5K
Downloads
205
Episodes
We are presenting a new podcast that will feature guests that will give analysis and opinions from the world of sports.
Episodes
Saturday Jun 20, 2020
Saturday Jun 20, 2020
Hello and welcome to another great Podcast episode. This features a riveting conversation with one of our favorite people on the planet the always dynamic Jason Cameron.
We covered a lot of topics today starting with the new NBA players coalition headed up by Kyrie Irving, Avery Bradley and Dwight Howard. This coalition is trying to get NBA player support to boycott the NBA season and not go into the Orlando " Bubble" that will be where the 2019-2020 season is scheduled to resume. Mr Cameron eloquently described his displeasure in Kyrie and him not using his voice to give a clear and concise plan. The fight for Social injustice, police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement needs to continue of course. We both wonder that how this coalition honestly believes that by not playing their support will be heard louder than by resuming the NBA season. Jason went on to say that the NBA players will undoubtedly be able to do their job and continue to further their support for the causes that have been taken up after the murder of George Floyd.
Switching gears to the NFL to discuss another week and another video message from Commissioner Roger Goodell. Last week Jason expressed his disbelief and amazement that Goodell and the NFL owners admitted that they were WRONG in not listening to the NFL players concerns earlier on racism and the systematic oppression of black people. A lot of opinions were shared on the videos contents and apology. There was some criticism that in the message Goodell didn't refer directly to Colin Kaepernick who four years ago led the players taking a knee to oppose police brutality and racial inequality. Kaepernick became a civil rights activist and lost his NFL career as the league allegedly colluded to keep the former 49ers QB out of the NFL since 2016. This time Goodell did finally address Kap and said he has encouraged NFL teams to sign the QB.
The UFC June 13th card was then discussed as we broke down most of the fights on the card. The three fights at the start of the card and four of the first five that all lasted less than a minute. Tyson Nam was the first fighter spoke about how impressive his performance was getting a knockout in 32 seconds over Zarrukh Adashev. We talked about the former hockey enforcer Christian Aguileras UFC debut ending in a knockout over Anthony Ivy in 59 seconds. There was discussion on the main event with Jessica Eye and Cynthia Calvillos dominance over her with takedowns. The other fight featured was Andre "Touchy" Fili and Charles "Air" Jourdain who had an amazingly compelling three round technical fight with all elements showcased. Then we spoke about the next UFC card that is to take place in Vegas June 20th. The main event is Curtis "Razor" Blaydes vs Alex Volkov which has the potential for an epic battle. Josh Emmett and Shane Burgos will face each other in the co main. Then we discussed the two veterans Jim Miller and Clay Guida on the cards and the fun it will be to be watching them in the twilight of their respective careers.
Thanks again Jason for so many impressive takes and opinions you are a gem. Take care everyone and Bye for now!
Saturday Jun 20, 2020
Saturday Jun 20, 2020
This is another great episode for the Complete Sports and Media team. Today's episode is featuring an analyst with a wealth of knowledge and insight into the PGA tour.
This is a breakdown of this past weekends PGA return to play at the Colonial tournament in Fort Worth Texas. There was a 13 week shutdown of the tour due to the Corona Virus. It was tough for golf fans especially as this is when the season is typically in full swing.
I had a short intro before welcoming Casey onto the show. He was joining us from his new sailboat. I forgot to ask if he was parked beside or near Tiger's yacht "Privacy"! There have been many sightings of Mr Woods Yacht around as people try and speculate where his is in the world and that could shed some light on when he will return to tournament golf.
