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It's a bittersweet show for us with one last go around for Moose & Roons. We say goodbye not only to this edition of the podcast, but undoubtedly a Chicago Mt Rushmore athlete in Patrick Kane. We'll give our long term wishes for the Bears as well as Tiger Woods since we're a Bears pod and a Tiger Pod. We'll open up the mailbag one last time and send you on your way. Thanks to everyone who listened and contributed along the way!
The Chiefs are the Super Bowl 57 winners. We recap the game as well as crown a Locks of the Week champion. Joe was in Arizona covering the WM Open at TPC Scottsdale. We recap golf's most unique tournament and talk Joe's first-hand experience. Tune in next week for the final episode of Moose & Roons! It's fitting that we'll get to recap a Tiger Woods tournament, then we'll open up the mailbag tie a bow on things!
It's a HUGE sports Sunday, and with Moose covering the Waste Management all week in AZ, we didn't have time for a full pod but couldn't go without a quick Super Bowl picks show and some WM talk. We'll wrap things up next week with a full NFL recap and some Waste Management experiences as well. Have a great Sunday!
We're back this week recapping Conference Championship Sunday and looking ahead to the Super Bowl. A bunch of questions linger for all four teams who played last Sunday, and we try to dive into those. Tom Brady retires...again. But this one feels like it will stick. We're a golf pod so we recap Moose's PGA coverage down in Orlando last week. No locks this week but two next week as we sit deadlocked at 12-8 headed into Super Bowl Sunday. Lastly, we close the episode with an announcement regarding the future of the pod. Subscribe, rate, review and send in your mailbags!
We had a great Wild Card Weekend in the NFL! We go game-by-game recapping NFL Wild Card weekend and give our biggest takeaways. From there we preview the Divisional Round and look ahead to what we expect to see plus make our locks of the week picks. We're a Bears pod and Kevin Warren is the new team President, so we open the mailbag asking about the new man in charge. Send in those mailbags!
The Bears slide their way into the #1 Draft Pick spot thanks to a loss on Sunday paired with a Houston win. We go over some of the options the Bears have with the picks and some possible paths they can take this offseason. We talk Aaron Rodgers and another offseason saga ahead of where will he play next season. From there we go game-by-game in Wild Card weekend, make our picks, and submit our locks of the week after we BOTH finished over .500 this season. Send in those mailbags and enjoy the Playoffs!
Thankfully, Damar Hamlin seems to be on his way to a full recovery after collapsing on the field Monday Night. We discuss that event and all that followed it. From there we recap the Bears season, now that Justin Fields won't play Sunday and it's effectively over. We make locks of the week and a National Championship pick. Send in those mailbags!
The Bears lost another close call to a top team in the NFL, and Justin Fields looked great yet again. What's left for him to accomplish this season? We recap a fun Week 15 in the NFL season that saw some interesting results. From there we make locks of the week picks, talk World Cup in the mailbag wrap things up. Keep sending in those mailbags and have a great Holiday!
It's a bye week for the Bears, but never an off week on the Moose & Roons pod. We recap Week 14 in the NFL season then welcome on friend and graphic producer of the show Rob Gallik to empty his mailbag for the boys. From the Bears to the golf course Rob covers a wide range of mailbag topics and we get into some fun discussions. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and keep sending in your mailbags!
We're back a day late but still dive into the Bears loss to the Packers. It hurt at the time, but now...meh. From there we play Dead or Alive talking NFL playoff contenders, make our locks of the week picks, and wrap things up talking MLB Free Agency. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send in your mailbags!
Justin Fields didn't play and the Bears got crushed, so we take a different route this episode (don't worry, still Bears talk) going around the Chicago sports landscape with a bunch of Buy or Sell topics. From there we talk a little College Football Playoff and World Cup, then make our locks of the week picks.
The Bears lose to the Falcons and Justin Fields gets banged up in his home town. What's next for the Bears, how to they keep Fields upright, and what does the offseason roster building look like? From there we go around the NFL recapping Week 11 and make our locks of the week. Have a great Thanksgiving and send in those mailbags!
The Bears fall short to the Lions after blowing a two touchdown lead. Justin Fields played well, but has a few things to clean up. What's the next step for the Bears franchise QB in his development? We go around the NFL, pick locks of the week, recap UFC and send you on your way. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
Another loss for the Bears, but who cares because Justin Fields was electric and did everything he could to will the Bears to a win. We break down the record-breaking day from QB 1 and what else encouraged us. We go around the NFL recapping Week 9 game-by-game. From there, we make some lock of the week picks as the boys look to stay hot and open up the mailbag talking UFC 281. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags
The NFL trade deadline is in the books and oh boy were the Bears active. We recap a wild 24 hours for Ryan Poles' team and grade the moves. We look back at the Bears loss in Dallas, but more importantly Justin Fields' next step forward. From there it's around the NFL, locks of the week, World Series talk and the White Sox name their manager. Subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes. Send in those mailbags!
The Bears blow out the New England Patriots on Monday Night Football like every single one of us saw coming. We take a Deep Dive into complete effort from the Bears as well as New England's interesting QB situation. From there we go around the NFL recapping Week 7, make our locks of the week picks, talk a little bit about the World Series, and look ahead to the MLB offseason and Aaron Judges options. Subscribe, rate, review on Twitter and keep sending in those mailbags!
The Bears suffer another frustrating loss this time at the hands of the Washington Commanders. We recap the game but more take a look at the Bears as a whole and where they stand. From there we recap Week 6 in the NFL, talk a little ALCS & NLCS, make our locks of the week and head on out. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
The Bears lost to the Vikings. but Justin Fields looked great so does it really matter? We analyze the latest Bears loss but take a look at a lot of the positives that came out of it. We go around the NFL and recap Week 5. NHL season is upon us so we get a Hockey Minute and wrap up with our locks of the week picks. Rate, review, subscribe on iTunes and send us your mailbags.
The Bears drop to 2-2 thanks to a 20-12 loss in East Rutherford to the Giants. Justin Fields made some progress, but was it enough? The Bears warts elsewhere were exposed in New York, what tweaks need to be made? We also recap Week 4 of the NFL season, talk some MLB, make our locks of the week picks and head out. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
The Bears win a close one at home over the Texans, but Justin Fields looked pretty bad in the win. We take a deep dive into the Bears win talking about what it means for the team, Fields development, and everything in between. From there we go around the NFL answering questions from all the Week 3 matchups. Lastly we wrap things up with our locks of the week. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags.
The Bears drop a tough Sunday Night Football matchup at Lambeau to the Packers. No, the sky isn't falling after a loss to a Super Bowl contender in year one of a rebuild, but there's certainly some things to build and improve upon. From there we recap Week 2 of the NFL season that saw a few teams establish themselves at the top of the league. Lastly, we make some locks of the week picks and call it a day.
The Bears are 1-0! Week 1 got the season off to a great start for the Bears as they pulled off an upset win over the 49ers. We break down everything you need to know from the 19-10 win. From there we go around the NFL and recap the entirety of Week 1, have some overreactions and opinions on every game. Lastly we talk a little College Football and Notre Dame's stunning loss. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
Football. Is. BACK. And so is Joe fresh from his wedding. We recap the weekend in college football and dive into the speculated 12-team playoff on the horizon. Then we dive DEEP into the NFL previewing and picking each division, each conference, a Super Bowl winner, MVP winner, and the return of locks of the week! Football is back, all is right in the world. Bear down.
College football season has arrived! Week Zero is in the books and it's on to Week 1! Joe has the episode off after his wedding, so Phil Gough joins Matt to preview the college football season. We go conference by conference doing a Power 5 preview. Conference champions, surprises, and most intriguing storylines for each of the Power 5. College football playoff & Heisman predictions as well. It's college football season!
We have a whole bunch of topics on this week's episode so we made today's show a full buy or sell edition! Bears preseason recap, B1G's new TV deal, College Football is just around the corner, the White Sox are slowly getting better, the FedEx Cup is underway, Tiger Woods makes his presence known, NBA topics and more! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send in your mailbags!
We're back! It's been a scattered month with trips and weddings but were back for this week's episode! Roquan Smith is holding out, we break down the contract stalemate as well as a few other items from Bears camp. The White Sox still suck. The FedEx Cup Playoffs are underway. And we recap Roons' golf trip of a lifetime to Scotland. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
The guys recap an amazing Open that saw Cam Smith claim his first major championship while Rory McIlroy let a Sunday lead slip away. Where does Tiger go from here after missing the cut? What does the future of golf look like. Second half MLB picks and predictions. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send in those mailbags!
The season's final major is upon us! We preview the 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews and cover everything you need to know, obviously some Tiger Talk is included. The White Sox are lifeless, we dive into the mailbag and discuss how to change things. The Bears added a WR, we talk some expectations for them and the offense. The Blackhawks are full on rebuilding, who stays and who goes? Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
We kick off episode 259 with Joe recapping his experience inside the ropes at the Travelers Championship last weekend. We tie a bow on the Stanley Cup Final and talk about how big this year's playoffs were for the NHL going forward. We discuss the White Sox woes and what needs to change going forward, and wrap things up with some NBA/Bulls offseason chatter including Kevin Durant.
Back for episode 258, we talk some MLB and the White Sox turnaround over the last few weeks. We recap the U.S. Open and discuss PGA Tour's newest answer to the LIV Tour departures. We recap the NBA Finals, talk Stanley Cup Final and more! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
A jam packed pod this week kicks off with a full U.S. Open preview for the season's 3rd Major at Brookline starting Thursday. Some favorites, longshots, picks, and a breakdown of the field. We preview the Stanley Cup Final: a dream matchup between the Lightning and Avalanche. Golden State is a win away from another NBA Title, will the close out the Celtics? Lastly, we open up the mailbag to talk Bears and available WRs on the market. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
We dive deep into the LIV Golf and PGA Tour saga on this week's episode. LIV will be interesting, and the PGA barely responds. From there we talk Stanley Cup Playoffs, NBA Finals, and a Bulls offseason mailbag. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
Back for a Wednesday edition of the Pod we kick things off talking a wild Game 1 of the Western Conference Final and preview tonight's Game 1 in the Eastern Conference Final. From there we move over to the NBA Finals and look ahead to Warriors vs Celtics in the NBA Finals. Lastly, we talk DJ's defection to the LIV Golf Tour and make some picks for the PGA's stop at Muirfield this weekend. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
The Stanley Cup Playoffs and NBA Playoffs are in full swing, and for the first time in awhile we kick things off with some hockey talk and the wildly entertaining series going on. The NBA Playoffs have been a little underwhelming at times, do we already know our champion? The PGA Championship is behind us, what did we learn about Justin, Rory, and Tiger? Plus as usual a little Bears talk closes the show. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
A somewhat condensed version of the pod as travel issues through a wrench into recording, we take a live look at the PGA Championship. We talk Rory's big start, JT charging, big names struggling and of course Tiger. From there we talk some NBA Playoffs as well as Stanley Cup Playoffs before getting on our way. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
Back and better than ever for episode 252, we talk early looks at the Bears schedule and how pointless it is to project wins and losses for the season before we do just that. We cover the NBA & Stanley Cup Playoffs, and for the first time in awhile, we have a Grievance: the Chicago White Sox. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and keep sending mailbags!
The Draft is over and the Bears went a different direction than many of us expected or are used to. What were we happy with or would have done different? We recap the NFL Draft as a whole. Talk Stanley Cup Playoffs plus the NBA Playoffs. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send in your mailbags.
Better late than never, episode 250 has arrived! Joe is back from vacation and we're ready for our milestone mailbag episode with the perfect addition of our most tenured guest, Mark Schanowski to recap the Bulls season and breakdown some offseason options as well. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and keep sending those mailbags!
We tie a bow on the 2022 Masters and recap everything from this go around at Augusta. What does Tiger's future look like? How long will Scottie's reign last? Biggest disappointments from The Masters. From there we touch on opening weekends from the Sox and Cubs plus some quick Bulls & Bucks series predictions. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and SEND IN YOUR MAILBAGS FOR EP 250!
The name says it all folks. We dive into a full Masters preview from Tigers expectations (we've allowed ourselves to dream) to favorites, longshots, storylines and everything in between! We wrap up discussing an epic Final Four as well as LeBron's Lakers missing out on the postseason. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send in your mailbags! Episode 250 is right around the corner!
Tiger....MIGHT be #back and playing at Augusta next week for the Masters. We take a very early look at the 2022 Masters and what we expect from the Big Cat. The Final Four tips off Saturday night, we dive into both matchups and the four remaining teams as a whole. The NBA is coming down the stretch, who's the beast of the East and where do the Bulls stack up? Lastly, with free agency winding down we take a look at Ryan Pace's inaugural offseason as Bears GM. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
It's been a wild week on the college basketball court as well as in NFL Free Agency. We preview the Sweet 16 and make our picks to survive the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament. Plus, the NFL won't take a backseat to any sport at any time as their offseason keeps churning out headlines most notable Tyreek Hill and Davante Adams moving to new teams. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
March Madness has arrived! We make our Final Four picks plus go around the bracket taking a look at some matchups and sleepers. From there, we talk Free Agency in the NFL and MLB and look into some of the bigger contracts and moves in the last week. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
We have a LOADED Friday show and boy are we happy we waited until Friday morning to record. Khalil Mack is dealt to the Chargers, what does that mean for the Bears this year and beyond and what does it say about Ryan Poles? Plus we reflect on Mack's time in Chicago. Oh yea, the Packers resigned Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson got traded to Denver. Baseball is officially back. March Madness is under way. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
Moose is off in Indy covering the combine so this week's episode is an all Rooney edition reviewing the Pebble Beach resort courses plus Pasatiempo and recapping their golf trip there. Normal episodes come back next week! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
Episode 242 goes around the sports spectrum from the NBA's home stretch to offseason needs around the NFL we cover a whole bunch of fields in this week's episodes. The MLB is still locked out. Roons just came back from the ultimate golf trip. When will Tiger return? Enjoy our loaded podcast! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
The Rams went all in and it paid off with their Super Bowl win over the Bengals. We break down the everything from Super Bowl Sunday as well as what the future holds for the Rams & Bengals. Plus, now that football's over we're officially into golf season. We're a golf pod after all. Locks of the week recap and more! Send those mailbags in now, we need them more than ever!
