Things discussed: Final Fours, what makes a blue blood, the Temple Owls, a great week on the diamonds for Alabama, Nate Oats getting paid, and a few other things.

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This week we ruminate on good teams getting their butt's kicked, another tragic season-ending loss for Duke, a mammoth semifinal matchup between Arizona and Michigan, and all chalk in the women's Final Four.

We also review the Alabama basketball season, discuss how successful it was, what defines success for the program these days, and what it'll take for Nate Oats' squad to leap to the next level. On the women's side, another close loss in the round of 32 was made worse with the news that we lost coach Kristy Curry to USF and what that means going forward.

There's also a little NBA and MLB talk in there.

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Mostly March Madness talk this week, with a Bama baseball no-hitter sprinkled in there.

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An XL-sized episode, what is this, football season?

Nope, just a whole lotta talk about the NCAA Tournaments, including our outlook on Alabama's chances, the favorites in each bracket, teams we think will be tough outs, and matchups we'd like to see.

We begin the show with about 10-15 minutes of discourse on the hypocrisy of weed laws in America, stemming of course from Aden Holloway's arrest.

There's also a good bit on NFL Free Agency, some World Baseball Classic, and remembering the character that was Lou Holtz.

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A whole lotta hoops talk this week. Along with a few big NFL trades, dumb college sports meetings, and such.

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Naturally, Alabama's big win in Knoxville is our main topic, but there's also college hoops at large, some Bama baseball and softball, some other stuff from around the sports world, and then we do our best Taking It Down impression and ramble on about TV for a lot longer than we expected to, among other topics - like the time Greg got kicked out of a gymnastics meet.

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Hey, we're back. We talk Bama hoops and some other college basketball from around the country, a fun Winter Olympics, a NBA All-Star Weekend that was better than expected, good starts for Bama softball and baseball, and other stuff, too.

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Here's to hoping your immune system does to illness what the Seahawks defense did to Drake Maye and the Patriots offense. Of course we talk Super Bowl, and there's also a big week for Bama hoops, a big move for North Dakota State, not so many big trades in the NBA, a bittersweet end to football season, and more.

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