Podcasts about cinderellas

Today in history, the NFL defends its scheduling model, Quick Hitters: John Mobley Jr's back & Charles Woodson Jr's following in his dad's footsteps, the Big Ten continues their push for a 24-team playoff, why Cinderellas likely won't exist in a 24-team CFP, what the bowl system might look like in a 24-team field, does Ryan Day have the toughest coaching job in sports?, and we chatted with Coach Willoughby joined us to discuss his team's disqualification at the state track meet.

Strange & Unusual: Corporate Finance is wilder than we thought & the Kentucky Derby makes history.MLB: Cubs keep walking it off, even after anothe rpitcher goes down. Murekami starys hot & The Wheel: Rangers.NHL: Vincenzo comes back to talk about all the round 1 insanity and how the rest of the playoffs stack up.NBA: The Timberwolves and 76ers surprise into the conference semis, can they keep it up? Plus, our predictions for this round.NFL: The NFL is hibernating, but there's always something.Follow us & tell your friends to listen!X: @TaxiSquad1Instagram: @taxisquadpodcastTik Tok: @taxisquadpod

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Hour 2 of Jake & Ben on March 27, 2026 Bob Costas and his Pink Eye will forever live in infamy. But Clark Kellogg might give him a run for his money.  NIL seems to be ruining the concept of Cinderallas in the NCAA Tournament.  The NBA is so focused on Fixing Tanking, that they aren't even addressing the real issues with the league.  Could you do the 9-9-9 Challenge? 

We don't quite have the Cinderellas that we were expecting--but we have a frisky set of teams in the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA tournament. Hubert Davis is out at UNC after blowing a 19-point lead. It's time to play ball with MLB opening day here--but how to watch?

In the fourth hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain talk about the Mariners stream and television situation for the season ahead, then visit with Mike DeCourcy of The Sporting News who reacts to the NCAA Tournament so far, favorites winning against Cinderellas, the mass of big-time coaching jobs, Houston looking better and the Sweet 16 this week.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The guys discuss the Boilers marching on to the Sweet 16 after an impressive double-dip in St. Louis and the importance of Fletcher Loyer. Plus, have bloated NIL budgets for the power programs killed off Cinderella in the Big Dance and Rake fills in to enjoy his absolute favorite sandwich on the Hoagies & Hopes menu!Hoagies & Hops Hoagie of the Week: Pitt TwistChilly Water Brewing Co. Brew of the Week: Phillyapolis (Blonde / Golden Ale)

Mike DeCourcy of The Sporting News and Fox Sports joins Softy and Dick to react to the epic start of the 2026 NCAA Tournament, Cinderellas still having chances despite higher seeds dominating the last two tournaments, the amount of high profile coaching jobs that could be available soon, Houston looking better and his final four picks so far.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tom and Bill lament Bill's bracket, question Tom's, discuss the lack of Cinderellas this March, look forward to a marvelous MLB season, recount a disastrous first date, worry about the NBA, and roll through a busy Buy or Sell.For an ad-free version of this podcast, subscribe at BillReiter.Substack.com, or become a paying subscriber for added benefits and shows.

With no true mid-major runs, the 2026 tournament is shaping up to be one of the most predictable in recent memory. Or is it? What it means for San Diego State, Gonzaga, and Utah State and the new Pac-12?

With no true mid-major runs, the 2026 tournament is shaping up to be one of the most predictable in recent memory. Or is it? What it means for San Diego State, Gonzaga, and Utah State and the new Pac-12?

March Madness 2026 may be lacking mid major Cinderellas, but who truly cares about that when the endings are still legendary. National powers Florida and Kansas, along with Vanderbilt, suffered heartbreak endings, with Iowa, St, John's and Nebraska being on the elated end of those latest NCAA Men's Tournament finishes. And a certain individual is still very much all in on Rick Pitino's Johnnies exiting Duke in the Sweet 16. Plus, with the Lakers rolling to third in the West, is Luka Doncic now firmly in the MVP race with SGA and Wemby? And Leonard Fournette has had enough of seeing the barely NFLer Emmanuel Acho's opinion being visible? Enjoy this March Madness latest masterpiece from OVERALL, with Andrew joined with DJ Notorious and Eric! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

First Take resumes with the surging Lakers. Are they on the same level as the Spurs and Thunder? (0:00) Next, with zero mid-majors reaching the Sweet Sixteen, can we officially declare Cinderellas dead? (8:40) Then, WNBPA president Nneka Ogyumike tells all on the WNBA's new CBA! (18:00) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ken Carman and Anthony Lima recap the opening weekend of the NCAA Tournament, beginning with Ken's frustration regarding bartenders who struggle to operate TV remotes. They also engage in a heated debate about whether the transfer portal and NIL have sapped the tournament of its underdog magic or simply led to a higher quality of basketball.