Super Bowl Week is upon us! We preview the Bengals and Rams for the last time and go through some picks and passes on main props. We finish up our locks of the week picks. We talk some NBA trade deadline and where the Bulls stand before the home stretch of the season, and chat a little college hoops as well. Plus we open up the mailbag talking Super Bowl food preparations. Keep sending in mailbags. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes!
We recap a fantastic Conference Championship Sunday in the NFL and look ahead to the Super Bowl with some early locks of the week. Which young quarterback in the AFC is the best of them all at this point? We get into the debate. The Bears new regime is taking form, we talk likes of the new staff. Plus, Bryson gets a big offer from the new Saudi golf tour and Rocky Wirtz embarrasses the Blackhawks franchise. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
Back for another week, we're back and breakdown one of the best weekends in NFL Playoff history and where the participating teams go from here. We take a look ahead to Conference Championship weekend and make our locks of the week picks there. Also we get into a little Farmers Insurance talk, Baseball Hall of Fame debacle, and the Bears hiring of Ryan Poles. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
The boys are back with Episode 237 of the pod recapping Wild Card weekend in the NFL and breaking down the upcoming matchups in the divisional round. We get into the Bears coach/GM search for a bit as well as dive into the UFC 270 card and of course give out our locks of the week as we have a deadlock at 11-8 records with the season winding down. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Send us mailbags and see you next week!
Positive: The Bears did the right thing and fired Matt Nagy & Ryan Pace. Negative: George McCaskey yet again made a fool of himself in his end of year press conference. Around and around we go with the endless cycle of Bears incompetence. We break down what we saw from the press conference to the search that's underway for the next regime. Plus we recap an amazing National Championship between Georgia & Alabama and give locks of the week. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags.
The Bears win in Seattle. Yay. Takeaways from the come-from-behind win vs the Seahawks and who stood out in the victory. Winners and Losers from Week 16 in the NFL. College Football Playoff preview plus a little lookahead to some bowl games. Locks of the Week and a whole lot more! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
The Bears drop yet another uninspiring effort to the Minnesota Vikings on Monday Night Football, but are there pieces for the future starting to make some strides? We look at the Bears roster and break it down. Plus, we go around Week 15 in the NFL, talk COVID cancellations in the NHL and NBA, some Tiger & Charlie at the PNC discussion, and a mailbag talking steak! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
Yet another double-digit defeat to the Bears. We look at the broad scale of the Bears organization and a few things from the game that caught our eye. We make locks of the week picks, go around the NFL, talk some UFC inlcuding Conor and Sean O'Malley plus Joe recaps his Army/Navy trip. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
We recap a whatever effort from the Bears and look ahead to what seems like an inevitable drubbing from the Packers. The College Football Playoff field is set, we take a look at the matchups while recapping Conference Championship Saturday and the wild coaching carousel. Plus some locks of the week to and more! Subscribe, rate, review and send in your mailbags!
Brian Kelly is going to LSU, Lincoln Riley is going to USC, and our pets heads are falling off! WILD times in the college football landscape so we dive into it as much as we can and give our takes on both massive head coaching moves, obviously with a little more focus from the ND side. From there, the Bears are still playing football. Baseball's offseason is taking shape. Tiger meets the media (we're still a Tiger pod). And locks of the week!
No Bears game to recap thankfully so we take a look the Bears and Ravens game this upcoming Sunday plus go around the NFL looking ahead to Week 11. That plus some Bulls talk, White Sox free agency, targets, College Football Playoff chat and more.
The Bears lose a tough one in Pittsburgh on Monday Night Football thanks to a slow start and some help from the officials, but Justin Fields played his best game yet and shined in the national spotlight. Sure the Bears lost, but we have our QB. In addition, the NFL has an officiating problem. Winners & Losers around the NFL. Matt's Hockey Minute. Locks of the week and a whole lot more!
The Bears lose, but Justin Fields played well. More importantly, he played his best game of the year with Matt Nagy nowhere in sight. The College Football Playoff rankings are out. The boys are HOT in their Locks of the Week sitting at a combined 12-6. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
A different tone in today's episode as we discuss the eye-opening report on the lawsuit against the Blackhawks regarding a sexual assault in 2010. We discuss the report, how the incident was handled, and where the Hawks go from here both on and off the ice. The Bears are still an embarrassment. The Bulls are actually good and the most fun team to watch in the city right now.
The Bears yet again fall to the Green Bay Packers and Aaron Rodgers. What went wrong this time around and what needs to change? From there we go around the NFL talking winners and losers from Week 6 in the NFL. The NBA tips off tonight, we talk a little Bulls and make some NBA Finals predictions.
On this week's episode we break down the growing pains of the White Sox ALDS loss as well as some of the growing pains of the Bears with their young QB. What can the Sox do this offseason to take the next step? What would constitute a successful season for Justin Fields and the Bears this year? Plus some Blackhawks & Bulls futures bets and more!
Justin Fields was great! But we still hate Matt Nagy. We break down the Bears win over Detroit and the mind boggling press conferences from Matt Nagy in the hours that followed. Plus, NFL Whiparound. Locks of the Week (Roons is HOT at 4-1), and a little MLB Playoff discussion!
After the earlier recorded episode from this week was lost, Phil Gough kindly hopped on the podcast to help us preview everything you need to know about Notre Dame and Cincinnati's massive showdown in South Bend this weekend. Plus, I mean, we're not going to not rip the Bears.
Justin Fields may be the man for the Bears...for now. We assess Fields' first extended in game action as he replaced Andy Dalton in Sunday's win over Cincy plus the defense showed up after an embarrassing Week 1. We do an NFL whiparound doing quick hits on all of the Week 2 games. The Ryder Cup is this week, we talk Team USA and some pairings we'd like to see. Plus some locks of the week!
The NFL is officially back! We break down the Bears 34-14 loss in Los Angeles from Sunday night as well as go around the NFL in our Week 1 Whiparound. All NFL talk plus some locks of the week close out the show. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send in your mailbags!
The NFL season kicks off TONIGHT and we have you covered with a full league-wide season preview!
The description is in the title! We pick and preview the Power 5 conferences, make College Football Playoff picks, Heisman Picks and so much more! Plus Locks of the Week return! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send in your mailbags!
After a bye week (not an off week) we're back and better than ever recapping a wildly successful Field of Dreams game between the White Sox & Yankees with none other than White Sox in-game host Alyssa Bergamini who was live in Iowa for the game. In addition to that we discuss some updates from Bears camp, the FedEx Cup opener, and the White Sox play as of late.
In episode 217 the guys go around the sports landscape in Chicago where all teams seem to be trending upward except for one. What's going wrong with the Cubs organization and what are the other four doing so well? Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send in your mailbags!
TSN Hockey Analyst Dave Poulin joins the show again to talk Blackhawks and their big move to acquire Seth Jones as well as a a whole bunch of news around the NHL world. From there we talk a wide range of topics in Buy or Sell including MLB Trade Deadline, OU/Texas moving to the SEC, the Olympics and more! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes, send in your mailbags and we'll see you next week!
It's an all Buy or Sell episode for these weeks pod! British Open, White Sox & Cubs trade deadlines, NBA Finals, NHL Expansion Draft. Aaron Rodgers saga and more! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
Episode 214 kicks off with some live Open Championship reax as we check in on our picks, talk impressions of Royal St. George's, Bryson's breakdown and more. The MLB kicks off their 2nd half, who goes to the World Series and takes home the major awards? Duncan Keith is no longer a Blackhawk and we are #sad. What's Conor McGregor's future? NBA Finals is a best of 3 and so much more! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send in those mailbags!
We're back with Episode 213 of the pod! The Sox and Cubs are headed in opposite directions as we near the trade deadline. What should be at the top of the to-do list for both teams? The Stanley Cup Final wrapped up with a thrilling 1-0 Lightning win in Game 5. The Suns and Bucks keep rolling along in the NBA Finals. UFC 264 is here and we open up the mailbag talking NCAA NIL rules all on this week's episode! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send in your mailbags!
Episode 212 is LIVE! A thrilling playoff at the Travelers and Moose won big on it. The Road to the Ryder Cup is on, we talk early team projections, parings, and wild cards on our radar. From there, The Captain Jonathan Toews is back with the Blackhawks and spoke to the media for the first time since his season away from the team. The Sox and Cubs have some deadline decisions looming, and the NBA Finals are on the horizon. All that and more on this week's episode!
Jon Rahm won the U.S. Open and Moose won a dozen golf balls. We recap all the action at Torrey Pines and make quick pick for the Travelers. The NBA & Stanley Cup Playoffs are in full swing. Where are we at on both and what in the hell is you doing with your goalies Pete DeBoer. Lastly, could the Bears be headed to Arlington Heights? Our thoughts on the potential move north. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
After a week off for Moose the boys are back re-united! A full U.S. Open preview at Torrey Pines kicks off the show including picks and a wager. The NBA & NHL Playoffs are keeping us on our toes. The Sox & Cubs are crushing it in 1st Place. College Football Playoff looking toward a new format and much more! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send in your mailbags!
Episode 209 is an all-Rooney show as Matt is joined by Mike and Reid to we give you a course review of the Big Cedar Lodge facility in the Ozarks. Buffalo Ridge, Payne's Valley and Ozark National are the big three there and we give you a full review on the three courses as well as the facility and par 3 courses as a whole. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and we'll be back to our normal schedule next week!
We're a little all over the map in Episode 208 starting things off going around the NBA playoffs. The Nets are emerging as contenders while the Lakers are barely hanging on. The Avalanche feel like a wagon in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Cubs and Sox are rolling. The Memorial is underway at Jack's place. Naomi Osaka withdraws. And much more! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes!
Phil Mickelson won an epic 2021 PGA Championship at Kiawah Island. We talk about Phil's latest (and last?) Major triumph and what we learned about the current top players in golf. We break down the NBA Playoffs so far and get into some Stanley Cup predictions as well. Lastly its some Buy or Sell talking Brooks vs Bryson, NBA fans and more! Send in mailbags. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes.
Episode 206 is live! After our bye week, we break down Justin Fields first appearance in a Bears (practice) uniform as he debuted at rookie minicamps last week. The PGA Championship at Kiawah Island begins Thursday. We take a look at the challenges the course represents as well as who we like to make a run. The Sox are ROLLING. The Stanley Cup Playoffs are underway and more!
The Bears have their Quarterback as Ryan Pace traded up to take Justin Fields. We break down that pick in its entirety and much more. The Bears also added on a Day 1 starter at tackle as well as some potential nice pieces at the end of the draft. We also break down some of our favorite picks around the league as well as some head scratchers. Can the Sox survive the Luis Robert loss? What do we know about the Cubs through 31 games? Send in those mailbags!
Its a full NFL Draft preview breaking down where we think the top 4 picks go, who might fall to the Bears, their trade possibilities, and some general draft strategy overall. We talk Tony La Russa's first month on the job, give a Blackhawks post-mortem, and wrap things up talking a little golf and NBA in Buy or Sell.
Episode 203 is all Buy or Sell across the whole sporting world. From a UFC 261 preview to the MLB, NBA, NFL Draft and more we cover it all! We wrap things up with a particularly fun golf mailbag question as well. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send in your mailbags.
Episode 202 is a full recap of the week's action at Augusta National. From Hideki's historic win to the roller coaster ride of Jordan Spieth and the push from newcomer Will Zalatoris. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us mailbags on Twitter @MooseAndRoons
200 down, and many more to go. Episode 201 kicks off with a breakdown of the Sox and Cubs in their first week of the season. The good, the bad, and the ugly have all been on display. at the 23:00 mark we give you a full Masters preview including some gambling picks talking favorites and longshots. From there its Buy or Sell talking Conor McGregor and the NFL Draft. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes!
Episode 200 is here! We kick things off briefly talking some White Sox & Cubs Opening Day picks and previews. From there Mark Schanowski hops on yet again to talk Bulls with us after their big deadline deals. After that, its all mailbags all the time! From 7 irons, to nachos, to flat-brimmed hats we cover it all! Thank you to all the listeners and contributors that have made all this possible, here's to 200 more!
Episode 199 talks brackets - both March Madness and this week's WGC MatchPlay. MVP race updates in both the NBA and NHL. What are Patrick Kane's chances? UFC 260 is Saturday night featuring a heavyweight title fight. Lastly, episode 200 is NEXT WEEK. Send in your mailbags now for a mailbag extravaganza!
The Bears can close the deal on an elite QB and immediately settle for a bad one. Whatever. The White Sox are inching closer to Opening Day, so NBC Sports Chicago's White Sox expert Ryan McGuffey talks what we've seen in Spring Training so far and what we should expect to see come Opening Day. After Sox talk, sports gambling analyst Paul Aspan joins Guff and I to talk March Madness picks, previews, upsets, favorites, and all things in between! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Follow on Twitter @MooseAndRoons
Episode 197 is LIVE. Dak gets paid by Dallas, is Russell Wilson up next? We talk Bears QB options and possible trade packages. Patrick Kane plays in his 1,000th game and Brent Seabrook ends his playing career. We reflect on two vital Blackhawks careers, one ending and one seemingly with still a long way to go. March Madness is upon us. We open the mailbags and talk Chicago movies and make some gambling picks for The Players Championship this weekend. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes!
We open things up talking Tiger Woods' awful car accident and what it could mean for his future. The Bears have several options at quarterback heading into next season, so we go down the list talking likelihood and desire for all of the major options. Buy or Sell talks March Madness, NBA All-Star weekends, and UFC 259. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and follow on Twitter @MooseAndRoons
Mark Schanowski joins us for episode 195 to extend his total appearances on the podcast lead and break down the first half of the Bulls season. We talk Zach LaVine, Billy Donovan, and all the biggest issues Bulls-related including some trade deadline strategy. After the interview we briefly recap the Genesis at Riviera. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your feedback!
Football is over so we start breaking down all we missed. From the Blackhawks and Bulls surprising starts to golf this weekend at Riviera. Fernanado Tatis Jr's new deal. Even a little football rumor mill with Carson Wentz. Anything and everything here on the Moose & Roons pod! Send in those mailbags. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes.
