It is the JR Sport Brief Show on the Infinity Sports Network. I'm coming to you live from Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you to everybody tuned in and listening all over North America. Man, it's the end of March. But the madness is upon us and it is active. Michigan State refuses to go down. They've now taken the lead against Ole Miss. Michigan State is leading 55 to 54. There's about six minutes to go here in the game. Meanwhile, Tennessee and Kentucky, they just came out of halftime.
Tennessee leads Kentucky 45 to 32. We're going to keep you all up to date on these two games as this show continues on and we got two more games tonight as well. We got Auburn taking on Michigan. We have Purdue and Houston. We talked about all the games. We talked about the matchups. We've heard from the coaches.
Hey, thank you to our guests who've joined us as well. Matt Muehlbach joining us. Covers all things college basketball for Fox and ESPN. And then to talk about a new deal for Deion Sanders in Colorado. We were joined by Brian Howell, beat reporter for the Colorado Buffaloes. Deion Sanders signing himself a nice five-year, $54 million extension. We talked about some coaches who might be leaving, like a Kevin Willard in Maryland.
We talked about some coaches that have been fired, or a coach who was fired, Taylor Jenkins of the Memphis Grizzlies. Whoever thought a winning coach would get the boot at the end of the season? What a world.
What a world. And then we talked about a quarterback who wants the boot. Kirk Cousins wants out of Atlanta. He's out here taking photos, hanging out with fans in Cleveland, Ohio.
He's got nothing to do with Cleveland outside of that's where he wants to play. And so we have so much more to get into before we wrap things up. Of course, at the end of the show, we'll talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history. It's kind of crazy. Today is already March 28th. How the hell did we get here?
Hickey, where, what is this, a fourth of the way through the year already? Yeah. Wow. Yeah.
Yeah. Three months down, basically. We are cruising. When is April 1st? Is it Tuesday or Monday? It is Tuesday.
Wow. You an April Fools guy? Am I, what does that mean? Like, do I fall for jokes? Do I, do I enjoy the holiday? I think some people enjoy the nature of April Fools.
You don't seem like a jokester, but you never know. I am old, man. I ain't think about that crap. Okay.
Like I'm not believing anything. The thought is not, Hickey, I will wake up and not even, I won't realize it's April 1st until I sit here to do this dance sports history. Okay.
I hope you're right because that's a day where I throw my phone out because so many brands, people want to get cute. Oh, let me just do, Oh, whatever. So-and-so was traded.
So-and-so was fired. Right. Oh, April Fools. Well, great. I hate April Fools.
Oh boy. So I hope that it's a smooth day, a normal day to the point where you forget it's April Fools until 9 40 Eastern. That's my hope.
What's something that you wish would happen on April Fools day? That's real. Yeah. Oh, coach getting fired for sure.
Which coach? I don't have a preference. Okay.
All right. Maybe hockey. I don't know. Imagine if Luca got traded on April Fools day. Like imagine if they waited, I mean, you know, can't do it, but imagine if that were the case and it was really true, right? Like, no, seriously. It's it's, this is not a joke. It's real.
Well, he did that on that Saturday night, right? So imagine you do it on April Fools day itself. It's like, I did not get hacked. This is, this is real. This is real. Wow. What a world. Some crazy stuff here, man.
There's some crazy stuff. Well, I just can't believe marches is almost done. You give it another week and a half and we can change. We'll be crowning a national champion on that Monday night. I'll be playing that stupid, miserable last song.
One shining moment. You don't like that? No, it's corny. The song is from like, how, what is that? What does that song from the eighties? It's supposed to be nostalgic. It's 2025.
I'm surprised they don't just go like Travis Scott to redo it or something like that. Right. That's what you want. No, no, that's not what I want. Spice it up a little bit.
That's not what I want. I don't know. Travis Scott. What's that?
He has a song. I don't even know what he's saying is you can go fiend fiend. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. And I feel like a lot of commercials now.
