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And then, of course, we've had plenty more to get into. Team USA basketball is advancing to take on Serbia to get to the gold medal game. That will take place on Thursday. Brandon Iyuk, he has not been traded yet.

I feel like every six hours there's a new update. The latest one is the Browns have an offer out. Steelers have an offer out. Patriots have an offer out. And Brandon Iyuk is still a member of the 49.

It's so crazy. A matter of fact, Gerard Mayo, the new head coach of the New England Patriots, he spoke to the media today. And in the most Bill Belichick way possible, he pretty much told the media before anything ever happened. He's like, listen, people, don't ask me about another player on another team.

Listen to this. One thing I did learn from Bill is I just I don't talk about players on another team. So just let me go ahead and say that now. But I remember as a player, you know, I appreciated that.

I appreciated that the only opinions that mattered were inside the walls. And so I'm still trying to apply that now going forward. Can you confirm at all that this, you know, talks ongoing? Look, I'll be honest with you, that's more of an Elliott question.

Right now I'm just focused on the guys out here. Man, Brandon Iyuk is good. He's one of the best wide receivers in the game. But he ain't one of the best.

Can we like put this to bed already? Like he's good, but he ain't the best. This ain't Justin Jefferson.

This is Brandon Iyuk. I hope he stays in San Francisco because I want to see them try to win another Super Bowl as they're currently constructed. But if they're going to send him any, yes, send them to the Patriots. Go get your new contract from the Patriots. Go just suffer out there as they figure out Drake May, who they said he's going to play this week. That'll be nice.

Good for them. Just get this Brandon Iyuk nonsense over with. Speaking of nonsense, in a lot of ways, about 40 minutes from now, the Chicago White Sox, this is total nonsense for them. The White Sox have an opportunity to break the American League record for losses.

I wish I was joking with you, but I'm not. Last night, the Chicago White Sox lost again. They're out in Oakland, so the game finished up after I got off air. The White Sox listen to this, they now have a record of 27 in 88. They lost last night, 5 to 1. That was their 21st straight loss. This is the longest losing streak that anybody in baseball has seen since the 88 Orioles, and that tied an American League record.

So they can break an American League record today. The National League record for losses is held by the Phillies of 1961. They lost 23 straight games. And if you want to talk about the all-time losing this ass team of all time, I guess you could say, this kind of predates the American League and National League.

This is 1889. The Louisville Colonels, they lost 26 straight games. If you want to know what it sounds like to call a losing ass team, you don't have to think about it. I want you to listen to this from last night from the White Sox radio network as they lost number 21. Chantelle swings and misses, and the A's send the White Sox to their 21st consecutive loss that ties the AL mark set by the 88 Orioles. 5-1 Oakland, the final. Not bad, right?

Not bad. I mean, he could sound miserable. Say this losing ass team lost again, 21 straight. Nah, but he gives them a little bit of optimism. That's what he's supposed to do, right?

Yeah. Let's see if they can score a run today. Damn, they lost 5 to 1 last night.

Tonight it might be 6 to 1. They can barely score a run. Later this week when they finish up with Oakland, if they're going to break the losingest record for being the worst team, they're going to do so at home in Chicago against the Cubs.

You can't make this stuff up. Could you imagine if the Cubs beat the hell out of them and handed them the record? And good luck to the White Sox. Good luck to them.

Also, hey, good luck to the United States of America. They're going to take on Serbia this Thursday. Team USA Basketball did a damn good job earlier today. They beat Brazil as they should, 122 to 87. Joel Embiid playing against Brazil, of course.

Not going to do this against another team. He had 14 points in seven rebounds in 12 minutes. Devin Booker had 18 points. LeBron had 12. Tatum had five, but Kevin Durant, he had 11. And in doing so, Kevin Durant now has more points than any basketball player in USA Basketball history.

That is men or women. He passed Lisa Leslie today who had 488 points. Kevin Durant now has 494 points.

Listen to the bucket. Listen to Kevin Durant courtesy of NBC. The new all-time leading scorer in men's and women's US Olympic Basketball history. And he does it on a slam.

