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The Let's Talk Ball Podcast

Most sports are fair game. Big B will take us through some of the more controversial, confusing, and thought-provoking topics in sports today and of yesteryear. We leave current events to major networks and dive deep into the history of sports. Having experience as a D1 athlete in two sports and a member of Hall of Fames in each, Brien has the credentials to lay down the law of the land. This is his podcast, his views, his opinions, and his truth. Welcome. Now, Let's Talk Ball!!!

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20) Let’s Talk Teams: We Love to Hate from 2019-10-30T07:00

Love and hate go hand in hand. If you love a sport, there are inevitably a team or teams that you hate. In this episode Big B reveals his list of the major sports' most dubious organizations. Wh...

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19) Let’s Talk Hatred: A Case for LeBron pt. 2 from 2019-10-23T07:00

Can't we all just get along? Short answer, no! lol. Sports won't allow for it but in the case of King James, why do so many basketball fans and talking heads love to hate LeBron? Is it envy or i...

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18) Let's Talk Greatness: MJ vs LeBron pt.1 from 2019-10-16T07:00

Allow Big B to add his two cents into this debate. For many, this argument is over who is the greatest basketball player ever to lace up. For THIS discussion, it's solely about who was/is better...

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17) Let's Talk Scandals: Underhanded Moments in Sports from 2019-10-09T07:00

What area of life can you think of that does not have it's share of scandalous moments? Personally, I cannot. Sports are no different. The motivation may be money, ego, pleasure, greed, or simpl...

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16) Let's Talk Sexuality: Gays in the Locker Room from 2019-10-02T07:00

Sex and sports. Two things that I'm sure most of our listeners enjoy, but rarely do these topics live within the same conversations. More and more, though, we are hearing stories involving the g...

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15) Let’s Talk Money: Compensation for Student Athletes from 2019-09-25T07:00

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more polarizing topic than whether collegiate athletes should be paid. While it’s nowhere close to being a new discussion, it seems to be popping up mo...

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14) Let's Talk Kneeling: What Really Matters from 2019-09-18T07:00

Colin Kaepernick. Malcolm Jenkins. Eric Reid. Jay-Z. 

Players. Fans. Owners. Presidents.

NFL. Military. America.

Kneeling.

The most cajun cajuns couldn't have made a ...

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13) Let's Talk Doping: Taking Advantage from 2019-09-11T07:00

In the world of competitive sports, usually, superior are the faster, the stronger, and the healthier. The lengths that some of these top tier athletes take to gain an edge border on insanity. T...

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12) Let's Talk Busts: Failure to Launch from 2019-09-04T07:00

Professional athletes have been honing their skills long before they become professionals. Sometimes it is inexplicable that these players' ability to produce at their particular sport goes down...

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11) Let's Talk Salaries: Show Me the Money!!! from 2019-08-28T07:00

We're not telling you anything that you don't already know by telling you that there is a TON of cash being thrown around in professional sports. But who is getting the lion's share and is that ...

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10) Let's Talk Gambling: Big Games&Big Money from 2019-08-21T07:00

Like peanut butter and jelly, like salt and pepper, like thunder and lightening, like kool-aid and sugar....sports and gambling go hand and hand. Whether you like it or loath it, gambling is as ...

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9) Let's Talk Fantasies: Enter Fantasy Sports from 2019-08-14T07:00

What many see as simple fun, others see as a way to make some extra coin. Still, others see it as the brilliant marketing ploy it is. In one swoop these sports up their viewership, increase invo...

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8) Let's Talk Fans: Short For Fanatic from 2019-08-07T07:00

Where would sports be without our wild, misguided, loud, visceral, highly delusional fan bases? We love these crazies almost as much as we love the sports themselves. You can drop a pin anywhere...

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7) Let's Talk Eras: The When&The Why from 2019-07-31T07:00

One of the questions that we as fans will never get a definitive answer for is, "could players from the past compete with today's athletes?" While there undoubtedly has been a shift in all major...

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6) Let's Talk Rivalries: Bad Blood from 2019-07-24T07:00

Would sports be so tantalizing if it weren't for rivalries? Two teams/individuals pitted against one another in a battle to maintain their side's dominance. Whether it's proximity, prize, or pur...

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5) Let's Talk High School: Crazed High School Sports from 2019-07-17T07:00

Some of the biggest games still talked about were those of high school lore. Few things have the lasting power of local kids at local schools doing big things under the lights of Friday night. I...

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4) Let's Talk Officiating: Bad Calls&All from 2019-07-10T07:00

Why is officiating been sooooo bad? Why aren't they held PUBLICLY accountable? How can we hold referees more accountable for ruining games, seasons, and altering careers. With players getting bi...

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3) Let's Talk Dynasties: Sports' Greatest Teams from 2019-07-03T07:00

With so many sports to choose from, who will gain Big B's nod as the person or team to lay claim to being the dynasty of all dynasties? Football, basketball, soccer, tennis....which team or pers...

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2) Let's Talk Fighting: Boxing vs MMA from 2019-06-26T07:00

There's a lot of back and forth on which of these gladiator sports bests the other. With boxing being the OG and MMA being the new kid on the block, is it inevitable that MMA takes the fight cro...

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1) Let's Talk GOATs: Sports' Greatest Players from 2019-06-19T11:00

Who do we consider the GOATs of each major sport? How do we decide? What are the metrics? Are the answers to these questions objective or subjective. Well, Big B has an opinion on all of the abo...

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Let's Talk Ball: Introduction from 2019-06-09T14:45:50

Most sports are fair game. Big B will take us through some of the more controversial, confusing, and thought-provoking topics in sports today and of yesteryear. We leave current events to major ...

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