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00:00but let's get started a lot of fun action this weekend in case you missed it last night was game
00:04two of the nba finals unfortunately for the indiana pacers didn't go as well as it did in
00:09game one a little bit of a laugher here the thunder win 123 to 107 just a blowout in this one
00:17and shea gildress alexander had 34 points here's the bottom line this game was over at the half
00:23it was very evident that the thunder came to play the big question from here on out i know for a lot
00:28of people is is this still a possibility for going six or seven games the pacers took care of
00:33business on the road but according to the mvp shea gildress alexander it is the old cliche taking it
00:41one game at a time you have to stay focused on the task at hand now whatever that may be
00:47for your team and how you want to attack them or go about the game plan but you you have to lock in
00:52and stay focused and even tonight we've had some moments of slippage um now you're not gonna be
00:57perfect out there ever but it goes without saying like to make it this far into the season
01:03it's gonna take supreme level of focus to reach an ultimate goal um and they're there to display that
01:09to the highest form like they play a full 48 minutes and you can't just throw the first punch you
01:15gotta try to throw all the punches all night um and yeah that's what we did we threw enough
01:20punches tonight to get a w i thought you know indiana's kind of an acquired taste you know we
01:26haven't played them a ton uh they're not in the west obviously and they play a very distinct style
01:30on both ends and i thought there were a lot of things tonight that we were just like a little better
01:34in um and more comfortable and uh that was on both ends of the floor i just thought the guys did a good
01:40job of just improving which is important going from game one to game two meanwhile the one thing that
01:46the pacers are going to have to figure out is playing better in the first half it seems like
01:51it didn't cost them in game one it absolutely did in game two this according to head coach
01:56rick carlisle another bad first half obviously it was a big problem and um we just played poorly
02:05a little better in the second half but you can't be a team that's uh reactive and expect to be
02:14successful or have consistency so we're gonna have to be a lot better on wednesday what were they
02:21doing anything different than what you saw in the first game uh no i mean this is who they are
02:26defensively they got a lot of different guys who can guard the ball fly around um you know they're
02:30really physical force the you know the officials to you know let us play a little bit more um you
02:35know so just got to do a better job playing through there um you know i think i've had two really poor
02:39first half so um you know i just got to figure out how to be better um earlier in games um you know
02:46but you know kudos to them they're a great defensive team but um you know watch the film see where i can
02:50get better the all-time classic happened at the french open yesterday not going to ever see a better
02:57match than you would have seen yesterday with yannick sinner and carlos alcaraz this was a five hour
03:0432 minute match it was the longest ever french open final and uh sinner not only had him on the
03:11ropes but had him at match point in the third set but alcaraz came all the way back and then dominated
03:17the tiebreaker and went on to win a lot of people weighing in saying that this was one of the greatest
03:24tennis matches of all time and yeah it happened yesterday at the french open here's alcaraz on the
03:30win and never giving up hope uh just uh i always repeat myself that uh in uh specific moments that i
03:40i i had to go for it uh no no matter what no matter if i if i was down no matter if i was there the
03:47super typer or the fifth i i just uh thought that there was time to go for it uh not not be afraid of
03:55uh of of of the mistakes uh and uh and uh and i think today was uh was all about to believe in
04:03myself uh if i mean i never doubt about myself today uh and uh i tried to to go for it that's that's
04:13why i i saw my best tennis you know in crucial moments uh and that's why i saw my my my best tennis in
04:22uh in those difficult in those difficult situations well if you were watching the nba or tennis you
04:28missed out on some good golf yesterday i don't know how you could have had time to watch it all
04:32but at the canadian open ryan fox went into a playoff with sam burns and he ends up winning the
04:38title i mean this was one of the craziest golf tournaments you're ever going to see you had five
04:43six seven golfers going into the final round all with a chance to win and then even
04:47four of them going into the final hour or two of the tournament but needless to say it is fox that
04:54takes home the championship and talked about winning after his round yeah that sounds pretty
04:58cool mark to be fair um yeah uh was pretty happy just to get in the playoff there obviously i was
05:06i needed a really good finish to get there and um had some great shots coming down the stretch and
05:10um you know sam let me off the hook big time there that first playoff hole i'd almost given him that
05:16and then you know we we had a couple of scrappy holes there and then you know to to hit the shot
05:21i hit on 18 on that fourth playoff hole was pretty surreal to be honest it's probably well actually
05:27it will be the best shot i've ever hit in my life there's not nothing close to that and um you know
05:31again sam probably let me off the hook making three putting there but um you know i felt like i you
