In the second and final hour of tonight’s Sports Open Line, Matt Pauley salutes Jim Thomas who is retiring from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch after 48 years. Mr. Soccer and host of Extra Time at the Pitch Bill McDermott then joins the show to discuss the US Women’s National Team playing in St. Louis at CITYPARK, and attorney Brad Young joins to discuss sports gambling in Missouri.

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