OU - 
Most interesting end to season
- Big picture 
- Lack of depth never helped this team- Next Season
NCAA Tourney - 
- UM - Won great game against OSU a few weeks back but lost yesterday in Semis
- Livers injury 
- MSU - maybe makes tournament - limping in
Blake Griffin Time with Pistons ending
- Buyout
- heading to Brooklyn Nets
- Pistons trade Svi to Thunder
- Pistons continue to be resilient
Tigers and Spring Training
- Miggy - “Great Shape”
- Starting pitching - Plenty of Candidates 
- Nomar Mazara
- Youth movement is emerging
Red Wings
- Larkin and Zadina getting better
Lions
- Release palooza
- Not franchising Rome Okwara and Kenny Golladay
- Not bringing back ??Jarrad Davis??
NFL free agency under way this coming week

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College Basketball -
OU Basketball - Run out of things to say
UM - Need big rebound next season
MSU - Unexpected success but at same time - let down at end
We can debate - Classic or just awful defense for MSU/KSU
Down to final 8 - a peculiar 8

NHL Trade Deadline - 
Red Wings with a good streak until they were not going into the All Star Break
Plenty of player movement for the Red Wings- Jakub Vrana, Tyler Bertuzzi are now both former Red wings.

Tigers - 2023 campaign underway soon
News and notes out of Lakeland - 
Spencer T - Thumbs up or down
Edit - The signing of Duque Hebbert - after one inning of WBC
Edit - The future at Spring Training - Parker Meadows, Colt Keith, Joey Wentz
Edit - Great to have Spencer Turnbull back
and plenty more
The Clock
EDIT - WBC - The good, the bad and the ugly

Lions - 
Free Agency well underway
The Good - Secondary should be considerably better
The Bad - As of now - If Goff goes down after Holmes admitted the Backup QB was not a good situation - what it means?
David Montgomery - Signing with Detroit - Argue multiple ways 

Golf - 
Scott Scheffler - Machine 
Masters - Scheffler - right?

SMSE - March 25, 2023

We discuss Tigers, Lions (including 2023 NFL Draft), NCAA Basketball Final 8, and Golf - Masters.

SMSE - April 24, 2023

Saturday Morn Sports Emporium - 5/29/2023

Tigers - 
Roller coaster
Pitching injuries (two straight innings of major pitcher injuries) and valiant returns - Manning/E-Rod/Skubal
Hitting is a roller coaster
They miss Riley Greene bad
Front office approach to obtaining new hitting and approach not promoting farm talent - We will discuss....

Red Wings/NHL
Golden Knights - Stanley Cup Winners - Expansion team 
Lots of commentary around lack of aggressiveness with trading draft picks
Stevie Y "staying the course"
Free Agent Period - Goalie Extravaganza
Will SY make the "big" move?  (We will put aside whether or not the big move is even available)
NHL Draft - the drafting of a potential first line center but no Bedard

Pistons/NBA
Nuggets win the Finals over the Heat
New Coach for Pistons - Monty Williams
Free Agency - A point completely ignored in free agency - Did Monty want Cam?
NBA Draft - Pistons - Ausar Thompson and Marcus Sasser
Beginning of Free Agency/Off Season - Joe Harris/Monte Morris
More moves

Golf - 
US Open - First - No more EVER of LACC and stick to what you got   Second - 30% increase in ratings over 
2022 for one - only one - reason only - Adam will explain
PGA Tour/LIV bizarreness

Saturday Sports Emporium - July 3, 2023

College Football - Wolverines/Spartans
NFL/Lions - Recorded before Tampa game
Baseball - Tigers/Playoffs
Hockey - Red Wings
Finished up with Golf - Ryder Cup

SMSE - 10/14/2023

College Football - 
Wild season here in the State of Michigan for CF 
UM and the program allegations 
UM - on the field with season and program for near future in balance this afternoon
MSU - Time to reset
Playoff - Who should be in?

Pro 
Lions - Going through rough patch OR worse?
NFL as a whole - rough watch.  Why?