I didn't even know that's what the actual word he was saying was. It's what it sounds like to me. No, I think you're right. That's, I don't know more.
Yeah, no, that sounds good to me. Evan is here with us. Evan is, do you know you like Travis Scott?
I do like Travis Scott. It's fiend, F E I N. Fiend? Fiend. So you fiend for something, right? Yes, exactly.
Like you want it real bad. Fiend. Right.
Okay. So not fiend. Like, well, that's the same thing, isn't it? If you're fiend, you want something real bad.
If you're fiend for it, you want it bad too. It's the same thing, right? I think fiend with a D might be past tense. So there we go. Same thing.
Wait a minute. We have a, this is, Hey, you went to college. You just went to school, right?
You went to Fordham University? Yes. Yeah.
So is it, it's right. So it's fiend is the past tense of fiend? I think so.
That was not part of the curriculum at Fordham, but I believe so. Fiend is the, what is it? What would that be called? The current sense? Yes. Present tense. Present. There we go. Current.
What did I call it? Current? Present tense? Okay. What'd you study? English?
Journalism. Oh, okay. All right. You had to write a bunch of stuff.
All right. And Hickey, what did you study? Same thing. Journalism.
Broadcast journalism, I think technically. You haven't been to school in a while though, Hickey. Okay. 2016 is a long time ago, JR. Yeah, you right. You right.
Ten years ago, almost. I'm giving you full ten. Oh, man. That, I feel really, that actually hurts. I'm giving you a full ten.
I learned something new today. Fiend. Okay. And what's the song about? Help me out, Evan.
Go ahead. Tell me more. I honestly have no idea what the song is about except for saying the word very loud a bunch of times. Is there more words in that song? Are there lyrics?
There are, but they're also very hard to tell what he's saying. The same thing as Fiend. Why do people pay money to go see him? I don't know. I personally don't. Okay. All right. All right. Well, there we go.
Let him do one shining moment. Hickey, that song, Teddy Pendergrass, Luther Vandross did that song. Luther Vandross, neither one of those guys are alive anymore. Yeah.
I think when you make that point, maybe a little refurbish, maybe not, you know, destroy the whole thing, but a little upgrade. Well, I don't even know who sings R&B anymore to do that. You can't have Chris Brown do it. He can't do it. Oh my God.
This song was written in 1986. It's time for a new one. Come on, man.
40 year old. So you're boycotting the song until. I hate that song.
The ball is tipped. I hate it. I hate that song. I was, Hickey, I was on the floor when Yukon won and they played, they, I was in the stands. I, I sat like, I sat in the front.
Okay. I don't know where I sat in third, fourth row. And then the game was over. I went onto the floor and they started playing that crap.
And I'm like, this sucks, man. I've been on, I've been, I've been to enough championship. I've never been on the field for a Superbowl or an NBA championship. I guess those are the two biggest, but college championships I've had my share. I've been on a Euro league championship floor before, uh, like panic.
The night goes, beat somebody in Berlin, Germany, like 2009, 2008 or something. I went out there and it's fun. It's fun. You know, they shoot off the fireworks. Hickey, I was just at the Cheez-It bowl. Okay. Oh, world famous Cheez-It bowl. Yeah. Um, I think South Carolina beat Illinois. No, other way around Illinois. Illinois beat Hickey. When you're busy in the Cheez-Its, you know, the game doesn't even matter. Yeah. Listen, Hickey, people were telling me, Hey, what happened?
They fighting. What happened? I'm like, I'm in a bowl of Cheez-Its. Okay. That game may as well be on Mars right now.
I don't know what you got going on. People are asking me for Cheez-Its. The band members want to eat the Cheez-Its that I'm sitting in. The security guy is asking me, are those real Cheez-Its? The Cheez-It people are talking to me. Like, I don't know what's going on on the field. Are those real?