Casey began by saying that the Champion of the tournament Daniel Berger was a little hungrier for the win compared to Brooks Koepka and Bryson Dechambeau. We both observed the immense size that Bryson has put on his frame and overall physique. "Did you see him next to Justin Rose he was twice the size of him" Bryson is changing so much in his swing and with the added size he noticed some rigidity on some of his shots. he thinks that if he can just calm down and control some more of those shots he will lap the field in some tournaments. Bryson was the talk of the tournament because of this workout regiment he was on during Covid-19. Casey brought up the fact that the golfers were still sharp despite the layoff. His statistic was impressive as he said that 16 golfers shot all of their four rounds in the 60's. Even with no tournament play they still shot low scores. Casey smartly made the point that some of the wayward shots guys had would have typically hit grandstands and places where fans would be congregated normally so that gave them better opportunities at salvaging scores. The biggest aspect of no fans that We at Complete Sports observed was when Sung Kang made a hole in one and nobody cheered "there were crickets" and he didn't even know that it had went in. Casey then wanted to breakdown Xander Schauffele"s day. he hit a 30 foot bomb for bogey on 15 then hit another long putt on 16 for birdie then the "Power lip out on 17" golf can be so cruel. We discussed how many guys had a shot at the title but so many putts that just missed or lipped out. Daniel Berger had finished 9th, 5th and 4th in tournaments before the break so it was good to see he was able to continue his hot play and get a huge win over a world class field. We both noticed how Berger had come from behind and wasn't in the last few groups so he was able to post a number and let the other guys have to try and match or beat that -15 score. When Collin Morikawa stepped up to his short putt on 18 they showed a shot of Berger watching the putt that if it is holed wins the tournament for Morikawa and he pulled it. Once Schauffele fell off the pace there was a two man playoff. Morikawa hit it way wide right off the tee and had to scramble to get in position to have another short putt to tie the hole and send it to more extra holes but missed his chance again and handed the win to Berger. Casey said that he would have put money on Morikawa nailing those short putts.
Speaking of bets Casey won a big 8 game parlay on Friday so he sailed into the weekend on a high. We are going to get some betting tips from now one from the guru lol. He didn't fare as well on the weekend but had went for longshots. He mentioned that he was quite high on Canadian Corey Conners and had some money riding on him. He had a really good first three rounds shooting 66 67 67 before a 71 on Sunday saw him fall back in the pack. His win on tour was a Cinderella type story as he made it into the tournament as a Monday qualifier and won the whole thing and qualified for the Masters etc.
The tournament had an amazing world class top golfers field and then a lot of them missed the cut and we listed off a bunch. Dustin Johnson, John Rahm, Phil Mickelson, Sergio Garcia, Matt Kuchar, Graeme McDowell, Defending Colonial champion Kevin Na, Marc Leishman, Jason Day, Rickie Fowler, Charley Hoffman, Webb Simpson.
Casey added some more humor as he wondered what was the look that Phil Mickelson was sporting with some dark shades. Look online you will laugh at the pics posted of his new look. Jason Kokrak was brought up as he shot 65 64 on the weekend to get himself right in contention but just started the weekend too far back. It was a very impressive performance.
We spoke a little about Olympic View Casey's home course when he is in Victoria and Duncan Meadows when he is up the Island. It was a great conversation and nice to have a lot of golf to breakdown and discuss. Love having golf back and being able to consume it and analyze it for days after especially with such a great guy in Casey Odonnell.
Remember to subscribe and like the videos and keep you eye out every week for more great content like this. Cheers and love yah Bye for now.
Saturday Jun 20, 2020
Saturday Jun 20, 2020
Tune in for another great podcast from The Complete Sports and Media Coverage team.
Today we are featuring a great conversation with a veteran of the combat sports world Stephane Cappellini. Capo has competed in combat sports and worked with his local athletic commission to help put on events.
We have a short introduction to the show as we start talking about the UFC.
After the pandemic hit North America and postponed and cancelled events the UFC was able to eventually return. We began talking about the events in Florida and Las Vegas after the sport had returned with no fans. We all have been missing live sports and with hard work the UFC has started to fill that void. We introduced Stephane and welcomed him to the show. Our conversation started by speaking about the difference we noticed with no fans in the stands at these latest live event fight cards. We briefly discussed the rumors of Mike Tyson fighting Shannon Briggs or Evander Holyfield. The focus quickly shifted back to the UFC and the latest pay per view UFC 250 and the main event featuring Amanda Nunes and Felicia Spencer. After a brief discussion about the dominant performance by Nunes we shifted into discussing the other fights on the card. We began to specifically speak about the bantamweight fights beginning with Cody Garbrandt and his big knockout victory over Raphael Assuncao. Stephane mentioned Garbrandts jujitsu coach Ricardo Almeida and we brought up his new Striking coach Mark Henry and his original team Team Alpha Male. Sticking with the bantamweights we marveled at the submission victory by Aljimain Sterling over Cory Sandhagen. Then transitioned into talking about the big knockout win by Sean OMalley over Eddie Wineland. To cap off UFC 250 we talked about Cody Stamman and his win with a heavy heart after his 18 year old brother had passed away recently.
