D4 Sports

D4 Drinking the New Year Dry!

We kick off 2025 with a drinking surprise, then we dive into sports, with NFL owners, and LeBron's bold claims. We get into D4 business and announce the NFL Pick 'Em winners, FPL updates and more, Millwall news, and pulling for the D4 curse. The first sports roundup of the week kicks off with Pop Tarts, Duke's Mayonnaise, and other bowl games, then we talk the Australian Open and the NFL. We answer last call with drinking out of the shaker, banning hot dogs, the League of Pigs, Jai Alai, and Rickey's last steal! All this week on D4.
 
Intro: Welcome to 2025 (:30), Drinks of the day (6:10)
Opening Shots: NFL boss dishes on the GM (13:50), NBA > NFL? (17:15), Fantasy Football comes to an end (21:00)
D4 Business: NFL Pick 'Em Winners (24:30), D4 Bowl Bonanza & DK (31:00), FPL Update (34:20), Millwall (36:35), Ovechkin and Wemby watch (40:30), and a PLL sighting (42:15)
Sports Roundup: College Football Playoff (44:30), Pop Tarts and Bowl resilience (49:30), Australian Open (53:15), NFL Roundup with the Packers, the Patriots, the year of the Running Back and more (55:15)
Last Call: Drinking from the Shaker (1:11:00), Banning Hot Dogs (1:12:15), The League of Pigs (1:14:40), a surprise board member on the Jai Alai league (1:17:20), and Rickey steals into heaven (1:18:40)

Episode 57 - D4 Getting Ugly for Christmas

Intro: Ugly Jumper Time (:30), Getting into the Holiday Spirit (4:00), Drinks of the Day (6:15),
Opening Shots: Big men TDs in the NFL (8:45), Penix is up (12:45), Running Hockey Goalies (18:15)
D4 Business: Pick 'Em Update and D4 College Bowl Bonanza (24:00), DraftKings update (26:50), Premier League Roundup (28:10), Wemby and Winnipeg Watch (30:20) Hope is not a good thing (31:45)
Sports Roundup: Jekyll and Hyde in Buffalo and KC (36:30), The Lions and the MASH unit (43:00), Second Tier Contenders (46:00), Who you don't want to face in the playoffs (53:30), Less parity and more of a surprise (55:00)
Last Call: Booze at the Funeral Home (1:00:00), >$50M in the NIL (1:03:35), The Crypto Match (1:05:30), and QBs playing for Christmas (1:07:00), a Holiday sign-off (1:09:00)

Episode 56 - D4 Making Mincemeat of the Competition

Intro: Holiday Spirit and Traditions (:30), Drinks of the Day (6:00),
Opening Shots: Deshaun Watson on a boat (10:00), Caitlin Clark's accolades (14:00)
D4 Business: Millwall does what? (19:30), Pick 'Em, DraftKings (23 :30), and Premier League updates (28:30), Wemby watch and the Winnipeg Jets (33:45), College Football Playoff (35:30)
Sports Roundup: Belichick a Tar Heel (42:30), NFL roundup (46:45), The 12-1 Chiefs (51:15), NBA Cup (56:00), Hockey Nuggets (58:45), Winless NCAA football teams (1:00:45), and Free Lutheran Basketball (1:06:45)
Last Call: Faking your own death (1:09:15), Corgi races (1:10:00), Double punters  (1:11:40), Kabaddi - the new D4 sport (1:13:10), Scorigami! And Ashton Jeanty (1:15:15), and the most search athlete in the UK (1:16:50)

Episode 55 - D4 Cracks the Whip

Intro: Thanksgiving Week and the Holidays (:30), Drinks of the Day (7:15) including Shanky's Whip! (8:45)
Opening Shots: Don't Mess with the Equipment Guy (13:00), NFL Analytics Gone Wild (15:45)
D4 Business: Shout out! (25:30), NFL Pick 'Em (26:45), Premier League update (29:00), Millwall (31:00), Ovechkin, Wemby, and Winnipeg watch (34:45), Footgolf and Jai Alai! (39:00)
Sports Roundup: Jai Alai Highlights (44:00), NFL - Tommy DeVito (47:00), Cairo Santos (48:00), The Cowboys and "Special Teams" (49:45), Saquon spurns the D4 curse (54:15), Danny Dimes (56:30), The plays you don't make (59:45), Jerry Jones speaks, unfortunately (1:01:15), Nixing the Interceptions (1:04:20),
Last Call: Dodgers keep doing it (1:10:45), BizNasty bringing it (1:12:30), K-State Football D4 family (1:16:00), The UK government outshines the US (1:17:10)

Episode 54: D4 in the Studio?

