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This week on the Daly Dose, we are breaking down the 2024 NFL Draft!We are joined by some friends of the Dose to hand out some way too early 2024 NFL draft grades to every single team in the NFL!We know that the Chicago Bears had the top pick but did they do enough to merit a high grade?The Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs keep finding success in the draft. Did they do it again? What about teams that may have made some surprising selections like the Denver Broncos and Atlanta Falcons? Are the criticisms of their draft classes valid?We take a look at every team, and assess the value that they got with their selections, in our way too Early NFL Draft grades! 

This week on the Daly Dose, we are attending to some business, but we are still getting you ready for the 2024 NFL Draft with some past Daly Dose Top 5’s!We flash back to Daly Dose Top 5’s with a very distinct NFL Draft flavor for you! We countdown the Top 5 times that quarterbacks were drafted No. 1 and No. 2, the Top 5 earliest times that NFL teams drafted a kicker or punter, the Top 5 greatest NFL draft classes ever, the Top 5 seasons that no quarterbacks were selected in the first round of the draft, the Top 5 NFL players that went completely undrafted, and the Top 5 draft busts that were drafted No 1 overall!

This week on the Daly Dose, we discuss the career and passing of former NFL player OJ Simpson and our lasting impressions of a very divisive figure in sports!Scottie Scheffler rolled to an easy win at the Masters, Caitlin Clark was drafted to the WNBA, Kentucky hires a new basketball coach and we discuss why the Denver Pioneers winning another NCAA hockey title makes us feel good!Then with the NBA and Stanley Cup Playoffs beginning, we break down the top five teams in each league and let you know who the true contenders are with a new edition of our Daly Dose Power Rankings!Major League Baseball is also underway and we tell you the top five teams to watch.Finally, our Daly Dose Top 5 takes a look at the NBA Playoffs by counting down the Top 5 active players with the highest scoring average in the postseason! 

This week on the Daly Dose, the NCAA Tournament is now complete and we announce the winner of our 2024 Daly Dose Bracket Challenge!We recap the NCAA Championship game and how the University of Connecticut was able to beat Purdue and win their second straight title!John Calipari is leaving Kentucky for Arkansas, South Carolina was able to beat Caitlin Clark and Iowa to win the Women’s National Championship and Bronny James is putting his name in for the NBA Draft. Which team just might be targeting him? Then, we are handing out some end of year College Basketball awards! We hand out our own Player of the Year and Coach of the Year, but we also have some annual awards like the Arizona Award and the Kardashian Award to hand out too!Finally, with the incredible ratings that both the Men’s and Women’s NCAA Tournament showed this year, we countdown the Top 5 most viewed college basketball games of all time!

This week on the Daly Dose, it is now April and that might mean something different to you depending where you live. We also update the Daly Dose March Madness bracket standings!We discuss the Women’s Final Four now being set, and did Notre Dame get treated unfairly by the NCAA officiating crew in their Sweet 16 loss to Oregon State? Plus a Kansas City Chiefs player is in some trouble.We are also handing out some winners and losers from the 2024 NCAA Tournament! We look at some of the best and worst in what has been a very exciting and unpredictable tournament, and one Big Ten team actually lands on our list as both a winner and a loser. Then, we preview the Final Four and make our prediction for who will advance to the finals. Can the Purdue Boilermakers continue their revenge tour after last year’s disappointment in the first round? Can North Carolina State keep their wild postseason alive? Will the Connecticut Huskies continue to dominate? Can the surprising Alabama Crimson Tide keep proving everyone wrong

This week on the Daly Dose, we announce the leaders in our Daly Dose 2024 March Madness bracket challenge and we are also noticing a blatant lie being told right now by the sport media world!We discuss the insane Shohei Ohtani story, the NFL is revamping their kickoffs and installing a new rule that promises to be problematic, and the Georgia Bulldogs seem to be having a problem with their driver education program. Then, we are breaking down each of the games coming up this week in the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 and making our predictions for who will be advancing to the next round. We also take a brief look forward to the Elite Eight and try to surmise who might be making it to the Final Four!Finally, our Daly Dose Top 5 is counting down five college basketball players that had incredible shooting performances in March Madness that you may have forgotten!

This week on the Daly Dose, the March Madness brackets are out, the NCAA Tournament selection committee made some very odd choices and we are inviting any and all to come join our Daly Dose March Madness bracket challenge!We also provide some simple tips if you are a bracket beginner!NFL QBs are bouncing around the league right now, Aaron Donald announced his retirement, and we hand out a few winners and losers so far from NFL free agency, and then we jump into the NCAA Tournament! We are previewing how the tournament may go and letting you know who the true contenders are, as well as some of the teams that you might be well advised to avoid. We also look at some of the Cinderella teams that could end up busting some brackets!Finally, our Daly Dose Top 5 is counting down the five programs that have won the most games in the NCAA Tournament, but have never won a National Championship! Could that end this season?