That's hilarious. Yeah, I don't know any real Cheez-Its and people want to eat them, bro. Come on. Did they give you Cheez-Its after that? Did they give you like, you know, like a hundred boxes or something like that? Or is that just what you got in the bowl? I have a commemorative box. Oh. To celebrate the, uh-oh, here we go. The Cheez-Its.
The citrus bowl. It's in my cabinet. It will probably go untouched for the next, until I'm dead. My kids will have it. My kids will have it.
It's commemorative. You can't open that up. They'll open it up and they'll go, what is this? I bet you those Cheez-Its will still be in pristine condition 50 years from now.
You're probably right. You know, have you ever opened up a box of trading cards? Like old trading cards and the bubble gum was in it? You ever had that? Not in a while, but I know what you're talking about.
Yes. And that gum is like, like concrete, bro. Oh my God. The good old days when it was like fresh.
I'm stupid. What do you mean fresh? I'm saying like when the gum was actually made to where it's like now it actually aged and it's not still in good condition 40 years later. Oh my God.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's like better gum where it's fresher. You think the gum they make nowadays is like nuclear? It could last through like warfare?
You put some of those packs, you bury them underground for like 50 years, I think they would be a-okay. It's like McDonald's burger, right? McDonald's burger, you could make it today, it'd be good 60 years from now. Or Twinkie, right?
What did they say? Could survive a nuclear Holocaust? Was that the whole thing with Twinkies? Imagine putting that in your body. And people didn't put a lot of them in their body. Well, yeah, and a Twinkie could last a nuclear blast, but what is your body can digest it, I guess, right?
I guess that's why no one eats them anymore. Twinkies? People don't eat Twinkies, are you sure about that? I have not seen or heard a Twinkie reference in, I couldn't, like years. Can you get a Twinkie out the vending machine upstairs?
No, not here at least. Can you get a Twinkie from the nice guys downstairs in the corner store? I have to look. I can't say I've been looking for a Twinkie, but now I mentioned, maybe I'll keep an eye out for like a local bodega, because the thing is, that's the place to find it.
Wow. New York City bodega, with some older old things. A Twinkie?
Oh yeah, they have all the pastries. Those things last a long time too. The coconut baseball, that was like pink. Whoa, wow.
That's the one I always wanted to look good, but never had. It looked, it was nasty on the inside. It looked like hair, looked like hair, little coconut hairs things, right? Yep. Yep. Oh yeah.
And they sat in those packages unopened for a long time. You ever been in a bodega and looked at the stuff there and it was all dusty? Yep, oh yeah. Oh yeah. Like don't you, don't you at least want to dust the stuff off a little bit?
Try. Make it look somewhat presentable. Yeah, why does the, why does the expiration date is like tomorrow? And it's dusty there, has like a black film on the plastic wrapper. You mean to tell me you selling this?
Yes, you want to buy it? Can we put the cat away too, to like the nighttime hours please? Yeah, let the cat kill the rats later in the day. When no one's around to see it. Yeah, he doesn't need to be sitting on a loaf of bread at 11 am in the morning. Let me pretend that that bodega is clean, okay?
At least in my mind. While he's making a bacon, egg, and cheese. He's making a bacon, egg, and cheese over here and the cat is sitting over here. So you mean to tell me the cat doesn't shed? So you don't wipe up the the dust off of the the packaging, but the cat hair is I guess just plentiful in the back. I guess the cat is probably like the duster they assume, you know, the cat sits on the loaf of bread.
Well that would just wipe off the dust, no worries there. Man, what world are we living in? I don't know, a crooked one. A crooked one where if you had a perfect bracket you could have got sent to Mars.
I could have got sent on a death march. Yeah, right. Congratulations for making history.
Here's your reward. Yeah, impossible. Nobody has a perfect bracket. As they show, what's that guy's name?
Oh, forehead man. They show Peyton Manning sitting inside Indianapolis and Kentucky trying to go on a run. Tennessee lead in Kentucky a 55 to 42. Meanwhile Michigan State and Ole Miss they are going down to the wire.
