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EPISODE · Apr 3, 2026 · 1H 17M

March Madness Stages of Grief, Politics = Sports, Spring Sports Are Here!

from The Word Podcast: Sports, News, & Stuff · host The Word Podcast

The Final Four is set! On this episode we take some time to go over the insane end of the Duke - UCONN Elite Eight game last weekend, which dovetails nicely into our talk on why we do this to ourselves as sports fans.With the hoops season over for the majority of the field, it's that time of year where athletes give their perfunctory answers as to whether they are coming back next season. We talk about why are we even asking these questions, much the same as how no one really takes anything a politician takes seriously, but we still ask them the same things over and over!Staying with our New Year's Resolution of keeping things positive, there are a lot of things coming down the pipe in the next few weeks in the sporting world, so we go over a few of them, including a "Tradition unlike any other..."We conclude with our Master's "draft", tune in to see how we tweak the format a little bit.

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