This week on the Daly Dose, the NFL proves once again that it is king, and our Daly Dose March Madness Bracket Challenge is open for you to join!Then, we are joined by college basketball coach and recruiting expert Jared Zeidman, to discuss the world of college athletic recruiting. Jared discusses his background in coaching college basketball, how he ended up taking some time away, and then how he became a consultant for young athletes that are looking for help in the recruiting process!Jared breaks down some of the most important points of his book Nail The Recruiting Process and talks about some of the best ways that high school athletes can separate themselves from the rest of the recruiting pack. We also look at some of the biggest pitfalls that face players and their parents as they try to find the best college situation. What are the biggest things that he wants them to understand about the recruiting process? What are college coaches really looking for in recruits? He also tells us some of the newest r

This week on the Daly Dose, we are already in the month of March and with the 2024 NCAA Tournament coming, we are hearing a number of people in the sports media world announce that they won’t be watching this year. We believe that they just might be lying.Plus, our Daly Dose March Madness bracket challenge is now open to join!Lebron James scored his 40,000th point over the weekend, Bronny James isn’t getting much love from NBA scouts and the NFL Combine saw some very memorable performances. Then we are diving in on prepping for the coming March Madness Tournament! We look at some programs that might not be household names but could make some noise in the tournament this year. We also discuss a few blue blood names that are going to be hard pressed to even get invited to the Big Dance!Finally, with Caitlin Clark breaking the Division 1 scoring record, we countdown the Top 5 College Basketball scorers of all time that we have actually watched play!

This week on the Daly Dose, we discuss our exciting Leap Day plans, and Major League Baseball found a very unique way to trip themselves up before their season even began! Who could be behind their struggles?College Football is already talking about tinkering with their new playoff format, the Memphis Tigers basketball program is in trouble again, and a lawsuit in Tennessee could spell the end of the NCAA!Then, we turn our attention to the NFL offseason. With the NFL Combine already underway and free agency and the 2024 NFL Draft coming quickly, what are the biggest questions that each team needs to address?We look at all 32 teams, and discuss what each of them must face and overcome this offseason, in order to prepare themselves for next fall!

This week on the Daly Dose, we were missing football this past weekend, but at least we had the NBA All Star Game, right? Then, we are joined by former NBA player Dean Tolson to discuss his incredible story!Dean tells us about growing up in Kansas City, and what it was like to meet one of his sports heroes at a very young age.He explains why he would end up signing with the University of Arkansas to play NCAA Basketball, and how he ended up setting records that still exist today, despite suffering from a serious physical setback!He then describes what it was like to be drafted by both the NBA’s Seattle Supersonics and the NBA’s New York Nets!He discusses his relationship with his Seattle coach Bill Russell, and some of the other locales where he would play pro basketball internationally. Finally, Dean goes into how his mother convinced him to go back to the University of Arkansas, and the amazing impact that it had on his life!If you know a student or a student athlete that is struggling academically, be sure

This week on the Daly Dose, we offer you a very simple guide to having a happy Valentine’s Day!Then, we are joined by our esteemed panel of NFL experts to break down the spectacle that was Super Bowl LVIII!We break down the pregame, the game itself, the best performances, the halftime show and even the best commercials!We discuss how the Kansas City Chiefs were able to come back and beat the San Francisco 49ers in a wild overtime finish. Are the Kansas City Chiefs a true dynasty? Is Patrick Mahomes already the GOAT? And is the window already beginning to close for the San Francisco 49ers? We also begin to look forward to next season! Who are the teams to watch and which teams could actually regress a little?

This week on the Daly Dose, we saw some big upsets in college basketball this past week, but also saw a very encouraging sign!Then we are joined by Daly Dose I-Team President Big Robb to break down Super Bowl LVIII! Coaches are fleeing college football, the Philadelphia Eagles are headed to Brazil, and the Washington Commanders are trying to assemble a competent coaching staff. Then we dive in on the Super Bowl game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers! Who has the advantage when running the ball? Which team is better in the passing game? We evaluate special teams, coaching, officiating, and even the cities of Kansas City and San Francisco themselves in pursuit of coming up with an accurate game prediction!We take a look at some of the more noteworthy Super Bowl betting lines and prop bets that are out there for the big game, and we make our final score and MVP predictions for who will win Super Bowl LVIII!

This week on the Daly Dose, Super Bowl LVIII is set as the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Baltimore Ravens, and the San Francisco 49ers rallied to get past the Detroit Lions. We take a look at what we learned from the NFL Conference Championship games. Jim Harbaugh is taking over with the Los Angeles Chargers, no one seems to want Bill Belichick, the Baseball Hall of Fame made a quiet announcement, and the NBA is giving commissioner Adam Silver a contract extension despite some disturbing trends. Then, we hand out our Daly Dose NFL season end awards. With the season now almost fully complete, who are the most deserving players for Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year, Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player? We also hand out some brand new awards, including the Brett Favre and Antonio Brown awards!Finally with the Detroit Lions breaking a 32 year playoff drought, we take a look at the Top 5 NFL teams that have the current longest playoff droughts without a playoff win!

