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[Assistant] There's always talk, rumors, whispers about how so many of the top competitors in your sport are doping. I mean, does it put pressure on somebody like you to know that you could be up against someone dirty?


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[Assistant] Just a couple of decades ago, cricket was struggling to attract audiences, and its commercial future was very much in doubt.


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[Assistant] Now it has the second biggest sporting franchise in the world, bettered only by the NFL.


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[Assistant] At the centre of its success is one country in its record breaking tournament. The Indian Premier League.


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[Assistant] This is the story of how one country became the driving force behind the biggest sporting turnaround of the 21st century.


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[Assistant] The overall aim of the game is to score more runs than the opposing team.


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[Assistant] A run is essentially a point, and it's given every time a batter runs between the wickets, which is possible after the ball has been bowled.


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[Assistant] A field of balls and sets of six balls, which are called an over.


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[Assistant] After each over, the bowler changes. The best way to prevent the batting team from scoring is by getting the batsman out or taking wickets. This can be done in many ways. Bowling, catching or running out. Once 10 of the 11 batsmen are out, their innings finishes and they can't score any more runs.


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[Assistant] The same is true if they run out of time, which varies depending on the type of cricket game, and is where the most revolution has taken place in recent years.


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[Assistant] Cricket's complicated rules and long playtime meant it struggled to appeal to fans outside Commonwealth countries, who had deeply historical ties to the game. Invented in England in the 1600s,


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[Assistant] Cricket arrived in other parts of the globe during the late 17th and 18th centuries via British colonisers.


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[Assistant] While a number of the Commonwealth countries adopted the game as their own, one managed to turn the sport into big business.


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[Assistant] Mihir Bose, the BBC's first sports news editor, is one of cricket's best-known commentators. His most recent book, Nine Waves, the extraordinary story of how India took over the cricket world, traces the country's rise from colonial dependency to global dominance within the sport.


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[Assistant] Television had shown its potential in India during the 1982 Asian Games.


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[Assistant] But it wasn't until the 1990s when domestic viewership reached critical mass that its full potential could be capitalised on.


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[Assistant] Crickets struggle to entice new, younger audiences.


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[Assistant] This pressure only intensified as the unparalleled popularity of mega-franchises like the NFL and the EPL continued to proliferate.


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[Assistant] In an attempt to reinvigorate the sport, a variety of shorter formats with fewer overs were created.


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[Assistant] England's 20-over format, also known as T20 or 2020, launched its first professional tournament in 2003.


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[Assistant] The shorter format made it a much better fit for broadcasters. Sky Sports televised eight group matches and the entirety of Finals Day Live.


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[Assistant] England's T20 World Cup was a success domestically and had proved the potential of a more explosive version of the game.


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[Assistant] But it would take a total disruption in 2008 to change the course of cricket. And that disruptor came in the form of the Indian Premier League.


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[Assistant] The IPL didn't just take inspiration from America's pre-show entertainment and pyrotechnics, it also adopted a similar league structure where the same teams compete every year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well I mean, the money involved is huge for the players these days. This is a time of upheaval in sport.


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[Assistant] When new, moneyed leagues promising big payouts threaten to upend the status quo.


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[Assistant] From Saudi Arabia's controversial LIV golf tour that saw golfers sign up despite concerns over the country's human rights record, and then lose their place on renowned PGA tours, to the proposed European Super League, a breakaway competition in football.


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[Assistant] Designed to guarantee millions of dollars for a select few at the expense of long established leagues.


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[Assistant] And the IPL is no different, with only 10 teams competing, each under owners with deep pockets.


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[Assistant] It quickly attracted the world's best players, causing issues for any other tournaments that took place during the IPL season.


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[Assistant] The organisation unofficially in charge of putting that puzzle together is the Board of Control for Cricket in India, or the BCCI.


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[Assistant] While the International Cricket Council has named the global watchman, money, as is often the case, wields power.


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[Assistant] The success of the 2022 IPL media rights e-auction highlighted just how successful this franchise has become in such a short period of time.


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[Assistant] This not only reaffirmed the IPL as the leading cricket league, but also made it the second most valuable league globally.


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[Assistant] At more than 13 million dollars per match, the IPL has surpassed global leagues such as the EPL and the MLB, and is second only to the NFL.


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[Assistant] It's widely agreed upon that media is what's propelled the values of teams to such astronomical heights.


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[Assistant] In the US, the Big Ten, a college football conference, just signed an 8 billion dollar media rights deal.


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[Assistant] And Apple signed on to a 10-year global broadcast deal to stream Major League Soccer worth $250 million.


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[Assistant] With so much untapped revenue to play for, a flurry of new T20 leagues are being created, in an attempt to ride the wave of the IPL's success.


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[Assistant] South Africa and the UAE are both set to launch new T20 leagues in 2023, adding to an already packed cricketing calendar.


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[Assistant] These tournaments will put a further strain on resources and talent.


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[Assistant] Especially as the current ruling by the BCCI states no Indian national player can take part in other leagues unless they permanently retire from the IPL and national cricket.


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[Assistant] The owners of the IPL teams have found a clever way to compete with these burgeoning leagues. Buying the competition.


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[Assistant] All teams within South Africa's new T20 tournament have been bought by the owners of IPL teams.


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[Assistant] Now non-cricketing countries, seeing the opportunity that T20 brings, are beginning to hedge their bets.


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[Assistant] Not only is the shorter format an easier game to sell to those countries with less understanding of the sport, but the money floating around and growing demand for talent offers the perfect incentive for young athletes.


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[Assistant] For Finland, a country whose own national sport, Passapelo, is also bat and ball based, T20 offers a potentially easy transition for players and viewers.


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[Assistant] You only have to look at the average salaries of Passapolo and IPL athletes to understand the opportunity here.


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[Assistant] In 2019, the highest salary for a Passappolo player was about $55,000.


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[Assistant] That same year, the IPL's top paid cricketer, Virat Kohli's salary and winnings came in at around $4 million.


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[Assistant] That's not to mention the 21 million dollars he banked through endorsements.


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[Assistant] Now, cricket is hoping to break into the largest sports market in the world, the US.


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[Assistant] The US's major league cricket competition is set to launch in 2023, backed by investors such as Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and Microsoft chairman Satya Nadella.


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[Assistant] The following year, in 2024, Los Angeles will jointly host the T20 World Cup with the West Indies.


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[Assistant] And there's also a bid by the ICC to feature cricket for the first time ever in the Olympics, which will also be in LA in 2028.


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[Assistant] With so much interest in the sport and its expansion, investors are picking apart the business model and exploring ways to capitalise even further.


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[Assistant] Oh, they're using LeBron every possible way they can. He's such a great player. I still think his game is gonna grow. I still think it's gonna grow. But he was like Scottie Pippen was to the Bulls. He's a, maybe a pass first and shoot second player. Whereas, you know, Michael or Kobe are like, I'm gonna shoot this ball. Every time they get the ball, they're looking to score. LeBron's not like that and I love that about him. But he also, when he goes after scoring, he's also terrific.


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[Assistant] You want a player that can do both. I tried to get Kobe to do both for a number of years and he could, but his first instinct is to beat the guy that's in front of him.


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[Assistant] They really play off each other well. I mean, they're doing really well together.


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[Assistant] I never, I never considered that, no. Uhm, you know, their talents and, uh, you know, I think the,


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[Assistant] Of course. I mean, we both have respect for each other and we're both basketball-minded guys. That'd be no problem.


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[Assistant] When we got into Formula E, we were really thrilled with the level of competition we got. We were now for the first time having a platform to show the quality of our product against what was perceived the best in the world.


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[Assistant] We were evaluating motorsport platforms in 2012 after some amount of success with motorcycle racing. And when Formula E came to us, it sort of segued really into what we were looking at in the next 10 years in terms of our mobility solution. So we took a call to PartsPaid.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for because it comes true and that came true that evening.


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[Assistant] So interestingly today, the largest selling product which we have is electric tuk tuks.


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[Assistant] We are selling, I think, maybe five to six thousand per month, and it's only increasing. It's just that we can't keep up with the demand at this point in time. When you talk about pollution, we are not only just talking about smog and smoke, but we need to talk about noise pollution. Think of that loud exhaust noise coming from a tuk-tuk which is starting to accelerate down the street, and now you have silent tuk-tuks or a silent bus going by. It tremendously improves the quality of life.


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[Assistant] 1.3 billion people and we really don't have much of a record in sports. So I think through Mahindra, through our various initiatives, what we're trying to do is help people to move from viewership to participation.


