This week's LC talks sharing the stage with Jerry Seinfeld in NYC, having a flight home cancelled and finally having to twitter shaming the airline to get a "refund" back. I talk game 1 of the NBA Finals & what I saw as the "blue print" for what the Raptors laid down & the stat that will win them the series. Enjoy
On this week's LC, I land in New York & Atlantic City and talk East Coast vs West Coast differecnes. I survive a 3rd world Greyhound bus ride and breakdown Eastern & Western Conference Finals and give my take on where I see it going from here.
I talk about the excitement of taking in some live Minor League Hockey Playoff action & why its on my top 5 best ticket in town sports experiences. I talk NBA playoffs & how the Celtics became the Raptors and the Raptors became the Celtics in 1 playoff year. The Ben Simmons bust & what the loss of Durant means for the Rocket's window along with a little Laker debacle update. Enjoy
I talk about the recent transgender woman who broke the woman's weightlifting world record. I talk reffing basketball & a recent parents bleacher clearing brawl And give a quick glimpse at my early thoughts of round 2 NBA playoff action.
I talk Tiger Woods greatness & how I woke up at 6am feeling like something special was gonna happen & share how inspirational it was to watch. I gloss over early NBA playoff games & stick to my past prediction for the NBA title.
Today on Lawhead's Court is a terrific young comedian & someone I'm proud to call a good comedy friend. Zoltan Kaszas started in and still remains a San Diego comedian and is regularly headlining clubs, colleges and other diverse stages all over the country & recently tells us about headlining my home club Hilarites. He talks to me about his success through Dry Bar comedy, his appreciation for the audiences & fans that came from it and his creative ways of touring to seek them out live. We talk about his mom, his new boxing career, our cats, living below your means & even get to sports. Hungarian born and San Diego raised Zoltan is one funny "your dad's dick" (which means MF'er in Hungarian). Check out the episode & enjoy.
Sit down with one of my favorite voices in sports podcasting Kenyon Ates. From the League Ambassadors and Confirmation Bias & 32 King's Road podcasts Kenyon brings some of the best basketball knowledge to Lawhead's Court ever heard on the podcast. We talk his Lakers & LeBron. Final Four and who we like, ZION, the Duke shocking loss & more. Enjoy
3 weeks ago I sat down with stand up legend Don Gavin. Don has been touring as a headliner for 40 years. Don & I talk about his days in the beginning at the ground floor of the Boston comedy scene, how he went from teacher/coach to headlining comic. We talk his comedy influences and his stand out high school basketball days in the 60's & playing against Lew Alcindor & Austin Carr. Betttin on college basketball and how weeks ago we both got our brackets wrong. Its a great sit down with a great guy. Enjoy !
I talk Zion Willamson's greatness but why I still like Carolina to win it all and I give my Final 8 match-ups to the final game.
This podcast comes on the news of the Browns trading for Odell Beckham Jr. and how the dynamic of LeBron leaving and Baker & company now arriving has kept Cleveland on the map of coolest sports cities stories.
I talk the Robert Kraft saga & why billionaire men go to strip malls for sex.
I take time to talk Steven James Brody's (Brody Stevens) life as best I can. RIP 818
We look back on the greatness of Dr. J on his 69th birthday. I trelive the time I got to meet, greet and treat him for a night of comedy and cigars. I tell the tale & how my Dad, mom & sister also got to be a part of Julius' random Cleveland house call.
I talk attending the SDSU upset over 24-1 Nevada & how Eric Musselman's coaching staff looks all too like a technology installation team. I ask weather its even worth the Lakers making the playoffs and how even getting to the 7th seed seems hopeless with 23 games left 7 the roster they have.
I follow up final thoughts on the Machado signing and honor the late great Don Newcombe and recognize him as the American Hero he was and the Hall OF Famer he should be.
I talk why I like the Machado signing & what it could do for the Padres. I talk an amazing birthday dinner & if how saying you're a foodie automatically makes you not one.
Its a birthday bash weekend and Flashback Friday. I look back on the Leon Spinks upset of Muhammad Ali in 1978 & how its usually not often thought of when talking greatest sports upsets of all time & how after 7 career fights Spinks was a household name.
Spring Training shopping season is in the air. I talk what excites me still about baseball and how I celebrate pitchers and catchers reporting and why I'll never to tune into October.
I talk about a great night becoming friends of legendary coach Steve Fisher of Michigan fab 5 fame an recently retired from building a top tier college basketball program at San Diego St. I talk being his invited guest to sit court side and play a clip from when we met. A great night told in a special longer episode.
I talk why the AAF could experience success through legal sports gambling. I also talk I how I hate the name AAF & they how that needs to change.