148: Super Wild Card Weekend Roundup, 2nd half of NBA regular season, Novak out of the Aussie open, and more!

In today's podcast: John discusses why the Dallas Cowboys wasted a prime opportunity to win playoff games this year and why they lost to the San Francisco 49ers, the in-game and clock management and what led them down a path of endless annual disappointment, and if the Cowboys should make a head coaching change following the season (02:41 - 17:04), as well as other developments across the NFL during the games this weekend, like the Bengals' first playoff win in 31 years and a Bills-Chiefs rematch now set for Divisional Sunday (17:04 - 29:04). We have hit the midway point of the NBA regular season, and there is an unclear picture in the Eastern Conference with 11 teams separated by less than seven games at the top, while the Golden State Warriors have struggled without Draymond Green on the floor and the Nets have new injury issues (29:44 - 35:49). Meanwhile, a topsy turvy season atop the college basketball rankings continues as defending champion Baylor has lost two games in a row at home to Texas Tech and Oklahoma, while Purdue and Wisconsin continue to flex their muscles in the Big Ten and Auburn, now No. 2 in the rankings, will now be battle tested again when they host John Calipari's Kentucky squad on national TV this week (35:50 - 41:19).  Plus, what should people think of the situation with Novak Djokovic not playing in the Australian Open because of his COVID vaccination status and comments an NBA owner made recently about the Uyghur Muslim genocide taking place in China?