The first two rounds of March Madness are in the books and the Sweet 16 is set. Cinderellas are fun, but we don't need a Cinderella -story to happen in order for the tournament to be great. :30- Mariners Opening Day is just three days away annnnnd we are pivoting… Breaking News time! The Seahawks have signed JSN to a four-year extension, making him the NFL's highest paid receiver (for now) and giving him $120 million guaranteed. :45- Coach bucky is here and we have more Breaking News! - What does Coach Bucky think about the Kraken heading to Finland in November for two games against Carolina? Should we make it a show trip? - The Mariners roster seems to be close to finalized and Mitch Garver will be Cal's backup again this year; what does Coach Bucky think about his return?

The first two rounds of March Madness are in the books and the Sweet 16 is set. Cinderellas are fun, but we don't need a Cinderella -story to happen in order for the tournament to be great. :30- Mariners Opening Day is just three days away annnnnd we are pivoting… Breaking News time! The Seahawks have signed JSN to a four-year extension, making him the NFL's highest paid receiver (for now) and giving him $120 million guaranteed. :45- Coach bucky is here and we have more Breaking News! - What does Coach Bucky think about the Kraken heading to Finland in November for two games against Carolina? Should we make it a show trip? - The Mariners roster seems to be close to finalized and Mitch Garver will be Cal's backup again this year; what does Coach Bucky think about his return? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosts Will Alimonos and Zach Bishop break down a jam-packed March 23, 2026 episode of Little Column A, Little Column B, recapping the Sweet 16 field and everything that stood out from the opening rounds of the NCAA Tournament. The conversation covers the big stories — Duke's unexpected scare against Siena, St. John's buzzer-beater over Kansas, Michigan State's prospects, and the biggest upsets and breakout performances that shaped the bracket. The hosts debate the so-called “death of the Cinderella,” how NIL and the transfer portal are changing upsets, and whether this year's tournament felt chalky or just high-quality. They run through picks for each region (Duke, Michigan State, Purdue, Houston, Texas, Arizona and more), take victory laps on correct calls, and react to standout games like High Point vs. Wisconsin, Iowa's upset of Florida, and Texas's run through Gonzaga and BYU. Beyond game recaps, Will and Zach dig into coaching and roster storylines — Siena's surprising showing, coaching moves and retirements (McNamara to Syracuse, Greg McDermott's retirement), rumors around Hubert Davis at UNC and Bill Self's future at Kansas, plus injury impacts for teams like Duke and Kentucky. They also debate tournament operations, including scheduling complaints, goaltending controversies, and whether expansion would help or hurt March Madness. The episode pivots to the NBA with discussions on rising physicality, recent altercations, and the growing push for expansion — with Seattle and Las Vegas leading the way. They break down relocation rumors, expansion draft implications, and whether the league should shorten the schedule alongside expansion. The show wraps with lighter notes, including flag football results, bracket contest standings (shoutout to Dave leading the board), and reminders to follow the podcast on social media. Expect sharp takes, game-by-game breakdowns, bracket strategy, coaching buzz, and bold predictions ahead of the Sweet 16. Timestamps: (00:00:42) Introduction to March Madness (00:05:22) The State of Cinderellas (00:06:45) Victory Laps and Bracket Breakdown (00:11:44) Duke's Close Call (00:13:32) St. John's vs. Kansas (00:18:42) Previewing Duke vs. St. John's (00:20:39) Michigan State vs. UConn (00:23:36) East Region Victory Laps (00:29:11) South Region Showdowns (00:29:53) Iowa vs. Nebraska (00:31:38) Arizona vs. Arkansas (00:34:36) Texas vs. Purdue (00:35:24) Michigan vs. Alabama (00:36:11) Tennessee vs. Iowa State (00:40:50) Kentucky's Tournament Exit (00:44:20) Reflections on Kentucky (00:53:26) NBA Expansion Talks (01:12:09) Relocation and Expansion

In the final hour of the show, the guys make their picks for this year's NCAA Tournament, including upsets, Cinderellas, Final Four teams, & more, they are joined by Dalen Cuff who breaks down every region of the bracket, Bone opens a gift from a listener, they preview the night in sports, they read funny texts, &more See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

00:00 – 10:49 – March Madness has arrived, Miami-Ohio puts on a show last night, Pacers get blown out by the Knicks as the losing streak continues, TY Hilton announces his retirement from the NFL and we are confused 10:50 – 21:05 – Morning Checkdown 21:06 – 42:48 – Marc’s rough day and then locking his keys in the car the other day, we do our final round of the NCAA Tourney players draft, Colts add a couple more players yesterday, Alec Pierce on with Jake yesterday 42:49 – 1:08:07 – Alec Pierce discussed wanting to stay in Indy, Marc’s daughter turns 9 today, we go through today’s slate of games and our Final Four/national championship match-ups, are we going to get as many Cinderellas and upsets with NIL/transfer portal?, Morning Checkdown 1:08:08 – 1:19:42– The Athletic’s college basketball reporter Justin Williams joins us and discusses how he thinks Purdue will do, upset alerts, what lower-seeds could make a run 1:19:43 – 1:22:43 – Cinderellas, we figure out our NCAA Player draft bet, Colts depth questions 1:22:44 – 1:53:09– Scott Agness of Fieldhouse Files joins and discusses his favorite March Madness memories, the Pacers lose their 15th straight last night, how to evaluate the Pacers the rest of this season, the new WNBA CBA, Caitlin Clark playing again, WNBA timeline, Cade Cunningham diagnosed with a collapsed lung, Morning Checkdown 1:53:10 – 2:03:40 – We play I GOTTA KNOW: our bugaboo March Madness teams, Josh Downs No. 2 WR?, NFL considering 5-year draft pick trades?, what are we watching? 2:03:41 – 2:08:49 – March Madness gets underway in a few hours, the people who have perfect brackets lateSupport the show: https://1075thefan.com/the-wake-up-call-1075-the-fan/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

