This Week's Show
As the NBA off-season continues, American billionaires and elected officials continue to misbehave.
Hosts
- Andres Alvarez (@nerdnumbers)
- Patrick Minton (@nbageek)
- Produced by Brian Foster (@boxscorebrian)
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Video Show
Show Notes
Paying College Athletes
Our first broken record, how ridiculous is it that paying college athletes is even a question? Luckily we sprinkle in some tangents, though.
We review a Grantland piece about the Pac-12 and paying college athletes.
We bring up the Boston University study on CTE, which has 87 out of 91 brains of former NFL players testing positive for CTE. Patrick does note the selection bias issue, though.
What an exciting way to start my weekend. I probably have CTE. https://t.co/1Ct0MK9qCT
— Tom Crabtree (@itsCrab) September 18, 2015
The Detroit Lions actually have an 11-5 and 10-6 record in recent history.
Publicly Funded Stadiums
Lindsay Gibbs has a great piece on why the Washington Mystics new arena is not a good thing. Dave Berri is quoted in the article as well.
In general, publicly funded stadiums are a bad idea. It's just giving money to rich people. That said, it's even worse when the new stadium is too small.
Stadiums and arenas aren't fantastic venues for things like concerts as it's hard to schedule. Some examples we bring up are:
- The Nugget kicked the WWE out for a playoff game.
- The Astros will bump Taylor Swift based on their playoffs
- The Spurs long roadtrip to accomodate a rodeo.
- The Bulls long roadtrip to accomodate a circus.
Kevin Johnson is a supervillain
Speaking of using public funding for sports teams, we talk Kevin Johnson. Bad news, he's even worse than that! We talk a long Deadspin post on the many sketchy things Kevin Johnson does.
Jerry West and Analytics
We talk the absurd soundbytes Jerry West gave about analytics.
Shout Outs
Patrick shouts out new Black Panther author Ta-Nehisi Coates(@tanehisicoates) and Marvel.
Brian shouts out Mark Sandritter for pointing out that Sony and the new concussion movie will likely not go hard after the NFL.
I shout out John Floyd for admitting he watched the Mighty Ducks animated show.