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[Assistant] People perceive motorsport to be really glam- glamorous and stuff out there, but reality, trust me, is yes, we are cleaning up a lot of stuff. I feel it's not a job, it's a mission, and I'm not yet closed even finishing it.


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[Assistant] Tonight, the first major US sporting event since the COVID-19 shutdowns will take place right here in Jacksonville.


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[Assistant] Dana, congratulations on your first show. That's gotta feel good. Thank you very much, James. I appreciate it. We're very excited.


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[Assistant] I pitched over 400 institutions, which included venture capital, late stage growth and private equity. And I have 400 no's.


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[Assistant] Highly anticipated UFC fight, filling in the T-Mobile arena tonight.


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[Assistant] Right now we're in season, so we're not really focused on lifting heavy weight. We're kind of just focusing on explosive movements that kind of transfer into the game.


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[Assistant] Early freshman year, like right after I hit that PR on the bullpen, I had a lifting accident with my friend. You know, I thought it was a pulled muscle for two months. So I played with a stress fracture in my back for two months. And after one of those starts, it was just like, I can't move. Like I can't move at all. It's like, don't run.


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[Assistant] Don't play, don't swing, don't throw, sit down and wait for yourself to heal.


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[Assistant] And so that whole process was like 10 months, which was already a challenge in itself. And so right as I'm making the comeback sophomore year, the UCL goes sophomore year. And that was a blow. No, that was, that was a low blow. And especially right after those 10 months to hear you're going to miss another 12 to 16 months, it was heartbreaking.


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[Assistant] Uh, it needs to be replaced in order for, you know, you to throw again. So there are two options for the graft, which is basically the replacement tendon that they put for your ligament. It's either from your leg or it's from your arm, which is this. It's a non-essential tendon and not all people have it. So that's why they go to the leg sometimes, but luckily I had it. So there wasn't a double recovery, but they took the tendon out. They put it back in here and boom, brand new UCL.


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[Assistant] There's kind of that urban legend around like, oh, once you get TJ, you start throwing harder. And it's like, yes, but it's also like, you have to put in the work that they prescribe you to get to that point. You know, it's not just like, I have a new ligament and I throw harder. It's like, yes, like do the PT, do the mobility, do the lifting. Like it's literally no days off.


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[Assistant] You know, after being injured for a long time, it's foreign to be healthy, but it's a nice new feeling. Each start I'm getting better and better and my health just stays the same, so I'm thankful for it.


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[Assistant] I think we're still rising and I think there's more to come and I think that's the most exciting part of it.


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[Assistant] It's not so much that I'm aiming to get drafted or I'm aiming to go to college, it's all just, I'm gonna do the most and wherever that takes me, that's where I'll end up. My baseball dream is to be the best pitcher that I've ever lived.


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[Assistant] I really don't see anything that's stopping me right now. I think I have a clear path to achieve my dreams and I'm a great example of hard work does pay off. And as long as you put your mind to it and don't let anything get in the way, there's nothing stopping you.


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[Assistant] I think it's actually going to propel the industry forward because it's everywhere you look as a consumer on Instagram, on any place, you're being hit with a lot of health and wellness activity. So I think it's going to be at the forefront of people's minds of, okay, it's about time I get doing this.


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[Assistant] It was great to win, beat everybody, be number one, stay at the top, play walking around, hit the man.


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[Assistant] Right, I was just crying because I wasn't, the words, no sports, was the biggest thing, you know.


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[Assistant] When I saw my body, what had it done, it was, it was tough because I wasn't fitting in at school. Uhm. Kids make fun of you? Yeaah. But it was mostly when I went out in public. And that's when I basically buried myself into golf.


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[Assistant] I didn't know that. I did not listen to the statistics. Was that denial? Call it arrogance, call it what you want, but maybe that's why I have been successful.


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[Assistant] Grinding. It's a concept that resonates in the blue-collar town of Philadelphia, a city that loves its football team. They'll even spell it out for you.


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[Assistant] While Eagles fans are infamous, the team's owner, Jeffrey Lurie, may at first glance seem like the polar opposite to the Philly faithful. A Ph.D. wielding Hollywood film producer who grew up in Boston? That's not what many have deemed a Philly guy.


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[Assistant] In his nearly 30 years with the team, he's gone from being the youngest owner in the league to a standard bearer of what modern NFL ownership looks like.


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[Assistant] Just off Broad Street in South Philadelphia sits the Eagles Nova Cure Complex. I'm here today to meet with their owner, Jeffrey Lurie. Now, if you're outside of Philadelphia, you might not know his name. And that's not an accident or an oversight.


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[Assistant] Lurie hasn't been one to sit down for long interviews in the past, but I wanted to understand how he views himself, his businesses, and the future of running a pro football team.


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[Assistant] As I was thinking about you and preparing for this, it struck me this is not a franchise that has these massive highs and then like stunning lows as it were. There's a consistency to it. How do you create both a culture and an organization that is able to sustain?


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[Assistant] Jeffrey Lurie has owned the Eagles since 1994. It's an investment that you'd have to say has paid off for him. He bought the team for just under $200 million and estimates today put the team at $4.9 billion.


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[Assistant] NFL ownership styles vary around the league, to say the least. May be best illustrated by the owners within the Eagles' own division. The New York football giants have been owned by the Marra family and their offspring for nearly 100 years. It's a family business passed down through generations.


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[Assistant] If I'm tuning into sports radio, you know, you're not doing a WIP call-in show. You are, I mean, this in and of itself is pretty rare for you to sit down and have an extended conversation.


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[Assistant] Is that your personality? Is it a business choice? Like why, why sort of take that approach?


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[Assistant] That's in stark contrast to Jerry Jones, whose strategy has meant repeatedly placing and finding himself at the center of every conversation and controversy tied to his team, whether he means to or not. Financially, it's worked out, despite the team only winning three playoff games in the last 25 years.


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[Assistant] Lurie's far more reserved approach puts him in a more familiar setting, behind the camera. And local residents, they're more than happy for the spotlight.


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[Assistant] We're gonna get more into this later, but beyond being a Philadelphia native, six-time Grammy award-winning musician, author, and podcaster, he's also a film director. He won his first Oscar for his first movie, a film called Summer of Soul, which Jeffrey Leary executive produced in his other business, documentary filmmaking. But for now, let's get back to those Eagles fans.


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[Assistant] Whether it's lip tattoos with the score of Super Bowl 52, getting arrested, or whatever this is.


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[Assistant] It's a passionate fanbase that is gonna let you know how they feel, even while rescuing children from fires. My man just started throwing babies out the window. We was catching them, unlike Aguilar. Local news stars aside, with such a vocal fanbase, Lori has often gone against popular wisdom.


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[Assistant] And while some decisions like taking quarterback Donovan McNabb over running back Ricky Williams worked out, others, not so much.


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[Assistant] And recently for NFL owners, doing the right thing goes beyond the football field.


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[Assistant] NFL team facilities tend to be shrines to the players and personalities of the team's pass. But right as you enter, you'll notice something a little different about the NovaCare complex. A wall of heroes honoring Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Dr. Paul Farmer.


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[Assistant] This is not the typical entrance to a, to a football facility.


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[Assistant] While over Lurie's tenure, the Eagles have taken up a number of causes all around the Philadelphia area. More recently, Lurie's focused his philanthropic efforts closer to home on autism research.


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[Assistant] Philanthropy across the entire NFL is also changing, spurred by a workforce, the players who have louder voices and higher expectations.


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[Assistant] Today's NFL occupies a unique and important place in American culture, reflecting, often in stark terms, the biggest opportunities and challenges. Great wealth and individual success right alongside a history that includes systematic racism, sexism, and abuse of power.


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[Assistant] The past several years have seen NFL players fight for voting rights, equality and more by leveraging their fame and influence.


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[Assistant] Do you feel the expectations have been raised for ownership during the, during your tenure as an owner?


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[Assistant] Lurie's also leaned into the interest of his players when it comes to social issues, most notably in the recent past with Malcolm Jenkins.


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[Assistant] Continuing this legacy of using the NFL as a platform for change, quarterback Jalen Hurts has been raising awareness around gun violence, all with the support and amplification of the Eagles.


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[Assistant] Lurie's own off-field platform, Making Movies, allows him another avenue to advance important conversations. His films document seminal but often little-known moments in American history. Stories that give voice to our collective, complicated relationship with race and equality.


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[Assistant] The movie industry was the family business for Jeffrey Lurie. His grandfather, Philip Smith, was an entrepreneur in the movie theater business. He helped popularize the drive-in and the suburban shopping mall theater.