March Madness bold predictions! Ranking potential March Madness Cinderellas! March Madness player points scored draft! The Sleepers Podcast is now available daily with new episodes every Monday-Friday! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

MARCH MADNESS!The ONLY! Tyler Peacock is here for yet another brand new episode of the PodCock PeaCast! It's March Madness! So naturally we'll go through the bracket, give you the picks, the Cinderellas to watch, the wagers to make, & much more. Thanks for listening!RATE REVIEW SUBSCRIBE! Follow the show on X @podcockpeacast & like the Facebook page @ PodCock PeaCast, Available on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcast & the rest of the major podcast platforms! Finally enjoy your listen!A semiprofessional sports podcast that may or may not have a gambling problem, we will touch some entertainment subjects as well & elements of general tomfoolery, also it may have a witty moment or two along the way.

JOIN THE EYE ON BRACKET GAME! Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander preview Thursday and Friday of the 2026 NCAA Tournament! Which Round 1 matchups are most intriguing? Where are the upsets waiting to happen? All that and more on the doorstep of the madness! (0:00) Intro + the tournament starts today! (4:00) Games to watch on Thursday (4:30) Ohio State vs. TCU (8:01) North Carolina vs. VCU (12:45) Georgia vs. Saint Louis (17:00) Nebraska vs. Troy (19:00) Duke vs. Siena (23:15) Arkansas vs. Hawaii (27:30) Games to watch on Friday (28:00) Kentucky vs. Santa Clara (33:30) Texas Tech vs. Akron (36:00) UConn vs Furman (38:30) Arizona vs LIU (44:00) Alabama vs Hofstra (48:20) Kansas vs. Cal Baptist (52:45) DraftKings Upset Alert (59:45) Sling TV Game to Watch: you gotta watch Miami on Wednesday night (1:08:30) Norlander's nuggets ahead of the tournament Theme song: “Timothy Leary,” written, performed and courtesy of Guster Eye on College Basketball is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow our team: @EyeonCBBPodcast @GaryParrishCBS @MattNorlander @Boone @DavidWCobb @TheJMULL_ Visit the ⁠betting arena on CBSSports.com⁠ for all the latest in ⁠sportsbook reviews⁠ and ⁠sportsbook promos⁠ for ⁠betting on college basketball⁠. You can listen to us on your smart speakers! Simply say, “Alexa, play the latest episode of the Eye on College Basketball podcast,” or “Hey, Google, play the latest episode of the Eye on College Basketball podcast.” Email the show for any reason whatsoever: ShoutstoCBS@gmail.com Visit Eye on College Basketball's YouTube channel: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeFb_xyBgOekQPZYC7Ijilw⁠ For more college hoops coverage, visit ⁠https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/⁠ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit ⁠https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dirt's back and it was quite a weekend at the Johnson house...a little bracket chatter for the fan bases coming to Portland...is there one region that is significantly harder than the others...and has NIL killed the true Cinderellas in the Tournament moving forward?

The show begins with Jim and Jon examining potential Cinderella stories for the upcoming NCAA tournament, highlighting underdogs like Santa Clara, High Point, and Hawaii, while also discussing the impact of NIL on team continuity. The program also touches on the Red Wings' critical victory over Calgary and the felony drug charges facing Alabama basketball star Aden Holloway.

In the first hour, DVD discussed what is Vandy's ceiling in the NCAA Tournament. They also discussed, are Cinderellas dead, and does that suck the fun out of the NCAA Tournament?

