The KVRX Sports Network: Recent Episodes
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Schedule: Sundays- Records and Rebounds with Brennan Vacek
Mondays- Nikhil and Adam's Pretty Good Radio Show
Tuesdays- Why Not Us with Adam Glick, Josh Spaeth, and Carter Yates
Wednesdays- The Sports Walk with Brett Hintz and Stephen Wagner
Thursdays- Around the Bases with Colton Martinez
Fridays- Special Teams with Peter Kishler
Saturdays- Extra Points with Mary Orms
Michelle Grace recaps the Women & Men's basketball games against TCU, Kansas State and West Virginia. Listen in for her takes on the highlights, lowlights, and everything in between.
Michelle Grace recaps the Women & Men's basketball games against Oklahoma, Iowa State, Texas Tech, and West Virginia. Listen in for her takes on the highlights, lowlights, and everything in between.
Michelle Grace recaps the Women & Men's basketball games against Kansas, Texas Tech, Baylor, and Oklahoma. Listen in for her takes on the highlights, lowlights, and everything in between.
Michelle Grace recaps the Women & Men's basketball games against Texas Tech, Iowa State, and Baylor. Listen in for her takes on the highlights, lowlights, and everything in between.
Michelle Grace recaps the Women & Men's basketball games against TCU, Kansas State, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. Listen in for her takes on the highlights, lowlights, and everything in between.
Michelle Grace recaps the Women & Men's basketball games against Kansas State, Iowa State, Oklahoma State and TCU. Listen in for her takes on the highlights, lowlights, and everything in between.
Michelle Grace recaps the Women & Men's basketball games against Texas Tech, Oklahoma State, UTRGV, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa State, and West Virginia. Listen in for her takes on the highlights, lowlights, and everything in between.
Michelle Grace recaps the Women & Men's basketball games against Princeton, Alabama State, Incarnate Word, West Virginia, Oklahoma State, and Kansas State. Listen in for her takes on the highlights, lowlights, and everything in between.
Michelle Grace recaps the Women & Men's basketball games against UTRGV, Texas A&M, Seton Hall, Idaho, Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Stanford, and San Diego. Listen in for her takes on the highlights, lowlights, and everything in between.
Michelle Grace recaps the Women & Men's basketball games against San Jose, Tennessee, California Baptist, CSUN, Sam Houston, and Jackson State. Listen in for her takes on the highlights, lowlights, and everything in between.
As basketball season begins, Michelle Grace breaks down the Longhorn basketball season. She goes through Women & Men's basketball, including games against New Orleans, Stanford, Southeast Missouri, Houston Baptist, Gonzaga, and Northern Colorado. Listen in for her takes on the highlights, lowlights, and everything in between.
After seeing our hopes in the Texas Longhorns crushed by a terrible first round exit, the crew of Adam Glick, Josh Spaeth, Carter Yates and guest Mason Gross break down the first few rounds. We spend some quality time discussing the Cinderella, Oral Roberts as well as the major favorites we see making their way to the Final Four. Listen in for our takes on the best games so far and the best ones yet to come.
It’s finally here: the holy grail, the granddaddy of them all, the 68-team NCAA Tournament. The squad of Adam Glick, Josh Spaeth, Carter Yates and guest Mason Gross get together to break down the matchups in the four regions. In lengthy discussion and analysis, we discuss our prospects for top teams like Gonzaga and Baylor, as well as teams we’re keeping our eye on such as Texas and Oklahoma State. Tune in for all you need before you fill out your bracket!
As the major conferences begin their conference tournaments, the crew of Adam Glick, Carter Yates and Josh Spaeth make their predictions. In the Big 12, can Texas finally beat Texas Tech? And will Kansas be negatively affected by losing their big man for the tournament? We also discuss who can win the Big East with big injuries to Villanova and issues with Creighton’s coaching staff. Tune in to see what bubble teams need to do to lock themselves in to the field of 68!
On what may be the last podcast of the regular season, the Why Not Us crew of Adam Glick, Josh Spaeth and Carter Yates welcome back featured guest Mason Gross to discuss Texas’s upcoming showdown with Oklahoma. Will the Longhorns end the regular season on a high note? We also review early madness in the Horizon League and preview conference tournaments of the Atlantic 10 and Missouri Valley. After Illinois destroyed Michigan on Tuesday, listen in for our takes on the topic as well as who we think is in the field and who needs to do work.
In their last home game of the year, our Texas Longhorns face a red-hot Kansas team that we beat by 25 in early January - can we get back on the right track with a win? The team of Adam Glick, Josh Spaeth and Carter Yates break down keys to the game and preview an incredible slate on Thursday.
As the year progresses into mid-February, we can smell March. Hosts Adam Glick, Carter Yates and Josh Spaeth welcome featured guest Mason Gross onto the pod to discuss the upcoming showdown with Oklahoma on Wednesday night. We also review big wins by Florida State and Wisconsin, as well as a breakdown of the Missouri Valley implications of a split series by Loyola Chicago and Drake. In Bubble Watch, we give our takes on if teams like North Carolina, Minnesota and Boise State can make the tournament as at-large contenders. We’ll be back later in the week to preview a massive slate of games this weekend.