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[Assistant] Lurie has produced some narrative films over the years, but of late, documentary has been the effort of his company, Play Action Pictures. Lurie received his third Oscar for Summer of Soul.


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[Assistant] Built around never seen footage of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, Summer of Soul ultimately tells a story not just of an amazing lineup of artists, but of what their hidden history says about America then and now.


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[Assistant] And it strikes me that that outlook, philosophy,


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[Assistant] Ethos, however you want to describe it, you know, comes into sharp relief in the summer of 2020.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of your work that starts to come to a very fine point at that moment. Your worlds are colliding to some extent in terms of what you've done as a filmmaker.


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[Assistant] And what you're doing as the owner of this franchise. Take me back to that summer.


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[Assistant] While Lurie continues to work with players and filmmakers in areas of representation, on the football field, the Eagles have also played a key role in elevating black players to the most coveted role in the game, the quarterback position.


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[Assistant] Entering the 2022 season, the Eagles had the most games started by a black quarterback in the history of the NFL, with 360. In comparison, their rival, the New York Giants, had only one. Ever.


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[Assistant] So I feel like we've been leading up to a moment where I ask you sort of one of these big sweeping questions. What's your advice as the future of the NFL unfolds for someone who is coming into this now?


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[Assistant] Laurie's giving that kind of advice in real time to his son Julian, who has worked for the NFL and recently joined the Eagles full time in a business and football operation strategy role.


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[Assistant] You know, my main goal in life is to become a world champion. I think social media is the future of boxing. I was there when we created the word influencer.


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[Assistant] I know what I'm capable of, and I've never been afraid to put it all on the line. I've never been afraid of losing. I've never been afraid of going in there to see who the better man is. And at the end of the day, fight me.


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[Assistant] What's up everybody, it's Jake Paul. I'm 26 years old, I'm a professional boxer, and this is No Days Off.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I guess when I was a kid, I was, uh, just like any other Ohio kid playing sports, riding my BMX bike around, having fun, causing trouble, going to the school dances, and didn't really know what I was gonna do with my life.


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[Assistant] I liked wrestling because, to be honest, I was tired of the team sports.


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[Assistant] And I had to like rely on them, so that's why I went to wrestling. And so, in wrestling,


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[Assistant] It was all dependent on me. And the harder I worked, the better I got.


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[Assistant] I grew up watching combat sports, boxing, MMA.


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[Assistant] And was always a massive fan. That's really some of the only things there were to do in Ohio on the weekends. I would sit down with the family and watch whatever pay-per-view was on since I could remember that was what we did as a family. And then eventually we started going to some local


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[Assistant] MMA fights, which to me was really, really cool and I got to see that first hand. So I've always loved.


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[Assistant] Being around combat sports and always was a fan for sure.


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[Assistant] I'm more hungry than I've ever been in this boxing world. And I'm coming for war.


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[Assistant] This fight has been brewing for a long time. The fans have wanted this. We've been going back and forth for years, and...


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[Assistant] What I want to do in this sport is throw massive fights and...


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[Assistant] Good fights that are going to be entertaining for the fans. And I think this could be one of those fights where we're just punching each other non-stop and the fans get the best show. And that's why, you know, August 5th, it's going to be a movie. It's going to be a war and we're going to see what and who was right the whole time.


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[Assistant] My relationship with my brother is, it's amazing. We're yin and yang, you know, best friends.


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[Assistant] Pushing each other, inspiring each other, and really competing with each other, you know, in many ways, like a true brotherly relationship. Uhm, and I think without one another, we wouldn't be where we are today.


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[Assistant] And it comes with a lot of, a lot of stress. So really it's figuring out how to manage the stress and not go like completely crazy. But I'm just I think addicted to work.


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[Assistant] No days off means to me that you might take the nights off. And if you want to be the greatest in the world at what you do, then you can't take nights off either. I'm working around the clock always.


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[Assistant] It's watched by billions across the globe, making it the richest too. And while soccer


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[Assistant] U.S. sports teams bring in a huge amount of money for their owners. But if you want to buy into the NFL, from the Dallas Cowboys to the lowly Cleveland Browns, sorry Cleveland, you probably need to be a billionaire several times over.


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[Assistant] But, for those who love what the rest of the world calls football, buying into the English Premier League is way cheaper, and could give you a much better return.


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[Assistant] While the huge investment in the EPL is intrinsically linked to the high quality of the competition and its star names, big money talks. And it doesn't care much for history or tradition. As radical plans to transform the game have been revealed, US investors are increasingly viewed with suspicion.


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[Assistant] But will these changes be for the good of the game, or just the wealthy owners?


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[Assistant] When it comes to sheer commercial enterprise, the English Premier League is right up there. The Premier League's broadcast revenue is more than $4 billion a season. It's way richer than the other European leagues, even the ones with global superstars like Messi, Ronaldo, and Neymar.


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[Assistant] And more of us in the states are tuning in too at the expense of our own pro soccer league. More than twice as many people watch EPL games than the MLS. So how did English football become such a hot deal for American investors? I needed an Englishman to help me figure this out. Alright, so Alex, uh,


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[Assistant] Educate me here. Like, as an American, I'm intrigued but also a little bit confused, candidly, by English football. So what are the main differences, especially from the business perspective?


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[Assistant] A lot of the history of these teams is so baked into the community, maybe in a way that it isn't here in the United States.


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[Assistant] This is a massive business. I mean, the reason that this is attracting so much investment ultimately is because these team values have just skyrocketed, certainly, uhm, in the EPL.


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[Assistant] That is astonishing. So with those sorts of figures, it stands to reason that big investors in the United States and elsewhere would come calling and see a lot of opportunity


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[Assistant] The Glazers aren't exactly loved in Manchester, and to many British fans, they reflect the confusing emotions inspired by US ownership. Incredible financial growth might also coincide with declining sporting performance.


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[Assistant] It might just be Man United's biggest rivals, Liverpool.


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[Assistant] The current champions have enjoyed a resurgence in recent years, and that's happened since they were taken over by Fenway Sports Group. Those are the guys behind the Boston Red Sox.


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[Assistant] This is Peter Moore. He was the CEO of Liverpool when they won the Champions League in 2019 and then the Premier League in 2020.


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[Assistant] So Peter, what did Fenway bring to Liverpool? Maybe something specific that they brought from running a very successful and very fabled American baseball team.


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[Assistant] One of the EPL's newest American execs comes with a deep knowledge of American football and a business acumen shaped by decades in and around Silicon Valley. But he's the first to admit he's not a soccer fan from the cradle.


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[Assistant] Saurag Marathe is the president of 49ers Enterprises, which bought a stake in Leeds United in 2018, part of an ambitious effort by one of America's storied franchises to expand its portfolio.


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[Assistant] At the time, Leeds was itself a fabled franchise, but one that had fallen on hard times. Leeds were playing in the second division of English football.


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[Assistant] So tell me about promotion from a business perspective because you're doing a calculation here about a huge potential upside.


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[Assistant] Just take this example. In 2016, another second division team, Wolverhampton Wanderers, were bought for around 63 million dollars. They gained promotion shortly after that, and are now estimated to be worth around 10 times that figure.


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[Assistant] Taking a punt, as they say in England, on a team rising up the divisions can really pay off.


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[Assistant] But what goes up can also come down. A concept we Americans aren't exactly familiar with. Two teams here who are desperate for three points to avoid relegation. What are you looking forward to? Well I'm looking forward to the definition of relegation. Three teams drop out of the Premier League every season.


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[Assistant] I hope for Parag and Leeds fans they don't drop anytime soon. The history of British football is littered with stories of big time clubs going down and not making it back.


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[Assistant] But for many fans, a relegation battle can be just as exciting as the chase for a championship.


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[Assistant] Alan Pace and his U.S. investment firm ALK Capital have also just joined the Premier League. They've taken over Burnley, a team just 50 kilometers away from Leeds in the north of England.


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[Assistant] This is a relatively small town. Everybody knows everyone and certainly they know when an American shows up and buys the team. What does that feel like for you?


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[Assistant] There's no reason to believe ALK will manage Burnley badly, but it's the kind of leverage acquisition that can make fans nervous and has previously resulted in major fan protests.


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[Assistant] So Alan, I've looked at the message boards and it's fair to say there's some skepticism out there, especially about the structure of the deal. So from a lay person's perspective, walk me through it.


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[Assistant] Now if Burnley's a fixer-upper, this next club is one of the most unlikely recipients of an American makeover.