RUNDOWN   Mitch opens the show from Los Angeles, where he's in town to watch Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs play the Clippers—but not before attending a Division II baseball series featuring players who grew up with his sons. The conversation shifts to March Madness, with Mitch explaining why he believes the top teams—especially from the Big 12—are clearly ahead of the rest of the field. The Seahawks No-Table crew breaks down a turbulent offseason following their Super Bowl win. The trio discusses key departures in free agency, the team's deliberate approach to the salary cap, and why Seattle may rely on player development and the draft rather than splashy signings. Mitch talks with Tennessee State head coach Nolan Smith after the former Duke All-American and national champion led the Tigers to an Ohio Valley Conference title and an NCAA Tournament berth in his first year running the program. Smith reflects on learning the coaching profession under Mike Krzyzewski, navigating career setbacks after leaving Duke, and how those experiences shaped him as a leader. Mitch and Queens University head coach Grant Leonard talk after the Charlotte-based Royals captured the Atlantic Sun title and punched their ticket to the NCAA Tournament in their first season eligible for Division I postseason play. Leonard explains how a balanced offense—with six players averaging double figures—helped fuel the run, while also discussing the reality of roster building in the transfer portal era. Mitch welcomes back North Dakota State head coach Dave Richman, whose Bison are headed to the NCAA Tournament for the fourth time under his leadership after another Summit League title and a 27-win season. Richman talks about balancing loyalty to Fargo with the reality that successful mid-major coaches are constantly linked to bigger jobs, while also explaining how roster building has changed in the portal and NIL era. Mitch talks with Troy head coach Scott Cross after the Sun Belt regular-season and tournament champion Trojans earned their second straight NCAA Tournament berth. Cross explains how he rebuilt the roster after losing several starters to bigger NIL deals by promoting reserves who helped the program reach last year's tournament.   GUESTS   Brady Henderson | Former University of Washington point guard and longtime Huskies basketball radio analyst Jacson Bevens | Host, Refuse to Lose podcast Nolan Smith | head coach, Tennessee State Grant Leonard | head coach, Queens University Dave Richman | head coach, North Dakota State Scott Cross | head coach, Troy   TABLE OF CONTENTS   0:00 | Division II Baseball, March Madness Picks, and the Birthday Game 19:00 | Seahawks No-Table: Seattle's Super Bowl roster takes offseason hits, but the Seahawks' front office stays committed to long-term roster building instead of panic spending. 45:35 | Nolan Smith: Former Duke star Nolan Smith takes Tennessee State to the NCAA Tournament in his first season as a head coach. 1:02:09 | Grant Leonard: Queens University shocks the Atlantic Sun and reaches the NCAA Tournament in its first year of Division I eligibility. 1:15:24 | Dave Richman: North Dakota State coach Dave Richman returns to the NCAA Tournament—and reflects on building a winning program in Fargo during college basketball's NIL and transfer-portal era. 1:33:42 | Scott Cross: Troy head coach Scott Cross returns to the NCAA Tournament with a roster built on loyalty, development—and an unlikely pipeline from Puyallup, Washington.

A late winter blizzard swept across the upper Midwest, bringing 20 inches of snow and winds up to 40 mph to parts of the region. Meanwhile, the same weather system hit southern Tennessee with a possible tornado. Closing arguments are expected to begin on Monday in Kouri Richins' murder trial. She's accused of giving her husband a deadly dose of fentanyl four years ago before she later published a children's book about grief. The case included 13 days of testimony, but the defense did not call any witnesses. If convicted, Richins could face life in prison. "One Battle After Another" took home six awards at the Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, while Michael B. Jordan won Best Actor for his performance in "Sinners." Meanwhile, actor Billy Crystal led the in memoriam segment with an emotional tribute to Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, who were killed last year. Clayton Davis, the senior awards editor for Variety, joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss the big moments, winners and surprises at the Oscars. Sarah Gelman, the editorial director for Amazon Books, joins "CBS Mornings" with top book recommendations that celebrate remarkable women and trailblazers for Women's History Month. Nelson Dellis, a six-time USA Memory Champion and two-time Guinness World Record holder, says he wanted to learn more about memory after seeing his grandmother struggle with Alzheimer's. He gives techniques to improve our memories and discusses his new book, "Everyday Genius." March Madness begins this week with the First Four games on Tuesday and the tournament officially tipping off on Thursday. CBS Sports college basketball insider, analyst and sideline reporter Jon Rothstein breaks down the favorites to win it all, powerhouse teams who aren't the top seeds and possible Cinderellas of the tournament. Grammy award-winner Lizzo exclusively announced on "CBS Mornings" her latest project, a children's book called "Little Lizzo Meets Sasha B. Flute." She spoke with Gayle King about her inspiration for the book and message for young readers. A Ring camera in Tennessee captured an older man slowly climbing the steps of a home for a delivery. The homeowner, seeing the video, decided to post the video online to try and track the man down. She found him and gave him a $200 tip, but it didn't stop there. Thanks to the kindness of strangers, nearly $1 million was raised for the man in five days. David Begnaud reports. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

While everyone talks about brackets and Cinderellas, we're here for your softball needs. On today's In The Circle, powered by SixFour3, we recap all the notable events from a busy weekend of action. You'll hear our interviews with Oregon's Elon Butler and Wofford head coach Chelsea Butler. Plus, the guys share thoughts on the action they saw from their respective series and take issue with meteorologists.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The NCAA selected 68 teams. Now its time to determine which ones will make the Sweet 16 and beyond. Get your Cinderellas, sleepers and title contenders right here.