The big game is over and for the 7th time Tom Brady is a Super Bowl champ. We break down the Bucs blowout win over the Chiefs and talk about the future for both teams. The Bears are tied to Carson Wentz in some rumors around the league. What's the right price for him? Buy or Sell going around the Chicago sports landscape and more. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
It's your full preview for Sunday's Chiefs/Bucs showdown. We break down what we think happens on Sunday on the field and talk all of our favorite prop bets for the big game. Lastly we wrap things up with Buy or Sell talking Blackhawks and White Sox. Send in mailbags. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes!
Championship weekend is in the books. How were the legacies of Tom Brady & Aaron Rodgers affected? How great does Patrick Mahomes' legacy look already? UFC 257 concluded with a stunning upset of Conor McGregor by Dustin Poirier. What's next for Conor? Buy or Sell talks MLB free agency and podcast favorite Jay Cutler. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send in mailbags!
Episode 190 recaps the NFL Divisional round games covering all you need to know from the four matchups. From there we preview Sunday's Championship matchups. The Bulls are playing as good of basketball as they have in years, and much of it thanks to Billy Donovan. Who's the class of the East in the NBA? UFC 257 preview and beyond. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send in those mailbags!
The Bears lay an egg in the Wild Card round vs the Saints. What's next for the roster, coaches, and the franchise as a whole? Alabama rolls to a historic National Championship win. How do we feel about the state of college football? The Sox reel in a big fish to close out their bullpen, and much more! Subscribe, Rate, Review on iTunes. Send us your mailbags!
Well...they're in. The Bears back into the playoffs with the Cardinals loss to the Rams. We look back on the Bears loss to the Packers and ahead to their Wild Card matchup with the Saints. From there, it's time for Locks of the Week and Roons is...reeling. The Bulls could be #back under the direction of Billy Donovan. And we close with some Buy or Sell talking Tua, the World Juniors, and....Batman. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send in those mailbags!
The Bears are in win or go home mode vs the Packers on Sunday. Notre Dame and the College Football playoff are upon us. The Cubs are selling. The Blackhawks get some bad news. The Bulls start slow. A ton going on in the Chicago sports landscape and we cover it all! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
A technical difficulty shortened episode recaps another Bears win as we break down their renewed playoff push and what it means for the future. We talk NFL and make some bold predictions about each conference going forward. Locks of the week picks are made as the race grows tighter, and we break into some NBA Buy or Sell topics. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes, send in mailbags, and have a great Christmas and Holiday Season!
Episode 185 kicks off talking Bears and their win over Houston. What changed, if anything about this group and the state of the franchise? Does the College Football Playoff have a bias problem? Phil Gough of One Foot Down joins us again to preview another Notre Dame vs Clemson showdown. We make locks of the week picks. Buy or Sell talking some golf and NBA. Send in mailbags. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes!
Episode 184 is LIVE with NBC Sports Chicago Senior Producer and White Sox Content Head Ryan McGuffey! We get into the Sox early action in the Winter Meetings and so much more about the organization, where it's at, and where it's headed. We talk about the North Side of town and what stage the Cubs are at. Guff laments on the Bears with us after another brutal loss. Lastly our guest sits on in Locks of the Week and gives us a pair of picks. The Mailbag also gets opened talking Chicago food staples. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and keep sending mailbags!
Yet again, the Bears embarrass themselves on the national stage Sunday night in Green Bay. Where does the franchise go from here, and what direction must it go to rid themselves of this vicious cycle? From there we bring back ALL of our favorite segments. Buy or Sell, Locks of the Week, Airing of Grievances and Shut It Down covering all spectrums of the sporting world! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send in those mailbags
Happy Thanksgiving! In Episode 182, we go around the Chicago sports landscape and discuss what we're thankful for with each team, as well as what we're thankful for in our own lives. Mailbag collection for Episode 200 has begun! Get those mailbags in! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes.
The Bears are brutal, we talk big picture and where exactly they go from here. From there we recap a fantastic week at Augusta. DJ runs away impressively, Bryson didn't break the course, Tiger talk and more! After that our guy Mark Schanowski joins us to talk Bulls draft options, offseason possibilities and more! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send in mailbags!
The Bears stink. That's it, that's the post. Notre Dame pulls off a historic win at home vs #1 Clemson. The Masters is finally upon us. We make locks of the week, gambling preview for the Masters and more! Subscribe, rate, review. Send mailbags. Love you guys.
The Bears lose again, this time in overtime at home to New Orleans and they are exactly who we thought they were. NFL Week 8 whiparound. Notre Dame/Clemson preview with One Foot Down's Phil Gough. Tony La Russa returns to the White Sox and more! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Send in mailbags!
The Bears offense has one of its worst showings of the Matt Nagy tenure in a 24-10 loss to the Rams. What now? NFL whiparound. World Series wrapping up. UFC 254 recap. The Masters is approaching and more! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send in your mailbags!
The Bears are 5-1 after a win in Carolina. We break down the win and talk about this team's ceiling. We go around the NFL talking all things Week 6. Locks of the Week. Mailbags talking Sox manager search, the Blackhawks "new" direction and more. We open up the mailbag and fit in some golf talk as usual! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and kep sending mailbags!
Episode 176 kicks off with some speculation on the previously released Le'Veon Bell, and if the Bears should go after him. NFL Week 5 whiparound. Forest Dunes course review with Tim Rooney. Buy or Sell talking Hawks and Bulls. We'll get into some Sox managerial speculation next week! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send in some mailbags!
Surprise! The Bears beat Tom Terrific and the Bucs on Thursday night, so we bring you a bonus Saturday pod breaking down the W, what we saw, and what it means going forward. On a negative note, Corey Crawford was shoved out the door by the Blackhawks and signed in New Jersey
The Bears no show at home vs the Colts. Is Matt Nagy looking more like the problem on the lakefront? NFL Week 4 recap. The MLB Postseason is in full swing - without the two Chicago teams - will the MLB keep an expanded postseason? NBA Finals underway, Blackhawks offseason questions, and more in Buy or Sell. Send in mailbags. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes!
The Bears are 3-0 thanks to the late game heroics of Nick Foles. How did the team change with the QB switch and how will it look going forward? We go around the NFL Week 3 action. MLB Postseason is about to start with both the Sox and the Cubs involved. Who makes the World Series? Who are some sleepers? NBA Finals is about to start, Stanley Cup Final has been great and keeps rolling on. UFC 254 main event look ahead and more!
The Bears win again and improve to 2-0, though questions still linger. We break down everything you need to know from the Week 2 win over the Giants. We go around the NFL. US Open recap. Sox and Cubs questions linger headed into the playoffs and much more. Send in those mailbags. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes.
Week 1 is in the books! We recap everything we saw in the...interesting....Bears win in Detroit and some of our expectations going forward. From there it's a Week 1 NFL whip-around. Buy or Sell talking the White Sox and Jose Abreu's MVP chances, college football, the US Open, and the Stanley Cup Final. We have a grievance aired as well! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Send us mailbags!
It's here! The 2020 NFL season is upon us, so it's time for our annual season preview! What will the Bears finish? Who are your division winners? Super Bowl predictions, X factors and so much more. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Send us your feedback.
A whole lot to discuss on Ep 169. The Bears are just over a week away from kickoff. The Sox and Cubs are both in pennant races. PGA Tour is as exciting as ever. NBA Bubble life rolls on. And chicken wings. We talk about chicken wings. Our NFL Season Preview show is next week! We'll set the table for the 2020 campaign for the Bears and the rest of the league. Send us all your mailbags and NFL questions and we'll get to it. Almost football time! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes.
Unfortunately, bad timing strikes again as we recorded BEFORE Lucas Giolito's no hitter. But we recap the Sox taking 2 of 3 from the Cubs at Wrigley. Assess where both teams in the city are at. Talk NBA Playoffs. Throw in a little golf talk and call it a week. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Send us mailbagsQ
It's a jam packed time for sports in Chicago! The Bulls have the number 4 pick in the draft, the Hawks are out of the playoffs and have some decisions to make, the Sox & Cubs get Round 1 of the Crosstown Classic underway, and the Bears are in the thick of training camp. We break down all that action and more on this week's episode! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send mailbags!
We kick things off with a bonus behind the scenes look at a Moose & Roons production meeting. From there, the Bulls finally fired Jim Boylen, so what now? The Hawks are in trouble against Vegas. What's their future look like in this series and beyond. College Football is on life support. The UFC has a big card Saturday night. NBA bubble is headed to the playoffs and more! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us some mailbags!
The Hawks are officially moving onto the NHL Playoffs after a 3-1 series win in the Qualifying Round over Edmonton. NBC Sports Chicago's Pat Boyle joins the podcast to recap the win over Edmonton and set the table for the matchup with Vegas and our old friend Robin Lehner. #AllForOne
Sports are back! The NBA is returns. Baseball is a week into the books. NFL opt outs. The Hawks gear up for the playoffs. Sports are in full swing and we got you covered! Buy or sell, mailbag. We got everything on episode 163. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Send us your mailbags.
The Sox & Cubs exhibition series is over, with the Sox looking ready for Opening Day as concerns persist on the North Side. What are we most excited for and concerned about for each team this season? The NFL agreed to cancel all preseason games. The NBA bubble is working. Obviously some golf talk. Mailbag question and more! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send in your mailbags!
NOTE Due to some technical difficulties recording we lost the second half of this week's episode, but a partial pod is better than no pod! Tiger makes his return to the tour and baseball's back!
Patrick Mahomes signs the riches contract in the history of sports. We talk about his deal, how it affects the Chiefs and the league, and inevitably get mad about the Bears QB failures. Bryson DeChambeau impressed with a win last weekend, but is it sustainable? UFC 251 is this weekend. MLB is trying to return to play. Much to dive into on this week's pod! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Send in mailbags.
Baseball's return is finally happening, although it was forced. Who sets up well for this sprint of a season? The PGA saw their first positive COVID-19 tests, we talk about what their future looks like. Buy or Sell talking Jay Cutler, Tom Brady and more! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send mailbags!
We played Bowes Creek Country Club on Sunday and decided to bring back course reviews. Enjoy the review, and get out and play some golf this weekend!
Baseball seemingly takes a step in the right direction toward having a season, but not without some complications. The return of the PGA Tour was a resounding success and rolls on this weekend. Buy or Sell talking NFL and the NBA bubble and much more. Golf Course review coming your way Friday!
Golf is officially back this weekend, we give a quick Colonial preview. The NBA's return to play format is out, we discuss which teams might be impacted most. The MLB still can't get out of their own way. Blackhawks 2010 Stanley Cup 10-year anniversary. Buy or sell and much more! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes.
A shortened but sweet version of the pod recaps The Match between Tiger & Peyton vs Phil & Tom. We talk NBA and NHL's return to play formats while the MLB continues to stand in their own way. Plus we play buy or sell talking Mike Tyson, the Pensacola Blue Wahoos and a whole lot more! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
Our longest tenured guest NBA and Bulls expert Mark Schanowski hops on the podcast to give us his impressions on The Last Dance and what it was like having a front row seat to the Bulls dynasty covering the team for all six championships. You won't want to miss this stuff! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Send in mailbags. Stay safe, stay healthy!
Episode 153 kicks off with an extended buy or sell talking college football's return, extensive UFC discussion, some golf chat and more! From there we open up the mailbag and Play 18 with some quick hitting golf questions. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Send us your feedback and mailbags. Stay safe!
It's the first of TWO episodes this week. We talk all things golf recapping our weekends on the course. What games we like to play on the course. Look ahead the upcoming matches and more! Episode 153 comes at you later this week. Subscribe, Rate, Review on iTunes and send us your mailbags!
Who'd have thought Justin Herbert would be such a lightning rod? The 6th overall pick in the NFL ignites some fire under Joe. We recap the Bears Draft as well as around the league. The Blackhawks have a vacancy at President. Sports are laying plans to come back. The Last Dance continues to kill it. Our biggest sports villains. A TON of content for a quarantine episode.
For this milestone episode we talk a little NFL Draft, then as we have in all our big milestone episodes, head straight to the mailbag. Once again you delivered, sending us "Best Of" questions. From the best golf course we've played, to the best bite in Chicago we cover a wide range of topics and answer with some our our favorite things in sports and beyond. Thank you all for helping us keep this going. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. 150 down, here's to 150 more!
We preview our plan for Episode 150! The Moose & Roons' "Best Of" episode. Our favorites or "best of" of any topic, idea, food item, fashion statement, or ANYTHING under the sun. Send us some mailbags. We'll combine our own and what we get from you. Maybe even an After Dark recording? Subcribe, rate, review on iTunes. Stay safe!
The Chicago Bulls FINALLY make a change at the top of their organization. Sports are started to creep back onto the calendar with some dates being projected. Dana White buys an island. Mailbag questions and more! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Send in mailbags for Ep 150. Stay safe and stay healthy!
Episode 148 kicks off talking some new NFL news. The league officially added a 7th playoff team to each conference for this season + won't delay the NFL Draft. From there we open up the mailbag. Athletes we wish we say, Cutty's analyst ability, golf fashion, best sports months of the year and much more! Thank you all for tuning in each and every week, keep sending those mailbags, subscribe, rate, review on iTunes.
On this week's episode we dive into the week's sports topics to kick things off. Happy with the Bears add of Nick Foles? NFL Draft date, Olympics delayed, and more. From there we go right into the mailbag and the listeners came up big for us! Top 3 days on the sports calendar, unique items in the golf bag, baseball game food schedule, who's your caddy and more! Keep sending in those mailbags, stay safe, stay quarantined, ride out this storm with us every week. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes!
Two pods in one day! Instant reax to the Bears trading for former Super Bowl MVP Nick Foles as Moose joins in live from the golf course.
Tom Brady has actually left New England. We talk about the GOAT's move to Tampa as well as the shuffling around the QB carousel. How does this impact the Bears? The Bears also got active adding veterans Robert Quinn and Jimmy Graham. We play Buy or Sell. Open up the mailbags to a slew of different topic and more! Stay safe, stay healthy, stick this out with us!
Episode 145 kicks off with our immediate reaction to the coronavirus impact on the sports world and what the NBA's season suspension could mean for the rest of it. Some good news, Michael Kopech saw his first game action since Tommy John surgery and looked ELECTRIC. Now more than ever we need your mailbags!