Greatness passes greatness. Shout out to Kevin Durant for his longevity to be able to play in this many Olympics. And just beat a bucket that he is.

Oh, Kevin Durant is great, man. One of the greatest scorers. This guy makes scoring look easy for a man who is seven feet tall. And it's like now we got version 2.0 now and Victor Wenbanyama. Now this guy's 7'4".

Hickey, does that make sense, right? It's like we got Kevin Durant who plays like a shooting guard. Kevin Durant plays like a shooting guard who got stretched out by like six inches. And now we got Victor Wenbanyama who stretched out Kevin Durant by another four.

This makes no sense. And it's unfair which it just shows what the ceiling of Wenbanyama could be. Like truly one of the best to ever play the game if he reaches his potential. It's crazy. Let's give it another 15 years and we're gonna have a 7'9 guy playing like Wenbanyama.

Imagine that, right? Look at this 7'9 guy walking around. He can't even fit in a bed to get on a plane. He's out here ready to dominate everybody. But congratulations in all seriousness to Kevin Durant. I'm pretty sure he's on his burner account on X, a defendant himself as being the greatest scorer of all time. I mean, even his own teammate, Devin Booker, who led the way for Team USA Today with 18 points.

Devin Booker is like, yeah, Kevin Durant, that's my guy. That's what he told NBC. I mean, that's Captain America status. I feel like he has every record, every Olympic record. Now we have to get him his fourth goal.

That'd be the most as a men's player also. But, you know, he's a hard worker, man. You know, now that we're teammates, I get to see behind the scenes and all he cares about is hoops. He loves it 24-7. That's all he does. Oh, that's all he cares about? I mean, we've seen him like online.

He cares about like online and trolling. And it was only a few weeks ago at the beginning of the Olympics that Kevin Durant, all he cares about his hoops. It appears that Kevin Durant wasn't happy that he was left out of Nike's commercial. You know, William Defoe narrated that commercial. It had LeBron, Serena, Sha'Carri Richardson. And the tagline of the commercial was, winning isn't for everyone. And one of the pieces that that kind of was a theme in the commercial was, am I a bad person running on the lines of my bad person for wanting to destroy the competition?

Am I a bad person? And Kevin Durant wasn't in the commercial. He's the most accomplished Olympic basketball player scoring wise that we've ever seen. He has an opportunity to win four gold medals.

And we haven't seen that from a male athlete. And he was left out of the commercial. Well, you want to know what? Today, Nike released another commercial and it didn't feature William Defoe. Great bad guy to the Green Goblin.

Hello. This commercial, I don't know if this is a bad person or a good person. Deion Sanders narrated the commercial.

I want you to listen to the commercial that Nike dropped after Kevin Durant became the all time leading scorer for USA Basketball. There's a reaper. And every four years, your time runs out.

You might forget your debts. But he's ready to collect. Hickey, so was that a mea culpa for Kevin Durant? It seems like it, considering the commercial was, I mean, that great commercial. Am I a bad guy? A bad person was like a minute and a half.

And this one is a grand total of 15 seconds. Seems like maybe that Kevin Durant tweet slash called Nike maybe kind of forced them to put something together. You don't think that this was planned ahead of time? That maybe Kevin Durant put the message out just to be a rabble rouser?

A you know what stirrer? I mean, I don't want to be disrespectful here. But wouldn't I mean, this is a big accomplishment. Wouldn't you want something a little bit, you know, maybe more grand than a 15 second commercial? Right. Where Deion reads like two lines and there's some cool music behind and that's it. Like, I don't know. Seems like this was crap. No, no, no. It's well done.

Short is what I would say. Nike does well done. They do that. The agencies produces good commercials. They do.

They do. But again, you have a minute and a half long commercial promoting the Olympics that Kevin Durant is left out of. Now he breaks a US Olympic record and gets a 15 second commercial. Just doesn't seem to add up in terms of equal, let's say, attention. Well, I mean, that other commercial had everybody in it.

I mean, except for him. Right. It had Kobe in the commercial and it wasn't a basketball commercial.

