Daly Dose Sports

This week on the Daly Dose, football is back! After a long, hot summer, the NFL season is finally here, and we're kicking things off with a bang!Join us for a comprehensive preview of the 2024 season.We dive deep into every team in the league, analyzing their strengths, weaknesses, and potential for success.AFC East: Can the Bills and Dolphins maintain their dominance, or will the Jets or Patriots make a surprise run?NFC East: Will the Cowboys or Eagles reign supreme, or can the Giants or Commanders make a statement?AFC North: With the Ravens, Bengals, Steelers, and Browns, this division is one of the most competitive in the league.NFC North: Can the Lions and Packers continue their success, or will the Bears or Vikings surprise us?Our esteemed NFL panel joins us to share their insights and predictions for the upcoming season!

This week on the Daly Dose, after a long hot summer, we will finally have real live College Football games this week and we are bringing you our annual NCAA Football preview!We are joined this week by Daly Dose I-Team president Big Robb to break down what to expect this year in what might be the most highly anticipated season ever!We discuss the new conference alignment, the new CFB Playoff format, and some of the head coaches that find themselves on a very hot seat entering the season!Then, we dive into the four major conferences and pick the top contenders, as well as who will be the conference champions! We also make our predictions for which of the top players will win the coveted Heisman trophy!Finally, we make our predictions for the very first 12 team College Football Playoff and who will eventually win the very first College Football National Championship that will truly be decided on the field!

This week on the Daly Dose, the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris  thankfully came to an end after the breakdancing competition, and the United States won the overall medal count, including the gold medals in both Men’s and Women’s basketball. Could that reign be ending soon?Plus the Minnesota Vikings are already dealing with a significant injury. Then, we take a look at some of the best early season games in the upcoming College Football season and the NFL! There are a number of marquee matchups between top ranked NCAA teams in the coming weeks and the opening weekend in the NFL is jam packed with great games!Finally, our Daly Dose Top 5 is taking a look at some of the memorable early season College Football games in history!

This week on the Daly Dose, the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are proving to be highly successful for Team USA, but sometimes it isn’t always about winning a medal. The Baylor Bears football program has a new promotional motto, and we are not sure that we like the implications. Then, we are taking a look at some of the tightest quarterback competitions to watch in College Football and the NFL this season! There are a number of top teams in the NCAA and the NFL that still have some very difficult decisions to make this year!Finally, our Daly Dose Top 5 is counting down five times that NFL teams named a rookie quarterback their starter on Day 1, but that turned out to be a big mistake!

This week on the Daly Dose, the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris have seen a number of clutch performances, some heart breaking disappointments, and of course we continue to see the biggest Olympic tradition ever take place yet again!Plus, the NBA is rolling in their new television money, but those days could be numbered!Then, we jump into our annual Daly Dose storytime! Each year prior to the sports season getting busy, we break out a few sports stories that you have never heard! This year we have a couple of legendary stories from Olympic history, including one about maybe the greatest Olympian ever. We also tell the story of how college basketball changed drastically from one ill-fated move and how the NBA was involved in solving a double homicide! 

This week on the Daly Dose, we might be in a slow time of year in sports, but we got some big world news this week when it was announced that the president of our country would be withdrawing from the upcoming election.Then, we dive into the Major League Baseball season at the midway point of the season, and hand out grades for every single team! Which teams have exceeded expectations so far? Which teams have turned out to be simply mediocre? And which teams have been an utter and complete failure? We hand out grades to all 30 MLB teams!Finally, with the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris beginning later this week, our Daly Dose Top 5 counts down the five United States athletes or teams with the highest betting odds to bring home the gold!

This week on the Daly Dose, it was a rough weekend for a number of celebrities!We discussed the ESPY Awards being worse than ever, and the NCAA taking a big hit in court, but will this ruling prove to be good for all student athletes?Then, we look at how difficult it is to compare eras in sports. Instead, we do our best to find some current NBA and NFL stars, and how they might have looked in past eras. Which former greats do players like Patrick Mahomes, Lebron James, and Josh Allen resemble the most?Finally, while this is a very dry time of year for sports fans, our Daly Dose Top 5 counts down the Top 5 major events that are coming soon to end this boring time of year!

This week on the Daly Dose, we are back after a brief hiatus and we explain what we have been doing over the past few weeks and how the Daly Dose is making some big changes!We have missed a number of big stories in sports over the past few weeks, so we dive into a few of them and look at how the sports media overreacted to them.The Boston Celtics rolled to an easy NBA Championship. Are they one of the greatest teams in NBA history? The Los Angeles Lakers made an interesting coaching hire in JJ Redick, will he be a good fit in LA? And what were the Lakers thinking by drafting Bronny James?The Edmonton Oilers nearly overcame a three game deficit in the Stanley Cup Final, but eventually fell to the Florida Panthers. Did Connor McDavid make a case for being in the GOAT conversation?We also look at Team USA’s early exit in the Copa America tournament. Should the USMNT face some massive changes? We tell you why head coach Gregg Berhalter’s job should be safe.Finally, with the 2024 NBA Draft being a tad underwhelmin

