The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Hour 2: Emmy Winners (feat. Rachel Nichols and Adnan Virk)
23 Oct 2025
Chapter 1: What are the implications of the FBI scandal on the NBA?
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Chapter 2: How does gambling impact the NBA's integrity?
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Chapter 3: What are the highlights from Rachel Nichols' career?
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Chapter 4: How did the Toronto Blue Jays perform in the ALCS?
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Chapter 5: What are the key factors for the Blue Jays in the World Series?
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This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
After all these years, it's still incredibly soothing to see Roy shovel giant Doritos into his mouth.
It's 1115. I'm hungry, man.
I'm sorry. He has been eating Doritos from vending machines for 20 years. His main nourishment is just Doritos. You eat nothing more than Doritos.
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Chapter 6: Who are the standout players to watch in the World Series?
It's nice to see is all I'm saying. Now it's just a drawer, though. It used to be a vending machine. We've moved up. I know. He's got endless access to Doritos. I've heard it's hard to keep the Doritos in stock. Before we get to Rachel Nichols, one of our favorites, the Emmy Award winning journalist. She's now with Fox Sports and Sports Illustrated.
Before we do that, though, we've had some complicated subject matter in the morning. Jeremy is here to simplify it at the whiteboard. Let's go to Jeremy real quick. Jeremy, catch Rachel up to date. Catch everyone up to date. on everything that happened with the unusual FBI probe into basketball this morning.
Chapter 7: What strategies do the Blue Jays need against the Dodgers' pitching?
Thank you for also introducing me as a rightful Emmy Award-winning journalist, Dan. We have Terry Rozier, Chauncey Billups, and Damon Jones implicated by the FBI, arrested by the FBI. And we've got some interesting ties here of different people to these folks that we think may or may not potentially allegedly be implicated. So we look at Rick Pitino first. Rick Pitino, of course, coached
Both Terry Rozier and Chauncey Billups. He also looks like a Mafia member. His son, Richard, coached at FIU. Now, who else is a prominent FIU face? That's right. One Billy Gill, who recently left our show. Then, of course, we could look at who Billy has a jersey of. We're talking about the ever eloquent... to a tag of ILOA. Could he potentially be involved?
Chapter 8: How does the history of World Series MVPs influence current players?
But when we look at Terry and Chauncey, those are both former Boston Celtics. How is Paul Pierce potentially involved? Mike Ryan's best friend. That's the question that we have to ask. Of course, maybe even Kendrick Perkins. We know that Paul Pierce has a mutual hatred with one LeBron James. And we all remember what was going on in the 2010-11 finals. What happened there with LeBron James?
Could questions potentially be answered? You know, of course, he's former Cavs teammates with Damon Jones. That ties everything together there. Of course, Damon Jones was not in a system with the Los Angeles Lakers as I insinuated last hour. Can you start fading him out, please? These are all tenuous connections. Oh, he was just about to get to Ipe. Ipe. Ipe, Ipe, L.A., Ipe. There's a tie there.
And, of course, the ever-loved by this show, Sidney Cosby. I don't remember Chauncey Billups' Boston Celtics career. Was that before everything? He was drafted there. Thought to be a bust. Rachel Nichols is with us now. I should tell people if you want more Jeremy, generally not a sentence we say around here.
Pitch clock is coming up at the end of the hour, but there's plenty to talk with Rachel about. And I want to start with the news of the day. Hello, Rachel. Can you tell us what your reaction was? I know that you've got something of a relationship with Chauncey. I don't know the depth of it. So what can you tell us about the news this morning?
Well, I don't gamble with him, apparently. So there's that. He's been leaving me out of that. Is the allegation that Chauncey knew the games were rigged? Because that's the thing about the gambling, like the poker stuff, that they're rigged and that the crime families brought... Like, you know, Rubes in saying you're going to gamble with a professional athlete. Fish, fish. Thank you.
Jeremy, is that on your board? Fish? Because I think that will art.
Well, the Miami Dolphins, of course. Now, dolphins, we all know are mammals, not fish. But it's an interesting time. Not helpful.
Just saying that the allegation is that people were brought in being like, you too can gamble with the NBA Hall of Famer. So is the idea that he knew that the games were rigged?
Yes. That you're basically just stealing money from suckers. I mean, professional athletes do that all the time. That's right. What did you think of it as far as crimes go? Because everyone's saying he's going to lose his job. He's going to immediately lose his job.
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