05:37know put pressure on him with that shot and um yeah it was pretty cool to have a nice little tap in
05:41there and be able to suck it all in the stanley cup finals returns to sunrise tonight as the florida
05:48panthers host the edmonton oilers in game three of the championship right now panthers are minus 140
05:54on the money line total of six and a half whoever wins this one tonight is going to be a heavy favorite
05:59to win the cup we'll see who ends up doing it we'll have a preview later in the show uh baseball news
06:05corbin burns we found out late friday is going to undergo tommy john surgery going to miss the
06:09remainder of the season and into next year diamondbacks right now almost in the cellar just
06:14outside of the rockies in the west could be a tough year moving forward for them we'll see what
06:18they end up doing at the trade deadline meanwhile on sunday night baseball yesterday aaron judge got
06:23the party started for the yankees and then the party went the red sox way from there on out they
06:26hit five home runs and win the game by final of 11 to 7 so boston finally gets the win that they
06:32needed jack flarity struck out nine in six scoreless innings the tigers beat the cubs four to nothing
06:37tigers having a fantastic season some of the game was overshadowed a little bit by nico horner being
06:44thrown out of the game having words with the home plate umpire here is craig council not happy with
06:48that result craig what was your frustration with derrick thomas um you know i did the ejection of
06:55nico was completely unwarranted and um you know you there's nothing that was said that warrants an
07:02ejection and you can't you can't eject players and affect outcomes of games for no offense
07:07did he give you an explanation
07:09yeah he didn't he didn't like what nico said but it's you know it it just nico's walking by
07:17what he said is not you know it's not ejectable and you can't you don't just eject players and
07:24change change uh lineups and things like that not ejectable no swearing no cussing walking away
07:36um not standing and arguing um nothing stands and argues gives him a warning fine nothing
07:44meanwhile the pittsburgh pirates swept the philadelphia phillies over the weekend paul skeans
07:50another impressive pitching matchup seven and two thirds one run it was unearned as era 1.88 now
07:57on the season pirates playing good ball and manny machado speaking of good balls dialing it back what
08:02a great year he's had he hits another home run and the padres edge the brewers one to nothing san
08:07diego seems to be playing close games every single night last seven games have been decided by a total
08:13of eight runs welcome back to newswire here on sports great all the discussion that we spend on
08:18georgia and minnesota and all these other states potentially legalizing sports betting even hawaii
08:23we dove into uh earlier in the spring but here we are in the summer and we got another hot topic
08:29let's bring in pat evans to discuss it here on the show uh pat i you know i look i was looking this
08:34morning at some of the things we're going to talk about and i was like wait a second here we are going
08:38to potentially legalize sports betting in rhode island i don't have you and i even said that the
08:45state rhode island on this show in our history of doing this i'm not sure about that but yeah i mean
08:51so sports betting already is legal in rhode island it has been since 2018 but it's a very unique market
08:58and that it's one of the few states that has a monopoly through the lottery um that is then run
09:03by igt so it's sportsbook rhode island is the name of it and apparently you know the the regulators and
09:11the lawmakers aren't super pleased with the performance which you do end up seeing a lot
09:15in these states that have the monopolies whether it's oregon and their draft kings or montana or
09:20new hampshire and so the lawmakers have come out and they they're kind of listening to a report that
09:27was published last year by the rhode island lottery by spectrum gaming that said hey can we open up the
09:33market to more people i think the market will perform better that'll bring more tax revenue to the
09:38state even though right now rhode island has an effective tax rate through that monopoly of 51
09:43percent um the per capita bet amounts and and the things like that aren't super high so it's
09:48not bringing in that much money uh ultimately and you know rhode island is a very tiny state
09:53population wise so that might have something to do with it as well um but this bill passed the senate
09:58last last week that would open it up to between two and five more uh sportsbook operators uh more than
10:06just the one and so you'd have to imagine that you know it'll kind of look like massachusetts
10:11uh and have you know the big players draft kings fan duel for sure um just coming to the state now
10:18that of course will probably have to bring down that tax rate it wouldn't be that of that high for
10:23these commercial operators as it stands right now but you have to imagine they might bring it down a
10:27little bit more to make it more attractive to them um but yeah just kind of an interesting thing
10:32because yeah we don't talk about rhode island because one it's been legal for so long as just
10:36that monopoly uh one operator state and two it's just not a big mover in terms of revenue and and
10:42because of the population size so yeah we don't talk about it much but it looks like this could be
10:47happening it passed the senate by a 30 to 2 vote uh we'll of course have to see what happens in the
10:52house but just judging by the feel of the senate and how that happened you have to imagine it'll get