It wasn't. Nope. It had the only basketball players that I remember in there. You had Wim Benyama, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James. Who am I missing? Am I missing anybody? Giannis?

Giannis. Was there a woman? Was Asia in there? Asia Wilson was in there. Yep.

Asia. That's right. She's a Nike athlete. Sabrina UNESCO was in there real fast. I think you're right.

And she was. How many more basketball players do you need? Well, you would think, you know, you'd want to include at least all the dominant primary Nike athletes that play basketball, which Kevin Durant would fall into that category. Well, he's the only one who got his own commercial. How about that?

LeBron doesn't have his own commercial. What is LeBron going to tweet tomorrow? What about me? Is Victor Wim Benyama going to go, hey, I have a chance to win a gold medal. What about me? Come on.

Kevin Durant has his own commercial. He can rest well now. I hope.

Well, I guess we'll see. I haven't been online. Have you seen me tweet to him recently?

Hope he's happy now. Listen, I don't look up that guy unless I need to do it for work. You know, in all honesty, Hickey, I don't get outside of work. I'm being I don't care what none of these guys say. I don't I don't have an alert that goes off. I wouldn't know what anybody says. I just as a what? Could you could you imagine listening to Gilbert Arenas popping up like twice a day and like, no, no, thanks.

I agree with that part. I don't need alerts, that's for sure. No, I don't. Hickey, I got to tell you, I have no alerts on my phone. No, nothing. No news, sports. No, I don't know. I saw you get an alert for weather.

No, nothing. I look and I see it when I see it. Wow. Most of the time my phone is on DND because all my stuff at my phone is connected to my computer. My computer is connected to this.

This is connected to this. I'm in my phone enough that if I see it, I see it, you know, that's true. Hickey, I got like five email addresses.

Damn. Did you imagine every every time an email comes in, my phone just goes off? It's a lot of messages for, you know, you know, people peeping, you know. Hickey, I get I get messages from from our job that go, hey, you need to you need to take this this training and you need to take this. And come on, Hickey now. Now, Hickey, now I got to take the train out and out of myself. Damn. You can't.

I know I'll delete the audio so that way when in when you claim negligence for not seeing the email, there's there's no evidence whatsoever to say that you didn't see the email. Oh, man. Oh, man. Damn. I'll be taking exams for six hours tomorrow about Susie and whether or not I can say hello to my co-workers. I can say hi to them. Right.

It's not sexual harassment in a non-threatening way. And then I pass the exam. That's right.

After 10 questions, 30 videos and 10 questions per per section. Oh, my God. They've done it.

They've gone smart now. Now you actually have to engage. You just can't kind of click your way through it.

That timer is the worst. Oh, my God. I think you need more time on this page. No, please. I don't. I am good.

I used to hit the fast forward button and the thing would fail me and I'd have to start from the beginning. I'm like, oh, my God. Oh, look at me trying to get ahead of this. Like I just show up to work. I don't see anybody. Nobody.

It's just me in this big ass studio here in Georgia. Why do I need to take sexual harassment training? Because it's necessary, right?

And because so because the bosses say so. Yeah, it's necessary. It's necessary. Well, I will take the training. OK, and then I will.

What should take three minutes will take three hours out of my life. Yeah, I hope you block a whole weekend off because that's what it's going to take. The things you have to do to be employed, right? That's true. That is very true. Yeah, well, it's just well, you know what? I'm happy we have rules and regulations because some people need a Mickey. OK, you're right. That's the unfortunate part. The people that need them now they drag everyone else into it.

Yeah. Well, for the betterment of society, I will take the exam. I will do my I do my part anyway. Now I feel like I feel like Kevin Durant.

I feel like I'm being ostracized and left out. I just anyway, congratulations to Kevin Durant. Hopefully he's happy with his little 15 second Nike commercial. And the people at Nike are just like, let's throw this guy bone. Fifteen seconds from Dion.

That's all that he gets. It's the J.R. sport ratio here with you on the Infinity Sports Network. Eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven.

