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The first round of the playoffs are in full swing and both Minnesota teams are tied 1-1 as the series shift back to Minnesota. The boys discuss the first two games of each series and give their thoughts on who has looked the best so far. Later in the show (29:57) Matt chats with La Velle E Neal III to break down the Minnesota Wild Series with the Las Vegas Golden Knights. La Velle is a sports columnist for the Minnesota Star Tribune.Send us a text

Rog sits down with AFC Bournemouth owner Bill Foley for an in-depth discussion on the Cherries' impressive rise in the Premier League. Foley provides exclusive insight into the inner workings of the club, sharing how Bournemouth, despite its size, competes with Europe's elite. He also delves into his ownership philosophy, revealing the strategies that have driven success for both the Cherries and the NHL's Las Vegas Golden Knights."Running the Game" is a new series from Men in Blazers where we speak to the brightest minds working behind-the-scenes at some of the biggest clubs in the world. We go deep on the business of football, boardroom strategy, and culture building to learn all it takes to run an elite football club today.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On this episode of The Sick Podcast, Pierre McGuire joins Tony Marinaro to discuss the Montreal Canadiens win vs the Las Vegas Golden Knights, patience starting to pay off for the Habs, if the Habs can make a push for the playoffs and much more. Later in the show, Tony and Pierre take calls and questions from fans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode we have the Original Bad Girl Of Comedy Luenell in the lab!!!!  We talk Luenell's Residence at Jimmy Kimmel's comedy club in Las Vegas, her acclimating to the Las Vegas culture, ringing the bell to start the Las Vegas Golden Knights hockey game. We talk her Netflix special "Town Business" produced by #davechappelle, which one she prefers doing more Stand Up Comedy or acting in movies, Luenell talks about having her own fragrance "ICONIC"!  We talk luenell doing a show with Chelsea Handler, her doing voice over work for kids show "Dog Man",  If Harlem Nights was ever to be re made she would love to play Della Reese role as Vera, Power Slap, having a slap game with Katt Williams, her top 3 comedians of all- time, Random Questions and more!!!!!! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/laplac-brown/support

WHAT DID WE TELL YOU ABOUT THAT ROAD TRIP?! The boys hop right into this week's Kraken Reaction with a bit of gloating as their predictions have been on par this season. The Seattle Kraken win 3 of 4 in a brutal road swing and Joey explains why he was able to stomach the 1 loss to the New Jersey Devils as well as a surprising stat on Matty Beniers and a reminder that Oliver Bjorkstrand is still that dude. Jeff stayed up late to watch the team take on the Florida Panthers which of course went into OT and his time was spent once again trolling Las Vegas Golden Knights fans on Twitter (X). In NHL News: Jacob Trouba goes west as the Anaheim Ducks swing a trade with the New York Rangers and Bettman announces a cap raise for next season. No Dumb Questions has longtime member of the Kraken Pod fam Glenn Libman chime in on what goalies are allowed to do and not allowed to do when handling the puck on their stick. Three Stars of the Week covers everything from Christmas parties to ball knower Mr. Timothee Chalamet, Nosferatu on Christmas Day, Joey making the trek to San Antonio for the Alamo Bowl, and much more. Ending, as always, with the Chirp of the Week. 03:40 Kraken Reaction 38:19 No Dumb Questions Subscribe: -On All podcasting apps, rate & review on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify! -Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram at @KrakenPod This Episode is Brought to you by DraftKings, BetterHelp, and Gametime! Use promo code THPN for 10% off. New episodes every week on The Hockey Podcast Network. Release the Kraken! #SeaKraken

The Avs find a way to shake off the Tampa Bay Lightning loss with a shootout win vs the Las Vegas Golden Knights! Val Nichushkin and Georgie showed their worth tonight as they came through to help get the avs the 2-1 win. Listen to Conor McGahey take you through the sights and sounds of the Avs win from Ball Arena! 

Fast forward to Mexico City! The vibes are a little down as the boys record another episode mid-game with the Kraken down early 2-0 to the Columbus Bluejackets at home. This week's Kraken Reaction has coverage of the overtime win against the Las Vegas Golden Knights in Seattle, what in the hell happened to Grubauer's face and why Joey in incensed over it, and Seattle bringing back Daniel Sprong in a trade with the Vancouver Canucks and why such a lethal scorer is available for so cheap. In NHL News, Jeff talks about how the Winnipeg Jets are a wagon which is really just him bragging about his accidental Vezina Trophy bet and No Dumb Questions has Jared Edge asking how many Defenseman in the league have scored a natural hat trick after Montour popped off on Seattle's road trip. Three Stars of the Week has everything from (way too early) Hallmark Christmas movies, the season finale of The Penguin, airport boozing, trips to Sedona, Martha Stewart's documentary, and Joey recaps his whirlwind birthday in Mexico City. Ending, as always, with the Chirp of the Week. Kraken Reaction 4:19 The Depths 39:14 No Dumb Questions 52:48 Subscribe: -On All podcasting apps, rate & review on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify! -Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram at @KrakenPod Presented by Draft Kings with new episodes every week on The Hockey Podcast Network. This Episode is Brought to you by BetterHelp and Gametime! Use promo code THPN for 10% off. Release the Kraken! #SeaKraken

Ailish Forfar and Justin Cuthbert kick things off by discussing Connor McDavid's return to the Oilers lineup tonight against the Las Vegas Golden Knights and discuss the latest from the MLB GM Meetings. Then, Carter Hutton (9:55) joins the show to discuss the Predators' potential rebuild, goalie tandems at the Four Nations tournament, and more. Later, Katie Heindl (28:41) joins the show to discuss the Raptors' issues turning over the ball, the team's identity early on in the season, Gradey Dick's development, and much more.The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliates.

Welcome back to The Tahoe TAP with your hosts Mike Peron and Rob Galloway! In this episode, we're diving into all things Tahoe with a fresh roundup of top news from around the region. Then, we shift gears to spotlight the Tahoe Knight Monsters, a brand-new minor league hockey team that just debuted to an impressive sold-out crowd of 4,025 fans. Join us as we chat with Anthony Benge, Vice President of the Tahoe Knight Monsters, to get the inside scoop on the team's vision and what makes them unique. Playing in the ECHL and based out of the Tahoe Blue Event Center in Stateline, Nevada, the Knight Monsters are inspired by a mix of local legend "Tahoe Tessie" and the Las Vegas Golden Knights. The team, co-owned by former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow and David Hodges of Hodges Management Group, has 33 more home games lined up for the 2024-2025 season, including a Halloween series this Thursday through the weekend. Get ready to catch the latest on Tahoe's newest sports sensation and stay tuned for all the local adventure, people, and happenings Tahoe has to offer!

Live from the Battle Born Broadcast Center, Kansas City 610 Sports Morning host Bob Fescoe joins Cofield & Co. to detail the Kansas City Chiefs trade for WR Deandre Hopkins, compare the Chiefs' dynasty to previous championship runs, and previews what the new Chiefs offense will look like through the rest of the season. ESPN's Steve Levy joins Cofield & Co. to recap the NHL's "Frozen Frenzy," breakdown the Ottawa Senators potential for a strong 2024 performance, and details how long it will take for the Las Vegas Golden Knights new additions to get established on the team. Voice of UNLV Football, Caleb Herring joins Cofield & Co. to talk about LeBron and Bronny James' debut in the Lakers' season opener, the Kansas City Chiefs trading for WR DeAndre Hopkins, and preview UNLV's week 9 match up against #17 Boise State.

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Live from the Battle Born Broadcast Center, legal insider Justin Watkins joins Cofield & Co. to talk about the status of the Oakland A's move to Las Vegas, the proposal of a 70-team super league college football format, USC's JuJu Watkins signing with Nike on one of the biggest deals in women's basketball, and previews the season opener for the Las Vegas Golden Knights.

Live from The Front Yard inside Ellis Island Casino Bar & Grill, Las Vegas Golden Knights reporter Danny Webster joins Cofield & Co. to talk about his biggest takeaways from covering the VGK's training camp and recap the Las Vegas Aces' 78-67 victory over the Seattle Storm to go up 1-0 in the first round of the WNBA Playoffs. UNLV commits to staying with the Mountain West Conference Week 3 of the NFL season recap  

Rock talks with Las Vegas Golden Knights' Associate Director of Player Performance, Jeff Conkle. Click the subscribe button before you hit play. TIME STAMPS 2:00 Jeff Conkle's rise to the Las Vegas Golden Knights 5:00 Reaching out to Ohio State's Olympic sports program 10:45 Working in the AHL 15:00 Developing an LTAD program 18:00 Development camps 20:00 The role of Player Performance 23:00 Jeff's superpower and kryptonite 26:00 Working with prospects 29:00 Which colleges courses would you go back and take 31:30 Sharpening your skills 34:30 Working hard in the off season 38:45 What are the pillars in professional hockey 41:30 Working with the seasoned veterans 43:00 Selection of genetic recovery 45:00 Las Vegas Golden Knights' low injury rate 49:00 Vegas shows Jeff recommends GET TO KNOW JEFF CONKLE LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-conkle-8b3043142/ INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/jeffconkle/ LAS VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS: https://www.nhl.com/goldenknights/ GET TO KNOW ROCKY SNYDER MEET: Visit the Rocky's online headquarters: RockySnyder.com READ: Grab a copy of his new "Return to Center" book: www.rockysnyder.com INSTA: Instagram fan, check him out at https://www.instagram.com/rocky_snyder/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/rocky.snyder.77 LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rocky-snyder-cscs-cafs-nsca-cpt-a77a091/ TRAIN WITH ROCKY WORKOUT: Want to meet Rocky and get a private workout: https://rfcsantacruz.com/ INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/rockysfitnesssc/ FACEBOOK: Facebook.com/RockysFitnessCenter

12:30pm: Looking at Vegas and what will they look like going into 2024?