10:58through probably pretty easily i think that that would be fascinating considering as you said
11:04rhode island hasn't opened it up to fan duel draft kings bet mgm and some other small state but still
11:09an opportunity there uh okay so let's go to uh canada some new sports betting framework uh reintroduced
11:15there canada constantly you know moving those goal posts around changing their ideas for for
11:20for different sports books that are allowed and i know you're following it over at lsr
11:23yeah so i mean you know we have to go back to 2021 when canada changed their rules to allow for
11:29uh single event sports wagering of course parlay bets were allowed through the lottery in the
11:35different provinces before that but that opened it up so the lotteries could all offer single event
11:40sports wagering then that moved to ontario opening up their commercial market and now they're
11:44one of the most robust and and you know probably pretty successful in terms of revenue wise uh sports
11:51betting and i gaming markets in north america that will now move on to alberta as well who is basing
11:56it on their ontario uh on the ontario framework now what's interesting is two years ago uh or it
12:03might have been last year i can't quite recall but senator marty deacon introduced a framework for a
12:09national advertising you know rules um for sports betting in canada because you know they heard a lot
12:18from constituents and the like saying hey this is too much too much ads we're seeing too many ads
12:24this isn't okay um and this is something of course we've seen in markets across north america as
12:30you know you get people a little upset even people who do like sports wagering can get a little
12:35overwhelmed by some of the ads during games and and things like that so we saw it move through
12:41the senate it was going to the uh the other side of the parliament however the way things work up in
12:48canada as soon as uh prime minister justin trudeau said was resigning and they had to hold a new
12:54national election that kind of restarted the front of the the process so now deacon had to reintroduce
13:00that framework and we'll see if it can kind of gain the same momentum it did before and what's
13:05interesting is it it would set up a framework and they they would kind of put together it with the
13:10canadian gaming association and the tv broadcasters and the like who are already doing that on their
13:15own but then you also see people coming out against it you see the nhl and nfl have said hey can we not
13:21do this that's a little bit much um you've seen the statistics already that were presented in the
13:26hearings that said hey the ads are way down from 2022 to now you know i think they've been almost
13:33quartered when you look at how many ads have been run this past year versus two years ago
13:39and so it's interesting that this is already kind of tapering off up there and then you also have to
13:44take into account that ontario has some of the strictest uh advertising rules already in terms of
13:51sports betting you know you can't give out promos without customers opting in you can't have it you
13:56know in that first year we saw tons of uh operators get fined because they were putting ad advertising and
14:03adverts of those promos in you know transit stops and things like that we also saw them come back
14:10and revise their sports betting rules to say hey you can't use athletes retired or uh current so that's
14:17you know they had wayne gretzky and connor mcdavid in early ads and they disallowed that they also said
14:23you can't use celebrities um and so there's already very strict rules in ontario the only open market and so
14:29it'll be interesting to see if this framework which you know again the canadian gaming association
14:34and the association of broadcasters have said like whether or not this passes we're developing
14:39something and we will stick to it so you know i don't think this has to be something the federal
14:44government has to be involved in um but nonetheless marty deacon reintroduced it even though it passed
14:49the senate last year and then fell apart after uh justin trudeau stepped down and there was a new
14:53national election let's close it out with uh louisiana here states finding different ways to
14:59raise taxes on sports betting and you know louisiana is one of those states that's you know
15:04dominated by college football college basketball as you know pat lsu tulane a lot of colleges there
15:11need some extra money for those nil deals it feels like that's the direction this is yeah so this passed
15:17yesterday uh by the senate it's a house bill that initially when it was introduced in the house
15:22would have doubled the tax rate from more than doubled actually from uh 15 up to 32 they brought
15:30that down in the house during the initial discussions down to 21.5 and then the senate
15:36uh they passed it and then the senate passed it yesterday so it is moving from 15 up to 21.5 which
15:43ultimately you know isn't as drastic as that doubling of the tax but it still will bring in an
15:48extra 6.5 million or so a year in tax revenue to louisiana which to your point in the bill also
15:55includes a 25 percent um allocation to the division one athletic departments in the state um so yeah
16:02i don't know how much of that will be toward you know helping out nils or just making sure the
16:06facilities are nice and and things like that um but not totally surprised that it happened uh you know
16:12louisiana lawmakers have been very active in gambling issues this year they just last week
16:17i think we talked about on the show they passed a sweepstakes casino ban uh one of four states to