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[Assistant] And we're not talking about just any U.S. businessman here. We're talking about A-listers Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney.


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[Assistant] Wrexham are what's known as minnows, small fish in a big pond. In normal times, they have an average attendance of just 5,000 fans, which is actually pretty good for a team in the fifth division.


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[Assistant] Last season they ranked 111th in the football pyramid, so Wrexham is a long way from that sweet broadcast revenue.


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[Assistant] This isn't a punt either. In recent years, streaming services have been flooded with sports documentaries.


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[Assistant] For most teams, it's a small part of the business. For Wrexham, according to a letter sent to potential sponsors, it's a key part of the commercial pitch, along with the opportunity to get your name on the shirt, the stadium, and working personally with two interested Hollywood stars.


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[Assistant] The biggest problem is whether it makes compelling television.


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[Assistant] Good TV requires troughs as well as peaks, meaning losses as well as wins.


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[Assistant] Just like I had to turn to the experts to really understand football to begin with, so too did Ryan and Rob. See, stars, they're just like us. And they had the perfect guy. Someone who'd not only run a championship club, but who'd actually lived in Wrexham. WREXHAM!


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[Assistant] Now the situation for Wrexham fans was kind of win-win. They can't fall much further and in their eyes, American ownership probably means climbing the ladder and maybe even hitting the big time.


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[Assistant] But when foreign owners pick up a team, in part to use it as a vehicle for a video series, it gives you a sense of how much the game has changed.


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[Assistant] Ultimately what happens in the best leagues in the world won't have that much effect on the grassroots. Kids will still go to the park and play, and they'll continue to play for years to come. But the question remains, will big business spoil the beautiful game?


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[Assistant] In recent months, a lot of chatter has emerged about how the biggest clubs in the world are trying to consolidate power and get a bigger slice of the pie for themselves, which raises another question. Can English football survive this Americanization?


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[Assistant] The biggest fear of course is that you lose fairy tales like Leicester City. This is a team that rose from being in the third tier of English football to winning the whole thing in a span of just seven years. At 5,000 to 1 to win the league that season,


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[Assistant] Bookmakers had never paid out so much. But there are other types of fairy tales maybe still to be written. Who knows, maybe we'll see Wrexham in the Premier League before too long.


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[Assistant] Thanks so much for watching. Would love to hear what you think about this and other episodes about the business of sports. I'll be in the comments section. Can't wait to hear what you think.


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[Assistant] Still doesn't make sense, but it's pretty cool. The 16 year old version of myself will be very proud. That's crazy.


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[Assistant] Putting in 50% more work has been something that has been instilled in me for a long time. When I was little, it was always like, you know, stay after training just to do a little bit more. I kind of love that aspect of like, first one to show up, last one to leave.


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[Assistant] My name is Olivia Moultrie, I'm 17 years old and I'm a professional soccer player. This is Unseen to Undeniable presented by Powerade.


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[Assistant] And I knew I wanted to be a pro and I want to be the best in the world. I want to go as far as I possibly can and I want to be great.


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[Assistant] Wasn't able to play, just kept being, yeaah, shut down basically and so, just trying to find a way through that. So we decided to file the lawsuit and...


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[Assistant] Nick Saban makes north of five and a half million dollars a year, very simply. Is he worth it to the University of Alabama? Nick Saban's the best financial investment this university has ever made.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna be a yes man to you because you're paying me a fee.


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[Assistant] And so to make it from the trunk to Beverly Hills is a blessing.


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[Assistant] But, I'm not satisfied, I'm not complacent. I know there's a lot of work ahead to be done to continue to inspire and be impactful for those that's coming behind me despite their skin tone or their gender.


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[Assistant] My mom was, had a drug addiction and I know every time she tried to break it, it was one day at a time. My mom did end up getting clean. She was a very strong woman.


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[Assistant] She was the life of the party. She was extremely helpful to give you to shut off her back type of person.


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[Assistant] My dad was always there, he was always Johnny on the spot, he was always very hard on me and my brother and sisters because he knew what the world brought forth and he was always trying to prepare us for a time when he wasn't going to be around and that we had to navigate the route on our own and


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[Assistant] Uh, two of the most important people to ever be in my life. And I know I'm making them proud. So that's, that's very important.


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[Assistant] Don't ask me why I wore that jersey, but, you know, seeing these young men at the gate and striking up a conversation based upon that, that specific jersey, for that to lead to what's now a 20 year friendship and a business relationship and a brotherhood, it's just fate, you know.


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[Assistant] Going back to that time that he described.


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[Assistant] He came to Cleveland and we kind of talked and, you know, he was really young and, and impressionable about things. And so moving forward,


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[Assistant] I gotta find a way to get me a car, and I said, why would you need a car on campus? Say, you're on a basketball team, what do you need a car for? And he's like, because this person got a car, that person got a car, I said, Tristan, it don't matter what they have. You gotta put blinders on. You're trying to get to the finish line. And so I said, at the end of the day, you have a goal.


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[Assistant] So that was one obstacle we overcame and so seeing Tristan, uh, he knows me and I know him.


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[Assistant] We love each other, and when you have that, it makes me able to do my job better. Because I can tell him something without worrying about him firing me, or I don't have to create a yes environment.


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[Assistant] You have to be, respect each other. And if you respect each other, you can have the hard conversations. And so we've had the hard conversations. I've had the conversations where my guys don't pick up the phone for two days. And then they call me and say, you know what bro, you was right, man.


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[Assistant] Because this is not about you playing a sport. This is about you surviving the game of life. I wanted to be liked by everybody.


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[Assistant] Meeting Jimmy at a time in which we were all still growing as young men.


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[Assistant] And as much as he was impressed with us, we was impressed with him.


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[Assistant] And this is Jimmy Iovine, and we're sitting in his office. And, as he discussed...


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[Assistant] About our roles and the respect that we have for each other. Often times.


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[Assistant] We come from a place where there can only be one person that's demand.


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[Assistant] And that mentality sticks with you as you climb the ladder.


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[Assistant] But Maverick and I lived together, Randy lived by himself on the floor below us, and LeBron lived in the apartment next to Maverick and I.


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[Assistant] And I think one of the things that brought us closer together


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[Assistant] was the fact that we knew that if push came to shove, we had each other. And so, you know, Jimmy's a mentor of mine, and some of the things he's done, you know, he was always a supporter of our culture.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I agree. Diversity is something you want. Diversity is something that I want as the CEO of Clutch Sports Group. When you talk about black culture, I think a lot of times people get so caught up on the color versus the talent.


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[Assistant] You know, and versus the, the, the genius that these men and women have within and when you


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[Assistant] Evaluate the challenges they had to overcome and to still be successful.


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[Assistant] He's right. Like, I want that person. Don't give me the person who had a road map.


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[Assistant] I always said the dents in a man's armor show that he's battle tested. And if you were able to see my armor, you know, Mako couldn't fix it.


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[Assistant] You know, no one wants to give you credit for what you achieve with LeBron, right? But, at the same time, it's like, oh well, if you go with them, it's gonna be all about LeBron.


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[Assistant] And, it's a small ecosystem, so, you got assistive coaches that's saying things to parents. It's all discouragement. And, I think that's the mentality of...


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[Assistant] If Rich Paul's on top today, in order for me to be on Rich Paul's level, I gotta push Rich Paul down, or I gotta convince this media person to say something bad about Rich Paul. But, you know, I think over time, people start to...


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[Assistant] Stop listening to the discouragement and to the false narratives and to the critique of others and really start to take things for what it really is and take me for who I am.


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[Assistant] I do think there is an open-mindedness more today than it was of yesterday. Yesterday's owners versus today's owners, yes, they're definitely different.


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[Assistant] You know, acknowledgement, effort, understanding, and a willingness. It's a different time. It really is. And...


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[Assistant] The skin tone of somebody being different than yours and the sun would definitely shine brighter if we can ever get to that point.


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[Assistant] I couldn't be more appreciative about what we've been able to build over the years. I'm blessed to represent the guys that I do, no matter what pick they were.


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[Assistant] They're all great young men, we support each other, and I know this word is very cliche, but we are a family. We want to see each other win, and we just really want to see each other do better.


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[Assistant] And the snap was way over his head. Didn't lose his calm, he just focused, ran after it, picked it up, and we ended up scoring a touchdown.


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[Assistant] It just amazes me all the time to see him and how he handles the pressures that he does. He kind of just chills by himself and his own thoughts, I think. He was, I think it was 11 or 12.


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[Assistant] Stuff very challenging, like...


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[Assistant] For me, the biggest thing is that she loves to be in that position to help her team.