We then turned our attention to the latest fight announcement of the card for UFC 251, It was revealed just hours before our conversation that the card would take place on Yas Island called "Fight Island" in Abu Dhabi on July 11th. This card is scheduled to feature three world title matches. We started by talking about the Title fight in the Bantamweight division between Petr Yan and Jose Aldo. The belt is on the line because of the retirement of Henry Cejudo and so the title was vacated. The Main event of UFC 251 features the Champion Kamara Usman defending his belt against Gilbert Burns. We discussed some of Burns last fights and the merits of his title shot. We shifted to the third title fight on the card that would see a rematch between Featherweight Champion Alexandre Volkanovski vs Max Holloway. Volkanovski took the belt from Holloway on December 14 2019 by unanimous decision. Stephane questioned how Holloway could comeback in such a relatively short time and get a victory and getting beaten quite badly the in first match.
Our great conversation was concluded with some discussion on the recent announcement of Georges St Pierre getting nominated for the UFC Hall Of Fame.
It was a great breakdown from one of our favorite analysts and we look forward to many more discussions in the future.
I hope that you enjoy this Podcast outtake and hit the like button and subscribe to our channel and insert our podcast into your life. Take care and all the best. Bye for now
Saturday Jun 20, 2020
Saturday Jun 20, 2020
This is a posting of a conversation from our podcast. We welcomed Scott Holburn into the podcast after a lengthy intro on the subjects we are covering on this day.
We were into the week after UFC 250 and we were going to look back on UFC 249 and to look ahead to the big announcement of the card UFC 251. Scott joined us and started talking about the bantamweight division in the UFC. He said the division is stacked with a "murders row of contenders and Sean O'Malleys performance as an example. O'Malley was not in the top 15 until his performance at UFC 250. Scott expressed disappointment at Jose Aldo getting a title shot coming up at UFC 251 against Petr Yan. He pointed to Jose Aldo's debut in the bantamweight division being a decision loss to Marlon Moraes the #1 ranked contender in the division. Our team at Complete Sports thought Aldo won that fight until the decision was read out in the cage. There is some questioning if Aldo deserves it and Scott mentioned Cody Garbrandt, Aljimain Sterling and Marlon Moraes as possibly better opponents for Petr Yan. When Petr Yan was discussed Scott said he was very deserving and looked like a machine. I spoke about Cody Garbrandt"s huge knockout being one of the best finishes I had ever seen. Scott said he has to be one of the fastest punchers in the division and controlled the fights with his calf kicks on Raphael Assuncao. We chatted about the great submission win by Aljimain Sterling who quickly took Cory Sandhagen"s back and sunk in the rear naked choke to get the tap out victory. Scott reiterated how he thinks jujitsu and Muay Thai kicks are dominating the sport at this time in hisory. He reflected on Conor McGregor arguably beating Nate Diaz with those kicks in their second fight. I had some fun looking back on Benson Henderson who was really lethal on calf kicks and Henry Cejudo who beat Dominick Cruz in UFC 249 to retain his belt and I said cleaning out his division. We had some big laughs at Cejudo calling himself the greatest of all time. Scott was very accurate in bringing up Jon Jones as a fighter who had really cleaned out his division with no argument and was one of the greatest of all time. Anderson Silva was also brought up as one of the fighters who legitimately can claim that he beat all comers in his division for a lengthy run at the top. Cody Stamann had entered the cage with a heavy heart as his 18 year old brother had just lost his life the previous week. Cody got a huge emotional win over Brian Kelleher. "Martial Arts is Violent Meditation" is one of Holburns favorite sayings and he said it could have been exactly what Cody needed.
We then shifted gears to speak about UFC 249 and the discussion started speaking about Justin Gaethje and his dominating performance against Tony Ferguson. Scott had predicted that Gaethje would win and had won a bet with Mike Church(Churchy to most) to have some bragging rights. We both referenced how difficult a matchup this was for Ferguson as he had spent the last few years constantly training for Khabib Nurmagomedov and the fight had been postponed 5 times. Gaethje brings a completely different skill set to the cage and it gave Tony all sorts of troubles in a terrible beating. This brought up a topic that we feel has to be addressed in the fight business as when fighters are taking so much punishment their corners should be throwing in the towel to stop the fight. A typical example was this past weekend with Amanda Nunes thoroughly beating Felicia Spencer and most observers wanted her corner to put a stop to the beating she was enduring. We shifted to breaking down Nunes and her dominance of her division and her already beating everyone. Scott stated that Nunes has beat Holly Holm and Germaine de Randamie among others cleaning out the division.
