Center Stage: Recent Episodes
Aaron Barton, Spencer Ball, JP Barry
NBA, NFL, CBB, NCAAF, NHL, MLB, you name it! Aaron Barton, Spencer Ball, and JP Barry are students at the University of South Carolina majoring in Broadcast Journalism with a Sports Media Concentration. We push each other with challenging questions to help each other grow in their overall sports knowledge. Through fun banter and more we will be uploading weekly episodes on that week’s sports news, and bi-weekly episodes if there’s extra episodes we feel like making! Give us a listen and give us your feedback!
In this episode of our current basketball talks, the Center Stage crew gives our play in predictions (late, but see if we were right!), first round predictions, and favorite matchups. Super fun conversational episode with the guys. Give it a listen!
In the new series of Center Stage, Bright Lights is essentially our NBA recap. In this episode we discuss Ja Morant’s absence and return to the Grizzlies, teams heating up or cooling off, and if our stances on any of our award predictions have changed. Also, listen to the end to see our top five most listened to artists of the last month!
Spencer, JP and Aaron draft their starting fives for all time March Madness teams, as well as give two of their personal favorite March Madness moments.
Spencer, JP and Aaron give their takes on who their picks are to currently win the NBA awards, as well as their final prediction, and a plan for the pod moving forward! Give it a listen, rate and review the pod and head over to @centerstageshow on Instagram. Follow, like, and slander our takes if you have different ones.
The Center Stage hosts give three hot takes for the upcoming college football season with the following structure: hot, hotter, and hottest. Their top five at the end of this episode is their top five favorite rap songs of the 2010s. Give it a listen and enjoy!
The hosts of Center Stage rank each team into one of the following tiers: Thoroughbreds, Contenders, Sleepers, Mediocre, and Bottom-Feeders. Following this, they share their top-five favorite rap albums released in the 2010s. TIMESTAMPS: AFC rankings begin shortly after the episode begins, NFC rankings begin at 53:12, favorite five rap albums of the 2010s begins at the 1:58:05 mark.
The Center Stage crew debates if they buy, or sell certain teams and players from the NFL, NBA, CFB, CBB, MLB and NHL. After all of their transactions, they rank their favorite five fast food restaurants. Give us your thoughts at our Instagram @centerstageshow! Are you buying, or are you selling?
Co-Hosts Spencer Ball, JP Barry, and Aaron Barton take on an All-Time NBA draft! They select guys of any era who they think would beat each other’s teams head to head. Give it a listen and let us know who has the winning team! EDIT: Apologies from the Center Stage Show hosts for saying Nash won a ring. We all happened to have goofed at the same time. Aaron would like to say though that he’d still take Nash regardless, with his quote being: “Nash in foh.” Interesting times say the least.
Spencer, JP and Aaron take a deep dive into ranking the Eastern and Western Conferences of the NBA after the majority of free agency has gone by. About 35 minutes is spent on the Eastern Conference section if you’d like to head right to our Western Conference rankings.