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The Field of 68's Rob Dauster joins Crain & Cone on Monday entering conference championship week to break down the bracket projections, from the top overall seeds to those on the bubble going into Selection Sunday, for the 2026 NCAA Tournament. -- -- -- 1st Phorm: https://1stphorm.com/BOOSTER -- -- -- Fitbod: https://fitbod.me/BOOSTER/ -- -- -- Intro: 0:00-1:49 Auburn, Teams on the Bubble: 1:50-5:59 Miami (OH), Mid-Major Thoughts: 6:00-8:58 1st Phorm: 8:59-10:53 More on Mid-Majors: 10:54-11:26 The Bubble: 11:27-14:15 The No. 1 Seeds: 14:16-17:26 Who are the Cinderellas?: 17:27-20:45 Fitbod: 20:46-22:11 Kentucky: 22:12-27:08 What to watch during Champ Week: 27:09-28:17 Wrapping up with Rob Dauster: 28:18-29:19 -- -- -- For partnership inquiries, please contact: crainandconesales@on3.com -- -- -- Follow Our Socials: X / Twitter: @CrainandCone Instagram: @CrainCompany TikTok: @CrainandCone Crain & Cone, hosted by former college athletes Jake Crain, Blain Crain, and David Cone, is a college sports show dedicated to delivering quality analysis and passionate insight to the most die-hard fans.For partnership inquiries, please contact: crainandconesales@on3.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Does anyone want top four seeds in the NCAA tournament? Losses abound this weekend in the big conferences. Meanwhile small conference champs are punching tickets and looming as public favorites as 12 and 13 seeds. Queens, High Point, Northern Iowa: Get your Cinderellas now! Plus, the Miami OH magical season finishes without a loss.

We all know what happens next.. but with no clocks on the way and no way to tell when everyone turns back into pumpkins and mice... what do we do?We keep dancing, drinking and pretending that midnight isn't coming.

MARCH is around the corner. The ONLY! Tyler Peacock is back for a new episode of the PodCock PeaCast! It's time for some serious College Basketball talk. So we release our first Sweet 16 Power Rankings, also a top 10 list of potential Cinderellas who could bust your brackets in March. Last bit of CBB for this week's show is a weekend tasting menu of the biggest games of the upcoming weekend. Next on the agenda is a little Racin'! We react to the Daytona 500 that was, next we preview the Atlanta race, & of course looking at the betting markets & give out some potential wagers to make. Last thing on the card is a brief look at the UFC action this Saturday, some bouts to watch & fighters to who should be highlighted, & of course some money making opportunities as I see it. Thanks for listening!RATE REVIEW SUBSCRIBE! Follow the show on X @podcockpeacast & like the Facebook page @ PodCock PeaCast, Available on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcast & the rest of the major podcast platforms! Finally enjoy your listen!A semiprofessional sports podcast that may or may not have a gambling problem, we will touch some entertainment subjects as well & elements of general tomfoolery, also it may have a witty moment or two along the way.

Bracketologist Brad Evans joins Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner to break down Illinois basketball's NCAA Tournament potential and seeding possibilities. Evans breaks down what he's seen out of this Illinois team and whether it's Brad Underwood's best team. He also breaks down the Big Ten's top seeds and bubble teams and some potential Cinderellas for this year's March Madness. Follow the Illini Inquirer Podcast on: Apple: https://apple.co/3oMt0NP Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2Xan2L8  Other: https://bit.ly/36gn7Ct   Go VIP for just 50% OFF: https://tinyurl.com/2fkhmjdz  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tyler and Matt open the mailbag and answer questions on conference play including potential Cinderella teams to make a run in the A10 tournament, players who could take over, upcoming search seasons, and more.Follow us on Twitter! @3BidLeaguePodEmail: 3bidleague@gmail.com

As college basketball turns to the new year, we find more Cinderellas. NCAA-ineligible St. Thomas could wreck the Summit. Akron leads an improving MAC. Yale is a strong favorite in the Ivy. UC San Diego and UC Irvine might be at-large contenders in the Big West. St. Mary's and New Mexico try to prevent leaving teams from winning their conference titles. And finals participants Florida and Houston are quietly still threats for the national title.

Preview #1 takes us from the Northeast to the Big 10. Michigan is dominant so far, but there's trap games in February. The Big East and ACC look for more bids come March. Mid-level schools live by the transfer portal and die by the transfer portal. And a first look for Cinderellas in the Ohio Valley, Patriot and the Coastal.

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To celebrate 200 episodes of Mortified, Aaron and Leyla bust out a ballroom full of baddies and cover 5 different adaptations of the Cinderella fairy tale. We discuss the essential Cinderellements, examine why Aaron doesn't know any famous singers, and recoil in terror as Andrew Lloyd Weber strikes again.  Bad Cinderella Is One of the Musicals of All Time- https://youtu.be/jkTz-SWzQnU?si=9r1QQFIK-usnjPHx ---  Our theme song is "Obsolete" by Keshco, from the album "Filmmaker's Reference Kit Volume 2." Our other projects: Aaron's TTRPGs Aaron's TTRPG Reviews aavoigt.com

– Has Chaim already shown you enough to trust him? Plus, what does a bad season do for Cards fans?– Did this weekend remind us that Cinderellas in CFP are only a dream? Plus, how are you feeling on Mizzou's hire?– Are you allowing yourself to believe in Blues again?– The Junk DrawerSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Eric Frandsen and Jason Walker prepare for the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.Post-practice interviews with Utah State players Brady Boyd and Tyree Morris.Joel Klatt has been drinking too much SEC Kool-Aid and does not believe in the NCAA tournament or Cinderellas.