We kick off episode 144 talking available QBs this offseason, and their likelihood + our desire of them ending up with the Bears. We each pick a standout from the NFL combine. Buy or sell covering talking spring training headlines, and the Oreo becomes a topic of discussion once more. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Send us some MAILBAG questions. See you next week!
Episode 143 kicks off talking the Blackhawks trade deadline and the seemingly wrong direction the franchise appears to be headed. Can they change course? The Bears regime doubles down on Trubisky at the combine. Extended Buy or Sell talking Yoan Moncada, golf, boxing, prison and much more. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send in your mailbags!
It's a slow week in sports, so we bounce around to just about everything in Ep 142 of the pod. Tiger talk, NBA All Star recap, NBA 2nd half predictions, Blackhawks are #done, Astros scandal, it's a Fight Weekend and so much more! Now's the time to send in all those mailbags. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes.
Football season's over, so we bring in our favorite guest; expert hoops analyst Mark Schanowski to bring us up to speed on the NBA season thus far, the Bulls situation, the upcoming NBA Draft Class and even some bonus baseball knowledge! After that it's Buy or Sell talking MLB, NHL and more. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Send us some mailbags.
Just like that, football season is behind us. We recap a fun Super Bowl matchup while somehow managing to still get mad at the Bears. What now that football's over? NHL and NBA in full swing, pitchers and catchers reporting soon. Buy or Sell. Matt's Hockey Minute. Moose has a grievance and much more! Subscribe, Rate, Review on iTunes. Send us your mailbags.
Rest in Peace Kobe Bryant. We begin this episode talking about Kobe's impact on our lives personally, as well as our generation. We preview the Super Bowl, which matchups and prop bets we like. Locks of the Week comes down to the Super Bowl. We play Buy or Sell talking Golf, NBA, Kris Bryant news and more. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Follow on Twitter @MooseAndRoons. Send us mailbags. We love you guys!
Ep 138 kicks off with a recap of Championship Weekend in the NFL and a brief look ahead to the Super Bowl matchup we all deserve. From there we make locks of the week picks. Recap Conor McGregor's huge return to the Octagon, Derek Jeter and Larry Walker to the HOF and much more! Send us mailbags and we'll see you next week for at Super Bowl preview.
A busy show kicks off recapping last night's LSU/Clemson National Title game. Was Joe Burrow's season the best ever in college football history? We recap the NFL Divisional round and look ahead to Championship Sunday. The Astros get punished for their cheating scandal, but was it enough? Buy or Sell talking UFC, CBB, and much more. The Bears hire an OC, so I guess that's news. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Send us mailbags. Follow on Twitter @MooseAndRoons
Episode 136 kicks off with a Wild Card weekend recap, most notably including the fall of the Patriots. We look ahead to the divisional round as well as the College Football Playoff Final on Monday night. We make lock of the week picks. An extended version of buy or sell including NBA, MLB, NFL topics and much more. Be sure to subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Follow us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons. Send us your mailbags!
After a brief holiday hiatus we're back and refreshed kicking off a new year of Moose & Roons podcasts. The NFL Playoffs kick off this weekend, we preview those matchups. Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy gave their end of season press conferences. Bowl season is wrapping up, what have we learned so far? The Sox made two big splashes over the holidays. The NFL coaching carousel is in full swing and much more. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes, send us mailbags, follow on Twitter @MooseAndRoons
It's a sad pod as we open things up talking the Bears loss at Lambeau and official elimination from the playoffs. We dive into what went wrong not only with the game, but the season as a whole. We preview the NFL matchups this week with playoff implications. Buy or Sell talking football and the Presidents Cup after Tiger's dominant weekend down under. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Send us your mailbags. Follow on Twitter @MooseAndRoons.
MLB Hot Stove is on fire at the Winter Meetings. Cole & Strasburg sign; who's next? Sox make a minor move. NFL Week 15 preview. A grievance gets aired. Locks of the week. Buy or Sell. Hawk to the Hall and so much more. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Follow on Twitter @MooseAndRoons. Send us your mailbags.
It's a Victory Friday pod. We recap the Bears best performance of the year in Thursday's win over Dallas. We make lock of the week picks. Buy or Sell talking a wide variety including Joe's offensive lineman technique. See you all at Weishfest tonight!
In our Thanksgiving edition of Moose and Roons, we recap the Bears win over the Giants and what it really means, or doesn't mean. We preview the Thanksgiving football action starting with Bears/Lions on Thanksgiving morning. Locks of the week picks, don't let us get hot! We play Buy or Sell talking Akiem Hicks, college football rivalry week and more. And lastly we talk about what in the Chicago sports world we're thankful for. Subscribe, Rate, Review on iTunes and buy your Weishfest tickets!
The Bears lose spectacularly again in Los Angeles effectively ending their season. How bad will they let things get? After a brutal start to 2019, the Blackhawks are streaking and so is Patrick Kane. What's their ceiling? Locks of the week (hint: don't let us get hot). NFL Whiparound. Buy or Sell with maybe our most intriguing topic since the Oreo debate. And lastly, go buy your Weishfest tickets at Weishfest.com! Subscribe, Rate, Review on iTunes. Follow on Twitter @MooseAndRoons
For seemingly the 15th time, LSU and Alabama played in the "Game of the Century" and this time it actually kinda lived up to that. Bears finally snap their losing skid. Is there a path for the back to the playoff hunt? NFL Whip-around. Buy or Sell talking NFL, Hoops, and much more. "Locks" of the week. Some personal news for Moose. And saving the best for last, buy your damn Weishfest tickets already.
The Chicago sports landscape continues its tailspin. We give our take on ranking the top 5 coaches for the major teams in the city and here's a hint: it's not very good. We go around the NFL. Make our lock of the week picks. Play Buy or Sell and much more. We also open up the mailbag and talk Bears QB options for next season. It's a bad time to be a Chicago sports fan which means it's a great time to listen to Moose & Roons and hear us yell about it. Send in mailbags. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Follow @MooseAndRoons on Twitter.
Episode 127 takes a little bit of a different format. With all 5 Chicago sports organizations at some pretty important junctures, we go around the city and break down the state of each of the major sports organizations and throw in a bonus breakdown of Notre Dame football after their embarrassing loss at Michigan. From there we make locks of the week picks. Play and ALL BEARS version of Buy or Sell. Open up the Mailbag from our good friend Rob Gallik. And wrap things up talking WEISHFEST. Go buy those tickets now if you haven't yet at Weish4ever.org
The Bears get blown out at home by New Orleans. What went wrong and what needs to change (hint: a lot)? The World Series kicks off tonight with some unreal pitching matchups set up. Who do we think takes home the baseball's biggest prize? We go around the NFL. Make our lock of the week predictions coming off a 2-0 week. Buy or Sell talking college football and NBA season props. Matt's Hockey Minute. Also go to Weish4Ever.org RIGHT NOW and buy your tickets for Weishfest on December 9th!
After a Bear-less Sunday we preview what's to come for the Beloved after the Bye including two big names headed to IR as well as look ahead to Week 7 in the NFL. We make our lock of the week picks. Buy or sell talks MLB Postseason, College Football, and the upcoming NBA season, and the Blackhawks are off to a sluggish start. Subscribe, Rate, Review on iTunes. Send us mailbags, Bear Down!
The Bears blow an opportunity in London to head into the Bye at 4-1. What went wrong in the loss to Oakland and what's gone wrong with the bigger picture this season? We go around the NFL. Make our Lock of the Week picks (hint: fade Joe), and play Buy or Sell talking college football and the MLB Postseason. Make sure to Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Follow on Twitter @MooseAndRoons, and send us your mailbags!
The Bears dominate the Vikings in an NFC North matchup at home. We give a full breakdown of the dominant defense and the offense with Mitch on the sideline. We go around the NFL breaking down all the games from Week 4. Joe Maddon and the Cubs part ways and the Sox end the season on a high note. Buy or Sell talking baseball and football. Locks of the week and more! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Follow on Twitter @MooseAndRoons. Send mailbags!
We recap a much needed Bears win Monday night. A step in the right direction for the Beloved but more room to grow. NFL Whiparound of Week 3 action. Irish lose a tight one in Georgia. Cubs collapse and headed for change. Harbaugh on the hot seat at Michigan? Jonathan Taylor for Heisman. Locks of the week and more! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Follow on Twitter @MooseAndRoons. Send mailbags!
Bears escape the Broncos on the road, we talk Mitch's performance and other takeaways from the win in Denver. We go around the NFL and recap Week 2 of the season. Buy or Sell talking College Football. Locks of the Week. And we open up the mailbag to wrap up this week's show. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Follow on Twitter @MooseAndRoons
We kick off Episode 120 recapping a brutal Bears loss one week removed of opening night against the Packers. What went wrong and where can they improve? We go around the NFL with a Week 1 whip-around. Moose airs a grievance. The Cubs are in a Wild Card chase. LSU pulls off a big win at Texas. Locks of the Week and more! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Follow on Twitter @MooseAndRoons. Send us mailbags.
It's our 2019-20 NFL season preview! Bears preview and bold predictions. Division winners. Locks of the week. Super Bowl picks. Buy or Sell and more! Football's back! Find us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes.
The title says it all! We preview this year's college football season, pick the conferences and CFP teams and so much more! Phil Gough of the One Foot Down blog and podcast helps us preview Notre Dame's season. Locks of the Week are back. Happy Football season!
The Bears freed up $5.5 million in cap space. Is there a move coming? We play buy or sell talking Tour Championship, Baker Mayfield, Sunday Night Football, and USA Basketball! Football season is nearly here, next week kicks off our College Football season preview, and the week after follows with the NFL season preview. Get ready for some football!!!!! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Send in your mailbags. Follow on Twitter @MooseAndRoons
We're back for Episode 116 with another golf review pod! The boys both played competitively with friends this weekend and different facilities so we took our crack at reviewing again. We break down our experiences at Devil's Head Resort & Geneva National both in Wisconsin. Take a listen. Subscribe, rate, review. Send us your feedback and hit us with some mailbags. Football season is on the way!!!
It's a bonus episode of Moose & Roons as we debut our Golf Course Review series. Today we talk Chambers Bay just outside of Seattle and Half Moon Bay just outside of San Francisco. Enjoy the episode and hit 'em straight!
Episode 114 is live talking the roller coaster Cubs and their division race. The state of the White Sox organization. The Bears kick off their preseason schedule Thursday, so we discuss what players and position battles we're focusing on. For the first time in awhile we have ourselves a grievance! From there we play Buy or Sell and wrap things up. Don't forget, a second episode comes your way this week with the first of our golf course reviews. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Follow on Twitter @MooseAndRoons
Episode 113 is here! We talk Bears in training camp and recap a suddenly active MLB Trade Deadline. From there it's Buy or Sell talking some football, basketball, and a whole range of topics. Tune in next week for not one but TWO episodes! Our normal episode plus a special golf course review episode. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes, follow on Twitter @MooseAndRoons, and send us your mailbags!
The schedules didn't jive this week so the only solution was an After Dark episode! British Open preview and picks, all the Buy or Sells you could want. Even found some ways to sneak in football talk. Check out the latest After Dark episode, send us your feedback and mailbags. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and follow on Twitter @MooseAndRoons
It's the MLB All-Star break so we decided to bust out another Buy or Sell episode. We take a deep dive into Kawhi's decision and the power shift in the NBA. Are the Bulls players for Russell Westbrook? Tiger's strategy for the British. Will John Daly play? Home Run Derby is #back. #USWNT rolls to a second straight World Cup. And much more! Send us your mailbags. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Send us your feedback!
Ok, bad news, we missed a week. Good news, we're back to send you into your 4th of July weekend with a heater of an episode. We recap free agency in the NBA. What teams we liked and didn't and recap our thoughts on the Bulls. NHL's free agency wasn't far behind and the Blackhawks we're incredibly active adding a number of impact players so we break down those moves, what it might mean for the roster, as well as whether or not the Hawks are back to being a playoff team. From there, the Cubs are struggling on the North Side; what's their fix? It's Dylan Cease Day on the South Side (Thanks, Cubs!). We play Buy or Sell and talk the ELECTRIC USWNT and much more. The happiest of 4th of July wishes to our great listeners, thanks for tuning in. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Follow on Twitter @MooseAndRoons. And send in those mailbag questions for the down season!
It's a draft preview special of Moose & Roons as we welcome back two of our favorite guests, TSN's Dave Poulin to talk NHL Draft, where the Hawks might go at #3, and preview their offseason. After that NBC Sports Chicago's Mark Schanowski helps us preview the NBA Draft, what the Bulls might do with #7, and do some forecasting of their offseason. We then wrap things up with Buy or Sell featuring Eloy's Wrigley heroics. Follow us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your feedback and mailbags!
On episode 108 we recap the Bruins trouncing the Blues to force a Game 7 as well as make a few predictions. We talk Raptors/Warriors. Will KD play? What do the Warriors have to do to return to Oracle? We talk Bears Centennial highlights. Does Chicago have a Cy Young finalist on each side of town? U.S. Open preview and predictions. Mailbag on Bieber v Cruise in the Octagon and much more! Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Send us mailbags!
The feedback said last week went well so we're back with another Buy or Sell edition! From both Finals to boxing. From the women's World Cup to the Bears we cover ALL the bases in the sporting world today. Don't forget to send us those mailbags. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes, and send us your feedback!
After a difficult week of scheduling it's an all Buy or Sell edition taking you into the weekend. NBA Finals Game 1 talk. Tiger at Murifield. The Spelling Bee controversy. Stanley Cup Final underway. Some football talk at the end. We cover it all in Buy or Sell. Remember to send us mailbag questions; subscribe, rate, review on iTunes; follow us @MooseAndRoons on Twitter and send us your feedback!
Episode 105 kicks things off talking the Chicago Bears recently released top 100 list. We talk about our gripes with the list and slots we agree with. The Sox and Cubs are both playing solid baseball. How far can the Cubs go with a roller coaster bullpen? Are the White Sox close to competing? We talk NBA conference finals. PGA Championship recap. Moose airs a grievance. Buy or Sell talking a whole bunch of different topics and we open the mailbag! Send us those mailbags, follow us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and have a great Memorial Day weekend!