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[Assistant] I usually do all the work with my kids. There's different sessions that we do. At the beach, you're obviously looking for agility, speed, coordination. We do ball work.


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[Assistant] I played professionally in Greece, or Olympiakos, and I played here in the United States for the national team. As long as we lived here, they didn't know until we moved into our house, and it's also in my jerseys, and that's when they, you know, started asking questions.


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[Assistant] My father trained me at Maria's age. A lot of the stuff that I did as a kid, I do with Maria. We do the beach training, which is a very important training. A lot of the agility and speed, it improves a lot with the sand and also with the ball. Being able to be coordinated.


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[Assistant] Soccer helps you get yourself in a strong mental set of mind. It gives you as a confidence booster to be able to be on a team and there's just so many positives that come out of playing the sport.


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[Assistant] The family restaurant's been around for many years. I grew up in the restaurant. So now it's nice to see the kids doing the same thing. And we've had a lot of staff there that remembers me as a young kid. And now they get to see my kids growing up in there and being around and watching them play soccer. So it's really, it's very family oriented.


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[Assistant] You know, the most important thing for me, for Maria is watching her put in the hard work. It's very important. And hopefully one day getting the opportunity to achieve her goal and be on the national team.


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[Assistant] We were playing up one year and we needed a player. We picked my sister and she was the only girl on the whole team and the whole tournament. It was brother and sister chemistry.


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[Assistant] How racist it was to require, you know, that this guy has a four-year degree of college education.


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[Assistant] I have no doubt that there were agents behind the scenes that were pushing for that in hopes that it would compromise somebody like a Rich Paul.


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[Assistant] She was actually more prepared. Uh, I think she might've been the only, uh, player that had played tackle football coming to Laguna Beach shows. She was actually very prepared from the football side.


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[Assistant] She quickly earned the respect of all of her teammates once we got into gear and started whacking each other around.


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[Assistant] And then things kinda just exploded after that, especially off the field.


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[Assistant] That's it. He's got a unique skill. This is easy. For him.


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[Assistant] My name is Marquis Noel, I'm 23 years old and I play basketball.


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[Assistant] A detailed description on my day would look like, wake up, get breakfast, probably stretch, you know, do some yoga and then...


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[Assistant] I head to the gym around 9 o'clock, uh, get my work in for about an hour and 32 hours.


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[Assistant] The trainer I have in this shot, his name is Basil, and we work on ball handling, shooting off the dribble, creating space, everything.


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[Assistant] I'm from Harlem, New York. Uh, grew up on the Upper East Side of Harlem. Uhm, just growing up, you know, it wasn't the prettiest, it wasn't the best, but...


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[Assistant] What I love about my position the most is that I'm like the coach on the court. So I get the...


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[Assistant] You know, hold my teammates accountable while holding myself accountable and just be, you know, the leader that my team, you know, may need.


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[Assistant] Uh, kids and people lives similar to how, uh, Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan did for, for me and Nipsey Hussle. So I feel like,


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[Assistant] I'm speaking of God a lot more. I'm being around a great group of men.


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[Assistant] The greatest human act is to inspire. So I feel like that, that really sat with me because the way that they inspired me to push and persevere and, you know, be successful, that's how I want to be, you know, to somebody else.


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[Assistant] Are for the placebo effect to make someone think we're doing something. You know there's something to be said for rest.


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[Assistant] Athletes, they're competitive. They want to know what they do to get better. Some of them thinks it's go, go, go, go, go. Well, we know if you keep going and keep going, no matter who you are, at some point in time, something's going to break.


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[Assistant] It's for nothing else than to have them sit down. They don't like the concept of doing nothing and completely resting. And so what can we do that seems like something and that is helping them in some way but isn't too much or too taxing?


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[Assistant] You know, when I was growing up or, you know, some of our coaches, we talked about mental health had a stigma to it. You had a mental illness. Uh, do we really talk about that?


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[Assistant] Well, that has changed. We certainly have people that are mental health therapists and social workers, counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, that, that's their training. But, you know, as athletic trainers or, you know, even coaches or our, you know, academic advisors, we're all


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[Assistant] Talking to students and it's just, you know, caring about them, making sure we are genuine, making sure we're, you know, asking people, how are you? How are you? And listening, not just passing in the hallway, but like actually listening to what they say, not judging them. Everybody's perception is different.


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[Assistant] To each individual what they perceive is what matters to them.


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[Assistant] I'm Adam Junior's dad. For me, watching him, he has gotten better over the years. He's a completely different athlete. Like, his shot got better.


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[Assistant] It's just who he is as a young man, but I'm just proud of him, you know, just for him being a good kid, you know. My hopes for Adam is for him to have a good life.


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[Assistant] Ari's future is limitless. She is extremely talented. She is always able to execute and she always executes to her fullest potential and ability.


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[Assistant] Ari started gymnastics in Nassau, Bahamas at Nassau Gnastics. And as I was constantly told, she has something very special and they can see her going very far with it.


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[Assistant] When she got here, I was also told that she's special and she's a really good gymnast. And so it was at that point when we made the conscious decision to, you know, get her started and pretty much start a career with the sport.


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[Assistant] She and I, we have conversations about the sport and if she really takes it, you know.


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[Assistant] Straight to the Olympics at some point, she's gonna have to give up a lot of things. So in the meantime, uhm, just like, let's enjoy as much as your childhood is possible and be a child.


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[Assistant] But it's important for Ari to have a set schedule because it is very important that you pretty much miss no days of gymnastics. If you do miss a couple of days, you can possibly fall behind.


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[Assistant] I think his character's work ethic really stand above and beyond the majority of our players.


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[Assistant] The first thing we do, we always do, uh, three stations. We do a med ball circuit and, uh, some bands. Let's get their bodies loose, some hurdles, get their hip flexors loose. And then we, uh, throw, go through our defensive workout and our pitchers or PFP, pitcher fielding practice. It's just to stay sharp on the defensive end and then go right into BP or body practice.


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[Assistant] I've known him since he was a little kid. I mean, just being in the community this long, he was always the standout and one of the better kids on the team always. His arm is live. He's got, you know, a plus arm. He's got, you know, a major league arm at this point. His speed is, you know, well above average. So you put those two together. It's hard to coach those two. And then as far as, you know, his knowledge for the game is well beyond his years and he hits the ball real well and he's just a great guy.


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[Assistant] My name is Coach DC. I'm the owner of DC Athletics Performance Lab. She's not a diva.


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[Assistant] Three, four, five. Good job. All right, Jada, you'll be giving me sissy squats. A lot of core. Give me ten. The work ethic. I get guys, mostly guys, they got this many followers, they got this, they made it, they slow down. So, what I like is the hunger. The intensity, she's gonna keep going and she wants to get better. I might do about four sets of that.


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[Assistant] Good, right there. You're gonna do it one more time. Fast, ready, go! Shoot the hips! Come on, get more! Get more! So, okay.


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[Assistant] Sometimes, like, if I'm doing bad, they'll tell me that I'm doing bad. But I gotta take it in, cause it'll get me better.


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[Assistant] In 10 years, I want to be described as the greatest QB, a legend. Every time I work out, just keep saying, I'm great, I'm great. Just keep putting that in your head, then you can just be a mental rep. The confidence is just, you just gotta have it. It's just gotta be stored into you. You just gotta have that.


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[Assistant] I would describe myself today as still, still British. When I looked at Malik Willis, I seen him on YouTube and I called Mike and I said, can I try it out? And we went to Sarah High School and then that's when we tried it. I did it like three or four times and then first time it wasn't 55 yards but like the third time, that's when I did it.


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[Assistant] So I really made the life shut down. I really did that. And then my coach was like,


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[Assistant] Reason why I do boxing because it works on my shoulders, works me throw the ball better, accuracy, my shoulder strong.


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[Assistant] What motivates me to come to school and work is my mom, think of her, think the struggle that she in, think of the goals I'm trying to go through, thinking of the environment that I'm in, trying to make it out, trying to make it to the NFL, all that. That's what makes me push more.


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[Assistant] When I'm on my way back home, I'll see, like, people on the streets. Gang violence and all that, I'll see broken, broken windows. Trash on the floor everywhere. A lot of things going through my mind. It could be people right next to my house, they ain't probably going


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[Assistant] It can be a bullet coming. It's a whole lot of things that's gonna happen that's going through my mind.


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[Assistant] My coaches are good role models for me, because my dad is not in my life, so they're good role models for me that make sure my head is straight, make sure I won't be in the wrong situations, make sure I'm training, make sure I, like, say if I'm chilling at the house, they'll call me and say, trying to go work out, something like that.


