In the second hour of tonight’s show, Matt Pauley features the comments from Blues head coach Craig Berube who spoke to the media at practice today where he touched on the development of Alexey Toropchenko and Kasperi Kapanen. Jake Asman, on-air host at ESPN 98.7 in New York, then joins the show to discuss the speedy recovery of Aaron Rodgers and whether or not he’ll play again this season. Matt is also joined by Irvin Muchnick, author of “WITHOUT HELMETS OR SHOULDER PADS: The American Way of Death in Football Conditioning”, to discuss the staggering number of deaths in high school and college football. Lastly, Brad Young is in studio before hosting KMOX’s At Your Service and converses with Matt on what makes a great baseball manager like Dusty Baker.

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