After a few weeks’ break, the Why Not Us crew, led by Adam Glick, Josh Spaeth and Carter Yates are back to talk college hoops! We start with the breakdown of a sloppy game against rival Oklahoma before previewing what stands to be a massive challenge against undefeated, #2 Baylor. We also discuss the SEC’s win of the SEC/Big 12 challenge and some of the top contenders’ performances in those conferences. With February just starting and March around the corner, we also spend some time on Bubble teams as well as how many bids will be given out in a few conferences.
Leigh Steinberg needs no introduction; he's a legendary sports agent and business mind, and he's also a really nice guy! In this exclusive interview, Leigh discusses his storied career and shares his insights on the future of sports and sports agency, including the movement toward a more personalized relationship between agent and athlete. He also discusses his mission to make sports (specifically football) safer for athletes who are often treated as if they're invincible. This interview is reflective, but it also highlights the excitement for the future of professional sports.
Production Credit: Lydia Fortuna
Graphic Credit: Nicole Ransom
Brett and Stephen provide analysis for the firing of Tom Herman and the subsequent hiring of Steve Sarkisian before diving into this weekend's NFL conference championship matchups.
After Mac McClung shattered high mid-season expectations for our Texas team, the Why Not Us crew of Adam Glick, Josh Spaeth and Carter Yates welcome guest Mason Gross to discuss the team’s let-down. We also review Michigan’s rise to the top of the Big Ten and how the NET ranking looks at this point in the season. Our episode wraps up with coverage of upcoming massive Big 12 games for #2 Baylor.
As we enter the New Year, college basketball’s conference play begins to ramp up! In the Big Ten, hosts Adam Glick, Josh Spaeth and Carter Yates debate how many teams can make the NCAA Tournament. We also share our takes on UNC, Kentucky and Creighton as to our predictions on their performance down the stretch. Of course, listen in for some solid reviews of mid-major contenders like Drake and Winthrop.
On This week’s episode, Colton debuts the new Around The Bases Youtube Channel and in First Base, talks about the biggest moves so far including his thoughts on the James McCann signing and the Lance Lynn Trade. Additionally, he talks about Cleveland’s name change and some rule changes for the 2021 season. In 2nd base, Colton talks about the new Rangers GM, the David Dahl signing and rumors about Carlos Correa being traded. 3rd base sees some cool baseball history as well as special Christmas Day baseball history and home plate brings a recap and the song of the week: Striking by Francis and The Lights.
Hosts Adam Glick, Josh Spaeth and Carter Yates dissect the final big non-conference games as well as a few barn burners to start conference play. We review another strong win by Gonzaga, a scary Rutgers team and some quality wins by Kansas. With the holidays coming up, we preview a couple of games to look forward to and try to separate some contenders from non-challengers.
On This week’s episode of Around The Bases, Colton covers some recent free agent signings as well as some international free agents who are making noise. In 2nd base, Colton talks about some moves the Rangers could make and why Houston fans should be excited for the future. In 3rd base, Colton brings some cool baseball history to the show and lastly, home plate, the fourth segment has a recap as well as the song of the week: Madness by Griffin Swank. Thanks for listening!
The team and featured guest Mason Gross discuss performances by Illinois, Baylor, Duke and Kansas in the early non-conference play. We also review a big stretch of games by Texas in the Maui Invitational as well as a tough loss to Villanova. As always, there’s a run down of some quality performances by mid-major squads like San Diego State and who we expect to make a splash in conference play. Come for the great analysis and stay for a new bit by host Adam Glick!
Brett and Stephen dive into the QB controversy in Philly, talk about the Browns legitimacy, how the Mike McCarthy era in Dallas should be perceived and a quick wrap up on the current state of Texas football.
This week is devoted to some of the major signings and moves made during free agency, with special consideration given to a few teams that I think will be exciting to watch this upcoming season.
This week Nikhil and Adam speak to Ringer staff writer and UT Alumni Jonathan Tjarks about the glory years of UT sports, potential Giannis moves, and some small contract player movement this NBA offseason (1:28). After that, they talk about a couple of Eastern Conference teams that they think will make big leaps this next season (32:15). They also introduce a new segment called Heavy Rotation (48:01) where they discuss the work of Yves Tumor, an artist that has been taking over their playlists. Finally, in this jam packed episode, they close out the show with the Twitter Week in Review (1:03:18), with topics like the UT drug bust and honey buns.
In this episode, we visit with Andrew Felts, the PR and Marketing Coordinator with the Round Rock Express. The Round Rock Express was formerly affiliated with the Houston Astros as well as the Texas Rangers, though they are currently not affiliated with a major league team. Andrew talks about his love for the Express and their impressive ability to safely adapt during the pandemic.