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[Assistant] Uh, nothing really. I can't stop. I can't think like that. And that's not a great mentality. You can't be thinking like that. You want to be great.


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[Assistant] No days off means no taking days off, no just chilling at the house without even doing push-ups or something at the house. You can still keep working. Just keep grinding.


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[Assistant] He is always the dirtiest one that comes off the field. It's just fun to see somebody who loves the game and has a passion for the game play like he does.


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[Assistant] You remember the first time you were with me? What happened? You puked? I got a picture of you laying down over there. I think he's ready to take a plane back to Aruba.


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[Assistant] He reminds me a little bit of Derek Jeter, the leadership he brings in the field and outside of the field as well.


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[Assistant] Jossander been with us for almost a year now. What makes Jossander special is the natural skill he got.


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[Assistant] He's got to be a shortstop in the big league. Gray arm, gray speed, hitting ability is great too as well, and he's fast. And that's just a combination hard to find.


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[Assistant] The same way I train him is the same way I train my big leaguer, so nothing different. I just go make sure I take care of every part of the body the right way. One more.


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[Assistant] See how I use my lower half to explode together with my upper body? So I want you right here and then all together. Boom.


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[Assistant] Sitting at 130 pounds, and the first thing everybody was saying, if this kid gains 30 pounds, he's gonna be the man. So we attacked a lot of heavy stuff with him, but at the same time, as a baseball player, you gotta make sure you do a balance with your agility, your explosive workout. So it was a combination of cool stuff.


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[Assistant] Every time you go up, everything go up together. Your hips, let me show you this pull up. So it's right here. Boom. Easy bag. Quick up, alright.


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[Assistant] In baseball, you use your hips a lot.


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[Assistant] Every time you're gonna hit, you gotta explode this right here, right? So I create this movement right here. So you're working on your chest, and the same way you're working on your hips right there. Come on. Come on. Hold it. Good. Come on.


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[Assistant] Hold it. Perfect. Hard boy. Come on. Good. Hard boy. Good job, man.


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[Assistant] At that age, I had a coach and he pulled me through stuff.


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[Assistant] And that's one of the reasons why I'm here right now. So I want to do the same thing with these kids.


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[Assistant] I wanna make sure they're better every day. And not just in baseball, because baseball is little. You will not play baseball forever. But you're gonna have to have a life after you retire.


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[Assistant] That's when you really know if you really want. When you gotta wake up at five in the morning, tired, you layer, like, you can't even walk, and you get up and you go do it.


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[Assistant] That takes some discipline. They 14, 15 years old. They can be just playing video games the whole day and they don't have a chance to play video games.


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[Assistant] Come here in the morning, train. In the afternoon they go do homework and then at night time they come back to train. So it's, it's a hard life. But I believe they're gonna have a beautiful life moving on because of the discipline they're getting out of this.


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[Assistant] Alright guys, I'm RowdyRogan and welcome to No Days Off.


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[Assistant] I had dreams of becoming, for example, like an Olympic athlete and as a swimmer, those were my big dreams. And then here, with the terrorist attack, it was like,


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[Assistant] My body, uh, is still in a state of fight or flight, as if, you know, something dangerous would happen. Because I lost my stomach, uh, lost other, uh, vital organs. My body no longer produces these necessary, uh, vitamins, so my doctor prescribed me...


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[Assistant] And then usually I prepare my swim bag. I go over to the pool to do that rehab there.


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[Assistant] It's therapy. It, it really is therapy for me because I, I need to, I need the Ati Daryam needs to move and it's the only exercise, form of exercise that I can do today.


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[Assistant] And, uh, and kind of like a surf of the wave, you know? Like a surf of a surf and a wave.


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[Assistant] Adrenaline rush that the athlete goes through, uh, during a competition.


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[Assistant] I think we've gotten to the point where we trust the process now. Gymnastics is one of the most well balanced sports where it brings finesse, power, it brings an array of physical abilities, and it brings mental toughness also.


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[Assistant] Any project that she's taking part in it, you can tell that she's gonna go after it and she's gonna take the extra steps. She's not gonna just do enough.


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[Assistant] Alright, B skip. Up, now. Make sure to drive, drive that foot right underneath you.


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[Assistant] It's, it's never questioning what I'm having her do. She puts in everything. Uh, she leaves it all out here.


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[Assistant] Appreciate y'all for coming kick with me today. This has been No That Is All presented by Invictus by Paco Raban.


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[Assistant] It's called the walking drill. I use that a lot with him to keep his stamina going and to give his direction to the ball.


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[Assistant] Should be potentially one of the better players we've ever had. Because when we look at the US team now, there's a little bit of glitches in their attack. They have the athleticism, and they have the speed.


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[Assistant] But the touch is a little bit off a little bit. But Fifi has that speed and she has that skill.


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[Assistant] I definitely predict her to be in the Olympics. I think she's going to break onto that stage.


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[Assistant] And they're going to be knocking down the doors. Eventually she's going to go and play in Europe. I think she'll do well here. People will sign up potentially early. She's like a little mini professional already, I would say.


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[Assistant] Whoever is drafting me, I would say is definitely getting the playmaker. Somebody who would do anything for the team.


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[Assistant] What separates me from the other guys at the Combine is just the mental aspect of the game. I just came off an injury this year. Couldn't really do too much running and things like that, so I really had to hone in on the mental part.


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[Assistant] The decision between basketball and football, it was tough. I mean, those are two loves that I've been playing with as long as I possibly could. But I knew there was going to be a day, unfortunately, where it would have to end. And that was during COVID year, where it was hard to play two sports. You really just had to stick with one. And I was doing pretty good in the other than one, so I just had to pick my golden ticket.


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[Assistant] My pops put a ball in my hand when I was literally in diapers. Like I couldn't barely walk or anything like that. I always had a basketball or football in my hand. I would say my father played pretty much every role you could possibly play. He's helped me with working out. He's helped me with school. He's helped me with things that you just would never imagine. My mom has helped me.


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[Assistant] With everything, because I am a mama's boy. She's, she's my everything, she's my heart. And she's my biggest supporter, my number one supporter before anybody. She's helped me get to practices, get to tournaments, get to my football games, just anything you could think of that a parent would do in supporting their kid. Yea, she did that. My biggest accomplishment in sports


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[Assistant] Would have to be committing on my father's birthday to my dream school. And actually the reason I started liking them was because of him, my dad. So I think that was one of my biggest accomplishments.


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[Assistant] Somebody's mental game that I admire would have to be Cooper Cups. And with this post-game interview that he had after the game, breaking it down from top to bottom was pretty cool to see. And it's something like the shoes that I want to be in one day, be able to break the game down like that perfectly.


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[Assistant] So my family with cars, it's kind of in our blood. Like anything with an engine, we're gonna get on and we know how to ride it, you know? We just love cars. We feel like you can express yourself through a car and you can kind of show people like what your art is.


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[Assistant] The car right here is a track spec ZL1. It's called ZL1-1 LE. It has the LT4 engine in it with a supercharger, which is pretty crazy.


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[Assistant] Probably pay my parents would probably be out of cars. We've always talked about having, like, just a group of low riders someday in the future and, uh, I would love to do that and give my pops a classic Impala.


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[Assistant] Obviously, I just envision getting my name picked, getting up, hugging my parents, hugging my sister, hugging all the loved ones around me, and just getting ready for the journey that's ahead. No Days Off means to me just consistent grind. Just putting your best effort in every day to get better at your own craft.


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[Assistant] Bento is probably one of the most advanced 11 year olds.


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[Assistant] That I've ever met, and he eats, sleeps, lives, and breathes golf.


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[Assistant] I've seen you since you were in New York, skiing. You have a tournament coming this weekend. So let's just go over some basic things, make sure everything's on track.


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[Assistant] Today we're working on just making sure that some of his fundamentals are staying on track. One of the key things for Bento is his alignment.


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[Assistant] And I first met him actually almost five years ago to the day, I think. You know, he won the World Championships that year and then he won the next year and he won the next year. When he was only nine, he finished second place in the Worlds. And then I caddied for him this year and he won, so.


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[Assistant] My role is very supportive for him and to try to keep him in the present when he's playing and make sure he's focused. Just left of our line. There you go. Loving it. Loving it. Bingo, baby!


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[Assistant] So what does Bento have that differentiates him from the other 11 year olds? He has a very, uh, they call it proprioception. He really has a great understanding of how he moves and he's very mature for his age. And so those present tremendous advantages for him over competitors near his age.