That's eight five five two one two forty two twenty seven. We're going to take a break when we come back. I alluded to Kevin Durant and Dion in the new commercial and I said we don't know what Dion is going to do. When we come back, we're going to talk about another legend who made it very clear today what his future is going to look like. I'll tell you who it is on the other side. You're locked in on a Tuesday afternoon, a Tuesday evening, a Tuesday night, depending on where you live.

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That's 855-212-4227. Told you earlier in the show. Maybe a last break as well. I told you about Team USA's victory. The basketball team over Brazil, 122-87. Kevin Durant becomes the all-time leading scorer. All time in basketball.

Doesn't matter. Men or women for Team USA. And they're going to take on Serbia on Thursday. The last time they took on Serbia, they beat them in the first game. You might recall, or maybe you don't, I'll give you a reminder.

The final score in that game, 110-84. Now let's be real. Do I think Nikola Jokic can go out there and be a one-man gang and beat Team USA?

The answer is yes. If he gets a little bit of help, it'd be a ridiculous embarrassment. Awful for the Americans if Serbia beats them. The final four here, USA, Germany, Serbia, and France. So let's see what the US does. If they beat Serbia, they move on to the gold medal game. If they lose, no guarantee that they even get a medal.

But of course they'll end up with something. But we'll see. It's not the only basketball news that we got today. For whatever reason, Charles Barkley has changed his mind. For whatever reason, Charles Barkley has shared with the world that he is no longer retiring and that he will stick around with TNT. Yes, the league that we know no longer, at least for right now, has rights to NBA basketball. It was only a few months ago on NBA TV during the NBA playoffs before we got the final word on what would or would not happen that Charles Barkley basically went on a whole diatribe against everybody. He says on Dan Patrick's show first, he's like the TNT executives, they screwed up the NBA deal. Listen to this.

Remember this? Morale sucks, plain and simple. You know, I just feel so bad for the people I work with, Dan. You know, these people have families and I just really feel bad for them right now. You know, these people I work with, they screwed this thing up clearly and we don't have zero idea what's going to happen.

I don't feel good. I'm not going to lie. Well, we learned that we learned that Amazon got the basketball games. OK, that's what we learned. We learned that the the NBA, or at least TNT, Warner Brothers Discovery, it looks like they're filing a lawsuit to keep the games. Imagine trying to legally stay with someone who doesn't want to be with you.

Well, I guess people do that every day. Anyway, Charles Barkley on NBA TV while everything was still in the we don't know what's going on face. Charles Barkley sat on TV and said, it don't matter to me what happens this upcoming year is my last and I'm quitting.

Listen to this. You know, there's been a lot of noise around our network the last few months. And I just want to say I've talked to all the other networks, but I ain't going nowhere other than TNT. But I have made the decision myself, no matter what happens, last next year is going to be my last year on television.

I'm going to just retire after 25 years. And I just want to say thank you. And I wanted you all to hear from me first.

Oh, my goodness. Let me read to you what was shared today. This came from Warner Brothers Discovery and Charles Barkley. So this wouldn't come from no podcast. This came from corporate.

This came from his employer. Charles Barkley says, I love my TNT sports family. My number one priority has been and always be our people and keeping everyone together for as long as possible. We have the most amazing people, the best at what they do. I'm looking forward to continuing to work with them both on the shows we currently have and the new ones we develop in the future. This is the only place for me. I have to say, I've been impressed by the leadership team who's fighting hard, very excited. I appreciate them all.

I'm going to give them my all as we keep them entertained for years to come. Charles Barkley, his contract doesn't end until 2032. OK, Charles Barkley is 61 years old now. He could complete this contract.

I think Charles Barkley is all things considered. He's in good health. His weight is going up and down. He's had some hip surgeries, but the man talks for a living. OK, he's one of the best talkers, one of the greatest entertainers that we've ever had on television.

He's not retiring. Hickey, what you think happened? Nothing, right? Just he realized that things weren't going to be as bad and they were going to create new program and maybe they would still. And this is what I don't understand. What stops them? From having their own show, they don't have to be a partner to talk about basketball. They may not be able to produce the same content, right?

