This week on the Sportive, Jon and Chiken - the hockey guys! - review the first day of Wild training camp, because it's important to talk about the Wild when only two guys managed to have long-term injuries announced on the first day of training camp. Will the Wild have a team by the time the first preseason game rolls around, which is somehow on Sunday? Will the Vikings be able to field a team by Sunday? PLUS: Jon asks for controversy in college hockey and gets way more than he bargained for.

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Welcome to Deep Dive Central. We go long on the Vikings crazy win, the Kaprizov contract stalemate, a recent Saints game, and the incredibly fun Kawhi shenanigans. 

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We miraculously recorded this episode IN PERSON, at the great Surly Beer Hall. Discussed: Tyler Childers, NFL games preview, Stu's upcoming Gopher game suite situaish, MLB playoff teams rootability rankings, and a deer hunting game plan. A glorious hour-plus.

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We finally unveil our long-awaited and opposite-of-shocking thoughts about the Pohlads calling off the sale: it stinks. After we get that off our chest, we preview the Gopher football season, select our AFC Team of the Year and reach a new low in our Top 6 segment (literally and figuratively).

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After an accidental tangent into little league baseball, we unleash our famous annual Vikings preview (horn sound). We air grievances then predict our bros, turds and wins on the year. The finale was a Top 6 that utilizes the most cutting edge of technological advancements. The results will shock and awe listeners. The future is HERE.

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We planned to talk Vikings but instead covered a few minutes on the Twins before diving into incredible (A+) ideas to fix baseball, and then B summarized his summer of arguing with umpires.

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Jon and B go Wolves-centric after the glorious Lakers beat-down. Shout-outs to Rudy, Julius and Tim Connelly. A Rockets or Warriors agonizing decision tree that was obvious the second we started talking. A ranking of this season and players on the all-time list. Kurt Rambis catches a deserved stray, obviously. Then a quick requiem for the hockey Vikings, stuck in a Groundhogs Day scenario for the 19th straight year. We don't say this often as we are a humble folk, but today's episode was our best one yet.

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Wolves game 3 preview! Wild mid-series analysis! Vikings draft grades! Luke Keaschall! Conspiracy theories! Todd Steussie! Rob Lowe! Seth Macfarlane! Our best episode of all time.

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The Sports Knowers Jon and Brox cover: A-Rod vs Glen, is MLB dead or merely dying, cool new baseball rules that everyone will love, a 4 Nations recap, Gopher basketball eternal shrug emoji and more. Then the internet nearly gave out on us, just like old times. Good stuff.

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Stu, Brox, Marth and a few minutes of Chicken achieve a rare Sportive Consensus(TM) on our opinion about next year's plan for the Vikings QB, then we rank the remaining playoffs teams before a reluctant transition to the Wolves. A phenomenal Top 6 and 1-minute timed overviews of the Wild and Loons round us out. It's so good to be back.

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