65 to 63 Michigan State leads Ole Miss. There's about 90 seconds left in the game which means that the screen here in the studio with me is not going to work because the game is close. Of course things don't work when you need them to work but we got a good one. So we will keep you up to date as things continue on. We did talk about Kirk Cousins, what a fraud he is. We talked about Deion getting his new contract and you want the details? We got hit with the details earlier today on CBS Sports HQ. I want you to take a listen to this as Deion is not leaving Boulder.
He can afford as many Twinkies as he wants. We have breaking news into CBS Sports HQ where Colorado has signed football coach Deion Sanders who has agreed to a contract extension that will make him one of the highest paid coaches in the country. Our own Matt Zenitz reports that coach prime's new deal will pay him better than 10 million dollars a season through the 2029 season making him the highest paid coach in the Big 12 Conference. Sanders led the buffs to a 9-4 record this season in Boulder. Good for him. We don't know if he's gonna stick around for five years but good for him he's gonna get that cash. Good for Deion Sanders. He turned that program around.
Meanwhile somebody else got paid today. His name is John Harbaugh, the head coach of the Baltimore Ravens. He got himself a three-year contract extension which means that if Lamar Jackson is healthy the Baltimore Ravens will spend the next three years winning 12 plus games every year. It's just a matter of whether they get a little lucky in the postseason. I don't know like beat the Buffalo Bills, beat the Kansas City Chiefs.
We'll have to wait and see on that one. Today's not all good for coaches across the board. Not at all because we do have one coach he got the boot today.
Taylor Jenkins of the Memphis Grizzlies. Despite having a record of 44-29. Despite being the fifth seed. A couple of weeks ago they were the second seed.
They were the number two seed in the west. This man got fired today by who he got beef with. The GM must really hate his guts to fire a guy with a winning record.
What a world. As someone else who could not understand this, hey we've had him here on the show. It's my main man Antonio Daniels from Sirius XM NBA radio.
He couldn't believe it. Taylor Jenkins is a fantastic coach. Taylor Jenkins is a fantastic coach. I don't know how you come to a conclusion like this this late in the season and this close to the postseason. If it's you know you make a playoff run and you know you get eliminated first round and you know you don't accomplish or achieve expectation. I get it but this right here especially when Ja Morant is is so in and out of the lineup like your star player. But I've said this since the Luca trade. Nothing surprises me anymore. No nothing is pro sports.
Nothing should be surprising. Ja Morant I feel like I see him on the sidelines being a cheerleader more than I see him in action out there on the basketball court. Ja Morant this year has only played in 43 games. I get it. He's skinny. He's jumping. He's flying. He's dunking. He's doing everything except for playing basketball. Good for him. He's not throwing around ones getting in trouble this year. That's that's good.
That's a good thing. It's the JR sport reshow here with you coast to coast on the Infinity Sports Network. When we come back I'm going to give you an update on Michigan State and Ole Miss. Michigan State has taken the lead 67 to 65. There's 33 seconds left in this game. Meanwhile Tennessee leads Kentucky 55 to 43. About 11 minutes left in that one. We'll give you an update on March Madness and then yeah we got faces who are staying.
Taylor Jenkins is leaving. I'm going to tell you about an NFL player. He had his introduction today. It was much nicer than Russell Wilson's.
I'll tell you who made his debut in New England. We got so much more to do. March Madness is here. It's the JR sport reshow the Infinity Sports Network. You're listening to the JR sport brief. I don't know about all that. I don't but thank you though. Thank you. Just fair and mature I guess.
I don't know but thank you. Anyway how about this Michigan State we basically moved on to the free throw game and don't turn the ball over. Michigan State currently leads 69 to 67 against Ole Miss. There's 13 seconds left in the game. Michigan has the ball. They're going to try not to turn it over. No miraculous nonsense.
