It’s like turning the clock back 9 years, but keeping a close eye on both the KC Royals and the NY Mets…

Alex Cora re-ups for 3 years with the Red Sox… a few skippers around the league were nervous with his impending free agency …

20-7 Rockies over the Red Sox. Ouch.
1-5 road trip to boot.

Mets not only swept the Yankees, they embarrassed them. Aaron Boone has to be nervous.

How big is Georgia-Texas in mid-October? Media crush is off the charts.

Oklahoma hosting Alabama is right there as well.

NFC North should be an incredible close follow this year. Bears will surprise in a good way it says here…

PGA Tour Championship will be anti-climactic; that said, Xander loves the course.

Zayd Hussein covers the Midwest for us at Sports Byline. Emerging young talent!

Let the Games begin!

While Salt Lake City has wrapped up the hosting of the 2034 Winter Olympics, it’s time for task at hand …
Paris 2024…

Really… LeBron James as a flag bearer Friday night? Ah, I love the Coco Gauff appointment, but James is the antithesis of the base Olympic Spirit.
Oh, well…

US Swimmer Katie Ledecky is a must-watch. I’m not ready to say move over Spitz and Phelps … but maybe.

Contributor Tyler LaVigne thinks the U.S. Men’s Hoopsters are not going to bring home gold. He said it on Sports Overnight America.

The U.S. Women sans Caitlyn Clark are a lock. Too bad pettiness keeps CC out…

Simone Biles has my attention and it’ll be worth the watch. Yet, fingers crossed …

The golf will be a can’t miss as well. Xander is ripe from a letdown off The Open Championship.

NBC always – repeat always, does an amazing job. Peacock is here to stay and I love it!

Meet Nick Douglas of Oxford, Mississippi who will be our guy covering the Southeastern Conference football this season.

Nick is an excellent reporter, writer and podcaster and brings unrivaled passion to Sports Overnight America.

Douglas will be at select games throughout the 24’ season and adds to an impressive lineup of contributors.

Join us in welcoming Nick to the SOA squad.

Douglas also has a book coming out about the PAC-12 and it’s unraveling.

Tucker Bern hails from West Des Moines, Iowa and resides in Dallas, Texas.

Bern has spearheaded securing new air talent from his vast pool of media and entertainment relationships for “Sports Overnight America”/ Tea Room
Broadcasting.

Bern has brought Tyler LaVigne, Nick Douglas, Zayd Hussein and DJ Shields into our ever- growing lineup.

Bern also negotiated to bring top-notch Executive Assistant Annie Brown
of West Des Moines to the team.

Awesome work Tucker!

Meet D.J. “Winnin” Shields D.J. was born in Mesa, Az but spent most of his life in Texas.. DJ started playing football, baseball, and basketball at age of 5. He completed a perfect 10-0 record his senior year pitching leading the Pottsboro Cardinals to the playoffs. He then went on to play college baseball at Brookhaven Juco in Dallas, Tx. His non traditional road here has been a journey! 

D.J. was one of the lead singers of a boy band in the 2,000’s that opened open for artist like Chingy, Mario, B2K, Jessica Simpson and more. 

Following his music days, D.J. pursued his path in Sports Management. D.J. would meet this then partner Adrian Bradley and they would form A&D Sports Management. He would go ok to work with athletes such as Felix Jones, Raymond Radway, Marion Barber, Dwayne Harris, Tyson Thompson of the Dallas Cowboys and expand into New York with Josh Baker, Marcus Dixon from the NY Jets, Andy Tanner of the New Orleans Saints and many more. Sports have always been where his heart is and he cannot wait to bring you his energy and and enthusiasm to a city near you! 

So pleased to announce
the addition of Tyler LaVigne of Miami, Florida joining Sports Overnight America/ Tea Room Broadcasting distributed by Sports Byline USA.

Tyler has developed an immensely popular Soccer Show, “First Touch” airing weekly on the aforementioned platforms including IHeart Radio, Tunein, Smart Radio and world-wide on the American Forces Network.