Brett and Stephen provide analysis on the current state of Texas football and insight on what's to come before diving into why there so many job openings across college football this year.
On our second podcast, we cover top teams in the AP poll, big upsets of Kentucky and Virginia, the future of Texas basketball and, as always, some mid major action. We look forward to massive games including Gonzaga/Baylor, Texas/UNC, and Illinois/Baylor.
On their inaugural show, Adam Glick, Josh Spaeth, and Carter Yates preview the upcoming college basketball season. They then look at the Texas men's basketball team and what their ceiling is. They also look at the top teams and the top mid-majors in the country. Finally, looking forward to some marquee games to open up the season.
I talk with Marquel McKinney about his time playing collegiate basketball at Sam Houston State University. Then, I run through Tuesday's draft and discuss all of the biggest surprises.
In this episode, we discuss long-distance running, from ultra-marathons to leisure running with two half-hour interviews. Elmer Ferro is an ultra-marathon enthusiast with a personal record of running 70 miles in one go who started running during a sober year. Manuel Trevino is a lover of the outdoors who uses running as a way to clear his head, alongside kayaking and hiking. Thanks for listening to another episode of Extra Points with Mary Orms!
A discussion of Week 10 in the NFL as well as reactions from the NBA Draft, Trades, and Signings.
For 1st base, Colton shares his thoughts on Thanksgiving, Kim Ng, MLB Season Award Winners, and Robinson Cano's suspensions. For 2nd Base, there is news about The Rangers' and Astros' Triple A teams and the Houston Chicken Coop. For 3rd base, we talk about Sandy Koufax, Juan Gonzalez, and Joe Di Maggio. And Home Plate brings a recap and the Song of the Week: Your Girl by Basia Bulat, Thanks for listening!
After opening with a 10 minute interview of QB guru Quincy Avery, Brett and Stephen provide analysis on Tom Herman's recent press conference along with our thoughts on how we should be perceiving Lamar Jackson.
This week Nikhil and Adam bring in Brett Hintz (from the Sports Walk) to talk about the current state of Texas Football, Tom Herman, and the Big 12 Championship. Then they are joined by Brennan Vacek (Records and Rebounds) to go through their picks for the upcoming NBA draft. The KVRX mock draft will soon be available on kvrx.org/blog.
This week, I talk with Varun Iyer on the upcoming draft, free agency, and outlook for the start of the season.
In this episode, Nikhil (KVRX's Sports Director) offers his thoughts on the new Netflix miniseries, The Queen's Gambit. Afterwards, former competitive chess player, James Mohn discusses the culture and pressure of chess tournaments. Is chess a sport? We discuss that, too.
Trash talking your favorite natty college contenders in college football as well as looking ahead to the NFL playoffs.
With his new show, Around the Bases, Colton Martinez brings a modern take to all things Major League Baseball. In this first episode, Colton introduces himself and the show, discusses the offseason, managers, and free agency predictions. He also has an interview with the Astros team trashcan from 2017 and discusses Bryce Harper and Mike Trout as players.
Brett and Stephen provide analysis on what the win over West Virginia means for Texas going forward. Stephen makes the case for Notre Dame not being a blue blood in college football. Finally, The Sports Walk discusses NFL observations from Week 9.
Nikhil and Adam will be playing some music, doing our week in review which includes topics like the election, the next NBA season, Halloween and pickle sandwiches. Finally, they will close the show out with our recommendations for a show, restaurant, and album.
In this episode, we take a deep dive into high school and collegiate rowing in an interview with Kristen Hanks, a rower at Santa Clara University. She explains the ins and outs of the sport, debunking the myth that rowing is all about the arms. She also entertains goofy questions about Crocs and the Cox Box.
Brett and Stephen discuss what Texas' win over Oklahoma State means for the future of Texas Football before we move into observations from across the NFL in week 8.
The Peter Cat Recording Company joins the show to discuss their sound, lyrics, audience and much more.
Tracks played (in order):
-Where the Money Flows
-Floating By
-Copulations
-Portrait of a Time
-Heera
All music credits to The Peter Cat Recording Co.
On this week of Records and Rebounds, we do an analysis of the upcoming NBA draft using a mock draft by the Ringer's Kevin O Connon. We also discuss some interesting news regarding Daryl Morey and the Rockets.
Peter and Michael share their reactions from week 7 in the NFL as well as a Eulogy to the Tampa Bay Rays - a brief discussion of the World Series
Stephen Wagner joins The Sports Walk to talk about the current state of Texas football before I talk about a plan for the Dallas Cowboys and provide observations on Week 7 of the NFL.
Adam and Nikhil discuss the aftermath of the NBA Finals and then are joined by Alphonse Pierre to talk about rap in the NBA
UT Football Player Reese Leitao talks about the UT-OU game, racial injustice, and Covid-19 in the context of Texas Athletics. Nikhil and Adam talk about recent NBA news.
We are joined by Alykhan Bijani of the Athletic to talk about the Houston Rockets under Daryl Morey's tenure and what the future holds.