This week on the Daly Dose, we are joined by a longtime friend of the show to discuss a number of things in the sports world! We open by breaking down the careless tragedy in the Iowa vs Ohio State women’s college basketball game that saw Hawkeyes superstar Caitlyn Clark collide with a fan. Was it a flop? Can these incidents actually be avoided?The Tennessee Titans have a new head coach, the Dallas Cowboys are going to run back the same lineup, and what should the Buffalo Bills do?We recap each game of the divisional round of the NFL Playoffs as the Baltimore Ravens, Kansas City Chiefs, Detroit Lions, and San Francisco 49ers all advanced to the conference championship games! Then, with major changes coming for Nick Saban and Bill Belichick, we discuss the greatest coaches in the history of both College Football and the NFL! Who makes our lists?Finally, we preview the NFL Conference Championship games by making our picks for the Kansas City Chiefs vs Baltimore Ravens and the Detroit Lions vs San Francisco 49er

This week on the Daly Dose, we are breaking down the biggest winners and losers from an unpredictable NFL Wild Card weekend! We discuss why the departure of Nick Saban, Bill Belichick and Pete Carroll from the coaching ranks just might keep you up at night. Then, we hand out some season end 2023 College Football Awards! We hand out awards for the top quarterback, running back, receiver, defensive player and coach of the year! Who will be awarded the Daly Dose Heisman trophy? We also hand out some very special “Daly Dose'' awards! Who will win the coveted Dan Hawkins or Notre Dame awards? We also look back at the most memorable moments of the season and even begin to take a brief look forward to what we might expect next season!Finally, with Bill Belichick and Pete Carroll moving on from their current jobs, our Daly Dose Top 5 looks back at the winningest coaches in NFL history and the coaches that had the difficult task of trying to follow in their footsteps!

This week on the Daly Dose, the Michigan Wolverines won the final National Championship of the four team CFB Playoff era, and we can’t wait for next season!Then, we are joined by our esteemed panel of NFL experts to break down the 2023 NFL Playoffs! We look at every team and every matchup in the coming Wild Card Weekend, and let you know what to expect. What could trip up the Baltimore Ravens or the San Francisco 49ers?Can the Buffalo Bills keep winning? Are the Detroit Lions a true contender? Both the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles have taken a step backward this season, but can they still rally? The Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins are hoping to flip their fortunes this year. Which one could actually win it all?We preview each game and answer all of these questions, plus many more. We also hand out NFL season end awards for Most Valuable Player, Comeback Player of the Year, Rookie of the Year and Coach of the Year!Finally, we look forward to the divisional round, the conference championships an

This week on the Daly Dose, it was the last full weekend of both College Football and the NFL!We saw some surprises in the NFL this week, and did the referees cost the Detroit Lions an important game? Florida State had a poor showing in the Orange Bowl, Michigan scraped past Alabama in the Rose Bowl, and what was that final play call for the Tide? Plus. Washington beat Texas in the Sugar Bowl to advance, and we make our pick for what should be a very interesting College Football National Championship game!Then, we are taking a look back at some of the sports figures that we lost in the year 2023. We remember some of the greatest players in NFL history, one of the toughest players in NBA history, some great College Basketball coaches, and maybe the greatest third basemen in MLB history!Finally, we remember the year that was 2023 in the world of sports by counting down the Top 5 most memorable sports moments of the year! From the CFB Playoff to Major League Baseball to March Madness and the NFL we reflect on th

This week on the Daly Dose, we take a much needed holiday break, but take a look back at some of the holiday flavored Daly Dose Top 5’s from past years! We go back to some of the early days of the Daly Dose where we counted down the Top 5 NFL inspired Christmas songs, the Top 5 alternative Christmas movies worth watching, and even looked at some of the all-time great athletes that could actually be Santa Claus!Then we finish off by counting down the Top 5 least popular Christmas gifts for sports fans, the Top 5 WORST Christmas songs of all time, the five most memorable Winter Olympic moments ever, and we even count down the Top 5 rejected College Football bowl games!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3569738/advertisement

This week on the Daly Dose, we preview some of the upcoming College Football bowl games, including the College Football Playoff games! Who will come out on top in the Rose Bowl between No 4 Alabama and No 1 Michigan? Who will win the Sugar Bowl? No 3 Texas playing No 2 Washington could be a very interesting game!We got some tough news about an all time NBA great, and for some reason, the details are making it even more difficult to process. Then, we are reading our 2023 letter to Santa Claus where we are asking for some help to fix some of the biggest problems in sports. From the college football transfer portal, to our pet peeve about the NFL Red Zone, to the NBA in season tournament, we are asking Santa for a number of improvements!Finally, our Daly Dose Top 5 is counting down five sports teams that should be finding themselves on the Santa Claus naughty list this year!This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.co