Monday, March 30, 2009

alligatorSports Podcast 3-31-09

On a special "Adam Berry's birthday" edition of the alligatorSports Podcast, we talk at length about several different topics, including Nick Calathes' decision to enter the NBA Draft without hiring an agent, the baseball team's successful weekend, the softball team's 2-1 series victory against Alabama, and on a more national scale, "Professor Kyle" takes us through an experiment related to the revealing of the NCAA basketball All-American teams.

Participants: Adam "Please let me end the baseball talk" Berry, Evan "Morehead State - get it?" Drexler, Kyle "By the numbers" Maistri and Mike "The most difficult edit in podcast history" DiFerdinando.

Time: 51:31

Saturday, March 28, 2009

alligatorSports Podcast 3-28-09

On a three-man weave edition of the alligatorSports Podcast - once again recorded in Assistant Sports Editor Adam Berry's apartment - we discuss the day's top story about Billy Donovan and the vacant Kentucky coaching job, the NCAA Tournament, our busted brackets, the Gators' spring practice, the UF baseball team, and we round out the show with our Reggie Nelson Awards for Excellence in the Field of Sport and Kyle Jackson Bad Angles of the Week (in which we aim for the highest targets imaginable).

Participants: Adam "Billy Gillepsie" Berry, Evan "magical, marvelous, intergalactic practice" Drexler, Kyle "TOO MUCH MADNESS" Maistri

Time: 1:07:27

To listen to the special birthday message from Bill Walton that Evan referenced on the show, click here: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/multimedia/41653782.html

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

alligatorSports Podcast 3-25-09

On a "RIP UF Basketball" edition of the alligatorSports Podcast, we cover a variety of topics, including the start of the spring practice season -- and several other topics related to the Gators football team, including the greatest moments from the two national championship seasons -- as well as the end of both UF basketball teams' seasons.

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Length: 1:27:06

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

Saturday, March 21, 2009

alligatorSports Podcast 3-21-09

On a special alligatorSports Podcast, recorded and produced at the humble abode of Assistant Sports Editor Adam Berry, we discuss a variety of topics around the NCAA and UF sports world.

We start off with quite a bit of discussion about our NCAA Tournament brackets and the bracket challenge we're running at alligatorSports. We move on from there to some talk about the Gators' performance in the NIT Tournament and the recent changes to the starting lineup and briefly discuss the UF baseball team's successful week.

At the end of the show, we follow through on our promise to read some reader feedback and dole out our first of many Reggie Nelson Awards for Excellence in the Field of Sport and Kyle Jackson Bad Angles of the Week. Finally, since we recorded the show in Adam's living room at 3 a.m., we play a fun round of "What Can You Buy on TV at 3:13 a.m.?" in which Mike McCall displays an uncomfortable amount of knowledge about women's accessories.

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Participants: Adam "my buddy Pedro" Berry, Kyle "the podcast's first (censored) f-bomb" Maistri, Mike "What NCAA Tournament?" DiFerdinando, Mike "hobo wallets are great" McCall
-Special guest starring Adam's roommate Corey Hill ("Hill-toppers" in our bracket challenge), who made a brief cameo on his way through our recording studio

Length: 1:08:40

Monday, March 16, 2009

alligatorSports Podcast: NCAA Tournament Special

On a special NCAA Tournament edition of the alligatorSports Podcast, we break down the bracket in many different, thorough aspects. We discuss a plethora of topics - from who got snubbed to who will be the biggest upset - before making our region-by-region picks from Round 1 until the NCAA Championship Game.

It's without a doubt the longest show we've ever done, but it's also one of the most interesting, in-depth discussions we've ever had so give it a listen.

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Participants: Adam Berry, Kyle Maistri, Mike DiFerdinando, Phil Kegler

Length: 1:43.28

alligatorSports Podcast 3-16-09

On a Spring Break wrapup edition of the alligatorSports Podcast, we discuss the men's basketball team's performance in the SEC Tournament and where they stand heading into the NIT, the baseball team's series against Duquesne and Arkansas and the dominant week the softball team had.

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

Length: 33:46

Thursday, March 5, 2009

alligatorSports Podcast 3-6-09

On the longest alligatorSports Podcast yet, we get into in-depth discussions about the Mountain West Conference's proposed NCAA football playoff system, the UF men's basketball team's late-season struggles and the Gators baseball team's loss against Florida Atlantic.

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Participants: Adam "UF basketball Nostradamus" Berry, Evan "NHL talk, baby!" Drexler, Kyle "Hossa's injured, right?" Maistri, Mike "This is why you don't teach lessons" McCall, Mike "I probably didn't say anything funny tonight" DiFerdinando and Bobby "I am a Preston Tucker Witness" Callovi.

Length: 59:46

Sunday, March 1, 2009

alligatorSports Podcast 3-2-09

On a "Gators sports had an abysmal weekend" edition of the alligatorSports Podcast, we discuss a variety of topics -- some of which we even planned to talk about.

Between discussions about the baseball code of ethics and what attendance numbers are really all about, we discuss the UF men's basketball team's loss to Tennessee and where their postseason hopes are.

We also talk about the Gators baseball team and the three weekend losses to Miami and the softball team's weekend tournament, including the injury to Kim Waleszonia.

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Participants: Adam “UF basketball fans are terrible and shameful” Berry, Evan “Don't steal my free t-shirt” Drexler, Kyle "Respect the baseball code of ethics" Maistri, Mike “Sitting around the pitcher's mound” McCall and Mike “Ain't nobody gonna punk me” DiFerdinando.

Length: 39:06