With episode 103 officially lost, we comeback with episode 104 recapping the Palm Springs trip. We preview the PGA Championship as well as pick some long shots worth wagering. Conference Finals time in both the NBA and NHL. Baseball on both sides off Chicago is hitting a heater. Moose airs a grievance. We play Buy or Sell. Moose shuts it down congratulating a friend of the pod. The Mailbag returns next week, so be sure to send in those submissions. Send us your feedback. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Follow on Twitter @MooseAndRoons!
We kick off episode 102 recapping the NFL Draft from a Bears perspective then hitting the entire league & first round as a whole. From there we talk NHL/NBA Playoffs including a bonus Matt's Hockey Minute. We preview our big trip to Palm Springs. We play Buy or Sell and hit one of our favorite mailbag questions to date. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Follow us on Twitter and SoundCloud. Send us mailbags and feedback!
We're back and better than ever kicking off the 2nd centennial of episodes with some Robbie Gould/Bears reunion talk. From there we talk NHL Game 7s and NBA Playoffs. The White Sox still refuse to spend and we're mad online about it. Buy or sell covers a wide range of tops including stock tips? Send us your mailbags for next week, follow us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons, and rate, review subscribe on iTunes!
It couldn't be more fitting that our 100th episode coincided with Tiger's finally winning another Major. We react to Tiger's first major in 11 years and his 5th Green Jacket. After that it's your episode! We go all mailbag answering your questions for us on some of our favorite discussion topics. We couldn't be more thankful for all of you who tune in each and every week and give us a reason to have a podcast. 100 down, and hopefully several more hundred to go!
It's an After Dark episode in the last episode before our centennial. We talk all things Masters including a full preview in edition to breaking down Roons' trip to Augusta. We give our early reactions to the season thus far in the MLB. Lastly, we play Buy or Sell talking NBA and NHL playoffs. Episode 100 is NEXT WEEK. Send us all your mailbags. We'll breakdown The Masters and go strictly mailbags from there. Text us, tweet us, send a raven. Contact us in any way possible for those mailbag questions. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and SoundCloud!
Happy Opening Day! On Episode 98 of Moose & Roons we recap the first two rounds of March Madness and do a little forecasting of this weekend's slate. From there we talk Opening Day in the MLB. We make some Sox & Cubs predictions and previews, go around the MLB for our MVP & World Series predictions, and dabble in a few over/under prop bets. We wrap things up looking ahead to Augusta in a Masters edition of Buy or Sell. We pick some long shots in the field in terms of their odds and let you know quite literally who's odds you might want to buy or pass on. Send us your mailbags for Episode 100 by either reaching out to one of us or tweeting us @MooseAndRoons. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes, and enjoy the 2019 MLB season!
Mike Trout is the new highest paid baseball player of all time. We talk the new mega-deal as well as Trout's marketability on the West Coast. We take a quick look at the March Madness bracket ahead of Thursday's first round action. Rory McIlroy won the Players Championship, we recap the weekend in golf and discuss his chances at Augusta. Moose airs a grievance. We play Buy or Sell wrapping things up for the week on a wide range of topics. Send us your mailbags for Ep 100, send us your feedback, subscribe on iTunes and tune in next week!
The NFL went WILD as free agency opened and we're here to recap it. Winners and losers, recapping the Bears moves, and projecting what we think/hope is to come we have a full breakdown for you. We also wrap things up with some Buy or Sell topics outside of the NFL. Follow us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons. Rate, review, subscribe on iTunes. Send us your mailbag questions and feedback. Enjoy and Bear Down.
Episode 95 kicks off talking Tiger Woods and his latest setback: a neck strain. We discuss what we think it means for golf's biggest star. The Bears have their work cut out for them in the draft and free agency, we talk what directions we think they should go. The playoff race in the West is heating up as LeBron and the Lakers fall out of it. What's gone wrong in L.A. and who wins out? Another extended edition of Buy or Sell on a wide variety of topics spanning the sports world. And we wrap things up with a heated debate on Oreos. Send us mailbags. Rate, review, subscribe on iTunes. Send us feedback!
It's an all Buy or Sell episode of Moose & Roons. Everything from Patrick Kane, LeBron James, Tiger Woods, Brandon Nimmo's chicken cooking ability, the Oscars and so much more we have covered. Send us in your Mailbag or Buy or Sell ideas for future episodes and start sending us your Mailbag questions for Episode 100 on the way! Rate, review, subscribe on iTunes. Follow on Twitter @MooseAndRoons and send us your feedback!
Manny Machado spurns the Sox for the Padres. Where did the Sox go wrong and what does this say about their future? North Carolina crushed Duke after Zion Williamson's injury. What does the future hold for the future top draft pick? The Blackhawks are back in the playoff hunt thanks to Patrick Kane. Is he playing the best hockey of his career? We wrap things up with Buy or Sell and send you on your way! Rate, review, subscribe on iTunes; follow us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons; send us mailbags!
Mark Schanowski joins us again for some fantastic hoops talk in Episode 92. First we kick things off talking the AAF debut and the suddenly streaking Chicago Blackhawks. From there we give you Mark Schanowski's interview(just after the 15:00 mark) where he covers everything from the current state of the Bulls, the NBA Draft, Derrick Rose, some around the league topics and so much more. After the interview we play Buy or Sell with a wide variety of topics and send you on your way. Please leave us a review on iTunes or send us your feedback!!
Brady and the Pats did it again as New England topped LA 13-3 in an underwhelming Super Bowl. We break down what we saw and what the Bears might need to do going forward to get to the grandest stage. We talk Anthony Davis rumors and a few other notes around the NBA. Football isn't over just yet with the AAF debuting Saturday so we pick our teams in the new league. Manny and Bryce STILL haven't signed. We play Buy or Sell including a wide range of topics including Maroon 5's halftime performance. Send in those mailbags, follow us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons; rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes!
10 episodes away from 100, we preview the Rams and Patriots this weekend including some keys to the game as well as our favorite prop bets. The NBA grabbed headlines this week with Anthony Davis and Kristaps Porzingis news. The Padres appear to be in on Bryce Harper and Manny Machado. Will they sign before Spring Training? The Blackhawks may be looking to move Duncan Keith. What does that mean for the future of the franchise? And we play Buy or Sell with a wide range of topics. Send us some mailbag questions; rate, review, subscribe on iTunes; follow on Twitter @MooseAndRoons!
We kick off episode 89 recapping two wild conference championship games. Tom continues to beat time as Brady and the Pats topped the Chiefs in OT. The Saints get robbed by the refs and fall to LA in overtime as well. With Boogie Cousins healthy for the Warriors, is there anyone who can beat them? We air a grievance on Bulls head coach Jim Boyle but maybe not for the reasons you might expect. We play buy or sell with a wide range of topics. And lastly we shut things down talking one of the most significant free agent signings in the MLB this offseason. Please send in those mailbag questions. Follow us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons. Rate, review, subscribe on iTunes and SoundCloud and send us your feedback!
We kick off Episode 88 recapping the highlights of Matt Nagy & Ryan Pace's end of season press conference Monday. We talk NFL conference championship weekends and the timeless Patriots. We talk a little hoops as well as arguably Patrick Kane's most impressive season yet with the Blackhawks. We play buy or sell with a wide range of topics and more. Thanks as always for tuning in. Send us your mailbag questions. And rate, review, subscribe on iTunes and like us here on SoundCloud!
Football is dumb. The Bears lost in heartbreaking fashion to Philly. We reluctantly talk about what happened in the loss on Sunday. Recap the College Football Playoff title game. Play buy or sell. Open the mailbag to talk about things we can be fans of outside of sports that won't break our hearts. We're drone guys now. Like us on SoundCloud, subscribe on iTunes as well as rate and review. Follow us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons. And as always, no matter what, #BearDown.
We return from our Holiday hiatus recapping the abysmal Notre Dame showing in the CFP as well as all the other big bowl games. We preview the Wild Card round of the NFL playoffs this weekend including what we think the Bears need to do to advance. We play Buy or Sell talking Winter Classic and much more, and talk New Years resolutions! Thanks for sticking with us through a great 2018, lets doing it again and more in 2019! Follow us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons, on SoundCloud, and rate, review, subscribe on iTunes. Plus, send mailbags!
The Bears are officially #back as they slay their dragon beating Green Bay at home to clinch the NFC North. We recap that matchup and talk playoffs. We talk MLB hot stove and where we think the Sox might be headed with the big two free agents. Corey Crawford suffered another concussion on Sunday, could his career be in jeopardy? We play Buy or Sell, open up the mailbag and much more. Apologies for any poor audio quality at the end, we're working toward a solution for next week. Make sure to follow us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons; rate, review, subscribe on iTunes and send us your feedback + mailbags!
Bears take down the Rams on Sunday Night Football despite a down game from Mitch Trubisky. Defense dominates but can they do it come playoff time on the road? Plus Bears host Packers with a chance to win the North. We go around the NFL. Sox keep pursuing Bryce Harper, Cubs have company in the NL Central. Buy or Sell talking NBA, CFP topics and more. Tune in next week and hopefully we're discussing a Bears division title! Like, rate, review, subscribe on iTunes and SoundCloud and send us your feedback + mailbags!
We kick off episode 83 recapping a tough Bears loss in New York and looks ahead to their Sunday night showdown with the Rams. The Bulls and Hawks both continue to struggle mightily. The College Football Playoff is set, we react to the field and predict the Heisman winner. Buy or sell talks more college football topics including Urban Meyer's departure as well as some NBA stuff. Finally, Moose shuts things down talking how ND tight end Nic Weishar's biggest win of the season is coming off the field. Please send us your mailbag questions; get at us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons; rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes and send us your feedback!
Better late than never on this Thursday edition of Moose and Roons. Episode 82 talks Trubisky's injury and looks forward to Bears/Giants this week. We make locks of the week picks and talk CFP rankings and scenarios. Roons airs a grievance on the Blackhawks. Some golf talk including the Tiger/Phil match and the Hero World Challenge. Buy or Sell with a wide range of topics. Huge Heavyweight bout in boxing this weekend, and WeishFest is this weekend! Buy your tickets NOW at WeishFest.com or Weish4Ever.org. Have a great time on Saturday night seeing Easton Corbin, Dispatch, and so much more. And if you can't make it then donate to the best cause around. See you Saturday night!
It's a holiday edition of Moose and Roons! We recap the Bears big win over the Vikings on Sunday night, then take it around the NFL. Notre Dame won convincingly over Syracuse on Saturday; we talk ND and the newest batch of College Football Playoff rankings. We preview the day of football on Thanksgiving including a Trubisky-less Bears team. It's Thanksgiving so we say what we're thankful for and send you into the holiday! Be sure to rate, subscribe, review on iTunes; follow us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons, send us your feedback and last but most importantly BUY YOUR WEISHFEST TICKETS!
Phil Gough tags in for Moose this week to help us look ahead to the massive Notre Dame/Syracuse matchup at Yankee Stadium on Saturday. We preview everything you need to know ahead of the big game Saturday as well as recap a big Bears win on Sunday vs the Lions. Thanks as always to Phil for helping us preview another big Notre Dame game! Find his work on OneFootDown.com. Follow us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons; subscribe, rate and review on iTunes and send us your feedback.
Coach Q is out and we breakdown the move as well as what lies ahead for the Blackhawks. The Bears rolled the Bills like they should and now face three straight division matchups. We go around the NFL, talk MLB hot stove with both Chicago teams, go over the new CFP rankings, and play Buy or Sell. Lastly we Shut it Down talking WeishFest! Head to Weish4Ever.org for more info and to buy your tickets now! Follow us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons and subscribe, rate, review on iTunes. Send us your feedback and mailbags and we'll see you next week
We kick off our Halloween edition talking the Bears win over the Jets and the good and bad we saw from Sunday's win. We go around the NFL. Recap the first CFP rankings. The Bulls stink but that's really nothing new. We play a Halloween themed by or sell, open up a Halloween mailbag and pick our locks of the week! Follow us on Twitter on @MooseAndRoons, send us your mailbags. Subscribe, Rate, Review on iTunes and send us your feedback!
It's another edition of Moose & Roons: After Dark! The Bears lose an incredibly odd game to the Patriots, with seemingly no one playing well but the Beloved fall just a yard short. What's wrong with the defense? Have either of us changed opinions on Mitch? A wild weekend in college football as Ohio St gets throttled by Purdue. Which conference reigns supreme? The World Series is about to get underway and we have differing opinions on who wins the whole thing. We play buy or sell including a debate on the NBA's brawl in Hollywood on Saturday night. And we Shut It Down congratulating our very own Moose! Thanks as always for tuning in. Send us your mailbags on Twitter @MooseAndRoons or text, and follow, rate, review, subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, and SoundCloud!
The Bears and their awful orange jerseys drop a winnable game on South Beach, we go around the NFL, recap an exciting weekend in college football, the NBA season kicks off tonight so we play an all-NBA Buy or Sell, Moose pays off on his bet, and we Shut It Down with a tribute to Duncan Keith's 1,000 NHL games. Remember to send us in your mailbag questions, follow us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons, like, rate, subscribe, review on iTunes and send us your feedback!
75% of the way to 100 episodes, we preview the Bears battle against the Dolphins on South Beach, talk Week 5 and 6 NFL action, and make our lock of the week picks. Jimmy Butler put himself in the news again, the Blackhawks are off to a hot start, and the Predators embrace mediocrity. The MLB playoffs and perhaps the Chicago hot stove are heating up and Moose shuts things down. MAILBAG, MAILBAG, MAILBAG. Send us your mailbag questions; sports related or not. Follow us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons, rate, review and subscribe on iTunes and send us your feedback!
Fashionably late with this week's episode, we dive right into Mitch Trubisky's breakout performance as the Bears roll Tampa 48-10. Where are we on the Bears QB and this team as a whole? We go around the NFL, recap Team USA's horrid Ryder Cup performance in Paris, talk MLB Postseason and the Cubs Wild Card elimination. Moose airs a grievance, Matt's Hockey Minute returns, we play Buy or Sell and wrap things up! As always send us your feedback, follow us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons, and like, rate, review, subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, and SoundCloud. See you next week!