The Saturday Edition of the Good Morning Football Podcast looks back at an attempt to find which team will be the NFC Cinderella this season. Manti Te'o looks at the season and career of Myles Garrett. Plus, how are the Preseason Predictions of the breakfast table holding up? The Good Morning Football Podcast is part of the NFL Podcast NetworkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Saturday Edition of the Good Morning Football Podcast looks back at an attempt to find which team will be the NFC Cinderella this season. Manti Te'o looks at the season and career of Myles Garrett. Plus, how are the Preseason Predictions of the breakfast table holding up? The Good Morning Football Podcast is part of the NFL Podcast NetworkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We go way back to January 1954 in this episode with a feature from Suppressed Magazine, featuring a few high society ladies much discussed in our investigation. These are early days for these Three Cinderellas, who were determined to marry well, and boy did they. First up, the lovely Georgette Windsor, who will land Harry Cooke Cushing IV. Filling out the middle, Gregg Sherwood, who will land Horace Dodge Jr. in her second time down the aisle. Rounding out these lovely ladies is a fan favorite around here, Bobo Sears, who landed Winthrop Rockefeller. Lots of names, lots of spiderwebs in this one! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We go way back to January 1954 in this episode with a feature from Suppressed Magazine, featuring a few high society ladies much discussed in our investigation. These are early days for these Three Cinderellas, who were determined to marry well, and boy did they. First up, the lovely Georgette Windsor, who will land Harry Cooke Cushing IV. Filling out the middle, Gregg Sherwood, who will land Horace Dodge Jr. in her second time down the aisle. Rounding out these lovely ladies is a fan favorite around here, Bobo Sears, who landed Winthrop Rockefeller. Lots of names, lots of spiderwebs in this one! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Take 20% off a paid annual ‘Storm' subscription through Monday, Oct. 27, 2025.WhoJared Smith, Chief Executive Officer of Alterra Mountain CompanyRecorded onOctober 22, 2025About Alterra Mountain CompanyAlterra is skiing's Voltron, a collection of super-bots united to form one super-duper bot. Only instead of gigantic robot lions the bots are gigantic ski areas and instead of fighting the evil King Zarkon they combined to battle Vail Resorts and its cackling mad Epic Pass. Here is Alterra's current ski-bot stable:Alterra of course also owns the Ikon Pass, which for the 2025-26 winter gives skiers all of this:Ikon launched in 2018 as a more-or-less-even competitor to Epic Pass, both in number and stature of ski areas and price, but long ago blew past its mass-market competitor in both:Those 89 total ski areas include nine that Alterra added last week in Japan, South Korea, and China. Some of these 89 partners, however, are so-called “bonus mountains,” which are Alterra's Cinderellas. And not Cinderella at the end of the story when she rules the kingdom and dines on stag and hunts peasants for sport but first-scene Cinderella when she lives in a windowless tower and wears a burlap dress and her only friends are talking mice. Meaning skiers can use their Ikon Pass to ski at these places but they are not I repeat NOT on the Ikon Pass so don't you dare say they are (they are).While the Ikon Pass is Alterra's Excalibur, many of its owned mountains offer their own season passes (see Alterra chart above). And many now offer their own SUPER-DUPER season passes that let skiers do things like cut in front of the poors and dine on stag in private lounges:These SUPER-DUPER passes don't bother me though a lot of you want me to say they're THE END OF SKIING. I won't put a lot of effort into talking you off that point so long as you're all skiing for $17 per day on your Ikon Passes. But I will continue to puzzle over why the Ikon Session Pass is such a very very bad and terrible product compared to every other day pass including those sold by Alterra's own mountains. I am also not a big advocate for peak-day lift ticket prices that resemble those of black-market hand sanitizer in March 2020:Fortunately Vail and Alterra seem to have launched a lift ticket price war, the first battle of which is The Battle of Give Half Off Coupons to Your Dumb Friends Who Don't Buy A Ski Pass 10 Months Before They Plan to Ski:Alterra also runs some heli-ski outfits up in B.C. but I'm not going to bother decoding all that because one reason I started The Storm was because I was over stories of Bros skiing 45 feet of powder at the top of the Chugach while the rest of us fretted over parking reservations and the $5 replacement cost of an RFID card. I know some of you are like Bro how many stories do you think the world needs about chairlifts but hey at least pretty much anyone reading this can go ride them.Oh and also I probably lost like 95 percent of you with Voltron because unless you were between the ages of 7 and 8 in the mid-1980s you probably missed this:One neat thing about skiing is that if someone ran headfirst into a snowgun in 1985 and spent four decades in a coma and woke up tomorrow they'd still know pretty much all the ski areas even if they were confused about what's a Palisades Tahoe and why all of us future wussies wear helmets. “Damn it, Son in my day we didn't bother and I'm just fine. Now grab $20 and a pack of smokes and let's go skiing.”Why I interviewed himFor pretty much the same reason I interviewed this fellow:I mean like it or not these two companies dominate modern lift-served skiing in this country, at least from a narrative point of view. And while I do everything I can to demonstrate that between the Indy Pass and ski areas not in Colorado or Utah or Tahoe plenty of skier choice remains, it's impossible to ignore the fact that Alterra's 17 U.S. ski areas and Vail's 36 together make up around 30 