LET'S GET INTO IT SHALL WE?! The boys jump right into this week's Kraken Reaction (2:48) which comes right on the heels of Ron Francis and the Seattle Kraken pushing all their chips to the center of the table with free agent acquisitions of Brandon Montour (D) of the Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers, and Chandler Stephenson (C) of the Las Vegas Golden Knights. Jeff and Joey give their individual grades for the moves which sparks Joey to go off on a Seattle sports fan fueled rant on the history of convincing players to come to the Emerald City. The two speculate on what (if any) moves Ron has left up his sleeve as well as what the roster will look like with over $13 million being spent between two incoming assets to the organization. In NHL News, the two go over the insane day that was NHL free agency and share their winners with Joey offering up a sneaky pick for who he believes had an under the radar day but addressed needs to remain competitive. Three Stars of the Week covers everything from Jeff turning into Spider Man to the power of antibiotics and Joey's home being broken into and how he's on a mission to bring justice to the city of New Orleans. Ending, as always, with the Chirp of the Week.Subscribe:On All podcasting apps, rate & review on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify!Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram at @KrakenPodPresented by Draft Kings and Manscaped with new episodes every week on The Hockey Podcast Network.Release the Kraken!#SeaKraken

LET'S GET INTO IT SHALL WE?! The boys jump right into this week's Kraken Reaction (2:48) which comes right on the heels of Ron Francis and the Seattle Kraken pushing all their chips to the center of the table with free agent acquisitions of Brandon Montour (D) of the Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers, and Chandler Stephenson (C) of the Las Vegas Golden Knights. Jeff and Joey give their individual grades for the moves which sparks Joey to go off on a Seattle sports fan fueled rant on the history of convincing players to come to the Emerald City. The two speculate on what (if any) moves Ron has left up his sleeve as well as what the roster will look like with over $13 million being spent between two incoming assets to the organization. In NHL News, the two go over the insane day that was NHL free agency and share their winners with Joey offering up a sneaky pick for who he believes had an under the radar day but addressed needs to remain competitive. Three Stars of the Week covers everything from Jeff turning into Spider Man to the power of antibiotics and Joey's home being broken into and how he's on a mission to bring justice to the city of New Orleans. Ending, as always, with the Chirp of the Week. Subscribe: On All podcasting apps, rate & review on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram at @KrakenPod Presented by Draft Kings and Manscaped with new episodes every week on The Hockey Podcast Network. Release the Kraken! #SeaKraken Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dallas Stars vs Las Vegas Golden Knights (1:25) Winnipeg Jets vs Colorado Avalanche (18:20) Second Round Preview: Dallas Stars vs Colorado Avalanche (31:52) MAILBAG: Slotshotpodcast@gmail.com Linktree: https://linktr.ee/slotshot YT: @SlotShotPodcast IG: https://www.instagram.com/slotshotpodcast/

Shan, RJ and Bobby react to the Stars losing Game 1 of their first-round series aginst the Las Vegas Golden Knights. 

The Stars begin their series tonight against the Las Vegas Golden Knights. 

Dallas Stars vs Las Vegas Golden Knights (2:06) Vancouver Canucks vs Nashville Predators (20:51) Winnipeg Jets vs Colorado Avalanche (37:55) Edmonton Oilers vs Los Angles Kings (1:01:48) MAILBAG: Slotshotpodcast@gmail.com Linktree: https://linktr.ee/slotshot YT: @SlotShotPodcast IG: https://www.instagram.com/slotshotpodcast/

Believe it or not the St. Louis Blues are still alive... that's right despite their poor play over the past few weeks they are still in contention for the Stanley Cup Playoffs with a 0.3% chance.... Last night was an elimination game for the Blues, but they were able to defeat the Blackhawks.. tomorrow they get ready to take on the Carolina Hurricanes. More importantly the Golden Knights lost to the Oilers... is the luck on the Blues' side? Probably not, but makes it interesting. Follow & Subscribe on all Podcast platforms…

Predators head coach Andrew Brunette joins the Chase & Big Joe Show. Brunette talks about the overtime win at home against the Las Vegas Golden Knights. The Preds remain red hot and take their 18-game point streak to Arizona tonight. Brunette talks about the comradery of the team being the biggest key to their success. Brunette talks about how the 7th Man, the fans, make a difference at Bridgestone and make it one of the toughest places to play in the NHL. The stars are scoring for the Preds, and several players have stepped up for the team during the stretch, especially Tyson Barrie. Brunette previews tonight's game against the Coyotes. Listen for more. 

The hour kicks off with a debate about being able to place prop bets on NCAA athletes. The NCAA is seeking to ban all player props, but Chase says it's their fault for this situation. Should you be able to bet on a college athlete's performance? Chase thinks so since NIL makes them pro athletes in his eyes. FCA Wilson County Director Tim Bryant chats with Big Joe about the FCA Run the Cedars 5k/15k event in Lebanon, Tennessee on Saturday, March 30. The event will take place at the Cedar of Lebanon State Park. Bryant talks about his role at FCA, and what the organization does for athletes. Byrant talks about the event's impact on Wilson County FCA and the athletes it supports. The guys jump into Celebrity Birthdays before Predators head coach Andrew Brunette joins the show. Brunette talks about the overtime win at home against the Las Vegas Golden Knights. The Preds remain red hot and take their 18-game point streak to Arizona tonight. Brunette talks about the comradery of the team being the biggest key to their success. Brunette talks about how the 7th Man, the fans, make a difference at Bridgestone and make it one of the toughest places to play in the NHL. The stars are scoring for the Preds, and several players have stepped up for the team during the stretch, especially Tyson Barrie. Brunette previews tonight's game against the Coyotes. Listen for more. 

Hal Gill joins the show to preview tonight's Predators game against the Las Vegas Golden Knights. Gill talks about the red-hot 17-game point streak. What have the last few games shown about the team? Gill talks about the play of Filip Forsberg and company, and how the teams' stars have stepped up. Tonight's game will be a playoff atmosphere, and Gill still thinks the Preds have more to prove. How much are the Preds on the radar of other teams? Listen for more. 

The red-hot Nashville Predators take on the Las Vegas Golden Knights tonight at Bridgestone Arena. Chase previews the game, and what to expect from tonight's game. Big Joe pitches today's Question of the Day. If money wasn't a factor, which band or comedian would you hire to play at your party? Hal Gill joins the show to preview tonight's Predators game against the Las Vegas Golden Knights. Gill talks about the red-hot 17-game point streak. What have the last few games shown about the team? Gill talks about the play of Filip Forsberg and company, and how the teams' stars have stepped up. Tonight's game will be a playoff atmosphere, and Gill still thinks the Preds have more to prove. How much are the Preds on the radar of other teams? Chase and Big Joe talk about the new rules approved by NFL owners, including a ban on hip-drop tackles and introducing new kickoff rules. Listen for more. 

In the first hour of Caroline, Willy, and DMase, Carolien and the guys discuss the Nashville Predators BIG game tonight versus the Las Vegas Golden Knights. Is every game the rest of the season a big game for the Preds? Let us know. Later in the hour, Caroline and DMase discussed the Titans' draft pick at seven. Should the Titans consider drafting a defensive player if a left tackle is not available? Listen to hear more.

