Thursday, February 26, 2009

alligatorSports Podcast 2-27-09

On a special four-man edition of the alligatorSports Podcast, we touch on a variety of topics despite missing several of our regular participants due to various illnesses.

We talk about the UF men's basketball team as it enters the end of the season. Among other things, we discuss what we would change with the team – including Mike McCall's suggestion to go to the homes of Walter Hodge and Erving Walker.

We continue with a quick discussion about the latest Gators football recruiting news before devolving into the broader topic of recruiting. We round out the show with some analysis of the baseball and softball teams recent play as well as their upcoming games.

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Participants: Adam “Drinking the Brombacher Kool-Aid” Berry, Evan “I will force Red Wings talk into this podcast whether you like it or not” Drexler, Mike “Billy Donovan should go to Walter Hodge's house” McCall and Mike “Recruited by the Alligator as an eighth grader” DiFerdinando.

Length: 35:38

Friday, February 20, 2009

alligatorSports Podcast 2-20-09

On a special baseball-season-opener Friday edition of the alligatorSports Podcast, we talk at length about what to expect out of the UF baseball team heading into the new season.

We also discuss a few Gators looking to improve their NFL Draft status at the NFL Combine.

In our final segment, we analyze the UF men's basketball team, including the Gators' victory over Alabama and their upcoming game against Vanderbilt.

To download the show, click the title of this post to stream it or right-click and save as to download it, or if you like what you hear, click here to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes.

Once again, send any feedback to sports@alligator.org or leave a comment on one of our blogs.

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Participants: Adam Berry, Evan Drexler, Kyle Maistri, Mike McCall, Mike DiFerdinando and Bobby Callovi.

Length: 36:25

Monday, February 16, 2009

alligatorSports Podcast 2-17-09

Our Assistant Sports Editor, Adam Berry, is currently under the weather so I relieved him of his blog summary duties. Sorry to everyone who opens this blog just to read what is running through his beautiful mind.

In this edition, we discuss the circumstances surrounding Carl Johnson's arrest, wax poetic on the problems of the UF men's basketball team, mull over the possibility that the women's basketball team is a little overrated and conclude with riveting analysis of the softball team's incredible weekend performance.

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Participants: Adam "I'm real sick guys, fo real" Berry, Evan "You don't mind if I drop in unannounced, right?" Drexler, Kyle "I believe Billy D wrote that e-mail" Maistri, Mike "I'm missing out on night golf" DiFerdinando, Phil "I turn into Joaquin Phoenix with a laptop in front of me" Kegler, Mike "Can we squeeze in Fred Taylor discussion under the guise of UF news? I swear I'm not a Jaguars homer" McCall and Chris "Sha Brooks kinda messed up this week" Yazbec.

Length: 26:47

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Thursday, February 12, 2009

alligatorSports Podcast 2-13-09

On our extra-long third episode, we overcome a nearly crushing technical malfunction and bring you 40 solid minutes of opinion and analysis about the UF men's basketball team's loss to Kentucky and the softball team's dominating win over Jacksonville, and, in a special segment, we discuss who we would put on the Mount Rushmore of UF sports -- the top five (yes, five -- we added one) athletes who represent the Gators.

To further explain the third segment, we discuss the concept in a historical sense and, after our recording glitch, we name the top five athletes we would put on the current Mount Rushmore of UF sports.
(It's also worth noting that our recording dropped without our knowledge after we had already finished recording the whole show once, so we basically had to remake the discussion about the current Mount Rushmore of UF sports. So if it seems like the discussion doesn't reflect how much we're laughing, it's because we had already made often the exact same points in the first version of that conversation.)

Participants: Adam "Let me undercut your argument before you make it" Berry, Evan "This is so contrived" Drexler, Kyle "Champion for Babies!" Maistri, Mike "Ben Hogan Watch List" DiFerdinando, Phil "the FACE...of alligatorSports" Kegler and Bobby "I covered the women's basketball team for one game" Callovi.

Length: 40:50

Once again, send any feedback to sports@alligator.org or comment on our blog at www.alligatorsports.org.

Thanks for listening.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

alligatorSports Podcast 2-9-09

On a special Monday edition of the alligatorSports podcast, we discuss a variety of things that happened in the world of UF sports over the weekend, including the Gators softball team's three-game home series (and loss) against Baylor, the women's basketball team's big win over Tennessee and dominant season thus far and several topics related to the UF's men's basketball team.

(Click on the title of this post to listen in or subscribe on iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=304592896)

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Participants: Adam Berry, Kyle Maistri, Phil Kegler, Mike DiFerdinando and Chris Yazbec

Length: 33:07

Thanks for listening. Check out alligatorsports.org or iTunes for the regularly scheduled Friday podcast.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

alligatorSports Podcast 2-5-09

Forget everything you know about the alligatorSports podcast when you check out the newest sportscast.

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Our previous sportscasts have been very short, scripted conversations between two people about one specific game or event with no analysis and very little actual discussion.

We're still working out the kinks with our new podcast format – and our podcasting budget is $0, but we're hoping to make this a weekly thing that will touch on many different sports and topics around the wide world of UF sports.

Among other things in this episode, Mike McCall condemns all Gators basketball fans, Phil Kegler calls UF's Sweet 16 hopes “a joke,” Evan Drexler pleads for Red Wings talk, Kyle Maistri considers the possibility that Stacey Nelson might be better than Tim Tebow and Mike DiFerdinando refers to himself as a “savant.”

We discuss a wide variety of UF sports topics, including Lane Kiffin's statement about Urban Meyer cheating on the recruiting trail, the Gators softball team's upcoming season, many aspects of the Gators basketball team and the question of who is the second-best athlete at UF.

Once again, comment on this blog with any feedback, send it to sports@alligator.org or comment on the blog at www.alligatorsports.org.

Show notes:

Participants: Adam Berry, Kyle Maistri, Phil Kegler, Mike McCall, Mike DiFerdinando, Evan Drexler

Length: 34:38

0:00-11:08 – Introductions and recruiting discussion (Lane Kiffin, UF's newly signed recruiting class and the impact it will have on the program)

11:09-16:27 – Softball talk

16:28-29:19 – Men's basketball talk on a wide variety of topics, from the Chandler Parsons Project to the fans' attendance to the status of Tennessee's basketball program (men's and women's).

29:20-34:38 – Who's the second-best athlete at UF? And parting shots.

Thanks for listening.