The Bears are in first place for the first time since 2013, we react to their win on Sunday though it came with a some concerns. We go around the NFL and react to Week 3 action. Phil Gough joins us again from SB Nation's One Foot Down to help preview the top 10 matchup in South Bend on Saturday night between ND and Stanford. We play buy or sell and Shut it Down with a tribute to The Hawk. Catch us on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Play. Follow us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons, and send us your feedback + mailbag questions!
The Bears bounce back with a dominant win on Monday Night Football. Positive and negative takeaways from their win over Seattle. We go around the NFL and give our Week 2 impressions. We make lock of the week picks. Segments including Airing of Grievances and Buy or Sell. And Moose Shuts it Down. Send us your mailbag questions, like us on SoundCloud; rate, subscribe, and review on iTunes and follow us on Twitter at @MooseAndRoons!
We react one final to the Bears gut-wrenching loss in Green Bay and then it's onto Seattle. Knee-jerk reactions to every Week 1 NFL game. College football reax from Week 2. Cubs and Sox storylines and much more. Like us here on SoundCloud; rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes; check us out on Google Play; send us your mailbags on Twitter or directly, and thanks as always for tuning in!
Episode 70 kicks off talking Bears and Khalil Mack, we preview the NFL season; pick division winners, Super Bowl picks and talk all things Bears plus get you ready for Sunday night in Green Bay. We recap a phenomenal Week 1 in college football including a thrilling 24-17 Notre Dame win over Michigan. We make lock of the week picks, play buy or sell and so much more. Oh, and if we didn't mention it, the Bears traded for Khalil Mack. Remember to follow us here on SoundCloud, subscribe on iTunes and Google Play, rate and review, and send us your mailbags!
The nicest college football preview around comes at you better late than never! From conference champs, to CFP predictions, national champs, Heisman picks, locks of the week and so much more we have all you need to know heading into the 2018 college football season. We made it! Follow us here on SoundCloud as well as Twitter @MooseandRoons. Subscribe, rate, review on iTunes and send us your feedback. Happy College Football season!
It's Michael Kopech Day on the South Side as the Sox top pitching prospect makes his MLB debut. We preview that as well as what we're looking for from the righty the rest of the season. Yu Darvish has more elbow issues on the North Side; what does this mean for the Cubs division race? The Bears showed exciting flashes Saturday in Denver, we talk standout performances. It's double or nothing on our golf bet heading into the FedEx Cup. We bring back Buy or Sell and the mailbag, and shut things down with a plea to Ryan Pace to bring in Khalil Mack. Next week is our college football preview show! That episode drops Friday. Be sure to send in all your mailbag questions and check us out on our special time. As always thanks for tuning in, please send us all your feedback; like, subscribe, rate, review on iTunes!
Better late than never, we recap Tiger's 2nd place finish at the PGA and discuss the similarities and differences to golf Tiger's second time around. Roquan Smith is officially a Bear after signing his rookie contract. When will we see him take the field and what else do we look for from the Bears Saturday night in Denver? The Cubs still appear to be on cruise control in the NL Central and we talk that as well as the exciting stretch run to come around the majors. Jalen Ramsey judged just about every NFL QB.....excluding an important name. Roons airs a grievance, we play Buy or Sell, open up the mailbag to talk Tailgating, and Moose Shuts it Down. Be sure to send us your feedback, mailbags, and like and subscribe on iTunes!
Back for episode 66 we kick things off recapping actual Bears football (sort of)! We talk Brian Urlacher's HOF induction, go segment heavy spreading across all fields in Buy or Sell including an answer to the Portillos vs In-N-Out debate. And we wrap things up with a tribute to the life of Blackhawks legend Stan Mikita.
As always, send us your feedback and mailbags on Twitter; like, subscribe, and review on iTunes and tune in next week for Episode 67!
Roons is back from Europe and Episode 65 is live! It's FINALLY game week on the lakefront as the Bears prep for the Hall of Fame game Thursday, MLB trade deadline is just hours away and we make our predictions as to what will happen for our two teams. As Eloy Jimenez tears apart Triple A we debate when the time to bring him up is. Roons recaps his trip from Europe and gives a quick preview of what the 2019 British Open may play like. We have all our favorite segments including a co-grievance on Roquan Smith's holdout as well as Buy or Sell and finally shut things down with a tribute to Brian Urlacher ahead of his Hall of Fame induction! Thanks for sticking with us through the summer, we're back to our normal Tuesday schedule and just like you can't wait to break down some football again! Follow us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons, subscribe on iTunes and send us your mailbags for next week.
After a one week hiatus we're back! Roons checks in on vacation from a hotel room in Northern Ireland and we chat about the Open Championship, the Bears reporting to camp, Roons proposes a Bears trade, we talk NBA moves with Kawhi being traded and the Bulls adding Jabari Parker, and we wrap things up talking MLB All-Star Game and Home Run Derby. Thanks for sticking with us through the chaotic month of July, our normal schedule returns at the end of the month! Send us your feedback, mailbag, and tweets!
We talk NBA and NHL free agency, check in with Austrian Football superstar Rob Gallik, open the mailbag and much more on this holiday edition! Check us out here on SoundCloud as well as iTunes and Google Play and send us your feedback and mailbags. Enjoy!
Before free agency hits July 1st, be sure to check out this edition of the pod, episode 62.5. Our NHL expert; current TSN Analyst, former NHL Captain, Maple Leafs Assistant GM, Notre Dame head coach and much more Dave Poulin rejoins the show to help us preview the NHL offseason. He tells us what it might take for the Blackhawks to get back atop the NHL mountain, where the biggest names this offseason could end up and so much more. Enjoy the bonus episode!
Ep 62 kicks off recapping somewhat dull NBA and NHL draft's and where we think both the league and our local team's stand after their respective draft nights. From there we transition to what we love most: football as College Football season is just under two months away. Roons airs a White Sox grievance, Buy or Sell segments include the Cubs, World Cup and so much more, we (Moose) answer a fashion related mailbag and Moose shuts things down talking The Beloved Bears. Be sure to like us here on SoundCloud, follow us on Twitter, and keep subscribing, rating, and reviewing on iTunes. Send in those mailbags and we'll see you next week!
In Episode 61 the walking and talking encyclopedia of basketball knowledge Mark Schanowski of NBC Sports Chicago joins us to talk NBA Draft & Free Agency preview as well as what routes he thinks the Bulls may take over the next few years. If you're looking for hoops talk and basketball breakdowns look no further than Mark! From there we move onto Buy or Sell talking World Cup and U.S. Open and wrap things up with the return of Matt's Hockey Minute! Thank you so very much for tuning in, please continue to send us your feedback, like us on iTunes, SoundCloud and Google Play and please send us all your mailbag questions via Twitter/Text/Email or wherever!
It's episode 60 and we kick things off recapping not one but TWO championship celebrations in Golden State and Washington. We preview the US Open at Shinnecock Hills as well as Tiger's chances. We extend buy or sell with and the mailbag with topics ranging from LeBron James to James Shields to the World Cup. Moose airs a grievance on boxing and Roons shuts things down urging you to #VoteAbreu! Be sure to keep liking, subscribing and reviewing on iTunes, send us your mailbag questions because that's what we love most! Thanks for tuning in and check out Ep 61 next week!
Episode 59 is live with a recap of last week's Stanley Cup Final & NBA Finals action, we shift the topic to the Cubs 6-game win streak and the Sox new draft pick, after that we hit Buy or Sell ranging from baseball and college football to pregame ceremonies followed by a mailbag, and we shut things down talking a classy move by the Bears. Be sure to like, rate, subscribe on on iTunes and Google Play, send in your mailbags to @MooseAndRoons on Twitter and send us your feedback!
Episode 58 kicks off recapping the two Game 7s from over the weekend, we then talk Stanley Cup Final Game 1 and what we hope to see from the series going forward. Should the Cubs be looking at a change in the rotation and where is the Yu Darvish panic meter? Roons airs a food-related grievance. We forego Buy or Sell in lieu of multiple mailbag questions stemming from bachelor parties, to brushes with celebrities and much more. And Moose shuts things down talking about greatness. Keep sending in those mailbags, liking and following us on iTunes, Google Play, and SoundCloud and Twitter as well! Thanks for tuning in and send us your feedback!
Episode 57 kicks off talking puck: Vegas is heading to the Cup Final and we have a Game 7. NBA Conference finals are in full swing and.....going exactly as expected. Manny Machado is in town and both teams in the city have been rumored to be targeting the Orioles slugger. Moose airs a grievance on playoff officiating. We play Buy or Sell, open up the mailbag for a couple of your questions, and Roons shuts things down sending off a legend. Thanks as always for tuning in; please continue to like, rate, review, subscribe on SoundCloud, iTunes and Google Play as well as sending us your mailbags!
Back and better than ever for episode 56! Are both NBA conference finals matchups over after game one? Is Vegas the real deal in the West splitting with Winnipeg in Games 1 & 2? Can Ovechkin and the Caps continue their roll at home? All those questions + gambling could be coming soon to a state near you, the Crosstown Classic Round 1 comes to a close, we recap the Players Championship, and bring back all our segments! As always, tune in on iTunes & SoundCloud as well as Google Play, interact with us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons, and send us your mailbag questions!
Back on Tuesday, episode 55 kicks off recapping LeBron's demolition of the Toronto Raptors, we recap the Capitals stunning the hockey world finally beating Pittsburgh, Cubs bats explode Monday vs Miami, but can they find consistency? We bring back all our segments spanning the sports world and hope you enjoy! Please continue to like, rate, review, subscribe on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and send us in your malibag questions and feedback @MooseAndRoons
We began a delayed episode 54 by breaking down the NFL Draft, everywhere from the Bears to our favorite fashion looks. From there we pivot to the playoffs as the NHL and NBA are underway in the 2nd Round. Roons airs a grievance on a major milestone flying under the radar. We play Buy or Sell with topics from all over the sporting world. For this week's mailbag we (Moose) give you our full guide to Wedding Season, and Moose shuts things down talking baseball greatness. Thanks for staying with us on this week's delayed episode. Please keep liking, subscribing, and reviewing on iTunes, Google Play, and SoundCloud and send in those mailbag questions!
We kick off episode 53 with breakdown of the NBA and NHL Playoffs. From an NBA standpoint, is this the most exciting first round in recent memory? From an NHL standpoint, who's the favorite and how can the NHL market it's stars on small market teams? We transition to baseball (24:42) where the Cubs have been a roller coaster and the Sox are off to a slow start. Then, NBC Sports Chicago's Bears Insider JJ Stankevitz helps us forecast this weekend's NFL Draft and talk all things Bears (30:47). we move onto buy or sell (1:06:10) talking Yu Darvish's slow start, Notre Dame/Alabama, NFL Draft, and Bears retirements. We recall a fond memory of both of ours (1:21:14) that occurred on this day 8 years ago, Moose answers a fashion question from the mailbag (1:24:00), and we Shut it Down sending well wishes to White Sox reliever Danny Farquhar (1:27:10). We hope you enjoyed this week's episode and interview, thanks as always for tuning in. Please continue to tune in on iTunes, SoundCloud, and Google Play; send us your feedback and we'll see you next week!
Episode 52 kicks off with some Bears offseason talk as Ryan Pace let Cam Meredith walk to the Saints. How will this affect the outlook of the Bears offseason and draft? Is Dez Bryant in play? From there we move onto NBA and NHL Playoff talk (17:45) and break down first round action. The Cubs and Sox are both limping out of the gate in the young MLB season (31:47), how can they get back on track? Roons airs a grievance on Blackhawks hindsight (38:25), we play Buy or Sell (42:53) with some NBA Topics, and even a little pop culture, and Moose Shuts it Down (57:51) talking Bears uniforms. Thanks as always for tuningin, continue to like us on SoundCloud and Google Play; subscribe, rate and review on iTunes and send us your feedback as well as Mailbag questions!
We're back a day early! Moose and Roons coming at you on a Monday with a Masters recap, previewing the NHL and NBA Playoffs as well as wrapping up the Blackhawks season, in Buy or Sell we touch on some MLB topics, UFC discussion, and a fashion debate. We open up the mailbag for our Sports Move Mt. Rushmore's, and wrap things up with a send-off for the Sharp Dressed Man
It's Episode 50 and we open up the episode entirely to you, the listeners, and your mailbag questions. From sports, to fashion, to food and much more we sit down and answer our favorite mailbag questions from you guys! 50 down and hopefully many more to come!
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Episode 49 opens with a bang as Moose immediately airs his grievance with none other than his own podcast partner, from there we talk Loyola in the Final Four and who we think cuts down the nets (3:43), We look to Opening Day (14:41) and make some North and South Side predictions for this season, we find more ways to talk football (29:24) including Saquon Barkley's NFL role, Odell Beckham Jr's dispute with the Giants and much more, we break down the surprisingly exciting conferences races in the NBA (42:30), we play Buy or Sell (48:53) with some NFL, NCAA, and Golf topics, and we Shut it Down (1:03:12) expressing congratulations to The Kapman, David Kaplan, on a tremendous honor! Thanks as always for tuning in, remember to get in to us your mailbag questions for the all-mailbag Episode 50; rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes and Google Play and send us your feedback!
A Wednesday edition kicks off with a recap of an amazingly wild first weekend of the NCAA Tournament including out favorite moments and predictions for the rest of the way, we talk NFL Free Agency (15:17) as well as where the Bears may go the rest of the way and in the draft, Roons gives a Blackhawks post mortem as their playoff hopes officially ended last night ending a 9-season streak, we talk Opening Day (32:50) and the White Sox decision to start James Shields, Tiger did Tiger things again (37:43) and contended at Bay Hill this weekend so we recap that and talk Major chances this season, we both air a grievance (46:03) with the students at our alma mater of Illinois Wesleyan and dying tradition on their hands, we play Buy or Sell (50:27), with some NBA topics, World Series favorites, and self-driving cars. We open the mailbag (1:01:30) and reveal our dream foursomes, and let things go off the rails in our Shutdown (1:11:44). Keep sending your mailbag questions for Ep 50, subscribe on iTunes and Google Play and send us your feedback!