PARTY ON, GARTH! Joey tempts Jeff's fate on a ladder before the boys get into this week's Kraken Reaction (7:26) which covers how the Seattle Kraken went switch with the peggers, why tonight's matchup against the Las Vegas Golden Knights is do-or-die for the team, updated playoff standings, Jordan Eberle's contract extension, and what Alex Wennberg to the New York Rangers tells Joey about Ron's outlook on the team. In NHL News the two break down some of the bigger moves across the league and unfortunately have to make a case for the Golden Knights after their front office once again utilizes the LTIR loophole to free up cap space and add to an already loaded roster in hopes of winning back-to-back championships as well as moves by the Winnipeg Jets who could surprise some teams in the playoffs and Jeff and Joey's disagreement on what the Detroit Red Wings didn't do at the trade deadline. Next, Ryker Garth Evans (43:20) joins the podcast to discuss where his head is currently at with the squad, eating chicken parm with Tye Kartye, growing up in Calgary, his hit part on Tenny's Talks, playing with Connor Bedard as a Regina Pat, growing his game, napping when his name was called during the NHL Draft and MUCH more. No Dumb Questions (1:17:08) comes from member of the Kraken Pod Fam Jess who asks how the refs determine which faceoff dot to use?! Three Stars of the Week has the boys talking about everything from a rainy flag football game, rewatching Game of Thrones, Dune 2 in iMAX, Joey's daily crossword habit, springing forward into awesomeness, and Ryker Evans and the PR crew behind the Seattle Kraken. Ending, as always, with the Chirp of the Week.Subscribe:On All podcasting apps, rate & review on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify!Presented by The Hockey Podcast Network with new episodes every week. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram at @KrakenPodRelease the Kraken!#SeaKrakenDraft Kings disclaimer:Call (800) 327-5050 or visit gamblinghelplinema.org (MA), Gambling Problem? Call 877- 8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY), If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537) (CO/IL/IN/LA/MD/MI/NJ/OH/PA/TN/WV/WY), 1-800-NEXT STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (KS/NH), 888-789-7777/visit ccpg.org (CT), 1-800-BETS OFF (IA), visit OPGR.org (OR), or 1-888-532-3500 (VA) 21+ (18+ NH/WY). Physically present in AZ/CO/CT/IL/IN/IA/KS/LA(select parishes)/MA/MD/MI/NH/NJ/NY/OH/OR/PA/TN/VA/WV/WY only. VOID IN ONT. Eligibility restrictions apply. On behalf of Boot Hill Casino & Resort (KS).  Bet $5 Get $150 offer (void in MA/NH/OR): Valid 1 per new customer. Min. $5 deposit. Min $5 pre-game moneyline bet. Bet must win. $150 issued as six (6) $25 bonus bets. Promotional offer period ends 5/28/23 at 11:59PM ET.  No Sweat Bet: Valid 1 per customer. Opt-in req. NBA same game parlay bets only. Min 3- leg. First bet after opting-in must lose. Paid as one Bonus Bet based on amount of initial losing bet. Max. wagering limits apply. Ends at the start of the final NBA game each day when offered.

PARTY ON, GARTH! Joey tempts Jeff's fate on a ladder before the boys get into this week's Kraken Reaction (7:26) which covers how the Seattle Kraken went switch with the peggers, why tonight's matchup against the Las Vegas Golden Knights is do-or-die for the team, updated playoff standings, Jordan Eberle's contract extension, and what Alex Wennberg to the New York Rangers tells Joey about Ron's outlook on the team. In NHL News the two break down some of the bigger moves across the league and unfortunately have to make a case for the Golden Knights after their front office once again utilizes the LTIR loophole to free up cap space and add to an already loaded roster in hopes of winning back-to-back championships as well as moves by the Winnipeg Jets who could surprise some teams in the playoffs and Jeff and Joey's disagreement on what the Detroit Red Wings didn't do at the trade deadline. Next, Ryker Garth Evans (43:20) joins the podcast to discuss where his head is currently at with the squad, eating chicken parm with Tye Kartye, growing up in Calgary, his hit part on Tenny's Talks, playing with Connor Bedard as a Regina Pat, growing his game, napping when his name was called during the NHL Draft and MUCH more. No Dumb Questions (1:17:08) comes from member of the Kraken Pod Fam Jess who asks how the refs determine which faceoff dot to use?! Three Stars of the Week has the boys talking about everything from a rainy flag football game, rewatching Game of Thrones, Dune 2 in iMAX, Joey's daily crossword habit, springing forward into awesomeness, and Ryker Evans and the PR crew behind the Seattle Kraken. Ending, as always, with the Chirp of the Week. Subscribe: On All podcasting apps, rate & review on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify! Presented by The Hockey Podcast Network with new episodes every week.  Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram at @KrakenPod Release the Kraken! #SeaKraken Draft Kings disclaimer: Call (800) 327-5050 or visit gamblinghelplinema.org (MA), Gambling Problem? Call 877- 8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY), If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537) (CO/IL/IN/LA/MD/MI/NJ/OH/PA/TN/WV/WY), 1-800-NEXT STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (KS/NH), 888-789-7777/visit ccpg.org (CT), 1-800-BETS OFF (IA), visit OPGR.org (OR), or 1-888-532-3500 (VA) 21+ (18+ NH/WY). Physically present in AZ/CO/CT/IL/IN/IA/KS/LA(select parishes)/MA/MD/MI/NH/NJ/NY/OH/OR/PA/TN/VA/WV/WY only. VOID IN ONT. Eligibility restrictions apply. On behalf of Boot Hill Casino & Resort (KS).  Bet $5 Get $150 offer (void in MA/NH/OR): Valid 1 per new customer. Min. $5 deposit. Min $5 pre-game moneyline bet. Bet must win. $150 issued as six (6) $25 bonus bets. Promotional offer period ends 5/28/23 at 11:59PM ET.  No Sweat Bet: Valid 1 per customer. Opt-in req. NBA same game parlay bets only. Min 3- leg. First bet after opting-in must lose. Paid as one Bonus Bet based on amount of initial losing bet. Max. wagering limits apply. Ends at the start of the final NBA game each day when offered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this edition of Locked on Capitals Dan talks about the trade that sent Anthony Mantha to the Las Vegas Golden Knights. In return the Caps get the Caps get 2024 second-round pick and a 2026 fourth-round pick, and the team will retain 50 percent of Mantha's salary. Mantha is having his best years as a Cap scoring 20 goals so far in the 2023/2024 season. Evgeny Kuznetsov Showed up at Hershey Bears practice on Tuesday. He was quick to make people laugh and seemed to be in good spirits. The Bear are back in action on Friday. So is the NHL trade deadline. The future of Kuzy in the Caps organization is in question. Matthews Phillips was let go by the Pens and now is back in the Caps organization. This time he's headed to HersheySupport Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!eBay MotorsFor parts that fit, head to eBay Motors and look for the green check. Stay in the game with eBay Guaranteed Fit at eBayMotos.com. Let's ride. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply.FactorGet started on your resolutions with Factor, so you're ready for the new year. Head to factormeals.com/lockedonnhl50 and use code lockedonnhl50 to get 50% off. IndeedIndeed knows when you're growing your own business, you have to make every dollar count. Visit Indeed.com/LOCKEDON to start hiring now.RobinhoodRobinhood has the only IRA that gives you a 3% boost on every dollar you contribute when you subscribe to Robinhood Gold. Now through April 30th, Robinhood is even boosting every single dollar you transfer in from other retirement accounts with a 3% match. Available to U.S. customers in good standing. Robinhood Financial LLC (member SIPC), is a registered broker dealer.SleeperDownload the Sleeper App and use promo code LOCKEDONNHL to get up to a $100 match on your first deposit. Terms and conditions apply. See Sleeper's Terms of Use for details.GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDON for $20 off your first purchase.FanDuelGet buckets with your first bet on FanDuel, America's Number One Sportsbook. Right now, NEW customers get ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS with any winning FIVE DOLLAR BET! That's A HUNDRED AND FIFTY BUCKS – if your bet wins! Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN)

Kenny has beef with the Golden Knights but will that be enough for him to bet the Columbus Blue Jackets? Find out on this episode of Cash the Ticket. Download and subscribe today. 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

Bill Foley has irons in a lot of fires. He owns the Las Vegas Golden Knights and AFC Bournemouth in the English Premiere League. More relevant to Barrel to Bottle, he also owns Foley Family Wines, Charles Goodnight Bourbon in Texas, and Lighthouse Gin in New Zealand. This week on Barrel to Bottle we'll cover the ins and outs of the wine and spirits world as well as the NHL and the EPL. If you have a question for the Barrel to Bottle Crew, email us at comments@binnys.com, or reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. If we answer your question during a podcast, you'll get a $20 Binny's Gift Card! If you like our podcast, subscribe wherever you download podcasts. Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts.  

Jeff kicks off the show with Jesse Granger of the Athletic to break down everything Las Vegas Golden Knights. They discuss the team's loss to the Maple Leafs last night, Mark Stone's injury, how Kelly McCrimmon will approach the deadline, if we could see a Reilly Smith reunion, and more. Then, Scott Laughlin of NHL Network Radio debates if the San Jose Sharks or Milwaukee Admirals would win in a series, before getting into the Devils' issues this season, Auston Matthews' Hart Trophy case, and some of the most intriguing names at the deadline (17:53). Later, newly appointed Flyers captain, Sean Couturier shares Philly's mentality coming into the season, his journey returning to the ice after missing almost two-years, the experience of playing under John Tortorella, and clarifies what happened after scoring the game-winner against the Jets (46:18). The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliate.