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[Assistant] Fearlessness is what makes me the most proud of my son. He just gets thrown down, gets back up and keeps going.


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[Assistant] I never had to push him or tell him to get in the car to go train.


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[Assistant] He guides us, he leads us. I'm so proud of somebody that finds what they love and pursues it.


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[Assistant] Dusty's basketball influence I think came primarily from his grandfather.


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[Assistant] Dusty was taught to shoot originally by this guy named Billy Keller, who was the three point champion in the ABA back in the 70s.


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[Assistant] You gotta do your thing 100% so they have something to look at, to see, and be inspired by. That's No Days Off.


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[Assistant] My name is Mike Evans. I'm the CEO and founder of Lace Facts Academy, a school in Carson, California.


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[Assistant] In Jayden's life, I'm basically a mentor, trainer, a coach, uh, somebody that's helping him get to his dreams. I was a football player at the University of Louisville. I also played at University of Nevada. I had a chance to play with Colin Kaepernick, a lot of other NFL players. I think the moment that I saw


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[Assistant] Wade, uh, we call him Wade. Jaden, uhm, being special is when he was eight years old. You know, you talk about success, you think about winning, and you think about overcoming something. He actually failed, he lost the Super Bowl game.


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[Assistant] He came and started working out. He said, okay, I want to be better. I want to win the Super Bowl. I want to do better than I did last year. And seeing that come from a kid that's eight years old, that's a big shock because you rarely see kids, you know, after they lose want to get better or want to put the work in.


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[Assistant] So they could, you know, overcome. He pushes himself. Other kids, they might quit. They don't want you to yell at them. They don't want you to push them. Wade is definitely a kid that wants to be the best.


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[Assistant] So many kids with all the ability not make it. You know, cause it's always something else that keeps you. You know, it's the work ethic, being on time to practice, being a good person. You know, it's not just always the God-given ability that God gives you. I also think a big part comes in is his circumstances.


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[Assistant] You know, where he comes from, uh, his environment.


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[Assistant] Wade comes from, uh, Watts, California. I grew up in South Central, about four or five minutes from there. Uh, so a lot of the circumstances that he dealt with is what I dealt with. And being on the football field training, putting the extra work in in the classroom.


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[Assistant] It's what saved my life. And I think it'd be the same thing for Wade. I think that


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[Assistant] Him being able to be around good people, like myself, you know, I went to the University of Louisville, uh, Coach JB, uh, that works with him in boxing, went to UTEP, TRAF.


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[Assistant] Playin' the NFL, if they feel like, oh, I can't do it, like, we're able to tell you no, yes you can. We did it. You know, the fact that we did it, that mean you can. That's a difference, you know? We didn't have us. He has us. Now,


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[Assistant] Is this going to escape, you know, the gang violence around? No, you can't escape that. The only thing we can do is being inspired by it and push to be more successful.


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[Assistant] I don't know a kid that when I talk to they be like, oh I wanna, you know, clean the streets. I wanna make sure my neighborhood looks clean. You know, like, he's only in sixth grade. Him as a sixth grader talking like that lets me know that it's clicking and our message is getting through and it's definitely making me proud.


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[Assistant] Every day. Every level he's been to, he's progressed and not only risen to it and become a starter in the team, but he's become a player that you couldn't take off the field.


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[Assistant] He's a brave player on the field. He loves the game. He loves the train. He's not afraid of any moment. It starts with that fearless mentality that he has. He's gonna go at you ten times. You might stop him nine, but he's gonna go again and again and again until he wins. It's the goal of a lot of the players to get to the World Cup.


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[Assistant] On a global scale, it's where every kid dreams to play. Paxton did it at the U-20 level and dominated the competition there. In 2026, I guarantee he's one of the guys that's being one of the top kids. It's been a pleasure coaching him. I'm talking like he's already gone because I know what his future holds. And he's going to play at the very highest level in the top league in the world.


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[Assistant] If we wanted less reps, but more different types of shots, we'll do that. Or like right here, we're going lifts and drifts, but she already kinda did her spot shots.


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[Assistant] Just making sure that we get at least a hundred, a hundred fifty makes each, each session. Just to keep our shot well. Go one.


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[Assistant] I've been working with Jada for about a year now, 6 a.m., three to four days a week. She can play point, she can shoot the ball well, she needs to just be a spot up shooter, she can play defense, she takes charges, she dives for a loose ball, so she's like an ideal player.


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[Assistant] Everything was like Sebi by Estero. Like Sebi by Estero. Look, I can hit this shot like Sebi by Estero. So we started calling him, yeah Sebi. And we've been calling that ever since.


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[Assistant] When he was four or five years old, we used to hit balls from that corner of the fence and we used to put them in an empty lot right here. One day my neighbor came with a big box of balls and he said, here, I got these balls for you.


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[Assistant] And I'm like, jeez, thank you, you don't have to do that. He said he saw all the balls that landed at my swimming pool.


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[Assistant] For many, many, many years, I retired with 33 years of active military service. I was always gone. Christine raised three girls basically on home. I always felt very bad about that.


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[Assistant] And the bad news is you have cancer because you have cancer. It stays to cancer. We got to go immediately into surgery to remove the cancer. You're going to have to terminate the pregnancy.


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[Assistant] The 10 year olds are tough. They go after the puck immediately and they take really hard shots.


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[Assistant] His natural ability just, you can see it right away.


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[Assistant] And we just had to kind of refine him and turn him into a quarterback. At first, I truly believe he was a thrower and an athlete.


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[Assistant] Playing quarterback, your core is such a big, big part of it. So with Carter, we just always want to make sure that we're involving that.


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[Assistant] You know, you can go out and work every day, but if there's no purpose, if there's no goal, it's kind of all for not. So with Carter, like, we just want to make sure that, you know, all this, no days off, we're doing stuff with a purpose. We're doing stuff for a reason and for something greater. A lot of power. Let's go.


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[Assistant] He started catching initially, and then from there he...


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[Assistant] Pitched, and then he played some first bass at a young age. Now he's played center field. Because he is a lefty left.


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[Assistant] The way I look at it, it's not just Derek with No Days Off, it's like the whole team. And we call ourselves Team Kuriel. My wife, our daughter, Donovan, and myself, us five, is the team.


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[Assistant] And it takes all of us to keep this situation going. You know, every morning from the moment we wake up at 5 a.m. till we go to bed.


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[Assistant] He's stronger than anything and he's so driven and such a competitor at heart.


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[Assistant] He's a winner, you know. And we do see him going to college, winning World Series.


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[Assistant] And, you know, eventually ending up getting drafted, which is the dream, you know.


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[Assistant] He would hit a couple hundred balls a day, every day, starting at 14, 15, 16 months old, right after he could walk.


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[Assistant] I mean he's 10 years old, he's four and a half feet tall, and he's driving 200 plus yards.


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[Assistant] He's got a really good well-rounded game. When he's playing golf, he's all about playing the game.


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[Assistant] I think if you ask Caden what he likes to do, he really likes to drive.


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[Assistant] I said well today's the day we're gonna hit a golf ball and he hit it and I have a video of it and when he hit it his face kind of lit up and you can see the lighting up and he just kind of did it on his own for the next month or so single-handedly.


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[Assistant] We made a deal with him very early on. We'll do everything we're supposed to do as your mom and dad. And as long as you're all in, we'll keep doing that. And that was when he was like five. And he's never not been all in.


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[Assistant] So his putting coach is a guy named Brennan Amarkese. His game was a pretty good putter, but he was a little erratic. And in the first lesson, he made a couple simple like hand moves with him and he just started dropping putts.


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[Assistant] So when Brennan kinda started massaging the swing, slowing his hips down, raising his hands, it became really, really effective.


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[Assistant] But now as a 10 year old, aside from the golf, he likes regular kid stuff.


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[Assistant] These kids here are, they're all super close. They're all really tight. So this is kinda like the team aspect that he doesn't get in such a singular sport.


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[Assistant] He did a Harry Potter castle, 6000 pieces, and he started it and didn't stop until it was done. When Cain does something, he's all in.


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[Assistant] That's fantastic. Anything after that, I think is beyond your wildest imaginations. But saying that, I really want him to win the Masters.


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[Assistant] Well, she broke two barriers, right? So the first barrier that she broke was being the first female to ever score a touchdown to take that next step and be the quarterback. The quarterback's the leader. There is no other quarterback in the county that can throw the way that she throws.


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[Assistant] There is no other quarterback in the county that can throw the way that she throws. First one at practice, last one off the field. If she's not afraid to be a leader, be assertive.


