding in the family the weekend after Labor Day yes it is the same weekend as the opening of the NFL season so I'll be not sleeping that weekend as I fly to and from Dallas anyway that couple that's getting married a little later in their 20s and they also really love just the the awesome 80s and 90s stuff I'm gonna see if I can get them to do Let Me Clear My Throat just because that's my favorite you want to talk about a throwback I'm actually shocked that you're that you have family members that listen to that much like 80s and oh yeah no my nieces love it and my sister-in-law my brother do of course too plus I mean that's what I grew up with so I love it too same thing for my husband but the funny part is that it's the 20-somethings because my nieces tell me all the time the 80s and 90s are back Auntie Amy oh that's what I'm saying that's I'm shocked that that's what they're playing like it's you're shocked well I mean I am again I enjoy it but like yeah my fiance doesn't really love it so I know that's definitely not gonna be on the cards so that's why I'm like is that like play way too much country music and there's no such thing so on Wednesday my husband and I marked seven months getting married I may have of getting married I may have to tell you but also show you what card he had so I am a slacker I did not get him a card I just sent him a text first thing in the morning on my way home from work and then of course gave him a hug and a kiss happy seven months of being married mentioned it a couple times during the day we haven't celebrated them all to the hill we definitely celebrated three months with flowers and cards we celebrated six months in a special way and seven months I was thinking all right it's worth mentioning but he actually got me a card and it is amazing it's an embossed card and it has the outlines the silhouettes if you will of Han Solo and Princess Leia and they're in a heart a red heart it's it's actually a three-dimensional card it stands out off of the cardboard and at the top it says I love you and at the bottom of course you know exactly what it says Han Solo's response I know for anyone who's a Star Wars fan so I'll see if I can send I can post a picture up just because it's really sweet and so he surprises me again the last two years so we've known each other now for both of the last two may the fourths be with you we were just early dating in may of 2023 we're married of course a few months this year and both times he's given me Star Wars gifts ask me what kind of gifts I've given him on Star Wars day am I the worst wife in the world now see my gift to him is that I'm introducing him to the Star Wars universe he only ever knew the movies and now we've watched not just Obi-Wan the series but also Andor and he digs both of them and now we're four seasons into Clone Wars with three to go so I'm introducing him to the alternate not alternate really but the the extended expanded Star Wars universe whereas he is giving me gifts on may the fourth I'm eventually going to get into all that I'm going to be very late to it that's the problem doesn't matter it's preserved that it's perfect if you know the movies first of all Clone Wars takes place in between Epps two and three and it leads right up to order 66 it is amazing it's amazing it gives you such gives you such depth to the characters that you don't see in the movies so that's awesome I was such a geek growing up like when I was a little kid my whole bedroom and like my whole like set was all Star Wars stuff and then wow like a big break like didn't they have like a big gap like they were gonna be done with Star Wars and then like magically brought it back I don't know like I forget how long the gap was it may not have been that long but it was kind of like all right we're done it was like well right because okay so the original three the the four five and six Star Wars Empire Strikes Back Return of the Jedi were George Lucas those were his breakout films he had already written the prequels but they didn't get to those until the 90s so I think Return of the Jedi came out in 1983 and then the sequels sorry the prequels came out starting in the 90s and then like that decade he had already written those those were his movies when he sold his property his the rights and the licensing and all that jazz to Disney they're the ones that did the latest three movies and so yeah I don't think there were ever intended to be extra movies but Disney decided to create three new ones which essentially were they were original characters of course but it followed so closely the prototype to what George Lucas had done they were very popular they made billions of dollars worldwide but those weren't his movies those were the Disney movies so I finally caught up to them I finally watched those did you yes they were good but like I took a huge gap and I was like the hugest biggest Star Wars geek like again my whole bedroom set was growing up as a kid and I was like then I got a huge gap so I was like what do you mean like I was a huge Star Wars fan I stopped watching after the break and I'm trying to get back into it I just had a bunch of other shows I'm watching I highly recommend yeah highly recommend Obi-Wan the the series if you haven't seen it and or same thing did you like Rogue One did you see Rogue One yes okay well and or is terrific it's the it's the setup to Rogue One so essentially the main character it goes back to his history which is awesome so both of those are gritty those two series are a lot grittier than than the actual Star Wars movies they're they're amazing and then Clone Wars which is animated but it's not cartoons if that makes sense it's the writing's terrific and that was done by Lucas so that goes back to the the nostalgia of the original six movies which I guarantee