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Happy New Year from The Sportists! Mizzou goes to a bowl game and forgets to take an offense with them. Illinois takes their best game of the year to the Music City Bowl and outplays and outcoaches Tennessee.

The Pop Tart Bowl has struck the jackpot for mid-tier bowls and others try, but come up short. And transfer portal madness is about to get underway.

Big changes are coming to Kansas City in the offseason, which will start much earlier than usual. The offensive coordinator may be moving on, which might not be a bad thing. Sauce Gardner and the Colts complete an epic collapse and Phillip Rivers is the guy everyone wants to guard in pickup basketball -- until you learn he will score every time he touches the ball.

The guys offer their picks for the upcoming NCAA playoff games as well as the final week of the NFL season. Will Derrick Henry ride high or will Mike Tomlin have a moment of satisfaction?

Pretty much everyone is eligible to play college basketball now and John Calapari unleashes an epic seven minute rant for the ages. All of this and tonsil swabbing on this week's festive edition of The St. Louis Sportists Podcast.

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