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The Valenti Show with Rico is Detroit’s must-listen daily sports show — where strong opinions meet smart analysis. Hosted by Mike Valenti and Rico Beard, The Valenti Show brings unfiltered takes on the biggest national stories and dives deep into all-things-Detroit sports: the Lions, Tigers, Pistons, Red Wings, Michigan and Michigan State. Whether it's NFL drama, playoff stakes or college football storylines, Valenti and Rico tell it like it is — no fluff, no fan service, just real talk. Catch The Valenti Show with Rico live Monday through Friday 2pm - 6pm EST on 97.1 The Ticket (WXYT). Full episodes, individual hours and show highlights drop daily wherever you get your podcasts.
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Valenti and Rico kicked off the final show of the week reacting to Sam Laporta's injury and giving their main takeaways from last night's Texans win over the Bills and how they apply to the Lions. Then, TJ Lang joined in the second hour to talk about Giants-Lions and do "The Picks". The guys finished out the show recycling the topics from today and taking your final calls of the week.
The guys spent the first hour with their reactions to the news that Sam Laporta is unlikely to play again this season. They also touched on the Texans dominant performance against the Bills last night before rounding out the hour with the "Prop Bet Casino".
TJ Lang joined the guys in the second hour in his usual weekly spot to talk Giants-Lions and do "The Picks".
The guys took some more of your calls on the Lions to begin the hour before playing "Who Said It?"
Mike and Rico ended the show with their final thoughts and calls on the Lions before discussing the latest news surrounding Lane Kiffin.
Valenti and Rico spend the final segment talking about what's next for Lane Kiffin in college football.
Mike and Rico hear from the people for the final time today.
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Mike and Rico hear from the people via your calls and ticket texts about today's topics.
Valenti and Rico react and react to this week's injury report for the Lions.
From 'Kickoff with Boomer & Valenti' (subscribe here): Kickoff with Boomer Esiason and Mike Valenti for week 12 in the NFL. The guys tackle everything in the NFL for week 12. Eagles can win ugly. What teams are in panic mode? Cowboys deals are paying off.
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Mike, Rico, Kenny, David, and TJ give their picks for this weekend in football.
TJ gives his two cents on how the Lions can fix their biggest issues from last week against the Eagles.
The guys ask TJ Lang their critical question of the week for him.
The guys give their picks for this week's "Prop Bet Casino".
Valenti and Rico hear from the people on the impact of Sam Laporta's injury and what to make of the Texans' performance last night.
Mike and Rico discuss whether there's anything the Lions can learn from how the Texans won against the Bills last night.
The guys begin the show with their reactions to Sam Laporta's injury and the Texans' defense's performance last night against the Bills.
Valenti and Rico kicked off the show with an article written by Jeff Passan of ESPN about what the future of Tarik Skubal with the Tigers may hold. They took this topic until the second hour, where they posed an interesting hypothetical surrounding the Lions and the Pistons. Then, Mike put on a tinfoil hat to give the people a J Batt conspiracy theory before they returned to the Skubal conversation in the final hour to wrap up the show.
Mike and Rico began today's show with an article from Jeff Passan of ESPN where he talked with multiple MLB insiders who shared their predictions for what Scott Harris will do with Tarik Skubal this offseason. Then, David joined for an "In Football Today" to round out the first hour.
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Ricos takes are dumb
Skip made millions out of being a troll
Rico, love the podcast. However, what is with the Exorcist-type music that plays about every two or three minutes? Very weird.
Evan's audio sounds great.
I like this pod. I do have to ask though ... did Always Aggravated kick it when Sully left?
I felt this in my soul. We moved in to our new house three months ago. DIY all over the place. The last three months have been a cocktail of sweat, swearing and self-sabotage.
I came here to listen about the Andre Drummond trade not about the shity ass Spartans
This is exactly how I feel. I kept wondering yesterday if I was a psycho for not crying over this like my friends. Good to know I'm not alone.
Now last week's remarks on UM vs Army. 🙏🏻
So are we just done podcasting daily segments or what.
My Florida State fan wife scheduled our wedding on Ohio State's bye week in '14 (I'm from central Ohio, as was my whole side of the wedding) because she didn't want everyone watching their phones. One of my groomsmen is a UM fan so that was one of many setbacks for him that season. We went to school in Indiana so our IU friends were there, but not even they cared about Hoosier football. The one downside was missing the 61-58 Baylor-TCU game. It was a good year. Wife in October, title in January.
have you been paying attention at all? I'm going to answer that for you. No. not even a lil bit.
Definitely aren't Columbus. Columbus didn't have a terrible recession 😂
This is just a Michigan hate segment