you will dig it's awesome all right on that note anybody else needs some Star Wars intel you just let me know I got a Star Wars card for my seventh Monday at the anniversary does my husband know me or what on Twitter or Twix or X at a law radio and then also on our Facebook page after hours with Amy Lawrence how many people out there like playing poker maybe you play poker with your family with your friends when you get together I know that in the past our families had poker games over holidays or whatevs my brother went through this stage where he loved poker and so he got himself a really nice set of chips and we would play poker a bunch now we play other card games instead for those of you who like cards we play five crowns we play Euchre we do some other card games family stuff we're actually teaching my mother a lot of stuff we're actually teaching my mother-in-law who stayed at my mom's house we were all together for a few days around the 4th of July and so we were teaching her card games she turned into quite a shark for a while there I think she was pretending like she had no idea what she was doing and then boom rattles off a winner too anyway we play other card games now and Catan anybody out there like Catan my brother's family and my husband and his family are big into Catan so I have to be big into Catan now I'd never played before it's all strategy it's it's pretty terrific it's like a medieval strategy game but it's really fun anyway we did that on his birthday on Sunday but a lot of people I know enjoy poker maybe you play online there's a ton of ways that you can play poker online whether it's against other people or against the computer so to speak and then obviously there are many places you can go casinos and other outlets where you can play it in person or maybe you think you're good enough for the World Series of Poker my gosh get this I saw this story and I had to pass it along it was a record field more than 10,000 people entered into the World Series of Poker main event and it was a guy named Jonathan Tomayo who finally captured the bracelet it's a bracelet and a 10 million dollar grand prize in Las Vegas because you imagine a poker event that starts with 10,000 people that's crazy I don't know if you guys remember and I actually would have to go back because I don't recall exactly when it started but World Series of Poker went through this humongous explosion in popularity going back in the last couple of decades I think but 10,000 people I didn't realize it was still that big just think about how long it would take to televise all of those poker hands I have a lot of friends it takes me a little bit to get five people to play poker wowzers 10,000 people 10,000 so this guy is uh from Texas and he entered the final table in seventh place but fought his way through survive and advance baby and was able to become the first player to win from seventh position from seventh place uh going back more than a decade so it takes quite the talent and the final table of nine was down to three after a full day and then they finished on Wednesday uh he flopped a set of nines that's for those of you who know poker really well no oh one amateur actually eliminated an online poker great by flopping a set of nines and from there it was these last two guys an amateur his name was Jordan Griff and he was one of the last two people left against this professional poker player Jonathan Tomayo so yeah uh pretty crazy stuff 10,000 people but he ends up with the 10 million dollar grand prize 10 million dollars that's how much it's grown and that of course comes from entry fees and from sponsors and all that jazz but uh that's that blows my mind not so much the 10 million is the 10,000 people that were entered because I can't even imagine how you spread them all out in Vegas and how many tables you have to have to be able to get through all those people some of you may know more about it than I do in fact if you've ever entered the world series of poker main event I would love to hear from you at a law radio and then also on our Facebook page after hours with Amy Lawrence that's a professional poker player coming up next hour we'll talk about a professional soccer player who's yeah he's not only setting the record for youngest ever in MLS but he's he's so young that it kind of blows your mind to think about what we were doing at the same age I've tried to remember goodness not that I can't remember that far back but just what was notable about that age of my life but while we're talking about record breaking Kaitlyn Clark with 19 assists in a game on Wednesday evening the grand finale if you will before the WNBA hits its all-star break and she had a double double to the tune of 24 points and 19 assists most ever in a WNBA game also six rebounds now the fever did lose to the Dallas wings wings were able to rally in that fourth quarter but still she and Angel Reese both continued to rewrite the record books with some of their rookie season heroics and they are worth the price of admission no doubt top of the hour here we'll talk about the latest Team USA warm-up in Abu Dhabi so they played at noon eastern time 9 a.m pacific time on Wednesday that's the time change thankfully it's not as significant for Paris but it seems as though we're going to get at least these three starters consistently Lebron James Joelle Embiid Steph Curry I'm sure you're not surprised when I tell you that Steph had the first nine points for Team USA against Nikola Jokic and Serbia also if you haven't seen the whether it's the video or whether it's uh just a real quick clip online Lebron James trucked a Serbian player he was going fast break down the court and he lowers his shoulder and slams into a Serbian guy who he probably 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