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Hosted by Rob Cardini and James · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 20 episodes
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"The Hillside Club" is a sports podcast hosted by Rob Cardini and James Martin III, built on authentic conversation and real perspective. From breaking headlines to everyday debates, they cover what’s happening across the sports world with sharp insight, good laughs, and honest opinions. It’s more than just scores — it’s sports and life, unfiltered. No Hot Takes. Just Real Ones.
Rob Cardini and James hosts The Hillside Club, a sports show with 20 episodes published.
The World Cup is officially in the books, and we’re breaking down everything from the final—including Argentina’s disgraceful showing, Ferran Torres’ immediate impact, and what may have been the largest 1-0 blowout in sp
In what some are saying is the best Hillside Episode yet… the boys start off with the World Cup semifinals officially set after a wild ride, and the guys break down everything that has led us here. They also debate where
The Hillside Club is back with what is already their 20th Episode!! The boys kick things off recapping their 4th of July weekends and then dive into the Celtics shocking the NBA world by trading Jaylen Brown to the 76ers
After a little hiatus, WE'RE BACK and we've got a lot to catch up on. The guys dive into the Knicks' championship run and what it means for the Mecca of Basketball, while James ranks the last eight NBA champions and spar
The NBA Finals are officially set, and somehow the basketball gods gave us exactly what they wanted: Knicks vs. Spurs, a rematch of the 1999 NBA Finals and the NBA Cup Final all rolled into one. This week, we break down
The boys are back sitting on clouds in ORANGE and BLUE SKIES as we start with the Knicks going up 3-0 and staring down their first Finals appearance since ’99. We get into why this team is firing on all cylinders right n
The boys are back with one of the most loaded episodes yet as we break down the NBA Playoffs including the Pistons completely disappearing in Game 7, why Spurs vs Thunder is about to feed families for years to come, and
The Hillside Club is back again, and the boys start this week off with the New York Knicks doing something that feels insane: SWEEPING a team. We get into how far this franchise has come, why Jalen Brunson has completely
The Hillside Club is back again and the boys start this week off starting with a tribute to John Sterling, a voice that felt like home for generations of Yankees fans and one that will always be remembered in the basebal
The boys are back, starting off with the NBA Playoffs getting completely chaotic. We get into the Rockets looking like an absolute joke, the Nuggets somehow being a disappointment and still possibly surviving, the Thunde
The boys are back with a loaded episode, starting with Rob’s recap of his trip to Pittsburgh, where the playoff atmosphere absolutely delivered, but the Penguins didn’t. From there, we get into a packed NBA playoff react
The guys are back breaking down a loaded week across the sports world, starting at Augusta where Rory goes back-to-back at The Masters and joins elite company, but the question remains—was it dominance or did the field l
The Michigan Wolverines officially cut down the nets and the boys spend the opening stretch reacting to a title game that felt equal parts gritty, dominant, and controversial. We break down the championship matchup itsel
The Final Four is officially set, and the boys spend most of this episode reacting to an all-time March Madness swing. Starting with UConn storming back from 19 down to take out Duke in a game that somehow felt impossibl
March Madness is giving us plenty to talk about, and the boys spend most of this episode living in the bracket. We get into why the lack of upsets maybe wasn’t some tournament disaster after all, how the Round of 32 deli
March Madness is here, and the bracket gave us absolutely no time to breathe. The boys dive into a loaded East Region packed with powerhouse coaches, Arizona staring at a path that might be a little too friendly, and whe
March is delivering chaos across every corner of sports, and the boys dive straight into it. We react to Maxx Crosby landing in Baltimore, what it means for Lamar’s latest loaded roster, and why the AFC North is starting
Description: We’ve officially entered March, and college hoops is starting to separate contenders from frauds. We break down the latest AP Poll shakeups, Florida’s surge, Duke and Michigan creating a tier gap, and whethe
This week, James and Rob break down USA Hockey’s gold medal run…Hellybuck standing on his head, Jack Hughes’ game-winner, and the emotional Gaudreau tribute. We hit AP Top 25 chaos: Cronin Chaos Out West, UConn’s Bounce
The Hillside Club is back with more. We react to the NBA All-Star Game chaos—empty seats, new ideas like 1v1 tourneys, Lillard’s legacy, and whether the dunk contest should be scrapped. We hit Tyreek Hill news, Yankees p
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