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3/11 Episode of Poor Man’s PTI: Special Guest Gregg Doyel

This week, we welcome National Columnist Gregg Doyel from CBSSports.com to talk a little March Madness. This episode, as always, is rated R so potentially NSFW.

You can download this week’s podcast directly (running time 120 mins) or subscribe to the feed.

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This week’s topics include:

  • March Madness
  • Derek Anderson shooting his mouth on his way out
  • The return of Tiger Woods
  • Ben Roethlisberger in trouble again
  • Torii Hunter and his imposters
  • Cleveland.com: Lebron suspension details
  • The Taxonomy of Bitches
  • Miscellaneous: sex offending draft prospect, Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield (again), and the Oscars.

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3/4/10 episode of Poor Man’s PTI: Recapping the Olympics

Poor Man’s PTI is back!  After a brief mid-winter hiatus, Ryan and Vin are back running down the biggest and dumbest stories for the week in sports. This week we’re also launching the Stat Boy half-hour where Burton aka Stat Boy is all growns up and is doing his own show with Tony Kornheiser Mike Ciccarone.

This episode, as always, is rated R so potentially NSFW.

You can download this week’s podcast directly (running time 120 mins) or subscribe to the feed.

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This week’s topics include:

  • Canada wins hockey gold. Was it ok to root for them?
  • Other Olympic stories including media whores, fellating a medal, curling
  • Tiger Woods
  • NBA Talk: Lebron’s just trying to sell more jerseys than Kobe
  • NFL Talk: Potential change in OT rules
  • Miscellaneous: Hank Gathers, womens basketball (yes, that’s correct) and the perils of chatroullete
  • We finally joined twitter: http://twitter.com/poormanspti

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February Madness Reminds Us of Why We Watch Sports

By Ryan McGowan

February is the dark month in the sports calendar.  The Super Bowl is over, baseball hasn’t started yet (unless you count “Truck Day”), the NBA is just going through the motions until the home stretch, and the NHL is shut down for two weeks.  We didn’t even have the Pro Bowl this February to kick around.  I don’t consider Daytona to be a sport.  February is the sports equivalent of a six-month hookup dry spell which can only be cured by a visit from a certified slump buster.

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Modern Sports Records – A Mirage of Technicality

Nothing speaks to us sports fans like accomplishments that go into the record books. When a running back breaks his school’s rushing records or a basketball guard sets the mark for the number of assists in a season we sit up and take notice, but how often are these new records based on an uneven playing field?

This issue was brought back to my attention while watching the Pittsburgh – Cincinnati Big East Game which is the 12th game of their season. The announcers were going on about Dion Lewis, whose 1,640 yards are 46 shy of Dorsett’s freshman season total of 1,686 yards in 1973. However, Tony Dorsett had 1 less game to get those yards.

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August 27 2009 episode of Poor Man’s PTI

We discuss the South African runner that might or might not be a man, Rick Pitino, and other sports topics. You can download this week’s podcast directly (running time 90 mins) or subscribe to the feed. If you use iTunes, just click here and then click subscribe and iTunes will take care of the rest. This week’s topics include:

  • Caster Semenya (aka “Yes A Secret Man”)
  • Usain Bolt
  • Will there ever be a track world record that won’t be broken
  • Rick Pitino
  • Memphis vacates all games
  • baseball talk

Trivia Question of the week: Who is the last US Open Men’s singles champion to never be ranked #1 in ATP Rankings?

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The World’s been robbed because of another archaic golfing rule

I understand the rules are there for a reason, but sometimes the rules should be broken.

Like, for instance, when breaking the rules gives us what everyone wants to see.

Alright, Y.E. Yang probably doesn’t want the rules changed, and nothing against him, but there’s probably only a few dozen people outside of South Korea who does not want to see Tiger Woods and Padraig Harrington paired together Sunday. And I’d bet that most of those other people are fellow golfers who would rather Tiger was home so that they could possibly win this tournament.

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August 13 2009 episode of Poor Man’s PTI

We discuss Rick Pitino, the Eagles signing Mike Vick and unrequited rivalries. You can download this week’s podcast directly (running time 90 mins) or subscribe to the feed. If you use iTunes, just click here and then click subscribe and iTunes will take care of the rest. This week’s topics include:

  • Even Turtle thinks Tom Brady sucks balls
  • Rick Pitino’s loose morals
  • Unrequited rivalries
  • Eagles sign Vick
  • Bronson Arroyo is insane

Trivia Question of the week: Tom Glavine had 682 games in career without ever coming out of the bullpen. Who holds the record for most starts before his first career relief appearance.

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August 6 2009 episode of Poor Man’s PTI

We discuss the stupidity that is Vince Young, the MLB pennant race and top 50 coaches of all time. You can download this week’s podcast directly (running time 90 mins) or subscribe to the feed. If you use iTunes, just click here and then click subscribe and iTunes will take care of the rest. This week’s topics include:

  • Troy O’Leary’s wife/ Taya Taylor
  • Is Vince Young retarded?
  • Michael Crabtree threatening to hold out entire year
  • MLB pennant/wild card race
  • Fantasy Football coverage starts earlier every year
  • The top 50 coaches of all time

Trivia Question of the week: Of the venues used in the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta, three have been demolished. Two of them are Fulton County Stadium and the Omni. What is the third? (Answer after the jump.)

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July 30 2009 episode of Poor Man’s PTI

We discuss the decline of Phillies fandom, Michael Vick, and not a single mention of the new names on the steroid list. You can download this week’s podcast directly (running time 90 mins) or subscribe to the feed. If you use iTunes, just click here and then click subscribe and iTunes will take care of the rest. This week’s topics include:

  • Thug Philly fans are annoying Vin and killing each other
  • Where will Vick end up?
  • Puerto Rican cockfighting in Connecticut
  • Erin (almost out of the news cycle) Andrews 911 call
  • Cliff Lee to the Phillies. Will Halladay stay put?

Trivia Question of the week: Whic player had the most hits in the 1990s? (Answer after the jump.)

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July Round-Up: Steroid Guys, Theo’s Tries, and Gisele’s Eyes

By Ryan McGowan

Some quick hitters as we roll into August, even though by my internal weather-clock it should be late June here in the Northeast…

Ortiz, Manny on steroids
We didn’t get around to discussing this on the podcast yesterday.  This topic lost out to Cliff Lee/Roy Halladay trade discussion, Michael Vick and Connecticut Puerto Rican cockfighting, Erin Andrews’ 911 call, and freaking YouTube stupid wedding entrances.  That should tell you something about the strength of this story—it has none.

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