Intro: London, Lubbock and German Wine (1:00), Drinks of the Day (6:00)
Opening Shots: US Men's Soccer Team and the Dallas Cowboys (11:15), Dustin becomes Stat-King (14:00), The Bears go for 3 in a row (18:45)
D4 Business: The National Animal of Ecuador (21:15), DraftKings & NFL Pick 'Em Update (22:00), Premier League and Millwall (25:00), The D4 Curse strikes, with a vengeance (27:00), Unbelievable Plays (31:00)
Sports Roundup: MLB - Total Irrelevance? (51:00), NBA - sorta getting started (52:45), Netflix and Live Sports (53:30), the demise of boxing and Indy Car (56:00), NFL Top stories (59:45), The Jets are perfectly the Jets (1:05:00), the Cupcake of the Week (1:09:45)
Last Call: Wranglers and Theater Kids (1:13:00), Dustin’s sendoff and salute to King of Clay (1:16:30)

Episode 53 - The (Christmas) Creep Episode

Intro: Christmas Creep (:30), How to bet on Hallmark Movies (4:00), Drinks of the Day (6:45), A Moutai Experience (10:50)
Opening Shots: NFL replay - "They Are Who We Thought They Were!" (15:40), Great Moments in Sports Announcing (18:30), Zippy's big NIL deal (20:15)
D4 Business: Daily Ecuadorian Proverbs (23:45), Premier League update (26:00), International Breaks & Pro Contracts (30:45), Ovechkin Watch (34:50), Wemby Watch (35:50), DraftKings Update (36:40), NFL Pick 'Em (39:10), Millwall Thriving (39:55), the WLL launches (41:30), and a Wheel of Fortune Classic (42:15)
Sports Roundup: D4 Names - courtesy of Mike Falls (44:30), NFL Roundup - week 10 (46:00), The D4 Curse, Jake Freaking Bates, and the Lions Big Win (49:40), Standouts and Streaks (54:35), Most Surprising Teams in the NFL this year (56:35), Does Anyone Want Parity in College Football? (1:03:30), the NCAA Game of the week (1:06:30), and Free Lutheran Bible College doing it again (1:07:05)
Last Call: Raygun Re-enacted (1:10:05), UFC Smoking and Boxing Memories (1:11:30), Team Unity (1:14:30), the D4 Curse - Winnipeg Jets (1:15:45), the OSU Band Bears Down on Michigan (1:16:40), Rodeo Gets Crazy and the Revenge of the Bison (1:17:30)

Episode 52 - D4 Counting the Votes

Intro: The Gunpowder Plot (:30), Roger Bannister at D4 running prowess (3:25), Drinks of the Day (7:45),
Opening Shots: Jared Goff and the Lions are rolling (12:00), Speed Golf World Championships (17:00) and Speed Bowling (20:15), and Roof Football (21:15)
D4 Business: Millwall Goes Big (25:00), D4 Premier League (27:30), NFL Pick 'Em and Draftkings Updates (29:15), DraftKings Strategies (32:00), Wemby and the 5x5s in the NBA (34:45), Ovechkin Watch and D4 Follow-Up Stories (38:15), D4 Names Follow up (42:45)
Sports Roundup: Top Stories - the Jets, the Browns, and franchises in disarray (46:30), Incredible NFL plays (52:45), Remembering the Titans - Hopkins and Henry (55:45), Saquon, Tua, and Jake Bates (59:45), and the NCAA Cupcake of the week (1:01:00)
Last Call: NIL gone wild (1:07:20), Texas's rough basketball night (1:11:15), Vandy Trolling for the Win (1:12:30)

Episode 51 - D4 gets spooky for Halloween

Intro: New intro and opening, Halloween banter (1:35), Drinks of the Day (7:00)
Opening Shots: Bloody Socks and comebacks (11:45), Not understanding the NFL (14:45), Will Smith does it again (22:30)
D4 Business: D4 NFL Pick 'em Horror Show and DraftKings (24:00), A Final Pitchers Not Pitching (27:30), Millwall (31:30),
Sports Roundup: Bronnie rising (37:30), Ovechkinwatch.com (39:45), Dustin storms Atlanta (41:45), Tennis paydays (46:00), College Football Suprises (48:45), Top NFL stories (50:15), Second-chance QBs (52:30), Game of the week (56:30), First and Second year QBs (59:15)
Last Call: Onside free kicks (1:07:00), Best college football names (1:08:45), and the best college recruiting tour ever (1:13:40)