percent of the skiable terrain across America's 509 active ski areas:And man when you add in all U.S. Epic and Ikon mountains it's like dang:We know publicly traded Vail's Epic Pass sales numbers and we know those numbers have softened over the past couple of years, but we don't have similar access to Alterra's numbers. A source with direct knowledge of Ikon Pass sales recently told me that unit sales had increased every year. Perhaps some day someone will anonymously message me a screenshot code-named Alterra's Big Dumb Chart documenting unit and dollar sales since Ikon's 2018 launch. In the meantime, I'm just going to have to keep talking to the guy running the company and asking extremely sly questions like, “if you had to give us a ballpark estimate of exactly how many Ikon Passes you sold and how much you paid each partner mountain and which ski area you're going to buy next, what would you say?”What we talked aboutA first-to-open competition between A-Basin and Winter Park (A-Basin won); the allure of skiing Japan; Ikon as first-to-market in South Korea and China; continued Ikon expansion in Europe; who's buying Ikon?; bonus mountains; half-off friends tickets; reserve passes; “one of the things we've struggled with as an industry are the dynamics between purchasing a pass and the daily lift ticket price”; “we've got to find ways to make it more accessible, more affordable, more often for more people”; Europe as a cheaper ski alternative to the West; “we are focused every day on … what is the right price for the right consumer on the right day?”; “there's never been more innovation” in the ski ticket space; Palisades Tahoe's 14-year-village-expansion approval saga; America's “increasingly complex” landscape of community stakeholders; and Deer Valley's massive expansion.What I got wrong* We didn't get this wrong, but when we recorded this pod on Wednesday, Smith and I discussed which of Alterra's ski areas would open first. Arapahoe Basin won that fight, opening at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 25, which was yesterday unless you're reading this in the future.* I said that 40 percent of all Epic, Ikon, and Indy pass partners were outside of North America. This is inaccurate: 40 percent (152) of those three passes' combined 383 partners is outside the United States. Subtracting their 49 Canadian ski areas gives us 103 mountains outside of North America, or 27 percent of the total.* I claimed that a ski vacation to Europe is “a quarter of the price” of a similar trip to the U.S. This was hyperbole, and obviously the available price range of ski vacations is enormous, but in general, prices for everything from lift tickets to hotels to food tend to be lower in the Alps than in the Rocky Mountain core.* It probably seems strange that I said that Deer Valley's East Village was great because you could drive there from the airport without hitting a spotlight and also said that the resort would be less car-dependent. What I meant by that was that once you arrive at East Village, it is – or will be, when complete – a better slopeside pedestrian village experience than the car-oriented Snow Park that has long served as the resort's principal entry point. Snow Park itself is scheduled to evolve from parking-lot-and-nothing-else to secondary pedestrian village. The final version of Deer Valley should reduce the number of cars within Park City proper and create a more vibrant atmosphere at the ski area.Questions I wish I'd askedThe first question you're probably asking is “Bro why is this so short aren't your podcasts usually longer than a Superfund cleanup?” Well I take what I can get and if there's a question you can think of related to Ikon or Alterra or any of the company's mountains, it was on my list. But Smith had either 30 minutes or zero minutes so I took the win.Podcast NotesOn Deer ValleyI was talking to the Deer Valley folks the other day and we agreed that they're doing so much so fast that it's almost impossible to tell the story. I mean this was Deer Valley two winters ago:And this will be Deer Valley this winter:Somehow it's easier to write 3,000 words on Indy Pass adding a couple of Northeast backwaters than it is to frame up the ambitions of a Utah ski area expanding by as much skiable acreage as all 30 New Hampshire ski areas combined in just two years. Anyway Deer Valley is about to be the sixth-largest ski area in America and when this whole project is done in a few years it will be number four at 5,700 acres, behind only Vail Resorts' neighboring Park City (7,300 acres), Alterra's own Palisades Tahoe (6,000 acres), and Boyne Resorts' Big Sky (5,850 acres).On recent Steamboat upgradesYes the Wild Blue Gondola is cool and I'm sure everyone from Baton-Tucky just loves it. But everything I'm hearing out of Steamboat over the past couple of winters indicates that A) the 650-acre Mahogany Ridge expansion adds a fistfighting dimension to what had largely been an intermediate ski resort, and that, B) so far, no one goes over there, partially because they don't know about it and partially because the resort only cut one trail in the whole amazing zone (far looker's left):I guess just go ski this one while everyone else still thinks Steamboat is nothing but gondolas and Sunshine Peak.On Winter Park being “on deck”After stringing the two sides of Palisades Tahoe together with a $75 trillion gondola and expanding Steamboat and nearly tripling the size of Deer Valley, all signs point to Alterra next pushing its resources into actualizing Winter Park's ambitious masterplan, starting with the gondola connection to town (right side of map):On new Ikon Pass partners for 2025-26You can read about the bonus partners above, but here are the write-ups on Ikon's full seven/five-day partners:On previous Alterra podcastsThis was Smith's second appearance on the pod. Here's number one, from 2023:His predecessor, Rusty Gregory, appeared on the show three times:I've also hosted the leaders of a bunch of Alterra leaders on the pod, most recently