The holidays are a wonderful time of year, with festive feelings and chances to catch up with those you love, and hot chocolate, candy canes and such.
Best of 2018: Podcasts to save your holiday road trip
It’s the best present you can give yourself.
The holidays are also sometimes really rough, with airport delays and blizzards and having to remember your second cousin’s boyfriend’s name. (Daryl? I think it’s Daryl.) To make that part of the season easier for you, we put together a list of some of the best podcast listens from the SB Nation catalog. Tis the season!
BROAD STREET HOCKEY RADIO: Post-Hextall era looking awfully familiar
After the Flyers dumped their general manager seven weeks into the season, the BSH Radio crew reflects on the good and bad of the Ron Hextall era, and starts looking ahead to getting off the mediocrity hamster wheel.
THE LAKE SHOW: Luke Walton has to find ways to get Lonzo Ball in late-game situations
Silver Screen & Roll’s podcast team checks in with Mo Dakhil of the Washington Post on the present and near-future of the Lakers, and ask why Lonzo Ball’s riding the bench late in games.
BLOGGING THE BOYS: The Amari Cooper Effect Is Taking Over
Wide receiver Amari Cooper’s been a great addition to the Dallas offense, so Brews & The ‘Boys breaks down how that’s played out and looks at the stakes of a big Thursday Night Football matchup with the Saints (spoiler: the Cowboys won).
THE MMA HOUR: Episode 453
Luke Thomas talks to UFC double champ Daniel Cormier, who discusses his impending bout with Derrick Lewis at UFC 230, and Chael Sonnen, who reflects on his loss to Fedor Emelianenko in Bellator 208.
THE MMA BEAT: Episode 205
In this episode, the panel talks about the return of Jon Jones to the UFC, the aftermath of Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Conor McGregor, and more.
PODCAST AIN’T PLAYED NOBODY: The SEC takes the stage, and weekly CFP rankings are still stupid
Bill Connelly and Steven Godfrey discuss why the College Football Playoff’s weekly rankings do nothing but undermine the whole process they’re trying to serve.
SHUTDOWN FULLCAST: Backyard Disasters II: The Backyardening
This is a college football podcast, but for this episode, it’s also a place where listeners submit their tales of setting hornet’s nests on fire, watching their fathers drive lawnmowers into bodies of water, and knocking out the power to whole swaths of their hometowns by throwing used sports gear at vulnerable pieces of public infrastructure.
IT SEEMED SMART: The Real Cannonball Run
In this episode, we learn How to plan to break the law in 20 states at once through the tale of a mild-mannered Lamborghini salesman-slash-Sunday school teacher who is also the driver and organizer behind the fastest Cannonball Run time ever — a 28-hour (and definitely not legal) sprint across the United States.
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