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[Assistant] Physical training for golf I think is a lot different than what people expect it to be. You can't just step out on the course and expect to have a good swing. You have to put in the time and work and perfecting it on the range.


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[Assistant] I've already gotten to play in the US Open, the Evian Championship, and the ANA, but I'd love to get to play the other majors. I think that's just a goal in mind to play in all the LPGA majors would be really cool.


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[Assistant] Winning the championship in 2021 by one stroke was absolutely unreal. I've grown up dreaming about winning a national championship, but did I actually think it was going to happen realistically? Probably not.


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[Assistant] Definitely not my freshman year, so oh my gosh. It was crazy. I still relive it over and over in my head. I still get nervous thinking about being on 18. It was such a special moment.


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[Assistant] Handling the pressure was definitely tough. I don't think I've ever been so nervous in my life. I could barely sleep the night before and Tiger Woods, he talked to the team a few years back and he asked if they were nervous and they said, well, of course. And he said, good, that's a privilege. Do you know how many people are watching at home wishing they were in your position, wishing they were nervous?


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[Assistant] It's really inspiring being at the same school as Tiger and it's really motivating, you know, when you don't want to do that last rep but you want to be like Tiger so you do it. And it's really cool to know where he started out and knowing that that's where you are too.


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[Assistant] So the driving range is super important when it comes to fixing your swing and you kind of work on different things each time.


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[Assistant] I think a lot of people fall into the trap of just getting a bucket of balls and hitting them mindlessly but it's so important to choose something you want to work on for the day whether it be wedge distances for example and you pick some yardages that you're really trying to land the ball on.


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[Assistant] Really tests you mentally and physically and, you know, there are times where I'm on the course, I'm like, I'm done, I can't do it anymore, but, you know, somebody just keeps bringing you back every time. And I've gotten to meet the most incredible people and traveled to the most incredible places. I mean, this game has been such a blessing in my life.


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[Assistant] Alright, so right now we're on the tee box of the first hole. It's a par 5. On the tee shot we have a sand trap, a bunker on the right, and then a water hazard on the left. So I'm trying to keep it in between the two in the fairway.


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[Assistant] So my best golf round ever happened last spring in the final round of a tournament at Fresno. I was in second starting the day just chasing the leader in.


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[Assistant] I ended up going on hot streak and shot 9 under that day, which was my best round ever to win the tournament, which was really special having my teammates there in 18 to come.


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[Assistant] I'm 250 to the hole. I don't feel comfortable hitting a three wood out of the rough because the club can kind of get stuck in the rough. So I'm going to hit this and lay up short of the hole.


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[Assistant] I grew up watching a lot of players on the male and female side, but I'd say one of the main ones is probably Lydia Ko. I just admired so much the way she carried herself.


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[Assistant] I think one of my most memorable times watching golf with my dad, she chunked a chip, so hit a really bad chip shot. And then she just kind of laughed and went on. And that was the coolest thing to me. If a professional golfer can laugh off a shot, I can too. So I think that more than any win was what really inspired me. I just, I wanted to be like her in every way.


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[Assistant] Alright, so I just hit my second shot, now I'll probably be somewhere between 60 and 70 yards out. We'll go find it. Physical training for golf I think is a lot different than what people


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[Assistant] Expect it to be. I don't think people picture golfers as lifting very much or needing to be strong, but you really do. It's really important hitting the ball far.


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[Assistant] A lot of deadlifts, squats, uh, upper arm strength is really important. A lot of pushups.


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[Assistant] ROTC definitely impacts how I play golf in one respect when it comes to just discipline and motivation. I started my junior year of high school and something just clicked for me. I fell in love with it. That team mindset really feeds into college golf.


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[Assistant] And I knew that it would make me a better person, so I wanted to find a way to incorporate it into my life. And it's just something that means a lot to me.


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[Assistant] 10, 11 foot putt for birdie. And I'm gonna pull the pin with the new rules, you don't have to, but it's more of a personal preference, it just visually looks better to me.


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[Assistant] After that I grab some breakfast and head to class for about three hours. I have two classes back to back. Then from there I head straight to practice. During training we do some more golf specific movements. A lot of rotation like throwing a med ball against the wall. And really try to work in the golf swing into some of those training movements we do.


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[Assistant] So right now we're on the putting green. This is pretty much a green apart from the 18 holes of the course where you practice all of your putting from your stroke to your speed to short putts, long putts.


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[Assistant] And putting is a really, really crucial part of the game. If you can't putt, you're not gonna compete well in tournaments. So it's really important to spend a lot of time here. When you're putting, it's super important to keep your body relatively still.


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[Assistant] And just pivot your shoulders back and forth. And hold everything else still.


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[Assistant] I'd say my proudest moment in golf is probably winning the Onika Award.


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[Assistant] An award voted on by players and coaches because, you know, the relationships are the most important. I'm definitely lucky to have a big support system. My teammates are incredible. We all have the goal of winning nationals together. Coaches are also incredible. They care about us, not only as players, but as


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[Assistant] Women going up in the world, they really empower us. My first goal is to get my degree from Stanford. Having that degree is going to be incredible going into the rest of my life.


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[Assistant] And then hopefully the goal is to play on the LPGA while serving in the Air Force. I'm in ROTC right now and that's something that's really important to me. So if I can serve in the reserves while playing, that would be really ideal.


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[Assistant] I've already gotten to play in the US Open, the Evian Championship, and the ANA, but I'd love to get to play.


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[Assistant] The other majors, I think that's just a goal in mind to play in all the LPGA majors would be really cool. For me, no days off means finding the most productive way to spend your day. It doesn't necessarily mean after a tournament, going out to practice for five hours the next day. But maybe after a tournament, getting a good workout, going to run, just find a way to be


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[Assistant] Hey y'all, I'm Rachel Hecht. Thank you so much for watching my episode. For more content, please like, share, and subscribe. See ya!


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[Assistant] I think Dai was as good as he is, solely off of hard work.


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[Assistant] So Tyler's greatest skill, in my opinion, is his determination.


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[Assistant] Me and Tyler met this summer on our first baseball team.


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[Assistant] We joined the same team and, uh, we've been friends since then. Tyler and I, after games, and a couple other teammates of ours would, we would hang out back at his house or at some other place and we'd either hit baseballs or throw or just hang out in general. I think those were some really fun times for me. I made some good memories.


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[Assistant] I think Tyler and I's relationship, I think it's strong because there's that trust there.


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[Assistant] Now he's more of a leader and he's a lot more in shape as well. Everyone has bad hitting days and bad fielding days, but it's how you bounce back and return from those days. And I think that's really where he showcases his mental ability. I'm happy to call him my friend.


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[Assistant] We push each other every day to try to be better. I don't want to stop and he doesn't want to stop until we reach our goals.


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[Assistant] I met Tyler, one day he walked into a baseball facility looking to try out for our baseball teams. He made it very eye catching.


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[Assistant] Tyler just stands out. He had great hands, fielding wise. Little work with the bat, but eventually that came along throughout the years of training him.


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[Assistant] Today, me and Tyler did some hand-eye coordination, some glovework drills, basic ground balls, and then we expanded it to backhands and forehands. You name it, we do it.


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[Assistant] I always tell Tyler, you know, everything you do in practice, you're gonna pay off on the field. Just do what you do at practice. Tyler, he got to where he is today because, uh, his hard work day in, day out. He comes into the facility, puts in the work he has to. Not only that, he works hard at home.


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[Assistant] The way he moves his body, his body language. Tyler picks it up really good and, and he runs with that.


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[Assistant] He's willing to put in the work. He's dedicated. He's, uh, he definitely has the motivation to strive and go forward in his baseball journey.


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[Assistant] He started when he was 2 years old. He started hitting some balls in driving range and he loved it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm proud because I know, uh, how hard he works every day and, uh, his passion for the game of Go.


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[Assistant] Hey Bento, it's Jordan here. I wanted to say, uhm, your story is, is what's great about the game. Uh, thank you very much for, uh, enjoying watching me play and having that inspire you. Uh, that was how I got inspired, was watching these guys that I'm playing against now and I hope to meet you as well soon and, and certainly see you out on tour at some point.


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[Assistant] Freestyle just like lets me be creative. That's why I really like it. And just like the community of everyone I've met in art as well lets me be creative. And it has its entire own community.


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[Assistant] That sometimes mixes with the soccer and freestyle community. There's really no limit to what I can do other than like the role of the game of course.


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[Assistant] My name is Aiden McCormick, I'm 12 years old and I play soccer.