Lavigne contributes to “Sports Overnight America” with myself and other contributors.

Tyler will also travel this fall to various outposts in Europe covering English Premier League action.

Tea Room Broadcasting also welcomes LaVigne’s co-host Nico Fibsas a native of Athens, Greece who calls Providence, Rhode Island home.

Check the guys out this Saturday night at 7pm Eastern for incredible Soccer coverage on “ First Touch.”

Stay tuned to hear about other amazing additions to “Sports Overnight America” from Massachusetts, Texas, Illinois, Mississippi, Iowa and more …

Cleaning out the sports closet of my mind …

16. Texas and Oklahoma join and the SEC will stay at 16 schools according to league commish. Not buying it.

The British Open – er, The Open Championship at Royal Troon is just delicious. Scheffler by a few is the pick.

Jaylen Brown being left off Olympic hoops team is a disgrace – ditto Caitlin Clark.

Carlos Alcaraz is a hotdog – but an incredible tennis player.

45 days to football…

I’d love a Flo’s hotdog from Ogunquit, Maine…

Miami isn’t the Miami I remember –
Oh well…

J. D. Vance calls Trump Hitler! Now the VP? Only in our screwed up America.

JFK, Jr. smoked weed every day. And flew a plane into the Atlantic off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard …

James Patterson is the greatest writer of our lifetime. Tiger Woods book is incredible …

Where have you gone Mike Lupica?

Iowa football: 8-4 according to Charlie Gibbons…

Jay Mariotti is just plain bitter… I read his blog and wanna’ barf…

I can listen to Tyler LaVigne and Brock Hines forever – such talent.

Red Sox… contenders or pretenders?
Let me know, ok?

Iowa St. thumps Iowa- but we’ll be at Texas @ Michigan…

Detroit Metro airport has cracked my top 5…

The NY Post never gets dull. The DM Register never reads interesting – I mean … never!

Thank you Geico!

MIAMI- Argentina v. Colombia in the 2024 Copa Championship game here in South Florida. And what a mess it was. Chaos reigned. Before, during and after the highly-anticipated match.

Before: An estimated 7,000 fans stormed the main gate of Hard Rock Stadium gaining free admission and cementing soccer fans’ reputation as “hoodlums.”

During: Idiotic fans with no regard for anyone or anything. Shirt waving, blocking entry ways and constant chiding of opposing fans … both sides guilty on this one!

After: Miami blew this big time. Horrible security, dirty parts of the stadium and horrendous crowd control.
They host some 2026 World Cup
action!!!

Oh, Argentina won 1-0.

Grade: D-

The curtain falls on the first-half of the Major League Baseball season after Sunday’s action. What’s different since the season began in late March?
The Divisional leaders projected are in order across both leagues; injuries abound among them; and, the bottom end of standings are pretty much the way we thought.

Biggest surprises : Red Sox, Yankees (up & down) and Paul Skenes being yanked out of two no-hit bids by the Pirates.

World Series: Dodgers vs. Orioles.

Not crazy to say? Aaron Boone might just get fired by the Yankees.

Euro 2024 winner: SPAIN 2-0
Copa 2025 winner: ARGENTINA 2-1

The NBA East battle in 2025 conclusion of Boston, NY and Philadelphia will undoubtedly be epic.

Now that Nick Nurse has a PhD fair to call the 76ers head coach Doctor Nurse. Not quite as splendid as Doctor J in Philly sports lore … but close.

England !!!! Bam. 2-1 over the Dutch.
Can they stun Spain and takedown a title for first time in 58 years?

Tyler LaVagine weighs in tonight on the show!

Red Sox roll continues …. Raffy is getting even better at all facets of the game …

Tonight:
Colombia in PK’s of course …
No OT is asinine …

The A’s are not good – but the White Sox are a sorry lot with a few exceptions…

Niko Fisbas is another great soccer insider for us ….