Tiger’s crash, Sweet 16 drama, and Opening Day buzz

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Left right, jab, cross, duck. Welcome to PTI Boys and Girls. In today's episode, notable moments from baseball's opening day towards Gervin's issue with Caleb Williams and Duke is back on the court tonight. But we begin today with Tiger Woods arrested on suspicion of DUI, property damage and refusal to submit

to a lawful test after a roll over car accident in Jupiter Island, Florida. Woods's car was reportedly one of two cars involved with no reported injuries. Police say Woods appeared impaired, passed the breathalyzer, but refused to give a urine sample. Five years ago, Woods suffered massive trauma to his right leg in a one car accident outside of Los Angeles. We'll find we have so much more to learn.

“But what did you think about when you heard this news?”

Tony, my first thought was, again,

made Tiger Woods clearly a bright man, a talented man, one of the most important sports figures in the history of the world.

He just has these lapses, these are mishaps, these are huge either lapses of judgment or capability. Because this isn't the first or as you mentioned in the second incident with a vehicle. He was cited for driving under the influence in 2017 and talked himself admitted essentially to having an unexpected reaction to prescribed medication. Then in 2021, the various serious accident, while falling asleep, that threatened to take his right leg. Then you have this roll over, and so how flawed is this Tiger Woods who has to be worth north of a half billion dollars?

You can't find a driver. You can't, there's nobody in your life that will force you that will intervene and say, dude, you're going to lose your life. How many chances do you want at this? These are not mishaps on these are stunning developments. Yes, you think it's part of a pattern and I understand that.

Yes, I mean, the most recent time we had seen Tiger was just the other night. He played a TGL. He seemed happy. He seemed joyful to be on a team. He had not ruled out playing in the masters. This is a setback.

There was no question about that. I'll just go to my notes for a second.

I mean, the good thing is he's not hurt. He's also in a jail cell. He had to spend time in a jail cell here and there's no other way to look at this other than. Tiger Woods is a magical figure in golf and in all of sports, all of sports. And the sad thing for both of us here, you and I is we are not surprised. You hear news like this, you are not necessarily surprised for all of his greatness.

He seems star crossed in many ways. His marriage, his injuries, his pain, his physical pain. And I wonder if there is emotional pain as well. I wonder, we're very glad what is it said? He's all right. Yes. But yes. What comes next? What comes next? We move now to last night's sweet 16 games. The early games were great.

Purdue beat Texas on a last second tip in Iowa, beaten Nebraska in part because of a basket.

Iowa got when Nebraska had just four players on the court. The late games were not nearly as competitive. Arizona scored a hundred and nine on Arkansas.

“They were beaten by 21 and Illinois throttled Houston. Will bond, what is your biggest headline from these four games?”

Tony, like you mentioned, love the first two games that the competitive close nature of them. You know, I started to call them, wake you up. But it was far too late to tell you to watch your new faith, the team you have a crush on. Illinois, because they were doing all the things that you have come to love about them in the last month. But Tony for me, it's Arizona.

Shout out first to Charles Wayne Barkley, who says in the pre game, and I thought Charles was nuts at the time. This game won't be close. Arizona is going to just take them apart. And that's what Arizona did, Tony. They're bigger and stronger and faster and more control. They've got a greater diversity, offensively ways to score and ways to beat you.

that's to meet the most impressive thing of the night.

“I said the other day that that could be a hundred to ninety nine.”

I was wrong. I underbid. They scored a hundred at nine points. They won that game easily. We will disagree just just in terms of shading. I thought the biggest headline was used in losing like that to Illinois. Illinois played big boy basketball. Illinois held at the 34% shooting.

If I have this right, 22 of 64 for the field in nine of 32 from three. Houston was in the final game last year. Houston had a great path to the final four right now when Florida went out. It looked easy for them because they're playing at home. They're in the city of Houston, two miles from the campus.

So if I'm Kelvin Samson, I look at that game and I go, what happened here in there is something I could have done to prevent this. The other two games, they don't have remarkable results. I mean, you expect Purdue to win a game like that over Texas. They get a great basketball play at the end of the game in a great game.

You cannot be surprised when Iowa beats Nebraska or the other way. You have three matches.

When you have three matches of conference teams, you can never be surprised to wins.

I was rooting for Nebraska because, you know, Nebraska to me was a Cinderella. But even Cinderella's have to have five people on the court at various points during this whole game.

“But I just, I think those were unremarkable results.”