College Basketball
OU - Decent start to season including Cayman Islands Classic
Combo of Watts and Townsend 
Refreshing - DEPTH Whoa
National - Passing of Bobby Knight 

Tigers/World Series - 
Awesome MLB playoffs
Eduardo opts out
Spencer Turnbull is departing Tigers org
Matt Sheperd out - Jason Benetti in

Pistons - 
Blow it up
Troy Weaver is absolutely on Hot seat

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Rundown for 2/4/2024 show

NCAA Basketball - 
OU Basketball - On a roll BUT a bit of a (road) gauntlet to end regular season
Lampman/Townsend show
College Ball in the State of Michigan this season - eeeek

College Football Wrapup
Wild end to season - Alabama miracle/Washington somehow miraculously getting by Oregon - Twice
College Football Playoffs - An amazing run for the Wolverines
Going into 2024 season - No Harbaugh/Saban

NFL/Super Bowl 
Lions - A great run
Wrap up season and discuss what really happened versus what is being said
Lions - Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn staying
2024 - Coaching Carousel - Strange
Super Bowl - Chiefs/49ers - who you got?

We will dabble with Pistons and Red Wings

Tigers - 
Spring Training getting closer
Non-Local confidence in team seems higher than local?
Colt Keith and Tigers agree to most interesting contract
Do signings of Shelby Miller/Jack Flaherty/Kent Maeda/Andrew Chaffin (lesser extent) move the needle on interpretation of off season?
Leyland - HOF

SMSE - February 4, 2024

Oakland - 
Dancing... 
Who - the hell - is Jack Gohlke?
Going beyond 6 players rotation theme pays off
Townsend embracing the moment against Milwaukee
How far can  they go in March? Cinderella?

Wolverine basketball - 
Juwan Howard - OUT
Will Beilien come back in?

Spartan Basketball - 
How will they perform in March Madness 2024 edition

Red Wings -
Roller Coaster and at same time - Streaky
Too much over reaction from West Coast road trip?
Is Stevie Y on hot seat? Different answer than should he be...

Tigers - 
Out of town opinion - They will be ...GOOD
We will discuss the latest from Lakeland - 
Parker Meadows - He has a bat!
Rotation shaping up - Skubal, Mize, Manning, Flaherty, Maeda, etc
6 Pitcher rotation....
Bullpen will be epic?
Any Tork or K Carpenter concerns with slow spring?
Tiger Nation - Not signing JD Martinez?

Lions - 
League New Season/FA period - managing just fine...
The Triumvirate extended...
Do not forget C Spielman

NFL Offseason - 
Unbelievable - Daily 
When do you know NFL FO do not what they are doing - Justin Fields from the Bears to Steelers

Golf - 
Any takeaways from Players Championship through 3 rounds....
Masters coming up
Still no ultimate agreement between the multiple parties related to the LIV tour - not surprising...

Pistons 
Troy Weaver with the Public...
Tremendous disappointment at Trade Deadline - Bojan....etc...

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SMSE-March 17, 2024

College Basketball
Oakland U Men Basketball incredible run
Why it was significant from a national perspective
???What could have been???
Jack Gohlke and Trey Townsend excel to the national spotlight - what's next?
Importance of the run - new stadium?
Womens NCAA - Here to stay - Data points CANNOT be ignored
UM new coach - Dusty May - so much better than most suggestions

Red Wings - 
Oh so close to a playoff berth
Dylan Larkin - his absence proving his worth
Raymond and Seder - coming in to their own down the stretch
Better than last year - few points down stretch
This year - inconsistency in games themselves
Stretch ending season shows importance of goaltending
NOTE - we will get into off season in next show
Stanley Cup Playoffs - Chalk - Carolina-Dallas.... We all know NHL Playoffs is never chalk

Tigers
Pitching seems like always - getting the job done
Bats - slow to start season
Bats across MLB - down down down
Good number do not realize - So far - best AJ Hinch Managed Tiger's team month of April
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Golf - 
Scottie Scheffler - Unstoppable - thanks to Rory
Still Scottie - second best golfer right now
One of the best wraps it up at Augusta
PGA coming up in three weeks - Does Scottie only winning Masters thus far diminish anything?
LIV golfers - surprise surprise - did not perform well besides BD

Lions/NFL Draft 
Draft is in Detroit - moving on
Lions drafting in bottom of 1st round - Who knows
Most important local (and maybe most impactful national 2024 draft story) - JJ McCarthy - Where does he go?
(If time allows) - Adam tells you the most overrated NFL team going into 2024 - Yes a 2023 darling not named the Lions

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The Saturday Morning Sports Emporium broadcasts from Metro Detroit, Michigan.  We broadcast our show on Saturday mornings from Oakland University where we will discuss Oakland University Basketball, along with the hot topics as they relate to Metro Detroit Pro Sports (Tigers, Pistons, Red Wings and Lions) along with Michigan and Michigan State College Football and Basketball.  As they occur, we will discuss the hot topics as they happen.  We broadcast every other week between September and June and as schedule allows in July and August.

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