Ball and Order

For college football rivalry week, Gabe and Alex try to find rivalries that have been broken recently. These traditions may be broken due to the games not happening anymore (West Virginia-Pitt, Miami-Florida, Kansas-Missouri), a trophy being taken away (Kentucky-Tennessee), or just one team being way worse than the other (Michigan-Ohio State). We go deep into all of these rivalries and more.

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The NBA Draft was Wednesday night, a night full of hope for many bad teams. While every organizations is feeling great about their picks now, some will look back at this night with disdain after making bad picks. Gabe Ibrahim and Alex Lange go back through NBA Draft History since 2000 and talk about the worst picks in those drafts. They start off with a debate about the worst pick between Darko Miličić over Carmelo Anthony (and Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade), Deandre Ayton/Marvin Bagley III over Luka Dončić, and Anthony Bennett over anybody else. Then, they draft the worst team they can from lottery picks drafted since the 2000 NBA Draft. 

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BYU is back in championship contention in a very weird 2020 college football season. But it's not nearly as crazy as the year where BYU actually won the championship in 1984. Gabe Ibrahim and Alex Lange get into how stupid the 1984 season was, how BYU ended up with the trophy, how much they miss independent teams and, of course, talk extensively about Syracuse and Kansas football. They also make fun of the Trump Campaign's last stand at Four Season Total Landscaping.

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The Miami Dolphins and New York Jets have arguably had the worst quarterbacking in the NFL over the past 20 years. Unfortunately, these are the two teams that Gabe and Alex root for. Ahead of Tua Tagovailoa's first start for the Dolphins, they pick the best and worst quarterbacks for each team since 2000 as well as their favorite and least favorite gunslingers. Brett Favre, Chad Pennington, Ryan Tannehill, and Ryan Fitzpatrick are all mentioned along with luminaries like Cleo Lemon, John Beck and Greg McElroy.

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College Football is fully loaded now with the Big Ten (and Mountain West) returning to play this weekend. To celebrate this or something, Gabe bet on Syracuse (+46) against Clemson and Nebraska (+26) against Ohio State! Alex relentlessly makes fun of him for this terrible parlay. Plus they get into the history of several matchups happening this weekend including former Syracuse QB Eric Dungey's great games against Clemson, Oklahoma State's gutting 2011 loss to Iowa State, Virginia's QBs turning into Peyton Manning against Miami, and why North Carolina-North Carolina State isn't a bigger rivalry. Subscribe to our newsletter: ballthroughtheages.substack.com.

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The Oklahoma Sooners have had a very successful last 20 years, but those years have been littered with some terrible losses in massive games. Gabe and Alex are joined by their friend and Oklahoma fan, Garrett (who you have never heard of unless you really love highways). Ahead of the Red River Shootout, they talk about Bob Stoops's early success, Rhett Bomar, Big Red Sports and Imports, how OU let Brent Venables go, and as much about the last two decades of Oklahoma football as could fit in an hour and half of podcasting. Sorry about the sound quality and beer breaks. Actually, no we're not sorry about the beer but the sound quality is bad.

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The Miami Heat unexpectedly reached the 2020 NBA Finals and face off with the Los Angeles Lakers. Gabe Ibrahim and Alex Lange try to find teams that are similar to the Miami Heat throughout NBA history as well players that resemble Bam Adebayo and put Lebron James's 10th NBA Finals into context.

They discussed the 2004 Detroit Pistons (14:11), the 2013-14 Golden State Warriors (25:19), the Derrick Rose/Jimmy Butler Bulls (35:24), and the 2009-10 Phoenix Suns led by Steve Nash and Goran Dragic (39:39). Then, they get into the Bam comparisons to some NBA greats (47:30) and what Lebron's accomplishments mean for his legacy (57:58). Subscribe to our newsletter: ballthroughtheages.substack.com.

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With the Miami Heat, the Boston Celtics, and Lebron James all in the NBA Conference Finals, it seemed like a good time to revisit Lebron's greatest performance as a member of the Heat: Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Boston Celtics. Gabe Ibrahim and Alex Lange break down Lebron's dazzling 45-point domination in one of the most important games of his life. They also get into Doc Rivers's shortcomings on the heels of his collapse with the Los Angeles Clippers and Pat Riley's beef with Dany Ainge. Follow the show on twitter: @ballthroughages and subscribe to our substack: ballthroughtheages.substack.com.

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Many have claimed that the 2020 College Football season will be unprecedented. However, college football has already been through a pandemic-riddled season in 1918 when the "Spanish" Flu ravaged the country. Gabe and Alex dive deep into the 1918 season to see what it could teach us about the upcoming season in the age of COVID. They also theorize that Jim Harbaugh could be fomenting war in Canada to get the Big 10 season going, breakdown Georgia Tech's amazing run under John Heisman during World War I, and talk about Ohio State's disappointing season a century ago. Follow the show on twitter @ballthroughages and subscribe to our substack: ballthroughtheages.substack.com.

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In his first NBA playoff action, Luka Dončić put up historic numbers for the Dallas Mavericks that can only be compared to the greatest players in NBA history. So that's what we did. We compared Luka's stats and performance to the playoff debuts of Oscar Robertson, Lebron James, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and Michael Jordan. Gabe and Alex also throw in comparisons to Derrick Rose AND CHUCK "THE RIFLEMAN" PERSON, who somehow qualifies among these legends.

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