Coming off an amazing season with the Oakland Golden Grizzlies, ending in a trip to Olympic Trials, Ian Allen joins us to talk all about the Olympics! One of my favorites guests to have, we talk all about this Olympics in the pool, from the rivalry of the US and Australia, the mental side of swimming, and how Leon Marchand is just astounding!

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0:00 Intro
2:41 USA vs AUS
10:06 Mental Side of Swimming
16:44 Biggest Meet of Their Lives
18:08 Changing Perspective
27:41 Leon Marachand

We talk about the season of Oakland Women's Basketball, how much the roster has changed for this season, and how this season is crucial for the future of the program! We then talk about my time at Detroit City FC and how my Eastside Diamond Hoppers are doing in the USPBL. We finally wrap up of what I love about the 2024 Olympic Games!
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We're in the middle of summer, so let's just chill with a casual episode! Talking about Oakland Men's Basketball's offseason, my experience at the USPBL All-Star game and at the Royal Oak Leprechauns! Tons of fun in both! And we wrap things up with some quick thoughts on the Receiver DocuSeries on Netflix!
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Thank you to HoriZone Roundtable for making this story happen! I had so much fun writing it and recording this podcast! 

Read my "History of the OU Credit Union O'Rena" story here!

Go check out HoriZone Roundtable for the best coverage of the Horizon League! 

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After his first Horizon League Championship as a head coach and a trip to the Olympic Trials at Lucas Oil Stadium, we sit down with Mitch Alters!! We talk all about his years as an athlete, about his early years in coaching, and about Olympic Trials!

Check out my previous interviews with OU Swimmers,  
Ian Allen: https://youtu.be/Vbbtqx3bBio 
Jordyn Shipps: https://youtu.be/150O9k_fhJ8
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#TheGioMoShow Interviews is back on the channel, after some time on  @WXOUSports  ! And we return with the person that started it all, the architect behind this new era of WXOU Sports, former sport director, Benjamin Schroeder!!! We chat about WXOU and then get into the recent Stanley Cup Finals and the past season of the Detroit Redwings!

Find more of Ben's work here:
Twitter - https://x.com/TWWBenny 
This Week's Winners Podcast - https://twwsports.com/
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Week 5 of our season reviews sees Swim and Dive as our subject today! New coach, same results! We also talk about the USPBL and how the other teams are catching up to my Hoppers before All-Star Weekend. We then finish with my frustrations with both Italia losing in the Euro 2024 Round of 16 AND the USMNT blowing it against Uruguay despite the awful officiating!
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Week 4 of Oakland Season Reviews and this week, we look to both Track n Field and Cross Country! Woman's XC winning the Horizon League, and Oakland dominating the 800m indoor and outdoor! I also have a bone to pick with the USPBL for not advertising Oakland Night as we over Week 6 of the season. We then wrap up with talking about the Italian National Team surviving The Group of Death in the Euro Cup!
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We bring back Kyle Reece, director of club sports at Oakland University, to talk about this past year of Oakland club sports! Women's soccer and lacrosse making it to the nation playoff in Texas, football having a rough season, and ACHA D3 hockey getting screwed out of the national tournament! 

He also shares a hilarious story about an encounter John Calipari, former coach of Kentucky men's basketball, that resulted in getting banned from Orange Leaf frozen yogurt!!!

We're onto our 3rd sport of the Oakland Season Reviews, this time we revisit the 2023 Volleyball season, how Oakland got the most conference wins in 7 years and made the Horizon League tournament! We also look at how the rest of the USPBL is closing in on my Diamond Hoppers! We wrap up with talking about the Boston Celtics winning the NBA Finals and how boring the series was, along with the Pistons firing Monty Williams and show some life an an organization!!!
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