16:22have done that so far this session um they also sort of talked about online casino as we headed into
16:28the session so you know i think that louisiana might be one of the states to kind of keep an eye
16:33on as we move forward in that discussion in future sessions um but yeah to your point
16:38lawmakers across the country are looking at sports betting as a way to further increase their tax
16:45revenues we saw that the proposal in ohio that that didn't make it but then we've seen the five
16:50percent increase in maryland that was signed in the budget and then of course recently uh illinois
16:56introducing that uh kind of bonkers per bet wager 25 25 yeah so i had 25 cents per bet it's a pretty
17:05crazy bet but yeah interesting ways the lawmakers are looking at increasing taxes through sports
17:10betting can you imagine if they made it 25 percent that would be yeah what a what a misspeak by me
17:18there yeah a quarter a bet remember the old days you put the quarter in the machine and you get the play
17:26all right pat great to catch up with you some games were 50 cents by the way that's when i
17:31i drew the line 80s pat thanks again for coming on appreciate it all right thanks craig welcome
17:36back to newswire here on sports great i'm craig mish time to dive into the latest in the nba a couple
17:41of topics to get to a name i haven't heard in a while by the way pops up here also adam sandler
17:46ahead of happy gilmore 2 makes a promise to an nfl player based on results sounds a little strange but
17:53true time now for some last licks okay there is like this unending criticism about the broadcast
18:06of the nba finals i don't know if you guys have caught this but if you're on social media like i
18:11am you're i mean i'm not on a lot by the way but every time i'm on there i'm seeing people complaining
18:17about the broadcast about the court and last night it happened again in oklahoma city basically unable
18:23to see the logo on the court in the nba of the nba finals it can't make this stuff up hard to see the
18:30larry o'brien trophy also i suppose this just goes back in previous history when they played in the nba
18:36finals and they played the championship it was just so glorious and everything was decked out and i guess
18:41they're just feeling like it's being a little bit overshadowed on the court uh in oklahoma city for the
18:46thunder now we'll see if they get this corrected for the next game but for those of you who are on
18:50social media and you want to take a look at it it's really easy to do just search it out and you
18:54certainly will find it needless to say probably important to have the nba's logo somewhere on
19:00the court that you can see and i'm sure by the way it's there but it's just hard to see on tv
19:05now this was something that really caught me off guard i gotta be honest okay so don nelson hall of
19:12fame coach in the national basketball association probably most associated i think he coached the
19:18knicks if i'm not mistaken but most associated with the golden state warriors and the dallas
19:24mavericks fair to say okay uh right now don nelson out of nowhere by the way wearing sneakers that show
19:34his objection to his former team if you're following along in the dallas mavericks trading
19:40luca donches to the los angeles lakers did don nelson coach the lakers frank too i i think he may
19:45have coached the lakers he coached like everybody in the nba i know it was the mavericks i know it was
19:51the warriors i i think it was the knicks too that he coached and i i think he may have coached the
19:57lakers too either way don nelson is one of these sort of guys who has disappeared okay good good thing he
20:04didn't coach the lakers but he sort of disappeared from the nba i believe he lives in the mountains or
20:08something like that i don't know definitely a different guy great coach in his day very upset
20:13clearly that luca was traded but in the end we'll see how this all plays out i i know the trade still
20:19looks bad on paper but i don't know something tells me that uh mavericks are going to be okay here
20:24because they got the number one overall pick of the draft so something tells me cooper flag takes them
20:28back to where they were okay so coming out next month on netflix is a movie called happy gilmore
20:35two for a lot of you who are streaming the show it's possible that you just simply didn't see happy
20:42gilmore it was a long time ago i mean it's it just was this is the truth a lot of people feel
20:47like this is adam sailor's best movie only going to be streaming next month all the media starting
20:52to come out for it comes out in july so adam sandler appeared on the dan patrick show which is
20:58both simulcast on tv and radio and derrick henry is a derrick henry the running back in the nfl
21:04is a huge adam sandler fan sandler promised for this upcoming season that if derrick henry rushes for
21:112 000 yards he gets to be in an adam sandler movie now it doesn't mean it's happy gilmore 3 or anything
21:18like that it just means that he gets to appear on one of his flicks you know i think that that's
21:23going to be hard for derrick henry to do but why did sandler set that the uh line so high here
21:28couldn't have been 1800 1700 something like that feels a little too high derrick henry's one of the
21:33oldest running backs in the nfl now i know he was fantastic last year you can make a case he was in
21:37the conversation to win the mvp you can't just put him in a movie just for being derrick henry there's
21:42a lot of other celebs that are in that movie by the way a lot of cameos coming uh for that movie uh
21:47happy gilmore 2 again something we'll talk about as we get closer to the actual movie coming out