But the Houston won once a remarkable result. Tony, just to note this, Kelvin Samson, when Illinois, and I'm sure he will wonder that because he's that kind of coach. But when Illinois shoots it like that with the size and the depth they have when they shoot it that way, I mean, I don't know that even Arizona who I have winning the whole thing.

And I think you do too. I mean, that's the one, maybe Illinois can match up with Arizona when they shoot it that way and they did last night. When you talk about shooting it that way, Arizona shot it 64%. That's unbelievable. Wow, 60 points in the pain it was less moved to the major moments of baseball's full opening day. The headlines include Kyle Tucker driving it around for the Dodgers.

Mike Chow hitting a home run as you turn to center field. The Miz strike it out 11 of the Brewers 20 against the miserable, awful white socks. Terry Scoobal and Garrick Rochet looked strong, Roman Anthony went three for four for the socks. And big days for tigers rookie Kevin McGonaggo and Guardians rookie chased a lot of tone was stood out to you. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just going to go to the Nationals beating your cubs in Ridgly field.

Beat them ten or four of the body. They had ten runs. I don't know how many times they had ten runs last year wasn't many. They had three home runs again wasn't many times last year that they had three home runs in a game. But I understand that's a marginal game. And I just figured up because I watched it and the cubs are involved. And I went to cable channel 1261 to get it and I didn't know cable went up that high.

I'll talk about a young man and an old man.

The first pro game he ever had in the major leagues. He goes four for five. He scores two runs. He drives into runs. He gets two doubles.

Nice. Great. Absolutely. And he helps Tarick Scoobal who ends up six innings three hits no earn. The old man is my trap.

Who has been robbed of his greatness by injuries over a long period of time. He goes out there yesterday. He gets on base four times. He has a home run. He has a stolen base and he plays centerfield. You know, many stolen bases. He had all last year. He used to be a great runner over 40 a year. He had two all last year.

You know, many times in the last two years. He's been in the circumstance where he's been on base four times. And again twice in two years. Mike, I know you joined me in saying those it would be great. It would be great if he was great again because he was going to be an all timer.

Mike Trout was an all timer. He was tone no doubt. By the way, I hope he can be great and get traded. By the deadline. Let him go. I mean, you can't be expected if you're the angels.

“And you haven't done enough at this point to give him to the playoffs more than I think once.”

And I don't trust them. And I don't trust that to be the venue that he becomes Mike Trout again. I like you absolutely hope he can become that. So let me tell you how the thing that struck me yesterday wasn't the performance. It's not yet.

I'll get into baseball in June. It's still cold here. It's 37 degrees here. And Major League Baseball's lucky. The clubs and nationals aren't scheduled till tomorrow. That's right. That's right.

But don't this this. It's not like, you know, like the shift. I was not like the pitch clock. Those things were immediate successes. You saw the impact they had on improving the product this.

This is intrusive tone. I got to take some time on that one. I liked it more than you did. I didn't think it was terrible at all. And I thought it went by quickly.

So we disagree on that. We'll wait.

Garvin of course is the iceman.

“But the young bears quarterback has decided he is the iceman.”

And he is attempted to legally patent the nickname under trademark law. This is frosted the iceman who says quote, I've been the iceman for 40 something years.

I never thought anybody would try to trade market.

That name is taken. And I'm saying, young fellow, we've already got one iceman on quote. We've on your head must be exploding. You love Garvin and you love Caleb Williams. I do.

It's Garvin correct to be upset that Williams is trying to trade mark. Iceman. My head's not exploding at all. Because iceman is iceman. It's George Garvin.

He's ice. Okay. That's it. I like it when Caleb Williams does this. I've been sitting in the soldier field in person when he's doing it.

Because I'm in the stands doing this. And I feel like the iceman. I don't know this one. This George Garvin. When I am lucky enough to see George Garvin gets a goose bumps on the road.

When I see him in a game in Texas or somewhere. And I say hello ice. Not even George is ice.

You know, this is your peer.

You and as much as you love Garvin and Julius and the guys that you covered that your peers. Caleb doesn't know he's not old enough to know ice. Caleb's dad is now. I'll ask Carl about this.

But the marketing people that get off their behind and put them together. In some sort of ad as ice men. Nobody calls Caleb ice. Here's Chicago. Nobody.

Of course not. Yeah. What are we talking about here? Who exactly is Caleb Williams? What exactly has he accomplished?

