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Derek Carr or Mitch Trubisky? Derek Carr and Mitch Trubisky? Neither?

Those are among the questions that might be keeping up Chicago Bears general manager Ryan Pace at night.

Those are also the topics the

Mike North is indisputably one of the most entertaining sports talk show hosts in history. And, in this episode of Vegas Scores and Odds Advantage he rips Major League Baseball for their handling of the Sign Stealing Scandal; praises the NBA, but disses the Bulls, after the All-Star event; shares his thoughts on the NFL potentially moving to a 17 game regular season; and, takes a punch at the two heavyweight fighters battling for the title this Saturday.

All that and Mike offers three betting tips on:

Providence at Georgetown

Kansas State at Texas Tech 

Boston College at Virginia

Producer: Aldo Gandia

Before he became a world-champion handicapper Mike North won two Emmy awards and was a four-time Talk Show Host of the Year Winner.

His climb from hot dog stand owner to the highest paid sports radio broadcaster is now being made into a Hollywood movie. 

Over the past year on the Advantage Mike has talked with a number of his former radio show partners. We've compiled segments from four interviews to serve as a look back at North's career. Those interviews are with:

Dan Jiggetts

John Siuntres

Jesse Rogers

Jeff Schwartz

Draft on Tap is back and Danny and Badge kick off the show exchanging pleasantries and talk about Badge's daughters big game and trip, then the guys get into some football talk.

Matt Lowe from Lindys Sports joins the discussion and talks to Danny and Badge about some of the prospects in the SEC Juaun Jennings, Jake Fromm, Clyde Edwards-Hilare, amongst a few.  The guys even speak about the Bears Vs Falcons 2017 home opener as Matt is a Falcons fan.

The debut of a new segment called Scouts Corner was a great success as Danny previewed two of the first players that fans of the show suggest to Danny over twitter in Josh Uche Edge Rusher from  Michigan, and Matt Hennesy OG/OC from Temple.  Get your suggestions of players to scout into Danny by sending them to his twitter @dshimon56 or @DraftTap.

Draft Dr. Phil opens the show addressing the Leno narrative, then Greg Braggs Jr, Joey 2 Scoops and Tooch swing by to fill in for the super producer Aldo Gandia and the smartest man in the barroom Shayne Marsaw. Then Greggy Sunshine premieres his own song in honor of his thunder buddy, Bearlissimo and Joey 2 Scoops debuts a new song in honor of the Tooch! Dumb tweets and Nerd, Fraud or Blog segments all make an appearance as well! Be sure to stick around for the Braggs outtakes on the Bearlissimo song! You will be crying laughing!

Executive Producer: Phil Ottochian

Co-Producers: Joe Mandel & John Santucci

With pitchers and catchers reporting this week for the Cubs and White Sox and the Oscars Awards held this past Sunday Mike North wanted to share some of his favorite baseball movies.

Additionally, North re-shares his great interview with recent winner of the Baseball Hall of Fame’s 2020 Ford C. Frick Award, Ken Hawk Harrelson.

This week on I Have A Stream, the guys start things out with entertainment news, then review Green Day's latest album, "Father of All", talk Netflix's Locke & Key and finish things off with some more talk about HBO's "The Outsider". Join us for all the fun!

Producers: John Santucci and Joe Mandel

The first half of this episode of Bearlissimo features an interview with former Purdue Boilermaker and top tight end NFL Draft prospect Brycen Hopkins.

The second half features George Bayliss (aka, Bearlissimo) providing in-depth analysis of the current situation at tight end for the Bears and what their options could be in the draft and NFL Free Agency.

Producers: George Bayliss and Aldo Gandia

Mike North shares his thoughts on the XFL's opening week, the lack of Chicago Bulls representation at the NBA All-Star (held in Chicago this week), the possibility of Tom Brady playing for the Cowboys and much more!

By the way, 30 minutes into the show, Mike has some betting tips.

Danny Shimon and Ryan Badgley talk to Arif Hasan of theAthletic.com about prospects he saw at the Senior Bowl who intrigued him. Danny goes over his own Chicago Bears mock draft of Senior Bowl players and there's much more.