He just always kills me. What takes so long with the foul? Good for them. They get two seconds off the clock. Michigan is at the free throw line. Where's somebody that just like yeah you don't want to like push the living hell out of the guy and incur like a flagrant but when it's time to foul it dude it's like people are so unsure. You got to foul him foul him.
What are we thinking about? I agree. Get in there make sure the referee can see it and let's save as much time. I agree.
Don't let him run around and make an extra pass. It's just taking too much damn time. The winner of this game will take on the winner of the next game between Auburn and Michigan. By the time this game finishes up by the time they start that game we're going to be done.
We're going to be walking out of the door here. Meanwhile looks like Tennessee is going to have no problem dispatching of Kentucky. Tennessee leading 65 to 48. There's about eight minutes left. Kentucky is going to have to go on a run and do it very very soon if they want to dare get back into this game. I need to let you know about this right now. The NASCAR Race Preview is sponsored by Weather Guard Truck and Van Equipment.
They're just as driven as the hard-working pros that they serve. Kyle Larson first off his first one of the season last week at Homestead Miami. He gets set to make it two in a row as NASCAR heads off to Martinsville Virginia this weekend for the Cookout 400.
Early predictions have Larson is the favorite to win on Sunday. That's your NASCAR Race Preview sponsored by Weather Guard. Hic you ever had cookout? No but I would like to. Is it good? Yeah it's simple you know. Like burgers and stuff or what are we talking about? Yes yeah any burgers hot dogs front cookout stuff okay. Okay. Like fast food stuff you get a burger for I don't know depending on what you want four bucks right? It's a pretty good deal.
Yeah. I think the south does it right when it comes to like fast food like that. Oh yeah we eat down here.
What people do is eat what you want they're gonna cook it okay. Not bad. Everything out here man it's crazy. Look at Tom Izzo he's being kind right maybe it's because he has the lead. I think that's part of it. Four seconds away from going to a lead eight I think that could put a smile on your face now. Exactly let's see how long it takes for them to foul push them push them push them there we go.
Oh this game is oh I hate when it takes so long Hickey oh my god. You know what's gonna happen right Ole Miss League is gonna come down hit a three it's gonna make a three-point game with like one second left boom timeout gotta call it up drop the play how we're gonna foul him so early. Oh man you know it's yeah let's let's chalk this one up I mean the guy there's a kid they just showed a kid on Ole Miss he's crying already so they're done they're finished they ain't no coming back from this.
I know that's what you like. What to watch the kids cry? Yeah seeing them upset. No man why you make me sound so mean? Didn't we just talk to something Monday like ah man they show the kids cry. Yeah but I didn't say I'm out here rooting for the kids to cry I'm just saying that's uh it's emotional for them this kid looks like he's bald already is he old enough what the guy at the free throw line he looks he looks like with everyone moving around and leaving early he looks like he's been there 10 years. Yeah he looks old he gonna miss a free throw no he made it it's 73 so you got four seconds somebody's gonna hit a half court heave right heave the ball bruh heave it ah it took so long all right game over folks here we go wait did he make it no he made it all right he drained that bad boy uh he made a buzzer beating three that counted for nothing it's the only problem you're down by six it is no six-point shot no josh skitty celebration no stacy king reaction on that one no none of that the michigan state advances again you got tom izzo going to the elite eight for the 15th time in school history this is the sixth most ever for tom izzo who's been around for the past 27 years this is just the same old same old as michigan state knocks off ole miss final score 73 to 70 next up in the elite eight we just gotta wait a couple days well shoot i guess it would be sunday yeah it should be sunday we'll have michigan state versus the winner between our next game auburn and michigan at least the fans uh started to fill in and show up for this game at the end everybody certainly uh saw a good one tom is or just keeps on winning that's what he does meanwhile tennessee and kentucky they're still going on tennessee 65 uh kentucky uh 48 hickey i want to bring this up before i get to us stephan digs real quick you know i saw a sort a story pop up earlier today and we know uh you got a guy like tom is so he keeps winning he ain't going anywhere now he's going back to another elite eight and there's so many conversations about kevin willard and leaving and resources hickey