He'll excuse me. And who exactly is referring to him as iceman? George Garvin is the iceman. Now, if you my age, you're old enough to know what a Chicago zone. Jerry Butler, the singer.

You know, you won't, he won't love you like I love you. He was the iceman before Garvin. But he reports George Garvin is the iceman. Not some lovely kid from Gonzaga High School. I'm sorry.

That's how it works. And yeah, they want to get together. They want to get together. And yeah. And they want to meet and Caleb Williams will say it's your nickname.

It's not my nickname because it looks like Mike. It looks like he's trying to steal George Garvin's identity. Yeah, not to me because he doesn't know who he is. Tony, it'd be good for both of them to get together. Because what that would do in the present is make a whole generation of people aware of George Garvin

who now are not. So the marketing people wake up and stop advertising super balls and put these two together. Wake up. You shouldn't be able to trademark a name that's somebody else's name. It's not like anybody's going around calling themselves the Bambino.

Let's take a break. Coming up number one seems to get Michigan. They've sweet 16 games tonight. Which team is more vulnerable?

“And which number two CD you have more confidence on?”

You can. Or I was state toss up next. There was an iceman in top gun in the original top gun movie. But George Garvin is the iceman. George Garvin is ice.

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Time for toss-up. Two men enter. One man leaves and spends the next 54 hours. Either watching college basketball or texting will-bond. About how his cobs are getting pounded by my knats.

Once first toss-up came tonight.

They can't get pounded. Toss-up.

“Which number one seed feels more vulnerable tonight?”

Duke or Michigan? Duke feels more vulnerable to me and I root for Duke. They haven't shown greatness so far. And St. John's is formidable and undervalued and underseeded at a number five. They won the Big East regular season.

They won the Big East tournament. They beat Yukon two out of three times this year.

Who knows what he's doing.

“You know, that's a scary game I believe for Duke.”

Michigan, let me get to Michigan. Michigan plays Alabama. Alabama's going to throw up a ton of threes. And maybe they'll make them all. But I think Mike, what happened to Arkansas last night is what's going to happen to Alabama tonight.

Yeah, Alabama to me is got the biggest treat to climb to get to its opponent tonight. I mean, St. John's, I got St. John's beating Duke in my bracket. And Lars, if you because you looked at this now. Now, Foster is going to be back in the lineup. Okay, for us for the guard.

For two guards. It's been played. That was your choice.

Way up in those first two games.

You turn the ball over again, St. John's. You're going down. But if they can play in an environment, it is which is going to be Tony to me equally charged in terms of passion. There's going to be a lot of big East people in that building in Washington, DC.

A lot of Duke fans, a lot of things. They live in the mid Atlantic and they'll go. That's right. But a lot of, I don't see Alabama's going to have to make 50% of its threes to beat Michigan tonight. And that will not be close in terms of fan support.

The United Center will be maze and blue. And then it will look like somebody with state colors because they can drive as close as the Michigan people are.

“So Alabama's in for her tonight, I think.”

Yeah, I mean, the big ten's play great. The big ten is establishing itself as the best conference in the sweet 16, right?

I mean, that's what I would say.

No. I have a little bit of ability. Duke is vulnerable. What's next? Toss up which number two C do you have more confidence in tonight?

You con or Iowa state? Let me just say that the UConn Michigan state game is the best game on the board. That's the game. I'm going to stay up and I got to stay up. I'm going to stay up and watch that.

And I think UConn is really good. But I have more confidence in Iowa state tonight. And that's because Iowa state is playing Tennessee tonight. Tennessee is not as good as Michigan state. So I think it's an easier match.

And if you look at what's happened to the SEC so far, they've lost a lot of teams.

“Florida, Arkansas, Vanderbilt, Texas, Texas A&M.”

Kentucky, Missouri. And Iowa state's really good. Iowa state this year as beaten Houston. They beaten Kansas. They beaten Purdue.

And they beaten St. John's. It's just Mike. I'm saying it's harder for me to pick UConn than it is to pick Iowa state. Yeah, Tony, I grew at that. And Iowa state, we don't know Josh Richardson.

You know, I earlier had different reports here in Chicago where the team is. And we'll be playing tonight. Obviously, Iowa state would be better off with him in the lineup. But they defend even if he's not in the lineup. They really defend.

And Tennessee to me is going to have trouble getting any pace and rhythm in this game. Against Iowa state, which again, will feel like it's playing at home. Now, I know what the United Center is going to look and sound like tonight. It's going to sound like a home game for Michigan. And it's going to sound like a home game for Iowa state.