A-Basin and Mammoth:And the heads of many Ikon Pass partners – most recently Killington and Sun Valley:On U.S. passes in JapanEpic, Ikon, Indy, and Mountain Collective are now aligned with 48 ski areas in Japan – nearly as many as the four passes have signed in Canada:On EuropeAnd here are the European ski areas aligned with Epic, Ikon, Indy, and Mountain Collective – the list is shorter than the Japanese list, but since each European ski area is made up of between one and 345 ski areas, the actual skiable acreage here is likely equal to the landmass of Greenland:On skier and ski area growth in ChinaChina's ski industry appears to be developing rapidly - I'm not sure what to make of the difference between “ski resorts” and “ski resorts with aerial ropeways.” Normally I'd assume that means with or without lifts, but that doesn't make a lot of sense and sometimes nations frame things in very different ways.On the village at Palisades TahoeThe approval process for a village expansion on the Olympic side of Palisades Tahoe was a very convoluted one. KCRA sums the outcome up well (I'll note that “Alterra” did not call for anything in 2011, as the company didn't exist until 2017):Under the initial 2011 application, Alterra had called for the construction of 2,184 bedrooms. That was reduced to 1,493 bedrooms in a 2014 revised proposal where 850 housing units — a mix of condominiums, hotel rooms and timeshares — were planned. The new agreement calls for a total of 896 bedrooms.The groups that pushed this downsizing were primarily Keep Tahoe Blue and Sierra Watch. Smith is very diplomatic in discussing this project on the podcast, pointing to the “collaboration, communication, and a little bit of compromise” that led to the final agreement.I'm not going to be so diplomatic. Fighting dense, pedestrian-oriented development that could help reconfigure traffic patterns and housing availability in a region that is choking on ski traffic and drowning in housing costs is dumb. The systems for planning, approving, and building anything that is different from what already exists in this nation are profoundly broken. The primary issue is this: these anti-development crusaders position themselves as environmental defenders without acknowledging (or, more likely, realizing), that the existing traffic, blight, and high costs driving their resistance is a legacy of haphazard development in past decades, and that more thoughtful, human-centric projects could mitigate, rather than worsen, these concerns. The only thing an oppose-everything stance achieves is to push development farther out into the hinterlands, exacerbating sprawl and traffic.British Columbia is way ahead of us here. I've written about this extensively in the past, and won't belabor the point here except to cite what I wrote last year about the 3,711-home city sprouting from raw wilderness below Cypress Mountain, a Boyne-owned Ikon Pass partner just north of Vancouver:Mountain town housing is most often framed as an intractable problem, ingrown and malignant and impossible to reset or rethink or repair. Too hard to do. But it is not hard to do. It is the easiest thing in the world. To provide more housing, municipalities must allow developers to build more housing, and make them do it in a way that is dense and walkable, that is mixed with commerce, that gives people as many ways to move around without a car as possible.This is not some new or brilliant idea. This is simply how humans built villages for about 10,000 years, until the advent of the automobile. Then we started building our spaces for machines instead of for people. This was a mistake, and is the root problem of every mountain town housing crisis in North America. That and the fact that U.S. Americans make no distinction between the hyper-thoughtful new urbanist impulses described here and the sprawling shitpile of random buildings that are largely the backdrop of our national life. The very thing that would inject humanity into the mountains is recast as a corrupting force that would destroy a community's already-compromised-by-bad-design character.Not that it will matter to our impossible American brains, but Canada is about to show us how to do this. Over the next 25 years, a pocket of raw forest hard against Cypress' access road will sprout a city of 3,711 homes that will house thousands of people. It will be a human-scaled, pedestrian-first community, a city neighborhood dropped onto a mountainside. A gondola could connect the complex to Cypress' lifts thousands of feet up the mountain – more cars off the road. It would look like this (the potential aerial lift is not depicted here):Here's how the whole thing would set up against the mountain:And here's what it would be like at ground level:Like wow that actually resembles something that is not toxic to the human soul. But to a certain sort of Mother Earth evangelist, the mere suggestion of any sort of mountainside development is blasphemous. I understand this impulse, but I believe that it is misdirected, a too-late reflex against the subdivision-off-an-exit-ramp Build-A-Bungalow mentality that transformed this country into a car-first sprawlscape. I believe a reset is in order: to preserve large tracts of wilderness, we should intensely develop small pieces of land, and leave the rest alone. This is about to happen near Cypress. We should pay attention.Given the environmental community's reflexive and vociferous opposition to a recent proposal to repurpose tracts of not-necessarily-majestic wilderness for housing, I'm not optimistic that we possess the cultural brainpower to improve our own lives through policy. Which is why I've been writing more about passes and less about our collective ambitions to make everything from the base of the lifts outward as inconvenient and expensive as possible.The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us for 20% off the annual rate through Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

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