Or they may not have the same access. But this is Charles Barkley, like what's going to stop them from having a basketball show? It doesn't have to be a pregame or postgame, but they could still do a show, no? No, they could. You're right. Just because you don't have the games doesn't mean that you can't still do your own show.

There's nothing that's going to stop them from doing that. I don't know if that was part of the pitch. I don't know what changed. I don't know if just Charles Barkley rolled out of bed that day during the finals and said, you know what?

I don't really want to feel, you know, I'm tired of working anymore. I'm going to call it quits and either TNT up their offer from his current contract or he likes what he does and realizes maybe the gang is going to stay together and do something equivalent of the show they used to do. I don't know what it is, but clearly his mind changed pretty quickly from his retirement announcement less than two months ago.

I don't. Did anybody take him seriously when he said he was retiring in the first place? He's entitled to change his mind. He just says whatever comes to his mind. So I wasn't shocked that he said he was retiring.

I wasn't shocked that today we got a message where he says, hey, I'm going to stick around. And for people who aren't in the know, Turner's saying, this sounds crazy. They're picking up tennis. Like they're going to have the French open, which is just, this is mind boggling to me. They've subcontra out, subcontracted out to have some college football. And so I don't want to say they've replaced the NBA, but they've spent that money in other places. And so who knows, maybe they still get a small suite of NBA games. And I don't know if anybody cares if Charles Barkley is popping up and, you know, giving us college football guest commentary. I don't know. Whatever he does, he's funny.

And when he pops up, people will laugh and they'll enjoy it. And I guess that's, that's really all that matters. So the time will tell. I don't know if the door is completely closed on them getting any NBA content. We'll see.

I know for sure. Amazon ain't going anywhere. It's just a matter of how things fit in with Turner and Warner Brothers. So it's good to know that Charles Barkley will be sticking around. It wasn't a thought in my brain that this man was just going to sit around for the next, I don't know what, six years and just play golf?

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That's 855-212-4227. I can't believe it. Like we're in the last days. Not in the last. Hickey, I don't know if we're in the last days. I don't know that.

I have to slow down and have to think about what I said. Yeah, jeez. We're in the last days of the Olympics. It's been two weeks. Was it two weeks? No, three weeks? It's been like a week and a half. It started the 26th, right? Yeah, 26th. But this Friday, that's two weeks?

Yeah, I guess you're right. Is it three weeks or two weeks? Two weeks. Look at us doing math on the radio.

Geniuses. 26th to the second is one week. The second to the ninth. Oh, two weeks. Yeah, two weeks in a day.

Wow. Closing ceremonies coming up this weekend. We got the gold medal for basketball on Sunday. And then no more Olympics. No more summer Olympics. The next time you see Olympics is going to be on American soil in Los Angeles in 2028.

Now, Hickey, I'm looking forward to that. I can deal with the time a little bit different. You know, I got to be up at the crack of dawn to really watch everything. I mean, even here at night, you know, there's replays of everything that took place like six, seven, eight hours ago. At least when they come to L.A., I could just watch it on a normal time frame, man. That I'm excited for, because actual prime time will be prime time here. We don't have to worry about, like you said, stuff happening in the middle of the night, super early in the morning. You're watching a replay of something you know already happened. You don't know how it happened. It will be nice to have the Olympics for the first time in a long time, sort of as close as we can to our time zone. Yeah.

The last time we had this and I don't know, I guess was in was in Brazil the last time we had something this close. And I don't it can't be that much. I was down there, Hickey. I don't to be honest, I don't remember much or nothing.

I don't. Oh, yeah, that's Rose at twenty twelve, right with six, sixteen in London. London was in twenty twelve. I couldn't tell you the time difference, man. I was so, so busy and fried, man. And this was during Zika. Remember Zika? Oh, yeah.

With the mosquitoes and stuff. Wow. Hickey, I went to sleep one night.

This is pitch black in my hotel room. You know, I heard a buzz, right? Oh, no.

Right near my ear. I'm like, oh, you got to be kidding me. And I'm not I don't worry about stuff like that.

If I'm going to get bit by the Zika bug, then he eats me and whatever. Well, I don't care. But it's still irritating. There's nothing. I'm trying to sleep. And why are you near my ear? And of course, I turn the light on because now I'm like, oh, my God, something in the room with me.