The conversation shifted to UFC 251 that had just been announced for Fight Island on July 11th and specifically the three title fights on that card. We spoke about the main event that pits Kamara Usman vs Gilbert Burns and how he deserves the title shot. Jorge Masvidal had been rumoured to be the deserving next challenger but it sounds like he might face Conor McGregor and make his money and get the notoriety he wants. Jorge Masvidal had beat Darren Till and knocked out Ben Askren with a flying knee. We then broke down the Max Holloway vs Alex Volkanovski 2 title fight. We both wonder and sort of doubted that Holloway can figure out how to avenge his loss from last time. Scott kind of wrapped it up perfectly about how the UFC has made us feel human again after not having any sports to watch for months!
Thanks Scott as usual great to have a conversation with you about our favorite sport in the world!!!
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Hello there my name is Darren Campbell and this is a conversation from a podcast called Complete Sports Media. We hope that you enjoy it and come back regularly for great in depth discussions on a variety of sports topics. This conversation from our podcast features a great guest Jason Cameron. Jason is a former athlete and broadcast journalist alum. He brings an expertise on many sports especially combat sports and the NFL and NBA. We love his enthusiasm, humor and strong opinions on the sporting world.
Enjoy this weeks episode that comes on the heels of another UFC card and looking ahead to other sports getting back to business. We started discussing the UFC 250 card from Las Vegas that featured a main event dominated by the two weight class champion Amanda Nunes. She was defending her womens Featherweight belt against a very tough but over matched contender Canadian Felicia Spencer. Jason had great observations and impressive takes on the three mens Bantamweight fights on the card that really started clearing up the picture in the weight class. Henry Cejudo defended his belt and then surprisingly retired after his fight at UFC 249. This left the majority of the top fighters in the weight class knowing so much more was riding on these fights to show if they were contenders or pretenders. Huge knockouts by Cody Garbrandt and Sean O'Malley and a slick and swift submission by Aljimain Sterling were all discussed and admired. There was talk of the dominance of Justin Gaethje from UFC 249 and his huge win over Tony Ferguson. We also capped off our MMA talk happily rejoicing over George St. Pierre getting nominated for the Hall of Fame during that same card. Much love and respect to a true pioneer of one of the greatest to ever grace the Octagon.
Our focus then shifted to the unfortunate murder of George Floyd and the shocking reversal of opinion from Roger Goodell the Commissioner of the NFL. Goodell had posted a message a few days before stating how the NFL had been wrong in their handling of the protests and kneeling to shed light on racism, police brutality and racial inequality in the past. He vowed they would do better and support the cause now moving forward. It was a great moment and showed that the protests had really gained traction and might have finally reached a tipping point and could invoke change. It was good to also look ahead to an interesting upcoming NFL season.
Speaking of upcoming seasons that was part of the discussion when we spoke of the NBA. There is a sense of excitement about the new parody and possibility of new teams emerging in the power struggle at the top. There was talk also of the teams in the West that will be fighting it out for the eighth and final playoff spot. The Memphis Grizzlies currently occupy the 8th and final spot with 5 teams in the hunt chasing them for the final 8 game regular season stretch drive. The super rookie point guard Ja Morant should solidify his hold on the rookie of the year trophy if his team can hold off the other teams. However one of the teams chasing the Grizzlies is the New Orleans Pelicans with their own phenomenal rookie Zion Williamson. If Zion can deliver a playoff spot for his team he might just win that trophy himself despite missing a huge chunk of games at the start of the abbreviated season. It will definitely be really fun to watch!
Finally we discussed Boxing and the first card scheduled after the pandemic. The amazingly talented Shakur Stevenson was about to take on another challenger as he works his way towards the upper echelon of the pound for pound best in the sport. It was a great discussion all around as the time flew by and we were thrilled to get back to some sense of normalcy in our lives.
This is for your viewing and listening pleasure we would love to hear your feedback. Please come back every week for more great insight and opinions from the world of sports.