Tripod Sports

© California Golden Bears Cal vs. Hawaii in Sydney, Australia, 10pm ET Friday, Aug. 26 on ESPN Download!   This week we discuss the profitability of college football programs, the availability of rental athletes (or as Chappers so elegantly puts it: Rent-a-Kenyan), and fan expectations when it comes to the NFL.   Predictions: AFC South, MIS Sprint Cup Race, Hawaii vs. Cal Kastle: Colts, Denny "THE MAN" Hamlin, Cal Chappers: Colts, Joey "FUCK FACE" Logano, Hawaii Catman: Colts, Brad "I CAN'T DRIVE SOMETIMES" Crashalotski, Cal

We beat the average . . . we made it through ten episodes!!!!! Download!   Tonight, we discuss the following: preseason NFL injuries, IOC corruption, and the responsibility of the retired/retiring athlete! Predictions: Kastle: Jimmie Johnson, Bengals Chappers: Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Steelers Catman: Brad Crashalotski, Ravens

Courtesy Asics . . . . and by courtesy, we mean, there's your copyright nod Asics. Download! Two and a half stories this week, we’re going to keep it nice and simple, Olympic coverage, their biased perspective, and the gripes we have about their coverage. Second, we’re going to talk about all the aggressive moves during the offseason in the soccer leagues overseas. The half a story will be a quick wrap up on Sportsmanship.  Predictions: Catman is finally on the board!!! Currently Kastle and Chappers tied at 3 points, Catman at 1. NFC North: All three of us take the Pack.

No Olympics discussion today, but how is this not amazing? We have a discussion about the role of weather and weather delays in sports, a top 10 college football preview, and contract holdouts in the NFL. We want to say thank you again to Troy for coming on the show last week, and doing such a phenomenal job! Predictions: Canadian Football League, NFC West, and Watkins Glen: Kastle: Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Cardinals, and Jeff Gordon Chappers: Tiger-Cats, Cardinals, and Concrete Carl Catman: Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Cardinals, and Kyle Larson

The episode where at least the drug dealers in Rio are looking out for the kids Three topics today plus a special guest, Troy!!!!!!!!!! NFL training camp The Russian Problem PGA Championship Predictions: NFC South, Pocono, PGA Championship Kastle: Buccaneers (SKINNY JAMEIS, NO MORE CRAB LEGS AFTER 7PM), Jeff Gordon, and Dustin Johnson Chappers: Panthers, Brad Crashalotzski, Jason Day Troy: Saints, Jeff Gordon, Sergio Garcia Catman: Panthers (duh), Jimmie Johnson, Bubba Watson

Franzia Refreshing HWHITE HWINE is our unofficial sponsor today. And by unofficial we mean that they told us not to mention them . . .   Chappers and I are both at home today, I'm packing up my kitchen getting ready to move cross country and he's taken the day off from work spontaneously. We ended up watching stage 18 of the Tour this morning from our respective homes. This is the wrap-up from our Facebook Messaging discussion that occurred during todays time trials at the Tour

Where we went and watched a baseball game and it was okay . . . the beer was phenomenal though. That has nothing to do with our discussion today though. . . Chappers leads us off with a quick discussion of rivalries, Catman gets us all revved up on a discussion of eliminating kickoffs, and Kastle tries to turn the arguments used by the other two in the previous discussion against them. . . Picks for the week are for the NASCAR race at Indy, and we picked an NFC East team to win the division. For the next seven weeks we'll pick an NFL division winner and will wrap the week before the first game!: Kastle: Driver of the 88 car, and the Cowboys Chappers: Jimmie Johnson and the Cowboys Catman: Tony Stewart and the Redskins

That time we bought a battle flamingo because it was Amazon Prime day and it was on sale! Download! We're back on our regular schedule of Tuesday Podcasts and we're loving life! Topics de jour: Athletes getting in trouble UFC GOT SOLD FOR $4 billion, no biggie ZIKA MADNESS! . . . it's all the craze!   Predictions: Catman: Jr. at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Dustin Johnson for the Open Championship (He literally thinks he can pull the rug out from under me -Kastle) Chappers: Kenseth, Spieth Kastle: Krazy Kurt Busch, Shane Lowry

  Three topics this week! NCAA Satellite Camps Catman takes his entire time to find a roundabout way bitch about Jim Harbaugh NBA Free Agency Chappers finds a way to make the salary cap seem as complicated, arbitrary, and occasionally brilliant. NFL WAY TOO EARLY FOUR TEAMS TO WATCH: Kastle gives you two real picks and two picks that are bold choices. Raiders, Pats, Packers, Cowboys**I'm going to say that this was a weird topic, but I'm sold on the raiders for the next few years.

  First, we’ll discuss the NBA finals and the end to the championship drought in Cleveland; second, we’ll discuss the events that led up to the firing of Art Briles at Baylor, his potential reinstatement, and the contract buyout; and third, the USGA’s colossal fuckup at the US Open. As always, we’ll finish off the episode by making some predictions for this weekend and hopefully one of us will be right! Before we get to the stories, we wanted to to give you a quick update on some of the sports we’ve discussed and some of the results from the last week. NASCAR Sprint Cup took the week off, but the Xfinity series ran at Iowa and Sam Hornish Jr. took home the win. Kyle Busch, Brad Keselowski, and Carl Edwards are the top 3 in standings, in that order. Dustin Johnson took home his first major win at the US Open after struggling through another rules debacle on the final day of play at Oakmont.  Lastly, Cleveland took home the Larry O’Brien championship trophy after defeating Golden State 93 to 89 on Sunday

General view of the clubhouse on the 18th hole during a practice round for the 2016 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pa. on Monday, June 13, 2016. (Copyright USGA/Joel Kowsky) Welcome back after our brief break and thanks for sticking with us! This episode, Chappers, Catman, and Kastle discuss Copa America, The Art of Gamesmanship, and The US Open . . . for a second time. We are not guaranteeing that we understand the topics any better than we did the first time, but the discussion is a little bit more intense than it was the first time. We had a separate post on Monday detailing what's been up with us, but the short of it is that we tried to record remotely last thursday, 2/3 of the tripod forgot to wear headphones while recording, and the microphones picked up EVERYTHING. The media wasn't salvageable. Download! With that said, here's a few links that might be of interest to you: -Copa America Centenario Home Page -Gamesmanship as defined by Wikipedia -Early reports on the conditions at the U

Thank you for tuning in for the inaugural Tripod Sports podcast. Chappers, Catman, and Kastle introduce themselves, their sports passions, and run through a sample of stories and how heated a discussion we can have while still remaining friends. This episode, CC&K discuss: -Laremy Tunsil and the video/cash debacle! -U.S.A rugby and the incorporation of sevens play into the olympics for the first time! -NBA playoffs and the rise and fall of the Golden State Warriors from the regular season and into the playoffs!

Tripod Sports Podcast! As the title states, Chappers, Catman, and Kastle discuss the mess that was the rules from the NASCAR All-Star race, Tom Brady's last hope for evading justice, and the NFL Draft.       Predictions for this weekend: Kastle: Dale Jr. wins the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Chappers: Penguins win the cup. Catman:Denny Hamlin wins at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Sharks beat the penguins. Find more information topics discussed in today's podcast below: -NASCAR All-Star race rules -ESPN's story on Tom Brady's appeal