On this scintillating episode of the one and only Sean's Sports Stop Podcast, Sean reports the biggest and breaking news inside the world of sports and gives his unique and captivating insight into everything going down, which includes: Zach Lavine out for the season (1:00), Pat Mahomes Sr. getting his 3rd DWI (2:20), the Oakland Athletics' disastrous relocation effort from Oakland, California to Las Vegas, Nevada (6:00), San Francisco 49ers crying about their "bad" Super Bowl practice field at UNLV (8:30), Los Angeles Lakers unveiling 1 of 3 (!!!) Kobe Bryant statues outside Staples Center (11:11, Love you forever, Mamba), Clayton Kershaw signing a 1 year contract (with a 2025 Player Option) to return to the Los Angeles Dodgers for his 17th MLB season (14:05), Jose Altuve signing a 5 year/$125M contract extension with Houston Astros (16:50), Edmonton Oilers failing to tie 1991-92 Pittsburgh Penguins with 17 wins in a row (by 1 game), losing 3-1 to defending Stanley Cup Champion, Las Vegas Golden Knights (20:00), Rex Ryan interviewing for Dallas Cowboys' DC position (21:10), GOAT CFB Head Coach Nick Saban joining ESPN for College Gameday, SEC Network, and NFL Draft coverage (22:20), MLB owners open to Baseball's return to Olympics starting in 2028 Los Angeles (24:30), Vladimir Guerrero Jr. winning his arbitration case vs Toronto Blue Jays, set to earn arbitration record $19M in 2024 (26:30), NHL announcing 2025 Winter Classic, Chicago Connor Bedards vs St. Louis Blues (28:30), Indiana Pacers trading Buddy Hield to Philadelphia 76ers for peanuts, Charlotte Hornets getting a great return in PJ Washington trade with Dallas Mavericks, New Yor Knicks trading for Bojan Bogdanovic, Philadelphia 76ers trading Patrick Beverly to Milwaukee Bucks for Doc Rivers reunion, and NBA Trade Deadline Grades. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seanssportsstop/message

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Hour 3 of The Drive looks through the eyes of Sean Payton regarding the 2024 NFL Draft. JJ McCarthy, former QB for Michigan, could fall to the Broncos in the first round. Is he a Sean Payton guy? | Broncos GM George Paton believes his 2023 draft class is building towards something special. Zach and Phil discuss whether they believe him or not. Which rookie looks to assume a starter role next season? | The Avs pulled out a huge win vs the Las Vegas Golden Knights! The fellas go through why Valerie Nichushkin has stepped up this year. How confident are we in Georgie to be the lead man in net moving forward?

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The wrong team is favored in the NBA tonight between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Boston Celtics. A blowout special in early action for the NFL's Super Wild Card Weekend between the Houston Texans and the Cleveland Browns. A LOCK in the NHL tonight between the Boston Bruins and the Las Vegas Golden Knights.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Jase Medical Empower yourself when you purchase a Jase Case, providing you with a personal supply of 5 antibiotics that treat 50+ infections. Get yours today at jasemedical.com and use code LOCKEDON to get $20 off your order. Gametime Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDON for $20 off your first purchase.FanDuel Score early this NFL season with FanDuel, America's Number One Sportsbook! Right now, NEW customers get ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS with any winning FIVE DOLLAR MONEYLINE BET! That's A HUNDRED AND FIFTY BUCKS – if your team wins! Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“The Marvels” flops at box office. Denzel Washington as Hannibal. Biden makes no sense during ceremony with Las Vegas Golden Knights. Piers Morgan asks Jeremy Corbyn 15 times whether the former labor leader thinks Hamas is a terror group. Corbyn refuses to answer. AOC says there's no military solution to Hamas-Israel conflict. Clay and Buck extend Nikki Haley invite to respond to Vivek Ramaswamy. Vivek vs. Chris Cuomo.Follow Clay & Buck on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuckSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lauren Sanchez & Jeff Bezos' cringy interview, Will Smith outed by his former assistant, UFC saved Bud Light, Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God, new airplane meltdowns, and we reconnect with Rod from 10Kforawife.com after 24 years. The Buffalo Bills were humiliated on Monday Night Football. Poor Karl can never watch football again. University of Michigan football is “America's Team”. No one still knows what happened with former QB coach Matt Weiss, but it seems we might know more soon. Will Smith's former assistant is spilling and outing him. Brother Bilaal has a book to sell. Our favorite Detroit Lions fan, Katie Six, has a new business venture… OnlyFans. Politics: A Senator challenged a Teamsters President to a fistfight. The Las Vegas Golden Knights celebrated their Stanley Cup victory at the White House. David Axelrod vs Joe Biden. JFK Jr. needs to put socks on. The ownerless White House cocaine has been seen for the first time. Secret Service had to take out a carjacker in DC. You can NOT text-to-vote. Dana White stands with his Bud Light partnership with the UFC. Airplane Meltdowns: Bobbi Storm does whatever she wants on airplanes. This woman is being “humanly trafficked” on the plane. This southern gentleman had a hot head on his flight. The ‘Right Now' meltdown lady is selling merch. A Michigan man is looking for love via a sign on the road. We reach out to Jim Smalls to help spread awareness. Reach him at 517-490-9313. Sound familiar? We reconnect with 10Kforawife.com's Rod Barnett. $10KForRod Part II coming soon. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez think they are sooooo hot and soooooo funny in Vogue Magazine. You can only see Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian's brat via appointment. Alabama Barker is a little racy online and her dad loves it. Travis is annoying in the delivery room. We check out another cop cam. This may be the worst one yet. A former big wig in The Church of Scientology is popping off about David Miscavige. Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God is a crazy doc available now on HBO. Joey and Monica break their silence regarding Chandler's death. Waiting on the other three… Adam Driver to fan: “f**k you”. Lenny Dykstra needs rent money. Visit Our Presenting Sponsor Hall Financial – Michigan's highest rated mortgage company If you'd like to help support the show… please consider subscribing to our YouTube Page, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (Drew and Mike Show, Marc Fellhauer, Trudi Daniels, Jim Bentley and BranDon).