Tiger's back in contention so naturally we open things up with a recap of his T-2 finish at the Valspar and what indicators it might give us for his season going forward, we move onto NFL Free Agency (16:23) including our very active Chicago Bears, Moose airs a grievance with the NCAA Tournament selection committee (31:53), we play Buy or Sell (37:17)with some football topics, and Roons Shuts it Down with the help of a special guest! As always we thank you for tuning in, please keep doing so as well as rating, reviewing, and subscribing on iTunes and Google Play, and send us all your mailbag questions!
Moose is back from Spring Training for Episode 46 and starts things off with a full report of what it was like covering baseball in Arizona, we talk NFL Free Agency (16:00) including the Bears and Jarvis Landry and much more, we talk golf (28:14) including Phil's thrilling win at the WGC Mexico and the landscape of golf just a month out of Augusta, Roons airs a grievance (34:59) on Jay Williams' plea to college basketball players, we recap the B1G Tournament (38:55) as Michigan caught fire for the 2nd straight year, but now must wait close to two weeks before the NCAA Tournament starts, we move on to Buy or Sell (42:45) with topics including the Bears and Quenton Nelson, Steve Kerr's idea for college basketball players, The Oscars, and Chex Mix, Roons reveals he's now a Game of Thrones guy (1:01:20), and Moose shuts things down (1:02:38). As always we appreciate everyone for tuning in, please continue to subscribe/rate/review on iTunes, subscribe now on Google Play as well and please send us your feedback!
We kick off episode 45 of the pod with a recap of the Honda Classic, ranging from Tiger's performance to Justin Thomas' win and kicking a fan out, from there we transition to Spring Training (18:00) and talk White Sox injuries and the Cubs "boring" Spring, we break down some of the Bears' cuts (31:00) and discuss what this could mean for their offseason additions, we talk USA/Canada Gold Medal game as well as the Blackhawks selling at the deadline(38:38) and Roons breaks down the moves made and what it could mean for the future of the club (bonus Brunch talk included), Moose airs a grievance (51:02) with the NCAA, we play Buy or Sell (59:07); topics include NFL Combine, NBA Draft, Blake Bortles' contract and the Cali lifestyle, and Roons shuts things down (1:13:00) with a Blackhawks State of the Union. Thanks again for tuning in, please subscribe on iTunes and leave comments/recations! We're now also on Google Play in addition to iTunes and SoundCloud! And please start sending us your mailbag questions for Episode 50!
It's a special Buy or Sell edition of the pod where we go back and forth with Buy or Sell questions on the biggest topics throughout our city and the entire sporting world. From the Bears roster decisions, to NBA All-Star Weekend, the MLB dominos starting to fall, NFL topics, and even debating movies we cover all you need to know! Please hit us up with your feedback, continue to follow us on social media and tune in each and every week! This week in edition to SoundCloud and iTunes we'll also be available on Google Play!
The Cubs made the first big free agency splash and we talk about what Yu Darvish means for the Cubs and the league, From there we transition to the new look Cavs and the renewed sense of excitement in the NBA (11:47), we find a way to talk football and discuss Johnny Football's attempt at a comeback as well as Larry Fitzgerald's place among the NFL's greatest WRs amidst his announcement of returning for a 15th season (26:12), Moose talks about his trip covering the pro-am at Pebble Beach (40:00), Roons airs a grievance on the NHL's lack of awareness and refusing to send players to the Olympics (46:30), we play buy or sell with topics ranging from Jake Arrieta to McDonald's Happy Meals (54:09), and Moose shuts it down with a tribute to Chicago's first responders (1:02:12)
Episode 42 takes a deep dive into Super Bowl LII and we break down everything we saw, liked, didn't like and more from the big game, the Bulls #TankWatch is back in full force, Moose airs a grievance on the city of Philadelphia, we play buy or sell talking Nick Foles, LeBron and the Cavs, Winter Olympics and Super Bowl commercials, we open the mailbag up on Chicago championship eras, Roons has an update on The Godfather while Moose lets a major spoiler slip, and Roons shuts things down with a tribute to greatness. Thank you as always for tuning in, please continue to like us here on SoundCloud and rate and subscribe on iTunes! Send along your mailbag questions as we'd like to start answering multiple each show!
Episode 41 is live with a Super Bowl preview, NBA talk as Blake Griffin is shockingly dealt and the Bulls deal for Niko Mirotic falls apart, we discuss some Bears free agency targets, Roons airs an NHL grievance, we play buy or sell with MLB Hot Stove, XFL topics, and much more, we talk Super Bowl set ups, where and how we watch, food choices, prop bets, and Moose shuts things down! Thanks as always for listening, keep rating, liking, subscribing and thanks for tuning in!
Episode 40 begins with a recap of the AFC and NFC title games and the greatness of what's going in in New England, Roons airs a grievance with the Blackhawks and offers up some possible solutions and we go around the NHL for a bit as well. Tiger is #back this week at Torrey Pines so of course we give our best preview of what we expect to see. We play buy or sell with a wide variety of topics ranging from LeBron to Pilates, we debut a new segment "The Best Thing I Read All Week" and Moose shuts things down. As always thanks for tuning in, continue liking, subscribing and reviewing on iTunes and SoundCloud and continue sending us your feedback!
Episode 40 begins with a recap of the AFC and NFC title games and the greatness of what's going in in New England, Roons airs a grievance with the Blackhawks and offers up some possible solutions and we go around the NHL for a bit as well. Tiger is #back this week at Torrey Pines so of course we give our best preview of what we expect to see. We play buy or sell with a wide variety of topics ranging from LeBron to Pilates, we debut a new segment "The Best Thing I Read All Week" and Moose shuts things down. As always thanks for tuning in, continue liking, subscribing and reviewing on iTunes and SoundCloud and continue sending us your feedback!
A day late, but we're live no less with Episode 39 kicking things off with a recap of the wild NFL Divisional Round and predictions of Championship Weekend, we talk the surprisingly exciting Bulls and Zach LaVine's return as well as some off-court drama around the NBA (23:00), Corey Crawford could be lost for the season and we break down the different paths the Blackhawks can take going forward (31:20), Moose airs a grievance with modern day college sports (38:05), we play Buy or Sell with a White Sox question as well as a few other fun topics, we discuss the Bears new coaching hires (56:37), and Roons shuts it down with a tribute to the great Keith Jackson (59:42). Thanks as always for tuning in, please continue to check in every week, send us your feedback, like on SoundCloud, and rate and review on iTunes!
Getting right to it, on Ep. 38 we break down an instant classic that was Alabama vs Georgia last night, we talk Matt Nagy and the Bears (23:11), we talk NFL Wild Card weekend (35:55), Roons airs a grievance (42:06), we play Buy or Sell with some Cubs and Bulls talk (46:30), for the first time ever we reach into the archives to re-address an old Mailbag question (56:45), and Moose shuts it down (59:44). Make sure as always to like us here on SoundCloud, rate and review the episode on iTunes and subscribe!
Back and better than ever in the first episode of 2018, we kick things off recapping the day in college football, especially the two playoff games that lived up to the hype. We talk all things Bears and their head coaching search (25:11), we predict each conference's Super Bowl rep (37:27), Moose airs his grievance with the College Football Playoff (42:44), we play Buy or Sell (48:02), we react to the first Masters commercials of 2018 (59:27), and Roons shuts it down with a salute to Vegas (1:00:54). We both would like to thank all of you who stuck with us in 2017 and hope you continue with us in 2018 and far beyond. Continue to like us on SoundCloud, subscribe, rate and review on iTunes and send us your feedback. Happy New Years, Moose & Roons listeners!
We're live with Episode 36, our New Year's Bowl Pick 'Em special. If you want to win some money, tune in, fade our picks and get rich! Moose and Roons make their picks on all 5 New Year's Day games and will once and for all settle the golf bet. Starting Tuesday Jan. 2, we'll be back to our normal weekly schedule each and every Tuesday! Enjoy the football (while it lasts) and Happy New Year to all of our listeners!
It's a Festivus miracle! On our favorite fictional holiday we give all of you the gift of a special edition of the Moose and Roons Podcast: an interview with NBA expert Mark Schanowski! Mark breaks down all you need to know about the Bulls rocky start, their unlikely win streak, possible moves to come, the NBA Draft, NBA Finals predictions and much more! Thank you all for being such loyal listeners to the Podcast, and have a very Merry Christmas!
After an abysmal city-wide losing streak, all Chicago does is win on W. Madison St and we dive into what's going right for the United Center's co-tenants, we begrudgingly and briefly discuss the Bears flop in Detroit (20:08), baseball's hot stove is heating up on both sides of town (26:18), after a week off we make our lock of the week picks (29:18), we dance on the Packers' grave after they're eliminated from postseason contention (32:26), Moose hits us with his grievance (32:55) and discuss a controversial weekend of officiating in the NHL, we play Buy or Sell (39:34), give a special shoutout to a new member of the hole-in-one club (47:47), and Roons shuts it down with an ode to Corey Crawford (49:40). Thanks again for tuning in each and every week, we hope you enjoy our podcast and appreciate all the support we get! Please continue to rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes, like us on SoundClud and send us your feedback! Most importantly, on behalf of Joe and I we'd like to wish all the Moose and Roons listeners a very Merry Christmas!
We're back with Episode 33, Moose is live from the Denver airport and we discuss travel preferences, break down the Bears big win over the Bengals, we talk Giancarlo Stanton headed to the Bronx (17:40)and all the goings on in Winter Meetings, Roons airs an Oreo-related grievance (27:25), we play Buy or Sell including the age old window seat or aisle seat debate (31:31), should Devin Hester be enshrined in Canton (41:00), and Moose shuts it down with a tip of the cap to our favorite former Bears quarterback (46:46). As always we appreciate everyone for tuning in, please continue to send us your feedback and mailbag questions, keep liking on SoundCloud as well as subscribing and reviewing on iTunes!
We open up Ep 32 with Tiger talk and the encouraging signs we saw from his comeback this weekend, next it's another week and another disheartening effort from the Beloved Bears (10:36), the CFP final four is set and we preview it as well as discuss whether or not the committee got it right (22:15), Moose airs his grievance with the CFP committee (33:11), we play Buy or Sell including some Shohei Ohtani sweepstakes talk (37:26), we make our locks of the week pick (51:30), open up the mailbag about our dream doubleheaders (54:28), and Roons shuts it down (58:13). As always we appreciate everyone who listens, please be sure to like us on SoundCloud, subscribe, rate and review on iTunes and give us your feedback!
We kick things off with the Chicago team deserving of our time, the Blackhawks who seem to be hitting their stride going 4-0-1 in their last 5 games, we break down what went wrong with the Bears in Philly (P.S. it was everything) and where they go from here (10:40), we follow that up with some talk around college football including a behind the scenes look at covering Mike Riley's dismissal from Nebraska (23:30), Roons airs a grievance on the Bulls and Jordan Bell (40:45), we play Buy or Sell (44:11), and Moose shuts it down (59:56). Make sure to subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes and make sure to send us all your feedback!
We kick things off with a recap of the Bears heartbreaking loss to Detroit, including an impressive 2-minute drill led by Mitch Trubisky, we make our lock (fade) of the week picks (15:06, we talk rivalry week coming up in college football (17:34), Matt's Hockey Minute returns with an update on the current state of our Chicago Blackhawks (23:40), we prepare ourselves for the return of Tiger Woods (28:37), It's Moose's turn to host the Airing of Grievances (32:30), we play Buy or Sell featuring Baker Mayfield's need for an "apology" as well as other fun topics (34:11), we host the Inaugural Moose & Roons Thanksgiving Plate Draft (46:03), and Roons Shuts it Down (58:29). We both want to wish all of our listeners and their families a Happy Thanksgiving, and while we hope to continue growing that number we're especially grateful for those who have stuck with us since Episode 1! Happy Thanksgiving to all!
We get right to the point this week and air our grievances with abysmal performances from the Bears and Notre Dame as well as some talk around the college football world, we play buy or sell with a wide range of topics, open up the mailbag, shout out the Co-Conference Champion Illinois Wesleyan Fightin' Titans, and shut it down with a special subject near and dear to both of our hearts!
It's a bye week, but not an off week for the Moose and Roons podcast, with the Bears on the bye we recap the Saturday that was in College Football, talk NFL Week 9 and look ahead to the Beloved's second half (23:27), discuss the anti-climactic ending to a fantastic World Series as well as some offseason storylines (38:00), Moose airs a grievance on the NFL (46:13), we play Buy or Sell (49:12), open up the mailbag (59:25) and Roons shuts it down (1:02:34). Thank you again for tuning in, be sure to like us on SoundCloud, rate, subscribe, and review on iTunes and send us your feedback!
A spook-tacular (sorry) Halloween episode of Moose and Roons kicks off with the Bears tough loss in New Orleans as well as some news and notes around the NFL, we talk college football ahead of the College Football Playoff rankings debut (30:35), Moose tries to stay hot in our lock of the week segment (39:42), we review what's been a thrilling World Series so far (41:30), Roons briefly breaks down what's been plaguing the Blackhawks (45:05), Is Tiger #Back? (47:50), Roons airs a grievance (51:49), we play Buy or Sell including a topic on Giancarlo Stanton's availability (54:57), we open up the mailbag on our Top 3 cereals (1:06:57), discuss our favorite Halloween candy (1:11:05), and Moose shuts things down (1:14:52). As always thanks for tuning in, follow us on SoundCloud, subscribe, rate and leave a review on iTunes and send along your feedback!
The Bears win again using a formula Bears fans are more than used to, despite a change of expectation this season, is John Fox the right man for Mitch Trubisky's development (19:58)? We go around the suddenly wide open NFL with each conference being as winnable as ever (23:45), we look back on a huge weekend in college football and a dominant win for Notre Dame as well as pick our locks of the week(30:51), the Cubs get knocked off by the red-hot Dodgers (40:25), we go over the mess that is the Chicago Bulls (43:15), Moose airs a grievance (46:40), we play Buy or Sell (49:17) with topics ranging from Jim Harbaugh to Mitch Trubisky's fashion choices, we open the mailbag on bucket list sporting events (58:50), and Roons shuts it down with a tribute to the end of The Streak. Be sure to like us on SoundCloud, rate and subscribe on iTunes and leave us a review and feedback!