what if i told you that kermit the frog is going to be the commencement speaker for maryland excuse me kermit the frog let me i'll read it to you okay please the university announced this week that it has chosen the fictional muppet star in the so-called world's most famous amphibian to deliver its commencement speech on may 21st at the university of maryland stadium at college park wow yeah yeah there you have it wow i i i'm trying to decide right now that's cool or not cool i don't know nothing could make these feet happier than to speak at the university of maryland a statement attributed to carpet in the muppet studio i just know the class of 2025 is going to leap into the world and make it a better place so if a few encouraging words from a frog can help then i'll be there a promotional video published by maryland hailed kermit as a p-body award winner best-selling author environmental advocate and friend to all creatures and friend to all creatures okay yeah how does he have time to do all this what does kermit the frog do what book did he write i don't know he acts he's on the muppets are they still going or no was muppets don't got no show out now they got a show making do they they'll make like yeah yeah continues like they don't do current episodes for the younger generation the last time you've seen a muppet come on bro i haven't but i mean also i've not seen a spongebob episode in like a decade but i know he still is kicking spongebob is a cartoon well the muppets are muppets muppets they exist kermit the frog he got enough time to sit down and do the commencement for uh for maryland and so when we hear kevin will they're talking about where the resources are going they are paying for kermit the frog to show up somebody needs to eat i may email that to him hickey hickey i may find his email and send it to him be like listen bro you want to know where your money is going for kermit the frog to send the kids off into the world okay remember that clip we played yesterday him complaining that he couldn't stay an extra night in new york because they didn't have the budget you want to know why they needed those hotel rooms that money to be safe to bring kermit in he runs a high bargain how much you think they got to pay kermit the frog i mean realistically nothing yeah like the person who puts their hand up his butt got to get paid right how does that going to work by the way does he have a microphone underneath the podium you think no uh yeah i guess yeah he asked it right he's mic'd up yeah next next year elmo okay why not what's big bird have to these days it was is barney still around is that a thing let's get barney in here big bird could do the commencement at uh liu i don't know door the explorer spring heron why not i heard this door they got it you could bring a cheap one in from tom square that's that'll do she can get some positivity ten dollars will do for the commencement there she'll tell you to read a map ten ten dollars wow yeah what a world hey congratulations to michigan state advancing again congratulations to tom missle there's still more to do i don't think they're winning the whole damn thing uh but this is a good move i think duke is winning the whole damn thing we saw what they did to arizona last night it's the jr sport brie show here with you on the infinity sports network we're going to take a break when we come back i told you stephon digs was introduced to the media up in boston uh he had a better press conference than that crap that russell wilson had for the new york giants it's like the giants and him were embarrassed to be together it's like introducing your significant other this is so and so all right whatever they don't really like each other we'll hear from stephon digs we'll talk about a few things that took place this day in sports history you're listening to the jr sport brief it is the jr sport brie show here with you on the infinity sports network so we got one game down tonight michigan beats old miss 73 to 70 tom is oh goes to another elite eight and we got another game it cannot end fast enough tennessee is beating up on kentucky 72 to 55 the winner of this game will take on the game that plays the latest tonight a matter of fact this game should get started in about 30 minutes or so uh purdue in houston so we got some games that we're just waiting on arbonne and michigan scheduled to tip off in another 20 minutes from now i mean damn it by the time we get back here and have a seat on monday at six eastern three pacific we're going to be ready for the final four i said everybody's going to be on their way to san antonio texas people can look at that wonderful dirty river that charles barkley loves so much and then also hickey this is an interesting time because i think that monday or over the weekend at some point they announced the basketball players that'll be going into the uh the hall of fame the the inductions will be revealed i think it might be monday