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"THEY'RE REALLY THE ENEMY"This is how Bill Foley, owner of the Las Vegas Golden Knights and AFC Bournemouth, views other American owners in the Premier League. And on the latest Men in Blazers Pod Special, Bill sits down with Rog to breakdown the take-no-prisoners football approach that he's brought to the Cherries, what the NHL has taught him about how to build a winning squad, and the major shakeups his orchestrated at Bournemouth, including signing American hero Tyler Adams. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The system for coordinating organ donations and transplants in the United States is broken, according to experts who have testified over the course of many years to Congress. In this episode, hear their testimony about what is wrong with the current system and then we'll examine the bill that aims to fix the problems. Please Support Congressional Dish – Quick Links Contribute monthly or a lump sum via Support Congressional Dish via (donations per episode) Send Zelle payments to: Donation@congressionaldish.com Send Venmo payments to: @Jennifer-Briney Send Cash App payments to: $CongressionalDish or Donation@congressionaldish.com Use your bank's online bill pay function to mail contributions to: Please make checks payable to Congressional Dish Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Background Sources August 3, 2022. Senate Finance Committee. Lenny Bernstein and Todd C. Frankel. August 3, 2022. The Washington Post. February 10, 2020. Senate Finance Committee. The Bill Audio Sources July 20, 2023 Senate Committee on Finance, Subcommittee on Health Care Witnesses: LaQuayia Goldring, Patient Molly J. McCarthy, Vice Chair & Region 6 Patient Affairs Committee Representative, Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Matthew Wadsworth, President and CEO, Life Connection of Ohio Raymond J. Lynch, MD, MS, FACS, Professor of Surgery and Director of Transplantation Quality and Outcomes, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Donna R. Cryer, JD, Founder and CEO, Global Liver Institute Clips 30:40 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): HRSA, the Health Resources Agency, is on track to begin the contract process this fall and we're just going to be working here to complement their effort. 36:30 Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA): In 2005, I started the investigation of the deadly failures of UNOS, the monopoly tasked with managing the US organ donation system. Since then, more than 200,000 patients have needlessly died on the organ waiting list. There's a reason that I call UNOS the fox guarding the hen house. For nearly two decades, UNOS has concealed serious problems [at] the nation's organ procurement organizations, known as OPOs, instead of working to uncover and correct the corruption. This human tragedy is even more horrific because many of these deaths were preventable. They were the result of [a] corrupt, unaccountable monopoly that operates more like a cartel than a public servant. 44:45 LaQuayia Goldring: As a toddler, at the age of three, I was diagnosed with a rare kidney cancer that took the function of my left kidney. And when I was 17, I went back into complete renal failure and I received a first kidney transplant at that time. Unfortunately, in 2015, I went back into kidney failure. And at that time, I wasn't ready for another transplant, but I didn't have a choice but to go back on dialysis. I've been waiting nine agonizing years for a transplant, dependent upon a dialysis machine five days a week, just to be able to live. I was told that I would receive a kidney transplant within three to five years. But yet I am still waiting. I am undergoing monthly surgeries just to be able to get my dialysis access to work so that I can continue to live until I get a transplant. The UNOS waitlist is not like one to 100, where everybody thinks you get a number. I'm never notified on where I stand on the list or when I will get the call. I have to depend on an algorithm to make the decision of what my fate will be. 47:55 LaQuayia Goldring: Just a few weeks ago, a donor family reached out to me to be a directed kidney donor, meaning they chose me specifically for a kidney transplant. But unfortunately, due to the errors in the UNOS technology, I was listed as inactive and this was a clerical error. And all that they told me was this was a clerical error, and they could not figure out why I was inactive. But when it came down to it, I'm actually active on the transplant list. 51:45 Molly McCarthy: The Federal monopoly contractor managing the organ donation system, UNOS, is an unmitigated failure. And its leadership spends more time attacking critics than it does taking steps to fix the system. I've seen this firsthand in my five years as a patient volunteer with the OPTN and three years ago, I stepped into the role of Vice Chair of the Patient Affairs Committee, or PAC. 53:45 Molly McCarthy: Further, I have been called by a board member telling me to stop focusing on system outage and downtime of the UNOS tech system. He told me that having downtime wasn't a big deal at all, "the donors are dead anyway." That comment speaks volumes to me about the lack of empathy and respect UNOS has for donor families. 55:00 Molly McCarthy: Congress needs to break up the UNOS monopoly by passing 1668, ensuring that HHS uses its authority to replace UNOS as its contractor. 1:00:15 Matt Wadsworth: Break up the OPTN contract and allow for competition. 1:00:40 Matt Wadsworth: I commend this committee for introducing legislation to finally break up this monopoly and I stand ready to work with you in any way possible to ensure that this bill passes. It's the only way this industry will be able to save more patients' lives. 1:02:10 Dr. Raymond Lynch: I want to differentiate between organ donation, which is the altruistic decision of the donor patient and their family, and organ procurement, which is the clinical care provided by OPO staff. This is what turns the gift of donation into the usable organs for transplant. Organ procurement is a clinical specialty. It's the last medical care that many patients will ever receive. It's reimbursed by the federal government and it's administered by OPOs that are each the only provider in the territory to which they hold federal contracts. Right now patient care delivered by OPOs is some of the least visible in American healthcare. I can't tell you how many patients were evaluated by OPO workers in the US in 2022. I can't tell you how many patients were examined, or how many families were given information about donation, or how many times an OPO worker even showed up to a hospital to do this clinical duty. This lack of information about what OPO providers actually do for patients is a root cause of the variability in rates of organ procurement around the country. My research has shown that what we call OPO performance is a measurable restriction on the supply of organs that results in the unnecessary deaths of patients with organ failure. For example, if the lowest performing OPOs from around the country had just reached the national median over a recent seven year period, there would have been 4957 more organ donors, yielding an estimated 11,707 additional organs for transplant. Because many OPOs operate in a low quality data environment and without appropriate oversight, almost 5,000 patients did not get adequate organ procurement care, and nearly 12,000 other patients did not receive life saving transplants. 1:03:55 Dr. Raymond Lynch: OPO clinical work is currently not visible, it's not benchmarkable, and it's not able to be adequately evaluated, analyzed, or compared. However, much of the hidden data about how OPOs provide care to patients is known to one entity and that entity is UNOS. 1:05:20 Dr. Raymond Lynch: We need a new network of highly skilled specialist organizations, each attending to areas of expertise in the management of the OPTN contract. 1:21:15 Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN): When we look at OPTN, and look at the Securing Organ Procurement Act, the bill would strip the nonprofit requirement for the manager of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, which would open the door for profiting from organ procurement and donation. And to me, this is something that I think many people really fear, especially people that are on a waitlist. And so what I would like for you to do is to address that and address those concerns. And why or why not you think the Act has it right. Dr. Raymond Lynch: Thank you, Senator. I think it's unfortunate that people would be afraid of that and it needs to be changed. Many of the patients that you referenced are waitlisted at for-profit hospitals. For-profit is a part of American healthcare. And I can tell you that our not-for-profit entity doesn't work. And there are for-profit hospitals and for-profit transplant centers that do work. So patients don't need to be afraid of that. They do need to be afraid of the status quo. 1:28:30 Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD): Ms. Cryer, do you have any views as to why it's much lower percentage chances for a racial minority to be able to have a transplant? Donna Cryer: Yes. And it really does come down to UNOS not doing its job of overseeing the organ procurement organizations. We know from many studies that black and brown communities donate organs in the same percentage they are the population. So it is not a problem of willingness to donate. It is a problem, as Miss Goldring was starting to discuss, about UNOS not ensuring that OPOs go out into the communities, develop relationships far before that horrible decision is needed to [be] made to donate the organs of a family member. 1:56:45 Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): And among the many reforms the legislation would support HRSA's proposal to break up the OPTN monopoly contract into multiple smaller contracts, which would allow some competition and allow the best vendors in the business to manage different parts of the transplant network operation. That means hiring IT experts to do the IT. It means hiring logistics experts to do logistics, and so on. 1:57:15 Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): UNOS does not want to lose control, so they're pushing to have the government limit eligibility only to nonprofit vendors that have worked in the past on organ donation, meaning, for instance, that the IT company that is hired to run OPTNs computers systems would have had to have worked on an organ transplant network in the past and be a nonprofit. So Ms. McCarthy, the requirement UNOS wants would seem to make it so that only one organization could apply for the new contract: UNOS. 1:58:35 Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): Right now, Congress has an opportunity to root out corruption in this system, but if we don't act before the current contract expires we won't have another shot for years. August 3, 2022 Senate Committee on Finance Witnesses: Brian Shepard, CEO, United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Diane Brockmeier, RN, President and CEO, Mid-America Transplant Barry Friedman, RN, Executive Director, AdventHealth Transplant Institute Calvin Henry, Region 3 Patient Affairs Committee Representative, Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Jayme Locke, M.D., MPH, Director, Division of Transplantation, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham Clips 36:15 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): A 1984 law created the first computerized system to match sick patients with the organs they need. It was named the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. Someone needed to manage that system for the whole country, so the government sought to contract an organization to run it. UNOS was the only bidder for that first contract in 1986. The contract has come up for bid seven other times, UNOS has won all seven. Today, the network UNOS overseas is made up of nearly 400 members, including 252 transplant centers, and 57 regional organizations known as Organ Procurement Organizations, or OPOs. Each OPO is a defined geographic service network. Families sitting in a hospital room thinking about donating a loved one's organs does not have a choice of OPOs. 37:40 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): Between 2010 and 2020, more than 1,100 complaints were filed by patients and families, staff, transplant centers, and others. The nature of these complaints runs the gamut. For example, in a number of cases, OPOs had failed to complete critical mandatory tests for matters like blood types, diseases, and infection. Our investigation found one patient died after being transplanted with lungs that a South Carolina OPO marked with the wrong blood type. Similar blood type errors happened elsewhere and patients developed serious illness. Some had to have organs removed after transplant. Another patient was told he would likely die within three years after an OPO in Ohio supplied him with a heart from a donor who had died of a malignant brain tumor. UNOS did not pursue any disciplinary action. In a case from Florida, another patient contracted cancer from transplanted organs and the OPO sat on the evidence for months. In total, our investigation found that between 2008 and 2015, and 249 transplant recipients developed a disease from transplanted organs. More than a quarter of them died. 38:55 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): Delivering organs has been another source of life threatening errors. We found 53 such complaints between 2010 and 2020, as well as evidence that this was just the tip of the iceberg. In some cases, couriers missed a flight. In others, the organs were abandoned at airports. Some organs were never picked up. Many of these failures resulted in organs being discarded. 39:20 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): It's reasonable to assume that many more errors are going unreported. Why? Because filing official complaints with UNOS appears to accomplish zero productive oversight or reform. Organ transplant professionals repeatedly told the Finance Committee that the complaint process was, and I quote here, "a black hole." Complaints went in, UNOS went quiet. In interviews with the Committee UNOS leaders have dragged their feet, dodged tough questions, and shifted responsibility onto others. investigations and disciplinary measures rarely amount to much more than a slap on the wrist. Only one time -- just once -- has UNOS recommended that an OPO lose their certification. 55:05 Diane Brockmeier: We must update the archaic technology system at UNOS. As OPOs, we are required to work with UNOS technology DonorNet every day. DonorNet is outdated, difficult to us,e and often slow to function when every minute counts. Manual entry subjects it to error and OPO and Transplant Center staff are not empowered with the right information when time is critical. I did serve in leadership roles on the OPO Committee from 2017 to 2022. Committee members and industry leaders voiced repeated requests to improve DonorNet. The consistent response was UNOS IT did not have the bandwidth to address this work. The limitations of the UNOS technology are delaying and denying transplants to patients that are dying on the waitlist. Poor technology impacts the disturbingly high kidney discard rate in the United States, where one in four kidneys never make it to a patient for transplantation. Critical time is lost due to the inefficiency of DonorNet, wasting time on offers that will not be accepted. Of course an available organ should be offered to the patient in this sequence. However, far too much of the matching, particularly on older donors and organs that are difficult to place, are left to the individual OPOs and transplant centers to find each other despite, rather than facilitated by, UNOS technology. Mid-America Transplant intentionally identifies surgeons who accept kidneys that have been repeatedly turned down many times. These are life saving options for those patients. In May of 2022, one of these patients was number 18,193 on the list. Relying on DonorNet alone, that kidney would never had been placed and the chance to save a life would have been wasted. 55:20 Diane Brockmeier: UNOS lacks urgency and accountability around identifying and remediating this preventable loss of organs, and they are not required to publicly report adverse events when patients are harmed, organs are lost, or the quality of patient care is deemed unsafe. UNOS does not require clinical training, licensure, or certification standards for OPO staff delivering critical patient care. In this environment, who's looking out for the patient? Who's being held accountable for poor patient care? No OPO has ever actually been decertified, regardless of its performance or its safety record. 57:55 Diane Brockmeier: When an OPO goes out of sequence to place an organ that would otherwise be thrown away, UNOS requires an explanation; however, when organs are recovered and discarded, you must remain silent. 58:05 Diane Brockmeier: We must remove conflicts to ensure effective governance. From 2018 to 2020, I served as a board member for the OPTN. Serving on the board of the OPTN automatically assigns membership to the UNOS board. My board experience revealed that at times UNOS actions are not aligned with its fundamental vision of a life saving transplant for everyone in need. How can you fairly represent the country's interest and a contractor's interest at the same time? 58:35 Diane Brockmeier: Board members are often kept in the dark about critical matters and are marginalized, particularly if they express views that differ from UNOS leadership. Preparatory small group calls are conducted prior to board meetings to explore voting intentions, and if the board member was not aligned with the opinion of UNOS leadership, follow up calls are initiated. Fellow board members report feeling pressured to vote in accordance with UNOS leadership. 59:10 Diane Brockmeier: To protect patients, I urge Congress and the administration to separate the OPTN functions into different contracts so that patients can be served by best-in-class vendors, to immediately separate the boards of the OPTN and OPTN contractors, and to ensure that patients are safeguarded through open data from both the OPTN and OPOs. 1:00:45 Barry Friedman: Approximately 23% of kidneys procured from deceased donors are not used and discarded, resulting in preventable deaths 1:00:55 Barry Friedman: Organ transportation is a process left to federally designated Organ Procurement Organizations, OPOs. Currently, they develop their own relationships with couriers, rely on airlines, charter flights, ground transportation, and federal agencies to facilitate transportation. In many cases, organs must connect from one flight to another, leaving airline personnel responsible for transfers. While anyone can track their Amazon or FedEx package, there is currently no consistent way of tracking these life saving organs. 1:01:45 Barry Friedman: Currently there is no requirement for OPOs to use tracking systems. 1:02:20 Barry Friedman: I also believe there's a conflict of interest related to the management of IT functions by UNOS, as the IT tools they offer transplant centers come with additional costs, despite these being essential for the safety and management of organs. 1:02:35 Barry Friedman: UNOS is not effectively screening organ donors so that they can be quickly directed to transplant programs. UNOS asks centers to voluntarily opt out of certain organs via a filtering process. As a result, OPOs waste valuable time making organ offers to centers that will never accept them. Time wasted equates to prolonged cold ischemic time and organs not placed, resulting in lost organ transplant opportunities. 1:03:10 Barry Friedman: Due to the limited expertise that UNOS has in the placement of organs, it would be best if they were no longer responsible for the development of organ placement practices. The UNOS policy making [process] lacks transparency. Currently OPTN board members concurrently serve as the board members of UNOS, which creates a conflict of interest that contributes to this lack of transparency. UNOS committees are formed in a vacuum. There is no call for nominations and no data shared with the transplant community to explain the rationale behind decisions that create policy change. 1:11:35 Dr. Jayme Locke: The most powerful thing to know about this is that every organ represents a life. We can never forget that. Imagine having a medication you need to live being thrown away simply because someone took too long to get it to you. Your life quite literally in a trash can. Organs are no different. They too have shelf lives and they are measured in hours. Discarded organs and transportation errors may sound abstract, but let me make this negligence real for you. In 2014, I received a kidney that arrived frozen, it was an ice cube you could put in your drink. The intended recipient was sensitized, meaning difficult to match. The only thing we could do was tell the waiting patient that due to the lack of transportation safeguard, the kidney had to be thrown in the trash, the final generous act of a donor in Maryland. In 2017, I received a kidney that arrived in a box that appeared to have tire marks on it. The box was squished and the container inside had been ruptured. We were lucky and were able to salvage the kidney for transplant. But why should luck even play a role? 1:12:45 Dr. Jayme Locke: In one week, I received four kidneys from four different OPOs, each with basic errors that led to the need to throw away those life saving organs. One due to a botched kidney biopsy into the kidneys collecting system, another because of a lower pole artery that had been cut during procurement that could have been fixed if someone involved had assessed the kidney for damage and flushed it before packing, but that didn't happen. Two others arrived to me blue, meaning they hadn't been flushed either. 