And I turn the light on. Hickey, this this this mosquito, you know, like a zebra. He was black. He had black and white stripes. And I'm like, you got it. This couldn't be a normal black mosquito.

Like he had to have zebra stripes. I'm like, why do I have an exotic Brazilian mosquito in this room with me? I must have spent like 15 minutes trying to swat him down with my slipper. That's the worst.

Then you get worked up and then it's harder to go back to bed because now you're worked up because you spent 15 minutes on a swat a mosquito. That is I got to live to tell the tale. I'm glad I did, too. I'm glad I did, too. I got him to I had the he flew into the bathroom because, you know, they like the light. And so it was just this.

This must have looked like a comedy skit. Me and like three a.m. in the morning in the morning in Brazil is trying to swat the exotic looking mosquito. But yeah, I'm looking forward to things being in L.A. They don't have to worry about mosquitoes in L.A.

I got I got questions. What are they going to do with Skid Row? They got to they're going to finally clean it up. Oh, Hollywood, Hollywood Boulevard, what are they doing with that dump?

Well, they I mean, they didn't clean up for the Super Bowl. Well, what, Hollywood Boulevard? So I don't you know, I don't know. Right.

You let it go and just have the tourists, you know, see what what L.A. is all about. Oh, my God. Wow. Good, good point.

I guess. No, not authentic. I don't know what off the authentic Los Angeles experience.

So people won, right? If they're coming to the states, maybe for the first time. Maybe send some people back with quite the experience. The tales they'll tell.

Let's put it that way. Shout outs to everybody listening out in L.A.. I know one person we won't see out there is Draymond Green, who decided to share. I guess he's bored.

There's nothing going on right now. All of his I guess you consider them his friends, his friend LeBron is in Paris right now. His other friend, Steph, is playing in Paris. And so Draymond Green took the time to go on social media and tell everybody for whatever reason about how this twenty, twenty four team is better than the dream team. Listen to Draymond, because it's been a while. This 2014 are definitely drawing those comparisons to the dream team.

And quite frankly, I'm taking the twenty, twenty fourteen seven days a week. I think the twenty, twenty fourteen beats the dream team five out of seven games. How to get the dream team some respect. They got goats. We get it. They got Hall of Famers.

We get it. I just think the versatility on that team, the star power, the score. I don't think the dream team can do anything with that. Now, if the dream team has Shaq on it and not Christian Laitner, maybe a different story. And that's why I don't think the dream team could come close. I wouldn't say come close.

The 10 point loss, double digits by two thousand twenty fourteen USA. You can book it at this point. Is he just does he just argue with himself on his podcast? He's like, hey, the conversation that people have been like, where? Like, I think I have a good idea of what is going on and what gets said in media.

You know, it's part of my job to kind of know. So, yeah, people bring up debates all the time, but this hasn't been some type of debate that's been bandied about. This twenty, twenty four team hasn't even won anything yet.

Like and we talked about this earlier in the show. So if they get beat by Serbia, like they're going to be crap. What is Draymond going to say then? Not that anybody expects it, but if Jokic says I'm going to give you 20 points, 20 rebounds and 20 assists and they ended up beating America, then Draymond, everything he said is moot. You know, so there's your Draymond piece. Draymond hasn't said anything worth a damn in months.

And so here it is in August. You'll say something after they win over the weekend, I guess, and then we'll see if he punches another teammate in a few months at training camp. By the way, maybe I'm biased. I would take the ninety two team, but what do I know? Let the twenty, twenty four team win something first. Let's just put it that way.

But you know what? Let's go back in time more. It's time to take a look at quite a few things that took place this day in sports history.

Today is August 6th. Back in the days when I was young, I'm not a kid anymore, but some days I sit and wish I was a kid again. It's time for this day in sports history. You see, back in those days, we had radio and you couldn't see anything.

And it was primitive and lousy and we liked it. On the JR Sport Brief Show. I wish I was 50 years younger and I'd kick your ass. It is the JR Sport Brief Show here on the Infinity Sports Network. Today is August 6th.