And they're going to have all of that in their advantage. Look, UConn is every bit Michigan State's equal. They just start. I mean, those are two heavy weights, blue bloods, anything you want. How do you want to turn it?

But I got Michigan State in that game. I got Michigan State going to the final. So, you know, I got St. John's and Michigan State winning in your town in Washington, DC tonight. That's it. We're about to corner me in just doing a towel.

Let's take one last break. But still to come, UConn loses a top assistant, which means Bill Murray might be coming to a boss in Jim near you. And the feisty horse is snapped the next seven-game win streak. Told you yesterday, told you. Now you had that one.

I remember that you had that one. You're the one who's been playing the game for the whole time. You're the one who's been playing the game for the whole time. You're the one who's been playing the game for the whole time. You're the one who's been playing the game for the whole time.

You're the one who's been playing the game for the whole time. You're the one who's been playing the game for the whole time. You're the one who's been playing the game for the whole time. [music] Happy time.

People happy 39th birthday, Buster Pose. The giant's great catcher and three-time world series winner is now president of baseball operations in San Francisco. He had an opening for manager when Bob Melvin was fired after finishing 81 and 81 last season. Many assumed Posey would go after his former manager, Bruce Bose. But Posey hired Tony Vetello, who was coaching the University of Tennessee.

The Tello had never managed to game in the majors.

Posey's choice is one of the most intriguing, if not risky, hires ever. So far, Vetello was all in one, having lost at the 87-nothing unopening deck. That's right, Tony.

“The work was still more important now as golf.”

You realized Posey is officially listed publicly as a six-handy cap. I mean, he's good. It's a short retirement. He's gotten good in a hurry. But better than we are.

At the University of Oregon, on this day 87 years ago, Oregon won the first ever NCAA Basketball Tournament,

defeating Ohio State 46-33 in the championship game of what was then an eight-team field. Oregon did not return to the final four until 2017. Oregon has become a legitimate football power in recent years. The same cannot be said about the duck's basketball team this year. Oregon finished 16th in the big 10 this year.

For those of you keeping track, the big 10 has 18 teams. Oregon lived in 12 and 20. It's worth season under Dana Altman and it's fewest win since eight wins in 2009. Then Altman came in and rattled off 15 consecutive 20 win seasons before this year's dud. You know where that final four was, Tony, I was there today.

Evan's in Illinois, Patton, Gymnasium where I played my inner mural basketball. How about that? I didn't know. That was amazing.

Happy trails to you, Con, for Luke Murray.

The assistant coach on Danny Hurley's staff is leading the host. He used to become a head coach at Boston College. Murray won two national championships with Hurley and gets praise for helping build the team's offense of system. He's also the son of actor Bill Murray.

Well, I'm BC has struggled for years.

“I think this higher will get people to actually go to games to see Bill Murray.”

And you'll say to people, big hitter to the Lama, big hitter. I mean, you don't roof anybody like your own son. But Bill Murray's got one team. One team for real, we share that team.

They lost to your nationals today.

And they're shivering in front of a fire place somewhere today in Chicago. Let's go to the big finish if we could. Let's do it. The one that's ended the next seven game win streak. You had that call, your impressions.

Yes, Knipple, the rookie of the year in the NBA had 26. He was the best player on the floor last night. Charlotte's going to be a handful for somebody. And if they get in a playoff full field.

“Alex Oveskin had his 34th career hat last night.”

You impressed? Yeah, he's 40 years old. And he's got 29 goals this year. I've been impressed with him. He's been on a club for 21 seasons.

One of the great careers in all sports ever. Sydney Crosby left yesterday's win over the senators with a lower body injury. Is that for us for concern? Yes. If there's recurrence of injuries across these age with the history of injuries coming up to the playoffs.

Yes, I'm concerned. Men's free skate at the world tomorrow is your boy, the quad guy going to wrap it up. I hope so. I do. And I hope he gets another shot at the Olympics.

Because what happened to him was very sad, I thought. Last one, Hannah Hadalgo, two assists away from a quadruple double. In Notre Dame's win over number two, and ending your impressed on you. 31 points, 10 steals, 11 rebounds, seven assists. Yes, that's the performance of the tournament.

No doubt, so far. We're out of time trying to do better than next time. Live, TV, kids, ain't nothing like it. I'm Mike Wilbott. Have a great weekend, Nuckleheads.

Yeah, there's something like it. I just can't say.