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EPISODE · Mar 18, 2026 · 35 MIN

War, geopolitics, and sports collide | The Jeff Ward Show podcast

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War, geopolitics, and sports collide. Iran’s path to the World Cup is amazing, but they don’t want to play games in the U.S. Donald Trump is even telling them to not come at all for safety reasons, and FIFA is telling the Iranian side to “shut up and play.” [1:16]Jerry Jones is selling. Are you buying?  Jerry Jones says a Cowboys turnaround is “close” because he’s “fixed” the Dallas defense. By the way, it’s a defense that gave up a league high 511 points last season. Are buying the Jerry sales pitch? [14:57]Great band. Awful song. Van Halen’s only number one song was the cheesy 1984 hit Jump.” The controversy now is what was the meaning of the song. A suicide jumper? [28:05]See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

War, geopolitics, and sports collide. Iran’s path to the World Cup is amazing, but they don’t want to play games in the U.S. Donald Trump is even telling them to not come at all for safety reasons, and FIFA is telling the Iranian side to “shut up and play.” [1:16]Jerry Jones is selling. Are you buying?  Jerry Jones says a Cowboys turnaround is “close” because he’s “fixed” the Dallas defense. By the way, it’s a defense that gave up a league high 511 points last season. Are buying the Jerry sales pitch? [14:57]Great band. Awful song. Van Halen’s only number one song was the cheesy 1984 hit Jump.” The controversy now is what was the meaning of the song. A suicide jumper? [28:05] See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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War, geopolitics, and sports collide. Iran’s path to the World Cup is amazing, but they don’t want to play games in the U.S. Donald Trump is even telling them to not come at all for safety reasons, and FIFA is telling the Iranian side to “shut up...

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