1:13:15 Dr. Jayme Locke: Opacity at UNOS means that we have no idea how often basic mistakes happen across the country, nor can we have any confidence that anything is being done to redress such errors so they don't keep happening. 1:13:40 Dr. Jayme Locke: Women who have been pregnant, especially multiple times, are harder to match, contributing to both gender and racial disparities in access to transplant. This is a very real example of how a constrained pool of organs and high discards disproportionately hurt women and women of color, who are more likely to have multiple pregnancies. 1:14:25 Dr. Jayme Locke: Number one, immediately separate the OPTN board from any of the boards of any contractors. Number two, bring in real experts to ensure our patients are served by the best of the best in each field, separating out key functions of the OPTN, including policy, technology, and logistics. And number three, ensure that patients are safer by holding all contractors accountable through public adverse event reporting and immediate redressing of problems. 1:22:00 Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA): The system doesn't seem to be fair to racial minorities or people living in rural communities. So what are your efforts underway to understand the root causes and help make the system fairer to patients on the waiting list to explain the factors that result in the disparity for minorities in rural populations in the process? And how can the federal government address a problem if we have to be involved in addressing it? Dr. Jayme Locke: One of the most important things that we don't currently do is we don't actually account for disease burden in terms of examining our waiting lists. So we have no way of knowing if we're actually serving the correct people, if the correct people are actually making it to the waiting list. Disease burden is super important because it not only identifies the individuals who are in need of transplantation, but it also speaks to supply. So areas with high rates of end stage kidney disease burden, like the southeastern United States are going to have much lower supply. And those waiting lists predominantly consist of African American or Black individuals. So if you want to make a truly equitable organ system, you have to essentially get more organs to those areas where there are higher disease burdens. I think the other thing is that we have to have more focus on how we approach donor families and make sure that we have cultural competence as a part of our OPOs, and how they approach families to ensure that we're not marginalizing minority families with regard to the organ donation process. 1:30:00 Brian Shepard: The OPTN IT system that UNOS operates has 99.99% uptime. It is a highly reliable system. We are audited annually by HRSA.... Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD): My information shows it's had 17 days down since I think 1999. That's not correct? Brian Shepard: In 23 years, yes, sir. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD): Okay, well, every day there's a loss of life, isn't it? Brian Shepard: That's the total amount of time over the couse of -- Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD): I hope our national event system isn't down 17 days a year. Brian Shepard: The system has never been down for a day. And to my knowledge, and I have not been at UNOS since 1999, there's been maybe one event that was longer than an hour, and that was three hours. But the total amount of time since 1999 -- Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD): So you're satisfied with your technology? You think you have the right technology? You're satisfied with your tracking systems now? You think everything is okay? Brian Shepard: We constantly improve our technology. We're subjected to 3 million attempts a day to hack into the patient database and we successfully repelled them all. So we are never satisfied with our technology, but we do maintain 99.99% uptime. We disagree with the USDS analysis of our systems. 1:37:25 Brian Shepard: If you're asking whether UNOS can prevent an OPO from operating or for being an OPO -- Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH: Well not prevent them, but require them to do something .You don't have the ability to require them...? Brian Shepard: The peer review process has significant persuasive authority, but all the payment authority and all the certification and decertification authority live at CMS. 1:39:00 Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH: Do you think there should be tracking of organs in transit? Brian Shepard: I think that's a very beneficial thing. UNOS provides an optional service that a quarter of OPOs use. Many OPOs also use other commercially available trackers to do that. There is not a single requirement to use a particular system. 1:41:55 Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): Mr. Shepherd, you are the CEO of UNOS. We have documented these problems and you've received more than 1000 complaints in the last decade alone. So tell me, in the 36 years that UNOS has had the contract to run our national organ system, how many times has UNOS declared its OPO Members, any OPO members, not in good standing. Brian Shepard: Two times, Senator. 1:43:20 Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): How many times has UNOS put an OPO on probation? Brian Shepard: I don't know that number off the top of my head, but it's not a large number. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA): It's not large, in fact it's three. 1:45:20 Brian Shepard: Approximately 10% of the budget of this contract is taxpayer funded. The rest of that is paid by hospitals when they list patients. 1:49:30 Sen. Todd Young (R-IN): Once an OPO is designated not in good standing, Senator Warren referred to this as toothless. It does seem toothless to me. I'll give you an opportunity, Mr. Shepherd, to disabuse me of that notion and indicate for me what penalties or sanctions are actually placed on an OPO when they are designated not in good standing. Brian Shepard: The statute does not give UNOS any authority to offer sanctions like that. The certification, decertification, payment authorities belong entirely to CMS. UNOS's statute doesn't give us the ability -- Sen. Todd Young (R-IN): So it is toothless in that sense. Brian Shepard: It is designed to be, by regulation and contract, a quality improvement process, in contrast to the oversight process operated by a federal agency. 1:51:15 Sen. Todd Young (R-IN): To what extent is UNOS currently tracking the status of all the organs in transit at any given time? Brian Shepard: UNOS does not coordinate transportation or track organs in transit. We do provide a service that OPOs can use to use GPS trackers. Some of the OPOs use ours and some use other commercially available products. Sen. Todd Young (R-IN): So why is it, and how does UNOS plan to optimize organ delivery if you don't have 100% visibility into where they are at any given time? Brian Shepard: I think that the GPS products that we offer and that other people offer are valuable, they do help in the delivery of kidneys. Only kidneys travel unaccompanied, so this is a kidney issue. But I do think that GPS trackers are valuable and I think that's why you've seen more and more OPOs use them. 1:52:50 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): Mr. Shepherd has said twice, with respect to this whole question of the power to decertify an OPO, that CMS has the power to do it. UNOS also has the power to refer an OPO for decertification under the OPTN final rule. That has been done exactly once. So I just wanted it understood with respect to making sure the committee has got what's really going on with respect to decertifying OPOs. 2:00:15 Dr. Jayme Locke: Obviously people have described that we have about a 25% kidney discard, so one in four. So if you look at numbers last year, these are rough numbers, but that'd be about 8000 kidneys. And really, I think, in some ways, these are kind of a victim of an entrenched and cumbersome allocation algorithms that are very ordinal, you have to go sort of in order, when data clearly have shown that introduction of multiple simultaneous expiring offers would result in more efficient placement of kidneys and this would decrease our cold ischemia time. 2:00:50 Dr. Jayme Locke: So if you take UNOS's organ center, they have a very rigid system, for example, for finding flights and lack either an ability or interest in thinking outside the box. So, for example, if there are no direct flights from California to Birmingham, Alabama, instead of looking for a flight from San Francisco to Atlanta, understanding that a courier could then pick it up in Atlanta and drive it the two hours, they'll instead put on a flight from SFO to Atlanta and allow it to go to cargo hold overnight, where it literally is rotting, if you will, and we're putting extra time on it. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): Just to make sure everybody gets this. You're saying you've seen instances of something being put in cargo hold when it is very likely to rot? Dr. Jayme Locke: That is correct. So if the kidney arrives after 10pm at the Atlanta airport, it goes to cargo hold. We discovered that and made calls to the airlines ourselves and after several calls to the airlines, of course they were mortified, not understanding that that was what was happening and actually had their manager meet our courier and we were able to get the kidney out of cargo hold, but this went on before we figured out what was happening because essentially they fly it in, it sits in cargo hold, it comes out the next morning to catch the next flight. Instead of thinking outside the box: if we just get it to Atlanta, it's drivable to Birmingham. And those hours make a difference. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): That sounds way too logical for what UNOS has been up to. 2:03:05 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): Miss Brockmeier, UNOS has developed this organ tracking system. Do you all use it? I'm curious what you think of it. Diane Brockmeier: Thank you for the question, Senator. We did use and participate in the beta pilot through UNOS and made the decision to not move forward using their product, and have sought a commercial alternative. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): And why was that? Diane Brockmeier: Part of the issues were some service related issues, the lack of the interconnectivity that we wanted to be able to facilitate a more expedited visual tracking of where the organ was. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): Was the tracking technology low quality? Diane Brockmeier: Yes, sir. 2:11:25 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): All right, let's talk for a moment about the boards that are supposed to be overseeing these, because it looks to me like there's a serious conflict of interest here and I'll send this to Ms. Brockmeier, and perhaps you'd like to get to it as well, Mr. Friedman. The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, which is the formal title of the organ network that operates under federal contract administered by HHS, and UNOS, which is the contractor that operates the network and controls information about the network, have the same boards of directors, despite efforts by the government to separate them. That means the people who look out for the best interests of UNOS, the multimillion dollar nonprofit, are the same people who look out for the interests of the entire organ transplant network. Sure sounds like a conflict to me. 2:12:55 Diane Brockmeier: I think there should be an independent board. I think the division of the responsibilities of the board and by the inherent way that they're structured, do pose conflicts. It would be like if you had an organization that was a supporting organization, you'd want to hold it accountable for its performance. And the current structure really limits that opportunity. 2:19:50 Dr. Jayme Locke: And if you think about IT, something as simple as having a system where we can more easily put in unacceptable antigens, this was a debate for many years. So for context, we list unacceptable antigens in the system that allows us to better match kidneys so that when someone comes up on the match run, we have a high probability that there'll be a good tissue match. Well, that took forever and we couldn't really get our unacceptable antigens in, so routinely people get offered kidneys that aren't going to be a match, and you have to get through all of those before you can get to the person that they really should go to. Those are simple examples. But if we could really have transparency and accountability around those kinds of things, we could save more lives. 2:23:10 Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR): Mr. Shepherd told Senator Warren that only 10% of UNOS funds come from taxpayer money and the rest comes from fees paid by transplant centers who add patients to the list. But the fact is, Medicare is the largest payer of the fees, for example, for kidneys. So we're talking about inefficiency, inefficiency that puts patients at risk. And certainly, taxpayer dollars are used to cover some of these practices. May 4, 2021 House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy Witnesses: Tonya Ingram, Patient Waiting for a Transplant Dr. Dara Kass, Living Donor and Mother of Transplant Recipient LaQuayia Goldring, Patient Waiting for a Transplant Steve Miller, CEO, Association for Organ Procurement Organizations Joe Ferreira, President, Association for Organ Procurement Organizations Matt Wadsworth, President and CEO, Life Connection of Ohio Dr. Seth Karp, Director, Vanderbilt Transplant Center Donna Cryer, President and CEO, Global Liver Institute Clips 5:15 Tonya Ingram: The Organ Procurement Organization that serves Los Angeles, where I live, is failing according to the federal government. In fact, it's one of the worst in the country. One analysis showed it only recovered 31% of potential organ donors. Audits in previous years found that LA's OPO has misspent taxpayer dollars on retreats to five star hotels and Rose Bowl tickets. The CEO makes more than $900,000. Even still, the LA OPO has not lost its government contract and it has five more years to go. 30:00 Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL): Unusual among Medicare programs, their costs are 100% reimbursed, even costs unrelated to care. So, extravagant executive compensation and luxury perks may be passed off onto the taxpayer. 46:55 Dr. Seth Karp: We have 10 hours to get a liver from the donor to the recipient, and about one hour to sew it in. For heart, we have about six hours. Time matters. 47:55 Dr. Seth Karp: Last year, I had the opportunity to co-write a viewpoint in one of the journals of the American Medical Association with TJ Patel, former Chief Data Scientist of the United States. In that article, we provided evidence that the metrics used to judge the performance of organ procurement organizations are basically useless. Until the recent OPO Final Rule, performance was self-reported, and OPO employees admitted to having gamed the system. When threatened with decertification, one of the OPOs themselves successfully argued that because the performance data were self reported and unaudited, they failed to meet a reasonable standard and the OPO should not be held accountable. In other words for decades, the metrics supposed to measure performance didn't measure performance, and the results have been disastrous, as you have heard. 49:45 Dr. Seth Karp: Whenever I, and quite frankly most everyone else in the field, gives a talk on transplantation, we usually make two points. The first is that organ transplantation is a miracle of modern medicine. The second is the tragedy that there are not enough organs for everyone who needs one. I no longer use the second point, because I don't believe it. Based on my work, I believe that there are enough organs for patients who require hearts, lungs, and probably livers, and we can make a huge improvement in the number of kidneys available. In addition to improving OPO performance, new technologies already exist to dramatically increase the organ supply. We need a structure to drive rapid improvement in our system. 54:00 Joe Ferreira: One common misconception is that OPOs are solely responsible for the entire donation and transplantation system, when, in fact, OPOs are the intermediary entity and their success is highly dependent on collaborations with hospitals and transplant programs. At the start of the donation process, hospitals are responsible for notifying any OPO in a timely manner when a patient is on a ventilator and meets medical criteria to be an organ donor. Additionally, transplant centers must make the decision whether to accept or decline the organs offered by OPOs. 57:55 Matt Wadsworth: As geographic monopolies, OPOs are not subject to any competitive pressure to provide high service. As the only major program in all of health care 100% reimbursed for all costs, we do not face financial pressures to allocate resources intelligently. 1:02:10 Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL): Mr. Ferreira, I'd like to turn to you. You run the OPO called the Nevada Donor Network. I have your OPO's 2019 financial statement filed with the CMS. It appears that your OPO spent roughly $6 million in 2019 on administrative and general expenses. Interestingly, in 2019, I see your OPO spent approximately $146,000 on travel meetings and seminars alone. And your itemization of Administrative and General has an interesting line item for $576,000 for "ANG". It took me a minute but that means you have an "Administrative and General" subcategory in your "Administrative and General" category. Very vague. Now Mr. Ferreira, I was informed by Mr. Wadsworth, a former executive of yours at the Nevada Donor Network, that your OPO has season tickets to the NHL's Las Vegas Golden Knights, isn't that correct? Joe Ferreira: That is correct, Mr. Chairman. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL): And you also have season tickets to the Las Vegas Raiders too, right? Joe Ferreira: That is correct. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL): And according to Mr. Wadsworth and others, your OPO took a board retreat to Napa Valley in 2018. Joe Ferreira: That is correct. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL): And Sonoma in 2019, right? Joe Ferreira: That is correct. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL): Mr. Ferreira, what you're spending on the Raiders, the Golden Knights, Napa Valley and Sonoma have one thing in common: they have nothing to do with recovering organs. 1:10:30 Dr. Seth Karp: In 2019, there were six heart transplants that were performed using donors after circulatory determination of death. And I don't want to get into the technical aspects of that. But in 2019, that number was six. In 2020, that number was 126. This is a new technology. This is a way that we can increase the number of heart transplants done in United States dramatically. And if we think that there were 500 patients in the United States waiting for a heart in 2020, 500 patients that either died or were delisted because they were too sick, and you think in one year, using a technology, we got another 100 transplants, if we could get another 500 transplants out of that technology, we could almost eliminate deaths on the on the heart transplant waiting list. That technology exists. It exists today. But we don't have a mechanism for getting it out to everybody that could use it and it's going to run itself through the system, it's going to take too much time. 1:24:05 Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA): You know, I'm a little disappointed that we're discussing race as a factor in organ transplant. We're all one race in my opinion; color makes no difference to me. We're the human race. And to me, the interjection of race into this discussion is very concerning. Discrimination based on race was outlawed almost 60 years ago through the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Now, I'm not a medical doctor, and I have very little knowledge of medicine. But last year, there was an article that came out in LifeSource and it says, "Does my race and ethnicity matter in organ donation?" And so my question here is for Dr. Karp. In your experience, would you agree that a donor's organs are more likely to be a clinical match for a recipient of the same ethnicity? Could you comment on that? Is that actually a factor, or not? I mean, we're all human beings, we all, you know, have similar bodies. Dr. Seth Karp: Yes. So there definitely are certain HLA types that are more common. That is race-based. So the answer to that question is yes. Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA): Okay. All right. And so if you have more of one particular race, more donations of one particular race, then naturally you would have more actual matches of that particular race. Is that correct? Dr. Seth Karp: That would tend to be the case. Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA): Okay. All right. All right. Okay, that's just a question that I wanted to clear up here. 1:34:20 Donna Cryer: We'd like to see investments in languages that are spoken by the community. Educational resources should be, as required by law, for those with limited English proficiency. They should be in the languages spoken by the community. They should be hiring diverse staff to have those most crucial conversations with families. The data shows, and certainly experience and common sense shows as well, that having people of color approaching families of color results in more donations. Executive Producer Recommended Sources Music by Editing Production Assistance

