
#389: Lasers are the Future
Whole gang is back for this one. Twins might be good? Wolves and Wild previews. A Vikings draft prediction. Funeral spread. TWO top 6s. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f

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The Sportive is a comedy podcast devoted to Minnesota sports and other wastes of time. Join us weekly as we drink the pain away. Weaknesses: audio quality and preparation. Strengths: creative swears and inspired rants. Winner of the 2014 City Pages “Best Sports Podcast” award. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Unknown Host hosts The Sportive, a sports show with 390 episodes published.

Whole gang is back for this one. Twins might be good? Wolves and Wild previews. A Vikings draft prediction. Funeral spread. TWO top 6s. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f

It’s Hockey Night with The Sportive, as Jon and Chiken group up to talk about all the Wild minutiae that we might have missed over the past few weeks. Plus, a look inside the Gopher hockey coaching situations - you know,

Jon and Stu return to the airwaves to discuss the dawning of a new baseball season, along with many* reasons to be excited about the Minnesota Twins. Plus: Kyler Murray Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf

Jon, Stu and B take a spin through the sports. Wolves, Wild, Loons, Gopher hoops and a rooting interest preview of the pigskin games. It’s a salve for what ails you, or at least a mindless temporary distraction. That’s t

We lead with the Michigan news despite knowing nothing, then we learn to pronounce a bowl name. From there it's a bit of Vikings talk, a Wolves check-in and finally a midseason "who has more technicals" update between Br

Jon and B are BACK. We give an early Wolves report card, check in on JJ and then Jon offers an outlook on the 2026 Twins that doubles as a cry for help. We end with some footie talk and our famous “What is Jon Missing” p

It’s Wolves Season Preview night. We break down all (some) of the angles of the upcoming season with a special guest appearance from Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. Truly an honor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i

Jon and Chicken break down game 1 of the Wild for 20 scintillating minutes and then we move on to: (24:30) NFL takes with a side of Jon’s Pop Culture Corner, (50:30) Jon’s annual Gopher football meltdown, (59:00) a shock

It's been a newsy week, as the Twins season is over, the Lynx season is over, and the Vikings season is over (pending this week's offensive line injury report). Jon, Chicken, and returning podcast hero Stu are here to di

Another raw-dog sesh for the true fans. Chicken leapt off the top rope to take it to the Twins brass, we previewed the Vikings game and then a Top 6 that set a new low for preparation time. Plus we reveal the sordid hist

This week on the Sportive, Jon and Chiken - the hockey guys! - review the first day of Wild training camp, because it's important to talk about the Wild when only two guys managed to have long-term injuries announced on

Welcome to Deep Dive Central. We go long on the Vikings crazy win, the Kaprizov contract stalemate, a recent Saints game, and the incredibly fun Kawhi shenanigans. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in

We miraculously recorded this episode IN PERSON, at the great Surly Beer Hall. Discussed: Tyler Childers, NFL games preview, Stu's upcoming Gopher game suite situaish, MLB playoff teams rootability rankings, and a deer h

We finally unveil our long-awaited and opposite-of-shocking thoughts about the Pohlads calling off the sale: it stinks. After we get that off our chest, we preview the Gopher football season, select our AFC Team of the Y

After an accidental tangent into little league baseball, we unleash our famous annual Vikings preview (horn sound). We air grievances then predict our bros, turds and wins on the year. The finale was a Top 6 that utilize

We planned to talk Vikings but instead covered a few minutes on the Twins before diving into incredible (A+) ideas to fix baseball, and then B summarized his summer of arguing with umpires. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com

Jon and B go Wolves-centric after the glorious Lakers beat-down. Shout-outs to Rudy, Julius and Tim Connelly. A Rockets or Warriors agonizing decision tree that was obvious the second we started talking. A ranking of thi

Wolves game 3 preview! Wild mid-series analysis! Vikings draft grades! Luke Keaschall! Conspiracy theories! Todd Steussie! Rob Lowe! Seth Macfarlane! Our best episode of all time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f

The Sports Knowers Jon and Brox cover: A-Rod vs Glen, is MLB dead or merely dying, cool new baseball rules that everyone will love, a 4 Nations recap, Gopher basketball eternal shrug emoji and more. Then the internet nea

Stu, Brox, Marth and a few minutes of Chicken achieve a rare Sportive Consensus(TM) on our opinion about next year's plan for the Vikings QB, then we rank the remaining playoffs teams before a reluctant transition to the
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