Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Today, Ben and I talk about the apocalyptic scenarios awaiting us in these, the ACC’s dying days. What will happen to ACCSports.com? Will Duke football become like Ivy League football? Will that be a step up? Also your usual favorites, such as twitter questions, the masculinity of bicycles, and what’s up with soccer? Plus some hype for the Triangle Media Ryder Cup. A real tear-jerker this week, guys and girls.

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Ben and I are pleased to officially announce what will hopefully become an annual tradition:

The Triangle Media Ryder Cup.

As you might have guessed, this is a Ryder Cup style golf tournament, with all proceeds going to charity. It’ll be held at Knight’s Play, a par 3 course in Apex, and the teams will be Internet Media vs. Traditional (Newspaper/TV/Radio) Media. It’s time to settle this grudge match on the course! And benefit a good cause while we’re at it.

The tentative date at the moment is Saturday, June 16.

What we need: Players! The internet team is almost set, but we haven’t even begun to fill the TV/Radio/Newspaper squad. If you’re interested in joining, and you work in traditional media in the Triangle area, be in touch through e-mail ([email protected]) or twitter (I’m TobaccoRdBlues, Ben is TheDevilWolf).

The format we’ve come up with follows the Ryder Cup pretty closely. It’ll happen during one day, a Saturday in late June most likely, with eight golfers per team. Seven golfers will belong to the media field they represent, and each team will get one captain’s pick. There will be 16 matches held over three stages of 9 holes.

First 9 Holes: Alternate Shot (4 matches)
Second 9 Holes: Better Ball (4 matches)
Third 9 Holes: Singles (8 matches)

Obviously, team with the most points wins the Cup. In case of a tie, Team Internet wins the cup in year one, since it was our idea, and after that the team who held the cup the year before retains it in case of a tie. We’ll follow Ryder Cup rules in that the team captain’s will release the golfing order just before each segment, so we won’t know ahead of time who’s facing who.

There will be trophies, preview podcasts, and live tweeting from the event. More on this as it develops!

Update: The Team Internet roster is set!

1. Shane Ryan (C) – Grantland, Tobacco Road Blues
2. Ben Swain – Oxford Public-Ledger Online, ACCSports.com
3. Austin Johnson – Pack Pride
4. Will Brinson – CBS Sports ‘Eye on NFL’ blogger
5. Lauren Brownlow – SanfordHerald.com
6. James Curle – Riddick and Reynolds
7. Brian Barbour – Tar Heel Blog
8. Matt Purdy – Captain’s Pick

In today’s episode, Ben and I talk conference re-alignment (and FSU’s potential move to the Big 12) with Mark Ennis, co-host of ESPN Louisville’s “Two Man Game” and manager of SB Nation’s “Big East Coast Bias” website. After that, I ask Ben five personal questions to help us get to know him better, we go over the match-ups in the upcoming Big 10/ACC Challenge, Ben sounds off on FSU, we hit a couple twitter questions, and mention the Triangle Media Ryder Cup at Knight’s Play for the first time in a public setting. Spoiler: Ben has a pistol he named “lady.” He holds it whenever he drives.

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Time Stamps:

0:00 – Introduction, a little shaky, getting back on our feet
3:45 – Interview with Mark Ennis
33:55 – Congratulating ourselves on another fantastic interview
34:15 – Ben breaks down FSU once and for all
37:40 – Incredibly compelling story about my aunt and property theft
38:40 – Getting to know Ben with five VERY personal questions
45:30 – Twitter questions
50:05 – Breaking down next year’s Big 10-ACC Challenge (we vow to go see Nebraska-Wake)
55:20 – The Triangle Media Ryder Cup!
101:15 – Conclusion, plus an incendiary tale that Jim Young doesn’t want you to know

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For those unfamiliar, this is the comedy podcast done by myself and my pal SlimJim, where we talk about news and life and the world of selfish young Americans. It’s basically a modern jamboree.

Today, Ben and I chat with the delightful Michael Felder, Bleacher Report’s lead football writer and the man behind “In the Bleachers.” Topics include his career as a UNC football player, the writing life, the brand new Walk-Ons curse, and how to ruin a friend’s impending proposal by appearing on our podcast. Ben also takes on my 15-year-old sister Shannon in a no-holds-barred trivia contest, we help out a troubled local youth with torn allegiances, and take twitter questions about Duke football, Gbinijie’s transfer, and the musical ‘Wicked.’ This is how life goes when it’s really, really going.

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Time Stamps:

0:00 – Introduction, some laughs,
2:25 – I get us on the FBI watch list with questionable quotes about young people
4:40 – Interview with Michael Felder
37:30 – Ben and I congratulate ourselves on another great interview
38:40 – Ben takes on my sister in trivia
49:45 – Ben reads a letter from a troubled local youth, we set him straight
53:30 – Are Ben and I heroes? You tell us.
54:15 – Twitter questions

Today, Ben and I have our first guest in podcast history. We’re very pleased that it’s Matt Jones of Kentucky Sports Radio, the best and most successful independent college basketball website out there. We talk about how he built the site, what’s happening down at Kentucky, what’s happening up at Duke, and the relationship between writers like him and the mainstream media. Afterward, we try to stick around for Tony Parker’s announcement, but we can’t cut the mustard so we fake an announcement that turns out to be true. Don’t tell the NCAA.

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Time Stamps:

0:00 – Intro, some Duke talk

9:50 – Matt Jones!

41:45 – Ben and I congratulate ourselves on how great we were in the interview.

45:00 – Twitter questions

50:30 – I rant about how much I hate myself for following idiotic high school athletes.

We’re back from our brief one week hiatus. In this episode, I panic about the state of Duke basketball, and Ben plays it cool. We go back and forth for a good chunk of time, two ends of the same extreme, never finding middle ground. Our most polarizing show yet. Also trivia, twitter questions, and looking back at Richard Jewell.

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0:30 – Duke panic – what’s the deal with recruiting? Why is Ben wearing rose-colored glasses? Why am I on the ledge?

29:45 – Twitter questions

37:55 – What happens in Los Angeles stays in the Walk-Ons

42:55 – Hologram Tupac

44:00 – What if aliens came down?

44:40 – Quizzing Ben – it comes down to the last question

55:30 – Concluding thoughts, future plans, smoothing things over

Sadness abounds as Ben and I contemplate the end of basketball. There is some melancholy, some anger, some love. It starts when I give Ben a trivia quiz as we do honor to our foreign listeners, and the quiz comes down to the last question. Ben invents tweets from the future. We take actual twitter questions. Ben sits alone at night listening to Lexington police radio. Some serious issues are covered: is Calipari ruining college basketball? Is it cool to care only about yourself in the hour of another’s glory? The waves come in, the waves come out. The Walk-Ons never stop- they just keep walking on.

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Thanks for listening! Time stamps a’coming.