Cristian Guzman, Liv Massey, and Brianna Cooley return to wave their magic wands and discuss macro-level, COVID winter exercising solutions.

Ethan Plaza and Charlie Delgadillo come on the podcast to discuss the future of refereeing, broken down into 16 different levels of strictness of officiating.

Cristian Guzman, Olivia Massey, and Brianna Cooley discuss self-care during a COVID-19 soaked winter.

Jake Parker (@jprettygoodhuh) and I take on World Cup Qualifying. We explain the ways the current system is broken, the future problems with a 48 team World Cup, and discuss how to fix it. Sponsored by Anchor and Hartley Performance (@hartleyperform).

Bryan Mapenzi and I take on youth football, paying college football players, and NFL team ownership.

Ryan Mead and I give our perspective on the plan offered by Senator Chris Murphy, endorsed by Draymond Green, to better compensate and protect college athletes.

Ethan Plaza and I discuss a variety of ways we could change the penalty kick. Most of them are bad, a few are better than the current system.

This week, Kyla Alvarenga joins Connor Hartley (@hartleyperformance) to discuss the plan for making the NWSL a more popular, viable league. Kyla is an athletic trainer, soccer coach and NWSL diehard who has helped shaped my thinking about the league. The episode contains a primer that introduces the plan right at the beginning; stick with us to hear why it's a good idea.

Chris Culcasi comes on to rebut my plan for solving tanking in the NBA.

Connor Hartley (@hartleyperform) and Tyler Reuter solve the NBA's tanking issue.