The year is twenty twenty four. But if we go back in time to August 6th in 1966, Muhammad Ali, the world heavyweight champion, he knocked out Brian London. We love a good knockout.

Take a listen to this. What a boss. The greatest of all time. August 6th, 1991, one of the greatest names in sports history. Debbie Dume, Debbie Dume, Debbie Dume of the US. She pitched her second consecutive perfect game in the women's softball at the Pan American Games. Debbie Dume. She threw a perfect game at the Netherlands and Tilly's in the opener.

And she beat Nicaragua eight to nothing. This is 1991. Debbie Dume, great sports name.

August 6th, 1999. I know you know this guy's name. His name is Tony Gwen. He got his three thousandth hit against the Expos.

The Padres beat the Expos 12 to 10. Tony Gwen, he went four or five. Of course, it's Tony Gwen. He had no problem getting his first hit as number three thousand.

Take a listen courtesy of MLB. Man, I love Tony Gwen. Can't believe he's gone, man. This dude, I don't care how big he was, how small he was, how big he got.

This guy's hand-eye coordination did not matter. Tony Gwen, one of the greatest hitters of all time. Eight batting titles. Who, what, where, how, what? Shout out to Tony Gwen. God rest his soul.

August 6th, the year is 2006. Tiger Woods. He won the Buick Open for the 50th PGA Tour victory. His 50th PGA Tour victory.

Take a listen, courtesy of the PGA Tour. 50 career victories. The milestone is his at the age of 30. I've had a lot of really wonderful things happen to me in my career so far on one tour in 10 years. I'm very blessed to start out my career, you know, just hoping to get my car. Lo and behold, I got a nice little run there. It's been just a great ride, really. Now, what else did Tiger Woods win after that?

Well, not after that, but as of today, I don't think there's nothing else for him to win. Sorry about that, folks. And there you have it. A bunch of things that took place this day in sports history. For a few more hours, it will be August 6th. When I come back tomorrow, it'll be August 7th. And of course, I'm going to share with you a few things that took place this day in sports history, and it'll be Wednesday. So of course, we'll be delivering to you a new top six list.

Now, I want to deliver this to you. As the Olympics come to a close, a lot of the athletes have to pay their way to the Olympic Games, going through fundraisers and sponsors and what have you. And I saw a story today. There is a Filipino gymnast. His name is Carlos Ullo. He won a gold medal representing the Philippines. And I want to share with you some of his gifts as he returns. The Philippines is giving him a house. The government is getting him a house. They're giving him a two bedroom condo valued at $415,000 American dollars. They're giving him cash. $173,000.

OK. It's just giving him money. The government's giving him money. He's getting free colonoscopies when he turns 45. He's 24.

So he got away. He's getting $1,700 of free furniture. He's getting a lifetime of free ramen, free buffets and free meals from local establishments. A lifetime of free cookies.

He's a gymnast. I don't know if he wants the cookies. And he's getting an iPhone 16 and a lifetime of free engineering designed by Nexa Engineering. Hickey, what would you would you want the furniture, the house or the money? Oh, I'll take the money. Can't go wrong there. You don't want the free colonoscopies.

It's enticing. I mean, I guess our colonoscopy is that expensive where you got to throw that in there. It seemed very random, but for life or life. I'm sure he has insurance. I know. I'd hope so.

But I guess throw the insurance at the window now. He got a two. He got a two bedroom condo and a house. Not bad. Good for him. And he got an iPhone 16.

Good for him. Right. Is that even out yet? I don't know, man. I'm sick of these iPhones. I don't know. I really am.

I don't know what's out, what's going. All I know is they all cost too much money. That's what I know. OK, that's true.

Very true. Much money is the general sport reshow here on the Infinity Sports Network. If you missed a minute or second, go ahead and hit rewind on the free Odyssey app. We'll be back with you tomorrow, 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. Thank you so much to super producer and host Ryan Hickey.

Thank you to Adam Rittenberg from ESPN for joining us. Hey, don't move. Don't leave. I'm gone. I'm leaving. Bart Winkler coming up next.

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