It's our silver anniversary episode as we kick off Ep 25 recapping Mitch Trubisky's first NFL win and discuss a suddenly wide open NFC North race with Aaron Rodgers injury, we talk about Games 1 and 2 of the NLCS and what to expect the rest of the way for the Cubs (21:00), the Bulls open up their season Thursday and we attempt to discuss it for roughly a minute (30:50), Roons recaps the week that was for the Blackhawks (36:13), we recap a wild weekend in college football and debate what we think it's effect on the playoff will be (40:04) including a nugget of wisdom from the one and only Coach O, Ed Orgeron (47:42), Moose and Roons both air their (uneducated) grievance with USA Soccer (53:33), we play buy or sell (59:17), we open up the mailbag with a moment near and dear to the hearts of Bears fans (1:09:37), and we shut things down welcoming Eddie Olczyk back to the broadcast booth (1:14:30). As always thanks for tuning in, be sure to like us here on SoundCloud, rate and subscribe on iTunes and leave us a review!
In episode 24 of the pod we kick things off with a recap of Mitch Trubisky's first NFL start Monday night and what to expect from the Bears going forward, we break down the fantastic Cubs/Nationals NLDS series so far and go around the MLB playoffs (19:28), the Blackhawks are finally underway and kicked things off with an explosive start (28:06), we recap the weekend in college football and look ahead to the second half of the CFB season (36:25), we make our lock of the week picks as Moose still searches for his first W (42:47), Moose airs a grievance (44:59), we play Buy or Sell (50:03), we open the mailbag with a fashion-related question coming from the one and only RG10 (58:16), we recount the best things we saw all week (1:00:39), and Roons shuts the pod down (1:03:53). Be sure to follow us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons, like us here on SoundCloud, and subscribe, rate, and comment on iTunes with your feedback for us! And as always thanks for tuning in!
Tons to get to on our Jordan episode starting with the dawning of Mitch-a-palooza as Mitch Trubisky is set to make his Bears debut Monday night, along with that we recap everything from the Bears brutal debacle in Green Bay Thursday night, we preview the Cubs and Nationals NLDS matchup (20:04), Moose lets Roons talk hockey (26:00), Moose tries to get his first win in our lock of the week segment and follow that up with some college football talk (34:27), we choose to forego Airing of Grievances for the week (44:44), we play buy or sell with a wide range of topics (46:35), we open the mailbag for a question about rule changes in sports (55:55), shoutout the IWU Titans for the program's first win at #4 Wheaton College since 1996 (1:01:25), and Moose shuts it down with a special tribute (1:02:28)
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It's the first Victory Tuesday for the Moose and Roons podcast as we get to break down a Bears win as well as look forward to Thursday Night's showdown in Green Bay and recap the week that was in the NFL, we also take a look back on a big weekend on the college football front (20:56), recap the Cubs huge week and look toward their playoff run (34:42), Moose airs a grievance (40:09), we play Buy or Sell (44:00), open up the mailbag (52:30), we list the best thing we saw this week (56:16), and Roons shuts it down (58:35). Be sure to rate and subscribe on iTunes, like us on SoundCloud, and follow us on Twitter @MooseAndRoons and tune in next week!
Unlike the Bears, we are #back for Episode 21 to discuss the Bears debacle in Tampa, we break down the weekend that was around college football (15:51), the Cubs try to pull away in the NL Central (30:20), Matt's Hockey Minute on the Blackhawks training camp updates (35:10), Roons airs a grievance (37:59), we play buy or sell (42:10), we list the best things we saw all week (54:49), we open up the mailbag on for a question on dumb viral trends (57:27), and Moose shuts it down (1:01:04)
Today marks 20 episodes down for Moose and Roons as we break down a heartbreaking, yet encouraging Bears Week 1 loss to Atlanta as well as go around the NFL, we transition to the college side of things including another oh so close effort from the Fighting Irish and Roons' issues with it (27:33), we talk Cubs panic meter after a weekend sweep by the Brewers and other topics around the Majors (39:27), Moose airs a grievance (48:58), we play Buy or Sell (52:14), we make our Lock of the Week picks (58:03), and Roons shuts it down (59:28). Make sure to rate, subscribe, and comment on iTunes, leave us feedback and be sure to keep tuning in!
In our Jonathan Toews numbered Podcast we begin be recapping everything from Week 1 of the college football season including the weekend's biggest news: Illinois Wesleyan SHOCKING the college football world defending the Dub at Tucci Stadium, we then transition to a full Bears week 1 preview vs Atlanta (11:50), We debut our Lock of the Week segment, discuss the shakeups of the baseball landscape following a Jake Arrieta injury and Justin Verlander's move to Houston, talk yet another win for Justin Thomas on the PGA Tour and discuss his belonging amongst golf's elite, Roons airs a Texas A&M related grievance (40:03), We play buy or sell with a wide range of topics (48:07), we answer a mailbag question on our top gameday food choices (54:13), and Moose shuts things down (Hint: Don't tell him about your fantasy team) (59:42).
Football. Is. Back. The title says it all folks, in this special Friday edition of Moose and Roons we set the table for all things football, college and the pros. We make our Big Ten predictons, CFP predictions, Heisman picks, NFC North winners, NFC/AFC Title games, Super Bowl winner, NFL MVPs, our storylines to watch for, and wrap up with a forecasting of our alma mater, the Illinois Wesleyan Fightin' Titans' upcoming campaign! Happy football season everyone!
Week 18's episode kicks off with a full Bears recap from Sunday's preseason win in Tennessee, we talk Trubisky vs. Glennon as well as the hopeful return of a dominant defense on the Lakeshore, we break down the fight of the century between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor and debate McGregor's next move (23:05), discuss baseball on both sides of town (33:00), review the Dustin Johnson/Jordan Spieth playoff (39:35), Moose airs a grievance (44:14), we play buy or sell with topics ranging from Kyrie Irving to Taylor Swift (49:18), Empty the mailbag to celebrate our affiliation with #TeamWhitewalker (57:45), choose our highlights of the week (1:00:44), promote our football prediction special dropping this Friday, and Roons shuts the week down.
Back and better than ever for Week 17, we break down the Bears preseason win in Arizona, recap the Junior Welterweight Title fight Moose was ringside for this weekend as well as preview Mayweather/McGregor (22:43), talk about yet another momentum shift in the Cubs roller coaster season, Roons airs a grievance (38:38), we play buy or sell with topics including the White Sox, Notre Dame Football, Matt Ryan, and the eclipse (42:38), we open up the mailbag and discuss bucket list concerts (55:23), we choose our highlights of our week (58:30), and Moose shuts it down with a tribute to the return of Friday night lights (1:00:51). Make sure to subscribe, rate, review on iTunes, give us all your feedback, and tune in each and every Monday!
Episode 16 kicks off with a recap of an eventful August Thursday night for Mitch Trubisky and Yoan Moncada, we break down Week 1 of Bears preseason action, Yoan Moncada's big night vs. Houston and discuss what exactly the 2017 Cubs are at this point(20:40), Recap the PGA Championship and talk some golf (29:22), Moose airs a grievance on Roons' trip to play Erin Hills (35:47), we play Buy or Sell with NFL and MLB topics (41:09), open up the mailbag (50:39), and Roons shuts it down with an NFL topic (57:55). Make sure to subscribe, follow, and rate us on iTunes or check us out right here on SoundCloud!
Football is back and so are we! We open the first half hour on Cutler to the Dolphins as well as Bears talk, discuss the PGA's schedule change for it's Majors (29:11), Roons airs a Joe Maddon related grievance (40:00), We play Buy or Sell (44:22) with some football and baseball related questions, open up the mailbag to one of our listeners (53:52), and Moose Shuts it Down with a salute to college football (57:25). As always we want to thank our listeners to please leave comments or feedback, and please rate and subscribe on iTunes!
Back and better than ever for episode 14, the Cubs are #back and rolling after the break, the White Sox ship off another veteran, the Bears are in Bourbonnais and are off to a rough start staying healthy, baseball gains a Mr. 3000, Moose airs a passionate grievance, we play Buy or Sell with questions involving Lesnar/Jones in the Octagon, college football and more, and finally Roons shuts it down talking the latest CTE studies and its effect on football.
It's a baker's dozen for Moose and Roons as we recap Jordan Spieth claiming his 3rd major becoming the Champion Golfer of the Year and where golf is now, the Cubs seem to have found their swagger in time for the Crosstown Classic(11:50), we talk Bears training camp because we both REALLY want football back (22:58), Matt's Hockey Minute (29:13), Roons airs a grievance on Jordan Spieth (31:57), we open up the mailbag which sparks a shocking revelation from Roons putting the podcast's future in jeopardy (41:38), we play buy or sell (47:08) with topics ranging from the NFL, NBA, the month of July, and fashion, and Moose shuts it down with an emotional tribute to someone we lost too soon.
Another day of loaded Moose and Roons action, we break down Cubs and Sox blockbuster deal sending Jose Quintana to the North Side, sit down with the hardest working man in Chicago sports, David Kaplan (12:20), Moose airs his grievance on Mayweather/McGregor (41:20), we play Buy or Sell (41:20) including our British Open picks, and Roons shuts it down talking Zeke Elliott and his off field issues (1:04:02)
It's a down time on the sports calendar, but never a down time for the Moose & Roons podcast and in Ep. 11 is no different. For the first portion of the podcast we talk everything baseball, from the Cubs slumping in the first half, to second half predictions and who the White Sox need to move by July 31st. Moose and Roons reveal their ideal "Banana Boat" crews (28:32), Roons airs a grievance on wanting more football in his life (37:48), we reveal our Mt. Rushmore of Chicago food establishments (42:28), we play Buy or Sell (50:07), and Moose shuts it down with a tease of next week's guest, The Kapman himself, David Kaplan.
In episode 10, free agency is in full swing in the NBA and NHL, we break down another Blackhawks reunion signing and whether or not we think this one works, (8:00)we recap the funny money being thrown around in the NBA, (22:10)we make our expert Wimbledon predictions, (25:21) Moose airs a grievance on one NBA star who says NBA players deserve even more, (30:30) play buy or sell with questions involving 3 on 3 basketball, emojis, and a donkey, (41:30) we empty the mailbag with a question on fictional quarterbacks, (45:25) we talk real quarterbacks, and (54:29) Roons Shuts it Down with a take on the controversial Manny Pacquiao/David Horn fight from Saturday.
A wild weekend of sports in the Second City is dominates this week's podcast beginning with the Bulls's controversial trade of Jimmy Butler, followed by a couple shocking but shrewd moves by their co-tenants, the Blackhawks (16:30), Kyle Schwarber's demotion to Iowa and what we think it means (31:50), Roons airs his grievance (37:45), we play Buy or Sell with questions involving Tim Tebow, Jordan Spieth and more, we open up the mailbag for a baseball question (52:55), and Moose shuts it down to wrap up Episode 9 (58:20).
On the 8th edition of Moose and Roons we recap a brief but productive reuniting of the two hosts in Lincoln, Nebraska. We address the rumors swirling around the NBA (4:00), discuss whether the Cubs new leadoff situation has staying power (15:18), recap a fun but disappointing U.S. Open at Erin Hills (20:47), Moose airs his grievance (31:25), We answer a mailbag question on our favorite U.S. Open venues (35:50), Buy or Sell on a plethora of topics (40:30), and Roons Shuts it Down with a tribute the 10th annual Baseball Trip and it's now Decade of Dominance (54:10)
In this week's episode, Moose answers for some questionable fashion choices, recap the NBA Finals and how we'll remember it (5:35), recap the Stanley Cup Final (18:40), preview this weekend's U.S. Open at Erin Hills (24:05), Roons airs a grievance (40:46), we play Buy or Sell (45:02), and Roons takes his turn shutting it down (57:06)
The first episode of the iTunes era of Moose and Roons kicks of with the lackluster NBA Finals thus far and a hopefully interesting Stanley Cup Final prior to tonight's pivotal game 4, Phil Mickelson backs out of the U.S. Open (15:40), Jeremy Maclin cut in Kansas City (23:01), Cubs respond after West Coast debacle as Sox trend the other way (25:24), Moose Airs his Grievance (35:35), Buy or Sell (41:14), the inaugural Moose and Roons Spelling Bee (46:14), Titan Football protects the Dub in Japan (51:15), and Moose Shuts it Down (53:24)
On our Tuesday holiday edition of Moose and Roons, we jump right into the Bears signing of Victor Cruz and what we think it means for the Monsters of the Midway, talk Tiger Woods' latest setback why it's more troublesome than any other he's had (13:20), preview and predict the NBA Finals (20:26), recap Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final and look ahead to the rest of the series (30:22), Roons Airs his Grievance (37:44), we play Buy or Sell on some NFL and NBA topics (42:38), answer a question from the mailbag (52:42), and Roons Shuts it Down on this Memorial Day edition of Moose And Roons!
Back for episode 4, Moose and Roons kick it off talking big weekends for both Chicago baseball teams, discuss the developments in the Mayweather/McGregor saga (13:20), the NBA Lottery and the Bulls' interest in Boston's pick (23:11), Matt's Hockey Minute (29:33), our new Buy or Sell segment (35:20), Airing of Grievances (44:15), Mailbag (49:30), and Moose Shuts it Down (1:00:18)!
Moose and Roons is back in week 3 with a jam packed episode! We kick things off talking Derek Jeter's number retirement as well as baseball on both sides of town, A quick Players Championship recap (20:43), James Harden's no-show and the NBA Conference Finals (26:30), Roons sits down with current TSN NHL analyst and former NHL Captain Dave Poulin (37:57), Airing of Grievances (1:02:54), and Roons Shuts it Down (1:15:24)
In the inaugural episode of the Moose & Roons podcast, the hosts dive into the Bears draft and present different arguments breaking down the selections (0:00-23:21), debut our first original segment: The Airing of Grievances (23:22-35:22), discuss the uncertainty that is the Chicago Bulls (36:23-40:00), NFL Draft first round fashion including a special tribute from DeShone Kizer (40:00-43:30), which Execs in the city we trust most, (44:00-51:00), and Roons takes his turn to Shut Down the podcast (51:45-End)