This week on the Daly Dose, we are flashing back to a very special episode of the Daly Dose!It is a holiday week, so the Daly Dose is flashing back to an episode that was discussing things that are synonymous with our country…that’s right…baseball and auto racing! Our resident baseball expert, John from the Inland Empire in Southern California stopped by to give us a baseball preview. Who were the teams to watch? Who were the true contenders? Is it truly possible to watch a MLB game without falling asleep? We also had to talk a little NFL news as three new Super Bowl sites have been announced including Los Angeles. The NBA playoffs were starting to get interesting. The Toronto Raptors had tied the series with the Cleveland Cavaliers. We discussed a few plot lines for a newly announced Space Jam movie featuring LeBron James. We also looked at the Golden State Warriors who were in some serious trouble against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Finally, we counted down the Top 5 ways to make the Indianapolis 500 actuall

This week on the Daly Dose, we are flashing back to a podcast from the summer of 2015! Shaquille O’Neal and Scottie Pippen were debating the Los Angeles Lakers and Chicago Bulls greatest teams. Then, we are jumping into some summer Top 5 lists! We start off by counting down the Top 5 most overrated College Football players of all time! We also countdown the Top 5 dumbest sports cliches, we countdown the Top 5 really bad post sports career decisions, and we finish off by counting down the Top 5 Hollywood actors that are really bad at playing athletes in sports movies!

This week on the Daly Dose, we are flashing back to one of the earliest shows in the history of the Dose!We go back to April of 2015 when former NFL tight end Aaron Hernandez had just been found guilty of murder. Jordan Spieth had just won the Masters in Georgia, and we had noticed some interesting aspects in Tiger Woods' game that weekend. We looked at the Stanley Cup Playoffs beginning, the Major League Baseball season was just underway, and Colorado Rockies fans were feeling pretty good about themselves. In the NFL Troy Palamalu had just retired, Philip Rivers did not want the Chargers to move to Los Angeles, and Johnny Manziel had just gotten out of rehab!We also took a brief look at the end of the NBA season and previewed what the NBA Playoffs would be looking like. Finally, with the Milwaukee Bucks changing their logo, we counted down the Top 5 worst mascot names in professional sports! 

This week on the Daly Dose, we are flashing back to some Daly Dose clips from the past! We go back to February 2015 where we were discussing the 2015 Oscar awards! Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose had another knee injury, the city of Los Angeles was trying to get the NFL to return, and the Minnesota Timberwolves had brought back a well past his prime Kevin Garnett! The NBA was seeing some trade deadline moves, Major League Baseball was trying to speed up their game, and Floyd Mayweather was getting ready to fight Manny Pacquiao. We also discussed the NFL Combine, some NFL Free Agency, and College Basketball was having a problem with fans charging the floor after big wins!Finally, our Daly Dose Top 5 is counting down the Top 5 sports movies that you have probably never heard of ! 

This week on the Daly Dose, we make a big announcement that will be impacting the Daly Dose going forward for a few weeks!Then we are flashing back to one of the earliest shows in the history of the Dose! We go back to December of 2014 when Ndamukong Suh was stomping on NFL quarterbacks, LSU football was underachieving, and Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather were finally discussing a fight that was long overdue. The New York Jets, Atlanta Falcons, Oakland Raiders, Chicago Bears, and the San Francisco 49ers had all just fired their head coaches. We also handed out some end of season NFL awards, including the MVP, LVP, and Rookie of the Year!Finally, we finish off the show with a Daly Dose Top 5 that counts down the Top 5 moments of the year that was 2014!

This week on the Daly Dose, we are back from an early summer vacation and the Memorial Day weekend, and saying thank you to all those who have served our country!We reflect on the passing of Bill Walton, a major injury in Major League Baseball, and the Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul fight takes yet another hit to its credibility. Then, we jump into all that we have missed lately in sports while taking some time off! We discuss the NBA Playoffs, the WNBA hating new star Caitlin Clark, the Stanley Cup Playoffs and the Indy 500 history that we saw being made on Sunday. We also discuss a controversy for the Kansas City Chiefs, and a major change coming for NCAA athletics that might not be as good for athletes as we are being told. Finally, our Daly Dose Top 5 is counting down the five major league cities that have been waiting the longest for a championship! 

This week on the Daly Dose, we are flashing back to some Daly Dose clips from the past! With the NBA Playoffs rolling along, we are remembering some NBA Playoff flavored Daly Dose Top 5’s!We look back at the Top 5 NBA Conference Finals upsets, the Top 5 first round upsets of the NBA Playoffs, the Top 5 most dominant NBA teams, the Top 5 worst NBA Finals teams, the Top 5 most surprising NBA Finals MVPs and the Top 5 times that we saw an NBA dynasty collapse!

This week on the Daly Dose, the 2024 NBA Draft has a major shakeup and we explain why the universe hates the Detroit Pistons!The new Utah NHL franchise is searching for a mascot and we have the top fan nominations, as well as some of our own suggestions.The NFL is releasing their schedule, the WNBA is hoping that Caitlin Clark can revive their floundering league, and we look at the Los Angeles Lakers head coaching search.Then, we are handing out some winners and losers from the NBA Playoffs so far. Which teams, players and coaches will make our list?Finally, our Daly Dose Top 5 is counting down five NBA Draft facts that are so strange that they actually sound made up, despite being totally true!

This week on the Daly Dose, we are joined by basketball coach Bill Benton to discuss his career and the current state of basketball and youth coaching.Coach Benton has won two state championships and has an incredible winning percentage over his career!We reflect the best and worst aspects of his job, and the most challenging obstacles that he faces in coaching.We also talk about the current state of college recruiting, and how the college game has changed so much recently. Finally, we review the NBA Playoffs and Coach Benton makes his prediction for the NBA Finals!

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!