at some point during the game oh that'd be fun yeah very fun exciting a lot going on right now i forgot what miserable nba players were eligible for uh induction let's see some guy some guys that don't deserve to be there they just let people in let's see basketball hall of fame i heard something a couple of days ago it's like i heard on the internet it's like hey paul george is a hall of fame i'm like what for what i mean would you be surprised bro what did he do i want to say yes even for him i'm like yes who looks at paul george and goes hall of fame hickey what did he do i mean i couldn't tell you honestly but like i think again i think everyone who plays in the league gets in no because they count like they count everything so they count what you do in college does he did he was he only well he broke saying he broke his legs in the olympics i remember that he broke his leg in vegas yes like but he's on the team i guess technically so i remember i was in los angeles hickey i got i got invited to see a screening of spider-man okay okay and i was on the bus to whatever lot that they were taking us to and i'm watching team usa play in vegas and i'm getting ready to go sit down and watch spider-man and next thing i know this guy breaks his leg wow and i'm like oh it's career's done and he came back did he ultimately ever win a gold medal what's his name again do you forget a hall of famer's name that should be the test right there yeah let's look this up paul george nine-time all-star he won a gold medal in rio hickey i was did yeah hickey i was in rio i don't even remember that okay wow i do not remember that i guess that was a comeback the last one he broke his leg so he couldn't play in i don't know do we have any minutes on that mean was he was that the year he broke his leg i don't know oh boy i don't know is that like an honorary he was just on the team broke his leg let's see wow yeah i guess that was the year no wait yeah 2014 to 15 he played six games 2015 what year did i say rio was 16 16 2016 he played 81 games 2005 to 2016 in 2016 2017 he played 75 games and so i guess yeah i guess whatever i don't know 2014 2015 he played six games let's i don't know when it's me the headline on mba tv or mba.com excuse me paul george and team usa win gold medal headline that one oh my god so put him in the hall yeah no here he is team usa uniform and all man mba steals leader in 2019 he has no defining moments in his career i remember he went into the bubble and sucked that was a low point that i remember like that between that and him breaking his leg those are the biggest moments that stand out for me paul george's career like there's no moment in the postseason then i is there something that stands out to you in the postseason um i think did he have one shot in oklahoma city or maybe no sorry that was dame on looking at him yeah it was on him oh god and i'm just like they're like hall of fame paul george is a hall of famer what here's some guys who are uh yeah well that's last year vince carter chauncey billups and jerry west what do we got here for 2025 basketball hall of fame class of 2015 finalists come on carmelo anthony he's going okay this mr team usa right there also won a national championship makes sense danny crawford hall of famer he's just cursing people out giving tim duncan a technical foul billy donovan back-to-back championships at florida good for him i get it mark few is going is going in okay 24 consecutive uh appearances for gonzag okay great dwight howard going into the hall of fame i got no debate on that one you got a debate on him letterman fine i i agree okay marquis johnson for the milwaukee bucks 1975 before my time i i think he's still dunking i think that's his thing on twitter like every year on his birthday he dunks so he's that the guy yes i think that's him because he's the bucks analyst i'm pretty sure as well yeah before my time uh jerry welch division three uh championship suny potsdam okay whatever buck williams they're gonna let him in they voted him in oh he's a finalist buck williams not getting into the hall of fame sorry i'm so come on i like buck i remember buck williams i saw him at the end of scaria he ain't getting in the 2008 us olympics men's basketball team we we got to put the whole team in there what are we doing anyway tend to see beating up on kentucky 74 to 58 two minutes left to go in this game in a few minutes they'll advance but right now it's time to go back to a few things that took place this day in sports history back in the days when i was young i'm not a kid anymore but some days i sit and wish i was a kid again it's time for this day in sports history you see back in those days we had radio and you couldn't see anything you know it was primitive and lousy and we liked on the jr sport brief show i wish i was 50 years younger and i'd kick your ass today is march 28th the year is 2025 and today is the day that grant hill threw a pass to