Episode Details

Veteran sports broadcaster Ted Robinson predicts the end of college football — to be replaced by a professional developmental league that will feed the NFL — and he weighs in on the Giants, the A’s and the Olympics. All on the newest edition of The Game with Mark Simon and Bob Marks.

Chapters

• (00:00) - Intro & Ted Robinson joins the show
• (01:32) - The Pac-12 collapse and turmoil in college sports
• (04:56) - College football's future as an NFL developmental league
• (08:24) - The Giants move on from Farhan Zaidi
• (13:14) - Is Buster Posey ready to run the Giants?
• (15:19) - The Mets, the Yankees and October baseball in New York
• (17:31) - Calling diving at the Paris Olympics
• (22:22) - The Chinese swimming doping scandal
• (25:21) - Favorite Olympic moments: Sydney 2000 and London 2012
• (28:37) - How Charlie Finley hired him at the A's at 22
• (37:17) - The A's leaving Oakland and the last Coliseum game
• (40:10) - The California Sports Hall of Fame and Bill Walton
• (42:04) - Greatest Bay Area athlete and Vin Scully's answer
• (44:18) - Growing up a Mets fan in a Brooklyn Dodgers family
• (46:06) - Closing thoughts

The Game is hosted by Mark Simon and Bob Marks and produced by Frank Bravo, BravoITC.com and YourTechMakeover.com. Watch or listen to every episode at TheGamePeninsula.com.