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The Word Podcast: Sports, News, & Stuff

The Word Podcast: Sports, News, & Stuff

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The Word Podcast features Rich Abernethy and James Mundia as they give their humorous takes on the world of Sports, News, and Stuff.

Broadcasting buddies since college, James and Rich bring a light-hearted but thorough approach to discussing what's on the front pages, as well as bringing in guests from all parts of the sports and entertainment world to weigh in on the show.Copyright The Word Podcast
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  • The Masters is here! March Madness wraps up. BURRITO DEBATE!

    The Masters is here! March Madness wraps up. BURRITO DEBATE!
    Apr 10 2026
    We are live for "Christmas in April," checking in on the Masters, which is already testing our predictions. We fact-checked our draft picks. James is already committed to two trips to Fish Camp after losing the NFL pick 'em league and the March Madness bracket challenge to Rich Abernethy, and it could be quadruple or nothing with the Masters AND World Cup picks to come!

    Our main event was the surprising hire of Michael Malone as the new head coach at the University of North Carolina. We agreed the move offers a strong recruiting and branding edge, but Rich Abernethy emphasized that today's recruits are drawn more by "the commas and the zeros" than the "legends and heroes" of the "Carolina Way".

    Shifting gears, we dove into a heated debate on fast-casual burritos: Rich Abernethy is a "big Kdoba guy," asserting it's superior to Chipotle, while James declared Moe's Southwest Grill "the GOAT"—a claim Rich strongly refutes. We had to exclude Taco Bell from the discussion, classifying it as a "different weight class".

    Finally, we looked at "America's team," the Charlotte Hornets, currently sitting in the 9-seed for the NBA playoffs. Rich Abernethy is concerned the successful season could end as a "big tease" if they lose the play-in games.

    That’s a wrap! The Word Sports News and Stuff program is available on all major podcast platforms, and you can follow us on twitter.com/@thewordpodcast and Instagram/@thewordpodcast. We'll catch you next week with a full NBA playoff preview once the matchups are finalized!
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    1 h y 26 m
  • March Madness Stages of Grief, Politics = Sports, Spring Sports Are Here!

    March Madness Stages of Grief, Politics = Sports, Spring Sports Are Here!
    Apr 3 2026
    The Final Four is set! On this episode we take some time to go over the insane end of the Duke - UCONN Elite Eight game last weekend, which dovetails nicely into our talk on why we do this to ourselves as sports fans.

    With the hoops season over for the majority of the field, it's that time of year where athletes give their perfunctory answers as to whether they are coming back next season. We talk about why are we even asking these questions, much the same as how no one really takes anything a politician takes seriously, but we still ask them the same things over and over!

    Staying with our New Year's Resolution of keeping things positive, there are a lot of things coming down the pipe in the next few weeks in the sporting world, so we go over a few of them, including a "Tradition unlike any other..."

    We conclude with our Master's "draft", tune in to see how we tweak the format a little bit.
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    1 h y 18 m
  • More March Madness, Davis is out at UNC! Hornets are America's team, 90's nostalgia bait

    More March Madness, Davis is out at UNC! Hornets are America's team, 90's nostalgia bait
    Mar 30 2026
    We are live for March Madness, and we’re legally viewing the Texas versus Purdue game—Purdue is up 72-70—but as Rich said, this score will be old news by the time you hear it, proving we are an ethical, if slightly delayed, broadcast!

    We dive headfirst into the “bombshell event” that rocked Tobacco Road: Hubert Davis is no longer the head coach at UNC. As alumni, we had a lot to say, especially James, who knew Davis's great family personally but still "never understood the hire". We agreed it was a necessary move due to a lack of consistent success and modernization, but Rich noted that Davis felt like a “fall guy” for deeper program issues. We question the program's direction, the baffling list of potential candidates (Brad Stevens?), and how UNC plans to find a new identity without losing the “family aspect” in the NIL-driven, transfer-portal era.

    Shifting gears, we celebrated the Charlotte Hornets for finally being “America’s team,” playing some great ball, and attributed their success to strong organizational alignment, smart moves, and investment in staff. This led us to a full-on old-man-yells-at-cloud session about the NFL, where we lamented the move to an 18-game season that’s “degrading the quality of the product”. We discussed the baffling logic of spending huge money on players only to risk them on injury-prone turf fields, like the one where RG3 got hurt. We also expressed disdain for billionaire owners holding cities "hostage" to demand taxpayer-funded stadiums.

    Before we wrapped up, James confessed to being 10 points behind Rich in the bracket challenge, we took a wild, nostalgic detour into 90s pop culture (shoutout Carson Daly and Fred Durst), and reminisced about the unbelievably helpful UNC associate AD for communications, Steve Kersner, hoping the next coach has a good relationship with him.

    That’s a wrap! Rich needs to watch the rest of the second half, and James is pulling an all-nighter to edit and render—we’ll catch you next time\!
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    1 h y 28 m
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