On today's show, Pat, Pacman Jones, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about Dalvin Cook officially signing with the Jets, Zeke Elliott signing with the Pats, the amount of training camp fights that have been happening in joint practices, and everything else happening around the NFL. Joining the progrum is 2006 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year, 2x Pro Bowler, All-Pro, and now Head Coach of the Houston Texans, DeMeco Ryans to chat about the changes of being a first time Head Coach, changing the culture in Houston, his thoughts on his rookie class including CJ Stroud and Will Anderson, his mantra for the team this year, and more (1:25:39-1:48:55). Later, Stanley Cup Champion and Captain of the Las Vegas Golden Knights, Mark Stone joins the show to chat about his offseason, what he did the celebrate bringing Lord Stanley's Cup to Las Vegas for the first time, how he's feeling physically, where the donation from the show will be going as a result of winning the Cup, and a bet for next year as well (1:55:32-2:16:34). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. See you tomorrow, cheers.

On today's show, Pat, Pacman Jones, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about the Las Vegas Golden Knights winning their first Stanley Cup and Mark “Stoner” Stone netting a hat trick en route to destroying the Florida Panthers 9-3. They also cover more on the Stefon Diggs situation as he was back at practice today and everything was seemingly overblown, along with the trailer for “Quarterback,” coming to Netflix on July 12 produced by Omaha Productions and starring Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins, and Marcus Mariotta. Joining the progrum to discuss baseball now that the NBA and NHL seasons are over, is MLB Senior Insider for ESPN, Jett Passan to discuss the Oakland A's reverse boycott, how a lot of teams people didn't expect to be good are leading their divisions, who the biggest disappointments have been thus far, and more (20:30-47:24). Next, Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk stops by to chat about the story that an unnamed NFL player lost $8 million gambling last year, and what's going on with Stefon Diggs and Saquon Barkley (47:47-1:00:02). Next, Head Coach of the Denver Nuggets, NBA Champion, Michael Malone joins the show to chat about the Nuggets' success, his coaching style, what Joker is like behind closed doors, his thoughts throughout the playoffs when no one was giving the Nuggets any respect, and much more in an incredible conversation (1:18:52-1:44:27). Later, Captain of the Las Vegas Golden Knights, Stanley Cup Champion, friend of the show, Mark Stone joins the show with Lord Stanley's Cup to chat about his unbelievable game, the season, the party afterwards, what the boys have been doing, when the parade is, and the experience as a whole (2:05:03-2:19:08). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. See you tomorrow, cheers.

