Mr. Hicks Sports: Recent Episodes
Antoine Hicks
Loudmouth Mr. Hicks Ranting about sports to you so his coworkers' ears can finally have a break. Heavy on football but touching on all the foolishness of athletes, coaches and trends in sports.
Brian Kelly and Lincoln Riley left good CFB jobs for great ones. It sucks how they left, but they were right to do it.
The dominance of Alabama Football is at an end. I appreciate everything Nick Saban has done for CFB, but the Dynasty is over.
Kevin whines so much were just gonna call it a Durant and Nick Saban's calling a championship run a "rebuild year" is a total flex!
Giving a bad franchise the first pick in the draft is like giving a 16 year old a Ferari as his first car, he won't know what to do with it.
Dabo has a problem at Quarterback that must be handled very delicately for the 2022 season.
Yes, I know UCLA is going too, but they're not relevant. This episode is simulcast on our New Youtube channel as well!
Bad ownership and administration makes more bad teams than bad players. The NBA draft is case in point for that theory.
Everyone is trying to rekindle the flame, restore the roar or some other nonsense. Trying to be 'back' is overrated.
Final thoughts on the NBA Finals, Golden State may only be in the middle of this run and Kevin Durant must feel dumber than the chick that dumped Barak Obama.
CFB Special: Brian Kelly speaks out about leaving Notre Dame, QB transfers and is Arch Manning as good as advertized?
If you're gonna act the way Drama King Draymond acts, you better back it up, and the Triple Single man isn't showing up in these finals.
I don't understand these wild swings of scores from game to game and no one is really tough in the NBA because...
I love Clemson's program, but sometimes the climate of the sport changes and if you don't change with it, it will pass you by. Dabo needs to get with the times, but I don't think he will.
All the NBA Superstars who thought the could play GM are sitting at home. They got their money, they got the teammates they wanted to play with and they got a seat next to me on the couch.
More and more, Athletes are being afflicted with a lack of self awareness that is costing them wins and will soon be costing them money. These NBA players seem to have no idea of the effects their behavior is having on others, but they're gonna find out real soon.
The great Nick Saban may have exposed a chink in his armor during a speech recently. He wouldn't be complaining about NIL if Bama was the best at it, but they aren't and he's running scared.
The Anti-Jodan Effect is a multi part series about the unintended effects Michael Jordan had on basketball that effect the game to this day.
Sadly and due to circumstances beyond their control, these NFL QBs have to show and prove much sooner than a young QB should have to next season.
Much respect to Chris Paul's career and WTF to Chris Paul's Game 7 perforamce in the playoffs.
Ever since Lebron 'put together' the Big 3 in Miami, players have sought to create their own legacy on their own terms the same way. It hasn't gone well for any of them.
Collge football is full on nostalgia and trying to recapture the good ole days. But when people ask, 'Is Texas Back?" I ask "Back to what?". Texas football doesn't have a 'good ole days' to go back to.
There are levels to everything in sport, and without self awareness one can be deluded into thinking they're better than they are. Baker Mayfield thinks he's a starting NFL quarterback, Jerry Jones thinks the Cowboys should be in the Superbowl every year and Kevin Durant thinks he's on the same level as Lebron.
There's been a run on Wide recievers lately. Getting drafted high and getting paid. Why you aks? Because the Bengals may have set a new success model for the NFL.
Ja Morant is tearing it up in the playoffs and Zion Williams is Tearning open pizza boxes in New Orleans. This isn't the first time the #1 pick got injured and overshadowed, and the poor snake bitten Portland Trailblazers know all about that.
The Georgia Bulldogs are on top of the world right now. National Champions with 15 players just picked in the NFL draft, but hold the line on that Dynasty talk. The Dark Empire is coming...
The Philadelphia fan epic rant on Ben "Sugarbooty" Simmons, that you're dying to hear. I had so much fun with this. I'll be booing him for the rest of my lif e with all my dark philly fan heart.
Finding NFL quaterback is hard to do, especially when you're thirsty and desperate. The Browns were thirsty when they drafted him and desperate when they resigned him, now they can't get rid of him.
First Podcast! Shout out to everyone who supports me and puts up with my talking even when you don't want to. First show is all about the recent NFL draft, How my Eagles didn't screw it up, how both NY teams killed it and how the Patriots are in trouble.