christian latner christian latner turned around he took that long football pass and he decided to take a long or short turnaround jumper wouldn't they do there's the pass to latner puts it up yes so i go up there i box them out i go up big and strong and lo and behold the ball's in my hand and i know that i have 2.1 seconds so i make like a post move faked one way and did a turnaround jumper the other way and it's a move that i've done my whole life i went up to shoot and i got a wide open look and um i kind of froze them with my fake and it just worked out great and the ball went through the hoop yeah duke beat kentucky 104 to 103 that was their fifth straight final four appearance after christian latner knocked down that shot and then duke ended up beating michigan in the final that was 1992 what you just heard was courtesy of cbs and also rivals dot com how about this march 28 1993 timo salani this man had probably the best one of the greatest rookie seasons ever in the nhl he became the first rookie to ever score 70 goals in a season he did it by having two goals as the jets tied with the kings three three listen to this man timo tells you about how great a season he had this from the nhl the first year was something magical it was just like snowball going down the hill i just started getting more confidence and more confidence and i wanted to score more and more and sounds easy enough right easy anyway those are a few things that took place this day in sports history nothing spectacular happened today so uh yeah nothing nothing that hickey lebron doesn't play today so nothing else to add huh nothing thankfully and thankfully he didn't choose on his off day to actually throw another comment out there i don't know he's done i think uh steven a is done hopefully they stay quiet uh for the weekend hey meanwhile speaking of the weekend stephon diggs might be looking for a house i told you today he was introduced as the newest member of the new england patriots he's going to be catching them passes from drake may and he says i'm excited to play with this second year qb i'm gonna help him i'm excited i really look forward to it uh it's crazy because when you ask around he has a lot of similarities where people say through the grapevine he acts a lot like josh and um you know that was my guy so i look forward to meeting and connecting with him great that's nice but here's a better question stephon digs what's up with your knee you had tornade you had a torn ACL are you gonna be out there you you're gonna be halfway decent you're gonna be somewhat decent are you ready to go what's up as far as like with the money i know the money will follow with with your production like what i've done in the past is my resume but at this point i'm i'm really looking forward to put my best foot in front of me um even towards last year i was at like 47 receptions and like 450 or something like that close to 500 yards so that's halfway through the season with uh i would have been on pace to have another thousand hour season 100 catches if i didn't get banged up so if you're doing the math right i'm gonna be productive all right well you did that before you tore your ACL okay i don't know what you're gonna look like in year one we don't know what you're gonna look like in year two oh my goodness this game is still going on oh hickey there's more people crying they showed a kid from kentucky tears up he's wiping up up towel over the head oh boy oh yeah towel over the head both eyes hickey both eyes use the thumb and index finger one eye each in tennessee beaten kentucky is 78 to 62 this is what you call a little bit of the get back and mark pope trying to figure things out here for kentucky a little too late about a minute to go uh left in this game man i there's so much more basketball to watch we have more coming up in a matter of minutes we got michigan getting started with auburn that'll be fun to see a little battle between bruce pearl there and also dusty may and then we got houston and purdue and more basketball but us we're done the show's finished jr sport b shows is done it'll be back with you on monday 6 p.m eastern 3 pacific thank you so much for tuning in and thank you to our guests as well matt muilenbach or muilbach excuse me joining us from fox and espn to talk some college ball thank you so much the man who broke the story of dion's contract extension brian howell for coming through if you've missed a minute of the show go ahead and hit rewind on the free odyssey app hickey where can people listen to you on sunday nights right here on the infinity sports network starting at 10 p.m eastern yeah you can find me online at jr sport brief make sure you listen to hickey on sunday come back and listen to us back together again on monday the jr sport b show on the infinity sports network is done thank you to evan as well thank you for listening have a great weekend listen to bart winkler coming up next thank you ron hickey