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On today's show, Pat, Pacman Jones, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about the Celtics fending off elimination after beating the Heat in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals last night, the Las Vegas Golden Knights continuing to roll against the Dallas Stars by taking a 3-0 series lead, more on the NFL changing the kickoff rules, and everything else happening around the world of sports. Joining the progrum fresh off one of the best feel good stories of the year at the PGA Championship, PGA Club Pro, Michael Block stops by to chat about his whirlwind weekend, what the experience was like, his ace on 15, how he kept his cool, and more (29:40-42:09). Next, Head Coach and now Defensive Coordinator of the Buffalo Bills, Sean McDermott joins the show to chat about how OTA's have been going so far, the Bills ultimate goals, calling defensive plays after not doing it for some time, his thoughts on the kickoff rules, and much more (1:03:54-1:30:46). Later, President of the UFC, Dana White joins the show to discuss tonight's Slap 2 event, what cards he has in the works, when we can possibly expect to see Jon Jones back in the Octagon, the blowback he received when taking the UFC to ESPN+, and more (1:50:48-2:09:33). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. See you tomorrow, cheers.

On today's show, Pat, Pacman Jones, AJ Hawk, and the boys chat about the PGA Championship starting today, Jimmy Butler putting the Miami Heat on his back after a big road victory in Boston against the Celtics, some of the other news stories floating around the NFL, and everything else happening around the sports world. Joining the show to chat about his draft process, break some news about a new signing, discuss what's on his plate the next few months, and explain how he does things differently than his predecessor is Pittsburgh Steelers GM, Omar Khan (1:07:35-1:23:23). Later, the Captain of the Las Vegas Golden Knights, Mark “Stoner” Stone joins the progrum to chat about his career, what it's like playing for Vegas, being the first captain in the history of the franchise, how his back is faring after several back surgeries in the last year, if the boys are buzzing right now, his pregame superstitions, and much more (2:25:12-2:45:51). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. See you tomorrow, cheers.

On today's show, Pat, AJ Hawk, Pacman Jones, and the boys chat Nick's upcoming wedding this weekend, Zion's recent comments about not playing “until he feels like Zion again,” all the different rumors floating around as we get closer to the NFL Draft, and everything else happening in the sports world. Joining the progrum is the 2nd overall pick of the 2015 NHL Draft, Center for the Las Vegas Golden Knights, Jackie Aces, Jack Eichel, joins the show to chat about his hockey career up to this point, how playing in Vegas is, if he thinks there will continue to be great American hockey players, the grueling hockey season as a whole, the Golden Knights chances heading into the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and more (24:12-54:40). Next, NFL Insider and co-host of Good Morning Football, Peter Schrager joins the show to chat about the draft and what he's hearing up to this point, how close Sean McVay was to retiring, what the 49ers are going to do at Quarterback this year, and what he thinks is ultimately going to happen with the Lamar Jackson situation (1:26:08-1:56:33). Later, ESPN MLB Senior Insider, Jeff Passan joins the show to chat about how the baseball season has been going with the new rules changes (1:59:33-2:34:57). Make sure you subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow to watch the show. We appreciate the hell out of all of you. See you tomorrow, cheers.